M.Sc. University of Massachusetts, Department of Geosciences, 2004.

B.A.   Smith College, Department of Geosciences, 1998.

Research Interest

 Sedimentology, aqueous geochemistry and  limnology.

Current Research

Formation, distribution, and composition of freshwater ferromanganese sedimentary structures from the Connecticut Lakes, New Hampshire, USA.

The focus of my research is to establish a link between the sedimentological, chemical, geological and limnological processes that support occurrences of ferromanganese nodules that we discovered in the Connecticut Lakes system in New Hampshire. The results of this work could be applied to other freshwater lake systems to predict occurrences of nodule structures.

Asikainen C.A. and Werle, S. 2007. Accretion of ferromanganese nodules that form pavement in Second Connecticut Lake, New Hampshire. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences. 104:17579-17581.

Asikainen C. A., Francus P. and Brigham-Grette J. 2007. Sedimentology, clay mineralogy and grain-size as indicators of 65 ka of climate change from El’gygytgyn Crater Lake, Northeastern Siberia. Journal of Paleolimnology 37:105-122.

Francus P. and Asikainen C. A. 2001. Sub-sampling unconsolidated sediments: a solution for the preparation of undisturbed thin-sections from clay-rich sediments. Journal of Paleolimnology. 26:323-326.

For more information see Curriculum vitae

Plate type nodule, 2nd CT Lake 

2nd CT Lake from the west bank

 The boat people

Diving the 2nd CT Lake