B.S. Yale University
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Srogi teaches Introduction to Geology and upper-level courses in Mineralogy: investigating mineral systems (ESS 302) and Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology (ESS 405). At the graduate level, she teaches a related course, Investigating Earth Materials (ESS 502), and workshops designed to stimulate new ways of teaching about minerals and rocks: beyond "rock-in-a-box"! Dr. Srogi also team-teaches (with biology faculty) SCI 101, The Carbon Cycle, a General Education science course for students majoring in elementary education. Beginning in spring 2004, she will offer a new General Education course on Volcanoes (ESS 125). Dr. Srogi has conducted research into the geologic and tectonic history of the region for more than twenty years, and she incorporates this research into her classes. For example, in spring 2003, the Petrology students analyzed rock chemical compositions to aid in mapping meta-sedimentary units, in partnership with Dr. Gale Blackmer of the Pennsylvania Geologic Survey. She continues to study Paleozoic igneous and metamorphic rocks in Pennsylvania and Delaware, and their connections with similar units throughout the Appalachians. In addition, she is starting research on the Mesozoic igneous rocks (the Jurassic diabases) in the Morgantown-Douglassville areas. Her non-rock interests include music (mostly classical and jazz), reading, cooking, films, hiking, birding, and gardening with native plants to provide habitat for birds and insects.