PHOTO BANNER: False color infared aerial photo of the Malaspina Glacier on the Alaskan coastal plain, a good surrogate for lobes of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (credit NASA). Pedestrian pathways cross-cut campus on ground that is unusually level for southern New England, in this case because campus sits above an uplifted Neogene erosion surface. Pleistocene archaeological site being excavated near Delta, Alaska in my favorite material, loess, windblown glacial dust. Close-up of quarried granite from a building in New London, CT contains biotite, quartz and pink orthoclase (every geology professor needs at least one photo of a rock on their website).

Teaching and Research

"Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice." That quote from Will Durant sums up for broader purpose for teaching geoscience, to highlight the connection between geosciences and humanity. The version my students hear is "No Rocks, No Ecosystem, No Culture."

This page is restricted to information about my graduate and undergraduate teaching at UConn, and the geological research that supports it. For details, link to:

Center for Integrated Geoscience

Honors Program

Department of Anthropology

Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

For a chronological list of my professional work history, including academic postions, honors, scientific publications, and other activities, link to my Curriculum Vitae.

For a list of all courses I have taught at UConn, link to Courses Taught. Complete descriptions for those courses still being taught are available UConn on-line catalog at http://www.catalog.uconn.edu/.

During the past five years, my primary scholarship has shifted away from field- and lab-based scientific research toward scholarly writing and public lecturing. For information on those contributions, link to Cultural Geology and Science Journalism.