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Ramapo College Of New Jersey
505 Ramapo Valley Rd
Mahwah NJ, 07430


Phone: 201-684-7209
Website:
http://phobos.ramapo.edu/~erainfor
e-mail: erainfor@ramapo.edu 

 

Office: G-418
Office Hrs :
T 2:00-5:00

Emma C. Rainforth
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE / GEOLOGY
B.A., M.A., University of Oxford, U.K.,
M.S., University of Colorado at Boulder
M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University

Courses Offered:

  • Introduction To Geology (GEOL 101)
  • Fundamentals of Geology  - lecture & lab (GEOL 105)
  • Paleontology, Paleoecology and Paleoenvironments - lecture & lab (GEOL 326)
  • Geology of New Jersey (GEOL 327)
  • Environmental Geology - lecture & lab (GEOL 333)
  • First Year Seminar: Global Climate Change (INTD 101-01)

Research Interests:

  • Taxonomy (classification) and nomenclature of fossil footprints from the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic (~220-190 million years ago)
  • Paleoclimate, biostratigraphy and biogeography of the Newark Supergroup (eastern North America, ~220-190 million years ago)
 

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