Emeriti

Dave Andersen
Professor Emeritus

Phone: (408) 924-5014
Office: DH 307

E-mail: david.andersen@sjsu.edu

• Professor Emeritus, Sedimentology
• Ph.D. 1973 University of Utah
• Current projects emphasize tectonics and sedimentation in the California Coast Ranges.

• Dr. Andersen completed the faculty early retirement program in Spring 2017. He is no longer accepting graduate students.

Paula Messina
Professor Emeritus

Phone: (408) 924-5050

• Professor Emeritus, Geomorphology, Pre-college Earth Science Education
• Ph.D., 1998, City University of New York

• Dr. Messina has retired and no longer accepts graduate students.

June Oberdorfer
Professor Emeritus

Phone: (408) 924-5026
Office: DH 307

E-mail: june.oberdorfer@sjsu.edu

• Professor Emeritus, Hydrology
• Ph.D. 1983, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

• Dr. Oberdorfer completed the faculty early retirement program in Fall 2020. She is no longer accepting graduate students.

Cal Stevens
Professor Emeritus

Phone: (408) 924-5029
Office: DH 307
E-mail: calvin.stevens@sjsu.edu

• Professor Emeritus, Late Paleozoic Tectonic Development of far western North America
• Ph.D. 1963, University of Southern California.
• Research involves study of Late Paleozoic corals, fusulinids, and stratigraphy of the Cordilleran miogeocline and various tectostratigraphic terranes.

• Dr. Stevens completed the faculty early retirement program in Spring 2002. He is no longer accepting graduate students.

John Williams
Professor Emeritus

 

 

 

• Professor Emeritus, Engineering Geology
• Ph.D. 1970, Stanford University.
• Ongoing research involves detection of slope instabilities, mechanics of landslide movement, seismically induced ground failures, effective land use planning, and issues of ethics in the geosciences.

• Dr. Williams completed the faculty early retirement program in Fall 2010. He is no longer accepting graduate students.