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2010-2015 (partial) Graduate Program Report for Department of
Geology: GEO Graduate Student Accomplishments
Highlights:
40 first-authored refereed journal articles were published by GEO Ph.D. students in
2010-2015 (partial) 10 in 2015, 7 in 2014, 13 in 2013, 6 in 2012, 4 in 2011, and 1 in
2010, with 17 additional co-authored papers in 2012-2015 = 52 total refereed
publications with Baylor Graduates as authors/co-authors.
125 first-authored professional presentations were given by GEO Graduate students
in 2010-2014: (2014: 28 Ph.D., 3 M.S.; 2013: 21 Ph.D., 13 M.S.; 2012, 14 Ph.D., 5
M.S.; 2011: 14 Ph.D., 8 M.S.; 2010: 9 Ph.D., 10 M.S.).
GEO Department had healthy incoming recruiting classes in the Fall semester of
2013 (7 Ph.D. and 8 M.S. students), Fall semester of 2014 (4 Ph.D. and 8 M.S.
students), and Fall semester of 2015 (5 Ph.D. and 8 M.S students)
4 completed Ph.D. dissertations in 2014, 5 Ph.D. Dissertations and 23 M.S. Theses in
2012-2015.
Completed Ph.D. Dissertations (2015):
Anticipated Ph.D. students graduating in the Fall semester of 2015 (5): Agrawal,
Mohit; Beverly, Emily J.; Morgan, Ryan F.; Sang, Joseph; Xu, Tian
Completed M.S. Theses (2015):
Crass, Brian T., 2015, Petrophysical lithofacies modeling of the Upper Pennsylvanian Cline
Shale in the Midland Basin, West Texas: (M.S. Thesis, supervisor: Atchley)
Kirby, Joshua S., 2015, Applied forensic investigation of elevated arsenic levels in the Central
Texas Trinity Aquifer system: (M.S. Thesis, supervisor: Yelderman)
Jex, Jeffrey A., 2015, Mechanics of lithospheric delamination in extensional settings: (M.S.
Thesis, supervisor: Dunbar)
Prince, Kieron P., 2015, Petrophysical facies mapping of the Pennsylvanian Cline Shale,
Midland Basin, West Texas: (M.S. Thesis, supervisor: Atchley)
Completed Ph.D. Dissertations (2014):
Jennings, Debra S., 2014, Paleopedology of paleo-wetland and barite-bearing, hydric paleosols
in the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous), north-central Wyoming,
USA: A multianalytical approach: (Ph.D. Dissertation, supervisor: Driese) Currently working
at Core Lab, Inc., in Houston, TX.
Meier, Holly A., 2014, Analysis of deposition, erosion, and landscape stability during the late
Quaternary using multi-proxy evidence from Owl Creek, a low-order stream in central
Texas: (Ph.D. Dissertation, supervisor: Nordt) Currently employed by Chevron Oil
Company, Houston, TX
Michel, Lauren A., 2014, Field, micromorphologic and stable isotopic comparative study of
modern and ancient soils from Riesel, Texas and Rusinga Island, Kenya: (Ph.D. Dissertation,
co-supervised by Driese and Peppe) Currently a King Family at the Perot Museum of Nature
and Science, seeking a post-doctoral research position.
Wegert, Daniel J., 2014, Lithospheric magmatism in southern Colorado and northern New
Mexico: (Ph.D. Dissertation, supervisor: Parker) Currently a faculty member (Lecturer)
teaching at Central Texas College in Killeen, TX.
Completed M.S. Theses (2014):
Felda, Garrett R., 2014, Paleodepositional controls on Late Triassic fluvial and lacustrine strata
of the Owl Rock Member (Chinle Formation), Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona: (M.S.
Thesis, supervisor: Bonem)
Ju, David, 2014, Aquifer framework restoration (AFR) in an alluvial aquifer, Central Texas:
(M.S. Thesis, supervisor: Yelderman)
Kuijper, Kimberley, 2014, The controls on reservoir continuity within the Late Mississippian
Elkton Member at Caroline Field, central Alberta, Canada: (M.S. Thesis, supervisor:
Atchley)
Reed, Tyler H., 2014, Spatial correlation of earthquakes with two known and two suspected
seismogenic faults, north Tahoe-Truckee area, California: (M.S. Thesis, supervisor: Cronin)
Schwed, Martin, 2014, Seismic site characterization through joint modeling of complimentary
data functionals, with application to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: (M.S. Thesis,
supervisor: Pulliam)
Completed Ph.D. Dissertations (2013):
Huang, Rixiang, 2013, Effects of surface heterogeneity on the colloidal stability protein
adsorption and bacterial interaction of nanoparticles: (Ph.D. dissertation, supervisor: Lau).
Currently a post-doctoral researcher at Georgia Tech University.
Meighan, Hallie E., 2013, Seismic analysis of a slab tear in the northeast Caribbean: (Ph.D.
dissertation, supervisor: Pulliam). Currently an exploration geophysicist at Pioneer Natural
Resources, Inc., Dallas.
Completed Ph.D. Dissertations (2012):
Ahr, Stephen W., 2012, Age, genesis, and archaeological geology of the sandy mantle on the
Gulf Coastal plain of Texas: (Ph.D. Dissertation, supervisor: Nordt) Currently a consulting
geoarchaeologist in San Antonio, TX.
Stinchcomb, Gary E., 2012, Climatic and human influences on the Holocene alluvial history
and paleoenvironment of the Middle Delaware River Valley, USA: (Ph.D. dissertation, co-
supervisors: Driese, Nordt) Currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Murray State
University, Murray, KY.
Trendell, Aislyn M., 2012, Lithofacies heterogeneity, fluvial style variations, and floodplain
vegetation distributions: Deposition and diagenesis of the Lower Chinle Formation at
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona: (Ph.D. Dissertation, co-supervisors Atchley, Nordt)
Currently an exploration geologist at Anadarko Petroleum Company, Houston, TX.
Completed M.S. Theses (2013):
Ainsworth, Ryan, 2013, Sp receiver function imaging of a passive margin: Transect across
Texas’s Gulf coastal plain: (M.S. Thesis, supervisor: Pulliam)
Boling, Kenneth J., 2013, Controls on the accumulation of organic matter in the Pepper Shale
and Eagle Ford Formations, Central Texas, USA: (M.S. Thesis, supervisor: Dworkin)
Comiskey, Cody S., 2013, Seismic anisotropy in Texas and Oklahoma: Investigations into
events that shaped southern Laurentia: (M.S. Thesis, supervisor: Pulliam)
Culbertson, Amos V., 2013, Detailed paleoclimate records from Late Pennsylvanian
polygenetic paleosols: North-central Texas, USA: (M.S. Thesis, supervisor: Driese)
Evanzia, Dominic, 2013, Seismic Vp and Vs tomography of Texas and Oklahoma with a focus
on the Gulf Coast margin: (M.S. Thesis, supervisor: Pulliam
Gunnell, Alan R., 2013, Distribution of methane hydrate beneath Woolsey Mound, Mississippi
Canyon Block 118, Gulf of Mexico: (M.S. Thesis, supervisor: Dunbar)
Von Bargen, Justin, 2013, Charcoal chemistry: Developing a proxy for paleofire regimes: (M.S.
Thesis, supervisor: Hockaday)
Completed M.S. Theses (2012):
Barclay, Curtis J., 2012, Regional reservoir characterization and sequence stratigraphy of the
Jean Marie Member of the Redknife Formation, Northern British Columbia: (M.S. Thesis:
supervisor: Atchley)
Diehl, Michelle, 2012, Intra-aquifer characterization and potential management impacts: Trinity
Aquifer, Central Texas: Trinity aquifer: (M.S. Thesis, supervisor: Yelderman)
Foss, Laura, 2012, Interaction between floodplain groundwater and a constructed wetland,
north- central Texas: (M.S. Thesis, supervisor: Yelderman)
Jones, Kelly, 2012, Reservoir assessment of the Late Devonian Kakisa Formation, northeastern
British Columbia: (M.S. Thesis, supervisor: Atchley)
Lemons, Casee, 2012, Leaf economics and biomechanics in extant ferns: (M.S. Thesis,
supervisor: Peppe)
Lindsay, Ryan, 2012, Seismo-lineament analysis of selected earthquakes in the Tahoe-Truckee
area, California and Nevada: (M.S. Thesis, supervisor: Cronin)
Speckien, Mark, 2012, Analysis of Magnetic Anomalies at the Oceanic-Continent Crust
Boundary, Northern Gulf of Mexico: (M.S. Thesis, supervisor: Dunbar)
Wong, Stephanie S., 2012, Developing a geospatial model for analysis of a dynamic,
heterogeneous aquifer: the Brazos River Alluvium aquifer, Central Texas: (M.S. Thesis,
supervisor: Yelderman)
Total Graduate Students in Residence in Fall semester of 2015: 23 Ph.D., 18
M.S. students = 41 students
Total Graduate Students (counting off-campus) in Fall semester of 2014: 25
Ph.D., 18 M.S. students = 43 students
Total Graduate Students in Residence in Fall semester of 2014: 20 Ph.D., 17
M.S. students = 37 students
Total Graduate Students (counting off-campus) in Fall semester of 2014: 22
Ph.D., 18 M.S. students = 40 students
Total Graduate Students in Residence in Fall semester of 2013: 22 Ph.D., 11
M.S. students = 33 students
Total Graduate Students (counting off-campus) in Fall semester of 2013: 25
Ph.D., 15 M.S. students = 40 students
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Graduate Student Scholarship: First-Authored Refereed
Publications: Accepted, in Press, or Published in 2015: partial
(*bold = GEO student, underline bold = GEO Faculty)
*1) *Agrawal, M., Pulliam, J., Sen, M.K., and Gurola, H. (in press): Lithospheric structure of
the Texas-Gulf of Mexico passive margin from surface wave dispersion and migrated Ps
receiver functions: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, in press, May 2015.
