Havin' fun at Yellowstone National Park. Geysers make me laugh.

That's me, climbing out the eighty-foot entrance pitch of Bighorn Cavern, Montana...  Gotta get to class!

Pondering eolian processes on the Oregon coast during a field trip.

About Me:

A recent faculty profile was published about me and my work in the Perspective, a publication distributed to alumni and friends of Eastern Washington University. When I'm not out in the field you can probably find me in my office in the Science Building (room 120), generally being excited about all things geological.  I'm mostly interested in applied physical hydrogeology, clastic sedimentology and alluvial stratigraphy, and speleology.  I'm also a registered geologist and hydrogeologist in Washington state, and engage in a wide variety of consulting projects outside the university.

What's Here:

Course-Related Stuff

• General information on my summer 2009 field class to the volcanoes of the southern Oregon Cascades.
• My GEOL 100 course syllabus used in my Discovering Geology class for non-majors.
• My GEOL 121 course syllabus used in my Surficial Processes class.
• My GEOL 360 course syllabus used in my Geologic Hazards class.
• My GEOL 411 course syllabus used in my Stratigraphy class.
• My GEOL 455 course syllabus used in my Colorado Plateau Geology field course to Moab, UT
  
• My GEOL 470 course syllabus used in my Hydrogeology class.
• The GEOL 532 course syllabus used in the Sedimentary Processes class.
• My GEOL 554 course syllabus used in my Fluvial Geomorphology class.
• My GEOL 585 course syllabus used in my Contaminant Fate and Transport class.
• Join me on a virtual geology field trip!
• The GEOL 100 Virtual Classroom. Provides a general peek at the course material covered in this class. Note:  if you are a student enrolled in a section of GEOL 100 that I teach, you will access your coursework through this web gateway.

Research Stuff

• Web pages devoted to my long-term groundwater monitoring project in the Castle Valley sole source aquifer (Utah.)
• An abstract related to my work on fossilized crayfish burrows in the Chinle Formation of southern Utah.
• Recent abstracts related to my hydrogeologic research.
• A link to the Spokane Aquifer Atlas that includes a lot of my research.
• A description of my work in large cave systems (with some pictures).
• Several graphics related to my groundwater modeling research.
• A brief description of recent seismic reflection profiling work and its application to aquifer mapping.
• Listen to past interviews on KEWU about some of my recent caving expeditions to Central America and on the Spokane aquifer (you'll need the free RealPlayer plugin for your browser).

Miscellaneous Stuff

• My new blog is up and running and it now exceeds 1,000 posts!  Check out The Bu Element when you have a chance.
  
• Too cool for school!  I have been retained by Zegrahm Expeditions, an adventure travel company, as a geologist/naturalist guide.  Here are my expeditions to the Aleutian archipelago, Kamchatka, and the Kuril archipelago for July and August, 2010.
  
• My photogeologic guidebook project provisionally entitled "Geology at a Glance:  Arches National Park" is proceeding well and I anticipate publication during summer 2009.
  
• Here is a link to the Lance Hill Observatory, my home-built astronomical observatory. You won't believe the cool images I've made of the Moon, the brighter planets, and distant deep space objects.
• Interested in bats?  My late wife, Donna Hensley, was a bat biologist.  Listen and learn the fascinating truth about bats! (you'll need the free RealPlayer plugin for your browser).
• Here is a short article on the Spokane aquifer written for The Inlander, a local newspaper.

You can send e-mail to me at: jbuchanan"at"ewu.edu
Page last updated:  09/21/2009.
All pages:  copyright ©, J.P. Buchanan, 1995-2009

GO TO:

Here is the official home page for the Department of Geology.