• Faculty and Staff Listing

  • Callahan, Tim - Dept Chair
  • White, Kristen - Office Manager
  • Ali, K. Adem
  • Beckingham, Barbara
  • Beutel, Erin
  • Bierce, Caitlyn
  • Boessenecker, Robert
  • Carew, James L.
  • Chadwick, Claire
  • Chadwick, D. John
  • Colgan, Mitchell W.
  • DuMars, Anton
  • Hall, Cynthia
  • Harris, M. Scott
  • Humphreys, Robin
  • Jordan, Michael
  • Jaume', Steven
  • Katuna, Michael
  • Kist, Jennifer
  • Levine, Norman S.
  • Maurizio, Lauren
  • Nusbaum, Robert L.
  • Persons, Scott
  • Ritchie, Alexander
  • Runyon, Cassandra
  • Sautter, Leslie Reynolds
  • Them, Theodore R.
  • Thompson, Brad
  • Vulava, Vijay

Associate Professor

Address: SSMB 202
Phone: 843.953.8279
E-mail: runyonc@cofc.edu

Education

University of Hawaii, Manoa
Ph.D. 1989

Research Interests

Remote Sensing, GIS, Geomorphology, and Planetary Geology

Courses Taught

GEOL 101/101L - Dynamic Earth
GEOL 206 - Plantery Geology
GEOL 225 - Geomorphology
GEOL 260/260L/460L - NASA Space Mission Design
GEOL 314 - Introduction to Remote Sensing
GEOL 442 - Geological Applications of Remote Sensing
GEOL 449 - Geographic Information Systems

Publications

Alsup D.L., C.R. Coombs (1998) A study of plant distribution changes in abandoned rice fields within freshwater estuaries, Georgetown-Horry Counties, South Carolina. Proceedings First International Conference on Geospatial Information in Agriculture and Forestry. Submitted.

Coombs C.R., C.C. Allen, B.R. Hawke (1998) Evaluation of Aristarchus Plateau as a Future Lunar Base Site. Proceedings Space ë98 Conference, pp. 608-615.

Jensen J., C.R. Coombs, D.E. Porter, B. Jones, D. White (1997) Extraction of Smooth Cordgrass (Spartina Alterniflora) biomass and leaf area index parameters from high resolution imagery. Geocarto, In press.