Doug Barber Travels to National Geological Conference To Present Results of Fieldwork

MEADVILLE, PA (09/22/2011)(readMedia)-- Doug Barber, of Franklin, Pa., is among seven Allegheny College students selected to present their research at the Geological Society of America Conference in October in Minneapolis. Approximately 6,000 scientists are expected to attend the annual conference.

Barber and two other students are presenting research that they conducted in southwest Montana with Professor of Geology Robert Schwartz. The title of their presentation is "Braided Channel System in the Paleogene Beaverhead Intermontane Basin: A Longitudinal Segment in the Paleomissouri Headwater System of Southwest Montana."

Financial support for the students' travel to the conference in Minneapolis is being provided by the Allegheny College Class of '39 Research Fund and the Carol Darnell Freund, Class of 1954 Fund.