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Research groups listed by category:
Atmospheres and Space | Geobiology | Solid Earth | Surface Processes

1 Climate & Paleoclimate Anderson, Gillespie, Huntington Porter, Roe, Steig, Warren
2 Planetary Sciences Bandfield, Catling, Hansen, Harnett, Gillespie, Montgomery, Winebrenner, Wood
3 Space Physics Harnett, Hernandez, Holzworth, McCarthy, Winglee

4 Astrobiology Brown, Buick, Gillespie, Nelson, Ward, Warren, Winglee
5 Geomicrobiology Buick, Gorman-Lewis
6 Paleontology Buick, Nesbitt, Ward

7 Economic Geology Cheney
8 Geomagnetism & Paleomagnetism Booker
9 Isotope Geochemistry Buick, Nelson, Steig, Ward
10 Mineral Physics Abramson, Brown,
11 Paleoseismology and Neotectionics Atwater, Bourgeois, Sherrod, Titov
12 Petrology/Mineralogy/Geochemistry Bachmann Bergantz, McCallum, Nelson
13 Sedimentology/Stratigraphy/Sedimentary Petrology Bourgeois, Buick, Cheney, Huntington, Nittrouer
14 Seismology and Tectonics Bodine, Creager, Gomberg, Houston, Malone, Odom, Pratt, Vidale, Wilcock
15 Structural Geology, Tectonics and Geodynamics Bergantz, Booker, Cowan, Huntington, Roe
16 Volcanology Bachmann Bergantz, Malone, Nelson,

17 Cosmogenic/Stable Isotope Geochemistry Sletten Steig, Stone, Swanson
18 Geomorphology Hallet, Huntington, Montgomery, Putkonen, Roe, Stone
19 Glaciology Conway, Hallet, Joughin, Matsuoka, Roe, Steig, Waddington, Warren, Winebrenner
20 Marine Geology and Geophysics Delaney, Johnson, Mercer, Nittrouer, Odom, Wilcock
21 Planetary Surfaces Bandfield, Gillespie, Hansen, Montgomery, Winebrenner, Wood
22 Quaternary Research Anderson, Atwater, Bourgeois, Gillespie, Hallet, Montgomery, Nittrouer, Putkonen, Roe, Sletten Steig Stone, T. Swanson, Waddington Warren
23 Remote Sensing Bandfield, Gillespie, Hansen

You can learn more about individual faculty research interests through the Faculty Directory.




Earth and Space Sciences

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University of Washington
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