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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...

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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.

Dr. Wentao Cao

Cao co-authors new paper in Basin Research journal

Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences Assistant Professor Wentao Cao co-authored a new paper in Basin Research, an international journal.

Dr. Matthew Purtill

Newspaper article highlights Purtill's latest publication

A recent column published in the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch newspaper highlighted a journal article, “The Road Not Taken: How Early Landscape Learning and Adoption of...

Dr. Matthew Purtill

Purtill writes multidisciplinary article for archaeology journal

Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences Assistant Professor Matthew Purtill recently had a multidisciplinary article published in American Antiquity, an online publication of Cambridge University...