Rudolph Hon, Associate Professor
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1976)
M.S. Charles U., Prague
INTERESTS:
Igneous Geochemistry, Petrology, Mineralogy, GIS
CONTACT INFO:
phone: 617-552-3656
e-mail: hon@bc.edu
COURSES:
GE 192 - Earth Under Siege (Fall 2008)
GE 484 - Aqueous Geochemistry (Fall 2008)
GE 250 - Environmental Geology (Spring 2009)
GE 480 - Applications of GIS (Spring 2009)
CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS & PROJECTS:
| Benjamin Daniels | Analysis of the parameters of streamflow in Massachusetts watersheds. |
| Richard Paul | Water quality at the Cambridge, Massachusetts drinking-water supply system. |
| Newton Tedder | A study of saline water transport pathways using high resolution specific conductance records in two watersheds in urban and rural Massachusetts. |
| Qing Xian | Statistical assessment of hydrochemical characteristics of stream waters in eastern New England. |
M.S. ALUMNI & PROJECTS:
| Matthew Mayo | Arsenic pathways at landfills: a case study of the shepleys hill landfill. (2006) |
| David Kammer | Hydrochemical characterization of Old Pond Meadows Aquifer, Norwell, Massachusetts. (2005). |
| Kevin MacKinnon | Equilibria and transport of Fe and Mn in a naturally contaminated aquifer, Norwell, Massachusetts. (2005) |
| Thomas Davidson | Arsenic pathways in leachate plums at five landfill sites in central Massachusetts. (2004). |
| Alisa-Marie King | Hydrochemical characterization of groundwater in a wetland-upland transitional zone, Norwell, Eastern, Massachusetts. (1999). |
| Keith Gallinelli | Geochemistry of biologically assisted tetrachloroethene degradation in the septic groundwater environment. (1997). |
| Yuqin Zhou | Groundwater modeling and nitrogen particle tracking in the Monomoy Lens aquifer, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. (1996). |
| Kim Kutawski | The natural in situ biotransformation of tetrachloroethene. (1995). |
| Peter Dillon | Geochemistry and petrogenesis of the late precambrian plutonic series south of Boston, eastern Massachusetts. (1994). |
| Rebecca Markus | The geochemistry of the Dedham granite suite, north of Boston, Massachusetts. (1993). |
| Vasiliki Philippopoulou | Geochemical study of the siluro-devonian sedimentary rocks of north and north-central Maine. (1993). |
| Catherine Gabis | The geochemistry and petrogenesis of a cordierite-hypersthene dike suite in Greenville, north-central Maine. (1992). |
| Matthew Paige | The petrology, geochemistry and tectonic setting of the Cape Ann complex, eastern Massachusetts. (1991). |
| Carroll Brown | Geochemistry of the horserace quartz diorite, north central Maine. (1989). |
| Ronald Resmini | The thermal structure of the continental crust: computer modeling experiments in heat conduction. (1989). |
| Nancy Davis | Gamma-ray spectroscopy analysis of radon emanation. (1988). |
| Amy Sheridan | Geochemistry of the Milford plutonic suite. (1988). |
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
• Hepburn, J.C., Dunning, G.R. and Hon, R. (1997) Geochronology and Regional Tectonic Implications of Silurian Deformation in the Nashoba Terrane, Southeastern New England, Current Perspectives in the Appalachian-Caledonian Orogen: Geologcial Association of Canada, Hibbard, J.P., van Staal, C.R. and Cawood, P.A. (editors), Special Paper 41, pp. 349-366.
• Hon, R., Paige, J.S. and Loftenius, C.J. (1993) Petrogenesis of Two Diverse Mid-Paleozoic Complexes of Eastern Massachusetts: A-type Cape Ann Granite and I-type Sharpners Pond Quartz Diorite, in Cheney, J.T. and Hepburn, J.C. (editors) Field Trip Guidebook for the Northeastern United States, 1993 Boston, GSA: Dept. of Geology & Geography, Univ. of Mass, Amherst, MA v. 2, pp. Q1-Q28.
• Hon, R.,O'Brien, S.J., Hepburn, J.C. and G.R. Dunning (1991) Assesment of Mafic Magmatism in the Avalon Terranes of Newfoundland and Southeastern New England, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 23, #1, p. 46.
• Hon, R., Hepburn, J.C., Bothner, W.A., Olszewski, W.J., Gaudette, H.E., Dennen, W.H. and Loftenius, C. (1986) Mid-paleozoic Calc-alkaline Igneous Rocks of the Nashoba Block and Merrimack Trough, In Newburg, D.W. (editor), Guidebook for Field Trips in Southwestern Maine, 78th New England Intercollegiate Geologic Conference, Lewiston, ME, p.37-52.