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Can Fireworks Damage Mount Rushmore? 


Mt. RushmoreFor ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ Professor of Geology Abdul Shakoor, Ph.D., studying the stability of Mount Rushmore, visited by nearly three million people each year, was a lifelong dream.

So, in 2013, with the help of his graduate student, Lindsay Poluga, the two of them reached out to the National Park Service to develop a research project and write a grant proposal. The $25,000 grant was awarded this past summer and Shakoor and Poluga traveled to Mount Rushmore, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, to study the effect of vibrations on the sculptures associated with the annual Fourth of July fireworks exhibit.

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Pictured from left to right is Yonathan Admassu, assistant professor at James Madison University and a ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ alumnus; Lindsay Poluga, geology master’s student at ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½; and Abdul Shakoor, Ph.D., ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ professor and principal Inve

Can Fireworks Damage Mount Rushmore? ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ Researchers Study the Stability of National Monument

For ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ Professor of Geology Abdul Shakoor, Ph.D., studying the stability of Mount Rushmore, visited by nearly three million people each year, was a lifelong dream.     So, in 2013, with the help of his graduate student, Lindsay Poluga, the two of them reached out to the …

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ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ Researchers Awarded National Science Foundation Grant

Researchers from ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½â€™s Department of Geology have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study diversity, evolution and extinction in crabs, lobsters, and shrimps. The $100,000, two-year grant will fund the study of this economically important, diverse g…

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