GERG - Key Persons


Alban Gutierrez

Job Titles:
  • Facilities Specialist II

Andrew Dancer

Job Titles:
  • Laboratory Manager

Andrew Klein

Job Titles:
  • Director of Distance Education, Professor

Brian Buckingham

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Daniel C. O. Thornton

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Phytoplankton, diatoms, biogeochemistry, biogenic aerosol, sea spray aerosol, ice nucleating particles (INP), ice nucleation, exopolymer particles, nitrogen cycle, carbon cycle

Daniel Goldberg

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Director, TAMU GeoInnovation Service Center

Deep Ocean

Job Titles:
  • Scientist
Scientist or Chief scientist on research cruises of the Pisces II, Johnson Sea-Link I and II research submersibles, deep submergence vehicle ALVIN, and U.S. Navy NR-1 nuclear research submarine. Dr. Sassen has made >55 dives to the deep sea floor to study hydrocarbon seeps, vents, life in extreme environments, and the gas hydrate system from 1988-2006). Maximum sustained deep-submergence at >3,000 ft depth of 162 hours in the NR-1.

Dr. Anthony Knap

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
Past Director of GERG Professor Emeritus Former Holder of the James R Whatley Chair of Geosciences tknap@tamu.edu (979) 458-9328 GERG 140 Faust, E., Herweijer, C. and Knap, A.H. (2009) Physical effects of climate change from an insurance perspective. (Ch 2) The insurance industry and climate change - Contribution to the global debate. The Geneva Association, Geneva, Switzerland (133p). (http://www.genevaassociation.org/PDF/Geneva_Reports/Geneva_report%5B2%5D.pdf) Knap, A. H. (1990) The long range atmospheric transport of compounds from continent to continent and continent to ocean. Proceedings of a NATO ASI Series C: Mathematical and Physical Series. Vol. 297. (Knap, A.H., editor) Klewer , Academic Publisher, Dordrecht, Boston, London p. 321.

Edward Webb

Job Titles:
  • Electronics Technician II

Gerardo Gold

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Gopal Bera

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Research Scientist

Ivan Rusyn

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Jared Gregg Pocock

Job Titles:
  • Research Specialist IV

Jazmin Flores

Job Titles:
  • Facilities Specialist II

José Sericano

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Julian Richardson

Job Titles:
  • CEO, Parhelion Underwriting Ltd

Katherine Perri

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

Kathryn Shamberger

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Kelisha Stamps

Job Titles:
  • Technician II

Kerri Whilden

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Research Scientist

Kristina Bishop

Job Titles:
  • Vice President / Academic Director / College of Exploration

Kusumica Mitra


Kyndra Reed

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager, CRA

Lisa Campbell

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Regents Professor and William R. Bryant Chair in Oceanography Associate Editor, Journal of Plankton Research, 2018 - 2021

Lisa McDonald

Job Titles:
  • Technician II

Mahmud Sakib

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

Marty Bohn

Job Titles:
  • Facilities Specialist

Melissa Grunlan

Job Titles:
  • Department of Biomedical Engineering
  • Professor

Michael Shields

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Scientist / Laboratory Manager

Norman Guinasso

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Pamela Plotkin

Job Titles:
  • Director, Texas Sea Grant

Peter Tuddenham

Job Titles:
  • Execuive Director and President, College of Exploration, VA

Phillip Frazier

Job Titles:
  • Electronics Technician II

Piers Chapman

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Ping Chang

Job Titles:
  • Louis & Elizabeth Scherck Chair in Oceanography
  • Professor

R.J. Wilson


Rainer Amon

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Roger Sassen


Scott Socolofsky

Job Titles:
  • Department of Civil Engineering
  • Professor

Steve DiMarco

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Oceanography / Director Geochemical and Environmental Research Group

Tommy McDonald

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Tracy Villareal

Job Titles:
  • Department of Marine Science, UT Austin
  • Professor

Woody Lee

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Associate

Yina Liu

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Analytical Chemistry Research and Development Team Lead, Geochemical and Environmental Research Group

Yun Liu

Job Titles:
  • Numerical Modeling Team Lead, Assistant Research Scientist