Department News

Last March Chuck Whipkey, Ben Kisila and Neil Tibert brought several UMW geology students (Pam Medley, Kristin Larkins, Tom Shuck, Joe Church and Matt Ricker) to the Northeastern section meeting of the Geological Society of America held in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. These faculty members and students presented results of three ongoing research projects:

Medley, P., Tibert, N.E., Curran, H.A., Patterson, W.P., and Greer, L., 2006, Paleosalinity History of a Holocene lagoon in the Enriquillo Valley, Dominican Republic: Pore Morphometrics of Ostracoda

Larkins, K., Whipkey, C., Tibert, N.E., Belt, E.S. and Shuck, T., 2006, Depositional Environments and Stratigraphic Cyclicity of Middle Carboniferous Mabou Group Sediments, Nova Scotia, Canada

Ricker, M., Church, J. and Kisila, Odhiambo Ben, 2006, GIS Analysis of Soil Erosion and Fluvial Sediment Fluctuations in two Sub-Watersheds of the Rappahannock River, Stafford County Virginia

See Our New Field Trip Pictures!

If you haven't seen them already, be sure to visit our new field trip web pages! There is a link to the new pages from the main Department of Environmental Science and Geology page, or you can click here .