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Gregory Holmberg collects a bucket of water along the Lake Erie shoreline for testing by students at Point Gratiot Park.

Education majors work with international students at NASA/GLOBE annual meeting

Two SUNY Fredonia education majors broadened their experience guiding a contingent of students that included 21 from foreign countries during the NASA/GLOBE annual meeting.

Jasper Bateman, looking for fossils in the Devonian Silica Shale during a mid-conference field trip, near Milan, MI. Inset photo of student at poster presentation

Geology student, professor attend paleontological conference

Jasper Bateman, a rising sophomore Geology major from Buffalo, NY, and Associate Professor of Geology and Environmental Sciences Thomas Hegna presented their respective research at...

Dr. Thomas Hegna

Hegna to teach at the Paleobiology Database summer workshop

Associate Professor Thomas Hegna will be an instructor at a summer workshop hosted by Paleobiology Database (PBDB), an online database that aims to document diversity...

Reginal Spiller and Tim Zulawski head shots

Commencement speakers include distinguished alumni

Distinguished SUNY Fredonia alumni — Reginal “Reg” Spiller, who is President and CEO of Azimuth Energy LLC and CEO of subsidiary Azimuth GIS-E, and Tim...

Hayden Backus at the scanning electron microscope (SEM) in Houghton Hall

Geology major Hayden Backus receives prestigious DOE fellowship

Hayden Backus, a senior Geology major from Westfield, NY, has been awarded a prestigious Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship by the U.S. Department of Energy.

At work on the 3D skull project in the Houghton Hall Room 233 are Fiona Rigney (center) and Ishaan Prathamesh Rangnekar.

Students create 3D skulls in project funded by Costello award connecting biology, computer science and art

Creating a 3D skull collection basically from scratch – made particularly unique because it’s a collaborative project engaging students enrolled in seemingly distant academic areas...

Andrew Semo, with his poster presentation, in Special Collections and  Archives in Reed Library.

Students, alumnus to exhibit research at Earth Science Student Forum in Buffalo

Research compiled by eight SUNY Fredonia geology, earth science, environmental sciences, computer science and sculpture students and one recent graduate, with guidance from faculty members...

Dr. Sierra Brown

Alumna combines science and heritage in work and talk

SUNY Fredonia alumna Dr. Sierra (Wiegman) Brown will give the talk, “From Planetary Geochemistry to Indigenous Environmental Policy: Charting Career Paths Across the Cosmos with...

Hayden Backus presents his research

Geology students, faculty present at Northeast Geological Society of America meeting

Students and faculty in the Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences presented research at the 2024 Geological Society of America (GSA) Northeastern (NE) Section Meeting...

fossil clam shrimp

Hegna co-authors paper on the early fossil record of clam shrimp

The Devonian (about 355-415 million years ago) was when the clam shrimp — a still-living group of crustaceans that can be found in western NY...