Ashish Sinha
Lecturer, Earth Sciences

MAILING ADDRESS
Department of Earth Science
California State University, Dominguez Hills
1000 E. Victoria Street
Carson, CA 90747
Office: NSM B210
Tel (310) 243-3452
E-Mail: asinha@cas.csudh.edu

EDUCATION
Ph.D., Earth Science, University of Southern California, 1997
MS., Geology - University of Roorkee, India, 1989
BS, University of Lucknow, India, 1987

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Dr. Sinha is a Lecturer in the Earth Sciences Department at California State University Dominguez Hills. Dr. Sinha teaches courses in Physical Geology, Earth's History, Paleontology, Hydrology, Meteorology, Climatology, and Natural Processes. Dr Sinha's research interests are in the field of low-temperature stable Isotope Geochemistry with a focus on Global Climate Change, Chronostratigraphy, and Terrestrial Ecology. Dr Sinha's current research includes development and use of multimedia tools as means of delivering content-rich material in classroom that are intuitive and based in a real-world research context, and aimed at promoting analytical reasoning and critical thinking skills.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Sinha, A., and Stott, L.D., 1994. New Atmospheric pCO2 estimates from Paleosols during the Late Paleocene/Early Eocene Warming Interval: Global Planetary Change, 9: 297-307

Sinha, A., Aubry, M.P., Stott, L.D., Thiry, M., and Berggren, W.A., 1996: Chemostratigraphy of the lower Sparnacian Deposits of the Paris Basin: Spec Volume on Paleocene/Eocene Boundary Events, Journal of Earth Sciences, 44: 223-237

Beck, R.A., Sinha, A., Burbank, D.W., and Sercombe, W.J., 1998: Climatic, Oceanographic and Isotopic Consequences of the Paleocene India-Asia Collision. In W.H. Berggren and M.P. Aubry eds, Late Paleocene-Early Eocene Biotic and Climatic Events in the Marine and Terrestrial Records. Columbia Press