*2) *Agrawal, M., Pulliam, J., Sen, M.K., Dutta., U., Pasyanos, M., and Mellors, R., 2015,
Crustal and uppermost mantle structure in the Middle East: Assessing constraints provided
by jointly modelling Ps and Sp receiver functions and Rayleigh wave group velocity
dispersion curves: Geophysics Journal International, v. 201, p. 783-810.
*1) *Beverly, E.J., Driese, S.G., Peppe, D.J., *Michel, L.A., Johnson, C.R., Faith, J.T., Tryon,
C.A., and Sharp, W.D., 2015, Recurrent spring-fed rivers in a Middle to Late Pleistocene
semi-arid grassland: Implications for environments of early humans in the Lake Victoria
Basin, Kenya: Sedimentology: doi: 10.1111/sed.12199.
*2) *Jennings, D.S., Driese, S.G., and Dworkin, S.I., 2015, Comparison of modern and ancient
barite-bearing acid-sulfate soils using micromorphology, geochemistry, and field
relationships: Sedimentology, v. 62, p. 1078-1099.
*3) *Morgan, R.F., in press, A new ichnospecies of Gyrolithes from the Austin Chalk,
Cretaceous, Texas, USA: Ichnos.
*4) *Morgan, R.F., in press, Three new species of Deltoblastus Fay from the Permian of Timor:
PLOS ONE.
*5) *Sang, J., Allen, P., Dunbar, J., and Hanson, G., 2015, Development of semi-physically
based model to predict erosion rate of kaolinite clay under different moisture content:
Canadian Geotechnical Journal, v. 52, p. 577-586.
*6) *Sang, J., Allen, P., and Dunbar, J., 2015, Determination of critical shear stress of non-
cohesive soils using submerged jet test and turbulent kinetic energy: Earth Surface
Processes and Landforms: doi: 10.1002/esp.3710.
*7) *Xu, T., and Dunbar, J.A., 2015, Binning Method for Mapping Irregularly Distributed
Continuous Resistivity Profiling Data onto a Regular Grid for 3-D Inversion: Journal of
Environmental & Engineering Geophysics, v. 20, no. 1, p. 1-17.
*8) *Xu, T., Dunbar, J., *Gunnell, A., Lutken, C., Higley, P., and Lagmanson, M., 2015,
Seafloor direct-current resistivity techniques for deep-marine, near-bottom gas-hydrate
investigation: The Leading Edge, v. 34, no. 2, p. 180-188.
Graduate Student Scholarship: Co-Authored Refereed Publications:
Accepted, in Press, or Published in 2015: partial (*bold = GEO
student, underline bold = GEO Faculty)
9) Faith, J.T., Tryon, C.A., Peppe, D.J., *Beverly, E.J., Blegen, N., Blumenthal, S., Chritz,
K.L., Driese, S.G., and Patterson, D., 2015, Paleoenvironmental context of the Middle Stone
Age record from Karungu, Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya, and its implications for human and
faunal dispersals in East Africa: Journal of Human Evolution:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.03.004.
10) Martinod, J., Regard, V., *Letourmy, Y., Henry, H., Hassani, R., Baratchart, S., and
Carretier, S., 2015, How do subduction processes contribute to forearc Andean uplift?
Insights from numerical models: Journal of Geodynamics:
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.jog.2015.04.001.
11) Blegen, N., Tryon, C.A., Faith, J.T., Peppe, D.J., *Beverly, E.J., Li, B., Jacobs, Z., in press,
Distal tephras of the eastern Lake Victoria basin, Equatorial East Africa: Correlations,
chronology and a context for early modern humans: Quaternary Science Reviews:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.04.024.
Graduate Student Scholarship: First-Authored Refereed
Publications: Published in 2014: partial (*bold = GEO student,
underline bold = GEO Faculty)
*1) Ainsworth, R., Pulliam, J., Gurrola, H., and Evanzia, D., 2014, Sp receiver function imaging
of a passive margin: Transect across Texas’s Gulf Coastal Plain: Earth and Planetary
Sciences Letters, v. 402, p. 138-147.
*2) *Beverly, E.J., Ashley, G,.M., and Driese, S.G., 2014, Reconstruction of a Pleistocene
paleocatena using micromorphology and geochemistry of lake margin paleo-Vertisols,
Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: Quaternary International, v. 322-323, p. 78-94.
*3) *Evanzia, D., Pulliam, J., and Gurrola, H., 2014, Seismic Vp and Vs tomography of Texas
and Oklahoma with a focus on the Gulf Coast Margin: Earth and Planetary Science Letters,
v. 402, p. 148-156.
*4) *Jennings, D.S., and Driese, S.G., 2014, Understanding barite and gypsum precipitation in
upland acid-sulfate soils: an example from the Lufkin Series toposequence, south- central
Texas, USA: Sedimentary Geology, v. 299, p. 106-118.
*5) *Michel, L.A., Peppe, D.J., Lutz, J.A., Driese, S.G., Dunsworth, H.M., Harcourt-Smith,
W.E.H., Horner, W.H., Lehmann, T., Nightingale, S., and McNulty, K.P., 2014, Remnants of
an ancient forest provide ecological context for Early Miocene fossil apes: Nature
Communications: doi: 10.1038/ncomms4236.
*6) *Meier, H.A., Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., Forman, S.L., and Dworkin, S.I., 2014,
Interpretation of Late Quaternary climate and landscape variability based upon buried soil
macro- and micromorphology, geochemistry, and stable isotopes of soil organic matter, Owl
Creek, central Texas, USA: Catena, v. 114, p. 157-168.
*7) *Stinchcomb, G.E. and Peppe, D.J., 2014, The influence of time on the magnetic properties
of late Quaternary periglacial and alluvial surface and buried soils along the Delaware River,
USA: Frontiers in Earth Science, v. 2:17: doi: 10.3389/feart.2014.00017.
Graduate Student Scholarship: Co-Authored Refereed Publications:
Published in 2014: partial (*bold = GEO student, underline bold =
GEO Faculty)
8) Ashley, G.M., *Beverly, E.J., Sikes, N.E., and Driese, S.G., 2014, Paleosol diversity in the
Olduvai Basin, Tanzania: effects of geomorphology, parent material, depositional
environment, and groundwater: Quaternary International, v. 322-323, p. 66-77.
9) Ashley, G.M., Bunn, H.T., Delaney, J.S., Barboni, D., Dominguez-Rodrigo, M., Mabulla,
A.Z.P., Diez-Martin, F., Gurtov, A.N., Baluyot, R., *Beverly, E.J., and Baquedano, E.,
2014b, Paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental framework of FLK North archaeological site,
Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: Quaternary International, v. 322-323, p. 54-65.
10) Blong, J.C., and *DiPietro, L.M., 2014, Stratigraphy, dating, and lithic assemblages from
Middle to late Holocene sites in the Ewe Creek drainage, Denali National park and Preserve:
Alaska Journal of Anthropology, v. 12, no. 2, p. 16.
11) Faith, J.T., Tryon, C.A., Peppe, D.J., *Beverly, E.J., Blegen, N., 2014, Biogeographic and
evolutionary implications of an extinct Late Pleistocene impala from the Lake Victoria
Basin, Kenya: Journal of Mammalogy, v. 21, p. 213-222.
12) Peppe, D.J., *Lemons, C.R., Royer, D.L., Wing, S.L., Wright, I.J., Lusk, C.H., Rhoden,
C.H., 2014, Biomechanical and leaf-climate relationships: a comparison of ferns and seed
plants: American Journal of Botany, v. 101, p. 338-347.
13) Peppe, D.J., *Van Plantinga, A, Tryon, C.A., Faith, J.T, Johnson, C.R., accepted, Geology
of the Late Pleistocene Artifact- and Fossil-Bearing Wasiriya Beds at the Nyamita Locality,
Rusinga Island, Kenya: Geoarchaeology.
14) *Stinchcomb, G.E., Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., *DiPietro, L.M., and Messner, T.C.., 2014,
Early Holocene cryoturbation in northeastern USA: Implications for archaeological site
formation: Quaternary International, v. 342, p. 186-198.
