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CURRICULUM VITA Dr. PAUL J. UMHOEFER Professor & Director School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability Northern Arizona University Flagstaff AZ 86011-4099 phone (928) 523-6464; fax (928) 523-9220; [email protected]; http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~pju/ PERSONAL DATA Citizenship: U.S.A. EDUCATION University of Washington 1984/1989 Ph.D. Geology 1989 PH.D. DISSERTATION “Stratigraphy and tectonic setting of the upper Cadwallader terrane and overlying Relay Mountain Group, and the Cretaceous to Eocene structural evolution of the eastern Tyaughton basin, British Columbia; Advisor, Darrel Cowan University of California, Los Angeles 1982 Graduate course University of Southern California 1980/1981 Graduate courses University of Wisconsin - Madison 1977-1979 M.S. Geology 1979 University of Wisconsin - Madison 1973-1977 B.S. Geology 1977 PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT - ACADEMIC Northern Arizona University 8/13-present Director, SESES Northern Arizona University 9/12-8/13 Interim Director, School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability (SESES) Northern Arizona University 8/07-present Professor Northern Arizona University 7/08-6/09 Interim Chair of Geology Northern Arizona University 8/02-8/07 Associate Professor Northern Arizona University 8/00-8/02 Assistant Professor Northern Arizona University 8/97-8/00 Visiting Assistant Professor Northern Arizona University 9/92-8/97 Research Associate Occidental College 1992; 1994 temporary Assistant Professor University of Minnesota 7/89-8/92 Research Associate, Instructor University of Minnesota - Duluth 9/90-3/91 temporary Assistant Professor University of Washington 1990; 1989 Field Camp Instructor University of Washington 1986-1988 Research Assistant PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT - INDUSTRY Consultant – San Onofre Nuclear 11/12 – 10/13 Geologist Consultant for Texaco Inc 3/88 - 5/88 Petroleum Geologist Texaco USA 3/80 - 8/84 Petroleum Geologist 1 AWARDS Distinguished Professor – 2006 - 2007, College of Engineering and Natural Sciences, NAU Elected to Fellowship, Geological Society of America, April, 2006 Nominated by Geology Department, Faculty Advisor Award, NAU, 2006 Outstanding Teacher Award, from Geology Graduate Student Organization, Spring 2004 RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS - EXTERNAL National Science Foundation, (EAR-Tectonics – EAR-1119063) $110,638, 1/1/12 – 12/31/14; “Evaluating Influence of Eocene Ridge Subduction on Magmatism, Deformation, and Basin Evolution, Pacific NW” (with R. Miller, S. Bowring, J. Tepper) National Science Foundation, (Continental Dynamics EAR1109762) NAU total = $640,675; Umhoefer = $262,555 10/1/11 – 9/30/16; “Continental Dynamics/Central Anatolian Tectonics (CD-CAT): Surface to mantle dynamics during collision to escape” (with M. Reid, 15 other PIs and international colleagues) National Science Foundation, (OCE-0948167) $103,467 ($199K total) 4/15/10 – 3/31/14; “Reconstructions of the Gulf of California – Salton Trough Plate Boundary Since 14 Ma: A Digital Synthesis of Recent Advances and Outstanding Problems” (with M. Oskin; R. Dorsey) National Science Foundation, (EAR-0838596) $197664 K ($400K total) 3/09 – 2/14; “High- resolution basin analysis of a large-offset extensional system, Lake Mead domain, east-central Basin and Range Province” (with M. Lamb, T. Hickson) National Park Service, NPS, $2,000, 9/2009 – 6/2011, PI Paul Umhoefer, Correcting and Updating Geology Map for Petrified Forest National Park. Science Foundation Arizona, Competitive Advantage Awards Program. $109,515, 3/2007 – 3/2008; extended to 12/2008. "Enhancing teaching effectiveness in undergraduate geology education through the use of pentablet computers" PIs Hoisch, T., Umhoefer, P., Manone, M., Reid, M., Sample. J. National Park Service, NPS, $33,296, 6/15/2006 – 6/14/2007; extended to 11/30/2007, PI Paul Umhoefer, co-PI Ron Blakey, Geologic Mapping, Organ Pipe Cactus National Park. National Science Foundation, (OCE-0505348) $186K ($600K total) 9/05 to 8/07: extended to 8/09; “Neotectonics across an active Oblique-Divergent Plate Margin, Southwestern Gulf of California” (with R. Arrowsmith, T. Dixon, G. Kent, N. Driscoll, J. Fletcher) National Park Service, NPS, $33,195, 7/2005 – 6/2006, PI Ron Blakey, co-PI Paul Umhoefer, Geologic Mapping, northern Petrified Forest National Park. HP Technology for Teaching Grant – 2005 Extension - $130,000; PI Paul Umhoefer, Technical Lead Mark Manone – 7/05 - 6/06 HP Technology for Teaching Grant - $70,000; PI Paul Umhoefer, Technical Lead Mark Manone – 5/04 - 5/05 National Park Service, NPS-03-57, $20,000, 10/2002 – 9/2004, PI Ron Blakey, co-PI Paul Umhoefer, Geologic Mapping, southern Petrified Forest National Park. National Science Foundation, (OCE-0203616) $46,231 (~$200,000 