The Champlain Thrust
News from the
Department of Geology, UVM
2013/2014
Department News
Greetings from the Chair:
Greetings from the corner office of
Delehanty Hall. I have now survived three
years as department Chair. Time sure
flies! As always, it has been a busy and
successful year. Below you will find some
highlights. More information on the
faculty’s many exciting activities can be
found in this newsletter and on our
website.
Thanks to a generous donation from the
Lintilhac Foundation, this summer the
Perkins Geology Museum installed the
only permanent large exhibit of the new VT State Bedrock map. The map was unveiled earlier this year in
Montpelier after 30 years of hard work by many professional geologists and students.
I am very happy to announce that two new faculty members have joined our department this fall: Assistant
Professor Julia Perdrial and Research Assistant Professor Nicolas (Nico) Perdrial. Julia completed her
degrees in Germany and France and studies low temperature terrestrial and aquatic processes with a focus
on carbon dynamics, utilizing both experimental and field approaches. Nico obtained his degrees in France.
As an environmental mineralogist, he investigates the impact of molecular-scale heterogeneity on largescale geochemical processes. We are very excited to have them both in the department!
Unfortunately, we also had some very sad news this fall. Lake Champlain researcher and advocate, and
UVM geology professor, Edwin Allen Standish Hunt, died Aug. 27, 2013, following several months of
decline. Allen joined the Geology Department in 1961 as an assistant professor to teach paleontology,
stratigraphy, and sedimentology. After an illustrious career, he retired in 1996, shortly after Paul Bierman
and I joined the department. A celebration of Allen's life was held in the Perkins Geology Museum in
Delehanty Hall on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013. His extended family, many friends and neighbors, and former
students attended the event.
Once again Jack has managed to collect all the information needed to put this newsletter together. As usual,
not an easy feat! As always, we have Gabriela, Robin and Srebrenka to thank for keeping our small, but
buzzing Department running smoothly. There is really never a chance for our support trio to get bored, and
without them the place would fall apart pretty quickly!
On the financial side of Chairing, our budget was especially tight this year. Every donation helps, so please
consider making a donation to support the UVM Geology Department. To donate online , and directly to
the department, choose "other" at the bottom of the “Gift Information” box and write in "Geology
Department." For other ways to donate see How to Give If you would like your donation used for a specific
purpose then please indicate. All of your funds go directly to students. This really IS a case of “every dollar
helps.” On behalf of everyone in the Department, “thank you” for all your support!
In Memoriam
Allen Hunt: It is with regret that we announce the passing of Allen this fall. A
memorial service was held in Delehanty Hall and the Perkins Geology Museum. I am
sure that many alumni will remember Allen for his efforts on Lake Champlain,
supervision of student research, regional geology trips with Dave Bucke, as well as
many other contributions to the department. The following is his obituary that appeared
in the Burlington Free Press.
Edwin Allen Standish Hunt Pioneering Lake Champlain researcher and advocate and
UVM geology professor Edwin Allen Standish Hunt died Aug. 27 following several
months of decline. His wife Nancy was by his side at the Franklin County
Rehabilitation Center in St. Albans.
Allen was born on December 6, 1929, the son of Dr. Franklin and Dorothy Hunt and the younger brother of
Barbara Hunt Dodge. He grew up in Summit, N.J. and spent summers in Brooklin, Maine. In 1951 Allen
graduated from St. Lawrence University with a B.S. degree in psychology.
During the following five years while earning his Master’s degree in psychology at Texas Christian
University, Allen’s academic and professional focus changed. Crossing the country from the East coast to
Texas numerous times he became intrigued with the visual record of the earth’s history found in the
landscape. It was during this time that Allen turned to paleontology, which would remain his life long
focus.
After undergraduate courses and laboratories in geology at the University of Texas, Allen earned a
Master’s degree in Paleontology in 1957 at the University of Michigan for his work on Devonian corals.
While at the University of Michigan he met Nancy Kurtz, an undergraduate Art History major. They were
married in August 1957, followed by a honeymoon from Ohio through Vermont to Brooklin, Maine. and
then to Harvard where Allen continued his studies and research.
While at Harvard Allen and Nancy took field trips to the Shenandoah Valley, Utah and Idaho where Allen
collected the fossils that he would later prepare and use for his doctorate thesis entitled “Growth, Variation
and Instar Development of an Agnostid Trilobite” which was published in the Journal of Paleontology in
1967. His thesis and the supporting research, completed under the supervision of the legendary Professor
Harry Whittington, are still cited in paleontology textbooks today.
In 1961 Allen was hired as an assistant professor at UVM to teach paleontology, stratigraphy, and
sedimentation as well as introductory geology.
Allen’s pioneering research on New England’s “west coast” began soon thereafter. It was Dr. Hunt’s
foresight in 1964, along with others such as Dr. E.B. Henson and Dr. Milton Potash of the Department of
Zoology that prompted comprehensive studies of Lake Champlain and led Allen and others to establish the
Lake Champlain Study Center.
Obtaining support from the Lintilhac Foundation for the key vessel R/V Melosira, Allen and his students
were the first to map the bathymetry, the sediments and fossils, and the Pleistocene history of our “Sixth
Great Lake.” Allen and his students were also the first to unlock the magnetic stratigraphy of the lake,
measuring weak differences in the earth’s magnetic field that have been recorded over centuries in the
layers of sediment.
During pollution studies Allen and his students were the first to discover the existence of manganese
nodules in lake sediments. Soil erosion studies along the Lake followed.
In addition to his research on Lake Champlain, Dr. Hunt participated in collaboration with former students,
on oceanographic cruises to the Sulu Sea and the Canadian Archipelago that focused on microfossils
discovered in the layers of sediment.
Allen was appointed Associate Professor in 1966 and Professor of Geology from 1974 until he retired in
1996. He served as chair of the Department from July 1984 until September 1989.
At UVM Allen became a sought after professor for his hands-on approach to science education and student
mentoring, some of the very attributes that made him a thoughtful and devoted father and husband.
He shared with his three sons a love of the outdoors, of sports, and his passion for life and belief in the
importance of developing skills, interests, and values. During their early childhoods, for example his wife,
Nancy would take the boys to Gutterson Ice Rink during the noon hour to skate with their Dad who had
grown up playing hockey and was then learning new figure skating skills. Allen was the founding faculty
advisor for the UVM Skating Club and enjoyed ice dancing and performing in shows along with two of his
sons.
Flooding a back yard rink he built on South Prospect Street was an annual New Year's Eve ritual that
provided a popular neighborhood hangout for after-school hockey scrimmages. On weekends and vacations
it was off to ski racing programs and races throughout Vermont.
Under Allen’s direction the Hunts were early localvores producing and processing much of their own food
during summer weekends on their farm in Bakersfield. Supper after a day on the slopes was often canned
beef stew, tomatoes, and more, processed the previous year from vegetables and animals raised on the
farm.
“There’s work to be done!” was Allen’s call to arms for Nancy, the boys and their friends to help hired
farmers and builders over the years cut and bale hay, build fences, a house and two barns. After 35 years of
teaching and research, Allen retired in 1996 to the farm to focus on the breeding of registered Black Angus.
Allen called himself a Vermonter but he loved coastal Maine where he spent summers since he was a child
at his family’s cottage in Brooklin, and where he bought land on Swan’s Island with dreams of one day
spending time there.
Allen is survived by Nancy, his wife of 56 years of Bakersfield and his son Edwin of Bakersfield, his son
Harry and wife Stephanie Hunt and their children, Alaena and Tucker of Stowe, and his son Jesse and wife
Anne Kari Hunt and their children Mia, Espen and Annika of Park City Utah.
Other descendants include a nephew Allen Dodge of Cornish, N.H. and his family as well as a niece,
Carolyn Dodge, of Hagerstown, Maryland.
Allen will be buried in Lakeview Cemetery in Burlington.
A celebration of Allen’s life was held at UVM in the Perkins Geology Museum in Delehanty Hall on
Saturday September 14 from 3 to 5 P.M where the only comprehensive collection of rocks and fossilized
flora and fauna found in the State of Vermont are displayed including the Vermont State fossil, the white
whale from the Champlain Sea.
In lieu of flowers, a gift may be made to University of VT with “Perkins Museum” written n the memo, and
send to the Department of Geology, Delehanty Hall 213 University of Vermont, Trinity Campus, 180
Colchester Avenue, Burlington, VT 05404-1758.
Memorial celebration for Allen in Delehanty
Hall and Perkins Geology Museum
Bruce Corliss, Richard (Dick) Furbush and Jack
Chase at Allen’s memorial celebration in front of the
dinosaur tracks in Delehanty Hall lobby
A New State Geological Map
A copy of the new state geological map that was unveiled at the State House, Montpelier, VT now hangs it
he Perkins Geology Museum, thanks to the generous support of the Lintilhac Foundation. This map
represents the culmination of many years’ work by UVM faculty (Rolfe Stanley, Barry Doolan, Char
Mehrtens) and many, many UVM Geology alumni (Agnew, Paul C.; Armstrong, Thomas R.; Aubrey, Will
M.; Badger, Robert L.; Barton, Thelma (later publications,Thelma B.Thompson); Becker, Laurence (State
Geologist); Borre, M.A. ; Brooks, K. ; Carter, Craig; M.Cherichetti, Lars; Condon, Rebecca; Copans,
Benjamin; Cua, Athene K.; DelloRusso, Vincent ; Derman, Karen; DiPietro, Joseph A.; Dorsey, Rebecca
J.; Earle, Hal; Eiben, David B.; Falta, Christine; Frank, Terry; Frederick, Jeffrey; Gale, Marjorie H. (earlier
publication, Marjorie Hollis); Gale, Peter N.; Gillispie, Richard; Goldberg, Jonathan; Hadley, Ann C.H.;
Handy, J.; Haydock, Samuel R; Hengstenburg, Carey; Hoar, Robert S.; Holt, Jeffrey; King, Sarah; Krauss,
Jerome F.; Lapp, Eric T.; Mallard, Laura D.; Martin, Delbert. C.; McHone, J.Gregory ; Mock, Timothy D.;
Montane, Paul; O’Loughlin, Sharon B.; Pascale, Lelia; Prahl, Crispin J.; Pingree, Rodney;Prewitt, J.;
Rosencrantz, Eric; Roy, Dana L.; Ryan, Jeremy; Sarkesian, Arthur; Schoonmaker, Adam; Sonenburg, D.;
Talcott, J.; Tauvers, Peter R.; Taylor, S.; Thompson, Peter J. Walsh, Gregory; Warren, Marian J. )
Additional information at: http://www.uvm.edu/geology/?Page=news/VTbedrock.html
www.anr.state.vt.us/dec/geo/vgs.htm,
stategeologists.blogspot.com/.../ceremonies-for-release-of-vermont.html
www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3167
Presentation of VT State Geologic Map, April11, 2012, at the State House,
Montpelier,VT. Barry Doolan, Char Mehrtens, Marjorie Gale, Larry Becker and
Gov. Shumlin (plus others), attending
New state geologic map on display in
Perkins Geology Museum, Delehanty Hall
Department Faculty
Andrea Lini, Associate Professor (Stable isotopes, Limnology and
Climate Change): Greetings from the world of stable isotopes, lake mud, tree rings,
and dangerous predators!
