Dr. Meagen Pollock
Visiting Assistant Professor of Geology
(Mineralogy/Petrology)

Department of Geology
Kaufman Building, Office 135
Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA 17013
USA

Phone: 717.245.1813
E-Mail:

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CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

  • Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, 2006-present
    Visiting Assistant Professor of Geology
    • Courses

      GEOL 102 Planet Earth

      GEOL 103 Geology of National Parks

      GEOL 131 Earth Systems Science

      GEOL 205 Mineralogy

      GEOL 206 Petrology


WORK EXPERIENCE

  • Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Duke University , Durham, NC, 2002-2006

    Instructor, Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant

    Courses

    EOS 11: The Dynamic Earth (Instructor and TA)

    EOS 106: Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology (Lab Instructor)

    EOS 119: Experiencing Geoscience (Co-Instructor)

    EOS 126: Field Methods in Earth and Environmental Science (TA)

    EOS 173: Dinosaurs, Fossil Fish, and Yellowstone (Field course, TA)

    EOS 180: Volcanology: Geology of Hawaii (Field course, TA)

    EOS 187: Geology of South Florida (Field TA)

  • Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Woodlands, TX, 2004

    • Intern, Louisiana On-Shore Development

    Integrated 3-D seismic and wire-line log data using GoCAD

FIELD EXPERIENCE

    Pito Deep 2005 Cruise - R/V Atlantis

    Blanco Transform 2004 Cruise - R/V Ewing

    Iceland , Field Mapping, 2003; 2007

    Incipient Rift 2002 Cruise - R/V Melville

LAB EXPERIENCE

    Atomic Emission and Mass Spectroscopy (DCP-AES and ICP-MS)

    Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM-EDS)

    Electron Microprobe


RESEARCH GRANTS

  • Scholarly Project Grant - Dickinson College; $575; 2007-2008; ICP-MS analyses of Icelandic lavas.
  • Dana Research Assistant - Dickinson College; $1539.20; 2007-2008; Support for an undergraduate research assistant to analyze Icelandic lavas.
  • Conference Travel - Duke University and Dickinson College; $2000 ; 2003-2007; Support to attend national conferences.
  • Student Travel Grant - American Geophysical Union; $300; 2003; Support to attend a national conference.
  • NASA Grant - through Marshall University; $3000;?1999; Petrology of the Great Dyke of Zimbabwe.


AWARDS AND AFFILIATIONS

  • Member, American Geophysical Union
  • Member, Geological Society of America
  • Preparing Future Faculty Fellow (2005-2006)


INVITED SEMINARS

  • 2007, School of Mathematics and Sciences, Community College of Baltimore County, MD

    • How Marine Geologists Do Marine Geology

  • 2006, Department of Geology, Dickinson College , Carlisle , PA

    • Constructing Oceanic Crust: New Views through Tectonic Windows

  • 2005, Department of Geology, Guilford College , Greensboro , NC

    Mid-Ocean Ridge and Ocean Crust: Exploring Ocean Basins