About Us
This project is a collaboration between researchers from Boston College and Franklin and Marshall College. The collaboration team includes professors, research associates, graduate and undergraduate students, who are trained in earth surface processes.
Dr. Noah Snyder is a geomorphologist who studies the response of rivers to changes in land-use, climate and tectonics. He is an Associate Professor in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department and Director of the Environmental Studies Program at Boston College. He received his Ph.D from MIT in 2001, and conducted postdoctoral research for the US Geological Survey in northern California. He has been wading in the streams of the northeastern U.S. since growing up on Fall Creek in Ithaca, NY.
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Dr. Dorothy Merritts is a geologist with expertise on streams, rivers, and the impact of humans and geologic hazards on landscape evolution. Her primary research in the eastern United States is in the Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont, particularly in Pennsylvania and Maryland, where she is investigating the role of climate change and human activities in transforming the valley bottom landscapes of Eastern North America. She is a professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Franklin Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Robert Walter is geologist with expertise in geochemistry and geochronology. He has conducted field research in East Africa, North America, New Zealand and Asia, and is a leading expert on timescale calibrations and the geological context of human antiquity. His research interests include isotope geochronology, geochemistry, evolutionary timescales, climate change, landscape evolution, and human interactions with the environment. He is an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Franklin Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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Evan Gross is a senior at Franklin & Marshall College, majoring in Geosciences and minoring in Applied Mathematics. During Summer 2016, he worked on the Anthropocene Streams project as well as on wetland restoration projects in Pennsylvania and Maryland. He helped survey historic sediment in former millponds along incised streams and mapped historic sediment stream terraces via GIS analyses.
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Alec Snyder-Fair is a junior at Franklin and Marshall College Majoring in Geology and Biology. He has worked with Professors Merritts and Walter on wetland restoration projects and assisted in surveying historic sediment in former millponds along incised streams in Maryland and Pennsylvania. In addition, he has had experience conducting field work looking at the relationships of flood plains and high flow events on levels of dissolved organic matter with Jenn Hoyle (Yale University).
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Dora Chi Xu graduated from Franklin and Marshall College with a B.A. in Geoscience (2015). She worked as a post-baccalaureate researcher at the Earth and Environment Department in F&M. She is passionate about groundwater hydrogeology, and focused her senior thesis on wetland restoration and carbon sequestration in Big Spring Run, PA. Dora hails from Zhengzhou, China, the hometown of Kung Fu.
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If you have questions or would like more information about our team and our work please contact:
Noah Snyder - Noah.snyder@bc.edu
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Boston College
Dorothy Merritts - Dorothy.Merritts@fandm.edu
Department of Earth and Environment at Franklin & Marshall College
Noah Snyder - Noah.snyder@bc.edu
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Boston College
Dorothy Merritts - Dorothy.Merritts@fandm.edu
Department of Earth and Environment at Franklin & Marshall College