Nicole West, PI, Assistant Professor
I work toward understanding the relationships between chemical and physical erosion and how these relationships are expressed as patterns and processes on the earth's surface and within the critical zone. I test the influence of climate, tectonics, and land use on earth surface processes, using geochemical, geophysical, geospatial, and isotopic datasets.
When I am not in the lab I am playing music, making cider, and/or putting in hours toward my PPL.
I work toward understanding the relationships between chemical and physical erosion and how these relationships are expressed as patterns and processes on the earth's surface and within the critical zone. I test the influence of climate, tectonics, and land use on earth surface processes, using geochemical, geophysical, geospatial, and isotopic datasets.
When I am not in the lab I am playing music, making cider, and/or putting in hours toward my PPL.
Graduate Students
Miles Reed, PhD Student
MS, BS West Virginia University
I am interested in the response of chemical erosion to a temporary increase in physical erosion in tectonically active landscapes. The Klamath River (northern California) and the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica will serve as “natural labs” for my research. I plan to use cosmogenic radionuclides, numerical modeling, DEM analysis, and field work during my time at Central Michigan. Another goal is to provide validation data for a numeric model which links physical and chemical erosion in an eroding hilltop regolith of known mineralogy.
I am from Sissonville, West Virginia. I enjoy hiking, identifying and photographing wild mushrooms, playing soccer, and practicing archery (non-hunting).
Twitter: @wvgeomorph
MS, BS West Virginia University
I am interested in the response of chemical erosion to a temporary increase in physical erosion in tectonically active landscapes. The Klamath River (northern California) and the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica will serve as “natural labs” for my research. I plan to use cosmogenic radionuclides, numerical modeling, DEM analysis, and field work during my time at Central Michigan. Another goal is to provide validation data for a numeric model which links physical and chemical erosion in an eroding hilltop regolith of known mineralogy.
I am from Sissonville, West Virginia. I enjoy hiking, identifying and photographing wild mushrooms, playing soccer, and practicing archery (non-hunting).
Twitter: @wvgeomorph
Alumni
Kailey Gray
Graduated, BS, 2019