Contact Information
E-mail:
Office:
Carnegie Building 418
(440) 775-8342
Personal Web Site:
http://www.oberlin.edu/faculty/aschmidt/
Photo Credit: Christina Appleby
Educational Background
- PhD University of Washington, 2010
- BSE Princeton University, 2002
I am broadly interested in tectonic geomorphology (the relationship between long-term rates of uplift, erosion, and climate) as well as more modern and anthropogenic topics. Specifically, I have projects that look at how the landscape shapes decisions people make about land use and how people alter the environments that they live in.
At the moment I teach three classes a year: Earth Surface Processes (GEOL212), a required class for geology majors that looks at how the surface of Earth is being shaped by natural and anthropogenic processes; Applied Geographic Information Systems (GIS; GEOL235), a class about collecting, analyzing, and displaying spatial data to answer questions; and, Soils and Society (GEOL152), a non-majors class about soil, hillslope processes, and how people alter those systems. I will also be working with Lucy Gelb to offer a winter term GIS course this year.
Please check out my website for more information on classes and research.
