Rate My Professor Rick Oches

Oches earned a BS in Geosciences from Purdue University, an MA in Geosciences from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a PhD in Geosciences from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research centers on Quaternary paleoclimatology, geoarchaeology, and paleoenvironmental reconstruction using loess-paleosol sequences to study past climate changes and human responses. Notable publications include 'Late Pleistocene loess-palaeosol sequences in the Vojvodina region, north Serbia' (Journal of Quaternary Science, 2008), 'Loess in Europe—mass accumulation rates during the Last Glacial Period' (Quaternary Science Reviews, 2003), 'Rock-magnetic proxies of climate change in the loess-palaeosol sequences of the western Loess Plateau of China' (Geophysical Journal International, 1995), 'The last million years recorded at the Stari Slankamen loess-palaeosol sequence' (Quaternary Science Reviews, 2011), and 'Aeolian dust dynamics in central Asia during the Pleistocene' (Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2008). He led a five-year NSF-IUSE grant with collaborators from Bentley, Northern Illinois University, and Wittenberg University titled 'Collaborative Research: Broadening the Fusion of STEM and Business Curricula in Undergraduate Sustainability Education' to enhance transdisciplinary approaches to wicked problems in sustainability.