Dr. Julia Ann Nord
Dr. Julia Nord, jnord@gmu.edu, is an Associate Term Professor in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences.
- Geology 306 - Soil Science
- Geology 308 - Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
- Environmental Science and Public Policy 505 - Soil Science Graduate Level
Julia was born in Northern England and received an Honors Degree in the Geological Sciences from the University of Birmingham, UK.
She went to the United States to pursue a Masters Degree at the University of Minnesota (Duluth). Her master's thesis research involved a study of the high-grade metamorphism of iron-rich bodies in the Archean gneiss of the Wind River Mountains, Wyoming.
Julia then moved to the big city, New York City that is, and received a PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences from the City University of New York at Brooklyn College. Her dissertation was on the Thermodynamics of pyroxene solid solution: synthesis of theory and experiments.
Finally she moved to Northern Virginia and started teaching at George Mason University. During that time she also received a Masters in Business Administration from GMU in 2006.
She has recently taken up "Bird Banding" and can commonly be found at "Environmental Studies on the Piedmont". There she in the image above smiling at a bird waiting to be banded. Wonder what the bird is thinking?