GEORGE W. GRADER 1066 Nearing Road, Moscow, Idaho 83843. 208-310-1218 [email protected] EXPERIENCE
PRISEM Geoconsulting, Spokane, Washington - Geologist 2008 - Present Well site geology, eastern Montana: Mesozoic/Paleozoic units of the Cordilleran foreland. Play prospecting/field mapping of Cretaceous incised valley deposits. Evaluation of Devonian sequence stratigraphy and hydrocarbon plays in western Montana. Development of field trips into the Devonian-Mississippian Bakken Formation.
University of Idaho, Geological Sciences - Affiliate Faculty 2007 - Present Project investigator and regional consultant, South America. Devonian through Permian stratigraphic, biostratigraphic and climate studies in Bolivia. Research and field trips for multidisciplinary teams of geologists and graduate students from Spain, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, and the US. Field work with US students on Paleozoic problems in east-central Idaho.
Ralston Hydrological Services, Moscow, Idaho - Geologist 2007 - 2008 Spokane Valley Rathdrum Prairie stratigraphic study of the Spokane River from Coeur d’Alene to State line (in contract with Idaho Water Resources). Well log hydrogeological analysis of pre-Miocene basement and Miocene through Pleistocene geology.
Terra Graphics Environmental - Well Site Geologist 2005 - 2006 Hydrogeologic characterization of the Moscow sub-basin Environmental remediation projects.
Washington State University, Pullman, WA - Geology Instructor 2004- 2007 Web-based instruction of historical geology. Research: incised valley sequence stratigraphy and Devonian regional geohistory in Idaho
Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID - Field Camp Instructor Summer 2004
University of Idaho, Moscow, ID - Sedimentology/Stratigraphy Instructor 2002 Responsible for lectures, exams, paper assignment and standard labs., with seismic interpretation focus. Created new field trips including: Geology of the Lost River Range, ID.; Triassic carbonate deposits and terrane geohistory of the Wallowas, Oregon.; Missoula flood deposits, Washington.
EDUCATION
University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho - Ph.D. Geology, Dec. 2003 Carbonate-siliciclastic sequences of the Pennsylvanian and Permian Copacabana Formation, Titicaca Group, Andes of Bolivia
University of Idaho - M.S. Geology, Sept. 1998 Stratigraphy of the Devonian Jefferson Formation and paleovalley deposits in the Lemhi Range, east-central Idaho
University of Idaho - Teaching/Research Assistant 1995-2001
Colby College, Maine - B.A. 1989
LANGUAGE SKILLS & AFFILIATIONS
German – Advanced proficiency GSA, AAPG French and Spanish limited working proficiency Palouse Basin Aquifer Committee Significant travel experience Citizens Advisory Group PUBLICATIONS
Grader, G. W., 2011 in review, Miocene Latah Formation and subsurface geology along the Moscow Subbasin margin, Latah County, Idaho: “Recharge from the east” revisited. Idaho Geological Survey.
Refereed Publications: di Pasquo, M., and Grader, G.W., 2011 in review, Palynology of the Early Permian Copacabana Formation and Coal Member at Apillapampa, Bolivia. Palynology.
Grader, G.W., Isaacson, P.E., Diaz-Martinez, E., and M.C. Pope, 2008. Pennsylvanian and Permian Sequences in Bolivia: Direct Responses to Gondwana Glaciation. In: Fielding, C.R, Frank, T.D., and Isbell, J.L. (eds.), The Late Paleozoic Gondwanan Ice Age: Timing, Extent, Duration and Stratigraphic Records. Geological Society of America Special Paper 441. p. 143 – 159.
Isaacson, P.E., Díaz-Martínez, E., Grader, G.W., Kalvoda, J., Babek, O., and Devuyst, F.X., 2008. Late Devonian Glaciation in Gondwana. In: Soreghan, G.S., and Montañez, I.P. (Eds.), Geosystems: investigations of the Late Paleozoic Tropical Earth System. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology Special Issue.
