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Students from Dr. Keith Milam’s Planetary Geology class visited the Flynn Creek impact structure to examine the mostly buried, but partially exhumed, 3.8 km diameter crater in north central Tennessee. The students spent much of their time above ground, where they stopped at several locations along the crater rim and were […]

The Geological Sciences Colloquium Series presents Derek Sawyer on “Earthquakes and Submarine Landslides on Continental Margins” on March 30 at 2 p.m. in Clippinger 205. Sawyer is an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University School of Earth Sciences. Abstract: Earthquakes are a primary trigger of submarine landslides yet some […]

by Emily Simpson ’18 Junior Geological Sciences major When Sigma Gamma Epsilon and Geological Sciences students visited the Ohio Division of Geological Survey’s Horace R. Collins Laboratory and Core Library on Jan. 26, they were able to observe geologists analyzing new data on an earthquake that occurred just that morning […]

By Kelli Baxstrom ’19 Geological Sciences M.S. Candidate Every few weekends, Geological Sciences Chair Dr. Greg Springer and I travel to the West Virginia Association for Cave Studies near Lewisburg, WV, to go caving. Although spending the weekend underground can be both fun and adventurous, our main objective is to […]

The Geological Sciences Colloquium Series presents Dave Hunt ’87, ’92M on “Investigation and Cleanup of VOCs at Hazardous Waste Sites in SE Ohio: Examples of Finding Unknown Sources through Remediation” on March 2 at 2 p.m. in Clippinger 205. Hunt is a geologist at the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. He […]

The Geological Sciences Colloquium Series presents Dr. Gaurav Sinha on “Making the case for Ontology and Naïve Geography in Digital Terrain Modeling” on Feb. 23 at 2 p.m. in Clippinger 205. Sinha is an Associate Professor of Geography at Ohio University. Abstract: Contrary to general assumption, the physical landscape is […]

Two Geological Sciences graduate students are helping an interdisciplinary team—Ohio University’s Appalachian Watershed Research Group—assess data collected from regional mining operations in a first-of-its-kind study to better predict how groundwater levels will respond to mining. The research group has pulled together a team from Geological Sciences and the Voinovich School […]