School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Queens College, City University of New York
Research
Stratigraphy, Sedimentation and Marine Geology
Stratigraphy is the fundament for all the geosciences, as indicated by the Geological Society of America and other professional organizations. At Queens College and in the Graduate School's PhD programs, the principles of stratigraphy, sedimentation and marine geology are in studies ranging from paleoceanography to hominid evolution to projecting climate change. Research areas in these fields include:
- Historical record of hurricanes and coastal sedimentology (N. Coch)
- Applied biostratigraphy and the sedimentology of organic detritus (D. Habib)
- Climate change based on the paleoceanographic records (N. G. Hemming,S. Pekar)
- Using the historical record to forecast decadal climate change of the Hudson River Estuary (C. McHugh)
- Radiometric dating of stratigraphic events (N. G. Hemming)
- Major stratigraphic events in orogens of the Northern Appalachians (A. Ludman, P Brock)
- Pleistocene glacial-interglacial history of the New Jersey passive margin (C. McHugh)
- Submarine earthquake geology along transform fault boundaries: Turkey and Venezuela (C. McHugh)
- Sea level changes from stratal geometry reconstructions of Cretaceous-Paleogene sediments around New York (S.Pekar)
- Obtaining seismic data from the Antarctic continent (Eocene-Pleistocene age) (S.Pekar)
- Oligocene-Pliocene climate reconstructions derived from Antarctic sediment cores (S.Pekar)