It took a while this year for the Lake Champlain embayments to freeze over, but after
waiting very patiently, my new graduate student Ashliegh Belrose and I were able to
collect new sediment cores from Mississqui Bay and St. Albans Bay. We had a few
glitches (one coring tube is still stuck in St. Albans Bay…) but ultimately managed to
extend the sedimentary record detailed in Drew Koff’s and Joanna Palmer’s MS theses
to include the Champlain Sea – Lake Champlain transition. Very exciting preliminary results were
presented in March at the GSA Northeastern Section Meeting and we are now in the midst of performing a
variety of detailed geochemical and micropaleontological analyses on both cores. Stay tuned!
My colleagues in the UVM School of Natural Resources have been keeping my stable isotope lab busy
with the wide range of plant and animal samples that they have collected all over the world. I don’t think I
have ever seen that much bear, wolf, horse, and sheep hair (along with other critters) in a lab. I don’t have
enough space here to elaborate on all the results, but I’d like to announce that according to the work of one
of my undergraduate students, and contrary to popular belief, cats do not appear to be a major component
of Fishers’ diet!
Fun on the ice with Andrea; part
1
Fun of the ice with Andrea; part 2
Paul Bierman, Professor (Geomorphology, Geohydrology, Isotope Geology
Applied to Landscape Change):Lots happening.
Most of the past year, I've been busy reading and correcting proofs for our new
Geomorphology textbook, Key Concepts in geomorphology. A preliminary edition
came out in August with chapters 1-7 and the hardcopy will appear in time for AGU.
We are editing 3 proofs for each chapter, so it's been a huge amount of time. Anyone
who wants to see a copy for teaching, you can contact: Debbie Clare
<Debbie.Clare@macmillan.com>.
The cosmogenic lab has been busy running samples from Yakima Canyon, China,
Australia, Brazil, and Lake Hitchcock. We have nearly a dozen presentations at GSA Denver this year and
several new papers that have come out this year.
I've been doing lots of interesting service work. Did a two day review for NSF of their award process for
arctic science grants, just came home from a two day workshop at Biosphere 2 helping to prepare a white
paper for NSF on the geomorphic impacts of climate change, and next week am headed to DC as part of an
advisory panel for the GEO directorate.
For those of you who remember 86 Brookes, our house, it's now purple and has two new porches. Besides
that, everything is about the same except Marika is as tall as we are and about to be a high schooler.
Paul
pbierman@uvm.edu
Delehanty Hall
Burlington, VT 05405
802-656-4411( v)
UVM Geology Dept.
180 Colchester Avenue
802-238-6826 (cell)
802-656-0045 (fax)
uvm.edu/~pbierman
uvm.edu/geomorph
uvm.edu/landscape
Veronica Sosa-Gonzalez and Brazilian
colleagues sampling a stream in Brazil
heavily impacted by both debris flows and
agriculture.
Here's a pic of us all in New Zealand
this summer after a 5 km…the girls
(Marika and Quincy) both won their
age division…Christine cheered, I
chased fast young guys
John M. Hughes, Professor (Mineralogy, Crystallography, Crystal Chemistry):
It has been a busy year for me. In addition to the normal teaching and research load, I
have served as President of the Mineralogical Society of America. It is a humbling
honor to serve, and I hope the Society has advanced during my term. I have enjoyed it
immensely, but am looking forward to the conclusion of my duties as I present the
Presidential Address at GSA.
The diffractometers continue to hum along, and a lot of data is forthcoming;
some of the papers and abstracts are listed elsewhere in this Bulletin. I currently have
two graduate students (Jacob Menken and Gina Accorsi) and one undergraduate
research student (Karina Heffernan), and their respective projects are going well. The NSF continues to
fund our labs, for which I am grateful.
Personally, our first and only grandchild keeps us busy. We spent much of the summer at our
home on James Island in Charleston, SC, and Belle Halladay visited with her parents for almost two weeks.
At that time she was about 21 months old, and loved playing in the surf and digging up the beach; it was
great for us, as well. Belle Halladay lives in NYC, so we get to see her a lot. Our daughter moved to
Oakland, CA early this year, but we do get out to see her fairly regularly as well. Everyone is prospering,
for which we are grateful… a parent cannot ask for more.
Proud grandparents Mimi and Papa
(aka Susan and John) with
Belle Halladay
Just getting ready to identify another new mineral
Keith Klepeis, Professor, Structural Geology, Tectonics & Field Geology
Greetings,
I can’t believe another year has past. But then I guess everyone says that!
This year started in a rush with a 5-week trip to New Zealand in January with three
of my graduate students, Mike Ingram (also an alum of our undergraduate program),
Alice Newman and Kathryn Dianiska. The four of us spent several weeks cruising
the fjords of southwest New Zealand on a large boat gathering data. We flew in by
helicopter to meet the ship in a storm, which raised our blood pressure a bit,
especially when we lost sight of the mountains. But we went on to find great things,
including rare eclogites, shear zones, and lots of granulite that once resided at 70 kilometers beneath a
magmatic arc. Mike, Alice and Kathryn are sorting out the area’s history, including how such deep rocks
were exhumed during a period of Cretaceous rifting. In between mapping structures, we had plenty of time
to see albatross, sharks, seals, weka (a large native flightless bird) and even a lost penguin!
UVM geology also had a great presence at northeast GSA in March. Abigail Ruksznis presented
the results of her Senior Honors project looking at styles of Acadian thrust faulting in the Pinnacle
Formation in Richmond, Vermont. Abi worked with Marjorie Gale (from the Vermont Geological Survey)
and I. We are proud to report that Abi was accepted into the graduate program at Stanford University and
is now working on a field project in Death Valley. Seniors Doug MacLeod and Eric Weber also presented
the results of their research projects at the meeting. Doug did two projects, one on lower crustal shear
zones and the other on the structure of Mt. Hunger near Waterbury Center. He started a graduate program
at Idaho State University working on a high grade gneiss terrain of rugged British Columbia (watch out for
bears!) Eric worked as an intern with Jon Kim at the VGS during 2013 and presented a great project on the
evolution of the Hinesburg thrust fault near Bristol.
This past summer, Laura Cuccio and Malayika Cincotta began their senior research working in the South
Mountain and Bristol quadrangles. They both are planning on attending northeast GSA in 2014 and report
on the results of well logs, hydrogeology, and mapping. Laura and Malayika also participated in a weeklong Quebec-Vermont field trip in July, 2013. This trip marked the beginning of a new collaborative
project between UVM the VGS and UQAM in Quebec. On the UVM side, the effort also involved
Professor Laura Webb and new graduate student Sam Lagor. Along with Professor Alain Tremblay and his
students from Quebec we are unravelling the sequence and ages of Acadian tectonic events in the
Connecticut Valley trough. Senior Travis Dawson also is working with me this year on fault patterns in the
Clarendon Springs dolomite in the town of Essex. Travis has developed a great interest in fractures and
groundwater and is an elite skier, which I’m sure comes in handy exploring outcrops along the Winooski
river.
I hope all of you are doing well and I hope to see many of you during the coming year.
With best
wishes,
Keith
Photo 1 caption: Kathryn, Alice and Mike during the Fiordland expedition, 2013.
Photo 2 caption: Northeastern GSA presentations.
Email: Keith.Klepeis@uvm.edu
http://www/uvm.edu/~kklepeis/
http://geology.uvm.edu/structure/structure.html
http://geology.uvm.edu/structure/fiordland/fiordland.html
(802) 656-0247
It’s not all work and no play “down under”;
from left Mike Ingram, keyboard and chisel; Keith Klepeis, guitar and juice hard;
Kathryn Dianiska , vocals and tambourine; and Alice Newman, vocals and sax
Char Mehrtens, Professor (Stratigraphy, Sedimentation, Carbonate Petrology):
Hi all! It’s a good thing that Jack agrees to do the newsletter every year as it forces me
to sit down and think about what has gone on in the past year. It always makes me feel
better to remember what happened (and it’s my annual check on my memory health!).
Work things: Grad student Ryan Brink started field work on the late Lower Cambrian
Altona Formation in northern New York, and its relationship to the partially coeval
Monkton. Ryan and I had the only window of good weather in most of the summer,
and he was able to get sections measured and samples collected before June monsoons
washed out field work. My other grad student, Steven Gohlke, continued writing up
his thesis work on the burial history of the Taref Member of the Nubian Sandstone in southern Egypt. His
work has documented the shallow burial depth this unit reached and also constrained the time of formation
of the deformation bands in this unit. Steven presented his results at AAPG and GSA meetings. He is also
on the cusp of finding employment in the petroleum industry. Speaking of employment, former grad
student Megan Scott found a job teaching introductory geology in the Oregon community college system.
Way to go, guys!
Meanwhile, back with the Egypt project: subsequent scheduled field seasons were postponed due to
revolution. It’s been very painful to watch the chaos unfold. Once you meet people it makes watching the
news about the political, social and economic strife difficult. UVM undergrads Tony Haigh (2013) and
Jacob Vincent (2014) were scheduled to go over with Barb Tewksbury and me to do field work but we had
to cancel the trip. I feel badly about how things have unraveled; they were so optimistic about their future.
