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- Rich Whittecar
- Associate Professor
- Ocean, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
- 417 OceanographyandPhysics Bldg
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Norfolk,
VA
23529
- 757-683-5197
- rwhittec@odu.edu
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Education
- University Of Wisconsin,
1979
- Major: Departments of Geology-Geophysics and Geography(jointly granted degree)
- Degree: Ph. D.
- University of Wisconsin,
1976
- Major: Department of Geology Geophysics
- Degree: M.S.
- University of North Carolina ,
1974
- Major: Department of Geology
- Degree: B.S.
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Expertise
- Chesapeake Bay
- geomorphology, hydrogeology (wetlands, streams, soils, landscape formation, Quaternary climate change, environmental geology)
- Geology
- geomorphology, hydrogeology (wetlands, streams, soils, landscape formation, Quaternary climate change, environmental geology)
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Articles
- Whittecar, R. G., Newell, W. L., and Eaton, L. S. Landscape Evolution. In: The Geology of Virginia. Virginia Museum of Natural History.
- Whittecar, R. G., Frisch, M., Thornton, T., Smith, J. C., and McLeod, J. Use of Effective Monthly Recharge Estimates to Design a Mitigation Wetland, Virginia Beach, Virginia. For: Water Resources
Research.
- Scott, T. W., Swift, D. J., Whittecar, R. G., and Brook, G. A. (2010). Glacioisostatic Influences on Virginia’s Late Pleistocene Coastal Plain Deposits. Geomorphology, 16, (pp. 175-188).
- Daniels, W. L., Wick, A., Haus, N., Whittecar, R. G., and Carter, C. I. (2009). Criteria for beneficial utilization of dredge sediments in Virginia, USA. 3rd AMIREG International Conference: Assessing the Footprint of Resource Utilization and Hazardous Waste Management
- James, A., Rathburn, S., and Whittecar, R. G. (2009). Introduction : Managing Rivers with Broad Historical Changes and Human Impacts. In: James, A., Rathburn, S. and Whittecar,
G.R. (editors). Management and Restoration of Fluvial Systems with Broad Historical Changes and Human Impacts. Geological Society of America Special, 451, (pp. v-x).
- Whittecar, R. G. (2009). Management and Restoration of Fluvial Systems with Broad Historical Changes and Human Impacts. Geological Society of America Special, 451, (pp. 244).
- Whittecar, R. G., Daniels, W. L., and Carter, C. H. (2007). Developing a Beneficial Use for Dredged Sediments at Shirley Plantation: Hydrostratigraphy, Groundwater Flow Patterns, and
Water Quality Studies In: Bailey, C.M. and Lamoreaux, M.H. (editors), Geology of Jamestown and the Lower James River Basin. 37th Annual Virginia Geological Field Conference Guidebook
- Whittecar, R. G., Wynn, T., and Bartlett, C. (2007). Paleoenvironmental Analyses of a Middle Wisconsinan Biota Site, Central Appalachians, U.S.A. Quaternary Research., 68, (pp. 133-140).
- Whittecar, R. G. (2007). “Theme 1: Effects of Global Climate Change” (compiler and editor) In NewPAGE: New Portals to Appreciating Our Global Environment. Pearson Custom Publishing (pp. 1-48).
- Daniels, W. L., Whittecar, R. G., and Carter, C. H. (2007). Conversion of Potomac River Dredge sediments to productive agricultural soils. ASMR, Proc., 2007 Nat. Meeting Amer. Soc. Mining and Reclamation (pp. 980, 183-199).
- Whittecar, R. G., Nowroozi, A. A., and Hall, J. R. (2005). Delineation of Saltwater Intrusion through a Coastal Borrow Pit by Resistivity Survey. Environmental and Engineering Geoscience, 11 (3), (pp. 209-219).
- Whittecar, R. G. (2005). “Chapter 2: Causes of Global Climate Change” (complier and editor) In NewPAGE: New Portals to Appreciating Our Global Environment. Pearson Custom Publishing (pp. 33-55).
- Daniels, W. L., and Whittecar, R. G. (2004). Assessing Soil and Hydrologic Properties for the Successful Creation of Non-Tidal Wetlands. In: A Guide to Hydric Soils in
the Mid-Atlantic Region, ver. 1.0, Mid-Atlantic Hydric Soils Committee. USDA, NRCS (pp. 114-124).
- Tang, J., Whittecar, R. G., Johannesson, K. H., and Daniels, W. L. (2004). Potential contaminants at the Weanack Mineland Reclamation Site, Charles City County, Virginia as revealed by sequential extraction. Geochemical Transactions, 5, (pp. 49-60).
- Havholm, K. G., Ames, D., Whittecar, R. G., Wenell, B. A., Riggs, R. S., Jol, H. M., Berger, G., and Holmes, M. A. (2004). Stratigraphy of active dunes, northern North Carolina and southern Virginia. Journal of Coastal Research, 20, (pp. 980-999).
- 1996: Invited Speaker at “Great Tips from Great Professors”, Symposium at Southeastern Section meeting, Geological Society of America
- 1996: Old Dominion University Nominee, Outstanding Faculty Award, State Council for Higher Education in Virginia
- 1974: Order of the Old Well, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- 2008: Outstanding Faculty Award, Old Dominion University Nominee/ State Council for Higher Education in Virginia
- 1994: Outstanding Faculty Award, Old Dominion University Nominee, State Council for Higher Education in Virginia
- 1995: Outstanding Faculty Award, Old Dominion University Nominee, State Council for Higher Education in Virginia
- 2001: Outstanding Faculty Award, Old Dominion University Nominee, State Council for Higher Education in Virginia
- 1974: Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- 1971: Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- 1978: Phi Kappa Phi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- 2006: Selected as “Most Inspiring Teacher” by Outstanding Graduating Senior (Keli Smith), Department of Ocean Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Old Dominion University
- 2007: Selected as “Most Inspiring Teacher” by Outstanding Graduating Senior (Lisa van Kylen), Department of Ocean Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,Old Dominion University
- 1979: Sigma Xi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- 1977: Stanley Tyler Teaching Award, Department of Geology-Geophysics, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison
- 1998: TELETECHNET Teacher of the Year, Old Dominion University
- 1995: U.S. Professor of the Year Award, Old Dominion University Nominee, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- 2003: U.S. Professor of the Year Award, Old Dominion University Nominee , Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- University Professor, Old Dominion University
- University Professor, Old Dominion University
- Morehead Scholar, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
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Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research