Charles A. Ver
Straeten (Ph.D.,1996, University of Rochester)
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 student supervised by Dr. Ver
Straeten at the University at Albany
Geological Sciences MSc
listing
Selected Publications: see his NYS
Museum pages
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