Contact Us

Physical Address
Department of Geology
033 Rankin Science West
572 Rivers Street
Boone, NC 28608

Postal Address
Department of Geology
Appalachian State University
ASU Box 32067
Boone, NC 28608-2067

phone: (828) 262-3049
fax: (828) 262-6503

Chairperson:
Dr. Johnny A. Waters
watersja@appstate.edu

General Questions:
Geology Webmaster

Roy C. Sidle

[Photograph of Roy S. Sidle]

Roy C. Sidle

Professor of Geology


sidlerc@appstate.edu


Dr. Sidle joins the faculty in the Fall of 2008 as a Professor of Geology, and as Director of the Environmental Science degree program at Appalachian. Dr. Sidle has had a distinguished career both in the United States and abroad dealing with issues of slope stability and the hydrogeomorphic processes in headwaters of streams. He has worked throughout North America, Europe and Asia and has published two books and more than 120 papers on these research topics. Dr. Sidle's most recent appointment was in the Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University in Japan.


  • Education
    • B.S. University of Arizona
    • M.S. University of Arizona
    • Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University

  • Courses Taught
    • TBA