Professor Vacher's research currently focuses on quantitative and mathematical literacy in geoscience education. He is the 2004 recipient of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers' Neil Miner Award.
Articles
Communications and 'Forestructures' at the Geological Intersection of Caves and Subsurface Water Flow: Hermeneutics and Parochialism (with Lee J. Florea), Earth Sciences History (2011)
The direction of cave and karst science throughout its history has been partly determined by...
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum, 1: The Idea and the Resource (with Emily Lardner), Numeracy (2010)
This paper introduces Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum, a workshop-based educational materials development project to build...
Quantitative literacy on the Web of Science, 2: Mining the health numeracy literature for assessment items (with Todd A. Chavez), Numeracy (2009)
A topic search of the Web of Science (WoS) database using the term “numeracy” produced...
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum: The Geology of National Parks Collection, Geology Faculty Publications (2009)
The Geology of National Parks Collection is being developed as part of Geology of National...
Scientific Journals as Fossil Traces of Sweeping Change in the Structure and Practice of Modern Geology (with Sarah E. Fratesi), Journal of Research Practice (2008)
In our attempts to track changes in geological practice over time and to isolate the...