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Faculty
Mentor: Al Werner
 Project
Director
Mount Holyoke College
Dr. Al Werner has been teaching at Mount Holyoke College for 14
years. He is a Quaternary geologist with primary interests in Holocene
climate and environmental change. He teaches courses in the Department
of Earth and Environment and in the Environmental Studies program
including: Environmental Geology, Surface Processes, Ground Water
Geology and Climate change geology. For the last two years (2001/02)
he has taught the .Quaternary of Alaska. portion of UNIS.s Quaternary
of the Arctic graduate seminar. He has over 20 years of experience
in high latitude regions including Alaska (masters and current research),
Svalbard (dissertation research) and the
Canadian Arctic (co-leader of an undergraduate field research program
.see below). He conducted three field seasons on Svalbard (1984,
.85, .86) and visited Svalbard again during the summer of 2002 to
visit potential field sites and to work out various project logistics.
He has extensive experience with glacial geomorphology/mapping and
lake coring to extract records of Holocene glacier activity and
environmental change. Recent research has focussed on evidence of
late Holocene climate change in the Ahklun Mountains (SW Alaska;
Levy et al., 2002) and using lake records to reconstruct volcanic
ashfall history on the Kenai Peninsula and in the Anchorage metropolitan
area (Hancock et al., 2002a; 2002b). He routinely involves students
in his summer research projects and since arriving at MHC has supervised
over 55 student independent study projects and one masters thesis.
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