We hope the project can continue, but things don’t look good.
I am taking a break from teaching Geol 001 this fall and next. I’m teaching Strat/Sed (Geol 153) now and
we are enjoying the good weather this autumn for all of the field trips, including two overnight camping
trips to Massachusetts (Mesozoic stratigraphy and modern beach).
Fun things: Jack and Ruthie Drake continue to be good golf buddies. Occasionally, I torment Barry Doolan
with my golf game (Jack can hang in there with “almost a golf pro” Doolan, but not me!). I am actually
getting better at this sport, which rationalized my purchasing a new set of clubs. Jack and I conquered 30+
miles of the Northern Canoe Forest Trail: the Fulton Chain to Forked Lake in New York. It was excellent,
and we hope to finish the NY portion this upcoming summer.
Ryan and new field assistants
The Dynamic Duo at the start of the paddle,
Old Forge, NY:
I did another short expedition in the famous “Nine Carries” route in the Adirondacks. Note to self: it
wasn’t called the “Nine Lakes” route for a reason; pretty much this was a hiking trip carrying a 45 lb canoe.
I’m sure the trauma of this trip is to blame for my going out and purchasing a 20lb solo canoe!
I saw UVM geology alum Leila Pascale at the wedding of UVM ENVS/Geology alum Meg Modley in
October. Leila is working for an environmental consulting company in the Boston area but is looking to
move into the sustainability field. It was great to catch up with her. In the “I’m feeling old” category is the
arrival of UVM Geology alum (1982?) John Humphrey’s daughter Rebeca as a new first year student.
Try as hard as we can, it looks like she is not going to be a geo major : ) We will get to see John a bit more
often and he’s good for at least one Visiting Speaker talk. Gretchen Van Houten Gotlieb came by the
department this fall. She’s currently between jobs in the Houston, TX area.
Please keep sending news of your activities. It is ALWAYS great to hear from everyone.
Char (on right) at GSA 125th Gala; Denver, CO
Laura Webb, Assistant Professor (Igneous petrology and Geochronology)
Hello UVM Geology alumni and friends:
It’s been another busy year and I’m constantly amazed by the wonderful people I am
fortunate to interact with as a member of this department, including students,
undergraduate and graduate students, staff, and fellow faculty. This fall I am enjoying
teaching the Field Methods in Geophysics class, which provides opportunities for
experiences that are a departure from my usual tectonics-oriented adventures. For
example, this semester we conducted ground penetrating radar surveys to locate
Andrea Lini’s septic system and, just in time for Halloween, we surveyed marked and
unmarked 19th century graves in Burlington’s Elmwood Cemetery as part of a collaborative project with
the UVM Consulting Archeology Program. Over the remainder of the semester we’ll be working in
Hinesburg to help characterize a potential municipal water well field in collaboration with the Vermont
Geological Survey.
My research foci continue to include development of the new noble gas geochronology laboratory and
collaborative projects in Papua New Guinea, Mongolia, Chile, and Vermont. Of note this year, Patrick
Dyess successfully defended his thesis on research on research related to the NSF-funded titanium-inquartz thermobarometry project, and Kyle Ashley’s thesis research (UVM Geology MS 2011) on this topic
was published in the September issue of G3 (Ashley et al., 2013). New, collaborative research on the
Acadian orogeny and the Connecticut Valley Trough is starting to gain momentum on the heels of a great
joint Quebec-Vermont field trip over the summer and the arrival of my new MS student, Sam Lagor (BS St.
Lawrence University).
On the home front, it’s been another spectacular fall in Vermont and my husband, Erich and I are still very
much enjoying living in Milton, bird watching from our deck when the seasons allow, and hiking the trails
in the neighboring woods along the Lamoille River. After having lived here for a little over five years, I’m
still feeling lucky to call such beautiful place as Vermont home.
Warm regards,
Laura
New UVM Geology MS student, Sam Lagor (right), and Alain Tremblay (center) and Morgann
Perrot (left) from Université du Québec à Montréal examine Acadian folds exposed near
Craftsbury, Vermont. This was one of many spectacular outcrops visited as part of a July 2013
joint Quebec-Vermont field trip in the Connecticut Valley Trough.
Laura and her husband, Erich, enjoying an all too
brief visit to the San Juan Islands.
Stephen Wright, Senior Lecturer (Glacial geology, Geomorphology,
Environmental Geology) : Being back at school after a year’s sabbatical is a bit of a
shock, but I’m in the groove now and happy to be back among a mostly new group of
students and my colleagues. I’m also more thankful than ever for the time I had last year
to work on projects I normally don’t have time for. I spent the fall 2012 field season
measuring hundreds of glacial striations in the central Green Mountains, an area
extending from Camels Hump south to Okemo Mountain near Ludlow. I then compiled
all of the published and unpublished striation data I could find and made several large
“striation” maps that extend from the Québec border down to Ludlow. I’ve used these
data to formulate a model showing how ice sheet flow changed across the region during
retreat and presented this at NE GSA last spring and spent most of the summer writing paper that describes
this work in more detail.
I spent a month in northern England form early April to early May. I spent the first 10 days exploring the
Lake District with my wife and forced her (not a hard task) to walk among and explore a myriad of classic
glacial landscapes as well as countless old slate quarries and one of the world’s first graphite mines. Pencils
were first manufactured and are still manufactured in Keswick England (Derwent pencils). I then spent a
little over 2 weeks walking across England along the Coast to Coast path, a long-time ambition of mine.
While the weather was cold, wet, and windy much of the time, the landscapes were lovely, and geology,
intriguing, and the people I met warm and inviting. A good diversity of British beer too at many pubs along
the way!
In early October I led the Vermont Geological Society Fall field trip that focused on the glacial history of
the Pico Peak region. Some of you who have driven across Sherburne Pass on Route 4 since the Irene flood
have undoubtably noticed the big landslides along Mendon Brook. The field trip included a stop at one of
these large landslides where we were able to see sediments deposited in a high-altitude glacial lake that
once occupied the Mendon Brook valley. Large debris flows from the steep valley sides interrupt the
normal lacustrine sedimentation and spectacularly deform the lacustrine sediments.
I look forward to seeing some of you out at the Denver GSA meeting this fall or perhaps the NE GSA
meeting in Lancaster this coming March.
Email: Stephen.Wright@uvm.edu
Trail along a narrow arête bordering a welldeveloped northeast-facing
Entrance to an old lead mine
in the Yorkshire Dales. These
deposits have been worked
since Roman times and are all
in limestones, a setting very
similar to the Mississippi
Valley lead deposits.
Julia Perdrial, Assistant Professor for Geochemistry. Hi to everyone!
I joined the Department of Geology this summer and am more than excited to be here
(in Vermont, Burlington, UVM and especially in this Department)! I’m a German
native, and completed my bachelor's and master's degrees in geology, mineralogy, and
geochemistry at the University of Heidelberg (Germany) in 2004. I then moved to
France to work on my Ph.D. research in environmental chemistry, physics, and biology
at the University of Louis Pasteur in 2008.
This experimental research evolved around elucidating Geo-Bio-Hydro-phase
interactions where I studied how clays, aqueous solutions and bacteria affect each
other. Bringing microbiology into my research was eye-opening and I wanted to continue research that
embraces the importance of biology in mediating Earth Surface processes.
For my Post-Doctoral time I therefore joined the Jemez River Basin Critical Zone Observatory in New
Mexico. These CZO’s are outdoor laboratories, operating at the catchments scale, where interdisciplinary
work is the new normal. I learned a lot about this Critical Zone (the zone spanning from the top of the
vegetative canopy to the actively cycled groundwater) in an interdisciplinary and collaborative setting at
the University of Arizona. For my research I combined Bio-geochemistry, Hydrology, Ecology and Soil
Science to understand carbon dynamics and weathering at the catchment scale. Since my work is a
combination of lab and field work I often encountered all types of desert critters when in the field.
Friend encountered in the Sonoran desert during field work
Email: Julia.perdrial@uvm.edu
Andrew Schroth, Research Assistant Professor (Low Temperature Geochemistry, Limnology and
Oceanography) Hello! I am a new Research Assistant Professor, and I am excited to be a part of UVM and
the Department of Geology in particular. I come to the department after 5 years at U.S.
Geological Survey in Woods Hole, MA, where I was a postdoctoral scholar and then a
research geologist. Since I began working within the department this past July, I have
felt immediately at home due to the friendly faculty, staff and students here at UVM.
My primary area of expertise is in low temperature geochemistry and environmental
mineralogy, but I also have teaching and research interests in soil science, hydrology
and hydrogeology. I am particularly interested in the transport, fate and speciation of
metals in surface waters, soils and sediments. I have come to UVM to lead a team of
Vermont-based scientists and students in an NSF EPSCoR-funded research effort that
aims to better understand nutrient dynamics and algal blooms in Lake Champlain and
its watershed, generally in the context of climate change and adaptive management. Our team has been
extremely busy this summer establishing an exciting network of sites for time series sample collection
(water, sediment and biomass) and sensor deployment on Lake Champlain’s Missisquoi Bay and at select
sites within the Missisquoi and Winooski watersheds. Over the next few months, we will be conducting
laboratory analyses of these samples as well as processing and interpreting data collected over the field
season, while also establishing a winter sampling plan. We will continue to collect data from these sites
over the next 4 years in an effort to better characterize and quantify inter and intra annual variability within
the system and, more importantly, understand the environmental parameters that control nutrient/algal
dynamics within the system. I also have active projects in Alaska studying trace metal speciation and
cycling in watersheds, dusts and coastal marine waters that I hope to involve UVM undergraduate and
graduate students as soon as possible. In the future, I look forward to developing new projects in the
montane watersheds and soils of the nearby Green and Adirondack ranges, as these were the systems that I
studied as a graduate and undergraduate student of geochemistry. I am also looking forward to teaching
coursework in geochemistry and possibly other subjects through the Department of Geology. I am always
keen to meet geologically-inclined alumni and current students! Please do not hesitate to shoot me an email or stop by my office to chat!
