Robert Buchwaldt
Adjunct Instructor
Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, 2006
My participation in teaching has definitely been one of the
interesting and rewarding experiences during my time as both an undergraduate
in Germany and Ireland, as a graduate student in the US as most recently
as a lecturer at Washington University.
My belief is that teaching, like research, is an ongoing learning
process in itself. As such, my philosophy toward education at the college
level is (and hopefully always will be) a work in progress. Nonetheless,
I think that there are a few simple principles that guide my teaching.
I believe that my role as an educator is to help students learn. A simply
stated idea, but one that requires a strong commitment. Just providing
reams of information through reading and lectures is simply not enough.
In order to gain a basic and fundamental understanding of scientific concepts
and their uses requires a balance between presentation and reinforcement
of ideas and relevant application of this knowledge.
My general research interests focuses on understanding the origin
and evolution of the continental and oceanic crust through the application
of geochemical, petrological and structural techniques. The chemistry,
mineralogy and deformation history of rocks contains information on a
substantial part of the Earth's history and evolution.
In the last couple of years I have been involved in four different
projects:
- The dynamic aspects of lithosphere asthenosphere interaction
using the Cameroon volcanic line and northern Madagascar as example
- Neoproterozoic crust formation and terrane suturing in the
East African orogen: Geological, geochemical, and geochronological investigation
in northern Madagascar and Uganda
- Timing of Neoproterozoic glaciation, implication for the "snowball
earth" hypothesis
- Emplacement timing of the Galway granite: A window in the
thermo-tectonic processes along the Caledonian subduction
Read
about Dr. Buchwaldt's work on volcano safety in Ecuador.
Buchwaldt R., Toulkeridis T., Todt W.,
and Ucakuwun E. K. (2008): Crustal age domains in the Kiberan Belt
of SW-Uganda: Combined zircon geochronology and Sm-Nd isotopic investigation.
Journal of African Earth Sciences, 51, 4-20.
Toulkeridis T., Buchwaldt R., Addison A. (2007): When
volcanoes threaten, scientists warn: The case of Tungurahua. Geotimes, 52, 11, 36-39.
Buchwaldt, R. and Smith, R.: Symmetry of faces and sexual
attractiveness: The mathematical background, a mineralogical approach.
Psychology Today, March 2006, 62-65.
Ring, U., Buchwaldt, R. & Gessner, K. (2004): Pb/Pb
dating of garnet from the Anatolide belt in western Turkey: Pan-African
metamorphism related to the collision of Angara with Gondwana. Zeitschrift
Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft, 154, (Festschrift
Prof. Kleinschmidt), 537-555.
Buchwaldt R., Tucker, R. D., Dymek, R. F. (2004): Geothermobarometry
and U-Pb Geochronology of metapelitic granulites and pelitic migmatites
from the Lokoho region, northern Madagascar. American Mineralogist
88, 1751-1764.
Ring, U., Kröner, A., Buchwaldt, R., Toulkeridis,
T., Layer, P. (2002): Shear-zone patterns and eclogite-facies metamorphism
in the Mozambique belt of northern Malawi, eastern-central Africa: implications
for the assembly of Gondwana. Precambrian Research 116,
19-56.
Oliver, G. J. H., Chen, F., Buchwaldt, R., Hegner,
E. (2000): Fast tectonometamorphism and exhumation in the type area of
the Barrovian and Buchan zones. Geology 28,
459-462.
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