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Mark A. Evans

Associate Professor of Geology

Central Connecticut State University

Courses taught at CCSU

ESCI 100 Geohazards (Fall 2005)

ESCI 100 Paleoclimates (Spring 2009)

ESCI 121 Physical Geology (Fall 2004, Summer 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008)

ESCI 122 Historical geology and Lab (Spring 2005, Spring 2006)

ESCI 221 Mineralogy (Fall 2005, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Fall 2009)

ESCI 221 Stratigraphy and Sedimentology (Spring 2006)

ESCI 290 Field Methods (Fall 2008)

ESCI 321 Structural Geology (Fall 2006, Fall 2008)

ESCI 322 Petrology (Spring 2008, Spring 2010)

ESCI 431 Hydrogeology (Spring 2005, Spring 2007, Spring 2009)

ESCI 450 Environmental Geology (Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2009)

ESCI 519 Environmental Geology of Connecticut (Summer 2005)

HON 121 Science and Society (Spring 2006, Spring 2008)

 

Courses Taught Elsewhere

 

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

 

(CCSU: Central Connecticut State University, GSU: Georgia Southern University, PIT: University of Pittsburgh, UPJ: University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, DUQ: Duquesne University, OUE: Ohio University (Eastern Campus). * = non-majors course.

 

Earth and Life History* (OUE)

Earth Science (CCSU)

Environmental Geology (PIT, CCSU)

Environmental Geochemistry (PIT)

Geohazards (CCSU)

Geological America* (DUQ)

Geology of National Parks* (PIT)

Groundwater Geology (Hydrogeology) (PIT, CCSU)

Historical Geology* (GSU, PIT, CCSU)

Historical Geology Lab* (GSU,  CCSU)

Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology (UPJ)

Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology Lab (UPJ)

Introduction to Research (GSU)

Mineralogy (UPJ, PIT, CCSU)

Mineralogy Lab (UPJ, CCSU)

Oceanography* (PIT)

Optical Mineralogy (UPJ)

Physical Geology* (GSU, DUQ, UPJ, PIT, CCSU)

Physical Geology Lab* (GSU, CCSU)

Planetary Geology *(PIT)

Science and Society (Honors) (CCSU)

Structural Geology (GSU, UPJ, PIT, CCSU)

Structural Geology Lab (GSU, UPJ, CCSU)

Tectonics (GSU)

The Mobile Earth* (OUE)

The Restless Earth* (PIT)

World Physical Geography (Geosystems)* (PIT)

 

GRADUATE COURSES

 

GeoFluids (PIT)

Environmental Geochemistry (PIT – cross-listed with undergraduate course)

Environmental Geology of Connecticut (CCSU - summer 2005)

Hydrogeology (CCSU - cross-listed with undergraduate course)

 

GRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISED

 

Carolyn Brown (External M.S. committee member- Lehigh University) graduated 2003

Paul Coyle (M.S. Committee Member - University of Pittsburgh) graduated 2003

Danielle Deemer (M.S. Committee Member - University of Pittsburgh) graduated 2003

Paula Grgich (M.S. Committee Member - University of Pittsburgh) graduated 2003

Gina Hobbs (Primary M.S. advisor - University of Pittsburgh) graduated 2002

Adrienne Johnson (External M.S. committee member – Lehigh University) graduated 2002

Erica Love (M.S. Committee Member - University of Pittsburgh) graduated 2003

Kristen Lydy (Primary M.S. advisor - University of Pittsburgh) graduated 2002

Vanessa J. O'Brian (External M.S. Committee Member - University of Oklahoma) graduated 2006

Barbara Osgood (M.S. Committee Member - University of Pittsburgh) graduated 2006

Scott Mest (Ph.D. Committee member - University of Pittsburgh) graduated 2004

Sherry Stafford (Ph.D. Committee member - University of Pittsburgh) graduated 2007

 

RECENT UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISED

Brian Ruskin – graduated 2001, Fluid inclusion analysis of veins from the western margin of the Valley and Ridge province, northern West Virginia.

Daniel Brooks - Summer 2006 - Analysis if the mineralization in the Balf-Salvin Field site, CCSU Campus

Earl Manning - Spring 2007 - Paleofluids in brittle faults from the western border fault zone of the Hartford Basin: Evidence from fluid inclusions - presented at the NE GSA meeting in Durham, NH, March 13, 2007.

Michelle Tedone - Spring 2008 - Hydrogeologic characterization of a mountaintop seepage lake in central Connecticut, - presented at the NE GSA meeting in Buffalo, NY, March 2008.