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Professor
- Office: Walsh 115
- E-mail: hovan@iup.edu
- Office Phone: 724-357-5625
Education:
- B.S., University of Michigan – Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- Ph.D., University of Michigan – Oceanography: Marine Geology/Geochemistry
Courses Taught:
GEOS 103/104 – Oceans and Atmospheres
GEOS 370 – Oceanography
GEOS 371 – Meteorology
GEOS 441 – Carbonate Geology Field Workshop
Professional Interests:
Scientific Ocean Drilling, Evolution of ancient wind systems, atmospheric dust, Earth Science Education, and, of course, SpongeBob Square Pants
Current Projects:
Long-term projects include several studies to identify and track the latitudinal position of the inter-tropical convergence zone.
Selected Publications:
Ford, H., Ravelo, A., and Hovan, S., (in review). A Deep Eastern Equatorial Pacific Thermocline during the Early Pliocene Warm Period, EPSL.
Woodard, S., Thomas , D., Hovan, S., Röhl, U., Westerhold, T., 2011. Evidence for Orbital Forcing of Dust Accumulation During the Early Paleogene Greenhouse, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 12, Q02007
Stancin, A.M., Gleason, J. D., Hovan, S.A., Rea, D. K., Owen, R.M., Moore, T.C., Jr., Hall, C.M., Blum, J.D., 2008. Miocene to Recent Eolian Dust Record from the Southwest Pacific Ocean at 40° S Latitude. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 261, pp.218-233
Ziegler, C.L., Murray, R.W., Hovan, S.A., and Rea, D.K., (2007). Resolving Eolian, Volcanogenic, and Authigenic Components in Pelagic Sediment from the Pacific Ocean, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 254, pp. 416-432
Hovan, S. A., 1995. Late Neogene Atmospheric Circulation Intensity and Climatic History Recorded by Eolian Deposition in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific, Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 138: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 615-625.
Hovan, S. A., Rea, D. K., Pisias, N. G. and Shackleton, N. J., 1989. A Direct Link between the China Loess and Marine d18O Records: Aeolian Flux to the North Pacific, Nature, 340, 296-298.
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