Post Tagged with: "Katherine Fornash"

The Geological Sciences Alumni Advisory Board hosts a symposium every other spring to reconnect alumni with the department and build an ever-expanding network with current students and support their career development. This year the goals were the same, but the forum moved online. “We are so very grateful for the […]

From Ohio University News The John C. Baker Fund awarded $34,426 to three faculty proposals for research, scholarship and creative work during fall semester 2020, with two of the faculty from the College of Arts & Sciences. Endowed in 1961 by a gift of more than $612,000 from 1926 College […]

The Geological Society of America annual meeting is one of the largest scientific gatherings of geologists each year, and the Ohio University Geological Sciences Department historically sends a large contingent of students and faculty to showcase their research. This year the GSA meeting is online from Oct. 26-30, but departmental […]

Dr. Katherine Fornash is one of only 35 junior faculty recipients to receive a national highly competitive Oak Ridge Associated Universities research grant, reports Ohio University News. The Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards are intended to enrich the research and professional growth of young faculty. The award provides $10,000 […]

Note: This event has been canceled. The Geological Sciences Colloquium series presents Dr. Katherine Fornash discussing “Petrogenesis and Significance of Lawsonite-bearing Hybrid Rocks” on Friday, April 3, at 2 p.m. in Clippinger 205. Fornash is an Assistant Professor at Ohio University in the Department of Geological Sciences. Abstract:  Hybrid rocks, […]

Faculty and students from the Ohio University Geological Sciences Department traveled to San Francisco to share their science and learn about the latest developments in petrology, geochemistry and hydrogeology at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Dec. 9-13. Katherine F. Fornash and Donna L. Witney. Petrogenesis and Significance of Lawsonite-bearing […]

Dr. Katherine Fornash, Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences at Ohio University, recently published “Lawsonite-rich layers as records of fluid and element mobility in subducted crust (Sivrihisar Massif, Turkey)” in the journal Chemical Geology. For this study, Fornash studied metamorphic veins and metasomatic layers from northwest Turkey that contain a rarely […]