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Christina Dando
Christina Dando, PhD

Professor

402.554.3134

cdando@unomaha.edu
  • 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.

Associate Professor

402.554.3317

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

Instructor

mluethje@unomaha.edu
  • Paleolimnology, paleoclimate, micropaleontology
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Harmon Maher
Harmon D. Maher, Ph.D.

Professor

402.554.4807

harmon_maher@unomaha.edu
  • 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.

Assistant Professor

jschueth@unomaha.edu
  • Mudstone sedimentology and stratigraphy
  • Paleoceanography & paleontology
  • Statistical data analytics and modeling
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Adjunct Faculty

David Becker
David Becker

Adjunct Professor

Geologist, US Army Corps of Engineers Environmental and Munitions Center of Expertise

djbecker@unomaha.edu
  • characterization and remediation of soil & groundwater contamination, geologic hazards
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Larry Bradley, Ph.D.
Larry Bradley, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor

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

Adjunct Professor

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

Adjunct Professor

bweihs@unomaha.edu
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Paul W. Woodward, PE, CFM
Paul W. Woodward, PE, CFM

Adjunct Instructor

pwoodward@unomaha.edu
  • Water resources, hydrogeology, groundwater, Nebraska natural resources
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Emeritus Faculty

George Engelmann
George Engelmann, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor

402.554.4804

gengelmann@unomaha.edu
  • 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.

Emeritus Professor

402.554.2457

rshuster@unomaha.edu
  • 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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Paul Hunt
Paul Hunt

Coordinator

402.554.3876

phunt@unomaha.edu
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Brenda Todd
Brenda Todd

Office Associate

402.554.2662, DSC 260

btodd@unomaha.edu

Graduate Assistants

Bren Vander Weil
Bren Vander Weil

Graduate Assistant

Geography/Geology

bvanderweil@unomaha.edu
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