Rick Oches
Rick Oches
Associate Professor
Contact
Office: SCA 517
Lab: SCA 521
Phone: 813/974-7531
Email:
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Research
Roots of Agriculture in Southern Arabia (RASA) Project: Geoarchaeology and the “First Farmers” in highland southern Yemen. Human and environmental response to the mid-Holocene monsoon shift in the Indian Ocean region.
Loess and other terrestrial sedimentary records of Quaternary climate and environmental change in central and eastern Europe.
Coastal and near-shore marine records of Quaternary sea-level changes in Florida.
Amino acid geochronology applied to the dating and paleoclimatic evaluation of Quaternary fossils.
Recent Publications
Markovic, S.B., Oches, E.A., McCoy, W.D., Frechen, M., Gaudenyi, T., and Jovanovic, T., submitted (12/06). “Warm” glacial climate recorded in the loess-paleosol sequence at Irig brickyard exposure, Vojvodina, Serbia. Submitted to Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.
Markovic, S. B. , Oches, E., Sümegi, P., *Jovanovic, M., and *Gaudenyi, T., 2006. An introduction to the Middle and UpperPleistocene loess – paleosol sequence at Ruma Brickyard, Vojvodina, Yugoslavia. Quaternary International, vol. 149, p. 80-86.
Frechen, M., Oches, E.A., and Kohfeld, K.E., 2003. Loess in Europe – Mass accumulation rates during OIS 2. Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 22, p. 1835-1857.
McCorriston, J., Oches, E.A., Walter, D.E., and Cole, K., 2002. Holocene Paleoecology and Prehistory in Highland Southern Arabia. Paleorient, vol. 28, no. 1, p. 61-88.
Oches, E.A., and McCoy, W.D., 2001. Historical developments and recent advances in Amino Acid Geochronology applied to Loess Research. Earth Science Reviews, vol. 54, p. 173-192.