Paul Hanson

Paul Hanson

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  • My Story
  • Publications
  • Background
  • Interests
  • Grants
  • Advising
  • Courses Taught

Contact Information

TitleQuaternary Geologist | Director, Great Plains Cooperative Ecosystems Study Unit
Faculty RankProfessor
Address611 South Hardin Hall
3310 Holdrege Street
Lincoln NE
68583–0996

East Campus
Phone
  • office: 402-472-7762
  • fax: 402-472-4915
E-mailphanson2@unl.edu
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My Story

Hi, I'm Paul Hanson, and I'm the associate director of the School of Natural Resources. I am also an assistant professor in SNR. I'm associated with the geography/GIScience faculty and the geology and soils faculty.

Paul Hanson sampling a Wisconsin River terrace fill for optical dating.
Paul Hanson sampling a Wisconsin River terrace fill for optical dating.

My main research interests are studying the responses of river, hillslope, and eolian (wind-deposited) systems to climate change. My research goals include studying the evolution of the Platte River system, the responses of rivers and dune systems to climate change in the recent past, and the causes for stream incision on the western Great Plains and the central Rocky Mountains.

For much of this work, I use optical dating techniques (aka "Optically Stimulated Luminescence," a relatively new dating technique that is used for recently deposited geological materials) to construct chronologies of river, dune, and hillslope sediments. These studies are important for identifying the long-term climatic conditions in Nebraska, particularly concerning the nature of drought events and changes in flood magnitudes in the region.

Other aspects of my research involve producing surficial geologic maps, and studying groundwater resources in eastern Nebraska. These kinds of studies are important to achieve a better understanding of our groundwater and other geological resources that are of economic importance in Nebraska.

I teach courses in physical geography and lead natural resource field trip courses to the Boundary Waters in Minnesota and Big Bend National Park in Texas.


