Erik Melchiorre
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Bio
CSUSB campus-wide Outstanding Scholarship of the Year Award (2022)
Research Profile:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Erik-Melchiorre
Education
BS Geology, University of Southern California, 1990 MS Geology, Arizona State University, 1993 PhD Earth and Planetary Science, Washington University, 1998
Courses/Teaching
Introduction to Geology, Energy and the Environment, Water in the West, Geochemistry, Hydrology, Field Methods in Hydrology, Earth Resources, Advanced Geological Mapping
Research and Teaching Interests
Economic Geology, with specialization in: Placer Gold Deposits Copper Deposits Acid Mine Drainage and Mine Environmental Issues
Stable Isotope Geochemistry, with specialization in: Astrobiology, carbon and nitrogen systems Hydrology, oxygen and hydrogen systems
Archeology/Anthropology, assisting with XRF geochemistry of materials, and 3D optical and LIDAR data capture of sites and objects