15) Tryon, C.A., Faith, J.T., Peppe, D.J., Keegan, W.F., Keegan, K.N., Jenkins, K.H.,
Nightingale, S., Patterson, D., *Van Plantinga, A., Driese, S.G., Johnson, C.R., and
*Beverly, E.J., 2014, Sites on the landscape: Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of late
Pleistocene archaeological sites from the Lake Victoria Basin, equatorial East Africa:
Quaternary International, v. 331, p. 20-30.
Graduate Student Scholarship: First-Authored Refereed
Publications: Published in 2013 (*bold = GEO student, underline
bold = GEO Faculty)
*1) *Huang, R., Carney, R.P., Stellacci, F., and Lau, B.L.T., 2013, Protein-nanoparticle
interactions: The effects of surface compositional and structural heterogeneity are scale
dependent: Nanoscale, v. 5, no. 15, p. 6928-6935.
*2) *Huang, R., Carney, R.P., Stellacci, F., and Lau, B.L.T., 2013, Colloidal stability of self-
assembled monolayer-coated gold nanoparticles: The effects of surface compositional and
structural heterogeneity: Langmuir, v. 29, no. 37, p. 11560–11566.
*3) *Meier, H.A., Nordt, L.C., Forman, S.L., and Driese, S.G., 2013, Late Quaternary alluvial
history of the middle Owl Creek drainage basin in central Texas, USA: A record of
geomorphic response to environmental change: Quaternary International, v. 306, p. 21-41.
*4) *Meighan, H.E., and Pulliam, J., 2013, Seismic anisotropy beneath the northeastern
Caribbean: implications for the subducting North American lithosphere: Bulletin Societie
Géologique France, v. 184, p. 67-76.
*5) *Meighan, H.E., Pulliam, J., ten Brink, U., and Lopez-Venegas, A.M., 2013, Seismic
evidence for a slab tear at the Puerto Rico Trench: Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid
Earth, v. 118, doi:10.1002/jgrb.50227.
*6) *Meighan, H.E., ten Brink, U., and Pulliam, J., 2013, Slab tears and intermediate-depth
seismicity: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 40, p. 4244–4248.
*7) *Michel, L.A., Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., Breecker, D.O., Labotka, D.M., and Dworkin,
S.I., 2013, Stable carbon isotope geochemistry of Vertisols formed on marine carbonates and
implications for deep-time paleoenvironmental reconstructions: Journal of Sedimentary
Research, v. 83, p. 300-308.
*8) *Stinchcomb, G.E., Messner, T.C., Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., and Allen, P.M., 2013,
Using event stratigraphy to map the Anthropocene – An example from the historic coal
mining region in eastern Pennsylvania, USA: Anthropocene, v. 2, p. 42-50.
*9) *Stinchcomb, G.E., Messner, T.C., Williamson, F.C., Driese, S.G., and Nordt, L.C., 2013,
Climatic and human controls on Holocene floodplain vegetation changes in eastern
Pennsylvania based on the isotopic composition of soil organic matter: Quaternary
Research, v. 79, p. 377-390.
*10) *Trendell, A.M., Atchley, S.C., and Nordt, L.C., 2013, Facies analysis of a probable
large- fluvial-fan depositional system: the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation at Petrified
Forest National Park, Arizona: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 83, 873–895.
*11) *Trendell, A.M., Nordt, L.C., Atchley, S.C., LeBlanc, S.L., and Dworkin, S.I., 2013,
Determining floodplain plant distributions and populations using paleopedology and fossil
root traces: Upper Triassic Sonsela Member of the Chinle Formation at Petrified Forest
National Park, Arizona: Palaios, v. 28, p. 471–490.
*12) *Wegert, D., Parker, D., and Ren, M., 2013, The Nathrop Domes, Colorado:
Geochemistry and petrogenesis of a Topaz Rhyolite: Rocky Mountain Geology, v. 48, p. 31-
44.
Graduate Student Scholarship: Co-Authored Refereed Publications:
Published in 2013 (*bold = GEO student, underline bold = GEO
Faculty)
13) Breecker, D.O., Yoon, J., *Michel, L.A., Dinka, T.M., Driese, S.G., Mintz, J.S., Nordt,
L.C., Romanak, K.D., and Morgan, C.L.S., 2013, CO2 concentrations in Vertisols: variability
and shrink-swell: In New Frontiers in Paleopedology and Terrestrial Paleoclimatology (S.G.
Driese and L.C. Nordt, eds.): SEPM Special Publication Volume No. 104, p. 35-45.
14) Faith, J.T., Tryon, C.A., Peppe, D.J., *Beverly, E.J., Blegen, N., in press, Biogeographic
and evolutionary implications of an extinct Late Pleistocene impala from the Lake Victoria
Basin, Kenya: Journal of Mammalogy.
15) Goebel, T., Smith, H.L., *DiPietro, L.M., Waters, M.R., Hockett, B., Graf, K.E., Gal, R.,
Slobodin, S.B., Speakman, R.J., Driese, S.G., and Rhode, D., 2013, Serpentine Hot Springs,
Alaska: Results of excavations and implications for the age and significance of Northern
fluted points: Journal of Archaeological Sciences, v. 40, p. 4222-4233.
16) Lau B.L.T., *Huang R., and Madden A.S., 2013, Electrostatic adsorption of hematite
nanoparticles on self-assembled monolayer surfaces: Journal of Nanoparticle Research, v.
15, no. 8, p. 1873–1882.
17) Tryon, C.A., Faith, J.T., Peppe, D.J., Keegan, W.F., Keegan, K.N., Jenkins, K.H.,
Nightingale, S., Patterson, D., Van Plantinga, A., Driese, S.G., Johnson, C.R., and *Beverly,
E.J., 2013, Sites on the landscape: Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of late Pleistocene
archaeological sites from the Lake Victoria Basin, equatorial Africa: Quaternary
International, , v. 331, p. 20-30.
Graduate Student Scholarship: First-Authored Refereed Articles
Published in 2012 (*bold = GEO graduate student, underline bold =
GEO Faculty)
*1) *Ahr, S.W., Nordt, L.C., and Driese, S.G., 2012, Assessing lithologic discontinuities and
parent material uniformity within the Texas sandy mantle: Implications for archeological
burial and preservation potential in upland settings: Quaternary Research. v. 78, p. 60-71.
*2) *Ahr, S.W., Nordt, L.C., and Forman, S.L., 2012, Soil genesis, optical dating, and
geoarchaeological evaluation of two upland Alfisol pedons within the Tertiary Gulf Coastal
Plain: Geoderma v. 192, p. 211-226.
*3) Lin S., *Huang R., Cheng Y., Liu J., Lau B.L.T., and Wiesner M.R., 2012, Silver
nanoparticle-alginate composite beads for point-of-use drinking water disinfection: Water
Research, v. 47, no. 12, p. 3959-3965. (*R. Huang is equal first-author)
*4) *Stinchcomb, G.E., Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., and Allen, P.A., 2012, A mid to late
Holocene history of floodplain and terrace reworking along the middle Delaware River
valley, USA: Geomorphology: v. 169-170, p. 123-141.
*5) *Trendell, A.M., Atchley, S.C., and Nordt, L.C., 2012, Depositional and diagenetic
controls on reservoir attributes within a fluvial outcrop analog: Upper Triassic Sonsela
Member of the Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona: American
Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 96, p. 679-707.
*6) *Wong, S.S., Yelderman, J.C., Jr., and Byars, B., 2012, Developing a geospatial model for
analysis of a dynamic, heterogeneous aquifer: The Brazos River alluvium aquifer, Central
Texas: Transactions of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies and the Gulf
Coast Section of the SEPM, 62nd
Annual convention, Austin, Texas, p. 653-660.
Graduate Student Scholarship: Co-Authored Refereed Publications:
Accepted, in Press, or Published in 2012 (*bold = GEO student,
underline bold = GEO Faculty)
1) Danley, P.D., Husemann, M., Ding, B., *DiPietro, L., *Beverly, E., Peppe, D.J., 2012, The
impact of the geologic history and the paleoclimate of the African Great Lakes on the
diversification of East African cichlids: International Journal of Evolutionary Biology,
Article ID 574851: 20 pages.
2) Tryon, C.A., Peppe, D.J., Faith, J.T., *Van Plantinga, A., Nightingale, S., Ogondo, J., Fox,
D.L., 2012, Late Pleistocene artefacts and associated fauna from Rusinga and Mfangano
islands, Lake Victoria, Kenya, Azania: Archaelogical Research in Africa, 47: 14-38.
Graduate Student Scholarship: First-Authored Refereed Articles
Published in 2011 (*bold = GEO graduate student, underline bold =
GEO Faculty)
1) *Jennings, D.S., Lovelace, D.M., and Driese, S.G., 2011, Differentiating paleowetland
subenvironments using a multi-disciplinary approach: an example from the Morrison
Formation, south central Wyoming, USA: Sedimentary Geology, v. 238, p. 23-47.
