PENS Faculty and Staff Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

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Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences

Phone: 361-825-2814
Advising: 361-825-3928
Email: alessandra.garcia@tamucc.edu

Natural Resources Center
Room 3500
6300 Ocean Dr
Corpus Christi, TX 78412

Department Administration

Richard Coffin

Richard Coffin, Ph.D.

Chair and Professor of Physical and Environmental Sciences

Office: NRC 3500
Phone: 361-825-2814
Email: richard.coffin@tamucc.edu
Website: http://icl.tamucc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Carbon isotope geochemistry to study biogeochemical cycles in the coastal ocean and estuaries.

Barbara Szczerbinska

Barbara Szczerbinska, Ph.D.

Assistant to the Chair, Physics Program Coordinator and Professor

Office: NRC 3503
Phone: 361-825-3916
Email: barbara.szczerbinska@tamucc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Neutrino Physics, Geoneutrinos, Dark Matter

Alessandra Garcia

Senior Administrative Assistant

Office: NRC 3500
Phone: 361-825-2814
Email: alessandra.garcia@tamucc.edu

Faculty

Hussain Abdulla

Hussain Abdulla, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Office: CS 211
Phone: 361-825-6050
Email: hussain.abdulla@tamucc.edu
Website: https://www.habdullagroup.com

Curriculum Vitae

Organic Biogeochemistry, Environmental metabolomics, Fate of terrestrial dissolved organic matter and Effects of natural organic matter in the solubility of anthropogenic pollutants.

Mohamed Ahmed

Mohamed Ahmed, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Geophysics

Office: NRC 3102
Phone: 361-825-3278
Email: mohamed.ahmed@tamucc.edu
Website: https://ahmedlab.tamucc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Applying geophysics, remote sensing, hydrogeology, modeling, and GIS to investigate a wide range of complex problems

Eugene Billiot

Eugene Billiot, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemistry

Office: CS 208
Phone: 361-825-2680
Email: eugene.billiot@tamucc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Understanding chiral separations with amino acid based surfactants.

Feri Billiot

Feri Billiot, Ph.D.

Graduate Chemistry Program Coordinator and Professor of Chemistry

Office: CS 207
Phone: 361-825-6067
Email: fereshteh.billiot@tamucc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Understanding chiral separations with amino acid based surfactants; distribution, fate and effect of endocrine disruptors in the environment

Darek Bogucki

Darek Bogucki, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Office: HRI 118
Phone: 361-825-2836
Email: darek.bogucki@tamucc.edu
Website: https://faculty.tamucc.edu/dbogucki

Curriculum Vitae

Small scale physical processes in the coastal ocean, including remote sensing, numerical methods in fluid dynamics, biological-physical interactions, sensors, and LIDAR

Timothy Causgrove

Timothy Causgrove, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Office: CS 207
Phone: 361-825-2399
Email: tim.causgrove@tamucc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Spectroscopic measurement of energy barriers to protein folding using novel initiation methods; molecular modeling of peptide structure and dynamics

Jeremy Conkle

Jeremy Conkle, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Office: HRI 104
Phone: 361-825-2862
Email: jeremy.conkle@tamucc.edu
Website: https://c-hawq.org

Curriculum Vitae

Fate, transport and health (ecosystem and human) impacts of pollutants, particularly emerging contaminants and marine plastics in coastal and marine environments.

Joseph David Felix

Joseph David Felix, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Environmental Chemistry

Office: NRC 3202
Phone: 361-825-4180
Email: joseph.felix@tamucc.edu
Website: http://felixlab.tamucc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

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

Patrick Fitzpatrick

Patrick Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.

Program Coordinator and Professional Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Science

Office: CS 243
Phone: 361-825-4061
Email: patrick.fitzpatrick@tamucc.edu

Shreyashi Ganguly

Shreyashi Ganguly, Ph.D.

Professional Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Office: CS 246
Phone: 361-825-4060
Email: shreyashi.ganguly@tamucc.edu

James Gibeaut

James Gibeaut, Ph.D.

Endowed Associate Research Professor

Office: HRI 215A
Phone: 361-825-2060
Email: james.gibeaut@tamucc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Coastal geology using topographic Lidar, remote sensing, GIS, and field surveys to measure and understand coastal change

Nicolas Holubowitch

Nicolas Holubowitch, Ph.D.

Professional Assistant Professor

Office: CS 242
Phone: 361-825-2987
Email: nicolas.holubowitch@tamucc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Electrochemistry, energy, and the environment; batteries and fuel cells; desalination; sensing of hazardous compounds

Xinping Hu

Xinping Hu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Office: SL2 104
Phone: 361-825-3395
Email: xinping.hu@tamucc.edu
Website: http://hulab.tamucc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Oceanic carbon cycle; Ocean acidification; Sediment early diagenesis; Carbonate geochemistry; Stable isotope biogeochemistry

Patrick Larkin

Patrick Larkin, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Office: CS 203
Phone: 361-825-3258
Email: patrick.larkin@tamucc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Plant biochemistry and genetics; fate and metabolism of nutrients and toxins, diversity and dispersal, conservation.

