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Sheila Roberts John Farver Joseph Frizado James Evans Charles Onasch Kurt Panter

Faculty & Staff  |  Graduate Courses  |  Facilities   |  Geology Dept.       The geochemistry program at Bowling Green encompasses a wide range of interests.  Courses are offered in geochemistry, geochemistry of sediments, materials science, as well as related areas of sedimentology, hydrology, and environmental geology.  Students are encouraged to take a variety of courses in addition to a core of geochemistry so that they acquire the broad background necessary for most careers.  Of the recent graduates, some attend graduate school at top universities, but most now work for environmentally-related firms.  The new program in materials science has also opened many new career opportunities. Projects done by faculty and students over the past few years include: sedimentary geochemistry of sediments in a freshwater estuary of Lake Erie geochemistry of paleosols geochemical investigations of economic deposits related to weathering relationship between trace element geochemistry and cathodoluminescence statistical analysis of geochemical environments geochemistry of Precambrian iron formations geochemistry of Precambrian pyrobitumen geochemical studies of granitic rocks groundwater pollution studies radon studies in northwest Ohio water-sediment interactions in freshwater marshes   geochemistry of diagenesis effects of organic matter on trace element geochemistry of carbonates statistical characterization of worldwide database of igneous rocks aqueous geochemistry stable isotope geochemistry characterization of natural and synthetic mineral aggregates transport kinetics of polycrystalline materials pore water of reservoir sediments soil contamination studies     Geochemistry is also an important component of our environmental geology program.  This program is interdisciplinary and integrates geochemistry, surface water hydrology, groundwater hydrology, applied geophysics, and GIS (Geographic Information Systems).