2) *Mintz, J.S., Driese, S.G., Ludvigson, G.A., and Breecker, D.O., 2011, Seasonal influence of
changing hydrology on pedogenic calcite precipitation in Vertisols, Dance Bayou, Brazoria
County, TX: Implications for estimating paleoatmospheric pCO2: Journal of Sedimentary
Research, v. 81, p. 394-400.
3) *Stinchcomb, G.E., Messner, T.C., Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., and Stewart, R.M., 2011, Pre-
colonial (A.D. 1,100-1,600) sedimentation related to prehistoric maize agriculture and
climate change in eastern North America: Geology, v. 39, p. 363-366.
4) *Wegert, D., and Parker, D.F., 2011, Petrogenesis of the McDermitt Formation
trachyandesite, San Juan basin, Colorado and New Mexico: Rocky Mountain Geology, v. 46,
p. 139-152.
Graduate Student Scholarship: First-Authored Refereed Articles
Published in 2010 (*bold = GEO graduate student, underline bold =
GEO Faculty)
*(1) *Mintz, J.S., Driese, S.G., and White, J.D., 2010, Environmental and ecological variability
of Middle Devonian (Givetian) forests in Appalachian basin paleosols, New York, USA:
PALAIOS, v. 25, p. 85-96.
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Graduate Student Scholarship: First-Authored Professional
Presentations in 2014: (*bold = GEO graduate student, underline
bold = GEO Faculty)
Ph.D.:
1) *Agrawal, M., Pulliam, J., and Sen, M.K., 2014, Lithospheric earth structure of Texas-Gulf of
Mexico Margin from surface wave dispersion and migrated receiver functions: Seism. Res. Lett.,
85:2, p. 436.
2) *Agrawal, M., Pulliam, J., Sen, M.K. and Gurrola, H., 2014, Crustal and uppermost mantle structure
of Texas-Gulf of Mexico from surface wave dispersion and migrated Ps receiver functions: AGU Fall
Meeting (15-19 December 2014), San Francisco, CA.
3) *Beverly, E.J., Driese, S.G., Peppe, D.J., *Arellano, L.N., Blegen, N., Faith, J.T., and Tryon, C.,
2014, Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of a semi-arid Late Pleistocene paleocatena from the Lake
Victoria Region, Kenya: Soil-Forming Processes and their Rates: Workshop and Field Trip in the
Mojave Desert, October 26-31, 2014.
4) *Beverly, E.J., Driese, S.G., *Arellano, L.N., and Peppe, D.J., 2014, Late Pleistocene paleocatena
with linear gilgai from the Lake Victoria region: Presented at 51st Annual Soil Survey and Land
Resource Workshop in College Station, TX, on February 6, 2014.
5) *Beverly, E.J., Driese, S.G., Peppe, D.J., Faith, J.T., Tryon, C., Johnson, C.R., *Michel, L.A., and
Sharp, W., 2014, Pleistocene hominin paleoenvironmental reconstructions: sedimentology,
micromorphology and stable isotopes of riverine tufas from the Rusinga and Karungu regions of
western Kenya: 2014 GSA Abstracts w/Programs, v. 46, no. 6, Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC
(October 19-22, 2014).
6) *Brownlow, J. , 2014, Potential Influence of clay Slickensides on Subsurface Contaminant migration,
2-6-14, Soil Survey and Work Planning Conference, College Station, TX,
7) *Brownlow, J., *Longbottom, T.L., Hockaday, W.C., and Yelderman, J.C., Jr., 2014,
Geochemical fingerprinting of Eagle Ford Shale crude oil and produced waters using petroleum
biomarkers, September 8-9, 2014, AAPG/SEG Student Expo, Houston, Texas,
8) *DiPietro, L.M., Driese, S.G., and Goebel, T., 2014, Latest Pleistocene climate amelioration on the
Seward Peninsula of Alaska in association with a Buried Fluted Point Complex: 2014 GSA Abstracts
w/Programs, v. 46, no. 6, Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC (October 19-22, 2014).
9) *Flynn, A., Peppe, D.J., *Abbuhl, B., 2014, Fossil floras and climate of the Early Paleocene, San Juan
Basin, New Mexico: Midcontinent Paleobotanical Colloquium.
10) *Flynn, A., Peppe, D.J., *Abbuhl, B., Williamson, T., 2014, Early Paleocene floras from the San
Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA: Implications for local and regional responses to the Cretaceous-
Paleogene extinction event: GSA, Abstracts with Programs 46(6): 757.
11) *Harlow, R.H., Atchley, S.C., Nordt, L.C., Dworkin, S.I., and Driese, S.G., 2014, Depositional
and Climatic Evolution of the Late Triassic Chinle Formation: A basin scale comparison,
southwestern United States: 2014 GSA Abstracts w/Programs, v. 46, no. 6, Annual Meeting in
Vancouver, BC (October 19-22, 2014).
12) *Leslie, C.E., Peppe, D.J., Atchley, S., Williamson, T., Nordt, L., 2014, Magnetostratigraphy of
upper Cretaceous through lower Paleocene strata from the Dawson Creek section, Big Bend National
Park, west Texas, USA. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs 46(6): 134.
13) *Letourmy, Y., Driese, S.G., Gibling, M.R., and McCarthy, P.J., 2014, Paleoclimatic and
paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Late Paleozoic ice age in an equatorial setting:
Interpretations from Carboniferous paleosols at Joggins Fossil Cliffs, Nova Scotia, Canada: 2014
GSA Abstracts w/Programs, v. 46, no. 6, Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC (October 19-22, 2014).
14) *Longbottom, T., Hockaday, W.C., 2014, Assessing the role of organo-mineral association in
molecular biomarker analysis of a Late Cretaceous shale: 247th ACS National Meeting, Dallas,
Texas, March 16-20, 2014.
15) *Longbottom, T., Hockaday, W.C., *Boling, K.S., and Dworkin, S.I., 2014, Effects of ocean
reduction-oxidation conditions on organic matter preservation in the upper Eagle Ford formation:
molecular characterization of kerogen: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Vancouver,
British Columbia, 19–22 October 2014.
16) *Longbottom, T., Hockaday, W.C., *Boling, K.S., and Dworkin, S.I., 2014, Estimates of oil and
gas potential of source rock by 13C Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy: American 7
18) *Longbottom, T., Hockaday, W.C., *Boling, K.S., and Dworkin, S.I., 2014, Evaluating the effects
of redox conditions on kerogen composition of the Eagle Ford Formation of central Texas by 13C
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Goldschmidt Conference, Sacramento, CA, June 8-13,
2014.
19) *Lukens, W.E., and Driese, S.G., 2014, Lithostratigraphy and paleogeomorphology of the Upper
Miocene Ogallala Formation (c. 6.6 Ma) in the Texas Panhandle: 2014 GSA Abstracts w/Programs,
v. 46, no. 6, Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC (October 19-22, 2014).
20) *Michel, L.A., Peppe, D.J., Driese, S.G., and McNulty, K.P., 2014, Treatment methods for bulk soil
geochemical proxy applications: lessons learned from Miocene paleosols of the Lake Victoria region:
2014 GSA Abstracts w/Programs, v. 46, no. 6, Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC (October 19-22).
21) *Nguyen, M., Hockaday, W.C., and Lau, B.L.T., 2014, Probing temperature-dependent organo-
mineral interactions using quartz crystal microgravimetry: examining changes in
adsorption/desorption: 247th ACS National Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 16-20.
22) *Valdez, Z. and Hockaday, W.C., 2014, Soil C dynamics for bioenergy agriculture under different
fertilization and harvesting treatments: Soil Science Society of America, Long Beach, CA, Nov. 2-5.
23) *Valdez, Z., Hockaday, W.C., Gallagher, M.E., Masiello, C., and Gao, X., 2014, Effects of nitrogen
fertilizer and harvesting frequency on soil organic matter pools under switchgrass agriculture: 247th
ACS National Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 16-20.
24) *Wong, S., and Yelderman, J.C., Jr., , 2014, An investigation into the recharge pathways and
mechanisms in the northern segment of the Edwards Aquifer, Bell County, Texas, project update:
CUWCD December Workshop and Board Meeting, 12-14-14, Belton, Texas.
25) *Wong, S., and Yelderman, J.C., Jr., 2014, New understanding of the northern segment of the
Edwards BFZ : Bell County Water Symposium, Belton, TX. November 18, 2014.
26) *Wong, S., and Yelderman, J.C., Jr., 2014, An integrative approach for understanding aquifer
processes in the northern segment of the Edwards aquifer: NGWA Groundwater Summit, May 4-7,
Denver, Colorado,
27) *Wong, S., and Yelderman J.C., Jr., 2014, New understanding of the northern segment of the
Edwards BFZ Aquifer: Part 2: 14th Annual Bell County Water Symposium, Belton, Texas.
28) *Wong, S., and Yelderman J.C., Jr., 2014, Time not wasted: How collaborative research and
education help build groundwater sustainability in rural northern Uganda, Africa: GSA, Abstracts
with Programs Vol. 46, No. 6, p.61.
