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Ross
Powell
Senior Personnel
Northern Illinois University
 Ross Powell has been teaching in the Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences at Northern Illinois University for 27 years. He is a sedimentologist with primary interests in glacial, fluvial, deltaic and glacimarine processes, and interpreting the glacimarine record in terms of paleoclimatic and environmental change. He has over 34 years of experience in high latitude regions including: Alaska (Ph.D. and current research), Antarctica (MS and current research), Svalbard (four collaborative seasons in the fjords), Chile (one fjord season), and the Canadian Arctic (one marine research cruise off shore Baffin Island). Recent research has focused on Alaskan and Antarctic glacimarine processes and paleoclimatic history involving remotely-operated underwater vehicles (ROV), seismic reflection surveys and gravity, piston and rotary drill-core studies. He is currently a co-organizer of the ANDRILL (Antarctic geological Drilling) Program. He participates on international committees whose missions are to document climate change in Antarctica, and to explore lakes below ice sheets. Powell’s students are routinely involved in research projects; 34 graduate students (10 women) and 6 undergraduate (3 women) students have completed research theses. Two students won best poster awards at regional or national meetings, while four won the best departmental thesis awards, one going on to win the best MS thesis award in the university. From 2005 to 2007 Ross was a guest lecturer for a course on the Glacimarine Environments offered in the Fall at UNIS in Longyearbyen.
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