Graduate student James Brown, working in the Mohave Desert in California.
Two Ohio University master’s students and an undergraduate student in Geological Sciences were recognized as having received Geological Society of America research grants.
Michael Blair
Michael Blair and James Brown , both graduate students, were named in the July 2014 issue of GSA Today.
Blair joined Dr. Daniel Hembree’s Ichnology Research Lab in the Fall 2013 semester after earning his BS in Geology from Purdue University. He will be conducting a field study of Permian Dunkard Group paleosols and continental ichnofossils in West Virginia as part of his Master’s thesis research.
Brown is part of an international research project designed to understand the initiation and slip of low-angle normal faults on the continents. “The research group and I have been engaged in field and lab studies of a well-exposed example of this type of fault in the Mojave Desert, CA. I will focus on the initiation temperatures associated with low angle normal faults using stable isotope analysis of hydrothermal minerals,” he says. His thesis adviser is Dr. Craig Grimes.
Wesley George Parker was named in the magazine as a recipient of a North-Central Section Undergraduate Research Grant.
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