Mitchell Colgan

Associate Professor

Education

University of California, Santa Barbara
B.A. Aquatic Biology

University of California, Santa Cruz
Ph.D. Earth Sciences, 1990

Research Interests

• Environmental Geology 
• Coral Reefs 
• Sedimentology 
• El Niño 
• Charles Darwin 
• Earth System Science 
• Galapágos Islands 

Courses Taught

GEOL 103 Environmental Geology

GEOL 105 Earth History

HONS 156 Honors Geology II

GEOL 253/EVSS 640 Earth Systems Science

GEOL 272 Stratigraphy and Sedimentation

GEOL 288 Global Change: A Geological Perspective

GEOL 320 Earth Resources

GEOL 360 Field Studies

Honors and Awards

College of Charleston, Distinguished Service Award, 2012 

College of Charleston, School of Sciences and Mathematics, Gordon E. Jones Distinguished Achievement Award, 2010 

Publications

Glynn, P.W., Feingold, J.S., Baker, A.C., Banks, S., Baums, I.B., Cole, J., Colgan, M.W., ... Vera-Zambrano, M. 2018. State of corals and coral reefs of the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador): Past, present and future. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 133: 717-733. 

Glynn, P.W., Mones, A.B., Podesta, G.P., Colbert, A. and Colgan, M.W. 2017. El Nino-Southern Oscillation: Effects on Eastern Pacific Coral Reefs and Associated Biota. Coral Reefs of the Eastern Tropical Pacific, 251-290. 

Treml, E. and Colgan, M. W. 1997. Using GIS in studying the landscape ecology of coral reefs: example from St. John, USVI. ESRI user conference. 

Treml, E. and Colgan, M. W. 1996. Hurricane disturbance and coral reef development: 501 years of hurricane data from the Lesser Antilles. Eighth International Coral Reef Symposium. 

Dunbar, R. B., Wellington, G., Colgan M. W., Glynn, P. W., 1994. Eastern Pacific climate variability since 1600 A. D.: Stable Isotopes in Galapagos Corals, Paleooceanography. 

Colgan, M. W. 1987.  Coral reef recovery on Guam (Micronesia) after catastrophic predation by Acanthaster.  Ecology 68(6):1592-1605.