Britt Argow Assistant Professor of Geosciences
E-mail: bargow@wellesley.edu
Courses: GEOS 110 The Coastal Zone: Intersection of Land, Sea, and Humanity with Laboratory; GEOS 200 The Earth and Life through Time with Laboratory; GEOS 208 Oceanography; GEOS 304 Sedimentology with Laboratory; GEOS 308 Wetlands Science with Laboratory
Research Interests: Coastal sedimentation processes and sea level rise.
Daniel Brabander Associate Professor of Geosciences
Email: dbraband@wellesley.edu
Courses: GEOS 101 Earth Processes and the Environment with Laboratory; GEOS/ES 201 Methods and Problems in Environmental Science with Laboratory; GEOS/ES 315 Environmental Geochemistry with Laboratory; and GEOS 320 Isotope Geology
Research Interests: Biogeochemistry, environmental geochemistry, and medical Geology
Jim Besancon Associate Professor of Geosciences Email: jbesancon@wellesley.edu
Courses: GEOS 111 The Yucca Mountain Problem: Where Should We Put Nuclear Waste?;
GEOS 102 The Dynamic Earth;
GEOS 210 Hydrogeology, Water and Pollutants;
GEOS 220 Volcanoes: Agents of Regional and Global Crisis
Research Interests: Quantitative x-ray diffractometry and its application to complex mixtures and geology of the Blue Hills, Massachusetts.
David Hawkins Associate Professor of Geosciences
Email: dhawkins@wellesley.edu
Courses: GEOS 203 Earth Materials with Laboratory; GEOS 206 Structural Geology with Laboratory
Research Interests: Mechanisms and time scales of plutonic construction; Connections between magma chambers, plutons and volcanic centers in space and time; Tectonic assembly of North America; U-Pb geochronology
Rebecca Mattison Laboratory Instructor of Geosciences
Email:rmattison@wellesley.edu
Courses: GEOS 101 Earth Processes and the Environment with Laboratory; GEOS 102 The Dynamic Earth with Laboratory; GEOS 205 Vertebrate Paleontology: Revolutions in Evolution
Research Interests:
Margaret Thompson Professor Emerita
Email:mthompson@wellesley.edu
Courses: none
Research Interests: U-Pb dating integrated with paleomagnetic techniques to track the Late Precambrian Avalon Zone in SE New England as it drifted from ancient Africa to dock with North America
Maria Waller Laboratory Instructor of Geosciences
Email:mwaller@wellesley.edu
Courses: GEOS 101 Earth Processes and the Environment Lab
Research Interests:
Created by: Rachel Kaston '10 & Rae Yan '11
Maintained by: Maria Raffi
Created on: June 20, 2008
Last Updated:
September 22, 2008
Expires: August 8, 2009
