The GEOS 4350 class gathered for a group photo after visiting Carter Caves State Park during the 2025 field trip, continuing a tradition of taking a class picture at this same spot each year. From October 1–5, 2025, Dr. Stephen Kaczmarek, with Teaching Assistant Saeed Norouzi, led the GEOS 4350 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy class on a multi-day field trip in Kentucky. The trip focused on examining Paleozoic carbonate and siliciclastic successions within the Appalachian Basin

CPCL alum, Dr. Mohammed Hashim has accepted a tenure track position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Oceanography at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He will be starting in January 2026. His lab will focus on studying seawater carbonate chemistry and carbonate sediments and will explore the roles of calcium carbonate minerals in the oceanic carbon cycle, quantify the impact of sub-seafloor processes on oc

CPCL members Moira Burns, Nathaniel Ledbetter Ferrill, and Ashley Scott all presented research at this year’s national Geological Society of America (GSA) Conference in San Antonio, Texas. Moira Burns is presented “Characterizing Potential Cambrian-Ordovician Confining Units for CCUS in the Michigan Basin” in the Joint SGD-SEPM-IAS Sedimentary Geology and Energy Transitions session (3:30-5:30 on Wednesday, October 22 nd ), while Nathaniel Ledbetter Ferrill presented “Petrolog

The semester is off at a gallop, with members attending GSA in TX, leading field trips, publishing papers, and winning awards! Hint: Keep a look out, these details and more will be hitting your inbox in the near future! Saeed, Max, Moira, Nathaniel, Maryam, Mallory, Ashley, Ariel, and Steve pose for photos on the beautiful WMU campus.

Ariel Martin has been awarded a competitive Graduate Dissertation Completion Fellowship  from the Graduate College at Western Michigan...

CPCL member Nathaniel Ledbetter Ferrill and Steve Kaczmarek have recently been working on a collaborative project with the University of...

This SE-SEM micrograph shows an example of the ubiquitous low-magnesium calcite microcrystals that characterize many ancient limestones....

This SE-SEM micrograph shows us what crystalline anhydrite can look like. This example comes to us from a core sample from the...

Happy Thanksgiving from the CPCL! We finally got around to snapping the new team photo. This one was taken on a beautiful October day in...