Feature Stories

Selected Publications

Hanson, P.R., Shrestha, N., Girard, M., Joeckel, R.M., Reinier, C.L. 2024. Surficial geology of the Central City West 7.5’ Quadrangle, Nebraska.
Hanson, P.R., Shrestha, N., Reinier, C.L. 2024. Surficial geology of the Belgrade SE 7.5’ Quadrangle, Nebraska.
Hanson, P., Reinier, C., Bruihler, J., Joeckel, R. (2022). Dating the Platte: Luminescence Geochronology of the Alluvial History of an Iconic Braided Stream. New World Luminescence Dating Workshop.
Hanson, P., Reinier, C., Howard, L., Baker, E., Carlson, C. (2022). Surficial geology of the Fremont West 7.5’ Quadrangle, Nebraska. UNL Conservation and Survey Division. https://snr.unl.edu/data/geologysoils/STATEMAP/index.aspx
Hanson, P., Reinier, C., Joeckel, R., Bruihler, J., Young, A. (2022). Late Quaternary evolution of an iconic braided stream: Dating the alluvial fill of the Platte River, Nebraska, USA. International Association of Geomorphologists. https://doi.org/10.5194/icg2022-675, 2022
Hanson, P., Reinier, C., Joeckel, R., Turk, J. (2022). Stratigraphy and geochronology of the Todd Valley, an abandoned segment of the Platte River Valley, eastern Nebraska. Boulder, CO: Geological Society of America.
Huang, X., Miao, X., Chang, Q., Zhong, J., Mason, J., Hanson, P., Ou, X., Xu, L., Lai, Z. (2022). Tibetan dust accumulation linked to ecological and landscape response to global climate change. Geophysical Research Letters, 49. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1029/2021GL096615
Joeckel, R. M., Hanson, P., and Korus, J.: The Grain of the Plains Remains: Widespread Northwest-Southeast Ridgelines and Associated Oriented Landforms, Northern Interior Plains, USA , 10th International Conference on Geomorphology, Coimbra, Portugal, 12–16 Sep 2022, ICG2022-672, https://doi.org/10.5194/icg2022-672, 2022.Online
Lundstrom, S., Cowman, T., Hanson, P., Holbrook, J., Mahan, S., Moreno-Ward, A., Paces, J. (2022). Geologic map geodatabase of the valley corridor of the 59-mile reach of the Missouri National Recreational River, South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa: Gavins Point Dam to North Sioux City. United States Geological Survey. https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/624cb901d34e21f82765072b
Miao, X., Chongyi, E., Xu, S., Wang, Q., Hanson, P., Chen, H., Shi, Y. (2022). Age and source of coastal loess deposits in Shandong Province, Bohai Sea, China: Loess Aggradation in Response to Sea-Level Change. Aeolian Research, 54, 1-11. https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/aeolian-research/vol/54/suppl/C
Miao, X., Ee, C., Wang, Q., Hanson, P., Chen, H., Shi, Y. (2022). Age and source of coastal loess in the Shandong Peninsula, Bohai Sea, China. International Association of Geomorphologists. https://doi.org/10.5194/icg2022-279, 2022
Carson, E.C., Attig, J.W., Rawling III, J.E., Hanson, P.R. Dodge, S.E. 2020. Chronology of Advance and Recession Dynamics of the Southern Green Bay Lobe of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, South-Central Wisconsin, USA. Quarternary Research. 95:142-153. Online
Hallum, D.R., Hanson, P.R., Tucker, S.T., Diffendal, R.F. Jr., 2020, Hydrogeology and Geology of the Lower North and South Platte Rivers of Nebraska, Nebraska Geological Society Field Trip 2020, Guidebook No. 37, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Conservation and Survey Division, 36p.Online
The Role of Eolian-Fluvial Interactions and Dune Dams in Landscape Change, Late Pleistocene-Holocene, Mojave Desert, USA
ASlan, A., Karlstrom, K.E., Kirby, E., Heizler, M.T., Granger, D.E., Feathers, J.K., Hanson, P.R., Mahan, S.A. 2019. Resolving Time-Space Histories of Late Cenozoic Bedrock Incision along the Upper Colorado River, USA. Geomorphology 347 (2019), 106855. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.106855Online
Hanson, P., Howard, L. 2019. Surficial Geology of the Monroe 7.5' Quadrangle, Nebraska. Lincoln, Ne: Conservation and Survey Division, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Joeckel, M., Hanson, P. R., Howard, L. 2019. Solving a periglacial puzzle: Pleistocene polygonal ground in north-central Nebraska. Great Plains Research. (29): 153-168.Online
Johnson, B., Halfen, A., Spencer, J., Hanson, P., Young, A., Mason, J. 2019. Late MIS 3 Stabilization of dunes in the eastern Central Great Plains, USA. Aeolian Research. 36: 68-81.
Miao, X., Hanson, P., Stohr, C., Wang, H. 2019. Evidence supporting Holocene loess in Illinois with new proxy data and historical, regional perspectives on loess deposition in the upper Mississippi River valley. Quaternary Science Reviews. 216: 119-123.Online
