Faculty

Karen H. Fryer, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Dr. Fryer's Web Pages

Dr. Fryer is a structural geologist with research interests focused on field study of the interrelationships between material deformation and metamorphic reactions, and uses analytical techniques of electron microscopy and microprobe analysis. She has undertaken field research in northern Scotland, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, western Arizona, and currently is researching the Ashe Metamorphic Suite in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina with funding from the NC Geological Survey. She has received two National Science Foundation grants in support of equipment for teaching and research, and incorporates research into regular classes. Dr. Fryer teaches courses in physical and environmental geology, structural geology, geological techniques (field, lab, technical writing), petrography, and tectonics.



Richard Fusch, Ph.D., University of Oregon.

Dr. Fusch's Web Pages

Dr. Fusch is a specialist in urban geography, urban planning, regional development and cultural geography. He has conducted research in urban development in East Africa, Western Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and the United States. He has published research on the relationship between American architectural traditions and city growth and change, urban design in Italian cities, and is a consultant to the United Nations on housing problems in Third World countries. Dr. Fusch teaches courses in cultural, urban, and economic geography and is director of the interdisciplinary urban studies program.



David H. Hickcox, Ph.D., University of Oregon.

Dr. Hickcox's research specialty is water and energy resources and he has published articles in scholarly journals on coal mining and water allocation. Dr. Hickcox also actively researches and publishes articles dealing with climatology and meteorology. His annual article on the nation's temperature extremes receives widespread attention in the national media. Dr. Hickcox is also actively involved in solving local solid waste issues and serves on a regional solid waste authority. Dr. Hickcox teaches courses in physical geography, weather and climate, environmental alteration, cartography, and energy resources, and is coordinator of the University's environmental studies program.



John B. Krygier, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Krygier's Web Pages

Dr. Krygier is a geographer with teaching and research specializations in cartography, geographic information systems (GIS), and environmental and human geography. He has extensive experience developing and using multimedia, world wide web resources and exercises for teaching. His book Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS was published in 2005. Dr. Krygier's research interests include cartography and map design for GIS, critical cartography & GIS, mapping in the arts and humanities, Participatory GIS, multimedia and hypermedia mapping (using sound to communicate geographic information, animated maps, and the design and evaluation of multimedia teaching materials), the history of mapping, and environmental studies and environmental history. More information about Dr. Krygier's courses and research can be found on his web pages.



Keith O. Mann, Ph.D., University of Iowa.

Dr. Mann is a paleontologist and teaches history of the Earth, paleontology, sedimentation and stratigraphy, and hydrogeology. He has determined the physiological, environmental, and mineralogical controls of skeletal chemistry in Nautilus from the southwest Pacific; collected early (800,000,000 years old) microorganism fossils and investigated terrace scarp deflation in Greenland; examined groundwater pollution caused by agricultural chemicals in Iowa; and measured the effects of deforestation on coral reefs in Panama. Currently, he is conducting research on a new fossil species found in 460,000,000-year-old sediments in Canada. He has published articles in professional journals as well as chapters in scientific books, and recently he edited a book on graphic correlation. Dr. Mann has helped organize professional scientific meetings including a national symposium and an international research conference.



Ronald J. McChesney, Ph.D. ABD, Ohio State University. (academic year 2006-07)

Ron is a geographer with a primary interest in population and land use change that occurs at the global, regional and local scales. Having first studied regional variations in economic performance in the United States, more recent work has involved the construction of urban growth models; specifically hierarchical metropolitan change models, to attempt to better understand the processes that result in land use patterns. There is a focus on the interrelationships of transportation systems and technology, with commercial and residential construction. Largely quantitative and computer based, using demographic data and remote sensed imagery, some verification or refutation of modeled results is performed using fieldwork and qualitative methods. Within metropolitan areas, there are the twin processes of urban development and open space preservation. From the core investigation of the global system of metropolitan areas, further studies extend outward toward the relationships between metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas. Non-metropolitan areas include agricultural areas of primary production and re-naturalizing areas of landscape recreation known as outbacks.



Barton S. Martin, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Dr. Martin's specialties are in igneous petrology and geochemistry with an emphasis on the evolution of large volcanic provinces. His research interests focus on the geochemical and volcanological evolution of voluminous lava flows in the Columbia River flood basalt province of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, as well as the effects of large-scale volcanism on the Earth's environment. He has participated in international field conferences on large igneous provinces and has published on the geochemistry of the 1300 km3 Roza flows of the Columbia River basalts. Dr. Martin is also interested in the origin of minerals found in unusual rocks from the Earth's mantle in the Blue Ridge of western North Carolina. He teaches courses in physical and environmental geology, mineralogy, igneous and metamorphic petrology, ore deposits/economic geology, and volcanology.



David Walker, Ph.D., University of Kentucky.

Dr. Walker, who will be teaching at OWU starting in the fall of 2007, has research interests in urbanization and spaces of resistance, economic and political neoliberalization and the restructring of urban spaces, and race and identity within Latin America and African cities. He has extensive field work experience in Latin America, and will teach courses in cultural geography, urban geography, economic geography, Latin American geography, and the geography of Africa.



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