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Professor Philip Bennett,
Professor and John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Centennial Teaching Fellow

PH. D., Syracuse University, 1989


Field of Study:
Aqueous Geochemistry, Geomicrobiology

Short Biography:
Dr. Philip Bennett teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in aqueous geochemistry, hydrogeology, field methods in hydrogeology, and graduate courses in environmental organic geochemistry and geochemical kinetics.  He also teaches the undergraduate Geology for Engineers course.

Dr. Bennett's research is primarily in the area of environmental groundwater geochemistry, silicate dissolution kinetics, and geomicrobiology.  He is particularly interested in examining the role of minerals and mineral-bound nutrients in subsurface microbial ecology, and the role of subsurface microorganisms in accelerating rock weathering.

Contact Information:
Office: 5.224A
Phone: 512-471-3587
FAX: 512-471-9425
Email: pbennett@mail.utexas.edu

Office Hours:
M,W,F -
T, TH -

Mailing Address:
The University of Texas at Austin
Geol Science Dept
1 University Station C1100
Austin, TX 78712-0254

 


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