• Benjamin F. Abell abell@eas.slu.edu Professor of Meteorology, M.S. (Saint Louis University, 1965); joined the department (Parks College) in 1962
  Research Interests: severe local storms, climate change, tropical cyclones, weather forecasting.
  Main Teaching Areas: severe local storms, climate and humankind in history, mesoanalysis and severe storms

• Karl Chauff chauff@eas.slu.edu Associate Professor, Ph.D. (University of Iowa, 1978); joined the department in 1980
  Research Interests: paleontology, stratigraphy, petrography
  Main Teaching Areas: oceanography, physical geography, historical geology, dinosaurs - evolution and extinction

• David J. Crossley crossley@eas.slu.edu Professor of Geophysics, Ph.D. (University of British Columbia, 1973); joined the department in 1995
  Research Interests: temporal variations in gravity, physics of the earth's core, geophysical fluid dynamics, normal modes of the earth and global seismology, geomagnetic field reversals, applied geophysics, generalized inverse theory
  Main Teaching Areas: geophysical fluid dynamics, scientific communications, computer applications in earth science

• William Dannevik dannevik@eas.slu.edu Professor of Meteorology and Department Chair, Ph.D. (Saint Louis University, 1985); joined the department in 2004
  Research Interests: geophysical fluid dynamics, climate prediction, turbulence modeling, high-performance computing
  Main Teaching Areas: micrometeorology, atmospheric turbulence, climate change

• Timothy Eichler teichler@eas.slu.edu Assistant Professor, Ph.D. (Columbia University, 2000); joined the department in 2007
  Research Interests: extratropical cyclones, climate/weather connections, climate variability, regional climate, extreme weather and climate change, global warming
  Main Teaching Areas: Synoptic meteorology

• John Encarnación jpe@eas.slu.edu  Associate Professor, Ph.D. (University of Michigan, 1994); joined the department in 1997
  Research Interests: igneous and metamorphic petrology, radiogenic isotope geochemistry, geochronology, regional geology, tectonics
  Main Teaching Areas: petrology, mineralogy, geochemistry, tectonics

• Benjamin de Foy foy@eas.slu.edu Assistant Professor of Meteorology, Ph.D. (Cambridge University, 1998); joined the department in 2006
  Research Interests: air pollution meteorology, numerical simulation of mesoscale flows, use of land surface remote sensing, field campaign analysis
  Main Teaching Areas: air pollution, climatology

• Charles E. Graves graves@eas.slu.edu  Associate Professor, Ph.D. (Iowa State University, 1988); joined the department in 1992
  Research Interests: climate statistics, climate variability, problems in remote sensing of rainfall and water vapor
  Main Teaching Areas: satellite meteorology, global change

• Robert B. Herrmann rbh@eas.slu.edu  Otto W. Nuttli Professor of Geophysics, Ph.D. (Saint Louis University, 1974); joined the department in 1975
  Research Interests: theoretical ground motion prediction related to earthquake engineering applications, source parameters studies of eastern North American earthquakes, operation of seismic networks, processing of seismic exploration data, computational techniques in seismology
  Main Teaching Areas: seismology, time series analysis, environmental geophysics, seismological instrumentation

• David L. Kirschner dkirschn@eas.slu.edu Associate Professor, Ph.D. (University of Minnesota, 1992); joined the department in 1996.
  Research Interests: fluid-rock interaction, deformation of the earth's crust, groundwater geology and geochemistry
  Main Teaching Areas: structural geology, field methods, groundwater hydrology

• Keith Koper koper@eas.slu.edu Associate Professor, Ph.D. (Washington University in St. Louis, 1998)
  Research Interests: forensic seismology, structure of Earth's core, geophysical applications of evolutionary computing ideas, global optimization, structure and dynamics of subduction zones, verification seismology
  Main Teaching Areas: Geophysics

• Ana Cristina Londoño alondono@slu.edu Assistant Professor, Ph.D. (University of Cincinnati, 2008); joined the department in 2008.
  Research Interests: Geomorphology, Geoarchaeology, Soil Erosion in Drylands and Slope Stability
  Main Teaching Areas: Surface Processes

• Zaitao Pan panz@eas.slu.edu Assistant Professor, Ph. D. (Iowa State University, 1996); joined the department in 2003
  Research Interests:  Climate change on regional scales, seasonal precipitation and soil moisture forecasts, surface hydrology, agricultural meteorology, mesoscale meteorology, cloud physics, ecosystem model coupling, numerical modeling of droughts, floods, and other extreme events.    Main Teaching Areas:  cloud physics, physical  meteorology.  

• Robert W. Pasken rpasken@eas.slu.edu Associate Professor, Ph. D. (Saint Louis University, 1981); joined the department (Parks College) in 1982
  Research Interests: The dynamic and thermodynamic structure of sub-tropical squall lines; the recovery of thermodynamic parameters via dual and single Doppler radars
  Main Teaching Areas: remote sensing, physical meteorology, dynamical meteorology, computer methods in meteorology

• Robert L. Ripperdan ripperdan@eas.slu.edu Assistant Professor, Ph.D. (California Institute of Technology, 1990); joined the department in 2004
  Research Interests:  Lower Paleozoic earth systems and chronostratigraphy, carbon isotope stratigraphy, environmental stable isotopes
  Main Teaching Areas: stratigraphy and sedimentology, earth systems, stable isotope geochemistry, introductory physical sciences

• Lupei Zhu lupei@eas.slu.edu Associate Professor, Ph.D. (California Institute of Technology, 1998).
  Research Interests: elastic wave propagation, broad band waveform modeling, structure of the Earth, India-Eurasia continental collision tectonics, earthquake source, real-time seismic network and earthquake early warning
  Main Teaching Areas: global seismology, plate tectonics, digital signal processing, inverse theory, exploration geophysics

Instructors

• Michael Roberts  Instructor; joined the department in 2004
Main Teaching Area:  Broadcast Meteorology

Emeritus Professors

• Kenneth G. Brill Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1939; geology

• Yeong-Jer Lin lin@eas.slu.edu  Ph.D., New York University, 1969
  Research Interests: analysis of single- and dual- Doppler radar data to study the structure and internal dynamics of mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) and numerical modeling of MCSs
  

• Brian J. Mitchell mitchbj@eas.slu.edu  Ph.D., Southern Methodist University, 1970
  Research Interests: earth structure, seismic wave propagation and attenuation, seismicity, and tectonics
  

• Albert J. Pallmann Ph.D., University of Cologne, 1958
  Research Interests: radiative processes including atmospheric transfer of solar and terrestrial radiation, jet stream dynamics, climate modeling and climate change