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Geology major O’Leary honored with first place at BAPG Scholarship Night

Sarah O’Leary, a senior in the Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences majoring in Geology with a minor in Chemistry, was recognized with first place...

Dr. Wentao Cao, Geology major

Cao co-writes paper in GSA Bulletin on high-pressure metamorphic rocks in Tibetan Plateau

Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences Assistant Professor Wentao Cao is a co-author of a new research paper published in the journal GSA Bulletin.

SUNY Fredonia Geology majors (from left) Elizabeth Wightman, Brett Boyer and Abigail Nordwall collect suspended sediment water samples in Dewittville Creek, Geology major

Student research focuses on improving creek restoration efforts

Compiling research leading to better watershed management in Chautauqua and Erie (N.Y.) counties is the central focus of three Geology students engaging in hands-on field-...

Dr. Wentao Cao, Geology major

Cao co-authors chapter in GSA Memoirs

Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences Assistant Professor Wentao Cao co-authored a book chapter in “Laurentia: Turning Points in the Evolution of a Continent,” that...

Nathan Burnside, Geology major, Biology major

Alumnus Nathan Burnside to trace career path in a ‘geologist’s tale’

SUNY Fredonia alumnus and Geology major Nathan Burnside will give an invited talk, “There and Back Again: An Environmental Geologist’s Tale,” on Tuesday, Oct. 25.

Dr. Thomas Hegna

Geologist Hegna receives 2022 Hagan Award, to offer lecture on Oct. 4

The 2022 William T. and Charlotte N. Hagan Young Scholar/Artist Award will be presented to Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences Assistant Professor Thomas Hegna...

Randy Blood

Geology alum to give talk on Upper Devonian Shale of western New York

Alumnus Randy Blood will give an invited talk, “The Upper Devonian Shale Succession of Western New York: Insights into the Role of Shale in an...

Sarah Losso

Harvard Ph.D. candidate to give lecture on exceptionally well-preserved early Paleozoic arthropods

Sarah Losso, a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University, will present a lecture, "Morphology, Function and Taphonomy of Lower Paleozoic Trilobites and their Close Relatives: Insights...

Four co-investigators in lab

SUNY Fredonia awarded NSF grant to purchase scanning electron microscope

The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of over $335,000 to SUNY Fredonia to purchase a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) that will significantly expand...