Skip to main content
Eberly College of Arts & Sciences Department of Geology and Geography
Visit WVU Request Info Apply Now
Man with wire rimmed glasses and short, light hair smile while posing for a potrait

Joe Lebold

Teaching Associate Professor of Geology; Associate Chair

Contact

joe.lebold@mail.wvu.edu

Categorized As

Role: Leadership,
Focus or Research Area: Geography,

“I want folks to see the stories of our Earth, written in rock, I want them to see the geological patterns that shape our landscapes, and I want them to understand how we must strike a sustainable balance.”

Paleoecology, Paleontology, Regional Geology — I teach a range of courses from introductory, 340 student large-lecture classes to advanced field courses with for our majors, like our geology field camp in South Dakota and Wyoming.

Education

  • BS in Geology, West Virginia University, 1994
  • MS in Geology/Paleontology, The Ohio State University, 1998
  • Ph.D. in Geology, West Virginia University, 2005

Teaching

I think I have one of the best jobs in the on campus!  As a member of the teaching faculty at WVU, I get to share my passion and excitement of geology with my students.  I teach a range of courses from introductory, 340 student large-lecture classes to advanced field courses with for our majors, like our geology field camp in South Dakota and Wyoming.  But whatever the course, and I have taught 12 different courses at WVU, my goal is the same, I want people to see the world differently.  I want folks to see the stories of our Earth, written in rock, I want them to see the geological patterns that shape our landscapes, and I want them to understand how we must strike a sustainable balance between geological processes and our society moving forward.

Current Courses Taught

  • SUST 101: Sustainable Earth – An introduction to Earth Systems and Processes with emphasis on the overlap between society and the environment

  • SUST 201: Earth System Science

  • GEOL 300: Geology of West Virginia

  • GEOL 302: Geology of the National Parks

  • GEOL 404: Geology Field Camp

Recent Publications

Lebold and Wilkinson, 2018. Roadside Geology of West Virginia. Mountain Press Publishing, Missoula, MT, 297 pgs.

Andrew Roark, Ryan Flake, Ethan L. Grossman, Thomas Olszewski, Joseph Lebold, Debbie Thomas, Franco Marcantonio, Brent Miller, Anne Raymond, and Thomas Yancey, 2017, Brachiopod geochemical records from across the Carboniferous seas of North America: Evidence for salinity gradients, stratification, and circulation patterns. Palaeooceanography Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology, v. 485, p. 136-153.

Roark, Andrew P., Grossman, Ethan L., Lebold, Joseph G., 2015, Low seasonality in central equatorial Pangea based on high-resolution isotopic records of brachiopod shells. Geological Society of America Bulletin, Vol. 14.

Roark, Andrew P., Grossman, Ethan L., Lebold, Joseph G., 2014, Seasonality and circulation dynamics along the Appalachian margin of the Late Pennsylvanian epicontinental sea of North America: brachiopod geochemical records and their implications to models of shelf anoxia. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 46, No. 6, p. 520

Lebold, J.G., Smosna, R.A., and K. R. Bruner, 2013, Manual for Planet Earth Laboratory, 5th ed. Kendall Hunt, Dubuque, IA, 68 p.

Back to Directory