Dr. Michael D. Blum

Dr. Blum joined KU's Department of Geology in 2014 after serving as a senior research advisor at ExxonMobil. 

His research is primarily focused on developing concepts and theory that facilitate understanding of how Earth’s surface responds to climate change, sea-level change and tectonic activity over a broad range of temporal and spatial scales, past and future. Over the past 25 years, he has explored evolution of fluvial and coastal systems, source-to-sink transfer of sediments from the continents to the deep oceans and development of geochronological methods to interpret time and rates of geologic processes in the ancient stratigraphic record. His research has taken him to five continents to conduct field work on modern and ancient deposits, and includes experimental and numerical approaches. 

Dr. Blum is a fellow of the Geological Society of America, and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Association of Sedimentologists (IAS), the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the Society for Sedimentary Geology.

Learn more about Michael Blum on the Department of Geology website.