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 large- scale 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 .

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 [email protected] UVM Geology Dept. Delehanty Hall 180 Colchester Avenue Burlington, VT 05405 802-238-6826 (cell) 802-656-4411( v) 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 week- long 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: [email protected] 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-in- quartz 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: [email protected]

Trail along a narrow arête bordering a well- developed 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: [email protected]

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 e- mail 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 high- precision 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: [email protected] 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 [email protected]. 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: [email protected]

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: [email protected] http://www.uvm.edu/~geology/?Page=faculty/mora-klepeis.php

A winter snowshoe hike in Vermont With Keith at Mayan site Ek’Balam

Finish line, 2013 Colchester Triathlon 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 [email protected].

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: [email protected] 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/s00410-012- 0783z.

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 17- 20

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.

5+ 4+ Kampf, A.R., Hughes, J.M., Marty, J., and Brown, F.H. (2013) Nashite, Na3Ca2([V 9V 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] 3+ 5+ [6] 2+ 3+ 5+ [4] 3+ 2+ 2+ [6] 6+ {[ (Fe ,Zn,Sb )2 (Mn ,Zn,Fe ,Sb )2(H2O)2][ (Zn,Fe ,Fe ,Mn )2 (W ,Mg)18O68]} [6] [6] 3+ 2+ [7] 2+ {[ Mg(H2O)6]2[ (Mg,Fe ,Mn ,□)(H2O)6]2[ (Ca,Mn ,□)(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, Israelâ€, 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 #EP41I- 04.

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 central- western 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 [email protected] Alice Newman [email protected]

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?)

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