Geosciences
The goal of the Geosciences Department is to ensure that students are actively engaged in developing a broad and deep background in how the Earth works, in analyzing compelling and relevant questions from a geoscience perspective, and in communicating their work effectively in order to prepare them to make better personal and professional decisions involving Earth-related issues.
The Senior Program
The Senior Program in geosciences is a two-semester course in which majors plan and pursue an independent senior project under the close supervision of at least one faculty member. The senior project is an integrating, culminating experience that draws on the skills and knowledge acquired in the first three years; for many students, it represents graduate-level work.
Recent projects in geosciences include:
- Geochemical Study of Volcanic Rocks in the Skaftafell Region, Southeastern Iceland
- Determining the Structure and Kinematics of the Joorina Arch in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia using AMS and EBSD
- Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction using Isotopic Analysis of Live, Dead, and Fossil Gastropods from the Wakulla River, Florida
- Correlating Mid Devonian Geochemical Signals in the Thunder Bay Formation in State Chester Welch #18 Core and Outcrop, Michigan Basin
- The Powder River Volcanic Field: A geochemical and petrogenetic study of calc-alkaline andesites and dacites from northeastern Oregon
- Investigating Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions in Oriskany Creek in Clinton, NY
- Geochronology and Paleo-magmatic Implications of Granitic Plutons of Swans Island, Maine
- Strain Analysis of Lineations in the East Pilbara Craton’s “Zone of Sinking”, a Critical Structure in the Early Earth
- Early Miocene Paleosols of Loperot and Buluk, Turkana Basin, Kenya: Geochemistry and Paleoenvironmental Implications
- A Petrological Study of Hofsjökull, Central Iceland
Contact
Department Name
Geosciences Department
Contact Name
Mike McCormick, Chair
Clinton, NY 13323
