Michael Guebert

Contact Information

 mcguebert@taylor.edu

 765-998-5332

 Randall Environmental Science Center

Michael Guebert

Professor of Geology & Environmental Science

I Serve in...

Biology, Environmental Science & Sustainable Development Department

Education

  • PhD, Geology, Pennsylvania State University
  • MS, Geology, Pennsylvania State University
  • BS, Geology—Departmental Distinction, University of Illinois

Specialties:

geomorphology land and water resources environmental ethics environmental science hydrogeology karst mapping geomorphology landscape analysis

Career Accomplishments

  • Professor of Geology and Environmental Science since 1991, including Middle Tennessee State University, Wheaton College and Taylor University since 1999.
  • Distinguished Faculty Lecturer (Taylor, 2014)
  • Hiltunen Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Scholarship of Engagement (Indiana Campus Compact, 2011)
  • Excellence in Teaching and Campus Leadership Award (Taylor, 2007)

Featured Work

Geology: Wise Stewardship of the Earth (pgs. 227-237), In: Meadors, E., Where Wisdom May be Found, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2019.

Middle Mississinewa River Watershed Diagnostic Study, 2012. Final report for Grant County Soil and Water Conservation District, to Lake and River Enhancement Program, Indiana Department of Natural Resources, 130 pgs.

Water for Life-Global Freshwater Resources (pgs. 143-164), In: Keeping God’s Earth, The Global Environment in Biblical Perspective, Edited by Noah J. Toly and Daniel I. Block, Intervarsity Press, 2010.

Protecting Local Groundwater: An Integrated Environmental Science Service-Learning Project, In: Service Learning: Intercommunity and Interdisciplinary Explorations, Edited by John Pomery and Mac Belner, University of Indianapolis Press, 2005.

Guebert, M.D., and T.W. Gardner, 2001. Macropore Flow on a Reclaimed Surface Mine: Infiltration and Hillslope Hydrology, Geomorphology, Elsevier, The Netherlands, Vol. 39, pp. 151-169.

Guebert, M.D., and T.W. Gardner, 1989. Unsupervised SPOT Classification and Infiltration Rates on Surface-Mined Watersheds, Central Pennsylvania, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, Vol. 55:10, pp. 1479-1486

About

Professionally, I enjoy exploring and studying God’s creation with students to develop improved practices to tend and keep the earth. My greatest interest is in developing, protecting and managing our precious water resources; locally, regionally and internationally.

Personally, my family enjoys hiking and exploring God’s creation in the western U.S. national parks. I especially enjoy water; sailing lakes in Minnesota, kayaking the Outer Banks in North Carolina, and canoeing down our local rivers in Indiana and Michigan. I also love to ride my bike around town and to work every day.