Faculty

Christina Dando, PhD
cdando@unomaha.edu
Department Chair and Professor
402.554.3134
- gender & landscape, visual representation of landscape, human perception of landscape and its expression in material culture,
- Great Plains cultural history, gender and mapmaking

Ashlee Dere, Ph.D.

Melina Luethje, Ph.D.

Harmon D. Maher, Ph.D.
harmon_maher@unomaha.edu
Professor
402.554.4807
- geology of Svalbard, geology of the Great Plains
- structural geology, geologic mapping, geologic fracture development, structural diagenesis

Jon Schueth, Ph.D.
jschueth@unomaha.edu
Assistant Professor
- Mudstone sedimentology and stratigraphy
- Paleoceanography & paleontology
- Statistical data analytics and modeling

Zac Suriano, PhD
zsuriano@unomaha.edu
Assistant Professor
402.554.3862
- Climatology, atmospheric dynamics, climate variability, meteorology, cryosphere
Adjunct Faculty

David Becker
djbecker@unomaha.edu
Adjunct Professor
Geologist, US Army Corps of Engineers Environmental and Munitions Center of Expertise
- characterization and remediation of soil & groundwater contamination, geologic hazards

Larry Bradley, Ph.D.

Gabrielle Tegeder, Ph.D.
gtegeder@unomaha.edu
Adjunct Professor

Brandon Jeffery Weihs, Ph.D.
bweihs@unomaha.edu
Adjunct Professor

Paul W. Woodward, PE, CFM
Paul.Woodward@hdrinc.com
Adjunct Instructor
- Water resources, hydrogeology, groundwater, Nebraska natural resources
Emeritus Faculty

George Engelmann, Ph.D.
gengelmann@unomaha.edu
Professor
402.554.4804
- Mesozoic Stratigraphy of western North America, Geology of Dinosaur National Monument
- Vertebrate Paleontology, Evolutionary Biology and Mammalian Evolution, Paleoecology

Robert Shuster, Ph.D.
rshuster@unomaha.edu
Associate Professor
402.554.2457
- undergraduate research and geoscience education
- Igneous geochemistry, isotope geochemistry, origin of granites, geology of the seafloor, structural diagenesis and fracture formation
Staff

Paul Hunt

Brenda Todd
Graduate Assistants
