Education & Experience:

Ph.D., Geological Sciences, The Ohio State University (1996)
M.S., Geological Sciences, University of Colorado (1991)
B.S., Geological Sciences, Lehigh University  (1988)

Specialty Areas of Interest:

Glacial and Quaternary geology
Geochronology
Paleolimnology
Diatom analysis

Current BGSU Courses:

Geol 104 - Earth Environments
Geol 410/510 - Geomorphology
Geol 493/494/693 - Geology Field Course
Geol 639 - Glacial Geology

Recent and Current Research or Grants:

United States National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs: Collaborative Research: Millennial-scale Arctic Climate Change for the last 3.6 My: Scientific Drilling at Lake El'gygytgyn, NE Russia. (BGSU 4-year budget = 122K)
United States National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs. Collaborative Research: Weichselian glaciation and deglaciation history, northeastern Kola and Kanin Peninsula, Russia (OPP-0095089). Effective dates: 1 April 2001 - 31 March 2005. Amount funded: $285,844 total; $160,402 BGSU portion.

Recent Peer Reviewed Publications and Submissions:

Cherapanova , M. V., Snyder, J. A., Brigham-Grette, J. (2007). Diatom stratigraphy of the last 250ka at Lake El’gygytgyn, northeast Siberia. Journal of Paleolimnology.

MacDonald, G. M., Edwards, T. W. D., Gervais, B., Laing, T. E., Pisaric, M. F. J., Porinchu, D., Snyder, J., Solovieva, N., Tarasov, G., and Wolfe, B. (in press). Recent paleolimnological research from northern Russian Eurasia. In: Pienitz, R.,
Douglas, M. S. V., and Smol, J. P (eds.). Long-Term Environmental Change in Arctic and Antarctic Lakes. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. (due October 2004)

Forman, S. L., Lubinski, D., Ingólfsson, O., Zeeberg, J. J., Snyder, J. A., and Matishov, G. (2004). A review of postglacial emergence on Svalbard, Franz Josef Land, Novaya Zemlya, northern Eurasia. Quaternary Science Reviews 23, 1391-1434.

Kremenetski, K. V., MacDonald, G. M., Gervais, B. R., Borisova, O. K., and Snyder, J. A. (2004). Holocene vegetation history and climate change on the northern Kola Peninsula, Russia: a case study from a small tundra lake. Quaternary
International 122, 57-68.

Weckström, J., Snyder, J. A., Korhola, A., Laing, T. E., and MacDonald, G. M.(2003). Diatom inferred acidity history of 32 lakes on the Kola Peninsula, Russia. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 149, 333-361.

Wolfe, B. B., Edwards, T. W. E., Jiang, H., MacDonald, G. M., Gervais, B. R. and Snyder, J. A. (2003). Paleoceanographic influence on early-mid Holocene paleohydrology at treeline Kola Peninsula, Russia. The Holocene 13, 153-160.

Gervais, B. R., MacDonald, G. M., Snyder, J. A., and Kremenetski, C. V. (2002). Pinus sylvestris treeline development and movement on the Kola Peninsula of Russia: pollen and stomate evidence. Journal of Ecology 90, 627-638.

Snyder, J. A., Wasylik, K., Fritz, S. C., & Wright, H. E., Jr. (2001). Diatom-based conductivity reconstructions and paleoclimatic interpretations of a 40-ka record from Lake Zeribar, Iran. The Holocene 11, 737-745.

Snyder, J. A., MacDonald, G. M., Forman, S. L., Tarasov, G. A. and Mode, W. N. (2000). Postglacial climate and vegetation history, north-central Kola Peninsula, Russia: pollen and diatom records from Lake Yarnyshnoe-3. Boreas 29, 261-271.

Snyder, J. A., Werner, A., and Miller, G. H. (2000). Holocene cirque glacier activity in western Spitsbergen, Svalbard: sediment records from proglacial Linnévatnet. The Holocene 10, 555-563.

Blom, T., Korhola, A., Weckström, J., Laing, T., Snyder, J., MacDonald, G. & Smol, J. (2000). Physical and chemical characterization of small subarctic headwater lakes in Finnish Lapland and the Kola Peninsula. Verhandlungen Internationale
Vereinigung für theoretische und angewandte Limnologie 27, 316-320.

MacDonald, G. M., Gervais, B., Snyder, J. A., Tarasov, G. A., and Borisova, O. A. (2000). Radiocarbon dated Pinus sylvestris L. wood from beyond treeline on the Kola Peninsula, Russia. The Holocene 10, 143-147.