Department of Earth Sciences
Kent State Professor Collaborates With NASA Glenn and University Researchers to Study, Improve Lake Erie’s Water Quality
The conditions in Lake Erie continue to pose several health risks to Ohioans in coastal communities, making it difficult to maintain good water quality for citizens, state and local policymakers. A recent publication in Frontiers in Marine Science shows how researchers in the Great Lakes region are…
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Kent State Professor Shares Concerns µÚÒ»³Ô¹ÏÍø Potential Budget Cuts to Scientific Research
Associate Geology Professor Anne Jefferson voices concern over proposed cuts to environmental research.
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Kent State Professor Weighs in on the Rush to Save Government Scientific Data
Kent State Professor Anne Jefferson expresses concern over losing valuable scientific data following proposed budget cuts.
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Kent State Researchers Study Climate Change in Alaska
Thanks to a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, two Kent State University professors are researching climate change in Alaska. Elizabeth Herndon, Ph.D., and Lauren Kinsman-Costello, Ph.D., assistant professors from Kent State’s College of Arts and Sciences, spent a week in Fairbanks…
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Kent State Geology Professor Named a Public Engagement Fellow of Leshner Leadership Institute at AAAS
Anne Jefferson, Ph.D., assistant professor of geology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University, was one of 15 climate change researchers to be named a 2016-17 Public Engagement Fellow of the Leshner Leadership Institute at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (…
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Bioretention Cells Reduce Total Runoff by 40 Percent in Study
Kent State University and Cleveland Metroparks partnered on study of two Parma neighborhoods near West Creek Reservation Rain barrels, rain gardens, and bioretention cells are increasingly used as green infrastructure to capture and slow storm water runoff before it gets to nearby urban waterways, …
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Scholar of the Month
Scholar of the Month David Hacker Associate Professor of Geology College of Arts and Sciences Kent State University at Trumbull 2000-present David Hacker is associate professor of geology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University at Trumbull. His research in structural geo…
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Kent State Researchers to Launch Three New Studies to Monitor Lake Erie
Kent State University researchers will launch three new studies of harmful algal blooms (HAB) in Lake Erie this spring as part of an overall $2 million water quality initiative by the Ohio Board of Regents. Harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie can produce toxins that make water hazardous to dr…
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Prehistoric Landslide Was Bigger Than Three Ohio Counties, Trumbull Researcher Reports
A catastrophic landslide, one of the largest known on the surface of the Earth, took place within minutes in southwestern Utah more than 21 million years ago, reports a Kent State University at Trumbull geologist in a paper published in the November issue of the journal Geology. The Markagunt gravi…
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A National Treasure
For Kent State University Professor of Geology Abdul Shakoor, Ph.D., studying the stability of Mount Rushmore, visited by nearly three million people each year, was a lifelong dream. 
 So, in 2013, with the help of his graduate student, Lindsay Poluga, the two of them reached out to t…
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