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Jon C. Boothroyd:

  • Coastal geologic hazards and management issues
  • Long-term (years) beach changes
  • Processes and development of barrier and headland shorefaces in glaciated terrain
  • Geologic mapping of Quaternary (surficial) deposits
  • Late glacial and post-glacial landscape development.
  • Geotechnical aspects of highway construction through, and use of, glacial materials
  • Holocene stratigraphy of microtidal lagoons.
  • Geoarchaeology of  New England.

Thomas B. Boving:

  • Contaminant Hydrology
  • Fate and Transport of Contaminants
  • Innovative Remediation Technologies
  • Matrix Diffusion
  • Water Resources Management


J. Allan Cain:
  • Mineral Resources
  • Environmental Impact of Resource Use


David E. Fastovsky:
  • Paleontology of Mesozoic, Terrestrial Vertebrates
  • Mesozoic vertebrate-Bearing Terrestrial Paleoenvironments
  • Geobiology of Critical Intervals in Earth History
  • Pre-Quaternary Paleopedology


Reinhard K. Frohlich:
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O. Don Hermes:
  • Petrology-Tectonic Settings of Igneous Rocks
  • U-Pb Geochronology
  • Characterization of Archaeological Lithic Materials
  • GIS Applications in Geologic Mapping
  • Virtual Field Trips as Teaching Tools
  • Forensic Geology


Daniel P. Murray:
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Anne I. Veeger:
  • Hydrogeology
  • Ground-water Chemistry
  • Isotope Hydrogeology
  • Modeling Ground-water Flow
  • Low-temperature Geochemistry