Overview — Franklin & Marshall

Professor; Don of Bonchek House

Education
Ph.D. 1982, University of Arizona, geosciences
M.S. 1977, University of Arizona, geosciences
B.S. 1972, Cornell University, engineering physics

Teaching
NTW 117 - Field Studies of the Natural History of the Lower Susquehanna Valley (syllabus); field trip location map
GEO/ENV 114 - Earth, Environment and Humanity (syllabus)
GEO/PHY 237 - Physics of the Earth (syllabus)
GEO/ANT 205 - Archaeometry (syllabus)

Curriculum Vitae
Sternberg CV

Research
Archaeomagnetic secular variation of direction
Archaeomagnetic secular variation of paleointensity
Archaeomagnetic dating
Magnetic studies of clinkers and coal-seam fires
Geophysical prospection at archaeological sites
Magnetic properties of archaeological obsidians

Laboratory facilities: F&M Geophysics Lab

Blogs
Seismology (The Shaking Earth)
Archaeometry

Societies
American Geophysical Union
Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society
Geological Society of America
Society for American Archaeology
Society for Archaeological Sciences
International Society for Archaeological Prospection
Archaeological Institute of America
International Association of Obsidian Studies

Previous and upcoming activities

Geophysical work in North Dakota measuring magnetics over burning coal seams, May 2007 (photos)
Keck Geology Consortium project at Poggio Colla archaeological field school, Vicchio, Italy, June 2008 (photos)
International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy conference, Sopron, Hungary, August 2009
Sabbatical at Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalphlege, Munich, Spring, 2010 (photos)
International Symposium on Archaeometry, Tampa, May 2010
Magnetometry at Naxçivan Archaeological Project , June 2010 (photos)
Institute for Rock Magnetism Visiting Fellow, Fall 2010
American Geophysical Union fall meeting, San Francisco, December 2010
Society for American Archaeology meeting, Sacramento, April 2011
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Melbourne, Australia, 27 June - 8 July, 2011 (photos)
International Symposium on Archaeometry, Leuven, Belgium, 28 May - 1 June, 2012