Geology News
October 13, 2011Rhawn Denniston, Associate Professor of Geology will give a lecture on Oct 20th entitled “Reconstructing 5,000 Years of Hurricane Activity across the Northern Australia Coast using Stalagmites.” Our ability to recognize trends in hurricane activity is complicated by short and often incomplete historical records. As a means of extending the time frame of these records, [...]
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October 13, 2011Geology Professor Rhawn Denniston was interviewed by The Atlantic for its recurring Nine and a Half Questions feature. The conversation covers his work at Cornell, his paleoclimatology research and the future of sustainable energy. Denniston, who recently got a $98,000 National Science Foundation grant to study ancient weather patterns, also talks about the importance he places [...]
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September 7, 2011Rhawn Denniston, associate professor of geology, has been awarded a $98,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study pre-historical hurricane activity in tropical northern Australia. This research continues Denniston’s work on stalagmites and involves field work in caves in the remote Kimberley region of Australia, as well as laboratory work at the University of New [...]
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June 14, 2011Cornell has a tradition of involving students in research over the summer, both on campus and off. Here is a look at some of the research students are performing this year. Two Cornell College geology majors have been awarded summer Research Experience for Undergraduates fellowships by the National Science Foundation, the first time two Cornell [...]
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November 2, 2010On Nov 9th, Dr. Karl-Heinz Wyrwoll, visiting presidential fellow, will present a lecture on “The Paleoclimatic Evolution of the Monsoon Environment of Northern Australia: From Plate Tectonics to Aboriginal Vegetation Burning.” The seminar will outline the controls of the northern Australian summer monsoon at time scales ranging from those of plate tectonics to the likely [...]
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April 22, 2010Two Cornell College juniors were awarded $750 grants by the Paleontological Society to help a professor with research this summer. Chelsea Korpanty ’11 (geology/art) and Elizabeth Erickson ’11 (geology/environmental studies) each received a 2010 Student Research Award from the Paleontological Society. The awards will go to support independent research on Curacao this summer, which will then be developed into [...]
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April 15, 2010Lisa Pratt, a professor in the department of geological sciences at Indiana University, will spend two days at Cornell College as the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar and deliver a lecture at 11:10 a.m. Friday, April 23, in Hedges Conference Room in The Commons. The lecture, “Technical and Ethical Challenges Associated with the Search for Extraterrestrial [...]
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May 26, 2009MOUNT VERNON – Kelsey Feser, a junior Geology major has been awarded an Undergraduate Research Grant from the North Central section of the Geological Society of America. Feser will spend two weeks on San Salvador Island, Bahamas working with Professor of Geology Ben Greenstein. Her research investigates the impact of the development of a Club [...]
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July 7, 2008Rebecca Ellerbroek began her senior thesis research by spending the summer of 2008 at the University of New Mexico’s Radiogenic Isotope Laboratory with Professor Rhawn Denniston. Rebecca’s project centers on a stalagmite from the Kimberley region of northwestern Australia that was collected by Australian collaborators and shipped to Denniston that spring. Her goal is to [...]
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June 29, 2008Kris Rhodes ’08 completed a paid internship with the Smithsonian Institution in the summer of 2007, working in the Department of Paleobiology of the National Museum of Natural History. Rhodes worked closely with paleontologists at the Smithsonian to develop climate reconstructions from Late Paleozoic (280 million years old) fossil leaf assemblages. Rhodes went through two [...]
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May 1, 2008Each February, Cornell courses in biology, geology, and anthropology leave the cold Iowa winter behind for a month in the Bahamas. The Gerace Research Center on the island of San Salvador provides an excellent facility for ongoing Cornell studies of modern and ancient reef systems in the area. Science students and faculty have focused especially [...]
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April 10, 2008By the end of her junior year, Kristyn Rodzinyak had participated in three significant research projects and presented her findings at several professional conferences. Most recently, Rodzinyak traveled to Western Australia with Professor Ben Greenstein to investigate the geologic record of rapid sea level change preserved in fossil coral assemblages in the northwest part of the state.
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March 29, 2008On paper, Adam Majeski’s Cornell Fellowship in Geology Education was an opportunity to help open a new, 1.5-mile section of Ice Age Trail across a Wisconsin property. What he gained, though, were lessons in responsibility, self-direction, communication, and project coordination. “Going into the project I expected specific instructions on what I was to do and how [...]
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March 10, 2008The front lines of climate change research increasingly include Cornell undergraduates, such as Brian Hoye ’06 and Megan Andresen ’06. Hoye collected stalagmite samples from Goshute Cave in northern Nevada and dated them by analyzing their uranium and thorium components using mass spectrometry. Working with Rhawn Denniston, Cornell professor of Geology, Hoye’s research sought to [...]
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January 11, 2008MOUNT VERNON — New research by Cornell College Professor of Geology Ben Greenstein suggests that global warming may be responsible for migrating coral species along Australia’s western coast, potentially providing a safe haven for temperature-sensitive species as the oceans warm. Along with John Pandolfi of the Centre for Marine Studies, University of Queensland, Australia, Greenstein [...]
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