Missisquoi Bay Microbiological Sampling Platform
Nico Perdrial: Greetings! I joined with great pleasure the department at the start of the fall semester as a
Research Assistant Professor. My wife, our son and I moved from Tucson (AZ) after 5
years spent discovering the US, the Southwest and the desert while we were both
Research Scientists in the department of Soil Water and Environmental Science at
University of Arizona. This is an exciting new adventure that starts now as we are
starting to explore beautiful Vermont. The contrast with the southwest is striking and I
hope that we will manage our first winter without too much damage… I grew up in
Nantes (France) and after a passage in unavoidable (but pretty) Paris I acquired a PhD
in geochemistry at l’Universite Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg. During that first semester I
am pursuing research on the behavior of uranium in soils under extreme acid
conditions. I am also actively seeking funds to continue and expand my research and
build an Environmental Mineralogy laboratory. My fantastic new colleagues are also contributing so much
to expand my knowledge of Vermont geology and feel comfortable here. My research aims to identify and
quantify the nature and extend of molecular scale processes that occur in complex (soil) systems to be able
to understand their expression at the macroscale. My principal research tools are a combination of highprecision aqueous geochemical techniques, electron microscopy and synchrotron spectroscopic techniques
(X-Ray diffraction, X-Ray fluorescence and X-Ray absorption). During the spring semester I will have the
pleasure to teach Environmental Geology. I am looking forward the coming years and the possibility to
develop further my research program and classes and continue to discover and enjoy UVM, Burlington and
Vermont!
Email: Nicolas.Perdrial@uvm.edu
Website: http://nicolasperdrial.weebly.com/
Nico checking out the beam on beamline 11-2 at the Stanford Synchrotron
Radiation Ligthtsource last summer
Staff
Robin Hopps: I enjoy my ten-month position in the office working for wonderful
faculty and staff members, and students. From mid-June to mid-August I enjoy
landscaping - mostly in Addison County and a few accounts in Burlington. My spouse
of 25 years and I continue to literally “enjoy the fruits of our labor” throughout the
summer and into the fall season. With 8 acres of woodland and 2 acres of edible
landscape it’s always time to pick something, such as blueberries, mulberries (both red
and white), black raspberries, red raspberries, peaches (8 bushels), pears (3 bushels),
plums, philazel nuts (2 bushels), and several varieties of eating and storage apples
(Liberty is my favorite), grapes, and cranberries. Our neglected vegetable garden was
not wasted on woodchuck, rabbit, and other vermin, but we managed to harvest some
kale, carrots, beets and potatoes for us.
Some department info: The Department of Geology has 33 majors, 17 minors, and 6 students with
concentrations in Geology. We also have 11 graduate student candidates, and 3 PhD students (through
Environmental Science). Stop by Delehanty Hall, to visit, or re-visit staff and faculty (10 members), as well
as the Perkins Museum of Geology (open M-F). Stay in touch by sending an email to geology@uvm.edu.
You can see the list of lectures for the Geology Seminar Series on the UVM Geology website at “News and
Events” and additional department news under “News and Newsletters.” Visit the Perkins Geology
Museum http://www.uvm.edu/perkins/
Email: robin.hopps@uvm.edu
Srebrenka Mršić: Not much new news to report except for my name change. Since
May 16th 2008 I have worked as department administrative coordinator in the Geology
Department, and I still love working here. It is a real pleasure to work with every single
person in the Department. Being around young, educated people and watching them
develop makes me feel good. I am always glad to assist them when they need help. I am
fortunate to have four daughters; two of them graduated from UVM and the younger
twins are third-year students at UVM so I am happy to see them on campus now. Also,
I am a grandmother and my five-year old grandson brings me joy on a daily basis.
Email: srebrenka.mrsic @uvm.edu
Gabriela Mora-Klepeis, Senior Research Technician: It has been a busy and
productive year as our Department continues to grow. Since last year we’ve welcomed
3 new faculty members into our midst, each of whom have brought great new research
ideas and projects. Our graduate student program continues to be exciting and
dynamic and each year we welcome a new group of great students. Last March the
northeastern sectional GSA meeting took place at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.
Due to its close proximity to UVM, there was a large presence of faculty,
undergraduate and graduate students there. In April, UVM hosted the Vermont
Geological Society meeting providing another venue for several students to present
their research. In May I coordinated the installation of the Vermont State Map as part of a permanent
exhibit in the Perkins Museum. As some of you know, Vermont offers lots of great outdoor opportunities
all year round. In an attempt to take full advantage of this fact, last winter I got back into snowshoeing and,
during the summer, I completed my second triathlon. I am happy to report that I finished 13 minutes faster
than last year! It was a pleasure to share this experience again with Jack Drake. By the end of the summer I
had the opportunity to explore the Mayan ruins at Ek Balam and Cobá in southeastern Mexico. It was a
great trip! If you are in the area, please stop by for a building tour, I’ll be happy to show you around!
Email: Gmora@uvm.edu
http://www.uvm.edu/~geology/?Page=faculty/mora-klepeis.php
A winter snowshoe hike in Vermont
With Keith at Mayan site Ek’Balam
2013 Colchester Triathlon
Dan Jones, Research Technician: Hello All! I have been a member of the
UVM Geology staff since June of 2011, helping with the construction of Laura Webb’s
Noble Gas Geochronology Lab. Once we get the instrumentation up to speed and
humming along smoothly, I will be in charge of the day-to-day operation, sample
preparation and analysis.
I came here from Fairbanks, Alaska, where I had initially moved to complete a
Master’s degree in geochronology and volcanology, studying volcanoes in Mexico and
Russia. The lifestyle sunk its hooks deep, though, and I stuck around for several years
after graduating, enjoying arctic cabin life while working as a geologist in a remote
underground gold mine.
I currently live in Burlington, enjoying running water for the first time in a decade, the wonderful camping
opportunities the Green Mountains have to offer and the superb craft beer culture in Vermont (which my
wallet does not enjoy). I am very excited to get to know New England, and look forward to spending time
travelling to all its hidden corners. I also force most people who visit my home to play dorky board games.
Emeriti Faculty
Barry Doolan: Greetings to all Geology Alums.
Hello to all alums and friends. It has been a great year in retirement...travel, golf
and bit of geology. Sandy and I spent some time in Charleston, SC enjoying sun, surf
and golf. Char and I ran an interesting field trip for the UVM OLLIE program earlier
this summer visiting field stops in the Champlain Valley for very interested adult
learners. Heard from a few alums. Congratulations to Jeremy Hourigan on the birth of
his first daughter this year; Hello from Laura Mallard who is doing well at Appalachian
State in Boone NC. Watch out Laura we're back to NC next
month!
Older daughter Kristan (UVM Geology ’92) is doing well in nearby Bakersfield running Does Leap Farm
(organic goat cheese and kiefer and more recently pork and goat sausage) with her family. Grandkids Zoe
and Peter continue to be a source of joy and inspiration for us. We are fortunate to have them close by.
We still live in Fletcher Vermont (since 1981) and welcome any visits you may make to Vermont. Just put
in 27 Cambridge Road, Fletcher Vermont in your GPS. Looking forward to hearing from past grads. Drop
an email or visit us in Fletcher when you’re in the area.
Best wishes to all
Barry
Barry and crew near Oaxaca Mexico, Spring 2010
Jack Drake: We seem to have developed a pattern for the year – but a good one at
that. In the summer we enjoy multiple outdoor activities, sailing, golfing, (often with
Barry or Char), biking, gardening, etc., spending time at our “camp” on the Inland Sea
of Lake Champlain and entertaining our granddaughters for a week, trying to introduce
them to Green Mountain State life. Fall is spent here in Burlington sitting in on
courses at UVM (Art History – Prehistoric to Gothic for me, and Economic
Development in the 3rd World for Ruth), plus some Spanish for me (and compiling this
newsletter) and volunteering at the hospital for Ruth. As usual we’re off to California
(near Santa Barbara) for the winter months, returning to Vermont in April just in time
for spring and summer activities. So, for us, life is good. We just have to keep
reminding ourselves how lucky we are considering all the trials, tribulations and problems that exist in the
world today.
Best to you all, you have provided many fond memories of my years here at UVM. When you in town
please get in touch (except winter months when we’re gone!)
Jack
Email: john.drake@uvm or jcdrakevt@gmail.com.
David Bucke: The past year at the Bucke household has been eventful, fortunately in a
positive way. The homestead at Sleepy Hollow Road has experienced both downsizing
and upsizing. A significant 2-story addition has been added and some interior
reworking has created a reasonably spacious "apartment". Why all this? Our youngest
daughter, Katherine, along with her husband and 2 daughters (3 and 4 years old) are
now sharing the living space. We have the option to "retreat" to our downsized area or
just be one big family. This arrangement is working very well and allows us to remain
secure at our home for the future rather than searching for "antiquity quarters"
somewhere else.
We continue to do RV traveling, primarily in September and October. This year we logged about 8,000
miles heading across the north concentrating on North Dakota, Montana, Arizona, and especially Utah. We
thought of Jack Drake's Regional Geology as we watched rafters going through the Grand Canyon. The
return east included the Gulf Coast barrier islands at North Padre Island (Texas) and Ft. Pickens across the
sound from Pensacola (Florida panhandle). Donna and I continue to enjoy paleoenvironmental analyses of
all the sedimentary rocks of the Colorado Plateau, the phenomenal topography, and evidence of recent
(<1000 yr bp) volcanic hiccups. Ahh, great memories of Regional Trips with Allen Hunt! We enjoy
visiting the National Parks but much of our time is spent "boondocking" in undeveloped National Forest
and BLM land. Staying on federal land plus an occasional Walmart keeps our camping costs minimal -about $2.60/night. Gasoline is another story! In late February we enjoyed some decadent vacationing in
Jamaica as a break from the Vermont winter.
We hope all is well with the UVM family!
Dave Bucke
Donna & I extend our warm best wishes to all of you
Our new email address is: ddbucke@gmail.com
I think my UVM mail still works & flips into the gmail box -- but maybe not.
