Dr. Lewis Owen
Dean, College of Sciences
Bio
Lewis Owen’s research and teaching focus on understanding the nature and dynamics of Quaternary paleoenvironmental change and landscape evolution, environmental geology, and natural hazards. He has concentrated my efforts on two major geologic-geographic regions: 1) the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen; and 2) the western Cordilleras of North and South America. This is because these regions provide some of the best natural laboratories for understanding the dynamics of geomorphic, tectonic and climatic processes, for understanding the evolution of many ancient plate boundaries.