Biography - Ledrew Stocks

Lee Stocks teaches course in Science and Geography as Part-Time Faculty with the American Military University. He has 9 years of college teaching experience, to include several tier one research universities and is currently posted as an Assistant Professor at one of the University of North Carolina regional campuses teaching Geology and Earth Science.

Dr. Stocks has a varied background as a geoscientist with experience in geology, geomorphology, geography, and spatial sciences, including remote sensing, GIS and spatial analysis. He has worked several years with the West Virginia State GIS Technical Center, West Virginia Geological Survey, and the West Virginia Speleological Survey.

His research focuses on karst geomorphology, or landforms formed by the dissolution of limestone, particularly the geohazards and impacts in those karst environments, including sinkholes, landslides and caves. Most recently his research has centered on a morphometric and geomorphic analysis of Carolina Bays, a phenomena common to the Carolinas, where elliptical features show common orientation with unknown origin.

Outside of academia he spends his time biking, hiking, geocaching, fossil hunting, mapping caves, and ridgewalking, looking for new caves to explore.

Lee Stocks has dual bachelors degrees in Political Science and Geoscience from Concord University, a Masters degree in Physical Geography and Geology from West Virginia University and a Doctorate in Physical Geography and Geology from Kent State University with a focus on sinkholes.