Graduate student information, research and activities can be found at
www.uvm.edu/geology/?Page=gradresearch.html&SM=oppmenu.html
and meet the Graduate Students
www.uvm.edu/geology/?Page=enews/graduate_students.html
Recent (2012-2013) Publications and Presentations by UVM Faculty and
Students
(UVM Geology faculty in bold, UVM students in italics)
Ashley, K.T., Webb, L.E., Spear, F.S., and Thomas, J.B., in press, P-T-D histories from quartz: A case
study of the application of the TitaniQ thermobarometer to progressive fabric development in metapelites,
Geochemistry,Geophysics,Geosystems,DOI: 10.1002/ggge.20237.
Taylor, J., Webb, L., Johnson, C., and Heumann, M., 2013, The lost South Gobi Microcontinent: protolith
studies of metamorphic tectonites and implications for the evolution of continental crust in southeastern
Mongolia,
Geosciences,
special
issue:
Continental
Accretion
and
Evolution,
DOI:10.3390/geosciences3030543.
Leech, M.L., and Webb, L.E., 2013, Is the HP-UHP Hong'an-Dabie-Sulu orogen a piercing point for offset
on the Tan-Lu fault? Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v. 62, p. 112–129, DOI:
10.1016/j.jseaes.2012.08.005.
Spear, F., Ashley, K.T., Webb, L.E., and Thomas, J., 2012, Ti diffusion in quartz inclusions: implications
for metamorphic time scales, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, DOI: 10.1007/s00410-0120783z.
Baldwin, S.L., Fitzgerald, P.G., and Webb, L.E., 2012, Tectonics of the New Guinea region, Annual
Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 40, p. 495-520, doi: 10.1146/annurev-earth-040809-15254.
Heumann, M.J., Johnson, C.L., Webb, L.E., Taylor, J.P., Jalbaa, U., and Minjin, C., 2012, Paleogeographic
reconstruction of a late Paleozoic arc collision zone, southern Mongolia, Geological Society of America
Bulletin, doi:10.1130/B30510.1.
Ashley K.T., Webb, L.E., Spear, F.S., and Thomas, J.B., 2012, P-T-D Histories and Reequilibration of Ti
in Quartz: Using the TitaniQ Thermobarometer in Poly-Deformed Tectonic Terranes, Goldschmidt
Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Spear, F.S., Ashley K.T., Webb, L.E., and Thomas, J.B., 2012, Tectonic implications of short metamorphic
episodes, Goldschmidt Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Tewksbury, B.J., Tarabees, E., Hogan, J., Kattenhorn, S.A., Mehrtens, C. 2013, The Desert Eyes Project
Part I: Polygonal Faults in Cretaceous Chalk and Enigmatic Fold Structures in Eocene Limestones, Western
Desert, Egypt, Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr. With Progr.
Hogan, J. P., Tewksbury, B.J., Mehrtens, C., Ellis, T., 2013,The Desert Eyes Project part II: Structures
Along East-West and North-South Faults of the Western Desert, Egypt, Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr. With Progr.
Barbara J. Tewksbury,John P. Hogan,Tucker T. Keren,Carolyn M. Tewksbury-Christle
Charlotte J. Mehrtens, 2012, Deformation Bands and the Expression in Siliciclastic Cover Rocks of Slip
on Long-Lived Basement Faults in Southern Egypt, Geological Society America, abstracts with programs,
vol. 43, no. 7
Ruksznis, A., Charlotte Mehrtens, Laurence Becker, Marjorie Gale, 2013, Field-Based Undergraduate
Curriculum and Research Exploring Geophysical Methods, with Applications to the State of Vermont,
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs Vol. 45, No. 1, Bretton Woods, N.H., March 1720
Gohlke, S., Mehrtens C., Tewksbury, B., 2013Deformational bands in Poorly Sorted, Poorly Lithified and
Shallowly Buried Sandstone Along the Seiyal Fault, Western Desert, Egypt, Geol. Soc. AMer. Abstr. With
Program, Vol, 45, no.7
Conroy, M., 2013, Carbonate Barrier Dune Morphology and Architecture on Eleuthra, Bahamas: Links to
Sea Level and Hurricane Activity Records from an Enclosed Lagoon and its Implications on Lucayan
Occupation, Session T228, Geol. Soc. Amer. Annual Meeting, Denver, CO
Hughes, J.M., Nekvasil, H., Ustunisik, G., Lindsley, D.H., Coraor, A.E., Vaughn, J., Phillips, B.,
McCubbin, F.M., and Woerner, W.R. (Accepted) Solid solution in the fluorapatite - chlorapatite binary
system: High-precision crystal structure refinements of synthetic F-Cl apatite. American Mineralogist.
Rakovan, J., and Hughes, J.M. (2013) Apatite – A Large and Illustrious Family. In Apatite. Lithographie,
LTD, Denver, CO, pps. 4-9. ISBN: 978-0-9836323-3-7.
Kampf, A.R., Hughes, J.M., Marty, J., and Nash, B.P. (2013) Wernerbaurite,
{[Ca(H2O)7]2(H2O)2(H3O)2}{V10O28}, and schindlerite, {[Na2(H2O)10](H3O)4}{V10O28}, the first
hydronium-bearing decavanadate minerals. Canadian Mineralogist, 297-312.
Kampf, A.R., Hughes, J.M., Marty, J., and Brown, F.H. (2013) Nashite, Na3Ca2([V5+9V4+1]O28)•24H2O, a
new mineral species from the Yellow Cat Mining District, Utah and the Slick Rock Mining District,
Colorado: Crystal structure and descriptive mineralogy. Canadian Mineralogist, 27-37.
Kampf,
A.R.,
Hughes,
J.M.,
Marty,
J.,
and
Nash,
B.
(2012)
Postite,
Mg(H2O)6Al2(OH)2(H2O)8(V10O28)•13H2O, a new mineral species from the La Sal Mining District, Utah:
Crystal structure and descriptive mineralogy. Canadian Mineralogist 50 45-53.
Hughes, J.M. (In Press) Highlights and Breakthroughs: Molecular water in nominally unhydrated
carbonated hydroxylapatite: The key to a better understanding of bone mineral (Invited review). American
Mineralogist.
Kampf, A.R., Hughes, J.M., Marty, J., and Nash, B. (2013) Kokinosite, Na2Ca2(V10O28)·24H2O a new
mineral. Report to the International Mineralogical Association Commission on New Minerals,
Nomenclature and Classification.
Vaughn, J.S., Phillips, B.L., Hughes, J.M., Nekvasil, H., Ustunisik, G., Lindsley, D.H., Coraor, A.E.,
McCubbin, F.M., and Woerner, W.R. (In Review) Determination of Anion Ordering in Mixed Apatites via
Multinuclear Solid-State NMR & X-ray Crystallography. American Geophysical Union 2013 Fall Meeting,
San Francisco.
Ertl, A., Tillmanns, E., Schuster, R., Hughes, J.M., Meyer, H.-P., Ludwig, T. and Heinrich, M. (2013)
Tetrahedrally-coordinated Al in Mn-rich liddicoatite from a pegmatite-marble contact in the Austroalpine
basement units. Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft annual meeting, 2013, Tubingen.
Ertl, A., Henry, D.J., Hughes, J.M., Giester, G., Meyer, H.-P., Körner, W., and Schuster, R. (2013)
Investigations on metamorphic tourmalines. Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft annual meeting, 2013,
Tubingen.
Wood, E.L., Avant, T., Kim, G.-S., Lee, S.-K., Hughes, J.M., and Sansoz, F. (2013) Indentation size
effects in bimetallic nanowires by AFM nanoindentation. Materials Science and Technology Conference,
2013.
Kampf,
A.R.,
Hughes,
J.M.,
Marty,
J.,
and
Nash,
B.
(2013)
Ophirite,
{[[6](Fe3+,Zn,Sb5+)2[6](Mn2+,Zn,Fe3+,Sb5+)2(H2O)2][[4](Zn,Fe3+,Fe2+,Mn2+)2[6](W6+,Mg)18O68]}
{[[6]Mg(H2O)6]2[[6](Mg,Fe3+,Mn2+,□)(H2O)6]2[[7](Ca,Mn2+,□)(H2O)6]2·10H2O}, a new mineral. Report to the
International Mineralogical Association Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification.
Tansman, G., Kindstedt, P., and Hughes, J.M. (2013) Application of an improved powder X-ray
diffraction method to evaluate cheese crystals. 2013 American Dairy Science Association Annual Meeting,
Indianapolis, IN.
Hughes, J.M., and Nekvasil, H. (2013) Solid solution in the (F, OH, Cl) apatite ternary system. Invited
Paper, Frank C. Hawthorne Symposium, GAC-MAC 2013 Meeting, Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 21-23,
2013.
Hughes, J.M., Nekvasil, H., Ustunisik, G., Lindsley, D.H., and Woerner, W.R. (2012) Solid solution in the
fluor-chlor apatite anion column. 2012 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC,
November, 2012.
Kampf,
A.R.,
Hughes,
J.M.,
Marty,
J.,
and
Nash,
B.
(2012)
Wernerbaurite,
{[Ca(H2O)7]2(H2O)2(H3O)2}{V10O28}, a new mineral. Report to the International Mineralogical
Association Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification.
Kampf, A.R., Hughes, J.M., Marty, J., and Nash, B. (2012) Schindlerite, {[Na2(H2O)10](H3O)4}{V10O28}, a
new mineral. Report to the International Mi
neralogical Association Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification.
Kampf,
A.R.,
Hughes,
J.M.,
Marty,
J.,
and
Nash,
B.
(2012)
Postite,
Mg(H2O)6Al2(OH)2(H2O)8(V10O28)•13H2O, a new mineral species from the La Sal Mining District, Utah:
Crystal structure and descriptive mineralogy. Canadian Mineralogist 50 45-53.
Ertl, A., Schuster, R., Hughes, J.M., Ludwig, T., Meyer, H.-P., Finger, F., Dyar, M.D., Ruschel, K.,
Rossman, G.R., Klotzli, U., Brandstatter, F., Lengauer, C.L., and Tillmanns, E. (2012) Li-bearing
tourmalines in Variscan granitic pegmatites from the Moldanubian nappes, Lower Austria. European
Journal of Mineralogy, 24, 695-715.
