Quick links Earth Sciences home Courses I teach Ideas for Student Research About Les My CV Publications etc Flood Research GPR Research Erosion Research Tree Throw Research Butternut Valley Alliance	Welcome to Les Hasbargen's Corner of the world… Landscapes of central New York. For a land-and-water loving geomorphologist, it’s all here!
Background Info Les Hasbargen, Assistant Professor Dept. of Earth Sciences SUNY College at Oneonta Oneonta, NY 13820 Office Phone: (607) 436-2741 Email: hasbarle@oneonta.edu Office: 219 Science I Office Hrs (Fall ‘09): MWF 11-12 noon Education Ph. D., Geology, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2003 B. S., Geological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1993
Courses I teach at SUNY Oneonta Planet Earth, Geol 120 (every semester); syllabus Environmental Geology, Geol 201 (every Spring semester); syllabus Neahwa Park Remediation Project: student-created web site! Geological Data and Analysis, Geol 275 (intro to mapping methods; every Fall semester); syllabus Geomorphology, Geol 370 (Earth’s surface, and how it got that way; every Fall semester); syllabus Glaciology and Glacial Geology, Geol 374 (Glaciers and glacial landforms; every odd Spring); syllabus Fluvial Geomorphology, Geol 375 (River landforms and processes; every even Spring) Geoscience Research Techniques, Geol 390 every other year or as needed; syllabus
Research Stuff If you’re a student at SUNY Oneonta looking for independent study/research topics, here’s a list of ideas to explore. My main interests: Soil transport, hillslope stability, sediment transport in rivers, channel stability, flood hydraulics, drainage basin evolution and dynamics, glacial geomorphology, tectonics and landscape response; what makes a good teacher; and every now and then I’ll look at a fossil and go “huh!?…” Here’s a brief intro to Flood effects in the Susquehanna River headwaters, 2006. I am initiating work in this area, so expect more as time goes by. Ground penetrating radar (GPR) study for Archaeological purposes, Pine Lake Environmental Camp (New! July 2008) Tree throw mound evolution in Delaware's forested soil-mantled Piedmont Doctoral dissertation research with steady state erosion in an experimental basin (this is an old site, but has a lot of animations of eroding landscapes) Here are links to my Publications and presentations And here’s my cv
About Les I am hopelessly and happily an academic. By training I am a geomorphologist/geologist. My passion is Earth’s land surface, but the subterranean world always beckons... Like the Earth itself, I mantle myself with soils, sculpt them with wind, glaciers, rain and rivers, but on the inside, I'm all rocks caught in the turmoil of tectonics and metamorphism, melting and hardening, quiescence and change. It's all good, with no apparent end in sight of things to ponder, discover, pursue.
A few of my favorite things Hike with my honey (at right)! Try to capture light's interplay with landscape Think and reflect Spend time with friends Share good food with friends Watch a movie Lounge in a landscape Bicycle...bicycle...bicycle Read Write poetry from time to time to crystallize an idea
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