Jack B. Bailey Professor

Office: Tillman 113, (309) 298-1481

Ph.D. in geology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with emphasis in paleontology, paleoecology and sedimentology; two years experience with AMOCO and TEXACO in petroleum exploration.

Specialization in invertebrate and vertebrate paleobiology, paleoecology and paleobiogeography; history of geology and philosophy of science.

Send email to JB-Bailey@wiu.edu

Steve Bennett
Associate Professor

Office: Tillman 109, (309) 298-1256

Ph.D. in geology from Indiana University with emphasis on surficial processes; experience in studies of acid mine drainage, septic effluent transport, and eolian processes.

Specialization in field-based physical hydrogeologic studies, stream sediment transport, and contemporary eolian processes.

Send email to SW-Bennett1@wiu.edu

Amy Brock
Assistant Professor

Office: Tillman 119, (309) 298-1516

Ph.D. in Geoscience from University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Arid soil processes, soil micromorphology, and paleosols.

Specialization in soil-geomorphology, arid region soil processes and soils in the rock record. Research focus on development of calcium carbonate in soils related to geomorphic, chemical, and mineralogical processes.

Send email to AL-Brock@wiu.edu

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

Kyle Mayborn
Associate 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

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

Send email to LA-Melim@wiu.edu

Kristie Parkins
Department Secretary

Office: Tillman 115 (309) 298-1151

Send email to KC-Parkins@wiu.edu

Robert Johnson
Museum Curator

Office: Tillman 118B (309) 298-1368

B.A. in art from Western Illinois University with concentration in commercial art, print making and Geo-Science. Seventeen years experience in museum work and freelance advertising design

Curator, Museum of Geology - display design and construction, Graphic Design and Illustration.

Send email to RE-Johnson2@wiu.edu

Fred Caspall

Office: Tillman 405, (309) 298-1491

Ph.D. from University of Kansas; over 5 years experience in surface mined land reclamation, consultant to numerous small independent oil and gas companies in the midwest.

Specialization in the structure and stratigraphy in western and central Illinois; Pleistocene stratigraphy in the central United States. Paleopedology; soils-engineering.

Send email to FC-Caspall@wiu.edu

David Hess