Dr. Peter Sak
Assistant Professor of Geology
(Structural Geologist)

Department of Geology
Kaufman Building, rm 137
Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA 17013-2896
USA

Phone: 717.245.1423
E-Mail:


  • The Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D., Geosciences, 2002.
    Thesis: “Active tectonics and landscape evolution inboard of subducting seafloor roughness: an investigation across the Costa Rican fore arc, Central America”
    Thesis Advisor: Donald M. Fisher.

  • The Pennsylvania State University, M.S., Geosciences, 1999.
    Thesis:“Landscape evolution and structure of the Pacific coast region, Costa Rica”
    Thesis Advisor: Donald M. Fisher.

  • Whitman College, B.A., Geology (with Distinction), 1995.
    Thesis: “Microstructural and petrographic analysis of grantic rocks from the Indus syntaxis region, northern Pakistan”
    Thesis Advisor: Kevin R. Pogue.