Aslan, A., Karlstrom, K., Heizler, M., Kirby, E., Granger, D., Hanson, P., Feathers, J., Mahan, S. Controls on patterns of upper Colorado River bedrock incision. Geological Society of America.
Berry, M., Taylor, E. M., Slate, J., Paces, J., Hanson, P., Brandt, T. R. (2018). Geologic map of the Fort Morgan 7.5’ quadrangle, Morgan County, Colorado (vol. USGS Map 3408). United States Geological Survey.Online
Berry, M., Taylor, E., Slate, J., Paces, J., Hanson, P., Brandt, T. (2018). Geologic map of the Weldona 7.5’ quadrangle, Morgan County, Colorado (vol. USGS Map 3396). United States Geological Survey.Online
Hanson, P., Larsen, A., Howard, L. (2018). Surficial geology of the Axtell East 7.5’ Quadrangle, Nebraska. Conservation and Survey Division.Online
Huckleberry, G., Henderson, K., Hanson, P. (2018). Flood-damaged canals and human response, AD 1000-1400, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Journal of Field Archaeology, 43, 604-618.
Joeckel, R. M., Diffendal, Jr., R. F., Hanson, P. R., Korus, J. T. (2018). Geologic mapping in Nebraska: Old rocks, new maps, fresh insights. Great Plains Research, 28, 119-147.
Joeckel, R.M., Diffendal, R F., Jr., Hanson, P.R., Korus, J.T. 2018. Geologic mapping of Nebraska: Old rocks, new maps, fresh insights. Great Plains Research, 28, 119-147.Online
Martin, S., Funch, R., Hanson, P., Yoo, E.-H. (2018). Massive 4000-year-old termite populations continue to survive in NE Brazil’. Current Biology, 28.
Mason, J., Miao, X., Johnson, W., Hanson, P., Swinehart, J., Loope, D. (2018). Aeolian systems of the central Great Plains under glacial and interglacial climates: Progress and new questions. CANQUA/AMQUA.
Miao, X., Hanson, P., Stohr, C. J., Wang, H. (2018). Holocene loess in Illinois revealed by OSL dating: implications for stratigraphy and geoarchaeology of the Midwest United States. Quaternary Science Reviews, 200, 253-261.
Young, A., Hanson, P., Larsen, A., Howard, L. (2018). Surficial geology of the Edgar NW 7.5’ Quadrangle, Nebraska. Conservation and Survey Division.Online
Hooke, R. L., Hanson, P. 2017. Late- and Post-glacial history of the East Branch of the Penobscot River, Maine. Atlantic Geology, 285-300.Online
Mason, J., Jacobs, P., Guley, K., Reyerson, P., Hanson, P. 2016. Parent Material Influence on Soil Response to Vegetation Change, Southeastern Minnesota, USA. Catena. 275:1-17.Online
Miao, X., Wang, H., Hanson, P., Mason, J., Liu, X. 2016. A new method to constrain soil development time using both OSL and radiocarbon dating. Geoderma. 261:93-100.Online
Arbogast, A. F., Luehmann, M. D., Miller, B. A., Wernette, P. A., Adams, K. M., Waha, J. D., Oneil, G. A., Tang, Y., Boothroyd, J. J., Babcock, C. R., Hanson, P., Young, A. (2015). Late-Pleistocene paleowinds and aeolian sand mobilization in north-centralOnline
Hanson, P., Mason, J. A., Jacobs, P. M., Young, A. R. (2015). Evidence for Bioturbation of Luminescence Signals in Eolian Sand on Upland Ridgetops, Southeastern Minnesota, USA. Quaternary International, 362, 108-115.Online
Korus, J.T., Joeckel, R.M., Hanson, P.R., Goeke, J.W., Lackey, S.O., and Burbach, M.B. 2011. Reference List For Describing Cuttings And Cores Of Sediments And Sedimentary Rocks In Nebraska. Lincoln, NE: Conservation and Survey Division, UNL. pp. 7.Online
Wang, T., Istanbulluoglu, E., Wedin, D. A., Hanson, P. (2015). Impacts of devegetation on the temporal evolution of soil saturated hydraulic conductivity in a vegetated sand dune area. Environmental Earth Sciences(73), 7651-7660
Dotterweich, M., Ivester, A. H., Hanson, P., Larson, D., Dye, D. H. (2014). Natural and human induced prehistoric and historical soil erosion and landscape development in southwestern Tennessee, USA. The Anthropocene, 8, 6-24.Online
Korus, J. T., D. P. Divine, P. R. Hanson and J. S. Dillon (2013). Three geologic cross sections across portions of eastern Nebraska showing Quaternary lithologic units and stratigraphy of uppermost bedrock. Conservation and Survey Division, University of Online
Puta, R.A., Hanson, P.R., Young, A.R. 2013. Late Holocene Activation History of the Stanton Dunes, Northeastern Nebraska. Great Plains Research, v. 23, n. 1, 11-24.Online
Carson, E. C., Hanson, P., Attig, J. W., Young, A. R. (2012). Numeric control on the late-glacial chronology of the southern Laurentide Ice Sheet derived from ice-proximal lacustrine deposits. Quaternary Research, 78, 583-589.Online
Halfen, A. F., Johnson, W. C., Hanson, P., Woodburn, T. L., Young, A. R., Ludvigson, G. A. (2012). Late Holocene dune activity in the Hutchinson dunes, east-central Kansas, USA. Aeolian Research, 9-20.Online
Hanson, P. R., J. T. Korus and D. P. Divine (2012). Three-dimensional hydrostratigraphy of the Platte River valley near Ashland, Nebraska: Results from helicopter electromagnetic (HEM) mapping in the Eastern Nebraska Water Resources Assessment (ENWRA), CoOnline
