Geology Faculty - Department of Geology - Western Illinois University

Department of Geology

Geology Faculty and Staff

	Sara Bennett, Instructor Office: Tillman 106, (309) 298-1905 M.S. in geology from Indiana University with experience in isotopic studies of acid mine drainage. Send email to SC-Bennett@wiu.edu
	Dr. Steve Bennett, Associate Professor Office: Tillman 109, (309) 298-1256 Ph.D. in geology from Indiana University with emphasis on surficial processes. Specialization in field-based physical hydrogeologic studies and stream sediment transport. Send email to SW-Bennett1@wiu.edu
	Dr. Peter Calengas, Professor and Chair Office: Tillman 115, (309) 298-1151 Ph.D. in geology from Indiana University; serves as consultant to various groups in coal, industrial minerals and environmental geology. Specialization in industrial minerals, coal, environmental geology. Send email to PL-Calengas@wiu.edu
	Diane Edwards, Departmental Secretary Office: Tillman 115 (309) 298-1151 Send email to DE-Edwards@wiu.edu
	Dr. Thomas A. Hegna, Assistant Professor Office: Tillman 113, (309) 298-1366 M.S. in Geoscience from the University of Iowa, with emphasis on invertebrate paleontology and paleoecology. M.Phil. in Geology & Geophysics from Yale University Ph.D in Geology & Geophysics from Yale University, with emphasis on arthropod paleobiology, phylogeny and taphonomy. His research focuses on the evolutionary radiation and functional morphology of crustaceans, arthropod taphonomy and preservation, and relevance of fossil organisms for understanding modern diversity. A more detailed website: https://sites.google.com/site/thehegnalab/ Send email to TA-Hegna@wiu.edu
	Robert Johnson, Geology Museum Curator Office: Tillman 118B (309) 298-1368 B.A. in art from Western Illinois University with concentration in commercial art, print making and Geoscience. Experience in museum work, freelance advertising, design display and construction, graphic design and illustration. Send email to RE-Johnson2@wiu.edu
	Dr. Kyle Mayborn, Professor Office: Tillman 108, (309) 298-1577 Ph.D. in geology from University of California at Davis with emphasis in igneous and metamorphic petrology. Specialization in petrologic and structural evolution of Precambrian dike swarms; basaltic magma evolution, and quantitative modeling of magmatic differentiation. Send email to KR-Mayborn@wiu.edu
	Dr. Leslie Melim, Professor Office: Tillman 112, (309) 298-1377 Ph.D. in geology from Southern Methodist University with emphasis on carbonate diagenesis and sedimentology. Specialization in carbonate sedimentology and diagenesis, dolomitization, sedimentary petrography, sedimentary geochemistry, low-temperature isotope geochemistry, geomicrobiology of cave formations Dr. Melim's Homepage Send email to LA-Melim@wiu.edu
	Dr. Jack Bowman Bailey, Professor Emeritus Senior Fellow Geological Society of America Office: Tillman 118A, (309) 298-1481 Ph.D. (1975) in geology with emphasis in paleontology from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Specializations in invertebrate and vertebrate paleobiology. Primary interest in the systematics, functional morphology, paleoecology and paleobiogeography of Paleozoic Bivalvia (Mollusca). Secondary interest in dinosaur paleobiology. Send email to JB-Bailey@wiu.edu