Quick links Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Courses I teach Ideas for Student Research Dynamic Landforms Virtual Geology Video tutorials for Digital Geologic Mapping Video tutorials for Excel and Global Mapper Catskill Headwaters Research Institute Butternut Valley Alliance About Les My CV Publications etc Older work Erosion Research Flood Research GPR Research Tree Throw Research	Welcome to Les Hasbargen's corner of the web… Landscapes of central New York. For a land-and-water loving geomorphologist, it’s all here!
Background Info Les Hasbargen, Associate Professor Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences SUNY College at Oneonta Oneonta, NY 13820 Office Phone: (607) 436-2741 Email: Leslie.Hasbargen@oneonta.edu Office: 219 Science Building Office Hrs (Fall 2015): 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 Intro to Earth Science, ESCI 100, general ed non-lab science course; syllabus Intro Geology, Geol 120 (Spring 2013 syllabus) Environmental Geology, Geol 201 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); syllabus Fluvial Geomorphology, Geol 375 (River landforms and processes); syllabus Environmental Geophysics, Geol 380; syllabus Geoscience Research Techniques, Geol 390; syllabus Field Geology of Plate Boundaries, Geol 343 Mojave-Mecca Geology Field Trip, Geol 394 (special topic), Spring 2010; syllabus Death Valley Geology Field Trip, Geol 343 Field Geology of Plate Boundaries, Spring 2014 Google Earth view of stops Syllabus Anza Borrego Geology Field Trip, Geol 394 (special topic), Spring 2012 Course Web Page Course Planning Mojave Rainbow Geology Field Trip, Geol 343, Spring 2013 Syllabus Google Earth view of stops Pictorial overview
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: Rivers: erosion and depositional processes, alluvial stratigraphy, channel stability, flood hydraulics, drainage basin evolution and dynamics, glacial geomorphology, tectonics and landscape response; shallow subsurface geophysics; what makes a good teacher; and every now and then I’ll look at a fossil and go “huh!?…” Here are links to my Publications and presentations about my research activities Here’s a brief intro to Flood effects in the Susquehanna River headwaters, 2006. I haven’t done much with this topic of late, but on every float trip, I still see the evidence of this event... Ground penetrating radar (GPR) study for Archaeological purposes, Pine Lake Environmental Camp (July 2008 to June 2011) 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 experimental eroding landscapes) 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 Float 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 Write poetry from time to time to crystallize an idea
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