Affiliate and Adjunct Faculty

Affiliate and Adjunct Faculty are a vital component of the ESS Community. Affiliates and Adjuncts include staff members of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network who also have faculty roles, faculty from other departments who work closely with our regular faculty and students, and others. We are also fortunate to have numerous employees of the United States Geological Survey with offices in our building and formal affiliation with our department.

Pacific Northwest Seismic Network

Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)

Tim Elam, Affiliate Professor

Office: Ben Hall RTB Room 519
Phone: 206-685-3092
Email:
Website: http://www.apl.washington.edu/people/profile.php?last_name=Elam&first_name=Tim
Interests: Geochemistry of Mars, X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Thermal Melt Probes

Daniel Shapero, Affiliate Assistant Professor

Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington
Email:
Website: http://psc.apl.uw.edu/people/investigators/daniel-shapero/
Interests: Daniel is the lead developer of the software package icepack (https://icepack.github.io), a tool for modeling the flow of glaciers and ice sheets and for solving inverse problems.
Education: Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, 2017

Ben Smith, Affiliate Associate Professor

Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington
Phone: 206-616-9176
Email:
Interests: Glacier mass balance, ice sheet dynamics, remote sensing
Research Groups: Polar Science Center

Michaela King, Affiliate Assistant Professor

Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington
Website: https://apl.uw.edu/people/profile.php?last_name=King&first_name=Michalea
Phone: 206-221-7501
Email:
Interests: Glacier mass balance, ice sheet dynamics, remote sensing
Research Groups: Polar Science Center

School of Oceanography

John Delaney, Affiliate Professor

Affiliate Professor
Professor, UW School of Oceanography
Office: Marine Science 274
Phone: 206-543-4830
Fax: 206-543-0489 (shared)
Email:
Interests: Marine Geology and Geophysics
Research Groups: Marine Geology and Geophysics

H. Paul Johnson, Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor
Professor, UW School of Oceanography
Office: Marine Science Building 256
Phone: 206-543-8474
Fax: 206-543-0489 (shared)
Email:
Interests: Marine Geology and Geophysics, heat flow, magnetics, hydrothermal studies.
Research Groups: Marine Geology and Geophysics

Andrea Ogston, Adjunct Professor

Professor, ENV: OCN: Director Professor, Oceanography
Office: Marine Science Building 270
Phone: 206 543-0768
Fax: 206 543-6073
Email:
Website: https://blogs.uw.edu/sediment/
Interests: Geological and physical oceanography of the coastal ocean.

William Wilcock, Adjunct Professor

Office: Marine Science 126
Phone: 206-543-6043
Fax: 206-543-6073 (shared)
Email:
Website: https://faculty.washington.edu/wilcock/
Interests: Seismology, mid-ocean ridge hydrothermalism, and fluid dynamics
Research Groups: Seismology and Tectonics, Marine Geology and Geophysics

Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science

Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Burke Museum and Department of Biology

Christian Sidor, Adjunct Professor

Biology Curator, Vertebrate Paleontology, Burke Museum
Professor, Dept. of Biology
Office: LSB-246
Phone: 206-221-3285
Fax: 206-543-0489 (shared)
Email:
Website: https://www.biology.washington.edu/people/profile/christian-sidor
Interests: Vertebrate Paleontology, Macroevolution, Systematics

Caroline Strömberg, Adjunct Professor

Estella B. Leopold Assistant Professor in Biology and Curator of Paleobotany, Curator of Paleobotany at the Burke Museum
Office: HCK-406
Phone: 206-543-1687
Fax: 206-685-1728
Email:
Website: http://depts.washington.edu/strmbrgl/StrombergLab_website/
Interests: Paleoecology, paleobotany, and paleobiology

Gregory Wilson Mantilla, Adjunct Professor

Office: LSB-251
Phone: 206-543-8917
Fax: 206-543-3041
Email:
Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/gpwilson/

USGS

Stephen Angster, Affiliate Assistant Professor

Research Scientist U.S.G.S.
Office: JHN-370
Email:

Brian Atwater, Affiliate Professor

Research Scientist Emeritus, U.S.G.S.
Participating Faculty, UW Quaternary Research Center
Office: JHN-370
Phone: 206-553-2927
Fax: 206-543-0489 (shared)
Email:
Interests: Quaternary geology, paleoseismology

Arthur Frankel, Affiliate Professor

U.S. Geological Survey
Office: ATG-228
Phone: 206-553-0626
Email:
Interests: Earthquake strong ground motions, seismic hazard evaluation

