Biography
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Coastal and marine geology; field and experimental ichnology; zoogeomorphology;
event sedimentology and taphonomy; morphodynamics and stratigraphy of coastal barriers; aeolian processes and dunefield evolution; geoarchaeology and geoforensics;
applied high-resolution geophysics (focus: ground-penetrating radar).
Courses Taught
Number | Name | Level |
|---|---|---|
EES 2021 | Sedimentary Environments | Undergraduate |
EES 2097 | Process Geomorphology | Undergraduate |
EES 3042 | Coastal Processes and Geomorphology | Undergraduate |
EES 5042 | Coastal Processes | Graduate |
EES 8082 | Independent Study Program | Graduate |
Selected Publications
Recent
Sparacio, C., Buynevich, I., Curran, H.A., & Kopcznski, K. (2020). Morphometry of blue land crab (cardisoma guanhumi) burrows: Ichnological context and paleoenvironmental implications. Palaios, 35(11), 461-469. doi: 10.2110/PALO.2020.034.
Buynevich, I., FitzGerald, D., Al-Zamel, A., & Al-Sarawi, M. (2020). Comparative morphosedimentary framework of small subtropical islands offshore Kuwait. Marine Geology, 429. doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2020.106294.
Buynevich, I. (2019). Distribution and morphometry of buried inlet channels along a microtidal paraglacial coast: Indispensable role of GPR. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 162, 58-63. doi: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2019.01.001.
Ravi, S., Gonzales, H., Buynevich, I., Li, J., Sankey, J., Dukes, D., & Wang, G. (2019). On the development of a magnetic susceptibility-based tracer for aeolian sediment transport research. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 44(2), 672-678. doi: 10.1002/esp.4536.
Kaminskas, D., Rudnickaitė, E., Vaikutienė, G., Bitinas, A., Grigienė, A., Buynevich, I., Damušytė, A., Pupienis, D., & Šinkūnas, P. (2019). Middle and Late Holocene paleoenvironmental developement of the Curonian Lagoon, Lithuania. Quaternary International, 501, 240-249. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2017.09.016.
Bitinas, A., Dobrotin, N., Buynevich, I., Molodkov, A., Damušytė, A., & Pupienis, D. (2018). Coastal dune dynamics along the northern curonian spit, Lithuania: Toward an integrated database. Geological Quarterly, 62(3), 553-562. doi: 10.7306/gq.1435.
Hembree, D., Smith, J., Buynevich, I., & Platt, B. (2017). Neoichnology of semiarid environments: Soils and burrowing animals of the Sonoran Desert, Arizona, U.S.A. Palaios, 32(9), 620-638. doi: 10.2110/palo.2017.009.
Buynevich, I., Savarese, M., Curran, H., Bitinas, A., Glumac, B., Pupienis, D., Kopcznski, K., Dobrotin, N., Gnivecki, P., Boush, L., & Damušytė, A. (2017). Sand incursion into temperate (Lithuania) and tropical (the Bahamas) maritime vegetation: Georadar visualization of target-rich aeolian lithosomes. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 195, 69-75. doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2017.02.011.
Pupienis, D., Buynevich, I., Ryabchuk, D., Jarmalavičius, D., Žilinskas, G., Fedorovič, J., Kovaleva, O., Sergeev, A., & Cichoń-Pupienis, A. (2017). Spatial patterns in heavy-mineral concentrations along the Curonian Spit coast, southeastern Baltic Sea. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 195, 41-50. doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2016.08.008.
Ravi, S., Wang, L., Kaseke, K., Buynevich, I., & Marais, E. (2017). Ecohydrological interactions within “fairy circles” in the Namib Desert: Revisiting the self-organization hypothesis. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 122(2), 405-414. doi: 10.1002/2016JG003604.
Buynevich, I. (2017). The geological context for coastal adaptation along the Northern Black Sea (700 BCE - 500 CE). In The Northern Black Sea in Antiquity: Networks, Connectivity, and Cultural Interactions (pp. 50-55). doi: 10.1017/9781139094702.005.
Kopcznski, K., Buynevich, I., Curran, H., Caris, J., & Nyquist, J. (2017). Imaging bioturbation in supratidal carbonates: Non-invasive field techniques enhance neoichnological and zoogeomorphological research, san salvador, the bahamas. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana, 56(2), 289-297. doi: 10.4435/BSPI.2017.24.
Bitinas, A., Mažeika, J., Buynevich, I., Damušytė, A., Molodkov, A., & Grigienė, A. (2017). Constraints of radiocarbon dating in southeastern baltic lagoons: Assessing the vital effects. In Coastal Research Library, 19 (pp. 137-171). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-49894-2_8.
Sergeev, A., Zhamoida, V., Ryabchuk, D., Buynevich, I., Sivkov, V., Dorokhov, D., Bitinas, A., & Pupienis, D. (2017). Genesis, distribution and dynamics of lagoon marl extrusions along the Curonian Spit, southeast Baltic Coast. Boreas, 46(1), 69-82. doi: 10.1111/bor.12177.