Jacobs, P. M., Mason, J. A., Hanson, P. (2012). Loess mantle spatial variability and soil horizonation, southern Wisconsin, USA. Quaternary International, 265, 43-53.Online
Loope, W. L., Loope, H. M., Goble, R. J., Fisher, T. G., Lytle, D. E., Legg, R. J., Hanson, P., Wysocki, D. A., Young, A. R. (2012). Dunes across interior eastern Upper Michigan relect early Holocene forest destruction concurrent with hydrologic closure o
Joeckel, R.M., Wally, K.D., Ang Clement, B. J., Hanson, P.R., Dillon, J.S., and Wilson, S.K., 2011, Low-temperature acidic weathering of sulfidic shales and neoformation of aluminum-bearing minerals, Eastern Nebraska, USA, Catena, v. 85, p. 253-266.
Young, A.R.,Hanson, P.R. 2010, Surficial Geology and Interpretive Geologic Cross Section of the Schuyler 7.5'Quadrangle, NebraskaOnline
Divine, D. P., R. M. Joeckel, J. T. Korus, P. R. Hanson and S. Lackey (2009). Eastern Nebraska Water Resources Assessment (ENWRA): Introduction to a hydrogeological study, Conservation and Survey Division, University of Nebraska, Bulletin 1 (New Series), Online
Divine, D.P., Joeckel, R.M., Korus, J.T., Hanson, P.R., Olafsen Lackey, S., 2009, Eastern Nebraska Water Resources Assessment (ENWRA): Introduction to a Hydrogeologic Study, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Conservation and Survey Division Bulletin 1 (New Online
Hanson, P.R., Joeckel, R.M., Young, A.R., Horn, J. 2009. Late Holocene Dune Activity in the Eastern Platte River Valley, Nebraska, Geomorphology 103:555-561.Online
Powell, L.A., A.J. Tyre, S.E. Hygnstrom, D.A. Wedin, P.R. Hanson, M.S. Kuzila, and J.B. Swinehart. 2009. Wilderness serendipity: planning and assessing learning during an experiential field course.North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture JournaOnline
Mason, J.A., Miao, X., Hanson, P.R., Johnson, W.C., Jacobs, P.M., Goble, R.J., 2008. Loess record of the last Glacial-Interglacial transition on the northern and central Great Plains, Quaternary Science Reviews 27:1772-1783.
Rawling, J.E., III, Hanson, P.R., Young, A.R., Attig, J.W., 2008, Late Pleistocene dune construction in the Central Sand Plain of Wisconsin, USA, Geomorphology 100:494-505.Online
Young, A.R., Hanson, P.R., 2008, Alluvial and eolian depositional history of the Barrens Fan, Northwestern Wisconsin, North Central Geological Society of America Meeting, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs V. 40, no. 5, p. 78.
Young, A.R., Hanson, P.R., 2008, Optical dating of the St. Croix River spillways, Wisconsin and Minnesota, Geological Society of America 2008 Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, Abstracts with Programs
Hanson, P.R., Young, A.R., 2007, Surficial geologic map of the Columbus, Nebraska 7.5 Quadrangle
Miao, X., Mason, J.A., Swinehart, J.B., Loope, D.B., Hanson, P.R., Goble, R.J., Liu, X., 2007. A 10,000-year record of dune activity, dust storms, and drought in the central Great Plains. Geology 35:119-122.Online
R.M. Joeckel, K.D. Wally, S.A. Fischbein, and P.R. Hanson. 2007. Sulfate Mineral Paragenesis in Pennsylvanian Rocks and the Occurrence of Slavikite in Nebraska. Great Plains Research. 17: 17-33.Online
Hanson, P.R., Mason, J.A. and Goble, R.J., 2006. Fluvial terrace formation along Wyoming's Laramie Range as a response to increased late Pleistocene flood magnitudes. Geomorphology. 76:12-25.Online
Miao, X., Mason, J.A., Goble, R.J. and Hanson, P.R. 2005. Loess record of dry climate and aeolian activity in the early-to mid-Holocene, central Great Plains, North America. The Holocene 15:339-346.Online
Hanson, P.R., Mason, J.A. and Goble, R.J. 2004. Episodic late Quaternary slope wash deposition as recorded in colluvial aprons, southeastern Wyoming. Quaternary Science Reviews 23:1835-1846.Online
Mason, J.A., Jacobs, P.M., Hanson, P.R., Miao, X. and Goble, R.J. 2003. Sources and paleoclimatic significance of Holocene Bignell Loess, central Great Plains, U.S.A. Quaternary Research. 60:330-339.Online
Larsen, A., Hanson, P. (in press). Dune Formation South of the Niobrara River Valley, North-Central Nebraska Sand Hills.. Geological Society of America.
Lee, K.-Y., Hanson, P. (in press). Assessing the impact of historical tree expansion and climate change on small streams in north-central Nebraska. American Geophysical Union.
McDonald, E., Sweeney, M., Hanson, P. (in press). Elucidating between soil processes and luminescence ages. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Geological Society of America.
Rawling, E., Hanson, P., Larsen, A., Carson, E. (in press). LiDAR-derived DEM’s to interpret early Holocene dunes and their reactivation around 4000 yrs ago in northwest Wisconsin. Geological Society of America.

