Faculty Research Interests

• Study the behavior of glaciers during the Quaternary or use physical and biological records from lake-sediment cores to reconstruct past climate in the Arctic with Dr. Jeffrey Snyder.

 

• Study Lake Erie coastal erosion, the effects of dams and reservoirs on rivers, and the paleoclimatology and depositional setting of Pennsylvanian rocks in southwest Colorado with Dr. James Evans.

 

• Study soil mapping, petroleum and mineral exploration, and water quality mapping in lakes and rivers using multispectral and hyperspectral satellite and aircraft data with Dr. Robert Vincent.

 

• Study the evolution of volcanoes and the geochemistry of magmas with Dr. Kurt Panter. See how it relates to plate tectonics and the breakup of continents.

 

• Develop environmental information management systems and study how to improve groundwater pollution potential maps with Dr. Joseph Frizado.

 

• Combine field and lab work to investigate deformation on the scale of single grains with Dr. Charles Onasch. See how it relates to large-scale structures and find out just how important water is to the deformation of rocks.

 

• Study the geochemistry of potentially contaminated soils and sediments or explore 3-D visualization of geologic data with Dr. Sheila J. Roberts.

 

• Explore the rapid evolution and extinction of Mesozoic cephalopods, relate these biological events to environmental changes, and learn to use computers to reconstruct evolutionary relationships with Dr. Peg Yacobucci.

 

• Use information technology (including modeling, visualization, GIS, and remote sensing), in environmental projects with Dr. Enrique Gomezdelcampo to study fluvial geomorphology, ecological complexity, climate and land-use change at various scales.

 

• Practice different geospatial techniques and methods such as spatial modeling and analysis, spatial statistics, spatial data mining, artificial intelligence tools, geocomputation, digital remote sensing and photogrammetry to study environmental problems and impacts caused by human activities with Dr. Peter V. Gorsevski.

 

• Investigate many topics in petrology and materials science including synthesis and characterization of natural and synthetic mineral and ceramic aggregates with Dr. John Farver. Dr. Farver is also the director of the BGSU Office of Undergraduate Research. As such he provides direction to undergrads in the pursuit of research interests in a wide variety of study areas.