Environmental Geology at FSU
RESEARCH AREAS
Students may focus studies in several areas involving environmental geology. Two graduate courses in this area are currently offered
and others are planned. Allied fields in which we maintain a high level of activity include: hydrogeology, geochemistry, sedimentology,
coastal geology, geomorphology, paleoecology, and fluid dynamics. Historically, a large percentage of Florida State graduates have
entered the environmental field and have achieved a high degree of success. Our program is experiencing significant growth in this area
and we anticipate that it will become highly competitive. In addition, Anthony Arnold and W.C. Parker are co-Chief editors of the Journal
of Environmental Micropaleontology, Microbiology, and Meiobenthology sponsored by the International Society for Environmental
Micropaleontology, Microbiology, and Meiobenthology.
FACILITIES
Stable Isotope Lab
FACULTY
Anthony J. Arnold
Use of benthic formanifera as environmental tracers in the marine realm.
Joseph F. Donoghue
Geology of coastal environments and continental margins; causes and
effects of sea-level change; Quaternary geology and geochronology;
environmental geology; contaminants in sediments.
Leroy Odom
Isotope geochemistry.
William C. Parker
Use of benthic foraminifera as environmental tracers in the coastal marine realm.
Vincent Salters
Isotope geochemistry
James F. Tull
Geologic hazards
Yang Wang
Isotope hydrology, food webs in modern and fossil ecosystems, biogeochemical cycling of carbon and nutrients, and global change.
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