Background

Education

DegreeMajorInstitutionYear Awarded
Doctorate of PhilosophyGeosciencesUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln2005
Master of ScienceGeosciencesUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln2003
Bachelor of ArtsAnthropology with an emphasis in ArchaeologyUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee1994

 

Affiliations

 

Websites

 

SNR Program Areas

  • Applied Climate and Spatial Science
  • Environmental Science

Areas of Interest/Expertise

  • Regional Cenozoic sedimentology and stratigraphy
  • Surficial processes
  • Climate change and landscape evolution
  • Evolution of hillslope, eolian, and fluvial systems
  • Quaternary geology
  • Quaternary geochronology
  • Optical dating
  • Soil geomorphology
  • Geoarchaeology
  • Cenozoic paleoclimatology
  • Sand
  • Geographic Information Systems/GIS
  • Mapping, Cartography

Grants

Currently this page only displays grants that were awarded on 1/1/ 2009 to the present. If a grant was awarded prior to 1/1/ 2009 and is still active, it will not be displayed on this page.

Grant TitleUnderstanding the Fire History of the NE Sandhills using a Lake Sediment Core from Dewey Marsh, NE (UCARE: Jasmine Pham)
Starting Date05/28/2024

Investigator(s)

Ending Date05/01/2025
Funding Level$6,240.00
Funding AgencyInternal - 24-25 UCARE

 

Grant TitleUnderstanding the Fire History of the NE Sandhills using a Lake Sediment Core from Dewey Marsh, NE (UCARE: Joe Stalder)
Starting Date05/02/2024

Investigator(s)

Ending Date05/01/2025
Funding Level$6,240.00
Funding AgencyInternal - 24-25 UCARE

 

Grant TitleCESU GRPL Leadership, Coordination, and Adm Oversight for the Great Plains Coop Ecosystems Studies Unit (Additional Funding)
Starting Date01/01/2024