Joan Gomberg, Affiliate Professor

Office: ATG-224
Phone: 206-941-7498
Email:
Interests: Seismology, Earthquake Triggering, Fault Slip Modes
Other Appointments: Seismic Hazard Assessment, Research Geophysicist, USGS

Frank Gonzalez, Affiliate Professor

Office: JHN 153
Phone: 206-290-0903
Fax: 206-462-1500
Email:
Interests: Tsunami dynamics, Tsunami Hazard Assessment, Remote Sensing

Alex Grant, Affiliate Assistant Professor

Office: ATG 225
Email:
Website: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/alex-grant
Interests: Landslides; Earthquakes; Hazards; Subduction zones; Geomorphology

Ralph Haugerud, Affiliate Professor

Research Geologist, U.S.G.S
Office: JHN-370
Phone: 206-713-7453
Fax: 206-543-0489 (shared)
Email:
Website: http://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/pacnw/phaugerud.html
Interests: Regional Geology, Mapping, GIS

Brian L. Sherrod, Affiliate Professor

Research Geologist, U.S.G.S
Office: JHN 055
Phone: 253-653-8358
Email:
Interests: Puget Sound Fault Zones

Erin Wirth, Affiliate Assistant Professor

Research Geophysicist, U.S. Geological Survey
Office: ATG 226
Email:
Website: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/erin-wirth-moriarty
Interests: Earthquakes; Strong ground motions; Hazards; Subduction zones; Seismic anisotropy

Harvey Kelsey, Affiliate Professor

Education: PhD, UC Santa Cruz, 1977
Email:

Other Affiliate Faculty (on campus)

Other Affiliate Faculty (off campus)

Rolf Aalto, Affiliate Associate Professor

Associate Professor, University of Exeter, U.K.
Phone: +44 (0) 1392-26-3344
Email:
Interests: Geomorphology, Sedimentary Processes

Scott Bennett, Affiliate Assistant Professor

Research Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey Geology Minerals Energy and Geophysics Science Center — Portland, CA
Office: USGS Portland (OR)
Email:
Website: http://www.scottekbennett.com/
Interests: Tectonics, Paleoseismology, Geologic Mapping, Neotectonics
Current Research:

geologic mapping, neotectonics, and paleoseismology of structures across the Pacific Northwest, Basin and Range, and Pacific-North America plate boundary
tectonic evolution of the western margin of the North America (NAM) plate (Pacific-NAM and Juan de Fuca-NAM boundaries)
development and evolution of the Gulf of California oblique rift (NW Mexico)
geo-genomic (geologic/biologic/genetic) feedbacks along the Baja California peninsula

Derek Booth, Affiliate Professor

Participating Faculty, UW Quaternary Research Center
Senior Editor, Quaternary Research
Adjunct Professor, Bren School of Envir. Sci. & Mgmt., UC Santa Barbara
Academic CV: http://faculty.washington.edu/dbooth/Booth_CV.pdf
Phone: 805-570-1953
Email:
Website: http://www.bren.ucsb.edu/people/Faculty/derek_booth.htm
Interests: Geomorphology, Quaternary geology, Natural hazards

Tom Brown, Affiliate Assistant Professor

Research Physicist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Participating Faculty, UW Quaternary Research Center
Office: Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
Phone: 925-423-8507
Email:
Website: https://cams.llnl.gov/
Interests: Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Global Climate Change, Geochronology, Actinides

Trenton Cladouhos, Affiliate Assistant Professor

Office: AltaRock Energy, Seattle
Phone: 206 729-2400
Email:
Interests: Fault rocks, shear zones, & geothermal energy

Mark Ghiorso, Affiliate Professor

Vice-President & Senior Research Associate, OFM Research, Inc.
Office: off campus
Phone: 206-550-1850
Email:
Website: https://markghiorso.org
Interests: Geochemistry, Petrology
Education: University of California, Berkeley, A.B. (1976), M.A. (1978), Ph.D. (1980)
Current Research:
Computational thermodynamics, solution theory, magma-aqueous solution elemental partitioning, computational infrastructure and cloud computing

Mott Greene, Affiliate Professor

Professor, Science, Technology, & Society, U. Puget Sound (Emeritus)
Office: off campus
Phone: 206-713-0917
Email:
Interests: History of Earth Sciences, mathematical modeling using Markov processes, climate mapping
Education: BA Columbia 1967 Ph.D U. of Washington 1978

