Dr. Edward Simpson

Chairperson, Department of Physical Sciences
Professor of Geology
Office: Boehm Science Center, room 425
Phone number: (610)-683-4445
email:

Science is an integral part of culture.
It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood.
It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.
-- Stephen Jay Gould

Research Interests

• Archean tidalites in South Africa
• Petrology of interflow sediments in the Catoctin Formation of Central Virginia
• Relationships of Trace Fossils (Skolithos) to sequence boundaries
• Coastal eolian processes
• Depositional environments of the Chickies Formation
• Depositional setting of the Unicoi Formation in Central Virginia
• Migration of ebb-tidal delta shoal, Wallops Island Virginia
• Depostional environments of the Hardyston Formation
  

Education

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Ph.D., Geology, 1983-1987, Clastic Sedimentoloy, Stratigraphy and Tectonics, Dissertation Title: Sedimentogy and tectonic implications of the Chilhowee Group central and southern Virginia.
  
• University of Nebraska, M.S. Geology, 1981-1983, M.S. Thesis: Geometry and structure of interdune deposits at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico.
• Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, B.S., Secondary Education Earth Space Science, 1977-1980.  

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