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The Department currently includes 9 regular faculty and 1 lecturer, and we have 12 adjunct faculty. We have listed our areas of expertise below and encourage you to contact us for further information, or click on our names for our individual web pages.
Also, please see our Research Clusters that describe the Department's research programs. Details on our research infrastructure can be found under Research Facilities.
Full-time Faculty
FRANK R. ETTENSOHN, Professor; Ph.D., Illinois, 1975. Stratigraphy; sedimentology; sedimentation and tectonics; paleontology; paleoecology.
Phone: 859-257-1401; office: 316 Slone; e-mail: f.ettensohn@uky.edu
ALAN E. FRYAR, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Alberta, 1992. Hydrogeology, including fate and transport of contaminants and chemical evolution of groundwater.Phone: 859-257-4392; office: 212A Slone; e-mail: Alan.Fryar@uky.edu
DAVID P. MOECHER, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies; Ph.D., Michigan, 1988. Petrology, geochemistry, and tectonic evolution of the Appalachian and Grenville orogens.Phone: 859-257-6939 or 859-257-6232; office: 304 Slone; e-mail: moker@uky.edu
KIERAN O'HARA, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Brown, 1985. Structural petrology, especially geochemical studies of deformed rocks.Phone:859-257-6931; office: 111 Slone; e-mail: Kieran.OHara@uky.edu
KENT RATAJESKI, Lecturer; Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1999. Igneous petrology, geochemistry, and geochronology of granitic rocks; geoscience education and online curriculum development.
Phone: 859-257-4444; Office: 301 Slone; e-mail: kent.ratajeski@uky.edu
DHANANJAY RAVAT, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies; Ph.D., Purdue, 1989. Geophysics, especially potential fields (gravity and magnetics).Phone: 859-4726; office 305 Slone; e-mail: dhananjay.ravat@uky.edu
SUE M. RIMMER, Professor; Ph.D., Penn State, 1985. Organic carbon accumulation, trace elements, and petrology of black shales; petrology of dispersed organics and coal; maturation studies.
Phone: 859-257-4607; office: 216 Slone; e-mail: srimmer@email.uky.edu
HARRY ROWE, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Stanford, 2002. Isotope geochemistry, climate change, Holocene paleoclimatology.
Phone: 859-257-2770; office: 207 Slone; e-mail: hrowe@uky.edu
WILLIAM A. THOMAS, Hudnall Professor and Department Chair; Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1960. Tectonics and stratigraphy.Phone: 859-257-6222; office: 104 Slone; e-mail: geowat@uky.edu
EDWARD W. WOOLERY, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Kentucky, 1998. Engineering geophysics, neotectonics.
Phone: 859-257-3016; office: 309 Slone; e-mail: woolery@uky.edu
Part-time Instructors
J. RICHARD BOWERSOX, Ph.D., University of South Florida, Tampa, 2006. Paleoenvironments, stratigraphy and sedimentation, petroleum geology.
Phone: 859-257-5500; e-mail: jr.bowersox@uky.edu
MARTA L. CLEPPER, M.S., University of Texas - El Paso, 2000. Sedimentary geology.
Phone: 859-257-6376; office: 310 Slone; e-mail: mlclepper@uky.edu
KEVIN R. HENKE, Ph.D., North Dakota, 1997. Geochemistry.
Phone: 859-257-0217; e-mail: henke@caer.uky.edu
Adjunct Faculty
JAMES C. COBB, Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., Illinois, 1981. Coal geology.
Phone: 859-257-5500, ext. 144; e-mail: cobb@uky.edu
JAMES S. DINGER, Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., Nevada - Reno, 1977. Ground-water resource characterization in clastic and carbonate rocks; fracture flow.Phone: 859-257-5500, ext. 163; e-mail: dinger@uky.edu
JAMES DRAHOVZAL, Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., Iowa, 1966. Regional geology; seismic stratigraphy; petroleum geology.Phone: 859-257-5500, ext. 175; e-mail: drahovzal@uky.edu
CORTLAND F. EBLE, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., West Virginia, 1988. Palynology and coal geology.Phone: 859-257-5500, ext. 149; e-mail:eble@uky.edu
R. STEPHEN FISHER, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Texas - Austin, 1982. Environmental geochemistry and hydrogeology.Phone: 859-257-5500, ext. 158; e-mail: sfisher@uky.edu
STEPHEN F. GREB, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Kentucky, 1992. Sedimentary and coal geology; earth history.Phone: 859-257-5500, ext. 136; e-mail: greb@uky.edu
CHRIS GROVES, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Virginia, 1993. Hydrogeology, geochemistry, and water resources, particularly with regard to karst aquifer/landscape systems.
Phone: 270-745-5974; e-mail: chris.groves@wku.edu
JAMES C. HOWER, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Penn State, 1978. Coal petrology.Phone: 859-257-0261; e-mail: hower@caer.uky.edu
JOHN D. KIEFER, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Illinois, 1970. Engineering geology.Phone: 859-257-5500, ext. 136; e-mail: kiefer@uky.edu
THOMAS L. ROBL, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Kentucky, 1997.
Phone: 859-257-0272; e-mail: robl@caer.uky.edu
ZHENMING WANG, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Kentucky 1998. Geologic hazards, applied geophysics
Phone: 859-257-5000, ext. 142; e-mail: zmwang@uky.edu
GERALD A. WEISENFLUH, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., South Carolina,1982. Basin analysis, coal geology, and sedimentology.Phone: 859-257-5500, ext. 114; e-mail: jerryw@uky.edu