M.S.:
1) *Kirby, J.S., and Yelderman, J.C., Jr., 2014, Applied Forensic Investigation of Elevated Arsenic
Levels in the Central Texas Trinity Aquifer System, September 8-9, 2014, AAPG/SEG Student Expo,
Houston, Texas.
2) *Schwed, M., Pulliam, J., Sen, M.K., Willemann, R.J., Huerta-López, C., Moschetti, M.P., Schmitz,
M., Louie, J.N., Polanco, E., Huérfano Moreno, V., and Pasyanos, M., 2014, Joint modeling of
complementary data functionals for seismic site characterization: Seismology Research Letters, v.
85:2, p. 425.
3) *Worrell, V.E., and Cronin, V.S., 2014, Seismo-Lineament Analysis Method (SLAM) applied to the
South Napa earthquake: Eos Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2014, Special
session on the South Napa earthquake, abstract #S33F-4933.
B.S.:
1) *Arellano, L., *Beverly, E. J., Peppe, D.J., Driese, S.G., Faith, J.T., and Tryon, C., 2014, Using
paleosols to reconstruct the paleoclimate of Late Pleistocene archaeological sites in the Lake Victoria
Basin, Kenya: GSA Abstracts w/Programs, v. 46, no. 6, Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC (October
19-22, 2014).
2) *Arellano, L., and Cronin, V.S., 2014, A physical model of near-homogeneous 1-D horizontal
shortening or stretching of a ~2-D layer: GSA, Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, no. 6, p. 501.
3) *Ashburn, J.A., Cronin, V.S., and Sverdrup, K.A., 2014a, In search of the surface trace of the Dog
Valley Fault near Truckee, California: GSA, Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, no. 6, p. 766.
4) *Davis, R., and Hockaday, W.C., 2014, Burn it to the ground: an investigation of sequestered biochars
using 13C NMR: Baylor University Undergraduate Research Symposium, Waco, April 2-3, 2014, 1st
place award.
5) *Dickinson, J.N., Davis, R.M., Cronin, V.S., and Sverdrup, K.A., 2014, Looking for the source of
light-to-moderate earthquakes in the Raton Basin west of Trinidad, Colorado: GSA, Abstracts with
Programs, v. 46, no. 6, p. 765.
6) *Keracik, C., Hockaday, W.C., and *Longbottom, T.L., 2014, Assessing source rock potential of the
Eagle Ford Shale using solid-State NMR, Baylor University Undergraduate Research Symposium,
Waco, TX, April 2-3, 2014, 3rd place award.
7) *Meyers, C., and Hockaday, W.C., 2014, Sampling methods for aquatic particulate matter: a case
study on the Brazos River, TX: Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR. May 18-12.
8) *Meyers, C., and Hockaday, W.C., 2014, Sampling methods for suspended particulate matter: a
study of the Brazos River: Baylor University Undergraduate Research Symposium, Waco, TX, April
2-3.
9) *Pajer, L.P., and Cronin, V.S., 2014, Physical models of landslides for classroom and lab
demonstrations: GSA, Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, no. 6, p. 502.
Graduate Student Scholarship: First-Authored Professional
Presentations in 2013: (*bold = GEO graduate student, underline
bold = GEO Faculty)
Ph.D.:
(1) *Agrawal, M., Pulliam, J., and Sen, M.K., 2013, Seismic velocity structure of the crust and upper
mantle beneath the Texas-Gulf of Mexico margin from joint inversion of Ps and Sp receiver functions
and surface wave dispersion: AGU Fall Meeting (9-13 December 2013), San Francisco, CA, #S33F-
02
(1) *Ainsworth, R., Knuppel, M., *Evanzia, D., Pulliam, J., and Gurrola, H., 2013, Sp Receiver
Function Imaging of a Transect Across Texas’s Gulf Coast Plain: GSA South-Central Section - 47th
Annual Meeting (4-5 April 2013), Austin, TX
(1) *Beverly, E.J., Peppe, D.J., Faith, J.T., Tryon, C., Blegen, N., Driese, S.G., and *Arellano, L.N.,
2013, Paleosol-based evidence for late Pleistocene paleoenvironments of the Lake Victoria region:
125th GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO (October 26-30). Geological Society of America Abstracts
with Programs. Vol. 45, No. 7.
(2) *Brownlow, J.W., Barbee, G.C., and Rogers, W.J., 2013, Potential influence of clay slickensides on
subsurface contaminant transport: 125th GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO (October 26-30).
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 45, No. 7.
(2) *Comiskey, C., and Pulliam, J., 2013, Seismic Anisotropy in Texas and Oklahoma: Investigation
into tectonic events that shaped southern Laurentia: GSA South-Central Section - 47th Annual
Meeting (4-5 April 2013), Austin, TX.
(3) *DiPietro, L.M., Driese, S.G., and Graf, K., 2013, The Dry Creek Site: A geological perspective on
site formation and stratigraphic integrity in central Alaska: Paleo-American Odyssey, held in Santa
Fe, NM, October 17-17, 2013.
(3) *Evanzia, D., *Ainsworth, R., Pratt, K., Pulliam, J., and Gurrola, H., 2013, Seismic Vp & Vs
Tomography of Texas & Oklahoma with a Focus on the Gulf Coast Margin: GSA South-Central
Section - 47th Annual Meeting (4-5 April 2013), Austin, TX.
(4) *Huang, R, Hockaday, W.C., Lau, B.L. T., Lu, X.W., and Jack, D., 2013, Comparative
characterization of charcoals prepared from pyrolysis and hydrothermal carbonization and their water
extractable organic carbon, 23rd
Goldschmidt Conference, Florence, Italy, Aug. 25-30, 2013.()
*Huang, R., Hockaday, W.C., *Von Bargen, J.M., and Lau, B.L.T., 2013, Toward an evaluation
of biochar recalcitrance: 125th GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO (October 26-30). Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 45, No. 7.(6) *Leslie, C.E., Videtich, P.E., and
Davis, A.J., 2013, A complex gutter cast from the Upper Devonian (Cincinnatian) Kope Formation,
northern Kentucky: 125th GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO (October 26-30). Geological Society
of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 45, No. 7.
(7) *Longbottom, T., 2013, Assessing the utility of molecular biomarkers in the rock record; the rise of
terrestrial plants. Soil Survey and Land Resource Workshop, College Station, TX, Feb 7, 2013.(8)
*Longbottom, T.L., Hockaday, W.C., and *Boling, K.S., 2013, Organic geochemistry of the
Eagleford shale (Woodway, TX, USA); organic matter sources, paleoenvironmental conditions, and
biotic/abiotic alteration. American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Meeting, Waco, TX, Nov.
9-11, 2013.
(9) *Michel, L.A., Peppe, D.J., Driese, S.G., McNulty, K.P., Fox, D.L., and Garrett, N., 2013,
Equatorial paleoenvironment leading into the Miocene Climatic Optimum: Lessons learned from
Rusinga and Mfangano Islands, Lake Victoria, Kenya: 125th GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO
(October 26-30). Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 45, No. 7, p.488.
(10) *Meier, H.A., and Dworkin, S.I., 2013, Insight into the present can lie in the past: lesson from
paleosols: : 125th GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO (October 26-30). Geological Society of
America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 45, No. 7.
(10) *Meighan, H.E., Pulliam, J., ten Brink, U.S., and Lopez, A., 2013, Intermediate earthquake swarms
as indicators of slab tear: GSA, Southeastern Section - 62nd Annual Meeting (20-21 March 2013),
San Juan, PR.
(11) *Morgan, R., 2013, Biogeographic trends of the blastoid family Schizoblastidae: 125th GSA Annual
Meeting in Denver, CO (October 26-30). Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs.
Vol. 45, No. 7.
(12) *Morgan, R., 2013, Phylogenetic analysis of the Permian blastoid genus Deltoblastus Fay: 125th
GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO (October 26-30). Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Programs. Vol. 45, No. 7.
(13) *Nguyen M., Hockaday W.C., and Lau B.L.T., 2013, Probing temperature-dependent organo-
mineral interactions with Molecular Spectroscopy and Quartz Crystal Microgravimetry: IUSS
International Conference on Global Soil Carbon. Madison, WI, 2013.
(14) *Nguyen, M., Hockaday W.C., and Lau B.L.T., 2013, Probing temperature-dependent organo-
FeOx interactions using Quartz Crystal Microgravimetry, NMR Spectroscopy, and Thermal
Analyses: AGU Chapman Conference on Soil-mediated Drivers of Coupled Biogeochemical and
Hydrological Processes Across Scales: 2013 October 21-24; Tucson, Arizona.
