Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences Directory
- Faculty in the Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences
- Atmospheric Science Program
- Chemistry Program
- Environmental Science Program
- Geology Program
- Physics Program
- Chemistry Graduate Program
- Coastal & Marine System Science Program
- Staff in the Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences
- Advisors for the College
Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences
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Richard Coffin, Ph.D.
Department Chair and ProfessorOffice: NRC 3500
Phone: (361) 825-2814
Email: richard.coffin@tamucc.edu
Website: http://icl.tamucc.edu
Carbon isotope geochemistry to study biogeochemical cycles in the coastal ocean and estuaries.
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Jim Silliman, Ph.D.
Assistant to the Chair and ProfessorOffice: NRC 3510
Phone: (361) 825-3718
Email: james.silliman@tamucc.edu
Organic geochemistry: Climate and environmental change and Differences in organic geochemical practices
![Picture of Alessandra Garcia](../directory/thumbs/agarcia167.jpg)
Alessandra Garcia
Senior Administrative AssistantOffice: NRC 3500
Phone: (361) 825-2814
Email: alessandra.garcia@tamucc.edu
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Hussain Abdulla, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of ChemistryOffice: CS 211
Phone: (361) 825-6050
Email: hussain.abdulla@tamucc.edu
Website: https://www.habdullagroup.com
Abdulla's Organic Biogeochemistry research laboratory specializes in aquatic environmental metabolomics, studying the fluxes, fate, and transformation of natural dissolved organic matter (DOM). The research group focuses on understanding the fate and transformation of natural DOM and organic pollutants and investigating how different aquatic species tolerate environmental stresses using environmental metabolomics approaches. Additionally, the lab is dedicated to developing advanced analytical methods for the sensitive and robust quantification of metabolites.
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Mohamed Ahmed, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of GeophysicsOffice: NRC 2508
Phone: (361) 825-3278
Email: mohamed.ahmed@tamucc.edu
Website: https://ahmedlab.tamucc.edu
Applying geophysics, remote sensing, hydrogeology, modeling, and GIS to investigate a wide range of complex problems
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Chandra Azad, Ph.D.
Assistant Professional Professor of ChemistryOffice: CS 246
Phone: (361) 825-2987
Email: chandra.azad@tamucc.edu
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Eugene Billiot, Ph.D.
Professor of ChemistryOffice: CS 208
Phone: (361) 825-2680
Email: eugene.billiot@tamucc.edu
Understanding chiral separations with amino acid based surfactants.
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Feri Billiot, Ph.D.
Professor of ChemistryOffice: CS 207
Phone: (361) 825-6067
Email: fereshteh.billiot@tamucc.edu
Understanding chiral separations with amino acid based surfactants; distribution, fate and effect of endocrine disruptors in the environment
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Darek Bogucki, Ph.D.
Associate ProfessorOffice: CS 251
Phone: (361) 825-2836
Email: darek.bogucki@tamucc.edu
Website: https://faculty.tamucc.edu/dbogucki
Small scale physical processes in the coastal ocean, including remote sensing, numerical methods in fluid dynamics, biological-physical interactions, sensors, and LIDAR
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Joseph David Felix, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Environmental Chemistry and CMSS Program CoordinatorOffice: NRC 3202
Phone: (361) 825-4180
Email: joseph.felix@tamucc.edu
Website: http://felixlab.tamucc.edu
Stable isotope biogeochemistry; Transport, fate, and air-sea-land exchange processes of volatile organic compounds and reactive nitrogen; Bulk and compound-specific stable isotope analysis method development
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Pat Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.
Program Coordinator and Professional Assistant Professor of Atmospheric ScienceOffice: CS 243
Phone: (361) 825-4061
Email: patrick.fitzpatrick@tamucc.edu
Research area: Hurricanes; storm surge; weather forecasting; ocean coupling; oil spills; sea breeze; numerical modeling; statistical and applied meteorology
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James Gibeaut, Ph.D.
Endowed Associate Research ProfessorOffice: HRI 215A
Phone: (361) 825-2060
Email: james.gibeaut@tamucc.edu
Website: https://www.harteresearch.org/research/geospatial-sciences
Coastal geology using topographic Lidar, remote sensing, GIS, and field surveys to measure and understand coastal change
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Nasrin Hooshmand, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of ChemistryOffice: CS 250
Phone: (361) 825-2862
Email: nasrin.hooshmand@tamucc.edu
![Picture of Xinping Hu](../directory/thumbs/xhu.jpg)
Xinping Hu, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry and Endowed Chair for Ecosystem Science and ModelingOffice: HRI 209
Phone: (361) 825-3395
Email: xinping.hu@tamucc.edu
Website: http://hulab.tamucc.edu
Oceanic carbon cycle; Ocean acidification; Sediment early diagenesis; Carbonate geochemistry; Stable isotope biogeochemistry
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Ben Karimi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry (Inorganic)Office: CS 202
Phone: (361) 825-2399
Email: ben.karimi@tamucc.edu
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Patrick Larkin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of ChemistryOffice: CS 203
Phone: (361) 825-3258
Email: patrick.larkin@tamucc.edu
Plant biochemistry and genetics; fate and metabolism of nutrients and toxins, diversity and dispersal, conservation.
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Chuntao Liu, Ph.D.
