Who we are

Dr. Meg Blome
Associate Teaching Professor
BLOMEM19@ECU.EDU
252-328-9770

Expertise: Paleolimnology (Past Lakes), Geoarchaeology, Paleoenvironmental reconstruction using microfossils (especially ostracods), African Paleoclimate, Petroleum systems, Oil & Gas industry

Dr. Stephen J. Culver
Harriot College Distinguished Professor
CULVERS@ECU.EDU
252-328-6606

Expertise: Distribution of modern benthic foraminifera, paleoenvironmental reconstruction using microfossils

Dr. David W. Farris
Associate Teaching Professor
FARRISD19@ECU.EDU
252-328-6773

Expertise: Tectonics, structural geology, igneous geochemistry, geology and potential field geophysics

Dr. Adriana Heimann
Associate Professor
HEIMANNA@ECU.EDU
252-328-9770

Expertise: Fe isotope geochemistry and fractionation; volatiles/fluids in minerals and rare-metal deposits; early Earth geochemistry and origin of BIFs; origin of color in minerals, synchrotron XAS/XANES

Dr. Eric Horsman
Associate Professor,
Graduate Program Director, Interim Chair
HORSMANE@ECU.EDU
252-328-6360

Expertise: Structural geology, tectonics, geophysics

Dr. Eduardo Leorri
Associate Professor
Associate Dean for Planning
LEORRIE@ECU.EDU
252-737-2529

Expertise: Coastal evolution at different times scales (within the Quaternary/Holocene) from a multidisciplinary perspective (micropaleontology, geochemistry, sedimentology)

Dr. David Mallinson
Professor,
Undergraduate Program Director
MALLINSOND@ECU.EDU
252-328-1344

Expertise: Coastal and marine geology and processes; stratigraphy; Quaternary geology and climate change

Dr. Alex K. Manda
Associate Professor
MANDAA@ECU.EDU
252-328-9403

Expertise: Water resources, groundwater surface water interactions, saltwater intrusion

Dr. Siddhartha Mitra
Professor,
Integrated Coastal Sciences PhD Program
MITRAS@ECU.EDU

Expertise: organic geochemistry, environmental chemistry, black carbon

Dr. Stephen Moysey
Professor,
Director of the Water Resources Center
MOYSEYS18@ECU.EDU
252-328-6360

Expertise: Hydrogeophysics, near surface geophysics, hydrology, subsurface flow and transport, geostatistics

Dr. Stanley R. Riggs
Emeritus, Distinguished Professor
RIGGSS@ECU.EDU
252-328-6360

Dr. Matt Sirianni
Assistant Professor,
SIRANNIM20@ECU.EDU
252-328-6360

Expertise: Environmental geophysics; ground/surface water interactions; wetland disturbance & carbon cycling; soil salinization & saltwater intrusion