Contact Us

Physical Address
Department of Geology
033 Rankin Science West
572 Rivers Street
Boone, NC 28608

Postal Address
Department of Geology
Appalachian State University
ASU Box 32067
Boone, NC 28608-2067

phone: (828) 262-3049
fax: (828) 262-6503

Chairperson:
Dr. Johnny A. Waters
watersja@appstate.edu

General Questions:
Geology Webmaster

Chuanhui Gu

[Photograph of Chuanhui Gu]

Chuanhui Gu

Assistant Professor of Geology

(828) 262-7859
guc@appstate.edu


Dr. Gu's personal and class Web pages

Dr. Gu comes to Appalachian this fall from the Berkeley Water Center at UC Berkeley. Dr. Gu earned his PhD in Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia in 2007. His research focuses on the hydrological control on inorganic nitrogen loading to coastal streams. He also developed and conducted an experimental and modeling study to investigate the hillslope-scale nitrate reactive transport mechanisms across the multiple time scales from days to years. Dr. Gu will be active in the Environmental Science Program as well as in the Geology Department.


  • Education
    • B.S. - Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
    • M.S. - Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
    • Ph.D. - Universty of Virginia

  • Courses Taught
    • coming soon