Professor of Atmospheric SciencesOffice: NRC 1109
Phone: (361) 825-3845
Email: chuntao.liu@tamucc.edu
Research area: Remote sensing of cloud, precipitation and severe weather.
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Richard McLaughlin
HRI Chair and Professor EmeritusOffice: HRI 311C
Phone: (361) 825-2010
Email: richard.mclaughlin@tamucc.edu
Marine policy and law
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Paul Montagna, Ph.D.
HRI Chair and ProfessorOffice: HRI 122E
Phone: (361) 825-2040
Email: paul.montagna@tamucc.edu
Ecosystem studies with a focus on benthic components, freshwater resources, water quality, ecosystem modeling, and environmental statistics; and integrating natural science with human dimensions research.
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Dorina Murgulet, Ph.D.
CMSS Program Coordinator and Professor of HydrogeologyOffice: NRC 3103
Phone: (361) 825-2309
Email: dorina.murgulet@tamucc.edu
Website: https://artesian.tamucc.edu/index.html
Physical and Contaminant Hydrogeology; Hydrology and Water Resources; Groundwater/surface water interactions; Coastal hydrogeology.
![Picture of Valeriu Murgulet](../images/default.jpg)
Valeriu Murgulet, Ph.D.
Geology Program Coordinator and Professional Assistant ProfessorOffice: CS 205
Phone: (361) 825-6023
Email: valeriu.murgulet@tamucc.edu
![Picture of Narendra Narayana](../directory/thumbs/nnarayana1.jpg)
Narendra Narayana, Ph.D.
Associate Professional Professor of ChemistryOffice: CS 242
Phone: (361) 825-3644
Email: narendra.narayana@tamucc.edu
X-ray crystallography for structure determination of biological macromolecules
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Mark Olson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of ChemistryOffice: CS 206
Phone: (361) 825-2857
Email: mark.olson@tamucc.edu
Website: http://www.olsonlaboratory.com
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Ioana Pavel, Ph.D.
Professor of ChemistryOffice: TH 235
Phone: (361) 825-3824
Email: ioana.pavel@tamucc.edu
Website: https://www.pavellab.com
Our team is dedicated to finding interdisciplinary solutions to address Public Health challenges, with a focus on Human Health and Environmental Health.
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Ingo Pecher, Ph.D.
Professor of Coastal and Marine System ScienceOffice: NRC 3508
Email: ingo.pecher@tamucc.edu
Geophysical studies of seafloor processes. Fluid expulsion, cold seeps, gas hydrates, shallow gas, geohazards, seafloor sedimentation and erosion. Analysis of seismic, echosounder, multibeam and sidescan sonar data. Geophysical well logs. Marine heat flow. Integration of geochemical, sedimentological and geophysical data.
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Lindsay Prothro, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of GeologyOffice: CS 247
Phone: (361) 825-4062
Email: lindsay.prothro@tamucc.edu
![Picture of Galina Reid](../directory/thumbs/greid.jpg)
Galina Reid, M.S.
Instructor of Physics and Physical ScienceOffice: NRC 1110
Phone: (361) 825-3685
Email: galina.reid@tamucc.edu
Physical science education, learning and understanding the natural phenomena
![Picture of Toshiaki Shinoda](../directory/thumbs/tshinoda.jpg)
Toshiaki Shinoda, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Atmospheric ScienceOffice: NRC 3509
Phone: (361) 825-3636
Email: toshiaki.shinoda@tamucc.edu
Website: https://faculty.tamucc.edu/tshinoda
Climate dynamics, Atmosphere-ocean interaction, Physical oceanography
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Jennifer Smith-Engle, Ph.D.
Program Coordinator and Professor of Environmental Science and GeologyOffice: NRC 3502
Phone: (361) 825-2436
Email: jennifer.smith-engle@tamucc.edu
Coastal processes; coastal regulations and resource management; Late Pleistocene/Holocene coastal geology and geomorphology
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Jeffery Spirko, Ph.D.
Physics Program Coordinator and Professional Associate ProfessorOffice: NRC 1111
Phone: (361) 825-6020
Email: jeffery.spirko@tamucc.edu
![Picture of Barbara Szczerbinska](../directory/thumbs/bszczerbinska.jpg)
Barbara Szczerbinska, Ph.D.
Associate Dean of Academics and ProfessorOffice: CI 370
Phone: (361) 825-3916
Email: barbara.szczerbinska@tamucc.edu
Neutrino Physics, Geoneutrinos, Dark Matter
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Philippe Tissot, Ph.D.
Associate Research ProfessorOffice: NRC 2801
Phone: (361) 825-3776
Email: philippe.tissot@tamucc.edu
My main research interest is the application and development of machine learning based techniques
![Picture of Feiqin Xie](../directory/thumbs/fxie.jpg)
Feiqin Xie, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Atmospheric SciencesOffice: NRC 3507
Phone: (361) 825-3229
Email: feiqin.xie@tamucc.edu
Website: https://faculty.tamucc.edu/fxie/
My primary research interests are in atmospheric remote sensing and atmospheric dynamics.
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Lin Zhang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Marine ChemistryOffice: HRI 104
Phone: (361) 825-2095
Email: lin.zhang@tamucc.edu
Website: http://zhanglab.tamucc.edu
Compound/Position Specific Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Analysis in Amino Acids and Application in Oceanography and Ecology. Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry of Greenhouse Gases in Alaskan Peatlands.