total) 9/02 to 8/05 Four dimensional pattern of rifting in southern Gulf of California (with P Lonsdale, J Hawkins, J. Fletcher, and E Nava-Sanchez) National Science Foundation, (OCE-0111738) $105,501 (~$1.45 million total) 4/02 to 3/05 Seismic and geologic study of Gulf of California rifting and magmatism (with D. Lizarralde, S. Holbrook, G. Axen, J. Fletcher, and 4 others) National Science Foundation, EAR-9802792, $102,750 ($320,000 total) 7/98 to 6/2001 Active strain within the Pacific - North America oblique-divergent plate boundary, Baja California Sur, Mexico (with T. Dixon & L. Mayer) National Science Foundation, EAR-9627856, $11,844, 8/96 to 2/98 2 Quaternary deformation in the Cascade foothills and southern Puget Lowland, Washington (with D. Montgomery) National Science Foundation, EAR-9526506, $154,000, ($254,000 total) 1/96 to 12/98 Active Tectonics of a Young Oblique-Rifted Continental Margin, Loreto Area, Baja California Sur, Mexico (with R. Dorsey, and L. Mayer) National Science Foundation, EAR 9304426, $130,955, 7/93 to 12/96 Jurassic-Cretaceous tectonostratigraphy and structure of the western margin of the Intermontane terrane, Chilko Lake area, British Columbia National Science Foundation EAR 9296255, $52,769, 12/92 to 12/94 Tectonic and Stratigraphic Evolution of the Loreto Basin, Baja California Sur: A Transform-Rift Basin (with R. Dorsey) Geological Survey of Canada Contract $14,500, 7/90 to 10/91 Lithostratigraphy of the Last Creek and Tyaughton groups in the Taseko Lakes and Mt. Waddington map-areas National Science Foundation EAR 89-04383, $80,000, 7/89 to 12/91 Internal deformation within a moving composite terrane: evidence from southwest British Columbia (with K. Kleinspehn) National Science Foundation EAR 85-18750, $36,225, 1/86 to 6/88 Structure and sedimentology of Triassic to Cretaceous rocks in the Cadwallader terrane, southwestern British Columbia (P.I. - D. Cowan; Research Assistant - P. Umhoefer) Texaco Inc. Contract, $10,000, 3/88 to 5/88 Regional structural analysis of SE North Yemen RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS - NAU ERDENE NAU grant – $53,000; 7/2005- 6/2006 Middleton, Umhoefer, Manone CRADLEE E-Learning Mini-Grant - $40,000; 1/2005 – 12/2005; PI’s Umhoefer, Manone, Morgan, Best, Middleton, Blakey, Hoisch, and Reid NAU Intramural Grants Program (awarded) $13,500 7/2001 – 6/2002 The role of the Hurricane fault in the development of the SW Colorado Plateau Hooper Undergraduate Research Award to Sam Coleman, 2010-2011, Umhoefer is mentor Hooper Undergraduate Research Award to Paul Fears, 2009-2010, Umhoefer is mentor Hooper Undergraduate Research Award to Jason Rizzollo, 2003-2004, Umhoefer is mentor Hooper Undergraduate Research Award to Lisa Ansay, 2001-2002, Umhoefer is mentor REFEREED PUBLICATIONS 55) Lamb, M., Beard, L.S., Hickson, T., Umhoefer, P.J., Dunbar, N., Schleicher, J., and McIntosh, W., 2015, Late Oligocene–early Miocene landscape evolution of the Lake Mead region during the transition from Sevier contraction to Basin and Range extension; GSA Bulletin; doi:10.1130/B31144.1. 54) Umhoefer, P.J., Maloney, Buchanan, Arrowsmith, Martinez, Kent, Busch, Driscoll, Kaufman, Rittenour, 2014, Late Quaternary faulting history of the Carrizal and related faults, La Paz region, Baja California Sur, Mexico: Geosphere, v. 10, no. 3, p. 1-29, doi:10.1130/GES00924.1. 53) Coyan, Melanie, M., J Ramón Arrowsmith, Paul Umhoefer, Joshua Coyan, Graham Kent, Neal Driscoll, and Genaro Martínez Gutíerrez, 2013, Geometry and Quaternary slip behavior of the San Juan de los Planes and Saltito fault zones, Baja California Sur, Mexico: Characterization of rift-margin normal faults: Geosphere; v. 9; no. 3; p. 426–443; doi:10.1130/GES00806.1. 52) Sutherland, Kent, Harding, Umhoefer, P.J., Lizarralde, Holbrook, Gonz´alez-Fern´andez, Fletcher, Axen, 2012, Middle Miocene to early Pliocene oblique extension in the southern Gulf of California: Geosphere, v. 8, 752-770. 51) Brothers, Daniel, Alistair Harding, Antonio González-Fernández, W. Steven Holbrook, Graham Kent, Neal Driscoll, John Fletcher, Dan Lizarralde, Paul Umhoefer, and Gary Axen, 2012, 3 Farallon slab detachment and deformation of the Magdalena Shelf, southern Baja California: Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 39, L09307, doi:10.1029/2011GL050828. 50) Dorsey, R.J., and Umhoefer, P.J., 2012, Influence of sediment input and plate-motion obliquity on basin development along an active oblique-divergent plate boundary: Gulf of California and Salton Trough, Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins: Recent Advances, First Edition. Edited by Cathy Busby and Antonio Azor, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., p. 209 – 225. 49) Umhoefer, P.J., 2011, Why Did the Southern Gulf of California Rupture So Rapidly? Oblique divergence across hot, weak lithosphere along a tectonically active margin: GSA Today, v. 21, no.