Jeffrey G. Agnew
Senior Professor of Practice | Assistant Chair
Education & Affiliations
Areas of Expertise
Biography
Dr. Jeffrey G. Agnew is a Senior Professor of Practice in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Tulane University and a Suzanne & Stephen Weiss Presidential Fellow for Teaching Excellence. He also serves as Associate Department Chair, Chair of the Undergraduate Committee, and Faculty Advisor for the Earth Science Club.
He earned his Ph.D. in Geology from Louisiana State University in 2008, following an M.S. in Geological Sciences from the University of Florida (2001) and a B.S. in Geology from Central Michigan University (1996).
Dr. Agnew teaches courses such as Physical Geology, Physical Geology Lab, and Shark Paleobiology, and his research interests include Geoscience Education, Paleobiology, Paleoecology, Taphonomy, and Taxonomy, with a focus on fossil decapod crustaceans and innovative strategies for undergraduate geoscience recruitment.
His work has contributed to advancing geoscience education through projects like LaURGE: Louisiana Undergraduate Recruitment and Geoscience Education and studies applying machine learning to fossil identification. Dr. Agnew is committed to fostering student engagement and hands-on learning experiences that prepare graduates for careers in Earth and environmental sciences.
Courses
EENS 1110 - Planet Earth Lab
EENS 1300 - Earth as a Living Plant
EENS 1305 - Earth as a Living Planet Lab
EENS 2120 - Climate and Extinction
EENS 2121 - Climate and Extinction Lab
EENS 2050 - Dinosaurs
EENS 3550 – Shark Paleobiology
EENS 3890 - Service Learning
TIDE 1890 - Service Learning
TIDE 1925 - Natural History of Louisiana
TIDE 1890 - Service Learning
TIDE 1925 - Natural History of Louisiana
COLQ 4120 - The Grand Canyon
Research
Dr. Agnes's research interests include Geoscience Education, Paleobiology, Paleoecology, Taphonomy, and Taxonomy
Contributions
Agnew, J.G., 2011, March. LaURGE: A PROGRAM FOR IMPROVING GEOSCIENCE LITERACY OF LOUISIANA HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHERS. In Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, (Vol. 43, No. 3, p. 40)
Agnew, J.G. and Nunn, J.A., 2009. LaURGE: Louisiana Undergraduate Recruitment and Geoscience Education.
Nunn, J.A. and Agnew, J., 2009, December. LaURGE: Louisiana Undergraduate Recruitment and Geoscience Education. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2009, pp. ED13B-0595).
Goadrich, M. and Agnew, J.G. 2008. Learning comprehensible relational features to distinguish subfossil decapod crustacean dactyls. Proceedings of 24th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP), Late Breaking Papers, Prague Czech Republic, 10th - 12th September, 2008
Agnew, J.G. and Nunn, J.A., 2007, December. Using fossil shark teeth to illustrate evolution and introduce basic geologic concepts in a high school biology classroom. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2007, pp. ED51A-0126).
Portell, R. W. and Agnew, J. G. 2004. Pliocene and Pleistocene decapod crustaceans. Florida Fossil Invertebrates. 4: 1-29
