Suzanne O'Brien

 Suzanne O'Brien

Suzanne O'Brien

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Biography

Bridgewater State University - Science


Resume

  • 2011

    Stonehill College

    Easton

    MA

    Environmental Geology

    Visiting Lecturer

    Stonehill College

  • 2008

    Town of Holliston Energy Committee

    Complexity of Holocene Climate as Reconstructed from a Greenland Ice Core

    Complexity of Holocene Climate as Reconstructed from a Greenland Ice Core

    Salem State College

    Boston College

    Salem

    MA

    Physical Geology with Lab\nEnvironmental Geology

    Visiting Lecturer

    Salem State College

    Newton

    MA

    Summer Session \nOur Mobile Earth

    Visiting Lecturer

    Department of Earth and Environmental Science

    Boston College

  • 1995

    Suzanne

    O'Brien

    Paragon Environmental Services

    Inc.

    Bridgewater State University

    Norwood

    MA

    Managed and conducted ASTM-standard and client-specific Environmental Site Assessments for bank and insurance clients at residential

    commercial

    and industrial sites throughout the United States. Collected soil and groundwater samples for laboratory analyses. Analyzed data to evaluate compliance with applicable state regulations.

    Project Manager

    Paragon Environmental Services

    Inc.

    Bridgewater

    MA

    The Earth's Climate\nThe Earth's Climate WEB\nI designed and teach this course both live and on line. This course provides an overview of the Earth’s climate system. We discuss the major physical and chemical components of the climate system including climate forcing

    climate responses

    and internal feedback mechanisms. Topics include the use of paleoclimate proxies to reconstruct and interpret the history of the Earth’s past climate. With use of such proxies

    we examine natural climate variability at various time scales in an effort to best understand anthropogenic influences on a naturally changing climate. \n\nPhysical Geology\nPhysical Geology LAB\nI designed and teach this course which includes both a lecture and lab component. This course introduces the materials that make up the Earth

    and the processes that modify and continually shape it. Lecture topics include plate tectonics

    volcanoes

    mountain building and earthquakes. We additionally examine rock and mineral formation

    rock deformation

    geologic time

    relative and radiometric dating

    and groundwater. Laboratories reinforce lecture material and develop skills in rock and mineral identification

    map interpretation

    and relative dating.

    Visiting Lecturer

    Department of Geological Sciences

    Bridgewater State University

  • 1992

    Master of Science - MS

    Thesis:\nHolocene Climate Change: Implications from a Greenland Ice Core

    Geochemical Systems

    Research Assistant

    Glacier Research Group

    Glaciochemical Research

    Summit Greenland

    University of New Hampshire

  • 1987

    Bachelor of Science - BS

    Honors Thesis:\nDistribution of Diatom Assemblages in a High Arctic Meromictic Lake: Implications for Paleo-Environmental Reconstruction

    Geology

    Research Assistant

    Baffin Island

    Northern Ellesmere Island Arctic Canada;\nTeaching Assistant

    Physical Geology labs

    Bates College

  • Oxygen Isotopes and the Paleoclimate Record

    A brief explanation of oxygen isotopes

    and how the oxygen isotope signal can be used to study past climates.

    Oxygen Isotopes and the Paleoclimate Record

    Save Bristol Harbor

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