Research

October 2014 Geological Sciences Newsletter Dr. R. Damian Nance grew up in the seaside town of St. Ives, Cornwall, U.K., fascinated by the mines and ruins that harkened to a century past when Cornwall provided the world with tin, copper and other riches. At the center of Cornwall’s success—and the […]

October 2014 Geological Sciences Newsletter Members of Dr. Craig Grimes’ lab are creating a web-hosted outreach portal stemming from their NSF-funded project to investigate the initiation of low-angle normal faults in the Colorado River Extensional Corridor. The focus of the outreach portal—Constraints on the initiation of low angle normal faults […]

October 2014 Geological Sciences Newsletter Members of Dr. Alycia Stigall’s lab—involving more than a dozen graduate and undergraduate students over the past three years—are capitalizing on a newly donated collection of Late Ordovician fossils to build a digital collection and online. The Stigall lab efforts are focused on building a […]

October 2014 Geological Sciences Newsletter Dr. Craig Grimes joined the faculty at Ohio University in Fall 2012 and is looking forward to the start of his third year on campus. He comes to OHIO with a B.S. in Geological Sciences from The Ohio State University (2003) and a Ph.D. in […]

Kelly Sundberg, a graduate student in English, has been named the 2015 A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Courage Fellow. The fellowship was created to enable a survivor of domestic violence or sexual assault to attend the foundation’s annual retreat in Ghost Ranch, NM. While at the retreat, Sundberg will […]

Excerpts from Compass article by Angelita Faller In honor of Homecoming—and Ohio University’s beloved mascot Rufus the Bobcat—Dr. Lawrence Witmer and Biological Sciences doctoral student Don Cerio get inside the head of—a bobcat. It is Rufus’ 54th anniversary after all. Witmer and Cerio present the Visible Interactive Bobcat, a website […]

October 2014 Geological Sciences Newsletter Geological Sciences Publications: 2013-14 Papers Antonacci, T., Lee, E.S., and Kim, Y., 2013. Characterizing and predicting contaminant transport in the Newport Wellfield aquifer, Ohio, Geosciences Journal, v. 17 (4), p. 465-477. Astray, G., González-­Temes, M., and López, D., 2013. Modelos de predicción basados en inteligencia […]