Professor Tina Niemi has taught in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Missouri-Kansas City for 23 years. She received a BA in Geology and Archaeology from the College of Wooster in Ohio, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Geology from Stanford University. Her post-doctoral research was conducted in the Department of Geophysics at Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Professor Zvi Ben-Avraham. Dr. Niemi is a Quaternary geologist who specializes in paleoseismology, active tectonics, geomorphology, and geoarchaeology. Her interests include studying active faults, earthquake recurrence in the geologic and archaeological records, paleoenvironmental reconstructions, analyses of high-resolution geophysical data, and characterization of recent hurricane and tsunami deposits.
