Geol/GeoE Faculty Research
Current Research Projects
Grants and research programs are going on in:
- Hazards and impacts of urban / land use development
- Gound water / environmental studies in the Black Hills
- Acquifer susceptibility and vulnerability
- Geotechnical analysis, including slope and fracture studies
- Geothermal energy
- Geophysics, hydrology, petrology and structure in the DUSEL / Sanford Underground Science and Engineering Lab
- Controls on the Homestake gold deposit
- Geologic mapping in the Black Hills region
- Subsurface mapping in western South Dakota
- Petroleum reservoir mapping and characterization
- Applications of computing (GIS, remote sensing and 3-D visualization-photogrammetry, InSAR) in geosciences
- Earthscope
- Remote sensing for geological mapping and resource evaluation in arid regions
- Marine vertebrates of the Western Interior Seaway, particularly mosasaurs and plesiosaurs
- Late Tertiary and Quaternary mammals from the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, and Pacific Northwest
- Evolution and diversity of modern paleo bivalves
- Quantitative paleontology
