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October 2014 Geological Sciences Newsletter The Ohio University Geological Sciences Department announces its extra-departmental awards for 2013-14. AAPG Student Research Grant Audrey Blakeman (Adviser: Dr. Elizabeth Gierlowski-Kordesch) SEPM Student Research Grant Audrey Blakeman (Adviser: Gierlowski-Kordesch) GSA Student Research Grants Jennifer Bauer (Adviser: Dr. Alycia Stigall) Audrey Blakeman  (Adviser: Gierlowski-Kordesch) Michael […]

By Elizabeth Gierlowski-­Kordesch Argentina Blog, Sept. 21, 2014 After preparing all the lectures for the week-long short course on limnogeology, Dr. Cecilia Benavente from the University of Buenos Aires and I took a tour of the city on a bus called “Buenos Aires BUS”. There are 25 bus stops of […]

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 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 […]

Dr. R. Damian Nance, Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences at Ohio University, has been named a Geological Society of America Fellow. Society Fellowship is an honor bestowed on the best of the profession by election at the spring GSA Council meeting. GSA members are nominated by existing GSA Fellows in […]

Geology alum Darcy R. VanDervort ’12 and Dr. Dina López, Professor and Chair of Geological Sciences, co-authored an article  in the April 2014 issue of MEDICC Review, which focused on chronic kidney disease in agricultural communities. VanDervort, who doubled majored, did undergraduate research with López. She earned a B.S.in Environmental […]

The Geological Sciences Department was awarded a grant for a new microscope lab from the 1804 Fund for Undergraduate Learning. The grant will allow the department to move the existing lab to a larger classroom, increase the number of workstations, and acquire new reflected light microscopes. The larger lab is […]

  Audrey A. Blakeman, a Geological Sciences graduate student at the Ohio University, presented a poster May 2014 at the Joint Rocky Mountain/Cordilleran Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Her poster, co-authored by her adviser, Dr. Elizabeth Gierlowski-Kordesch, Professor of Geological Sciences, was on “Carbonate Lake Deposits in the […]