Bogdan Petroniu ONAC

Assistant professor

I graduated from Babes-Bolyai University, Department of Geology in 1987. I got my Ph.D. from the same University in 1996.

I am working at the Department of Mineralogy, Babes-Bolyai University and at the Speological Institute "Emil Racovita"

Fields of interest

• Cave mineralogy and crystallography.
• Quaternary palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironment reconstruction based on speleothems analysis.

At present I am a Associate Professor at the Materials Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, USA, and I am working on a project called "Extreme climatic events recorded in cave deposits".

"Reconstructing the paleoclimate and paleoenvironment in north-western Romania" and "Mineralogy, age and origin of soils in Transylvania" are the two research grants I am currently leading at the Department of Mineralogy, Cluj University.

The Speleothem Pole-Equator-Pole Transect III program (in which I am involved) led by Dr. Stein-Erik LAURITZEN aims to reconstruct the Quaternary palaeoclimate throughout the Europe and Africa on the basis of uranium/thorium dating and isotopic analysis performed on speleothems. To learn more about this topic read our forthcoming home page of the Uranium-series dating Laboratory.

Hobbies

• mountaineering and skiing
• photography
• tennis
• classical music
• minerals and fossils-collecting

My home country address is:

Babes-Bolyai University, Department of Mineralogy, Kogalniceanu 1, 3400 CLUJ

or

Speological Institute "Emil Racovita", Clinicilor 5, P.O. Box 58, 3400 Cluj, Romania.

Tel: +40.64194315 Ext. 161, Fax: +40.64195954 0r +40.64191906

E-mail: bonac@bioge.ubbcluj.ro

My present address is:

A7 Materials Research Laboratory, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802-4801 E-mail: pbo1@psu.edu

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Copyright: 1999 Bogdan P. Onac
Author: Bogdan P. Onac
E-mail: bogdan.onac@geol.uib.no  or bonac@bioge.ubbcluj.ro
Made: March 25, 1996
Changed: January 31, 1999