After 68 years in Thompson Hall, we are gradually moving towards a new chapter and a new home for the geology department at Kansas State University.
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Category: Fall 2024
Welcome Dr. Cui
The Department of Geology is pleased to introduce a new member: Dr. Huan Cui. Dr. Huan Cui is an Assistant Professor of Sedimentology in the Department of Geology at Kansas State University. He joined K-State in the summer of 2024. He conducts multidisciplinary research that integrates sedimentology, stratigraphy, geochemistry, and paleontology to investigate global and planetary changes in deep time. At K-State, he will be teaching GEOL630 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, GEOL540 Geologic Record of Climate Change, GEOL581 Principles of Paleontology, GEOL102 Earth Through Time, and GEOL730 Petroleum Geology.
Huan pursued his doctorate at the University of Maryland using field and lab work to study the environmental context of early animal evolution. After obtaining his Ph.D. degree in 2015, he moved to Wisconsin (2016-2018), Brussels (2018-2020), and Paris (2020-2022) for postdoctoral research. Prior to K-State, he held an Assistant Professor position at Mississippi State University (2022-2024).Huan was born and raised from a working-class household at Renqiu (Hebei Province, China) – a small oil city well known for its petroliferous Mesoproterozoic carbonate reservoir. As a first-generation college student, he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees – both in Geology – from Southwest Petroleum University (Chengdu) and Peking University (Beijing), respectively. He lived in China until 2011.
Our Students Sharing their Field Camp Experiences
This past summer, five of our students (Sami Villasana, Celine Mazzella, Zane Barrow, Ethan Senne and Matt Arana) attended our International Field Camp in France. They are sharing their experience with us:
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Some News from Dr. Golberg
As you may know, Dr. Karin Goldberg has moved to Colorado for news adventures. Here are some news from her:
“My move to Colorado has been bittersweet. On the sweet side, Fort Collins is a vibrant college town with charming, diverse restaurants and beautiful neighborhoods with neatly manicured lawns punctuated by parks. There are trails everywhere and the Front Range is right there! Every weekend we explore a new hiking trail, with such explicit geology that I feel like making Geonugget videos all the time! The views are magnificent and awe-inspiring, and I keep taking pictures of rocks, structures and features for my classes. Only to remember that teaching classes is probably something I will not be doing in the near future, which brings me to the bitter side of the move… I miss our students, sharing my excitement about the things I see with them and with my colleagues, and I miss our K-State community. I still have the pleasure of teaching Earth Through Time online, and I have also taken up three geology courses on a local community college, but this is likely to be temporary, as I have started my consulting business and have also applied for other full-time jobs. I am excited for what the future will bring and look back at my time with the Department of Geology at K-State with gratitude for the opportunities and enriching experiences, but most importantly with a heart full of love and longing for the good people I left there.”
