Reconstructing Earth’s past allows us to better understand the present world we inhabit and how the Earth system may change in the future. Using the chemical, sedimentological and fossil evidence in the geologic record, our students and faculty research how life and environments changed throughout Earth's history in order to improve predictions about how today’s environments may respond to future events, both gradual and catastrophic. This knowledge is the foundation for preparing our society for life on an ever-changing Earth.
Faculty
David William Bapst
- 2023 ConocoPhillips Data Science Faculty Fellow
- Instructional Assistant Professor
- Quantitative Paleobiology
- Stochastic Models
- Incompleteness of Geological Records
- Computational Phylogenetics
- Macroevolutionary Theory
- Paleozoic Graptolites
- Office: Halbouty 169
- Phone: 979-845-2451
- Email: dwbapst@tamu.edu
Christina L. Belanger
- Assistant Professor
- Marine Paleoecology
- Paleoenvironments
- Climate Change
- Foraminifera
- Invertebrates
- Office: Halbouty 265
- Phone: (979) 458-4372
- Email: christina.belanger@tamu.edu
Ethan Grossman
- Professor and Michel T. Halbouty Chair
- Director, Stable Isotope Geosciences Facility
- Stable isotope geochemistry
- Clumped isotopes
- Global change
- Paleoclimates
- Hydrogeochemistry
- Office: Halbouty 210
- Phone: 979-845-0637
- Email: e-grossman@tamu.edu
Franco Marcantonio
- Professor and Jane and Ken R. Williams ’45 Chair in Ocean Drilling Science, Technology and Education
- Office: Room 130 Halbouty Building
- Phone: 979-845-9240
- Email: marcantonio@tamu.edu
Michael C. Pope
- Professor
- Interim Director, Berg-Hughes Center for Petroleum and Sedimentary Systems
- Sedimentology
- Sequence stratigraphy
- Carbonate
- Siliciclastic
- Unconventional resources
- Office: Halbouty 51
- Phone: 979-845-4376
- Email: mcpope@tamu.edu
Anne Raymond
- Professor
- Paleontology
- Geobiology
- Office: Halbouty 161
- Phone: 979-845-0644
- Email: raymond@geo.tamu.edu
Thomas E. Yancey
- Professor Emeritus
- Office: Halbouty 167
- Phone: 979-845-0643
- Email: tyancey@tamu.edu
