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Scott Hippensteel
Associate Professor
OFFICE: 232 McEniry
PHONE: 704-687-5992
E-MAIL: shippens@uncc.edu
HOMEPAGE:
SHORT VITAE: To be added later
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TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:
• Environmental Micropaleontology
• Geoarchaeology
• Coastal Geology
DEGREES:
Ph.D. (2000) Geology, University of Delaware
M.S. (1995) Geology, University of Delaware
PROFILE:
My research and teaching have merged since I began teaching at UNC
Charlotte. When I first came to the university my main research
area was using microfossils, and specifically foraminifera, to solve
environmental problems. Over the last six years I have expanded
my research into geoarchaeology and earth science pedagogy. The
latter included studies on how to improve the assessment of geoscience
professors in the classroom and how inquiry based education can
help students throughout of their undergraduate career.
There are direct connections between my teaching and research and,
as a general education professor, my research has branched into
the classroom. When beginning my career at UNC Charlotte my research
focused on three fields of study:
• Increasing stratigraphic resolution in coastal salt marshes
• Quantifying the rate of sea-level rise along the Atlantic
coastline
• Determining the frequency of paleo-hurricane strikes to
North and South Carolina
These areas of inquiry are related to my interest in environmental
micropaleontology. This is an important new field in which microfossils
are used to solve environmental problems.
While I continue to publish in all three fields of environmental
micropaleontology, my most recent investigations have focused on
dissimilar fields:
• Micropaleontological analysis of sediments from the Confederate
submarine H.L. Hunley
• Earth science pedagogy, including how professors are evaluated,
the benefits of inquiry based education, and the sequencing of major
topics in introductory geology courses
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