Ertl, A., Kolitsch, U., Dyar, M.D., Hughes, J.M., Rossman, G.R., Pieczka, A., Henry, D., Pezzotta, F.,
Prowatke, S., Lengauer, C., Körner, W., Brandstätter, F., Francis, C.F., Prem, M., and Tillmanns, E. (2012)
Limitations of Fe2+ and Mn2+ site occupancy in tourmaline: evidence from Fe2+- and Mn2+-rich tourmaline.
American Mineralogist, 97, 1402-1416.
Hughes, J.M., Nekvasil, H., Ustunisik, G., Lindsley, D.H., and Woerner, W.R. (2012) Solid solution in the
fluor-chlor apatite anion column. 2012 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC,
November, 2012.
Hughes, J.M., 2013, Mineralogical Soc. America Presidential Address, Geol. Soc. Amer. Annual Meeting,
Denver, CO
Portenga, E.W., Bierman, P. R., Rizzo, D M., Rood, D. H. (in press). Low rates of bedrock
outcrop erosion in the central Appalachian Mountains inferred from in situ 10Be. Geological Society
of America Bulletin.
Reusser, L. J., Corbett, L. B., and P. R. Bierman (2012), Incorporating concept sketching into
teaching undergraduate geomorphology. Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 60, p 3-9.
Bacon, A. R., Richter, D., Bierman, P. R., and Rood, D. H., (2012) Coupling meteoric 10Be
with pedogenic losses of 9Be to improve soil residence time estimates on an ancient North
American interfluve. Geology, v. 40; no. 9; p. 1–4; doi:10.1130/G33449.1
West, N., Kirby, E., Bierman, P., Slingerland, R., Ma, L., Brantley, S., and Rood, D. (2013). Regolith
transport on hillslopes in the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory inferred from meteoric
10Be. JGR Earth Surface.
Balco, G., Soreghan, G. S. , Sweet, D.E., (2013). Cosmogenic-nuclide burial ages for Pleistocene
sedimentary fill in Unaweep Canyon, Colorado, USA, Quaternary Geochronology.
Regalla, C., Kirby, E., Fisher, D., and Bierman, P. (2013). Erosional response to active shortening in the
Tohoku forearc, NE Honshu, Japan. Geomorphology. v. 195, p. 84–98
dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.04.029
Miller, S.R., Sak, P.B., Kirby, E., and Bierman, P.R., 2013, Neogene rejuvenation of central Appalachian
topography: Evidence for differential rock uplift from stream profiles and erosion rates: Earth and
Planetary Science Letters, v. 369-370, p. 1-12, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.04.007.
Markewich, H.W., Pavich, M.J, Schultz, A.P., Mahan, S.A., and Bierman, P.R. (2012). Geochronologic
evidence for a possible MIS-11 emergent barrier/beach-ridge in southeastern Georgia. Quaternary Science
Reviews. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.10.041
Enzel Y., Amit R., Grodek T., Ayalon A., Lekach J., Porat N., Bierman P., and Blum J. (2012).
Chronology and paleoenvironments of depositional landforms and the reevaluation of the Quaternary-scale
"Impact of climatic change on an arid watershed: Nahal Yael, Israel”, Geological Society of American
Bulletin.
Vang, A. and Bierman, P., (2013) The cultural legacy of the Vermont Interstate System, in review,
Walloomsack Review.
Corbett, L. Bierman, P., Graly, J., Neumann, T., Rood, D. (2013). Constraining landscape history and
glacial erosivity using paired cosmogenic nuclides in Upernavik, Northwest Greenland. Geological Society
of America Bulletin. v. 125, no. 9-10, 10.1130/B30813.1
Young, N., E. Briner, J., Rood, D., Finkel, R., Corbett, L., and Bierman, P. (2013), The Fjord Stade
moraines in western Greenland and early Holocene abrupt climate change. Quaternary Science Reviews, v.
60, p. 76–90.
Portenga, E.W., Bierman, P. R., Rizzo, D M., Rood, D. H. (2013). Low rates of bedrock outcrop erosion
in the central Appalachian Mountains inferred from in situ 10Be. Geological Society of America Bulletin.
v. 125, n. 1-2, p. 201-215.
Bacon, A. R., Richter, D., Bierman, P. R., and Rood, D. H., (2012) Coupling meteoric 10Be with
pedogenic losses of 9Be to improve soil residence time estimates on an ancient North American interfluve.
Geology, v. 40; no. 9; p. 1–4; doi:10.1130/G33449.1
Reusser, L. J., Corbett, L. B., and P. R. Bierman (2012), Incorporating concept sketching into teaching
undergraduate geomorphology. Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 60, p 3-9.
Bierman, P., 2013, Quaternary cosmogenic Geochronology – rates and dates- past, present and future;
Geol. Soc. Amer. Annual Mtg, Denver, CO
Bierman, P, 2013, In situ produced 10Be in marine sediment records, 7 million years of Greenland ice
sheet erosion in response to changing climate; Geol. Soc. Amer. Annual Mtg,. Denver, CO
Bierman, P., 2013, Key concepts in geomorphology – a future looking community based textbook that
builds on our past; Geol. Soc. Amer. Annual Mtg., Denver, CO
Corbett, L, 2013, Optimizing sample preparation for precision low detection limit analysis of in situ 10Be:
strategies and new data; Geol. Soc. Amer. Annual Mtg., Denver, CO
McPhillips, D, 2013, Identical erosion rates and processes across the Pleistocene-Holocene transition,
western cordillera, Peru: single clast Be-10 results; Geol. Soc. Amer. Annual Mtg., Denver, CO
Neilson, T, 2013, Understanding modern landscape behavior using meteoric and in situ 10Be and147Cs in
large river basins, SW China; Geol. Soc. Amer. Annual Mtg, Denver, CO
Rayback, S. A., A. Lini, and D. L. Berg. 2012. The dendroclimatological potential of an alpine shrub,
Cassiope mertensiana, from Mount Rainier, WA, USA. Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical
Geography. 94: 413-427
Rayback, S. A., G. H. R. Henry, and A. Lini. 2012. Multiproxy reconstructions of climate for three sites
in the Canadian High Artic using Cassiope tetragona . Climatic Change. 114: 593-619
Levine, N., A. Lini, Ostrofski M.L., Bunting L., Burgess H., Leavitt P.R., Dahlen D., Lami A., and
Guilizzoni P., 2012, The Eutrophication of Lake Champlain’s Northeast Arm: Insights from
Paleolimnological Analyses. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 38: 35-48
Belrose, A., Lini, A., Koff, A., and Palmer, J., 2013, Paleolimnological study of Holocene sediments in,
Lake Champlain, USA-Canada. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 45, No. 1,
p.113
Olliver, E., and Lini, A., 2013, Impacts of Large Storms on Vermont Lakes: A case study from Lake
Rescue, Ludlow, VT. University of Vermont Student Research Conference. April 23, 2013
Aldrich, E., Lini, A., and Rayback, S., 2013, A Comparative Investigation of Preparation Methods for
Stable Carbon Isotope Analysis of Tree Rings. University of Vermont Student Research Conference. April
23, 2013
Mitchell, C.,J. Lini, A., and Stockwell, J., 2013, Divergent diel vertical migration in Mysis diluviana: is it a
plastic or fixed behavior? University of Vermont Student Research Conference. April 23, 2013
Grauer, J., Lini, A., and Murdoch, J., 2013, Dietary niche of carnivores in Vermont. University of Vermont
Student Research Conference. April 23, 2013
Mitchell, C.J., Lini, A., Stockwell, J., 2013, Divergent behavior in diel vertical migration of mysis
diluviana: is it plastic or fixed? ASLO 2013 Aquatic Sciences Meeting
Rayback, S. A., A. Lini, M. H. Gagen, C. V. Cogbill, R. Gregory, and C. Jenkins, 2013, Stable carbon
isotopes from eastern hemlock trees in northern New England and their potential for mid-latitude climate
reconstruction. Second American Dendrochronology Conference. May 2013. Tucson, AZ.
Murdoch, J., Davie, H., Stokowski, P., Lini, A., and Reading, R, 2013, Wolves, livestock, and livelihoods –
seeking solutions to conflict in the arid steppes of Mongolia. International Wolf Symposium 2013: Wolves
and Humans at the Crossroads, Duluth, Minnesota USA October 10-13, 2013
Wright, S.F., 2012, Subglacial drainage, glacial lake history, and subsequent stream incision history,
Miller Brook Valley, Northern Vermont; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts w. Programs, Vol. 44, p. 51.
Cronauer, S. and Wright, S.F., 2012, Miller Brook incision history, Northern Vermont; Geol. Soc. Am.
Abstracts w. Programs, Vol. 44, p. 50.
Wright, S.F., 2013, Laurentide Ice Sheet flow across the Green Mountains, Vermont: Geol. Soc. America
Abstracts with Program, Vol. 45, p. 105.
Wright, S.F., 2013, Surficial geology and land use in Vermont: Geol. Soc. America Abstracts with
Program, Vol. 45, p. 49.
Webber, J.R. and K.A. Klepeis, 2012, FRY3D: a new educational open-source computer tutorial designed
for the collection, manipulation, and visualization of three-dimensional strain data at the undergraduate
level, Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum June 14 – 16, Williams College, Williamstown, MA.
Ruksznis, A., 2012, Integration of Structural Analysis, EMI and GPR Surveys, and Hydrogeology in the
Plainfield Quadrangle, Central Vermont, UVM Student Research Conference (SRC), University of
Vermont, Burlington, VT.
Ruksznis, A., Kim, J., Klepeis, K., Webb, L., 2012, Structural analysis, an EMI survey, and hydrogeology
in the Plainfield Quadrangle, central Vermont II, Vermont Geological Society. The Green Mountain
Geologist, v. 39 (2).
McNiff, C., Klepeis, K.A., Webb, L., Kim, J., 2012, Geometric Variability and Spatial Extent of an
Acadian Dome and Basin Fold Interference Pattern in NW Vermont, Geological Society of America
Abstracts with Programs, 44(2) , Abstract No: 200767.
Klepeis, K.A. Stowell, H., *Odom Parker, K. and *Webber, J., 2012, Magmatism and the evolution of high
strain zones in the lower crust during lithospheric extension and orogenic collapse, Fiordland, New
Zealand, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 44(2), Abstract No: 200289 (INVITED).
