There are abundant opportunities for graduate research in structural geology and tectonics at the School of Earth Sciences at Ohio State University. The last two years have seen some exciting changes, with the transfer of geodetic science faculty to the School and the hiring of new faculty member Lindsay Schoenbohm. We now have a very active group of faculty, researchers and graduate students undertaking studies in active tectonics and neotectonic structure and geomorphology, with field areas ranging from the polar regions of Antarctica to Greenland, the Himalaya in China and the Andes in South America. New courses have been launched, including last year’s seminar and field class to examine the San Andreas plate boundary deformation in southern California.

     I am always looking for enthusiastic and adventurous students to join my research group. Student funding is potentially available as either a Graduate Research Associate, funded by grant funds from organizations such as National Science Foundation or NASA, via fellowships offered by Ohio State, or as a graduate teaching associate through the School of Earth Sciences. Most of my students have support as both a research associate and a teaching associate during their graduate student tenure, as it is advantageous to gain experience in both teaching and research.

     The School of Earth Sciences currently has about 80 graduate students, who have come here from all over the U.S. and many different countries in the world. We have a large range of excellent new facilities at our disposal, housed in our two buildings on the main campus as well as at the Byrd Polar Research Center. Columbus, Ohio, is an interesting place to live and the Ohio State University has a lively and active campus.
Our school is strongly linked with the Byrd Polar Research Center, an exciting, interdisciplinary research center involving faculty and students from a number of different departments at Ohio State [http://bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/]. For anyone with interests in the polar regions, or in good scientific research in general, it is a great place to be. I have several cooperative research programs with faculty associated with Byrd Polar center and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, and at University of Buffalo, mainly focused on remote sensing of Antarctica and Greenland. We are always seeking good students with interests combining such aspects as geology, geophysics, remote sensing and geodesy.

     I currently have several active research projects focused on Antarctica - to find out more follow one of the above sidebar links, or click here, where I outline what these projects are all about. In addition to the Antarctic research, I also have students working in Utah, and have had several previous students working in the Ohio-Pennsylvania region and in New Mexico. So, you would not have to become an aficionado of polar regions if you were to come here!

     I encourage you to come to Ohio State for your graduate studies. Please contact me by phone (614-292-0723) or by email (wilson.43@osu.edu) if you would like further information on our program.

Cheers, Terry Wilson