Benjamin Laabs, Ph.D

Assistant Professor, Geology Department

Gustavus Adolphus College

Email: blaabs@gustavus.edu

C.V. (pdf format)
 

                Ice extent of the Last

Glacial Maximum in the Uinta Mountains, Utah (from Laabs,

Munroe, and Refsnider,

unpublished data).

 

Measuring boulder geometry on a late-Pleistocene

age end moraine in the Burnt Fork drainage, Uinta

Mountains.

 

 

 

CURRENT/STUDENT RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS TEACHING GEO-PHOTOS LINKS UINTA MOUNTAIN RESEARCH

 

Research Interests:

 

My primary interests are alpine glacial geology/geomorphology, late Pleistocene climate change and Quaternary geochronology.  Some of my current projects also involve GIS applications in geomorphology and numerical modeling of valley glaciers and lobes of the southern Laurentide ice sheet.  Most of my current research is in the southern Uinta Mountains of northeastern Utah.

Course web pages:

Geology 105: Unnatural Disasters (Spring 2007)

Geology 111: Principles of Geology (Spring 2007)

 

Geology 210: Geology and Biology of the Southwest (January 2006, THIS COURSE WILL BE OFFERED AGAIN IN JANUARY 2008)

Geology 237: Global Climate Change (Last offered in Fall 2006)

Geology 246: Geomorphology (Last offered in Fall 2006)

Geology 350: Hydrogeology (Last offered in Spring 2006)

Recent News:  

Gustavus students: click here to access the climate change information sheet. 

 

The Uinta Mountain Research Group completed another exciting and successful field season in summer 2006.  Jeff Munroe (Middlebury), Ben Laabs (Gustavus), Eric Carson (San Jacinto College), Kurt Refsnider (now at INSTAAR) and Dave Mickelson (UW-Madison) continued field mapping, cosmogenic dating of moraines, and lake-sediment coring to learn more about the glacial and paleoclimate history of northern Utah.  The group expanded in size yet again this summer; Ellie Bash, Todd Kohorst (Gustavus) and Lee Corbett (Middlebury) began senior theses to study the glacial record. In fall 2006, Ellie presented the results of her research on the glacial record in the American Fork Canyon, Utah, at the AGU meeting in San Francisco.  More. . .

 

 

Last updated by Ben Laabs 02/10/2007