Chuntao Liu

Chuntao Liu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences

Office: NRC 1109
Phone: 361-825-3845
Email: chuntao.liu@tamucc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Cesar Marquez

Cesar Marquez, Ph.D.

Professional Assistant Professor

Office: CS 206
Phone: 361-825-5701
Email: cesar.marquez@tamucc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Richard Mclaughlin

HRI Chair and Professor

Office: HRI 311C
Phone: 361-825-2010
Email: richard.mclaughlin@tamucc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Marine policy and law

Paul Montagna

Paul Montagna, Ph.D.

Endowed Chair for Ecosystems Studies and Modeling

Office: HRI 210A
Phone: 361-825-2040
Email: paul.montagna@tamucc.edu
Website: https://www.harteresearchinstitute.org/people/paul-montagna

Curriculum Vitae

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.

Dorina Murgulet

Dorina Murgulet, Ph.D.

CMSS Program Coordinator and Associate Professor of Hydrogeology

Office: NRC 3103
Phone: 361-825-2309
Email: dorina.murgulet@tamucc.edu
Website: http://artesian.tamucc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Physical and Contaminant Hydrogeology; Hydrology and Water Resources; Groundwater/surface water interactions; Coastal hydrogeology.

Valeriu Murgulet

Valeriu Murgulet, Ph.D.

Geology Program Coordinator and Professional Assistant Professor

Office: CS 205
Phone: 361-825-6023
Email: valeriu.murgulet@tamucc.edu

Narendra Narayana

Narendra Narayana, Ph.D.

Professional Assistant Professor in Biochemistry

Office: CS 130D
Phone: 361-825-3644
Email: narendra.narayana@tamucc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

X-ray crystallography for structure determination of biological macromolecules

Jai Prakash

Jai Prakash, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Office: CS 210
Phone: 361-825-3293
Email: jai.prakash@tamucc.edu
Website: https://prakashlab.weebly.com

Bioinorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Environmental and Green Chemistry, Spectroscopy, and Energy and Catalysis

Lindsay Prothro

Lindsay Prothro, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Geology

Office: CS 247
Phone: 361-825-4062
Email: lindsay.prothro@tamucc.edu
Website: http://lindsayprothro.com/

Curriculum Vitae

Sedimentology and geomorphology as tools to determine paleo-environments and rates of change to glacial and coastal/marine systems

Toshiaki Shinoda

Toshiaki Shinoda, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences

Office: NRC 3509
Phone: 361-825-3636
Email: toshiaki.shinoda@tamucc.edu
Website: https://faculty.tamucc.edu/tshinoda

Curriculum Vitae

Jim Silliman

Jim Silliman, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Office: HRI 120
Phone: 361-825-3718
Email: james.silliman@tamucc.edu
Website: http://faculty.tamucc.edu/silliman

Curriculum Vitae

Organic geochemistry: Climate and environmental change and Differences in organic geochemical practices

Jennifer Smith-Engle

Jennifer Smith-Engle, Ph.D.

Program Coordinator and Professor of Environmental Science and Geology

Office: NRC 3502
Phone: 361-825-2436
Email: jennifer.smith-engle@tamucc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Coastal processes; coastal regulations and resource management; Late Pleistocene/Holocene coastal geology and geomorphology

Jeffery Spirko

Jeffery Spirko, Ph.D.

Professional Associate Professor of Physics

Office: NRC 1111
Phone: 361-825-6020
Email: jeffery.spirko@tamucc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Philippe Tissot

Philippe Tissot, Ph.D.

Associate Research Professor

Office: NRC 2801
Phone: 361-825-3776
Email: philippe.tissot@tamucc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

My main research interest is the application and development of machine learning based techniques

Feiqin Xie

Feiqin Xie, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences

Office: NRC 3507
Phone: 361-825-3229
Email: feiqin.xie@tamucc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

David Yoskowitz

HRI Chair and Professor

Office: HRI 210B
Phone: 361-825-2966
Email: david.yoskowitz@tamucc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Economics and ecosystem services

Lin Zhang

Lin Zhang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Office: HRI 104
Phone: 361-825-2095
Email: lin.zhang@tamucc.edu
Website: http://zhanglab.tamucc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

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.

Instructors, Visiting and Adjunct Faculty

Galina Reid

Galina Reid, M.S.

Instructor of Physics and Physical Science

Office: NRC 1110
Phone: 361-825-3685
Email: galina.reid@tamucc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Physical science education, learning and understanding the natural phenomena

Staff

Kaitlyn Garcia

Laboratory Coordinator I

Office: CS 129
Phone: 361-825-2125
Email: kaitlyn.garcia@tamucc.edu

Joseph Hill

Laboratory Coordinator I

Office: MB1 110
Email: joseph.hill@tamucc.edu

Norma Jimenez

Laboratory Coordinator I for Physical and Environmental Science

Office: CS 129
Phone: 361-825-2125
Email: norma.jimenez@tamucc.edu

Kari Nease

Administrative Assistant for Physical Sciences

Office: CS 130
Phone: 361-825-2991
Email: kari.nease@tamucc.edu

Mary Teter

Administrative Assistant for Physical Sciences

Office: NRC 3500
Phone: 361-825-2681
Email: mary.teter@tamucc.edu

PENS Faculty and Staff