Geosciences Faculty Research
In the geoscience program at The University of Akron, our professors direct dozens of graduate students and instruct more than 150 undergraduate students. Our research covers hydrogeology, paleoclimate reconstruction, climate change, sedimentology, geochemistry, geobiology, and geochemistry.
Submissions from 2015
The Sedimentary Flux of Dissolved Rare Earth Elements to the Ocean, April N. Abbott, Brian A. Haley, James McManus, and Clare E. Reimers
Calibrating Water Depths of Ordovician Communities: Lithological and Ecological Controls on Depositional Gradients in Upper Ordovician Strata of Southern Ohio and North-Central Kentucky, USA, Carlton E. Brett, Thomas J. Malgieri, James R. Thomka, Christopher D. Aucoin, Benjamin F. Dattilo, and Cameron E. Schwalbach
Faunal Epiboles in the Upper Ordovician of North-Central Kentucky: Implications for High-Resolution Sequence and Event Stratigraphy and Recognition of a Major Unconformity, Carlton E. Brett, James R. Thomka, Cameron E. Schwalbach, Christopher D. Aucoin, and Thomas J. Malgieri
Lead-210 and Polonium-210 Disequilibria in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Hypoxic Zone, Patrick Jones, Kanchan Maiti, and J. McManus
Controls on Trace Metal Authigenic Enrichment in Reducing Sediments: Insights from Modern Oxygen-Deficient Settings, Susan H. Little, Derek Vance, Timothy W. Lyons, and James McManus
The Time-Transgressive Termination of the African Humid Period, Timothy M. Shanahan, Nicholas P. McKay, Konrad A. Hughen, Jonathan T. Overpeck, Bette Otto-Bliesner, Clifford W. Heil, John King, Christopher A. Scholz, and John Peck
Web-Based Hypothermia Information: A Critical Assessment of Internet Resources and a Comparison to Peer-Reviewed Literature, Jeremy M. Spencer and Scott C. Sheridan
Paleoecology of Pelmatozoan Attachment Structures from a Hardground Surface in the Middle Silurian Massie Formation, Southeastern Indiana, James R. Thomka and Carlton E. Brett
Controlled Direction of Electrical and Mechanical Properties in Nickel Tethered Graphene Polyimide Nanocomposites Using Magnetic Field, Mitra Yoonessi and John A. Peck
Submissions from 2014
A Qualitative and Quantitative Model for Climate-Driven Lake Formation on Carbonate Platforms Based on Examples from the Bahamian Archipelago, Lisa E. Park Boush, Amy Myrbo, and Andrew Michelson
On the Isotope Composition of Reactive Iron in Marine Sediments: Redox Shuttle versus Early Diagenesis, Florian Shultz, Silke Severman, James McManus, Anna Nofke, Ulrike Lomnitz, and Christian Hensen