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