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4/20/09

St. Lawrence Geology Professor Awarded Research Grant

CANTON - St. Lawrence University Assistant Professor of Geology Antun Husinec has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Petroleum Research Fund Undergraduate New Investigator program that will allow him to work with undergraduate students on a research project over the next two years.

Undergraduate New Investigator grants are designed to assist early-career faculty members to initiate research programs.

Husinec plans to have two students assist him in the work during each of the next two summers. The research proposal is entitled "High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy of Ordovician Red River Formation,Williston Basin, North Dakota." With support of the grant, Husinec and the students plan to study how climate change during the early Ordovician relates to well-documented later Ordovician sea-level changes.

"The results of this study should advance discovery and understanding of cyclic carbonate depositional systems and could be used to build reservoir models for the oil industry," Husinec says.

A graduate of the University of Zagreb, Croatia, Husinec joined the St. Lawrence faculty in 2007 and has done post-doctoral work at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). He teaches courses in Sedimentology, Carbonate Sedimentology, Oceanography and Dynamic Earth.

The ACS Petroleum Research Fund is an endowment fund of the American Chemical Society. Supporting fundamental energy research, advanced scientific education and the careers of scientists for over 50 years, the fund has provided over $500 million to the research community for work aimed at increasing the world's energy options.

The ACS is a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress. With more than 154,000 members, ACS is the world's largest scientific society and a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.

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