Dr. John Hooker

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Biography
​Dr. Hooker is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science at the University of the Incarnate Word (UIW). He holds a B.A., M.S., and Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from The University of Texas at Austin. Before joining UIW he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Oxford (UK) and then an Assistant Teaching Professor at Penn State University. His research focuses on the effects of subsurface chemical reactions on fracture generation, motion, and pattern-formation. He has lead- or co-authored 44 peer-reviewed articles, covering modeling, laboratory, and field-based studies in Canada, the USA, Mexico, Bolivia, Argentina, Spain, the UK, Germany, Italy, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, China, and Japan.