Kim, J., Klepeis, K.A., 2012, From Isoclinal Folds to Sheath Folds: The Preservation of Intermediate-Stage
Structures along an Ordovician Thrust Zone, Waterbury Reservoir, Central Vermont, Geological Society of
America Abstracts with Programs, 44(2) , Abstract No: 199752.
Rukszni, A., Kim, J., Klepeis, K.A., Webb, L., 2012, Integration of structural analysis, EMI and GPR
surveys, and hydrogeology in the Plainfield Quadrangle, central Vermont, Geological Society of America
Abstracts with Programs, 44(2), Abstract No: 199746.
Betka, P.B., Klepeis, Mosher, 2012, Reactivation and Inversion of Rifted Margins: Implications for
Mountain Belt Formation, AGU annual meeting, December.
Betka, P., Mosher, S., Klepeis, K.A., 2012, Decoupling along a high strain zone during the tectonic
inversion of a back-arc basin and formation of the Patagonian Andes, Chile, Geological Society of America
Abstracts with Programs, Charlotte, NC.
Hout, C., Stowell, H., Schwartz, S., Klepeis, K., 2012, New 206pb/238u zircon ages record magmatism
and metamorphism in the crustal root of a magmatic arc, Fiordland, New Zealand, Geological Society of
America Abstracts with Programs, Charlotte, NC.
Klepeis, K., Ingram, M., MacLeod, D., Webber, J., Stowell, H., 2012, Three dimensional evolution of a
lower crustal shear zone during lithospheric extension and the collapse of arc crust, Fiordland, New
Zealand, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Charlotte, NC
Ruksznis, A., Kim, J., Klepeis, K., and Webb, L.E., 2012, Integration of structural analysis, EMI, and GPS
surveys, and hydrogeology in the Plainfield quadrangle, central Vermont, (Geological Society of America
Northeastern Section – 47th Annual Meeting).
Klepeis, Keith, Newman, Alice C., Dianiska, Kathryn E., Schwartz, Joshua J., Stowell, Harold, and
Tulloch, Andy, 2013, Time-scales of magmatism, metamorphism and deformation during the initiation of
intraplate rifting in the lower crust of a continental arc, Fiordland, New Zealand, Geological Society of
America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 45, No. 7, p.812.
Dianiska, Kathryn E., Newman, Alice C., Miranda, Elena A., Zeidan, Tina, Klepeis, Keith, Stowell,
Harold, and Schwartz, Joshua J., 2013, The relationship between deformation and metamorphism in
contrasting high strain zones in the lower crust of a continental arc, Fiordland, New Zealand, Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 45, No. 7, p.600.
Schwartz, Joshua J., Zamora, Caroline, Stowell, Harold, Klepeis, Keith, Tulloch, Andy, and Coble,
Matthew A., 2013, Episodic metamorphism and cooling in the root of a continental arc, Fiordland, New
Zealand, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 45, No. 7, p.743.
Stowell, Harold, Klepeis, Keith, Schwartz, Joshua J., Tulloch, Andy, Bailey, Sarah, and Parker, Karen A.,
2013, Granulite facies metamorphism and the initiation of intraplate extension in the lower crust of a
continental magmatic arc, Fiordland, New Zealand, Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Programs. Vol. 45, No. 7, p.799.
Sadorski, Joseph Frank, Schwartz, Joshua J., Stowell, Harold, Klepeis, Keith, Tulloch, Andrew, and
Coble, Matthew A., 2013, Time scales of continental arc root construction and deep crustal magmatic flux
rates: insights from U-Pb zircon geochronology of a triassic-cretaceous arc, Fiordland, New Zealand,
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 45, No. 7, p. 391.
Hout, Crystal, Stowell, Harold, Schwartz, Joshua J., Klepeis, Keith, and Koenig, A.E., 2013, New garnet
Sm-Nd ages record timing of eclogitic garnet growth in Fiordland, New Zealand, Geological Society of
America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 45, No. 7, p.799.
Kim, J., Klepeis, K. and Gale, M., 2013, Distribution and Geometry of Acadian Deformation in the
Taconian Foreland of West-Central Vermont, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs Vol.
45, No. 1, Bretton Woods, N.H., March 17-20.
Ruksznis, A., Klepeis, K., and Gale, M., 2013, Variation in two styles of Acadian thrust faulting in the
Pinnacle Formation, Richmond, VT, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs Vol. 45, No.
1, Bretton Woods, N.H., March 17-20
Ingram, M., Macleod, D., Klepeis, K., Gerbi, C., Yates, M., Stowell, H., 2013, A comparison of
microstructures and deformation textures inside and outside the lower crustal Doubtful Sound shear zone,
Fiordland, New Zealand, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs Vol. 45, No. 1, Bretton
Woods, N.H., March 17-20
Weber, E., Kim, J. and Klepeis K., 2013, Comparison of ductile structures from the southern terminus of
the Hinesburg thrust fault with those from the central flap, West-Central Vermont, Geological Society of
America Abstracts with Programs Vol. 45, No. 1, Bretton Woods, N.H., March 17-20.
Dianiska, K., and Newman, A., 2013, The relationship between deformation and metamorphism in
contrasting high strain zones in the lower crust of a continental arc, Fiordland, New Zealand, Session T186,
Geol. Soc. Amer. Annual Meeting, Denver, CO
Klepeis, K, 2013, Time-scales of magamatism, metamorphism and deformation during the initiation of
intraplate rifting in the lower crust of a continental arc, Fiordland, New Zealand, Session T183, Geol. Soc.
Amer. Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
Hout, C., 2013, New garnet Sm-Nd ages record timing of eclogitic garnet growth in Fiordland, New
Zealand. Session T160, Geol. Soc. America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO
Ruksznis, A., 2013, Acadian thrust faulting in Richmond, VT, Student Research Conference (SRC),
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.
MacLeod, D., 2013, A field-based structural analysis of Mt. Hunger, Vermont, Student Research
Conference (SRC), University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.
Tinklepaugh, J., 2013, A comparison of structures below the Champlain Thrust, Western Vermont, Student
Research Conference (SRC), University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.
Betka, P. M., and K.A. Klepeis, 2013, Three-stage evolution of lower crustal gneiss domes at Breaksea
Entrance, Fiordland, New Zealand, Tectonics, 32, doi:10.1002/tect.20068.
Maloney, K.T., Clarke, G.L., Klepeis, K.A., Quevedo, L., 2013, The Late Jurassic to present evolution of
the Andean margin: drivers and the geological record, Tectonics, 32, doi:10.1002/tect.20067.
Schroth, A.W., Crusius, J, Kroeger, K.D., Hoyer, I.R., Osburn C.L. (2012-Invited) Seasonal fluctuation
and estuarine removal of riverine iron fluxes to the Gulf of Alaska AGU Fall Meet. Suppl. Abstract
Moy, C.M., Crusius, J., Schroth, A.W.,. Nichols, J.E., Peteet D.M., Kenna, T.C., Giosan L., Eglinton, T.I.,
and Santiago Gassó, S. (2012) Eolian deposition of glacial flour dust to the Gulf of Alaska during the
Holocene Eos Trans. AGU Fall Meet. Suppl. Abstract
Crusius, J., Schroth, A.W., Campbell, R.W., Cullen,J. Resing, J. (2012)Seasonal control of surface-water
dissolved iron concentrations by suspended particle concentrations on the Northern Gulf of Alaska
continental shelf and slope AGU Fall Meet. Suppl. Abstract
Schroth, A. W., Crusius, J., Campbell, R. W., Kroeger, K. D., Osburn, C. L., Hoyer , I. R. (2012) Seasonal
fluctuation and estuarine removal of riverine iron fluxes to the Gulf of Alaska AGU Ocean
SciencesConference
Crusius J., Schroth, A. W., Campbell, R. W., (2012) Possible climate change impacts on supply of
micronutrient iron to the Gulf of Alaska AGU Ocean Sciences Conference
J.N.Perdrial, N. Perdrial, A. Vasquez-Ortega, C. Porter, J. Chorover (accepted). Experimental assessment
of fiberglass passive capillary wick sampler (PCap) suitability for inorganic soil solution constituents. Soil
Science Society of America Journal.
J.N. Perdrial, J. McIntosh, A. Harpold, P. Brooks, P. Troch, J. Ray, X. Zapata-Rios, C Porter, J.Chorover.
(accepted). Controls of stream water carbon in seasonally snow-covered mountain catchments: impact of
water fluxes, catchment aspect and seasonal processes. Biogeochemistry.
J.N. Perdrial., N.Perdrial, A. Harpold, X. Gao, R. Gabor, K. LaSharr, J. Chorover 2012. Impacts of
sampling dissolved organic matter with capillary wicks versus aqueous soil extraction. Soil Science Society
of America Journal. https://www.soils.org/publications/sssaj/view/first-look/s12-0061.pdf
J.N. Perdrial, A. Vasquez-Ortega, J. McIntosh, A. Harpold, C.Porter, X. Zapata-Rios, L. Guthridge, P.
Brooks, J. Chorover (2012). Stream water organic matter characteristics after the Las Conchas wildfire :
perspective from the critical zone. GSA meeting Rocky Mountain section, ABQ. May 9-11th.
J. N. Perdrial*, P. Brooks, J. Chorover, K. Condon, A. Harpold, M. Holleran, D. Huckle, R. Lybrand, P.
Troch, J. McIntosh, T. Meixner, B. Mitra, M. Pohlmann, C. Rasmussen, T. Swetnam, A. Vazquez-Ortega,
X. Zapata-Rios (2012). Do water and carbon fluxes control chemical denudation? Goldschmidt 2012, June
24-29, Montreal.
J.N.Perdrial, C.Rasmussen, J.C.McIntosh, X.Zapata-Rios, A.A.Harpold, A.Vazquez-Ortega, C.Porter,
P.D.Brooks, T.Meixner, B. Mitra, P.A. Troch, J.Chorover (2012) Carbon and Water: the Energy for
weathering and chemical denudation. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2012, abstract #EP41I04.
A.A. Harpold, P.D.Brooks, J.N.Perdrial, J.C. McIntosh, T. Meixner, X.Zapata-Rios, J. Chorover (2012).
