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Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
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.”
Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences Assistant Professor Matthew Purtill is the lead author on a co-authored article published by Indiana Archaeology, volume 15, number 1.
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.
Justine Bloom, a sophomore from Bergen majoring in Earth Science, with a minor in Environmental Studies, has received the Honors Student of the Month Award for September, co-sponsored by the Fredonia Honors Program and the Office of Residence Life.
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.
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.
Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences Assistant Professor Wentao Cao has agreed to serve as an associate editor for Geosphere.
Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences Assistant Professor Wentao Cao co-authored a new paper in Basin Research, an international journal.
A recent column published in the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch newspaper highlighted a journal article, “The Road Not Taken: How Early Landscape Learning and Adoption of a Risk-Averse Strategy Influenced Paleoindian Travel Route Decision Making in the Upper Ohio Valley," written by Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences Assistant Professor Matthew Purtill.
The United States Geological Survey has awarded a five-year contract to Department of Biology Associate Professor Courtney Wigdahl-Perry to continue operation of an acid precipitation monitoring station.