Research Exploration Academy Administrative Staff
Tracy Gregg
- Associate Professor
- Department of Geology
- 710 Natural Sciences Complex
- Phone: (716) 645-6800, ext. 2463
- Fax: (716) 645-3999
- E-mail: tgregg@nsm.buffalo.edu
- Website: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~tgregg/
I spent my childhood in Iowa, and my whole life, I dreamed of becoming either an astronaut, or a doctor. As I got older, I met many doctors, but not a single astronaut. So I cheerfully prepared myself for a career in medicine, and set off to college in Rhode Island to fulfill that goal. On a whim, I took a course in geology the fall of my freshman year. Spring semester, I took another course and spent a lot of time in the lab of one of the geology professors. I was hooked—not only because I find the mysteries of the Earth and planets fascinating, but also because I was able to actively participate in research under the guidance of my professors. So I became a geologist: I got my PhD at Arizona State University, and spent 3 years after that at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, studying submarine volcanoes. I’ve been at UB since 1998, and I study volcanoes wherever I can find them: on the ocean floor, in Hawaii, on Mars, and on Jupiter’s moons.