![]() I can also look to expand the project to include correlation with other available Coastal Plain core rock as well as similarly age-dated field locations in the Piedmont. I am provided with an on-going honors project with about 1,000 feet of core yet to describe. It also provides the Survey with a ready pool of candidates for volunteer and internship positions. The USGS is provided with detailed petrographic and modal analyses of core samples that they themselves do not have time to complete. The students learn new skills in rock hand sample preparation and enhance their practice in optical techniques of mineral identification. This is a "win-win" situation for everyone involved. The project exposes early undergraduate students to one of the basic fundamentals of geologic research, which is whole rock petrographic analysis. ![]() The rock core was drilled by the USGS while conducting their discovery and scientific investigation of a buried impact structure near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. The project involves teaching the students how to make rock thin-sections and then complete detailed petrographic descriptions and modal analyses of crystalline basement rock cored from the Virginia Coastal Plain. ![]() Through this partnership I have been able to establish a small research project involving Honors Mineralogy students. The Survey has hired a good number of NOVA geoscience students as interns and part-time employees. NOVA has a well-established relationship with the US Geological Survey headquartered in nearby Reston, VA. The NOVA geosciences department regularly offers a comparable and transferable course in Mineralogy that includes a strong optical component. Reuse: This item is offered under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license You may reuse this item for non-commercial purposes as long as you provide attribution and offer any derivative works under a similar license. Provenance: Created by the author of the page containing this file. We offer an array of specialty classes, such as Snowball Earth and the National History and Environment of the Chesapeake Bay, as well as a large assortment of one credit field trip courses and longer, weekend, one- and two-week field courses in various locations in the US and Canada. We teach a variety of geoscience courses including introductory Physical and Historical Geology, Oceanography, Mineralogy, and, Environmental Geology. We currently have three full-time geoscience faculty and five adjunct professors. I am located on our Annandale, VA campus which is NOVA's largest campus. We have eight full-time faculty spread across our four largest campuses. The geoscience program at NOVA is large and robust. We also offer distance learning programs through our Extended Learning Institute and continuing education courses through Workforce Development. NOVA offers more than 160 degrees at the associate's level and certificate programs. ![]() Located near Washington, D.C., the College includes six campuses along with four educational centers. NOVA is also one of the most internationally diverse colleges in the United States, with a student body consisting of individuals from more than 180 countries. Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) is the largest educational institution in Virginia and the second-largest community college in the United States, comprising of more than 75,000 students and 2,600 faculty and staff members. Information for this profile was provided by Shelley Jaye, Geology.
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