• Chair: Ganqing Jiang
• Associate Chair: Michael Nicholl

• Graduate Coordinator: Pamela Burnley
• Undergraduate Coordinator: Elisabeth (Libby) Hausrath

Hannes Bauser
Assistant Professor

Email: hannes.bauser@unlv.edu
Specialty: Critical Zone Hydrology

Grace Beaudoin
Assistant Professor-in-Residence

Email: grace.beaudoin@unlv.edu
Specialty: Subduction Zone Geochemistry

Brenda Buck
Professor

Email: buckb@unlv.nevada.edu
Specialty: UNLV-FIA

Pamela Burnley
Graduate Coordinator – Professor

Email: pamela.burnley@unlv.edu
Specialty: Mineral Physics, Geoscience Education

Elisabeth (Libby) Hausrath
Undergraduate Coordinator – Professor

Email: elisabeth.hausrath@unlv.edu
Specialty: Geochemistry

Gabriel Judkins
Professor-in-Residence

Email: Gabriel.Judkins@unlv.edu
Specialty: Human-Environment Geography

Jeremy Koonce
Associate Professor-in-Residence

Email: jeremy.koonce@unlv.edu
Specialty: Hydrogeology

Thomas Lamont
Assistant Professor

Email: thomas.lamont@unlv.edu
Specialty: Petrology

Matthew S. Lachniet
Distinguished Professor

Email: Matthew.Lachniet@unlv.edu
Specialty: Paleoclimatology

Andrew Martin
Assistant Professor

Email: andrew.martin@unlv.edu
Specialty: Economic Geology

Zach Perzan
Assistant Professor

Email: zach.perzan@unlv.edu
Specialty: Environmental Geochemistry

Michael Schirra
Assistant Professor

Email: michael.schirra@unlv.edu
Specialty: Economic Geology

Oliver Tschauner
Research Professor

Email: oliver.tschauner@unlv.edu
Specialty: Mineralogy

Carrie Tyler
Assistant Professor

Email: carrie.tyler@unlv.edu
Specialty: Paleoecology

Arya Udry
Professor

Email: arya.udry@unlv.edu
Specialty: Igneous Petrology

Michael L. Wells
Professor

Email: michael.wells@unlv.edu
Specialty: Structural Geology

Haiqing Xu
Assistant Professor

Email: haiqing.xu@unlv.edu 
Specialty: Surface Processes

Racheal Johnsen
Visiting Assistant Professor

Email: racheal.johnsen@unlv.edu

Frederick W. Bachhuber
Emeritus Professor

Jean Cline
Emeritus Professor
Email: jean.cline@unlv.edu

David K. Kreamer
Emeritus Professor
Email: dave.kreamer@unlv.edu

Rodney V. Metcalf
Emeritus Professor
Email: rodney.metcalf@unlv.edu

Stephen M. Rowland
Emeritus Professor
Email: steve.rowland@unlv.edu

Terry L. Spell
Emeritus Professor
Email: terry.spell@unlv.edu

Wanda J. Taylor
Emeritus Professor
Email: wanda.taylor@unlv.edu

G. William (Bill) Fiero
Structural Geology
Deceased January, 2024
UNLV Geoscience Faculty Member:
1969-1987

Margaret N. Rees
UNLV Senior Vice Provost
Sedimentology, Stratigraphy
Deceased February, 2025
UNLV Geoscience Faculty Member:
1985-2018

Eugene I. Smith
Igneous Petrology, Volcanic Stratigraphy, Geochemistry
Deceased June, 2023
UNLV Geoscience Faculty Member:
1980-2013

David L. Weide
Geomorphology, Quaternary Geology, Environmental Geology
Deceased June, 2008
UNLV Geoscience Faculty Member:
1973-2004

Herbert C. Wells
Engineering Geology, Geophysics
Deceased March, 2010
UNLV, Nevada Southern University Faculty Member: 1957-1997

Anne Wyman
Mineralogy
Deceased June, 2009
UNLV Geoscience Faculty Member:
1966-1994