Grader, G.W., Díaz-Martínez, E., Davydov, V., Montañez, I., Tait, J., and Isaacson, P.E., 2007. Late Paleozoic stratigraphic framework in Bolivia: constraints from the warm water Cuevo Megasequence. In, Díaz- Martínez, E. and Rábano, I. (Eds.), 4th European Meeting on the Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Latin America, Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, no. 8. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, p. 181-188.
Isaacson, P.E., Grader, G.W., Pope, M.C., Montañez, I.P., Butts, S.H., Batt, L.S., and Abplanalp, J.C., 2007. Devonian-Mississippian Antler foreland basin carbonates in Idaho: significant subsidence and eustasy events. Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, Mountain Geologist, 44(3): 119-140.
Vierra, C.E., Iannuzzi, R., Guerra-Sommer, M., Díaz-Martínez, E., Grader, G.W., 2004. Permian plants from the Chutani Formation (Titicaca Group, northern Altiplano of Bolivia: I. genera Pecopteris and Asterotheca. Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, v. 76(1), 117-128.
Iannuzzi, R., Vierra, C.E., Guerra-Sommer, M., Díaz-Martínez, E., Grader, G.W., 2004. Permian plants from the Chutani Formation (Titicaca Group, northern Altiplano of Bolivia: II. The morphogenus Glossopteris. Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, v. 76(1), 129-138.
Grader, G.W., Isaacson, P.E., Arispe, O., Pope, M. Mamet, B., Davydov, V., Díaz-Martínez, E., 2003. Back-arc carbonate-siliciclastic sequences of the Pennsylvanian and Permian Copacabana Formation, Titicaca Group, Bolivia. Revista Tecnica de Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos, v. 21, 207-228.
Isaacson, P.E., Díaz-Martínez, E., Grader, G.W., 2003. Organization of the Bolivian Devonian-Permian rocks into sequences. Revista Tecnica de Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos, v. 21, 203-206.
Grader, G.W., Isaacson, P.E., Mamet, B., and Davydov, V., 2002, Late Carboniferous to Middle Permian Copacabana Formation in Bolivia: cyclic carbonate-clastic successions in a back-arc setting. AAPG, Hedberg Conference, p. 1-4.
Isaacson, P.E., Grader, G.W., Butts-Matheson, S., 2001. Devonian, Mississippian and Pennsylvanian-Permian buildups and carbonate stacking patterns, south-central Idaho. ExxonMobil Exploration Field Trip, Aug. 22-26 2001, 67 p.
Grader, G.W., Isaacson, P.E., Rember, B., Mamet, B., Díaz-Martínez, E., Arispe, O., 2000. Stratigraphy and depositional setting of the Late Paleozoic Copacabana Formation in Bolivia. Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Teil I (7/8), 723-741.
Díaz-Martínez, E., Mamet, B., Isaacson, P.E., Grader, G.W., 2000. Permian marine sedimentation in northern Chile: new evidence from the Juan de Morales Formation and regional paleogeographic implications. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 13, n. 6, 511-525.
Díaz-Martínez, E., Sempere, T., Isaacson, P.E., Grader, G.W., 2000. Paleozoic of western Gondwana active margin (Bolivian Andes). 31st International Geological Congress, Field Trip Guide, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 31 pages.
Grader, G.W. and Dehler, C.M., 1999. Devonian stratigraphy in east-central Idaho: new perspectives from the Lemhi Range and Bayhorse area. In: Hughes, S.S. and Thackray, G. D. (Eds.), Guidebook to the geology of Eastern Idaho (in conjunction with the GSA Rocky Mountain Section Meeting, Pocatello, Idaho.), p. 31-56.
Isaacson, P.E., Hladil, J., Jian-Wei, S., Kalvoda, J., Grader, G.W., 1999. Late Devonian (Famennian) glaciation in South America and marine offlap on other continents. In: Feist, R., Talent, J. A. and Daurer, A. (Eds.), North Gondwana: Mid-Paleozoic Terranes, Stratigraphy and Biota, Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, 54, p. 239-257.