{"id":7772,"date":"2026-01-05T15:04:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/daniel-t-chupik\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:08:12","slug":"daniel-t-chupik","status":"publish","type":"faculty-profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/daniel-t-chupik\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel T. Chupik"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hello everyone! I recently earned my Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from Arizona State University and am excited to be teaching at Bates. This semester I am teaching Mapping and GIS with Lab and Earth Structure and Dynamics with Lab, and in May 2026 I\u2019ll lead a short-term field course,\u00a0Geology and Archaeology of Arizona. I\u2019m looking forward to meeting you all!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">My research focuses on reconstructing paleoenvironments associated with early hominins in the Afar Depression of Ethiopia and understanding how volcanism, tectonics, and sedimentary processes interact in active rift settings. I use a combination of field mapping, drone-based remote sensing, stratigraphy, geochemistry, and geochronology to study landscape evolution, rift basin development, and volcanic histories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1941,"featured_media":7802,"template":"","class_list":["post-7772","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/7772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/7772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7804,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/7772\/revisions\/7804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}