Geosciences
The goal of the Geosciences Department is to ensure that students are actively engaged in developing a broad and deep background in how the Earth works, in analyzing compelling and relevant questions from a geoscience perspective, and in communicating their work effectively in order to prepare them to make better personal and professional decisions involving Earth-related issues.
The Senior Program
The Senior Program in geosciences is a two-semester course in which majors plan and pursue an independent senior project under the close supervision of at least one faculty member. The senior project is an integrating, culminating experience that draws on the skills and knowledge acquired in the first three years; for many students, it represents graduate-level work.
Recent projects in geosciences include:
- Refined Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironmental Interpretations for the Lower Miocene Locherangan Locality in West Turkana, Kenya
- Structural Controls on Network Patterns of Non-Tectonic Synclines in Eocene Limestones North of the Kharga Valley, Egypt
- The Influence of Pumping on Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions and Saltwater Contamination in Waterville, New York
- Megacryst-bearing Lava Flows from Green Ridge, Central Oregon Cascade Range: Petrogenetic Implications
- A Guide to Urban Paleontology: Selected Sites in Paris, France
- Timing of Syncline Formation in Eocene Limestones of the Drunka Formation, Western Desert, Egypt
- Historical Sedimentation in Adirondack Lakes: A Multi-Proxy Study
- Determining Groundwater Nutrient Fluxes in Oneida Lake, New York
- Major and Trace Element Compositions of Garnets from New York State Kimberlites: A Window into the Lower Crust and Upper Mantle
- The New York State Fossil: An Educational Booklet on Eurypterus remipes
- Determining Accuracy and Constraints on Detecting Change Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Imagery and Structure from Motion (SfM) Software
Contact
Department Name
Geosciences Department
Contact Name
Cat Beck, Chair
Clinton, NY 13323
