Professor, Stratigraphy & Paleontology
Year Started at JMU: 1974
fichtels@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Research Description
- Interpreting the depositional processes in the Juniata Formation and relating them to the cyclicity described in this formation by Diecchio.
- Reconstructing Ordovician regional paleogeography in western Virginia and eastern West Virginia.
- Discovering the effects of a sudden drop in sea level on the distribution of depo-systems in the Foreknobs Formation in the Catskill clastic wedge of Virginia and West Virginia.
Courses
- ISCI 102: Environment Earth
- GEOL 167: History and Philosophy of the Geosciences
- GEOL 200: Evolutionary Systems
- GEOL 230: Evolution of the Earth
- GEOL 387: Stratigraphy, Structure, and Tectonics
- GEOL 388: Advanced Stratigraphy, Structure, and Tectonics
- GEOL 405: Vertebrate Paleontology
Education
- PhD in Vertebrate Paleontology, 1972, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- MS in Vertebrate Paleontology, 1972, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- BS in Biology/Geology, 1965, Juniata College, Huntingdon, PN
Select Publications
- Synthesis and Summary of William Perry’s Scheme of Intellectual and Ethical Development
- Fichter, L.S., and Diecchio, R.J., 2015, A rift-to-drift subsidence accommodation time series (SATS) model, Topical poster session, GSA Baltimore Annual Meeting.
- Fichter, Lynn S. and Whitmeyer, Steve, 2014, Integrating Structure, Stratigraphy And Tectonics In Undergraduate BA and BS Curricula: GSA oral presentation, Southeast Section, Blacksburg, Virginia.
- Fichter, L. S., Pyle, E. J., & Whitmeyer, S.J. (2010), Strategies and rubrics for teaching chaos and complex systems theories as elaborating, self-organizing, and fractionating evolutionary systems. Journal of Geoscience Education, 58(2), 65-85.