Teaching Team

Dr. Donna Witter, Course Coordinator and Section I Instructor ("Plate Tectonics and the Shape of the Sea")

Email: dwitter@kent.edu
Phone: 330-672-7002
Office Location: McGilvrey 235C
Office Hours: WF 1:00 - 2:30 pm
Research Expertise: Physical Oceanography, Remote Sensing, Quantitative Methods

 

Dr. Alison Smith, Section II Instructor ("Life in the Ocean")

Email: asmith@kent.edu
Phone: 330-672-3709
Office Location: McGilvrey 219
Office Hours: MW 1:30 - 3:00 pm
Research Expertise: Paleolimnology, Holocene Climate Change, Micropaleontology

 

 

Dr. Donald Palmer, Section III Instructor ("Ocean Circulation, Chemistry, and Pollution")

Email: dpalmer@kent.edu
Phone: 330-672-2680
Office Location: McGilvrey 221B
Office Hours: MW 9:00 - 11:00  am or by appointment
Research Expertise: Exploration and Engineering Geophysics

 

 

Dr. Andrew Moore, Section IV Instructor ("Coastal Processes")

Email: amoore5@kent.edu
Phone: 330-672-9465
Office Location: McGilvrey 228
Office Hours: MWF 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Research Expertise: Coastal Processes, Hydrology

 

Dr. Joseph Ortiz, Section V Instructor ("Climate Change and the Ocean")

Email: jortiz@kent.edu
Phone: 330-672-2225
Office Location: McGilvrey 336
Office Hours: Tu 9:45-10:30 am, W 9:55 - 10:45 am, Th 1:30 - 2:30 pm
Research Expertise: Marine Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, Paleoceanography, Paleoclimate