He has also written articles about nuclear power and storing nuclear waste for several Minnesota newspapers. His research interests include the mechanics of mountain belt formation, rock strain analysis, the Keweenawan rift, mafic dike intrusions and Antarctic geology. His research also focuses on foreland basin sedimentation and stratification. Rogers is often a member of multinational research teams studying dinosaur fossils in Zimbabwe, Montana, Argentina and Madagascar. He has received a grant from the National Geographic Society to study early dinosaur evolution in Zimbabwe.
Webers has research interests in paleontology, Antarctic geology and sedimentation.
Karl Wirth Volcanoes Wirth is an igneous petrologist. His interests include ophiolite studies in Alaska, lava flow suites in the Philippine Islands, mafic dikes in northern and southwestern Minnesota and Antarctic meteorites. He is also the author of A Radical Approach to Real Analysis as well as Second Year Calculus From Celestial Mechanics to Special Relativity. In addition, he is widely recognized for his work in improving secondary and undergraduate mathematics education. Much of Bressoud's work involves putting math in a historical context.