Mississippi Embayment Research Center

Advisory Board

The members of the Mississippi Embayment Research Center advisory board are listed below with their affiliation and area(s) of expertise.

WADE KRESS   

• United States Geological Survey
• Mississippi Alluvial Plain Hydrogeology

STEVE GOODBRED

• Vanderbilt University
• Large-scale drilling and sediment databases

 VALARIE HARRISON

• TN Department of Conservation
• Memphis Region geologist

SARAH HOUSTON

• Protect Our Aquifer
• Environmental advocacy and public relations

DANIEL LARSEN

• University of Memphis, Department of Earth Science
• Stratigraphic research in the Mississippi embayment

RON COUNTS

• Mississippi Mineral Resources Institute
• Mineral resource assessment and geological surveys

VADIM LEVIN

• University of Memphis, Center for Earthquake Research and Information
• Seismic data acquisition

SCOTT SCHOEFERNACKER

• Protect Our Aquifer
• Hydrogeology and Mississippi embayment groundwater systems

ROCKY TALCHABHADEL

• Jackson State University
• Hydrology and geospatial modeling

MIKE STECKLER

• Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
• Geophysics, faults, and fluvial-tectonic interactions

GARY STINCHCOMB

• University of Memphis, Department of Earth Science
• Soil geomorphology

LEAH WINDSOR

• University of Memphis, Institute for Intelligent Systems
• Quantitative analysis of leadership and learning