Geology Faculty
Department chair: Rhawn Denniston | Contact info
Faculty
Rhawn Denniston
William Harmon Norton Professor of Geology
Teaches courses that include Climate Change, Environmental Geology, and Geology of New Zealand. With Cornell students, he studies stalagmites and ancient coral to understand prehistoric climate conditions in various regions of the world, including Portugal, Nepal, Australia, New Zealand, the Dominican Republic, the Great Basin of the Western United States, and the Ozarks. Denniston and his students have co-authored a number of articles in leading journals including Geology, Quaternary Science Reviews, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He chairs the environmental studies program. Ph.D., University of Iowa; M.S., University of New Mexico; B.A., Hamilton College.
Emily Walsh
Professor of Geology
Teaches courses that include Mineralogy, The Origin of Mountains, and the off-campus course Geology of the National Parks. She has also co-led Greek Archaeology in Greece. Her research focuses on the formation of mountain ranges and the mechanisms involved in subduction zones. In particular, she and her students study the metamorphic reactions, geochronology, and deformation of ultrahigh-pressure rocks from Western Norway to better understand the tectonic history of the Scandinavian Caledonides. Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara; B.A., Middlebury College.
Andrew Walters
Assistant Professor of Geology
Teaches courses in geology. He has research interests in organic biomarkers, hydroclimate, climate model data analysis, cyclostratigraphy, sedimentary geochemistry, and geochronology. He earned his Ph.D. in geoscience from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Emeriti
Paul L. Garvin
Professor of Geology Emeritus
B.S., Idaho State University; Ph.D., University of Colorado.