Bob Hawley, Affiliate Associate Professor

Asst. Professor, Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College
Fax: 206-543-0489 (shared)
Email:
Website: http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Eearthsci/People/hawley.html
Interests: Glaciology, Ice Sheet Dynamics, Firn Processes

Nick Holschuh, Affiliate Assistant Professor

Office: ATG 219
Email:
Website: http://nholschuh.com
Interests: Glaciology, Geophysical Imaging of the Cryosphere

Tony Irving, Affiliate Professor

Email:
Interests: Igneous petrology, geochemistry, meteoritics

Nick Lancaster, Affiliate Professor

QRC Editor
Office: Off Campus
Phone: (775) 673-7304
Email:
Website: http://www.dri.edu/nick-lancaster

Kenichi Matsuoka, Affiliate Professor

Phone: +47 77 75 06 45
Email:
Interests: Glaciology, Ice Sheet Dynamics
Education: Ph.D., Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, 2002
Current Research:
My research interests are broadly opened for dynamical behavior of mountain glaciers and polar ice sheets. Since they are the major fresh-water source and heat sink, I believe that it is the most significant question in Quaternary research how glaciers and ice sheets behave under climatic forcing.

Seth Moran, Affiliate Associate Professor

Phone: 360-993-8934
Fax: 360-993-8980
Email:
Interests: Volcano monitoring, volcano seismology

Amit Mushkin, Affiliate Assistant Professor

Staff Scientist, Geological Survey of Israel
Office: Off-Campus
Phone: 206-972-4359
Fax: 206-543-0489 (shared)
Email:
Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/mushkin/wordpress/
Interests: Neotectonics, Landscape evolution, Remote sensing, Surface processes on Mars
Research Groups: QRC, Remote sensing, Planetary Sciences

Lewis Owen, Affiliate Professor

QRC Editor and Professor and Head of Department, University of Cincinnati
Phone: 513-410-2339
Email:
Interests: Geomorphology, Quaternary geology, geochronology, active tectonics
Current Research: Quaternary paleonevironmental change and landscape evolution

Richard Sack (he/him), Affiliate Professor

President, OFM Research, Inc.
Phone: 425-880-4418
Email:
Website: http://ofm-research.org
Interests: Geochemistry, Petrology
Education: Union College Harvard University
Current Research: Thermochemistry of sulfide, silicate and oxide solid solutions. Petrogenesis of bonanza precious metal ore deposits and early solar system condensates as exemplified by calcium-aluminum inclusions (CAIs) in carbonaceous chondrites.

Jeremy Thomas (he/him), Affiliate Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, DigiPen Institute of Technology; Research Scientist, NorthWest Research Associates
Office: Digipen Institute of Technology and NorthWest Research Associates, Redmond, WA
Phone: 206-947-2678
Fax: 206-543-0489 (shared)
Email:
Website: http://earthweb.ess.washington.edu/jnt/
Interests: Space Plasma Physics, Atmospheric Electrodynamics, Remote Sensing, Signal Processing
Research Groups: Atmospheric Electrodynamics
Education: Ph.D. Geophysics, University of Washington, 2005; M.S. Physics, University of Washington, 2002; B.A. Physics, Bard College, 2000
Current Research:
lightning, thunderstorms, global electric circuit, tropical cyclones, space physics instrumentation, machine learning

Michael Town (he/him), Affiliate Assistant Professor

Research Scientist – Earth and Space Research (ESR)
Office: ESR, Seattle USA
Email:
Website: https://www.esr.org/staff/michael-town/
Interests: Surface energy budgets, Stable boundary layers, Snow pack processes, Stable water isotopes, Clouds, Polar meteorology, Mountain meteorology, Ethical geoengineering, Youth empowerment and education

Olivia Truax (she/her), Affiliate Assistant Professor

Lecturer, School of Earth and Environment, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Email:
Website: https://profiles.canterbury.ac.nz/Olivia-Truax
Interests: Paleoclimate data assimilation, polarclimate, geochemistry

Alexander (Sandy) Tudhope, Affiliate Professor

Professor of Climate Studies and
Head, Global Change Research Group, University of Edinburgh
Office: off campus
Phone: +44 (0) 131 650 8508
Fax: +44 (0)131 668 3184
Email:
Website: http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/studhope
Interests: Global Change, Quaternary Paleoenvironments
Research Groups: Global Change, Quaternary Paleoenvironments

Department ofEarth and Space Sciences