• Email Address: husch@rider.edu
• Phone: 609-896-5330
• Fax: 609-895-5782
• Office: SCI 323D
• Mailing Address: 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648-3099

Dr. Husch's Personal Web Site

Dr. Jonathan M. Husch received his doctorate from Princeton University in 1982 and currently holds the rank of Professor. He was appointed GEMS Chair in January 2007. Jon's Ph.D. dissertation was a comprehensive study of the petrogenesis and evolution of Palaeozoic anorthosites and related rocks associated with subvolcanic ring complexes, Air Massif, Republic of Niger. In addition to his teaching responsibilities at Rider, Jon has been an instructor at the Princeton-Penn-YBRA Geology Field Camp in Red Lodge, Montana. Jon also was a Visiting Research Scientist at Rutgers University where he continued with his ongoing research project on the geochemistry, mineralogy, and petrogenesis of Early Jurassic diabase in the Newark Basin of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In addition, Jon has studied the petrogenesis of Late Archean amphibolites from southwest Montana, and the ICP analysis of trace metals in marine, lacustrine, and other environmental samples, particularly those associated with the Centennial Lake Watershed Restoration Project. Jon also is the Rider University NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative and is extremely involved in a wide variety of athletic issues, activities, and projects on campus. He also represented Rider University as a member of the 2001 People to People Delegation to Cuba on Women in Sports. Finally, Jon has been honored for his teaching excellence by being selected for inclusion in the 2002 and 2007 editions of "Who's Who Among America's Teachers" and for his service to Rider University by being awarded the 2005 Frank N. Elliot Award for Distinguished Service.

For more detailed information about Dr. Husch's research interests, publications, presentations, course syllabi, curriculum vitae, and other professional activities, click here.

Primary Teaching Responsibilities:

• Earth Materials and Processes Lab
• Environmental Geology
• Introduction to Environmental Sciences 
• Elements of Mineralogy
• Petrology and Petrography
• Nature's Business: Costa Rica; Iceland; Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands

Selected Publication Titles and Sources:

• Changes in the impervious surface area, flood frequency, and water chemistry within the Delaware River Basin during the past 50 years: Initial results. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Hydroscience and Engineering (ICHE-2006).
  
  
• Alternate strategies for teaching large section oceanography and environmental geology courses: Just do it! Geological Society of America Abstracts.
  
  
• Centennial Lake watershed restoration, protection, and environmental education, Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
  
  
• Geochemistry and petrogenesis of Early Jurassic diabase from the central Newark basin of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Geological Society of America Special Paper.
  
  
• The Palisades sill: Origin of the olivine zone by separate magmatic injection rather than gravity settling. Geology.
  
  
• Significance of major- and trace-element variation trends in Mesozoic diabase, west-central New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. United States Geological Survey Bulletin.
  
  
• Geology and major element geochemistry of anorthositic rocks associated with Paleozoic hypabyssal ring complexes, Air Massif, Niger, West Africa. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research.