Investigator(s)

Ending Date04/30/2026
Funding Level$18,000.00
Funding AgencyNational Park Service

 

Grant TitleSTATEMAP (Additional Funding)
Starting Date11/01/2023

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/14/2025
Funding Level$203,497.00
Funding AgencyU.S. Geological Service

 

Grant TitleCESU GRPL Leadership, Coordination, and Administrative Oversight for the Great Plains Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (Additional Funding)
Starting Date10/05/2022

Investigator(s)

Ending Date08/31/2023
Funding Level$33,425.00
Funding AgencyNational Park Service

 

Grant TitleFY2022 Statemap Proposal
Starting Date09/20/2022

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/19/2023
Funding Level$107,223.00
Funding AgencyU.S. Geological Survey

 

Grant TitleSoil Survey Information Production and Management (Additional Funding)
Starting Date09/20/2022

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/30/2024
Funding Level$50,000.00
Funding AgencyUSDA-Agricultural Research Service

 

Grant TitleFY2021 Nebraska Statemap
Starting Date09/24/2021

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/23/2022
Funding Level$153,302.00
Funding AgencyU.S. Geological Service

 

Grant TitleCESU GRPL Leadership, Coordination, and Administrative Oversight for the Great Plains Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (Additional Funding)
Starting Date09/01/2021

Investigator(s)

Ending Date08/31/2022
Funding Level$29,800.00
Funding AgencyNational Park Service

 

Grant TitleSoil Survey Information Production and Management
Starting Date09/01/2021

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/30/2023
Funding Level$50,000.00
Funding AgencyUSDA - Natural Resources Conservation Service

 

Grant TitleCESU GRPL Leadership, Coordination, and Administration Oversight for the Great Plains Coop Ecosystem Studies Unit (Additional Funding)
Starting Date01/14/2021

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/30/2021
Funding Level$13,500.00
Funding AgencyNational Park Service

 

Grant TitleSoil Survey Information Production and Management
Starting Date10/08/2020

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/30/2022
Funding Level$80,000.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of Agriculture - NRCS

 

Grant TitleFY2020 Nebraska Statemap
Starting Date09/15/2020

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/14/2021
Funding Level$27,934.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of Interior - Geological Survey

 

Grant TitleScanning Aerial Imagery (Additional Funding)
Starting Date10/15/2019

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/30/2021
Funding Level$50,000.00
Funding AgencyUSDA/NRCS

 

Grant TitleNebraska State Map 2019-2020 (Additional Funding)
Starting Date09/15/2019

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/30/2020
Funding Level$92,630.00
Funding AgencyUS Geological Service

 

Grant TitleSoil Survey Info Production and Management
Starting Date09/05/2019

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/30/2021
Funding Level$80,000.00
Funding AgencyUSDA/NRCS

 

Grant TitleNebraska State Map 2018-2019 (Additional Funding)
Starting Date09/15/2018

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/14/2019
Funding Level$47,476.00
Funding AgencyDepartment of Interior

 

Grant TitleNebraska State Map 2017-2018 (Additional Funding)
Starting Date09/15/2017

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/14/2018
Funding Level$43,093.00
Funding AgencyUSGS

 

Grant TitleSoil Laboratory and Scanning (Additional Funding)
Starting Date09/01/2017

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/30/2018
Funding Level$87,000.00
Funding AgencyUSDA-NRCS

 

Grant TitleSoil Survey Information Production and Management
Starting Date02/09/2017

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/30/2017
Funding Level$55,000.00
Funding Agency

 

Grant TitleNebraska State Map 2016-2017 (Additional Funding)
Starting Date09/15/2016

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/14/2017
Funding Level$44,140.00
Funding AgencyUSGS

 

Grant TitleDigital Video Training Materials for the Soil Survey Program
Starting Date08/29/2016

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/30/2017
Funding Level$12,000.00
Funding AgencyUSDA - NRCS

 

