{"id":49,"date":"2015-06-04T18:57:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T01:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/earthscience\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2026-04-15T18:06:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:06:50","slug":"faculty-and-staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/earthscience\/faculty-and-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty and Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Staff<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ellie Schoneman, Academic Department Assistant<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Faculty<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/wcheung\/\">Dr. Wing Cheung<\/a>, &nbsp;Geography and GIS; Drone Technology; Environmental Studies<br><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/scrook\/\">Dr. Steve Crook<\/a>, Geography and GIS<br><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/sfigg\/\">Sean Figg<\/a>, &nbsp;Geology<br><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/cjain\/\">Catherine Jain<\/a>, &nbsp;Geography and Environmental Studies; Department Chair<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/pages\/skardel\">Scott Kardel<\/a>, &nbsp;Astronomy; Assistant Planetarium Director<br><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mlane\/\">Mark Lane<\/a>, &nbsp;Astronomy; Planetarium Director<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/oceanography\/\">Nina Shmorhun<\/a>, Geology and Oceanography<br><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/jsleeper\/\">Dr. Jonathan Sleeper<\/a>, Geology and Oceanography<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are looking for your instructor and do not see them listed here, please check your syllabus or Canvas page for their contact information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Faculty Emeriti<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Patricia Deen, &nbsp;Oceanography; Earth Science<br>Jerry Houser, Aviation<br>Joseph H. Hydock, Geology<br>Richard S. Noble, Geology and Geography<br>Douglas Key, Geography<br>James Pesavento, Astronomy<br>Dr. Stephen G. Spear, Geology<br>Alan P. Trujillo, &nbsp;Oceanography<br>Joseph P. Willis, Geology<br>Dr. Lisa Yon, &nbsp;Oceanography; Earth Science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Ellie Schoneman, Academic Department Assistant Faculty Dr. Wing Cheung, &nbsp;Geography and GIS; Drone Technology; Environmental StudiesDr. Steve Crook, Geography and GISSean Figg, &nbsp;GeologyCatherine Jain, &nbsp;Geography and Environmental Studies; Department ChairScott Kardel, &nbsp;Astronomy; Assistant Planetarium DirectorMark Lane, &nbsp;Astronomy; Planetarium DirectorNina Shmorhun, Geology and OceanographyDr. Jonathan Sleeper, Geology and Oceanography If you are looking for your&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/earthscience\/faculty-and-staff\/\">Continue Reading<span> Faculty and Staff<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":473,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6Sp2h-N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/earthscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/earthscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/earthscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/earthscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/earthscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/earthscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1220,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/earthscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/earthscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}