Mollie B. and Richard A. Williford Professor of Geology & Geophysics
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843-3115
(979) 845-0637, fax 845-6162
e-grossman@tamu.edu  

EDUCATION

Ph.D. (Geochemistry), University of Southern California, 1982 (T-L. Ku, advisor)
B.S. (Geology-magna cum laude), State University of New York at Albany, 1976

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION :

Earth system history
Stable isotope geochemistry
Biogeochemistry and geomicrobiology of aquifer systems
Geoinformatics

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

The Geological Society of America (Fellow; Associate Editor of GSA Bulletin, 1995-2003)
Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) (Associate Editor of Palaios, 1998-present)
American Geophysical Union
The Geochemical Society
International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry
Sigma Xi
American Association for the Advancement of Science

AWARDS AND HONORS

Elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America (2007)
Dean's Distinguished Achievement Award for Faculty Research, College of Geosciences (2005)
Awarded Mollie B. and Richard A. Williford Professorship (4/02 to present)
Advisor to recipient of a university-wide Association of Former Students Distinguished Graduate Student Research Award (W. Cory Beck, M.S., 2005)
Advisor to recipient of a university-wide Association of Former Students Distinguished Graduate Student Research Award (Takuro Kobashi, M.S., 2001)
New York State Regents Scholarship (1972-76)
New York State Earth Science Teachers Award (for academic excellence in high school earth science, 1972)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2002-present   Mollie B. and Richard A. Williford Professor, Texas A&M University, Department of Geology & Geophysics
1994-2002   Professor, Texas A&M University, Department of Geology & Geophysics
Fall, 2001 Visiting Professor, Pennsylvania State University, Dept. of Geosciences and the Environment Institute
1988-94   Associate Professor, Texas A&M University, Department of Geology
1982-88   Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, Department of Geology
1981-82   Instructor (part-time), California State University at Northridge, Department of Geosciences
1977-78   Teaching Assistant, Petrology and Oceanography, University of Southern California
1976-77, 1979-82  Research Assistant, Supervisor of Stable Isotope Laboratory, University of Southern California
Summer, 1976   Field assistant in Newfoundland drilling ophiolites with Norm Watkins (URI) and graduate student
 
RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

• Member, Internal Coordinating Committee, CHRONOS Project (11/04 - present)
• Associate Editor, Palaios (Journal of the Society for Sedimentary Geology) (10/98 to present)
• Steering Committee, NSF-sponsored workshop on Environmental Proxies, fall AGU Meeting (12/05)
• Participant, NSF-funded Information Technology and Science Center, TAMU, summer education program for high school science teachers (2002-present)
  
• Co-organizer (G.S. Soreghan, E.L. Grossman, J.M. McArthur), Theme Session, GeoSystems and CHRONOS: Probing Earth's Deep-Time Climate and Linked Systems, Earth System Processes II, Calgary, Canada (8/05)
  
• Participant, CHRONOS Project (Sedimentary Geochemistry) (8/02 - present)
• Review panelist, National Science Foundation, Geology and Paleontology, Geobiology and Low Temperature Geochemistry (2002 - 2005)
• Invited speaker, CHRONOS Mesozoic-Cenozoic Paleoceanography and Paleogeography Workshop, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg (10/04)
• Invited speaker, GeoSystems Workshop, Arlington, VA (9/04)
• Invited speaker, CHRONOS Investigator Retreat, Ames, IA (8/04)
• Co-organizer (E. Grossman, J. McArthur, and C. Cervato) and speaker, CHRONOS–Geochemical Cycles Workshop, San Antonio, TX(NSF supported) (6/04)
• Invited participant, Workshop on Linking Information Systems in Marine and Terrestrial Geosciences: Sediment Geochemistry, Washington, DC (6/04)
• Associate Editor,Bulletin of the Geological Society of America (1/95-12/03)
• Invited participant at Calibration of the Geological Timescale Workshop, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC (10/3-10/4/03)
• Invited participant, CHRONOS Investigator Retreat (8/03)
  
• Invited participant, Geochemical Earth Reference Model (GERM) Workshop, Lyon (5/03)
• Invited participant, Chronostratigraphic Information System Workshop, College Park, Maryland, sponsored by NSF, organized by AGI (8/02)
• Invited speaker, Biostratigraphic Basing for Stage Boundaries of Carboniferous System in Eastern Europe, Ekaterinburg (8/02)
• Invited speaker, Paleoceanography of Warm and Cold Climates During the Cenozoic Cooling Trend, AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu (2/02)
• Co-organizer (with P. McAllister Rees), Theme session 7: Global Change in the Late Paleozoic, GSA-GSL Earth System Processes meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland (6/01)
• Co-organizer (with Mike Engel), Special session, Secular variations in the stable isotope composition of organic matter and carbonates, Goldschmidt Conference, Roanoke, Virginia (5/01)
• Member, Advisory Council, Texas Center for Climate Studies, Texas A&M University (97-present)
• Review panelist, Life in Extreme Environments, National Science Foundation (6/00)
• Member, TAMU Sigma Xi Awards Committee (97-00)
• Member, Council of Principal Investigators, Texas A&M University (10/98 to 8/99)
• Review panelist, Department of Energy Environmental Management Science Program (EMSP) (6/99)
• Participant, International Global Correlation Programme (IGCP) Project 386, Response of the Ocean/Atmosphere System to Past Global Changes (1997-99)
• Member, Council of Principal Investigators, Texas A&M University (98-99)
• Invited speaker, IGCP Project 386 special session, Goldschmidt Conference, Toulouse, France (9/98)
• Invited speaker, Special Session on the Mississippian of North America and the World, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists-SEPM Joint meeting, Calgary (6/97)