Charles A.
Ver Straeten (Ph.D.,1996, University
of
Rochester)
(518)-486-2004 email
Adjunct Professor*
[*Please note that this is not a current
appointment at the University at Albany, since the closure of
the Geological Sciences Program]
Senior
Scientist,
New
York
State Museum
Center for Stratigraphy and Paleontology
New York State Museum
Albany, NY 12230
Research Projects:
Basin-wide
synthesis of Pragian-Eifelian (upper Lower and lower Middle
Devonian)
strata, Appalachian Basin (NY, NJ, PA, MD, VA, WV, OH).
Development
of Devonian terrestrial systems, Catskill Mountains, New York State.
Comparative
study of geologic and paleontologic events, Lower and Middle
Devonian,
New
York-Appalachian Basin and Central European successions.
Integrated
geochemical (elemental/isotopic/coulometric), sedimentological, and
paleoecological analysis of ancient marine shales, Western New York;
study
examines sedimentary processes (e.g., sequence stratigraphic
trends),
the
relationship of paleoenvironmental change and community-level faunal
turnover,
and carbon burial during late stages of a greenhouse episode.
Conodont biostratigraphy of poorly documented
intervals, Lower and Middle Devonian Appalachian Basin, New York.
Devonian
K-bentonites and Geochronology, eastern North America.
Description
and documentation of a tropical Middle Devonian brachiopod-dominated
fauna ("Variatrypa arctica fauna").
Graduate students supervised by Dr. Ver
Straeten at the University at Albany
Selected Publications: see his NYS
Museum pages
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