Post Tagged with: "Craig Grimes"

Geology Students Gain Perspective, Skills Mapping the Rocky Mountains

2017 Field Geology participants in Montana

How did you spend your summer? Twenty-three Geological Sciences students and staff from Ohio University spent their summer mapping the geology of Montana, South Dakota, and Wyoming as a part of Ohio University’s capstone course in geology, GEOL 4910: Field Geology. Students braved 104 degree desert highs and summer mountain […]

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September 13, 2017 at 3:55 pmIn Class News

Trey Klopfenstein Presents at Geological Society of America Annual Meeting

Between August 2015 and June 2016, Trey Klopfenstein participated in a Research Experience for Undergraduates funded by the National Science Foundation. He was advised by Prof. Craig Grimes. This project involved field investigations in the Chemehuevi Mountains, Mohave Desert, SE California, as well as lab based studies (optical microscopy and […]

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October 10, 2016 at 2:05 pmResearch

Grimes Lab Works on Public Portal of Faults in California’s Chemehuevi Wilderness Area

Dr. Craig Grimes and graduate student Cody MacDonald record GPS position, structural data, and geologic context of a sample before collecting it in the Chemehuevi Wilderness Area, CA.

October 2014 Geological Sciences Newsletter Members of Dr. Craig Grimes’ lab are creating a web-hosted outreach portal stemming from their NSF-funded project to investigate the initiation of low-angle normal faults in the Colorado River Extensional Corridor. The focus of the outreach portal—Constraints on the initiation of low angle normal faults […]

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October 13, 2014 at 1:02 pmResearch

Grimes’ NSF Projects Funded Three Alumni, Two Current Students

Grimes’ NSF Projects Funded Three Alumni, Two Current Students

October 2014 Geological Sciences Newsletter Dr. Craig Grimes joined the faculty at Ohio University in Fall 2012 and is looking forward to the start of his third year on campus. He comes to OHIO with a B.S. in Geological Sciences from The Ohio State University (2003) and a Ph.D. in […]

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October 13, 2014 at 11:21 amResearch

3 Geology Students Recognized for GSA Research Grants

3 Geology Students Recognized for GSA Research Grants

Two Ohio University master’s students and an undergraduate student in Geological Sciences were recognized as having received Geological Society of America research grants. Michael Blair and James Brown , both graduate students, were named in the July 2014 issue of GSA Today. Blair joined Dr. Daniel Hembree’s Ichnology Research Lab […]

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August 4, 2014 at 11:00 amNews

Geology Gets 1804 Grant for New Undergrad Microscope Lab

Geology Gets 1804 Grant for New Undergrad Microscope Lab

The Geological Sciences Department was awarded a grant for a new microscope lab from the 1804 Fund for Undergraduate Learning. The grant will allow the department to move the existing lab to a larger classroom, increase the number of workstations, and acquire new reflected light microscopes. The larger lab is […]

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June 17, 2014 at 3:11 pmNews

Grimes, MacDonald Present at GSA Rocky Mountain Meeting

Grimes, MacDonald Present at GSA Rocky Mountain Meeting

  Ohio University Geological Sciences researchers presented May 2014 at the Joint Rocky Mountain/Cordilleran Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America. They are part of an international team working in the Chemehuevi Mountains in Southeast California. See their work on Tumblr. Oxygen Isotope Constraints on the Early Slip History of […]

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June 10, 2014 at 9:22 amResearch