Department of Earth Sciences
51³Ô¹ÏÍø Professor Shares Concerns About Potential Budget Cuts to Scientific Research
Associate Geology Professor Anne Jefferson voices concern over proposed cuts to environmental research.
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51³Ô¹ÏÍø Professor Weighs in on the Rush to Save Government Scientific Data
51³Ô¹ÏÍø Professor Anne Jefferson expresses concern over losing valuable scientific data following proposed budget cuts.
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51³Ô¹ÏÍø Researchers Study Climate Change in Alaska
Thanks to a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, two 51³Ô¹ÏÍø professors are researching climate change in Alaska. Elizabeth Herndon, Ph.D., and Lauren Kinsman-Costello, Ph.D., assistant professors from 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s College of Arts and Sciences, spent a week in Fairbanks…
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51³Ô¹ÏÍø Geology Professor Named a Public Engagement Fellow of Leshner Leadership Institute at AAAS
Anne Jefferson, Ph.D., assistant professor of geology in the College of Arts and Sciences at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø, was one of 15 climate change researchers to be named a 2016-17 Public Engagement Fellow of the Leshner Leadership Institute at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (…
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Bioretention Cells Reduce Total Runoff by 40 Percent in Study
51³Ô¹ÏÍø and Cleveland Metroparks partnered on study of two Parma neighborhoods near West Creek Reservation Rain barrels, rain gardens, and bioretention cells are increasingly used as green infrastructure to capture and slow storm water runoff before it gets to nearby urban waterways, …
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Scholar of the Month
Scholar of the Month David Hacker Associate Professor of Geology College of Arts and Sciences 51³Ô¹ÏÍø at Trumbull 2000-present David Hacker is associate professor of geology in the College of Arts and Sciences at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø at Trumbull. His research in structural geo…
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51³Ô¹ÏÍø Researchers to Launch Three New Studies to Monitor Lake Erie
51³Ô¹ÏÍø researchers will launch three new studies of harmful algal blooms (HAB) in Lake Erie this spring as part of an overall $2 million water quality initiative by the Ohio Board of Regents. Harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie can produce toxins that make water hazardous to dr…
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Prehistoric Landslide Was Bigger Than Three Ohio Counties, Trumbull Researcher Reports
A catastrophic landslide, one of the largest known on the surface of the Earth, took place within minutes in southwestern Utah more than 21 million years ago, reports a 51³Ô¹ÏÍø at Trumbull geologist in a paper published in the November issue of the journal Geology. The Markagunt gravi…
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A National Treasure
For 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Professor of Geology Abdul Shakoor, Ph.D., studying the stability of Mount Rushmore, visited by nearly three million people each year, was a lifelong dream. 
 So, in 2013, with the help of his graduate student, Lindsay Poluga, the two of them reached out to t…
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Can Fireworks Damage Mount Rushmore? 

For 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Professor of Geology Abdul Shakoor, Ph.D., studying the stability of Mount Rushmore, visited by nearly three million people each year, was a lifelong dream. 
 So, in 2013, with the help of his graduate student, Lindsay Poluga, the two of them reached out to the…
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