• Email Address: kmuessig@rider.edu
• Phone: 609-896-5092
• Fax: 609-895-5782
• Mailing Address: 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648-3099

Dr. Karl Muessig is the New Jersey State Geologist and Director of the New Jersey Geological Survey, positions appointed by the Governor. He received his Ph.D. degree in geology from Princeton University in 1979 and currently holds the rank of Adjunct Associate Professor. Karl's doctoral dissertation was a regional sedimentologic, structural, and petrologic study of petroleum basins in northwestern Venezuela. He has a broad background in economic, environmental, petroleum, sedimentary, and structural geology, tectonics, and hydrology. In addition to his 20+ years with the New Jersey Geological Survey, Karl also has extensive experience working for the petroleum industry, both in research labs and field mapping. He also presently serves as the Co-Chair of the Environmental Policy Committee and the Editor of the State Geologists Journal for the Association of American State Geologists, and on the Hard Minerals Sub-Committee of the Outer Continental Shelf Policy Committee for the U.S. Minerals Management Service, Department of Interior.

Primary Teaching Responsibilities:

• Environmental Geology

Selected Publication Titles and Sources:

• New Jersey's cooperative study of offshore sand resources in federal waters for beach replenishment. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs.
  
  
• Distribution of heavy minerals and gravel in sediments of the New Jersey shelf as determined from grab and vibracore samples. Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Studies Related to Continental Margins.
  
  
• Structure and Cenozoic tectonics of the Falcon Basin, Venezuela and Adjacent Areas. Geological Society of America Memoir 162.