Roger Nielsen Email and Phone Number

Currently hold dual appointments as an Emeritus Professor at Oregon State and as a Research Scientist at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Professor of Geology. Teach a number of classes that range from the introductory to upper division graduate. Fields include introductory, Geology of Oregon, Petrology, Geochemistry and Trace element partitioning. Research in trace element partitioning, Geochemistry of volcanic systems.Administrative service in distance education, promotion and tenure and space use in academic instititions.

Dirrector of the Electron Microprobe Laboratory

From 2003 -2008, I served as Chair of the Department of Geosciences at Oregon State University. The duties of a Department Chair in a unit such as Geosciences include a wide range of functions. Nominally, the position is a half time job (0.5 FTE), but includes many roles that extend the level of commitment. In essence, the chair supervises the departmental fiscal and academic operations: including oversight and is responsibility for the budget, long-range development of new facilities and for the supervision of staff. The chair also facilitates all research operations in the department, as well as the large number of interdisciplinary programs our unit is involved in. In addition the chair coordinates meetings of the Board of Advisors, program reviews, assists faculty in the preparation of major project proposals and represents the department at all internal and external functions requiring or benefiting from Departmental participation.