Scott Werts
Associate Professor
Geology
Winthrop University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Werts is an associate professor of geology at Winthrop. He received his Ph.D. in geology from Johns Hopkins University in 2006. Prior to arriving at Winthrop, Werts worked as a scientist at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Throughout his career, Werts also has spent time in the weather service in U.S. Marine Corps as a hydrogeologist in environmental consulting and in the Paleontology Department of the Calvert Marine Museum. Werts currently teaches courses in "Physical Geology," "Earth and Space Systems," "Geochemistry," "Hydrogeology," and "Soils." His research focuses on utilizing various aspects of soil material to investigate everything from long-term carbon sequestration in soils using stable isotope trends in soil biological materials to investigating heating in soils from surface fires and investigating the geomorphology and stable isotope composition of peat cores for paleoclimate studies.
Research Interest
Stable Isotope Geochemistry, Soil Science, Paleoclimatology.
Publications
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2) WERTS SP, YANKECH Jr J, KERRIGAN J, WHITE HM. STABLE ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES OF ENDOMYCORRHIZAL FUNGAL SPORES AT ELEVATED TEMPERATURES: APPLICATIONS TO ARCHAEOLOGY. In2009 Portland GSA Annual Meeting 2009 Oct.
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1) Werts SP. An Interactive Tool for Incoming Solar Radiation Demonstrations. In2008 Joint Meeting of The Geological Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies with the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM 2008 Oct 5.
