Dan Lehrmann
Dr. Lehrmann joined the Geology Department faculty in the fall of 1996. He teaches courses in paleontology, stratigraphy and basin analysis, and historical geology. His primary research interests are in the areas of stratigraphy and sedimentology of carbonate rocks, micropaleontology, and reef paleoecology. His current research focuses on the factors that influence the development of ancient carbonate reefs and platforms such as tectonics, sea level changes, environmental changes, mass extinction and organic evolution.
Since he began at UW Oshkosh, he has published more than a dozen papers in journal publications, and won the Society for Sedimentary Geology, Excellence of Poster Presentation Award. His research has benefited greatly from the extensive involvement of undergraduate students as they completed independent research studies. Many students have presented their projects at professional meetings, have co-authored journal publications and have gone on to graduate school and careers in the petroleum industry. Dr. Lehrmann is currently conducting an ACS funded research project that involves students in field and laboratory studies of Triassic strata in Japan, Turkey and southern China.
Dr. Lehrmann is a native of Wisconsin, the first Gutoski student to attend college, and a UW Oshkosh Alum. His Ph.D. is from the University of Kansas. Before he came to Oshkosh, Dr. Lehrmann worked as a petroleum geologist for Shell Oil Company and Exxon Production Research. In his previous work in the oil industry, Dr. Lehrmann has been involved in hydrocarbon exploration and production studies of carbonate and siliciclastic strata of west Texas, the Gulf of Mexico, northwest China, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia.
e-mail: lehrmann@uwosh.edu
webpage: http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/lehrmann/