Geology Department, 276 Bicentennial Way
Middlebury College
Middlebury, Vermont 05753 USA
Phone: 1-802-443-2557 -- FAX: 1-802-443-2072
e-mail: pryan@middlebury.edu
Background
As a member of the Geology Department and the Environmental Studies Program I teach courses in both geology and ES and I advise senior research projects in both areas. The focus of my teaching and research here at Middlebury is environmental geology, geochemistry, hydrology and soils/chemical weathering; areas of research emphasis include the mineralogy and geochemistry of tropical soils and the origins, fate and transport of trace metals in bedrock aquifers.
Images from left to right:
A. Early Holocene fluvial sediments, Esterillos, Costa Rica
B. Groundwater monitoring well, north-central Vermont
C. Ordovician K-bentonite, Lake Champlain