Presentation : Thursday, February 14, 2008
Subject: Two centuries of environmental change recorded in the sediment deposits behind the former Munroe Falls Dam
Munroe Falls Dam - before
Photograph supplied by John A. Peck
Munroe Falls Dam - after
Photograph supplied by John A. Peck
John A. Peck Associate Professor
Specialties: Sedimentary Geology, Lake Studies, Environmental Magnetics
Ph.D. 1995, Graduate School of Oceanography - University of Rhode Island
M.S. 1989, Graduate School of Oceanography - University of Rhode Island
B.S. 1986, University of Rhode Island
Dr. John Peck (Ph.D) 1995, University of Rhode Island) has been teaching in the Department of Geology and Environmental Science, The University of Akron since 2000.
Dr. Peck studies sedimentary deposits to address questions about natural and anthropogenic change. He has been the principle investigator on eight U.S. National Science Foundations grants to a study paleoclimate records from lake deposits in Russia, Mongolia, and Ghana..
In Ohio, Dr. Peck and University of Akron students have studied lake and river sediment deposits in order to reconstruct past variations in climate, land use change and pollution.
The results of the research by Dr. Peck and his students was published in a special issue of the J. Great Lakes Res., International Association of Great Lakes Res. (Special Issue 2) pp. 127-153. A copy of the research as well as the abstracts of the two sediment researches. (one conducted before the dam was removed, and the second after its removal) can be accessed by request at Munroe Falls Historical Society Library / Archives.
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