Rate My Professor Jeannette Luna

Dr. Jeannette Luna is the Assistant Dean of Research and Graduate Studies in the Department of Earth Sciences at Tennessee Technological University, where she has been a faculty member for nearly 15 years. She previously served as Chair of the Department of Earth Sciences, faculty trustee on the university's Board of Trustees from June 2023 to June 2025, president of the faculty senate, and advisor for the university's Geo Club. Luna earned her PhD from Montana State University in 2011. In her teaching role within Geoscience, she instructs courses such as Sedimentation and Stratigraphy, Geology for Engineers, Planetary Geoscience, Geological Exploration Techniques, and Physical Geology. Her research focuses on planetary geologic mapping and related topics, including high-resolution geologic mapping of a terraced fan in Garu Crater, Aeolis Mensae, Mars (Luna, 2021, Planetary Geologic Mapper's Meeting Extended Abstract); fjord-head deltas in Finnmark, Norway as analogs for paleolake fan-deltas in Xanthe Terra, Mars (Luna, Crane, and Corner, 2021, Planetary Analog Workshop Extended Abstract); boulder distribution patterns on martian terraced fans, Xanthe Terra (Bohanon and Luna, 2019, GSA Abstract); and calciclastic sediment gravity flows from outcrops of the Mississippian Fort Payne Formation (Wolak et al., 2018, GSA Abstract). She received the 2020-2021 College of Arts & Sciences Award for Innovative Teaching.