Melinda Shaw Faulkner

Dr. Faulkner joined SFA’s Department of Geology in 2005 after completing her BS and MS in environmental geology from SFA. In 2016, she completed her PhD in forestry at SFA and was appointed to the graduate faculty. Faulkner’s primary research interests include the geologic controls on the spatial distribution of natural resources in the earth’s crust, integrating the study of geoscience, hydrogeology, geochemistry and ecological systems. Her current research has focused on the various ways to characterize geologic and geochemical phenomena using a complement of field methods, instrumentation and remote sensing techniques. Recent work by Faulkner has been in the unique geochemistry of the mineral assemblages in East Texas and Central Arkansas and in concert with graduate students in karst terrains of Central Texas and the Caddo Lake watershed.