Robert L. Jacob

Robert W. Jacob received the B.Sc. degree from Bucknell University in 1997 and the M.Sc. degree and the Ph.D. degree in geophysics and hydrology from Brown University, Providence, RI, in 2003 and 2006, respectively. Prior to beginning his doctorate at Brown University in 2001, he was with Roy F. Weston, Inc., (currently Weston Solutions) for four years as an environmental/geophysical consultant. He currently has a postdoctoral research appointment with the Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, continuing his dissertation work on remotely sensing unsaturated hydrologic processes. He has conducted multiple geophysical studies within archeological, planetary, and environmental research projects in Argentina and throughout the U.S. In addition to his research, he teaches geology classes at the Rhode Island School of Design. Dr. Jacob is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the Society of Exploration Geophysics, the Environmental and Engineering Geophysics Society, Sigma Chi, and the Soil Science Society of America.