Roger Nielsen
Education
Brief Bio
After completing my PhD at Southern Methodist University I took a position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland. In 1988 I moved to following 30 years, including Professor and Department Chair. In 2018 I retired and moved to the South Dakota School of Mines and Industry where I have been involved in research as described above as well as developing policies in the area of Faculty Development.
Research Expertise
- Experimental Petrology
- trace element partitioning
- Petrography
- Mineralogy
- Electron Probe Microanalysis
- Geochemistry
- Specialist in university promotion and tenure policies.
Teaching
Courses (all taught at Oregon State 1999-2018)
- GEO 101 - The Solid Earth
- GEO 310 - Earth Materials I-Mineralogy
- GEO 315 - Earth Materials II-Petrology
- GEO 415 Earth Materials III-Igneous Petrography
- GEO 412/512 - Igneous Petrology
- GEO/OC 508 - Workshop on Microanalysis
- GEO 518 - Geosciences Communication
- eGEO 518 - Geosciences Communication (ecampus version)
- GEO/OC 528 - Microprobe Analysis
- OC 668 - Theoretical Petrology
- GEO/OC 688 - Trace Element Petrology Plus many other topical graduate seminars and reading and conference