Grant TitleSoil Survey Information Production and Management
Starting Date09/18/2015

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/30/2017
Funding Level$64,700.00
Funding AgencyU. S. Department of Agriculture - National Soil Survey Center

 

Grant TitleSoil Quality from Selected Areas of the United States
Starting Date09/18/2015

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/30/2017
Funding Level$215,000.00
Funding AgencyU. S. Department of Agriculture - Natural Resources Conservation Service

 

Grant TitleNebraska State Map 2015-2016 (Additional Funding)
Starting Date09/15/2015

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/14/2016
Funding Level$86,366.00
Funding AgencyU. S. Geological Survey

 

Grant TitleNebraska State Map 2014-2015 (Additional Funding)
Starting Date09/15/2014

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/14/2015
Funding Level$65,623.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of the Interior - Geological Survey

 

Grant TitleNebraska State Map 2013-2014 (Additional Funding)
Starting Date09/15/2013

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/14/2014
Funding Level$72,636.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of the Interior

 

Grant TitleNebraska State Map 2012-2013 (Additional Funding)
Starting Date07/01/2012

Investigator(s)

Ending Date06/30/2013
Funding Level$69,667.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of Interior - Geological Survey

 

Grant TitleNebraska State Map 2011-2012 (Additional Funding)
Starting Date07/01/2011

Investigator(s)

Ending Date06/30/2012
Funding Level$71,017.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of Agriculture

 

Grant TitleOSL Dating of Sediment Samples
Starting Date07/01/2011

Investigator(s)

Ending Date12/31/2012
Funding Level$15,522.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of the Interior

 

Grant TitleSubsurface Investigation for Eolin and Interdune Deposits Near Crecent Lake
Starting Date08/01/2010

Investigator(s)

Ending Date12/31/2011
Funding Level$65,000.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of the Interior

 

Grant TitleNebraska State Map 2010-2011 (additional funding)
Starting Date05/15/2010

Investigator(s)

Ending Date05/14/2011
Funding Level$75,854.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of the Interior - Geological Survey

 

Grant TitleEastern Nebraska HEM Aquifier Mapping
Starting Date07/15/2009

Investigator(s)

Ending Date07/01/2010
Funding Level$60,000.00
Funding AgencyLower Platte South NRD

 

Grant TitleCollaborative Research: Linking Loess landforms and Eolian Processes
Starting Date07/01/2009

Investigator(s)

Ending Date06/30/2011
Funding Level$45,730.00
Funding AgencyNational Science Foundation

 

Grant TitleEastern Nebraska Water Resources Assessment Study, Ashland, Firth, and Oakland Bulletins
Starting Date07/01/2009

Investigator(s)

Ending Date07/01/2011
Funding Level$84,500.00
Funding AgencyLower Platte North NRD

 

Grant TitleREU Site: Collaborative Research: Dune Undergraduate Geomorphology and Geochronology (DUGG) Project in Wisconsin
Starting Date06/01/2009

Investigator(s)

Ending Date05/31/2012
Funding Level$44,228.00
Funding AgencyUniversity of Wisconsin-Platteville

 

Grant TitleNebraska State Map 2009-2010
Starting Date05/01/2009

Investigator(s)

Ending Date04/30/2010
Funding Level$82,156.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of the Interior - Geological Survey

 

Grant TitleEastern Nebraska Water Resources Assessment
Starting Date08/01/2008

Investigator(s)

Ending Date07/01/2010
Funding Level$17,080.00
Funding AgencyLower Platte North NRD

 

Advising

Graduate Programs

Master of Applied Science

Master of Science in Natural Resource Sciences
including specializations in

    Doctorate of Philosophy in Natural Resource Sciences
    including specializations in

      Courses Taught

      Course NumberCourse TitleFall Even YearsFall Odd YearsSpring Even YearsSpring Odd YearsSummer SessionCross Listing
      NRES 115Introduction to Environmental ScienceXX
      NRES 491Geography Field TourXGEOG 491/891