Dr. Nigel Brush, associate professor of geology, joined the Ashland University faculty in 2000. His areas of research include geoarchaeology, dendrochronology, and millennial-scale climate change events. He is a co-director of the Ashland/Wooster/Columbus Archaeological & Geological Consortium and former curator and co-founder of the Killbuck Valley Natural History Museum. Dr. Brush has a B.S. in English Bible from the Cincinnati Bible College, a B.A. in Anthropology from Ohio State University, an M.A. in Archaeological Method and Theory from the University of Southampton in England, a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California at Los Angeles, and post doc. work in geology at Ohio State University and the University of Akron.