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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 at a ceremony in Rosch Recital Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 4, at 2 p.m.
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 Electric Future,” at Houghton Hall Room 132 on Tuesday, Sept. 27, at 12:30 p.m.
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 from North American Lagerstätten," on Friday, Sept. 16.
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 research opportunities across multiple science disciplines for students and faculty and also lead to new research collaborations with other educational institutions.
Geology students, faculty attend and present at 2022 Northeast Geological Society of America meeting
Students and faculty from the Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences attended and presented at the 2022 Geological Society of America Northeastern Section Meeting, a full in-person event held March 20-22.
Fredonia student, faculty identify a new species of female-only fossil fairy shrimp
Senior Emma Van Houte and her faculty advisor, Assistant Professor Thomas Hegna, are co-authors of a journal article, “A new genus and species of ?parthenogenic anostracan (Pancrustacea, Branchiopoda, ?Thamnocephalidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Koonwarra Fossil Bed in Australia.”
Zoom talk today to explore Jurassic invertebrates
Dr. Mateo Monferran, a researcher with the National Scientific and Technical Research Council currently engaging in investigative work with Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences Assistant Professor Thomas Hegna, will present a Zoom seminar, “Jurassic Continental Invertebrates: The Records from Argentina,” on Tuesday, Nov. 30, at 1 p.m.
Students to present research at GSA annual conference
Two seniors – Geology major Michael Bradbury and Environmental Sciences major Emma Van Houte – will present findings from their research projects at the annual conference of the Geological Society of America in Portland, Ore.
Argentinian paleontologist conducting research with Fredonia professor, students
Dr. Mateo Monferran, an Argentinian paleontologist, is conducting research into Mesozoic fossil arthropods – creepy crawlers such as spiders, scorpions, crustaceans, insects and millipedes – with Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences Assistant Professor Thomas Hegna and students in his lab during the fall semester.
Cao named Geosphere associate editor
Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences Assistant Professor Wentao Cao has agreed to serve as an associate editor for Geosphere.