Dr. Achim Herrmann

Honors Faculty Fellow

Location: Irish A Hall, Room 229
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Achim Herrmann earned a Ph.D. in Geosciences from the Pennsylvania State University. Before joining Barrett, The Honors College in 2005, Dr. Herrmann taught classes on environmental sciences, historical geology, climate change, and paleontology at the George Washington University. He is currently teaching science-focused 'Human Event' seminars in the Honors College. His research interests are in the fields of earth systems science and environmental geochemistry. Dr. Herrmann has published several peer-reviewed articles and is continuing his research in the W.M. Keck Foundation Laboratory for Environmental Biogeochemistry (http://kfleb.asu.edu/) at the Arizona State University. He has recently submitted a proposal to the National Science Foundation for funding ("Collaborative Research: Modeling and mapping the Ordovician ocean-climate system and evolution of global taxonomic differentiation").

Dr. Herrmann presented results from his current research at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in October 2006. To read his abstract follow this link: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2006AM/finalprogram/abstract_113876.htm.

Publications:
Herrmann, A.D. and Patzkowsky, M.E. (in review) Early Late Ordovician (Caradoc) paleobiogeography and global ocean dynamics. Submitted to 'Journal of Geology'

Walter, S., Herrmann, A.D., and Bengtson, P (2005) Lithostratigraphy and facies analysis of the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary in the Japaratuba area, Sergipe Basin, Brazil. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 19, 3, 273-283.

Herrmann, A.D., Haupt, B.J., Patzkowsky, M.E., Seidov, D. and Slingerland, R.L. (2004) Response of Late Ordovician paleoceanography to changes in sea level, continental drift, and atmospheric pCO2: potential causes for long-term cooling and glaciation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 210, 385-401.

Herrmann, A.D., Patzkowsky, M.E.; Pollard, D. (2004) The impact of paleogeography, pCO2, poleward ocean heat transport and sea level change on global cooling during the Late Ordovician. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 206, 59-74.

Herrmann, A.D., Patzkowsky, M.E., and D. Pollard (2003) Obliquity forcing with 8–12 times preindustrial levels of atmospheric pCO2 during the Late Ordovician glaciation. Geology, 485–488.

Herrmann, A.D., Patzkowsky, M.E., and S.M. Holland (2003) BIOMODULE: A Java program to help model and interpret the stratigraphic record: Computers and Geosciences, 29, 99-105.