Faculty

Susan Brantley

Email: sxb7@psu.edu
Phone: 814-865-1619
Office Address: 225b Earth & Engineering Sciences Building
Title: Evan Pugh University Professor and Barnes Professor of Geosciences
Unit: Department of Geosciences
Webpage: https://www.geosc.psu.edu/directory/susan-brantley

Research Interests:

• Aqueous geochemistry
• Geochemical kinetics
• Microbial biogeochemistry

Research:

My research focuses on natural and human-induced reactions among water, rock, gas, biota, and soil. I have long been interested in the rates and mechanisms of water-rock reactions in the field and in the laboratory, including how we measure them, reproduce them in the laboratory, and model them.

About:

As an aqueous geochemist at Penn State, my title is Distinguished Professor of Geosciences. I am also the Director of the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute and the Laboratory for Isotopes and Metals in the Environment. I investigate chemical, geological, biological, physical, and anthropogenic processes associated with the circulation of aqueous fluids in shallow hydrogeologic settings, with a particular focus on inter-relationships within the critical zone. I have a Ph.D. in geological and geophysical sciences from Princeton University.