Faculty
Nate Bogie
Assistant Professor
Nate is our resident subsurface hydrologist, his lab studies movement of water, nutrients,
and contaminants through aquifers, plants, and soil. He also teaches hydrogeology,
sustainability, and low temperature geochemistry.
Phone: (408) 924-5038
Office: DH 315B
Office Hours: By appointment
E-mail: nathaniel.bogie@sjsu.edu
Dr. Bogie's Website
Manny Gabet
Professor / Graduate Advisor
I am a geomorphologist with a wide range of interests. My students and I study topics
such as the causes of rockfall, the effects of dam removal on river systems, mercury
contamination, glacial erosion, and the geologic evolution of the Sierra Nevada.
Phone: (408) 924-5035
Office: DH 223
Office Hours: By appointment
E-mail: manny.gabet@sjsu.edu
Dr. Gabet's website
Ellen Metzger
Professor / BAESI Director
I am a metamorphic petrologist and science educator with a wide variety of interests.
My current research focuses on high-grade metamorphism in the Adirondack Mountains
of New York, Miocene volcanics in the Central California Coast Ranges that formed
in a subduction-transform transitional setting, and education for sustainability.
Phone: (408) 924-5048
Office: DH 319
Office Hours: By Appointment
E-mail: ellen.metzger@sjsu.edu
BAESI website
Robert Miller
Professor
I am a field-oriented structural geologist and tectonicist. My research focuses on
the tectonic evolution of the North Cascades of Washington and British Columbia, and
the construction, emplacement, and structure of granitic plutons in the Cascades and
Sierra Nevada. Major current projects are on relationships between magmatic flare-ups,
crustal structure, and arc rheology, and on displacement histories of Mesozoic and
early Cenozoic strike-slip fault zones in the Pacific NW
Phone: (408) 924-5025
Office: DH 314
Office Hours: By appointment
E-mail: robert.b.miller@sjsu.edu
Ryan Portner
Assistant Professor
I am a volcanologist that uses sedimentology/stratigraphy, igneous petrology, geochemistry,
geochronology and field mapping to study oceanic crust formation, submarine eruption
dynamics and volcaniclastic transport/deposition processes on the seafloor. To do
this my research team and I integrate field studies of modern and ancient deposits
exposed on the seafloor and on land with laboratory based analytical approaches.
Phone: (408) 924-5009
Office: DH 202
Office Hours: By appointment via Zoom or Google Chat
E-mail: ryan.portner@sjsu.edu
Dr. Portner's website
Don Reed
Professor
Professor Reed is currently in the Faculty Early Retirement Program and teaches oceanography
online in the fall semester each year.
Phone: (408) 924-5036
Office: DH 305
Office Hours: By appointment
E-mail: donald.reed@sjsu.edu
