Research

Ohio University undergraduate student Lauren Johnson presented a paper on “Burrows of Terrestrial Anurans: Neoichnology of the Eastern Spadefoot Toad, Scaphiopus Holbrooki” in October at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of American in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her co-author was Dr. Daniel Hembree, Associate Professor of Geological Sciences at […]

Dr. David Kidder presented “Ordovician Turning Point in the Phanerozoic Silica Cycle” in October at the Geological Society of America annual meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. Kidder is Associate Professor of Geological Science at Ohio University. His co-author is Geological Sciences alum Iulia Tomescu ’04MS of Marathon Oil Company. Abstract: […]

Ohio University undergraduate student Tim Henderson presented a poster on “Initial XRD Analyses of Silurian Carbonates from the Central Peak of the Kentland Impact Structure, Newton  County, Indiana, USA” in October at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Vancouver, British Columbia. His co-author was Dr. Keith […]

Ohio University Geological Sciences undergraduate student Eric W. Gibbs presented a poster on “An Assessment of Peak Broadening in XRD Spectra from Limestones of the Jeptha Knob Structure, Shelby County, KY,” in October at the Geological Society of America in Vancouver, British Columbia. His co-author was Dr. Keith Milam, Associate […]

Geological Sciences graduate student Sarah Maj presented a poster on “Role of Irons Oxidation and Preciptation Aluminum and Iron Minerals in the Recovery of an Acid Mine Drainage Remediated Stream: Hewett Fork, Ohio” at the October annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Vancouver, British Columbia Her co-authors […]

When geologists wanted to test drilling equipment for an Apollo mission in the 1960s, they used a crater in Tennessee. Fifty years later, those samples are providing Dr. Keith Milam a look back into a ancient time when meteorites pummeled the Earth. “Back when Wisconsin and western Russia once shared […]

Dr. Sarah Wyatt presented her lab’s work on developing a network of gene expression data that is helping them to expand the knowledge of how plants respond to gravity. Wyatt, Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, presented Plant Gravitropic Signal Transduction: A Network Analysis Leads to Gene Discovery at the […]