Professor
Virginia Tech Geosciences
romans@vt.edu
Office:
2043A Derring Hall
+1.540.231.2234
Mailing Address:
Geosciences (MC0420)
Derring Hall, Rm 4044
926 West Campus Dr.
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Education:
Ph.D., Geological & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, 2008
M.S., Geology, Colorado School of Mines, 2003
B.A., Geology, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1997
Teaching:
- Climate History: Past, Present, and Future (GEOS 1064) — every spring since 2022
- Seismic Stratigraphy (GEOS 4124/6104) — approx. every other year
- Sedimentary Basins (GEOS 4984/5984) — approx. every other year
- Sedimentology-Stratigraphy (GEOS 3204) — every fall from 2011-2022
- Oceanography (GEOS 3034) — co-taught with Prof. Patricia Dove (2017)
- VT SedGeo grad seminar and field trip (GEOS 6204) — co-taught with Dr. Ben Gill and other faculty from time to time; previous offerings included trip to Paleozoic outcrops of Appalachia (2014) and modern coastal systems of the Outer Banks, NC (2016)
- ‘Paleosedstrat’ seminar (GEOS 6304) — rotating facilitator for ongoing seminar for sedimentary geoscientists and Earth historians
More Information:
- List of publications
- Romans_CV_June2024
- GoogleScholar, ResearchGate, ORCiD
- BlueSky: @clasticdetritus.bsky.social
- X/Twitter (dormant): @clasticdetritus
- Chile Slope Systems project
- Affiliated faculty with the Virginia Tech Global Change Center
Media & Press:
- “Sand Tells Us The History of Mountains” article in Discover Magazine summarizing Mason et al. (2022) Nature Communications paper (December 2022).
- Webinar presentation “Sediment Recycling in Source-to-Sink Systems” (YouTube recording), a series organized by Dr. Paul Liu (N.C. State); all the recorded talks in this series can be access here. (March 2021)
- Featured on AGU’s GeoEd Trek website for use of digital whiteboard-based activities for undergraduate instruction in virtual environment (October 2020)
- VT News article announcing National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study Plio-Pleistocene sedimentation and Antarctic Bottom Water formation with IODP Expedition 374 cores (September 2020)
- VT News article and WSLS Channel 10 Roanoke interview about global CO2 emissions in response to COVID-19 pandemic (April 2020)
- I submitted my responses/thoughts about the impacts of COVID-19 on the geoscience community to the miniGeology show, which was read on their YouTube channel (April 2020)
- Interviewed by Daniel Minisini of miniGeology radio show on KPFT Houston (August 2019)
- Distinguished Lecturer for 2018-2019 IODP Ocean Discovery Lecture Series, which included visits to 11 U.S. institutions over two semesters. This video was produced as a promotional of the lecture tour.
- VT News article about IODP Expedition 374 to the Ross Sea to study Antarctic ice sheet response to past climate change (January 2018)
- Guest on Undersampled Radio podcast (November 2017)
- Quoted in Newsweek about linkage (or lack of) between hurricanes and earthquakes (September 2017)
- Featured in short video “Sailing with IODP: Shipboard Sedimentology” (January 2017)
- Interview with Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (April 2015)
- “People Behind the Science” podcast interview (November 2014)
- Documentary film about Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 342 (December 2012)
- Quoted in LiveScience about barrier islands and storms (August 2011)
Brian Romans examining Cretaceous submarine channel deposits in southern Chile in 2012.
Brian Romans pointing out stratigraphic relationships of ponded turbidites at El Chingue Bluff, southern Chile in 2014.