
Adam Durant
- Adjunct Professor, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
Sajin Kumar K.S.
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
Research Interests
- Geohazards
- Meteorite Impact Cratering Process
Guy Meadows
- Director, Marine Engineering Laboratory
- Robbins Professor of Sustainable Marine Engineering
- Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
- gmeadows@mtu.edu
- 906-487-1106
- GLRC 303
Research Interests
- Large scale field experimentation in the Inland Seas of the Great Lakes and coastal oceans
- Nearshore hydrodynamics and prediction
- Autonomous and semi-autonomous environmental monitoring platforms (surface and sub-surface)
- Underwater acoustic remote sensing
- Marine engineering

Elisa Piispa
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences

Robert S. Regis
- Adjunct Professor, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences

Miriam Rios Sanchez
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences

Lizzette Rodriguez
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
Research Interests
- Monitoring of volcanic degassing: acquisition and analysis of volcanic gas emission data, specifically sulfur dioxide, using Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy and COSPEC
- Depletion rates of sulfur dioxide in volcanic plumes
- Near-vent sun photometry of volcanic aerosols (using sun photometers)
- Volcano-atmosphere interactions
- Volcanology and volcanic hazard assessment in the Lesser Antilles, Central and South America
- Monitoring of ground deformation produced by volcanic activity, using the Global Positioning System
Robert Shuchman
- Co-Director, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
- Research Professor, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
- Adjunct Research Professor, Biological Sciences
- shuchman@mtu.edu
- 734-913-6860
- Cell: 734-649-0937
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
Areas of Expertise
- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications
- Multispectral and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
- Applied Photo Imaging
- Sea and Lake Ice
- Environmental in situ Sensing
Research Interests
- Great Lakes Remote Sensing
- Ocean Optics
- High Latitude Oceanography
- Dynamic Decision Support Systems
- Water Quality of Inland Lakes

James W. Vallance
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences

Erika Vye
- Geosciences Research Scientist, Great Lakes Research Center
- ecvye@mtu.edu
- 906-487-1581
- GLRC 312
Areas of Interest
- Geosciences Education
- Geoconservation
- Geoheritage
- National Marine Sanctuary
- Great Lakes Indigenous Knowledge
- University-Indigenous Community Partnerships