Dr. Doug Haywick
Associate Professor of Geology
University of South Alabama
Ph.D. 1990, James Cook University of North
Queensland, Townsville, Australia
dhaywick@jaguar1.usouthal.edu

Research Description:
I am primarily a carbonate sedimentologist but I also dabble in coastal sedimentation, depositional processes, sequence stratigraphy, low temperature sedimentary geochemistry, environmental geology and geoarchaeology.

I am currently involved in research projects examining storm versus fair-weather depositional processes in Gulf Coast shoreline environments, Plio-Pleistocene sedimentology, and Smackover Formation (Jurassic) diagenesis..

I am also interested in the petrography and diagenesis of cold water and tropical carbonate rocks, the biological-geological controls on sedimentation in coral reef environments and Paleozoic mound-reef development.

Geoscience education is also a favorite topic of mine. I am a member of several geoscience educational organizations, and have worked with other geologists to improve geoscience education in the public school system. I also supervise several undergraduate research projects.

Representative Publications:
Haywick, D.W., R.A. Henderson, and R.M. Carter. 1992. Temporal cyclicity in a mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sedimentary succession (Plio-Pleistocene) Petane Group, central Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, 39:675-696.

Haywick, D.W., and Mueller, E.M., 1997. Sediment retention by Palythoa spp. on Florida Key Reefs: a biological twist to a geological process. Coral Reefs 16, 39-46.

Haywick, D.W., 2000. Recognition of forced regressions in cyclothemic strata a Plio-Pleistocene case study from eastern North Island, New Zealand. In D. Hunt and R. Gawthorpe (eds)., Sedimentary Responses to Forced Regression: Recognition, Interpretation and Reservoir Potential, Geol. Society, Special Pub. 172, 193-215.

Kopaska-Merkel, D. and Haywick, D.W., 2001. A lone biodetrital mound in the Chesterian of Alabama? Sedimentary Geology, 145 , 253-268.

Haywick, D.W., Yokel, L.S. and Wedgeworth, M., 2004. Overcoming challenges of teaching Earth History classes for teachers in a rock-free, urban environment. Journal of Geoscience Education, 52, 429-432.

Haywick, D.W., 2004. Diagenesis of polyminerallic temperate limestones in a cyclothemic sedimentary succession, eastern North Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 47, 839-855.