(14) *Schwed, M., Pulliam, J., Polanco Rivera, E., Willemann, R., Louie, J., Huerta López, C.,
Schmitz,M., Moschetti, M., Pasyanos, M., Huérfano Moreno, V., and the 2013 Santo Domingo PASI
Working Group, 2013, Seismic Site Characterization in Santo Domingo: Bringing New Tools and
Techniques to Bear on Earthquake Hazard Analysis and Mitigation: 2nd Dominican Geological
Congress, 31 October – 1 November 2013, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
(14) *Schwed, M., Pulliam, J., Sen, M.K., Willemann, R.J., Huerta-Lopez, C., Moschetti, M.P., Schmitz,
M., Louie, J.N., Polanco, E., Huerfano Moreno, V., and Pasyanos, M., 2013, Seismic Site
Characterization through Joint Modeling of Complementary Data Functionals, with Applications to
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: AGU Fall Meeting (9-13 December 2013), San Francisco, CA,
#NS33A-1682.
(15) *Valdez, Z.P., Hockaday, W.C., Gallagher, M.E., and Masiello, C.A., 2013, Effects of Nitrogen
Fertilizer and Harvesting Frequency on Soil Organic Matter Pools Under Switchgrass Agriculture:
Texas Soil Survey and Land Resource Workshop, College Station, TX, Feb 7, 2013.
(16) *Valdez, Z.P., Hockaday, W.C., Gallagher, M.E., Masiello, C.A., and Gao, X., 2013, Effects of
Nitrogen Fertilizer and Harvesting Frequency on Soil Organic Matter Pools Under Switchgrass
Agriculture: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 11, 2013.
(17) *Wegert, D.J., and Parker, D.F., 2013, Petrogenesis of peraluminous rhyolite of the Nathrop
Domes, central Colorado: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v.45, no. 5
(Presented by Parker at Rocky Mountain Section, Gunnison, CO, May 15, 2013)
(18) *Wong, S., Yelderman, J.C., Jr., and Worsley, A., 2013, Peeking into the “grey box”: a multi-
method approach to studying a karst aquifer in Central Texas: 125th GSA Annual Meeting in Denver,
CO (October 26-30). Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 45, No. 7.
(19) *Wong, S.S., White, J.D., and Yelderman, J.C., Jr., 2013, Data scarcity to groundwater
sustainability: Utilizing remote sensing to building hydrogeological knowledge: National
Groundwater Association, Groundwater Summit, San Antonio, Texas: oral presentation.
(20) *Wong, S., and Yelderman, J. C., Jr., 2013, New understanding of the northern segment of the
Edwards BFZ: Bell County Water Symposium, Belton, TX. November 14, 2013.
(21) *Xu, T., and Dunbar, J., 2013, Binning method for mapping irregularly distributed continuous
resistivity profiling data onto a regular grid for 3D inversion, (expanded abstract): Symposium on
the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems, Denver CO., march
17-21, 2013.
M.S.: (1) *Boling, K.S., and Dworkin, S.I., 2013, Controls on the accumulation of organic matter in the Eagle
Ford Formation in Central Texas: 125th GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO (October 26-30).
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. v. 45, no. 7.
(2) *Ju, D., *Wong, S., and Yelderman J., Jr., 2013, How much have we lost? Affects of urbanization and
mining on an alluvial aquifer in central Texas, 2013: South Central GSA, Austin, TX, Abstracts with
Programs v. 45, no. 3.
(3) *Ju, D.H., Yelderman, J.C., Jr., and *Wong, S.S. , 2013, Affect of Urbanization and Mining to an
Alluvial Aquifer in Central Texas: National Groundwater Association, Groundwater Summit, San
Antonio, Texas: oral presentation
(4) *Von Bargen, J.M., Hockaday, W.C., Yao, J., and White, J.D., 2013, Charcoal Chemistry:
Developing a Paleo-fire proxy: Texas Soil Survey and Land Resource Workshop, College Station,
TX, Feb 7, 2013.
(5) *Von Bargen, J.M., Hockaday, W.C., Yao, J., and White, J.D., Charcoal Chemistry: Developing a
proxy for paleofire regimes, South-Central Section - 47th Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, April 4-5,
2013.
(6) *Von Bargen, J.M., Hockaday, W.C., Yao, J., and White, J.D., 2013, Charcoal Chemistry:
Developing a Proxy for Paleofire Regimes using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: 245th
American Chemical Society, New Orleans, LA, April 7-11, 2013.
B.S.:
(1) *Cestari, N., *Longbottom, T., and Hockaday, W.C., 2013, Developing a Paleo-vegetation Proxy
along a Forest to Grassland Transition in Central Texas: Texas Soil Survey and Land Resource
Workshop, College Station, TX, Feb 7, 2013.
(2) *Davis, R.M., *Valdez, Z. P., and Hockaday, W.C. 2013, Impact of Farming Practices on Root
Biochemistry Using 13
C NMR, American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Meeting, Waco, TX,
Nov. 9-11, 2013.
(3) *McCollum, M.S., Peppe, D.J., McNulty, K.P., Dunsworth, H.M., Harcourt-Smith, W.E.H., and
Andrews, A.L., 2013, Magnetostratigraphy of the early Miocene Hiwegi Formation (Rusinga Island,
Lake Victoria, Kenya): Southeastern Section GSA Annual Meeting in Austin, TX (April 2013).
Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs: 45(3): 12.
(4) *Meyers, C., Hockaday, W.C., and *Longbottom, T., 2013, Sampling methods for particulate
organic matter: A study of the Brazos River, American Chemical Society Southwest Regional
Meeting, Waco, TX, Nov. 9-11, 2013.
Graduate Student Scholarship: First-Authored Professional
Presentations in 2012: (*bold = GEO graduate student, underline
bold = GEO Faculty)
Ph.D.: (1) *Beverly, E.J., Peppe, D. J., Faith, J.T., Driese, S.G., Tryon, C., Blegen, N., Patterson, D., and
*Horner, W.H., 2012, Paleoenvironmental context of Late Quaternary archaeological and
paleontological sites in Kenya’s Lake Victoria Basin: GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC,
November 2012. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7.
(2) *DiPietro, L.M., 2012, Stratigraphic integrity of geoarchaeological site at Owl Ridge, Alaska:
Evaluating the influences of Gelisol processes: (talk presented at 49th Annual Soil Survey and Land
Resource Workshop in College Station, TX, on February 2, 2012).
(3) *DiPietro, L.M., Driese, S.G., *Stinchcomb, G.E., Graf, K.E., Goebel, T., Younie, A.M., and
Gillispie, T.E., 2012, First Americans archaeology and climate: soil chemistry and its applications to
geoarchaeology in central Alaska: GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC, November 2012. GSA
Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7.
(4) *Huang, R., and Lau, B.L.T., 2012, Effects of surface compositional and structural heterogeneity on
particle-particle and particle-protein interaction: ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, 2012.
(5) *Meier, H.A., Nordt, L.C., Forman, S.L., and Driese, S.G., 2012, Late Quaternary alluvial history of
the Owl Creek drainage basin: a geomorphic response to environmental change: GSA Annual
Meeting in Charlotte, NC, November 2012. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7.
(6) *Meighan, H. E., Pulliam, J., and Ten Brink, U.S., 2012, Ocean-bottom seismograph array results
from the Puerto Rico Trench: Abstract T41A-2564 presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San
Francisco, CA, 3-7 December 2012.
(7) *Michel, L.A., 2012, Stable carbon isotope geochemistry of Vertisols formed on marine carbonates
and implications for deep-time paleoenvironmental reconstructions: talk presented at 49th Annual Soil
Survey and Land Resource Workshop in College Station, TX, on February 2, 2012).
(8) *Michel, L.A., Peppe, D.J., McNulty, K.P., Driese, S.G., Lehmann, T., Nightingale, S., *Horner,
W.H., and Dunsworth, H., 2012, Seeing the apes through the trees: paleoecological reconstruction of
Proconsul and Dendropithecus site, Rusinga Island, Kenya: GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC,
November 2012. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7.
(9) *Michel, L.A., Peppe, D.J., McNulty, K.P., Driese, S.G., Lutz, J., Nightingale, S., Maxbauer, D.,
*Horner, W.H., *DiPietro, L.M., Lehmann, T., Dunsworth, H., Harcourt-Smith, W.H.E., and
Ogando, J., 2012, Paleoclimatic and paleoecological reconstruction of early Miocene terrestrial
equatorial deposits, Rusinga and Mfangano Islands, Lake Victoria, Kenya: Fall American
Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in San Francisco, CA, December 2012.
(10) *Morgan, R., 2012, Morphometric observations of Deltoblastus sp. blastoids from the Permian of
Timor: GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC, November 2012: GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol.
44, No. 7.
(11) *Stinchcomb, G.E., 2012, Construction of a fully searchable soils database integrating soil
characterization data and whole-soil geochemical data: (talk presented at 49th Annual Soil Survey and
Land Resource Workshop in College Station, TX, on February 2, 2012).
(12) *Stinchcomb, G.E., Nordt, L.C., Driese, S.G., and Dworkin, S.I., 2012, Soil and paleosol
informatics: GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC, November 2012. GSA Abstracts with Programs
Vol. 44, No. 7.
(13) *Stinchcomb, G.E., Messner, T.C., Stewart, R.M., Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., and Allen, P.M.,
2012, Prehistoric Anthropogenic Event II (AE-II) and its influence on Earth surface processes along
the Middle Delaware River Valley, USA: GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC, November 2012.
GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7. (Invited)
(14) *Valdez, Z.P., Hockaday, W.C., Gallagher, M.E., Masiello, C.A., and Gao, X.,2012, Effects of
nitrogen fertilizer on soil organic matter pools under switchgrass agriculture: Soil Science Society of
America National Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, Oct. 21, 2012.
M.S.:
(1) *Barclay, C., Atchley, S.C., and *Jones, K., 2012, Regional reservoir characterization and
exploration assessment of the Late Devonian Jean Marie Formation within the Bivouac/Ekwan Field
Areas, northern British Columbia: AAPG Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, Long Beach,
CA.
(2) *Culbertson, A.V., Driese, S.G., and Dworkin, S.I., 2012, Paleoclimate records from late
Pennsylvanian paleosols: A comparative application of multiple geochemical proxies: GSA Annual
Meeting in Charlotte, NC, November 2012. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7.
(3) *Evanzia, D., *Ainsworth, R., Pratt, K.W., Pulliam, J., and Gurrola, H., 2012, A Broadband
Investigation of the Texas/Gulf of Mexico Passive Margin, Abstract T53C-2733 presented at 2012
Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 3-7 December 2012.
(4) *Jones, K., Atchley, S.C., and *Barclay, C., 2012, Regional reservoir assessment of the Late
Devonian Kakisa Formation, northeastern British Columbia, Canada: 2012 AAPG Annual Meeting
Abstracts with Programs, Long Beach, CA.
5) *Reed., T.H., *Lindsay, R.D., Cronin, V.S., and Sverdrup, K.A., 2012, Progress in linking
earthquakes to seismogenic faults in the Lake Tahoe-Truckee area, California and Nevada:
Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting, San Diego, California (April, 2012)
B.S.: (1) *Horner, W.H., *Michel, L.A., Peppe, D.J., Driese, S.G., McNulty, K.P., Lehmann, T., Dunsworth,
H., and Harcourt-Smith, W.H.E., 2012, Determining depositional heterogeneity through clay
mineralogy and particle size analysis of early Miocene paleo-forest paleosol, Hiwegi Formation,
Rusinga Island, Kenya: GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC, November 2012. GSA Abstracts with
Programs Vol. 44, No. 5.
(2) *McCollum, M.S., Peppe, D.J., McNulty, K.P., Dunsworth, H.M., Harcourt-Smith, W.E.H., and
Andrews, A.L., 2012, Magnetostratigraphy of the early Miocene Hiwegi Formation (Rusinga Island,
Lake Victoria, Kenya): Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs: 44(7): 241.
Graduate Student Scholarship: First-Authored Professional
Presentations in 2011: (*bold = GEO graduate student, underline
bold = GEO Faculty)
Ph.D.: (1) *Beverly, E.J., Ashley, G.M., and Driese, S.G., 2011, High-resolution paleoenvironmental and
paleoclimatic reconstruction of a Pleistocene catena using paleopedology and geochemistry of lake
margin paleo-Vertisols, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: GSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN,
October 2011. (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 43, No. 5).
(2) *DiPietro, L., 2011, Stratigraphic integrity of geoarchaeological site at Owl Ridge, Alaska:
Evaluating the influences of Gelisol processes: (talk presented at 48th Annual Soil Survey and Land
Resource Workshop in College Station, TX, on February 3, 2011).
(3) *Huang, R., and Lau, B.L.T., 2011, Surface-directed mineralization of calcium phosphate: Effects of
solution composition and surface properties: MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, 2011.
(4) *Meier, H., Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., Dworkin, S.I., and Forman, S., 2011, Interpretation of
dynamic Late Quaternary climate and landscape variability based upon paleosol macro- and
micromorphology and stable isotopes of soil organic matter, Owl Creek, central Texas, USA: GSA
Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN, October 2011. (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 43, No. 5).
(5) *Michel, L.A., 2011, Stable carbon isotope geochemistry of Vertisols formed on marine carbonates
and implications for deep-time paleoenvironmental reconstructions: (talk presented at 48th Annual
Soil Survey and Land Resource Workshop in College Station, TX, on February 3, 2011).
(6) *Michel, L.A., Peppe, D.J., Driese, S.G., McNulty, K.P., Lehmann, T., Dunsworth, H.M., and
Harcourt-Smith, W.E.H., 2011, Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of early Miocene catarrhine
localities using fossil forest paleosols from Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya: GSA Annual
Meeting in Minneapolis, MN, October 2011. (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 43, No. 5).
(7) *Mintz, H., and Pulliam, J., 2011, Seismic anisotropy beneath the NE Caribbean: Implications for
the subducting North American lithosphere, 27th Annual Caribbean Geology Symposium
“Earthquake and Tsunamis in the Northeastern Caribbean”, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, 12-
14 October 2011.
(8) *Mintz, J.S., Driese, S.G., *Harlow, R.H., *Wright, T.C., and Atchley, S.C., 2011, Middle Devonian
landscapes, climates and the correlation of continental strata in the northern Appalachian basin: talk
presented at the Northeastern Section GSA Meeting in Pittsburg, PA, in March, 2011.
(9) *Mintz, J.S., Driese, S.G., *Harlow, R.H., *Wright, T.C., and Atchley, S.C., 2011, Sequence
stratigraphic analysis of Middle Devonian fluvial deposits and correlation with marine
accommodation trends in the Appalachian basin, New York, USA: talk presented at the Annual
Meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in Houston, TX, April 2011.
(10) *Morgan, R.F., 2011, Paleogeographic and paleoecologic associations among Mississippian
bryozoans: GSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN, October 2011. (GSA Abstracts with
Programs Vol. 43, No. 5).
(11) *Stinchcomb, G.E., 2011, Construction of a fully searchable soils database integrating soil
characterization data and whole-soil geochemical data: (talk presented at 48th Annual Soil Survey and
Land Resource Workshop in College Station, TX, on February 3, 2011).
(12) *Stinchcomb, G.E., Driese, S.G., Messner, T.C., and Nordt, L.C., 2011, Climatic and human
controls on Holocene vegetation changes in eastern Pennsylvania based on the isotopic composition
of soil organic carbon: Developing International Geoarchaeology (DIG) Conference meeting in
Knoxville, TN, September 23-24, 2011, p. 41-42.
(13) *Stinchcomb, G.E., Driese, S.G., Messner, T.C., and Nordt, L.C., 2011, Climatic and human
controls on Holocene vegetation changes in eastern Pennsylvania based on the isotopic composition
of soil organic carbon: GSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN, October 2011. (GSA Abstracts
with Programs Vol. 43, No. 5).
(14) *Stinchcomb, G.E., Peppe, D.J., and Driese, S.G., 2011, Precipitation and time are factors
influencing modern and past magnetic susceptibility enhancement within alluvial soils along the
Delaware River Valley, USA: Fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in San Francisco,
CA, December 2011.
M.S.: (1) *Dhillon, R.S., *Mintz, J.S., and Atchley, S.C., 2011, Influence of climate and the expansion of C4
grasses on sequence-scale cyclicity and landscape development during the Late Miocene to
Pleistocene of west Texas: GSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN, October 2011. (GSA Abstracts
with Programs Vol. 43, No. 5).
(2) *Diehl, M., Yelderman, J.C., and Byars, B.W., 2011, Intra-aquifer characterization and potential
management impacts: Trinity Aquifer, Central Texas: in Proceedings of the National Groundwater
Association 2011 Groundwater Summit, Paper #7755
(3) *Felda, G.R., 2011, Development of a 3-dimensional sequence stratigraphic model for the Late
Triassic (Norian) Owl Rock Member located at Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona: A
reconstruction of paleodepositional environments and paleoclimatic conditions: GSA Annual Meeting
in Minneapolis, MN, October 2011. (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 43, No. 5).
(4) *Lemons, C.R., Peppe, D.J., Royer, D.L., Wright, I.J., and Lusk, C.B., 2011, Are modern fern leaf
economics coherent enough to use as a proxy for fossil interpretations?: GSA Annual Meeting in
Minneapolis, MN, October 2011. (GSA, Abstract with Programs, 43(5): 615.)
(5) *Lemons, C.R., Peppe, D.J., Royer, D.L., Wright, I.J., and Lusk, C.B., 2011, Linking ecologies past
and present: fern leaf economics quantified: Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Austin,
TX, August, 9, 2011.
(6) *Rockett, C., Pulliam, J., and Grand, S.P., 2011, Seismic Tomographic Imaging of an Upper Mantle
Anomaly beneath the Rio Grande Rift: 2011 EarthScope National Meeting, Austin, TX, 18-20 May
2011.
(7) *Speckien, M., Pulliam, J., Dunbar, J., Gurrola, H., and Van Avendonk, H., 2011, Orogeny,
deformation, rifting, and sediment burial on the Texas Gulf Coast: An EarthScope target: 2011
EarthScope National Meeting, Austin, TX, 18-20 May 2011.
