Patricia E. Videtich, Ph.D.
Geology

The Seymour K. & Esther R. Padnos Hall of Science # 134
One Campus Drive
Allendale, Michigan 49401-9403
Office Telephone: (616)-331-3887
Office Fax: (616)-331-3740
Electronic Mail: VideticP@GVSU.edu

WWW site: http://faculty.gvsu.edu/videticp/

• EDUCATION
       B.S., Grand Valley State University
       M.Sc., Ph.D., Brown University
  
• CURRENT POSITION
       Associate Professor of Geology, Grand Valley State
       University, 1992 - present.
  
• SELECTED EXPERIENCE
       Council on Undergraduate Research Geology Councilor,
       1993 - present.
  
       NSF Marine Science Short Course, San Diego, CA, 
       June 20- July 10, 1993.
  
       Assistant Professor of Geology, University of North
       Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, 1988-1992.
  
       Consultant for Dubai Petroleum Co. (subsidiary of
       Conoco Inc.), 1988-1990.
  
       Research Geologist, Exploration Research Division,
       Conoco Inc., Ponca City, OK, 1981-1988.
  
• CLASSES TAUGHT
       Physical Geology, Environmental Geology, Living with
       the Great Lakes, Sedimentation-Stratigraphy,
       Oceanography, Geochemistry.
  
• RESEARCH INTERESTS
       Carbonate diagenesis, carbonate petrology, low
       temperature geochemistry, evaporite depositional
       environments and diagenesis, marine geology,
       petroleum geology.
  
• PAST RESEARCH LOCATIONS
       Cretaceous and Permian of Dubai U.A.E.; Jurassic of
       England; Ordovician of North Dakota; Jurassic of the
       U.S. Gulf Coast; Pleistocene of Barbados and Eniwetok;
       Recent of Belize.
  
• PRESENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
  
       Depositional environments and diagenesis of dolomite
       and gypsum (Mississippian Michigan Formation) exposed
       in gypsum mines in the Grand Rapids area.
  
       Water quality on the Meadows Golf Course, Grand Valley
       State University.
  
• *SPONSORED STUDENT RESEARCH PROJECTS (1993 - PRESENT)
       Eric Chatterson - Origin of Dolomite in the
          Mississippian Michigan Formation, Michigan
  
       Dean South - Stratigraphy of the Mississippian Michigan
          Formation, Michigan
  
       Tom Long - Geochemistry of Dolomite in the
          Mississippian Michigan Formation, Michigan
  
       Cathy Baisden - Quality of Surface Water at the Meadows
          Golf Course, Ottawa County, Michigan
  
  *Students interested in doing a research project should see
  me or any of the other geology faculty.  (Funding for
  student research projects is available on a competitive basis.)