Faculty

Full-Time Faculty

Ronald Cole (chair) B.S., Allegheny College; M.S., Ph. D., University of Rochester

Todd Grote

Rachel O'Brien B.A., Colgate University, 1986; M.S., Washington State University, 1992; Ph.D., 2000

Robert Schwartz B.S., Allegheny College; M.S., Ph.D., Indiana University

Selected Publications and Achievements

• " Middle Tertiary volcanism during ridge-trench interactions in western California" published in Science
• "Sedimentology of subaqueousvolcaniclastic sediment gravity flows in the Neogene Santa Maria basin, California" published in Sedimentology
• "Kinematics of basin developmentduring the transition from terrane accretion to strike-slip tectonics, Late Cretaceous-early Tertiary Cantwell Formation, south central Alaska" published in Tectonics
• "Seasonal variability of adsorption and exchange equilibria in soil waters" published in Aquatic Geochemistry
• "Multiple tracers of shallow ground-water flow and recharge in hilly loess" published in Ground Water
• "A framework for integrating quantitative geologic problem solving into courses across the undergraduate geology curriculum" published in the Journal of Geoscience Education
• "Summary of depositional environments, paleogeography, and structural control on sedimentation in a late Jurassic foreland basin, western Montana" published in Mesozoic Systems of the Rocky Mountain Region, USA
• "Foreland basin evolution in response to interactive thrusting and foreland partitioning" published in Geological Survey of America Memoir
• "Sedimentology and morphodynamics of a barrier island shoreface and implications to engineering practices" published in Marine Geology