Gene Rankey

Gene serves as co-PI of the Kansas Interdisciplinary Consortium of Earth, Energy, and Environment (KICE3), an academic-industry consortium dedicated to research, training, and education for understanding carbonate systems. His personal research program, part of KICE3, focuses on unravelling and quantifying the nature and controls on variability in surface processes and geomorphic forms in tropical marine and nearshore sedimentary systems.

Gene has previously worked as a research geologist at ExxonMobil, assistant professor at the University of Miami and also took a sabbatical at the South East Asia Carbonate Research Laboratory in Malaysia.

He is co-author of the book “A Global Atlas of Atolls” that describes all of the world’s 475 atolls.