Quantifying Variation in Solute Sources and Nutrient Cycling in Montane Headwater Catchments.
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2012, abstract #B22D-06
J.N.Perdrial, Stielstra, C., Lybrand, R. Swetnam, T., Mitra, B., Huckel, D., Harpold, A., J. McIntosh, T.
Meixner A .Vasquez-Ortega, K. Condon, P. Brooks, J. Chorover. (2013). Closing the Carbon balance for
snow dominated headwater catchments in the US SW. Gordon Conference for Catchment Science,
Andover NH.
J. Prescott-Smith, J.N. Perdrial, M. Pohlmann, N. Perdrial, J. Chorover. (2012). Characterizing particulate
and dissolved matter in a small forested headwater stream during a monsoon storm. American Geophysical
Union, Fall Meeting 2011, abstract # EP43A-0866.
M.A.Pohlmann, J.N.Perdrial; J. Prescott-Smith, MK. Amistadi, P.A.Troch, J. Chorover (2012). Resolving
dissolved vs. colloidal and particulate weathering product forms across the storm hydrograph. American
Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2011, abstract #EP43A-0867.
A.Vazqeuez-Ortega, J.N. Perdrial, A.A.Harpold, X.Zapata-Rios, C.Rasmussen, J.C.McIntosh, M.Schaap,
J.D.Pelletier, MK. Amistadi, J. Chorover. (2012). Rare Earth Elements as reactive tracers of
biogeochemical weathering in the Jemez River Basin Critical Zone Observatory. American Geophysical
Union, Fall Meeting 2011, abstract #H531-1651.
C.M.Porter, J.C.McIntosh, L.A.Derry, T.Meixner, J.Chorover, P.D.Brooks, C.Rasmussen, J.N.Perdrial
(2012). Determining Solute inputs to soil and stream waters in a seasonally snow-covered mountain
catchment in northern New Mexico using Ge/Si 87Sr/86Sr and ion chemistry. American Geophysical Union,
Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #V23E-2878.
D.G.Zaharescu;K. Dontsova, C.I.Burghelea, J.Chorover, R. Maier, J. N. Perdrial (2012). Life on rock.
Scaling down biological weathering in a new experimental design at Biosphere-2. American Geophysical
Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #EP53A-1017.
Julia N. Perdrial; Paul D. Brooks; Tyson Swetnam; Kathleen A. Lohse; Craig Rasmussen; Adrian A.
Harpold; Marcy E. Litvak; Patrick D. Broxton; Bhaskar Mitra; Katherine Condon; David M. Huckle;
Angelica Vazquez; Rebecca A. Lybrand; Molly Holleran; Caitlin A. Orem; Thomas Meixner; Jon Chorover
2013. Do fire disturbances account for missing C in snow dominated headwater catchments in NM? AGU
Fall Meeting, B33E-0531
Paul D. Brooks; Joel A. Biederman; Katherine Condon; Jon Chorover; Jennifer C. McIntosh; Thomas
Meixner; Julia N. Perdrial (2013). A cross-site comparison of factors controlling streamwater carbon flux
in western North American catchments (Invited). AGU Fall Meeting H43B-1445.
Talk
Jon Chorover; Julia N. Perdrial; Jason P. Field; Jon D. Pelletier; Michael A. Pohlmann; Mark V.
Losleben; Kelsie Lasharr; Mary Kay Amistadi; Paul D. Brooks; Jennifer C. McIntosh; Thomas Meixner;
Rachel Gallery; Virginia I. Rich; Craig Rasmussen; Marcel G. Schaap; David D. Breshears 2013. Fluid
Chemistry Dynamics Before and After Fire in the Jemez River Basin Critical Zone Observatory. AGU Fall
Meeting B41F-05
Harpold, A.A., D. Karwan, J.N. Perdrial, J.A. Marshall, J. Driscoll, A. Neal, and C. Phillips
(2013): Graduate Research Group White Paper: Cross-CZO Research Potential. Internal CZO publication
RECENTLY COMPLETED M.S. THESES
Go to http://www.uvm.edu/~geology/?Page=gradresearch.html&SM=oppmenu.html
To see current research and access completed theses
2013
Geology MS theses defended in the last year:
Patrick Dyess - Interpreting Quartz Textures through TitaniQ Thermobarometry of Low Grade
Metapelites, Northfield Mountains, Vermont.
Angel A. García Jr. - Elemental Sulfur Nanoparticle Coarsening Kinetics and Changes in Raman and
Voltammetric Signals
Steven Gohlke- Insights into the origin of a zone of slipped deformation bands from the Seiyal Fault,
Western Desert, Egypt
Alice Nelson – Using in situ cosmogenic 10Be as a sediment source tracer in Greenland’s paraglacial
environment
Megan Scott - The Tectonic Influence on the Depositional Environment of the Middle Ordovician
Middlebury Formation
2012
Christine Downs McNiff - The Characterization of Ductile Deformation in the Upper and Lower Plates of
the Hinesburg Thrust Fault Through Detailed Geometric Analysis of Selected Outcrops.
Johanna Palmer -A Paleolimnological Study of Holocene Sediments in St. Albans Bay, Lake Champlain
Merril Stypula – U-Pb Ziron Dating of Metamorphic Tectonitesfrom Tavan Har, Southeast Mongolia:
Implications for the Role of Tectonic Inheritance in IntraplateShear Zones
Jeff Webber – Advances in Rock Fabric Quantification and the Reconstruction of Progressive Dike
Emplacement in the Coastal Batholith of Central Chile
2011
Kyle T. Ashley - TitaniQ thermobarometery of fabric development in the Strafford Dome, Vermont:
Linking microstructures to orogenic processes.
Lee Corbett – Investigating the timing of deglaciation and the efficiency of subglacial erosion in centralwestern Greenland with 10 Be and 26Al
Eric Portenga – Using 10Be to constrain erosion rates of bedrock outcrops globally and in the central
Appalachian Mountains
THIS YEAR’S OUTSTANDING GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT WENT TO
ALICE NELSON
Two Graduate students Start “SURGE” for Undergraduate Students
Graduate Students Kathryn Dianiska and Alice Newman established a new initiative
within the department in October 2013 called SURGE (Sessions in Undergraduate
Research in GEology). It's designed to open up dialogue between senior geology majors
and graduate students.
The focus of SURGE is two fold:
1) To provide guidance on the necessary elements for a rewarding and successful
undergraduate senior thesis experience, and
2) To provide guidance, tips, and encouragement for approaching graduate studies in
geology.
Weekly SURGE meetings allow our undergraduate students to interact closely with the
graduate students and discuss their interests, research, and projects. These meetings will
facilitate the discussion of research, writing, presenting data and furthering academic
interests in geology.
Early this spring we plan on doing an Illustrator workshop to help with poster preparation
and figure making. Based on past meetings, the students saw the benefit of exchanging
drafts so we plan to continue this throughout the spring semester. We also plan to
establish helpful deadlines to help keep everyone’s research and writing on track, as well
as, giving presentation tips and practice opportunities for students who will be presenting
at VGS and other outlets. Lastly, we plan on broadening the involvement of both faculty
and other graduate students in the spring and are thinking of ways in which we can ask
for your assistance
Alice and Kathryn are graduating summer 2014. They hope to pass SURGE sessions on
to other graduate students so that it can be a lasting and helpful resource for senior
undergraduate majors. They welcome any feedback from the UVM Geology community!
Kathryn Dianiska kdianisk@uvm.edu Alice Newman Alice.Newman@uvm.edu
HURRAY FOR THE LIBERAL ARTS!!
RECENT (and Past) WINNERS of GEOLOGY DEPARTMENT PRIZES AND
AWARDS ARE LISTED ON THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE
http://www.uvm.edu/geology/?Page=honors.html
COME SEE US AT THE FOLLOWING MEETINGS:
2014 NATIONAL GSA Meeting:.
19-22 October 2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2014 NORTHEAST SECTIONAL GSA Meeting:
23-15 March 2014, Lancaster, PA
NATIONAL AGU Meeting:
9-13 December 2013, San Francisco, CA
http://www.agu.org/meetings
NEIGC 2014: Check for information, dates and specific location at
http://www.salemstate.edu/~lhanson/NEIGC/
Alumni/Reunion Weekend at UVM!!!! (Note that this coming year it is in the fall!)
check http://alumni.uvm.edu/reunion for more information
Make sure that you get in touch with us so we can show you around!!
Visit our website for links to more department information and activities
http://www.uvm.edu/geology/ and http://www.uvm.edu/perkins
Regional Geology in recent years
Regional Geology, 2012 on a “warm” summer day in Colorado
Colorado Regional Geology class (2011) stymied by snow in the South Lottis Creek
Valley. From left to right: Sam Hellman, Sam Kleh, Parker Richmond, Doug
MacLeod, Abi Ruksznis, Ryan Stredny, Jo Palmer (TA), Hank Ainley, Sandra
Cronauer, Abby O'Donnell, Emily Siegel, and Elizabeth (Ollie) Olliver.
Regional Geology with Keith and Char,
Iceland, 2010
2009 Regional
geology students:
Matt Bansak,
Ben Henry,
Greg Parrish,
Will Hackett (TA),
Maggie McMillan,
Tyler Vendituoli,
Holly Crimmins,
Mary Snyder,
Mike Ingram, and
Shane Snyder at the
base of a weathered
Tertiary lava flow
near Del Norte,
Colorado.
Regional Geology, Italy, 2008
Regional Geology, Colorado, 2007: Pat Niggel, Gary Peters,
Pat Tobin, Corey Coutu (TA, partially hidden), Jessica
Schechter, and Kirsten Stokes studying the contact relationships
between Paleozoic carbonate rocks and Laramide intrusive rocks
near Cumberland Pass, Colorado
Regional Geology, Italy, 2006
Regional Geology 2005 in front of the “Maroon Bells” near
Aspen, Colorado
Iceland Regional Geology Crew enjoying summer sun
August 2004
Regional Geology 2003 enjoying the Maine coast
Last but not least, a “blast from the past”
Regional Geology 1986, Newfoundland (Can you identify these people?)
Send your answers to Jack.Drake@uvm.edu