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Fishing for mercury contamination answers
Hammerschmidt and his researchers have been working on the project for the past three years, funded by three grants from the National Science Foundation totaling about $400,000. Inside three freezers...
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Filling the Pipeline: State-of-the-art software used to train future geologists
(Left to right) Earth and environmental sciences professor Robert Ritzi, student Reza Soltanian, research associate Naum Gershenzon Schlumberger Limited, the world’s largest oilfield services company...
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Wright State, Ohio State, other institutions receive $3.5 million grant to...
The Ohio State University, Wright State University and nine other Ohio colleges and universities will share a $3.5 million National Science Foundation grant over the next five years to help increase...
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Soil toil: Wright State grad student Behzad Ghanbarian rising star in...
Environmental sciences Ph.D. student Behzad Ghanbarian is a prolific scholar, publishing many papers on soil-related research. On Salsa Night at Dayton’s Therapy Café, chances are you will find Behzad...
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Wright State researcher finds emerald ash borer may have spread to different...
Wright State biology professor Don Cipollini suspects that the emerald ash borer, which is destroying ash trees in a large part of the country, has spread to a different tree. The emerald ash borer,...
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Polar express
Graduate student Alison Agather will test for mercury levels in the Arctic Ocean as part of an international expedition. Chad Hammerschmidt, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences, is...
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Attack on white fringetree by emerald ash borer likely to be widespread, says...
Emerald ash borer is an invasive green beetle laying waste to ash trees in the United States and Canada. Biology professor Don Cipollini, director of Wright State University’s Environmental Sciences...
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Wright State grad Behzad Ghanbarian wins prestigious geophysics award for...
Behzad Ghanbarian ’14 will receive the Donald L. Turcotte award by the nonlinear geophysics focus group of the American Geophysical Union for his dissertation on the physical and hydraulic properties...
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Reservoir riddle
From left: David Dominic, chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and graduate student researchers Ritu Ghose and Jami Moore are part of a Wright State team investigating the...
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Justin Myers named Wright State Student Employee of the Year
Justin Myers, a junior majoring in earth and environmental sciences, has been named Wright State University’s 2016 Student Employee of the Year. The honor was announced as part of National Student...
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Douglas W. Leaman named dean of the College of Science and Mathematics
Douglas W. Leaman Douglas W. Leaman, chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Toledo, has been named dean of Wright State’s College of Science and Mathematics, effective Oct....
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Wright State University researchers find that olive trees could be vulnerable...
Emerald ash borer, which is destroying ash trees in a large swath of the United States, can also successfully complete development on olive trees, according to laboratory tests by researchers at Wright...
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Polar passage
Sleeping was a challenge. The sun never set for weeks at a time. And the crash of the ship’s metal hull into massive fields of ice coupled with the comings and goings of the research crew at all hours...
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Natural cause
It has played host to ecology labs, anthropology digs and studies on garlic mustard, orchids and honeysuckle. Art students capture it on canvas, ROTC students use it to train, and others use it to...
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By the numbers
Fan Yang, who is pursuing her Ph.D. in computer science, and Michele Miller, who is working on her Ph.D. in environmental science, won the Datathon at Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Causal...
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Seaworthy
Alison Agather, who earned her Ph.D. in environmental sciences from Wright State in December, helps to identify emerging issues in the Arctic as part of a fellowship with the National Oceanic and...
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Wright State environmental student meets with nation’s top environmental...
Leon Katona, an environmental sciences Ph.D. candidate, discussed his research on Lake Erie with Andrew Wheeler, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator, aboard the Lake Guardian, the EPA’s...
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Down to earth
David Peterman, who is pursuing his Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences at Wright State, has discovered fossils from California to the Carolinas. It was in middle-of-nowhere Montana in the summer of 2018....
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Wright State biologist Don Cipollini says research results on emerald ash...
Don Cipollini, professor of biological sciences and director of the Environmental Sciences Ph.D. Program, says COVID-19 is acting like many invasive species, including emerald ash borer. A new study on...
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Shark sleuth
Ryan Shell, an earth and environmental sciences Ph.D. student, studies the biodiversity, biogeography and paleoecology of marine vertebrates during the early Permian Period specializing in sharks. A...
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