Teaching

* Evolution of the Earth (Geology 1120): Freshman-level, 3 credit-hour course on historical geology with topics in physical processes, plate tectonics, global and North American paleogeography, and the origin and evolution of life from Precambrian to Holocene; several multimedia presentations; course also includes one compulsory field trip to the Rolla area.

* Evolution of the Earth Laboratory Geology 1129): Freshman-level, 1 credit-hour companion lab for Evolution of the Earth (Geology 1120).

* Stratigraphy and Sedimentation (Geology 3620): Junior/senior-level, 3 credit-hour course in sedimentological processes, clastic, chemical and biogenic depositional systems, sequence stratigraphy, geophysical logs, chemostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, geochronology, chronostratigraphy, basin analysis, and plate tectonics; includes one compulsory field trip/exercise.

* Stratigraphy Laboratory (Geology 3629): Junior-level, 1 credit-hour course with extensive exercises on sedimentary petrology, biostratigraphy, basin analysis, and two 3-hour periods of field work.

* Systematic Paleontology (Geology 4630): Senior-level, 3 credit-hour undergraduate course with laboratory exercises in morphology, biostratigraphy, invertebrates, vertebrates, trace fossils, introductory micropaleontology, plants, and palynology; course includes one field trip to the Field Museum in Chicago. Distance learning section available.

*Paleoclimatology and Paleoecology (Geology 4711): Senior-level, 3 credit-hour course on the elements of climate, evidence and causes of climate changes, dating methods, proxy measurements, climate models, and Precambrian to Holocene climates.

* Micropaleontology (Geology 5741): Senior/graduate-level, 3 credit-hour undergraduate course with very extensive laboratory exercises in micropaleontology, palynology and biostratigraphic applications.