(8) *Wong, S.S., Yelderman, J.C., and Byars, B.W., 2011, Quantifying the Extent of Aquifer Reduction
Due to Floodplain Sand and Gravel Mining: in Proceedings of the National Groundwater Association
2011 Groundwater Summit, Paper #7775
B.S.: (1) *Barrington, T., and Pulliam, J., 2011, Seismic anisotropy of the Rio Grande Rift and surrounding
regions: presented at Texas Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol: Transforming Texas
Through Undergraduate Research, Austin, TX, 14 February 2011
(2) *Barrington, T., and Pulliam, J., 2011, Seismic Anisotropy, Edge-Driven Convection, and the Rio
Grande Rift, Baylor Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Activity (URSA) Scholar’s Week,
Baylor University, April 6-7, 2011.
(3) *Danielson, R., Yelderman, J.C., and Byars, B.W., 2011, Application of thermal gradient
methodologies to better understand groundwater-surface water interactions: in Proceedings of the
National Groundwater Association 2011 Groundwater Summit, Paper #7776
(4) *Kuijper, K., 2011, Testing the universal paleoprecipitation equation (CIA-K) using the newly
constructed NRCS/Baylor soil geochemical database: (talk presented at 48th Annual Soil Survey and
Land Resource Workshop in College Station, TX, on February 3, 2011).
(5) *LeBlanc, S., Dworkin, S.I., Atchley, S.C., and Nordt, L.C., 2011, Reconstructing Late Triassic
environmental conditions using paleosol mineral assemblages from the Chinle Formation, Arizona,
USA: GSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN, October 2011. (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol.
43, No. 5).
(6) *Phrampus, B., and Pulliam, J., 2011, Analysis of Broadband Seismic Station Coverage for a Seismic
Survey Across the Texas Gulf Coast: poster presented at Baylor Undergraduate Research and
Scholarly Activity (URSA) Scholar’s Week, Baylor University, April 6-7, 2011.
Graduate Student Scholarship: First-Authored Professional
Presentations in 2010: (*bold = GEO graduate student, underline
bold = GEO Faculty)
Ph.D.:
(1) *Beverly, E.J., Ashley, G.M., Driese, S.G., and Sikes, N.S., 2010, New insights into spatial
variability of rift basin paleosols using sedimentology, paleopedology, and soil geomorphology,
Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: presented at GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, October 2010 (GSA
Abstracts with Programs Vol. 42, No. 5).
(2) *Meier, H., Nordt, L., and Forman, S., 2010, Late Quaternary alluvial history of the Owl Creek
drainage basin: A geomorphic response to environmental change: Geological Society of America
Abstracts with Programs, v. 42, Denver, CO.
(3) *Mintz, H.E., Dunbar, J.A., *Gunnell, A.R., *Stinchcomb, G.E., *Mintz, J.S., and Driese, S.G.,
2010, Stream Valley Resistivity in Central Texas: Laying the Foundation for Multi‐Disciplinary
Research: Society of Exploration Geophysicists ( SAGEEP), Symposium on the Application of
Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems, v. 23, p. 751.
(4) *Mintz, H., Pulliam, J., Lopez Venegas, A., ten Brink, U., and Hillebrandt-Andrade, C., 2010,
Investigation of the source of the seismic swarms at the eastern end of the Puerto Rico Trench:
Seismological Research Letters (abstracts from the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of
America, 21-23 April 2010, Portland, OR), v. 81, No. 2, p. 366.
(5) *Mintz, H., Pulliam, J., Lopez Venegas, A., ten Brink, U., Hillebrandt-Andrade, C., and Huerfano,
V., 2010, Subduction zone characterization of the Northeast Caribbean using increased constraints on
focal mechanism solutions from data collected with an ocean bottom seismograph deployment,
Abstract S21B-2038: presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 13-17 December
2010.
(6) *Mintz, J.S., Driese, S.G., *Harlow, R.H., and *Wright, T.C., 2010, Strong seasonality during early
forestation on tectonically influenced landscapes in the Middle Devonian, Appalachian Basin, New
York: presented at GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, October 2010 (GSA Abstracts with
Programs Vol. 42, No. 5).
(7) *Mintz, J.S., Driese, S.G., Ludvigson, G.A., and Breecker, D.O., 2010, Influence of changing
hydrology on pedogenic calcite precipitation in Vertisols, Dance Bayou, Brazoria County, TX:
Implications for estimating paleoatmospheric pCO2: talk presented at fall American Geophysical
Union (AGU) meeting in San Francisco, CA, December 2010.
(8) *Stinchcomb, G.E., Driese, S.G., and Nordt, L.C., 2010, Soil geomorphology and stratigraphy
reveal mid- to late Holocene channel instability along the Delaware River, USA: presented at GSA
Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, October 2010 (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 42, No. 5).
(9) *Trendell, A.M., Atchley, S.C., and Nordt, L.C., 2010, Channels, overbanks and paleosols: the
relationship between climate, base level and lithofacies heterogeneity within the Triassic Sonsela
Member, PFNP Arizona: 2010 AAPG Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, AAPG Search and
Discovery #90104.
M.S.: (1) *Ball, N.H., Atchley, S.C., and *Hunt, L.E., 2010, Depositional and diagenetic controls on reservoir
quality and their petrophysical prediction within the Upper Cretaceous Doe Creek Member of the
Kaskapau Formation at Valhalla Field, northwest Alberta, Canada: 2010 Canadian Society of
Petroleum Geologists Meeting, Abstracts with Programs.
(2) *Gunnell, A.R., and Dunbar, J.A., 2010, Correlations between direct current resistivity and seismic
attribute tests across an active methane hydrate vent in Mississippi Canyon, Block 118, Gulf of
Mexico, (expanded abstract): Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and
Environmental Problems, v. 23, p. 709.
(3) *Hunt, L.E., Atchley, S.C., and *Ball, N.H., 2010, Sequence stratigraphic and depositional controls
on reservoir continuity within the Cretaceous Doe Creek Member of the Kaskapau Formation,
Valhalla Field, Alberta, Canada: 2010 Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Meeting, Abstracts
with Programs.
(4) *Lancaster, D.S., Cronin, V.S., and Brumbaugh, D.S., 2010, Correlation of earthquakes with faults
along the southwestern margin of the Colorado Plateau, northern Arizona: Abstract T21E-2216
presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 13-17 Dec.
(5) *Lancaster, D.S., Cronin, V.S., and Brumbaugh, D.S., 2010, Seismo-lineament analysis of the
Kanab-Fredonia area of the southern Colorado Plateau: Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Programs, Vol. 42, No. 5, p. 471.
(6) *Rockett, C.V., Pulliam, J., and Grand, S.P., 2010, Seismic tomographic imaging of an upper mantle
anomaly beneath the Rio Grande Rift, Abstract S31A-2028: presented at 2010 Fall Meeting,
American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, December 13-17, 2010.
(7) *Rockett, C., Pulliam, J., and Grand, S.P., 2010, A seismic investigation of the Rio Grande Rift: The
role of edge-driven convection in continental rifting, Seismological Research Letters (abstracts from
the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America, 21-23 April 2010, Portland, OR), v. 81,
No. 2, p. 360.
(8) *Secrest, S.H., Cronin, V.S., and Dworkin, S.I., 2010, Analysis of calcite-filled faults in carbonate
strata, Balcones trend near Waco, Texas: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs,
Vol. 42, No. 5, p. 473.
(9) *Van Plantinga, A., Peppe, D.J., Tryon, C., and Faith, J.T., 2010, Geoarcheology of the Pleistocene
Wasirya Beds, Rusinga Island, Kenya: presented at GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, October
2010 (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 42, No. 5).
(10) *Van Plantinga, A., Peppe, D.J., Tryon, C., and Faith, J.T., 2010, Geoarchaeology of the
Pleistocene Wasiriya Beds, Rusinga Island, Kenya: Texas Association of Biological Anthropology
Conference.
B.S.: (1) *Barrington, N.T., and Pulliam, J., 2010, Seismic anisotropy of the Rio Grande Rift and surrounding
regions: Baylor Geological Society Research Symposium, Program with Abstracts, 12-13 February
2010, Baylor University, Waco, TX, p. 6.
(2) *Barrington, N.T., and Pulliam, J., 2010, Seismic anisotropy of the Rio Grande Rift and surrounding
regions: URSA Scholar’s Week, Baylor University, March 25, 2010
(3) *DiPietro, L., *Michel, L.A., and Peppe, D.J., 2010, Late Pleistocene expansion of arid grasslands in
equatorial Africa: evidence from the Pleistocene Wasiriya Beds, Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria,
Kenya: Texas Association of Biological Anthropology Conference.
(4) *Harlow, H., *Mintz, J.S., and Driese, S.G., 2010, Recognition of Acadian orogeny tectophases in
terrestrial strata and correlation with the marine in the middle Devonian stratigraphy of the
Appalachian basin in Catskill State Park, New York, USA: presented at GSA Annual Meeting in
Denver, CO, October 2010 (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 42, No. 5).
Updated data compiled by Dr. Steven G. Driese, GEO Graduate Program Director, 05/26/15