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Dr. Thomas Hegna

Geologist Hegna receives 2022 Hagan Award, to offer lecture on Oct. 4

The 2022 William T. and Charlotte N. Hagan Young Scholar/Artist Award will be presented to Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences Assistant Professor Thomas Hegna...

Randy Blood

Geology alum to give talk on Upper Devonian Shale of western New York

Alumnus Randy Blood will give an invited talk, “The Upper Devonian Shale Succession of Western New York: Insights into the Role of Shale in an...

Sarah Losso

Harvard Ph.D. candidate to give lecture on exceptionally well-preserved early Paleozoic arthropods

Sarah Losso, a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University, will present a lecture, "Morphology, Function and Taphonomy of Lower Paleozoic Trilobites and their Close Relatives: Insights...

Four co-investigators in lab

SUNY Fredonia awarded NSF grant to purchase scanning electron microscope

The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of over $335,000 to SUNY Fredonia to purchase a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) that will significantly expand...

student presents poster at conference

Geology students, faculty attend and present at 2022 Northeast Geological Society of America meeting

Students and faculty from the Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences attended and presented at the 2022 Geological Society of America Northeastern Section Meeting, a...

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Fredonia student, faculty identify a new species of female-only fossil fairy shrimp

Senior Emma Van Houte and her faculty advisor, Assistant Professor Thomas Hegna, are co-authors of a journal article, “A new genus and species of ?parthenogenic...

Dr. Mateo Monferran (left) with Dr. Thomas Hegna in a Houghton Hall workspace

Zoom talk today to explore Jurassic invertebrates

Dr. Mateo Monferran, a researcher with the National Scientific and Technical Research Council currently engaging in investigative work with Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences...

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Students to present research at GSA annual conference

Two seniors – Geology major Michael Bradbury and Environmental Sciences major Emma Van Houte – will present findings from their research projects at the annual...

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Argentinian paleontologist conducting research with Fredonia professor, students

Dr. Mateo Monferran, an Argentinian paleontologist, is conducting research into Mesozoic fossil arthropods – creepy crawlers such as spiders, scorpions, crustaceans, insects and millipedes –...

Dr. Wentao Cao

Cao named Geosphere associate editor

Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences Assistant Professor Wentao Cao has agreed to serve as an associate editor for Geosphere.