Our campus is located on the northwest corner of Seneca Lake, halfway between Rochester and Syracuse. The geology right outside our door, or within driving distance of our campus, includes the Paleozoic sedimentary strata of former inland seas, the ancient igneous and metamorphic rocks of the Adirondacks, the folded and faulted rocks of the central Appalachians, and the local glaciated landscapes.
Seneca Lake is literally at our doorstep and makes a superb outdoor laboratory, which facilitates the best way to study geology - in the field.
The Geoscience program typically employs six to 12 students each summer to help with research. Most of these students go on and do an independent study, and/or honors projects, and present the results at national meetings. Occasionally, students write the peer-reviewed scientific paper. Students also intern at other campus labs and environmental firms, but we like to keep the best students on campus to work with us.
Sarah Holland
Finger Lake Economic Development
Michael Bloom
Testing hypotheses of black shale deposition in the Late Devonian Catskill Basin, Watkins Glen State Park, New York
Elisha Harris
A florule from the Early Cretaceous of the San Rafel Swell, Utah
Sarah Allen
A florule from the base of the Hell Creek Formation, Garfield County, Montana: Implications for diversity, climate and environment
Gwen Wheatley
Historical Paleoenvironmental Change in the Finger Lakes
Prabighya Basnet
Watershed/Lake Hydrogeochemical Interactions
Samuel Georgian
Watershed/Lake Hydrogeochemical Interactions
Katherine Hoering
Watershed/Lake Hydrogeochemical Interactions
Kerry O'Neill
Watershed/Lake Hydrogeochemical Interactions
April Abbott
Mercury in Cape Cod Sediments
Meredith Eppers
Aquatic Plants
Jamie Tucciarone
Rapid Lake Erie Ice Cover Change Events
Richard Mable
Thunderstorm Interactions with the Great Lakes Marine Boundary Layer
Additional Summer Science Projects
