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Christina Dando
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
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Ashlee Dere
Ashlee Dere, Ph.D.
adere@unomaha.edu

Associate Professor

402.554.3317

  • geochemistry, geomorphology and soil genesis
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Melina Luethje, Ph.D.
Melina Luethje, Ph.D.
mluethje@unomaha.edu

Instructor

  • Paleolimnology, paleoclimate, micropaleontology
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Harmon Maher
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
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Jon Schueth, Ph.D.
Jon Schueth, Ph.D.
jschueth@unomaha.edu

Assistant Professor

  • Mudstone sedimentology and stratigraphy
  • Paleoceanography & paleontology
  • Statistical data analytics and modeling
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Zac Suriano
Zac Suriano, PhD
zsuriano@unomaha.edu

Assistant Professor

402.554.3862

  • Climatology, atmospheric dynamics, climate variability, meteorology, cryosphere
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Adjunct Faculty

David Becker
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
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Larry Bradley, Ph.D.
Larry Bradley, Ph.D.
lbradley@unomaha.edu

Adjunct Professor

  • Environmental Geology
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Gabrielle Tegeder, Ph.D.
Gabrielle Tegeder, Ph.D.
gtegeder@unomaha.edu

Adjunct Professor

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

Adjunct Professor

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Paul W. Woodward, PE, CFM
Paul W. Woodward, PE, CFM
Paul.Woodward@hdrinc.com

Adjunct Instructor

  • Water resources, hydrogeology, groundwater, Nebraska natural resources
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Emeritus Faculty

George Engelmann
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
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Robert Shuster
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
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Staff

Paul Hunt
Paul Hunt
phunt@unomaha.edu

Coordinator

402.554.3876

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Brenda Todd
Brenda Todd
btodd@unomaha.edu

Office Associate

402.554.2662, DSC 260

Graduate Assistants

Bren Vander Weil
Bren Vander Weil
bvanderweil@unomaha.edu

Graduate Assistant

Geography/Geology

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