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Office: SL 228
Phone: 317-274-7732
Email: jsembach AT iupui.edu
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Background
M.S., Geology, IUPUI, 2006
Graduate Certificate, Geographic Information Systems, IUPUI, 2006
B.S., Geology, Geography minor, IUPUI, 2003

Specialties
Geoscience Education, Oceanography, Paleoclimatology
 

Jennifer’s research interests include paleoclimatology (study of past climate), paleolimnology (study of history of lakes) and oceanography. Jennifer’s thesis work focused on determining environmental changes over the past 10,000 years using lake core sediments from south-central Michigan to determine how climate has changed in the past both on a local and global scale.

Summer II 2008
G107 Environmental Geology (online section)

Spring 2008
G115 Oceanography
G115 Oceanography (online section)

Jennifer is currently collaborating on the SMOGEE program with faculty from the Earth Science Department, the School of Education and Indianapolis Public Schools faculty.

In the summer of 2007, Jennifer worked with the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Community Learning Network to create an online version of the department’s existing G115 Oceanography course. The course became available to students beginning in the Fall 2007 semester.

Thomas, Christopher W, Nelson, Jennifer A., 2006, Designing an Online Science Lab Around Self-Paced Field Trips, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 38, No. 7, p. 80

Nelson, J.A., and Licht, K.J., 2006, Deposition of Carbonate and Organic Matter in Holocene Lacustrine Sediment, Lower Michigan, USA. 10^th International Paleolimnology Symposium, Duluth, Michigan.

Yansa, C., Rawling III, J.E., Nelson, J.A. Licht, K.J. and Young, A., 2006, Climate Changes in Southern Lower Michigan Over the Last 2000 Years: Differentiating Between “Lake Effect” and Regional Climate Patterns. American Quaternary Association (AMQUA) 2006 Biennial Meeting, Bozeman, Montana.

Sembach, J.A., and Licht, K.J., 2005, Preliminary geochemical analyses of Late Holocene lacustrine sediment from south-central Michigan. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 37, no. 5.

Sembach, J.A., and Licht, K.J., Controls on particle size distributions in three central Indiana Reservoirs, 2004 NCUR Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Sembach, J.A., Licht, K.J. and Yansa, C.H., 2004, Evidence for climate change since the last glacial maximum: A Multi-proxy study of Duck Lake, South-Central Michigan. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36, No. 5, p. 499.

Licht, K.J., Sembach, J.A., Jordan, B. and Lowell, T., 2004, Preliminary analysis of paleoenvironmental records from two NE Indiana wetlands since the LGM. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36, No. 5, p. 531.

Licht, K.J., Swope, R.J. and Sembach, J.A., 2002, Glacial Debris and Rock Identification: A Collaborative Research Project: The PGI Geology Standard, Vol. 10, No. 3, p. 4-5.