Department of Physics & Earth Science

Welcome!

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Welcome to the Department of Physics and Earth Science home page! The department is located in Floyd Hall on the campus of the University of North Alabama. The department offers an undergraduate degree in physics, and courses are offered that lead to a minor in geology. The department offers a General Science option which is generally designed for students who have a second major in secondary education. The department maintains the university planetarium and observatory, which is available to the public for viewing (please follow the link for more information regarding dates and time of availability). A course in astronomy is also taught in the planetarium.

 

Department of Physics and Earch ScienceThe faculty members in the Department of Physics and Earth Science have the knowledge and experience to offer an outstanding education in these sciences. Active areas of research by departmental faculty members include the use of lasers as optical tweezers, quantum mechanics, water quality and resources, and the relationship between plate tectonics and biological evolution. Our faculty members have worked or conducted research in many areas of the world, including Russia, England and the Caribbean.

For further information about the department, please visit is in 207 Floyd Hall or call us at 256.765.4334.

 

What's Happening

News

April 1, 2013

Dr. March Puckett gave a talk “Ostracodes and plate tectonics: a case from the latest Cretaceous of the Caribbean region” at the North American Micropaleontological Section meeting in Houston on March 11, 2013. Co-authors were Jean-Paul Colin of France and Simon Mitchell of Jamaica.

 

March 26, 2013. Physics student Taylor Garber won first place in the Physics talk competition at the Alabama Academy of Sciences 2013 annual meeting at Samford College.  Physics student Christian Bayens won first place in the physics poster competition.   


Nov 15th, 2012. Physics student Mary McDaniel won first place in the astronomy poster competition at the PhysCon2012 conference in Orlando Florida.  This was a national competition with students from across the country competing. 


Oct 3, 2012. Dr. Mark Puckett has published the paper "New Species and Genera of Ostracoda from the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of Jamaica" with coauthors Puckett, T., Colin, Jena-Paul and Mitchell, Simon in the journal Micropaleontology.  It describes 25 new species and 3 new genera from Jamaica. 


Aug 28, 2012. Dr. Mark Puckett has published the paper "Paleogeographic Significance of Muscle Scars in Global Populations of Late Cretaceous Ostracodes" in the journal "Micropaleontology".

Announcements

The Society of Physics students will meet at 2PM in the Planetarium Each Thursday.  All are welcome!