Adjunct Faculty Directory
Adjunct Professor, Biological Sciences Co-director of the Michigan Tech Research Institute
(MTRI)
Research Interests
Oceanic Sciences/Natural Resources
AR, MS, and Photo-imaging Applied to Oceanography
Earth Resources
Military Coastal Environmental Assessment
Adjunct Professor, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
Research Interests
Volcanic emissions of sulfur dioxide, for both individual eruptions and global-scale
trends
Merging of wind trajectory models and remote sensing data to produce 3-dimensional
reconstructions of drifting volcanic clouds
Study of gas and solid interactions within drifting volcanic clouds
Watershed geochemistry in the Lake Superior basin
Antarctic continental weathering under ice-free conditions, and the effect on marine
geochemistry
Professor of Natural Resource Economics, College of Business Director of MS in Applied
Natural Resource Economics Affiliate Professor, Geological and Mining Engineering
and Sciences
Teaching Interests
Natural Resource Economics
Principles of Economics
International Economics
Specialties
Metal markets
Sustainability of mining
Social decision-making about resource use
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Affiliated Professor, Geological and
Mining Engineering and Sciences
Research Interests
Materials Processing
Microwave
Hydrogen Storage Material
Energy
Recycling
Extractive Metallurgy
Environmental Engineering
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Affiliated Associate Professor,
Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
Teaching Interests
Soil mechanics and labs
Foundation engineering
Numerical simulations (FEM, FDM)
Multiphysics in Porous Materials
Research Interests
Multiphysical phenomena: soil freezing, cement hydration, gas hydrate dissociation,
energy geotechnics, electrokinetics, electromagnetics in soils, and soil-structure-fluid
interaction
Advanced soil mechanics: stress formulation, soil wetting, adsorption, non-isothermal
soil mechanics, phase change, and soil behavior under extreme conditions
Geo-sensing with innovative sensor techniques (acoustic, electromagnetic) and geo-intelligence
with machine learning (intelligent geo-systems, data-driven geotechnics)
Numerical simulation techniques: multiphysics, molecular dynamics, multiscale-driven
multiphysics, XFEM, SPH
Director, Marine Engineering Laboratory Robbins Professor of Sustainable Marine Engineering Research
Professor, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
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
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
Research Interests
Oceanography and Limnology
Aquatic optics and remote sensing
Development of novel aquatic satellite products
Aquatic biogeochemical processes
Phytoplankton ecology
Response of aquatic systems to environmental change
Robert S. Regis
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
Associate Curator, A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum Adjunct Assistant Professor, Geological
and Mining Engineering and Sciences
Research Interests
Mineralogy
History of mineralogy and mineral collections
Igneous petrology
Geochemistry
James W. Vallance
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Affiliated Professor, Geological and
Mining Engineering and Sciences
Research Interests
Mechanics of seismic signals generated from hydrodynamic phenomena such as the interaction
of tornadoes with the ground
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Seismic Signal Analysis
Development and Calibration of New Seismic Attributes
Seismic Velocity Analysis
Broadband seismic data processing
Shale Resources Characterization
