FACULTY ACTIVITY REPORT
Spetember 1999 - August 2000
PAPERS PUBLISHED EXAMPLES:
Messina, P., 2000. Monitoring Migrating Mono Lake. GPS World (11:8), p. 20.
Messina, P., 2000. Using GIS and GPS to Map the Sliding Rocks of Racetrack Playa. In Keith C. Clarke: “Getting Started with Geographic Information Systems” (3 ed.), pp.270 - 274. Prentice-Hall.
Miller, J.S., Glazner, Allen F., Farmer, G. Lang, Suayah, Ismail B., and Keith, Lori A., 2000, A Sr, Nd, and Pb isotopic study of mantle domains and crustal structure from Miocene volcanic rocks in the Mojave Desert, Geological Society of America Bulletin v. 112, p. 1264-1279.
Miller, R.B., Paterson, S.R., DeBari, S.M., and Whitney, D.L., 2000, North Cascades Cretaceous crustal section: changing kinematics, rheology, metamorphism, pluton emplacement and petrogenesis from 0 to 40 km depth, in Woodsworth, G.J., Jackson, L.E., Nelson, J.L., and Ward, B. C., eds., Guidebook for geological field trips in southwestern British Columbia and northern Washington: Geological Association of Canada, Cordilleran Section, p. 229-278.
Miller, R.B., and Paterson, S.R., 1999, In defense of magmatic diapirs: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 21, p. 1161-1173.
Ortega-Guiterrez, F., Sedlock, R. L., and Speed, R.C., 2000, Evolución tectónica de México durante el Fanerozoico, in Llorente Bousquets, J., González Soriano, E., and Papavero, N., eds., Biodiversidad, taxonomía y biogeografía de artrópodes de México: Universidad Autónoma de México, v. 2, p. 3-59.
Sedlock, R. L. and Metzger, E.M., 2000, How scientists can reach teachers: Geotimes, v. 45, September 2000.
Fedorowski, J., Bamber, E.W., and Stevens, C.H., 1999, Permian Corals of the Cordillera-Arctic-Uralian realm: Acta Geologica Polomica, v. 49, p. 159-173.
Williams, J. W., 2000, Training in professional ethics as a critical component of geological curricula: Proceeding of 1st International Professional Geology Conference, Alicante, Spain, Journal of the European Federation of Geologists, p. 88-89.
Williams, J. W., 2000, Academic and professional titles have critically different meanings for the geological profession and for the public: Proceeding of 1st International Professional Geology Conference, Alicante, Spain, Journal of the European Federation of Geologists, p. 99-100.
BOOKS PUBLISHED EXAMPLES:
Harden, D. R., 1997, California Geology: Prentice Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 477p.
Sedlock, R. L., 1997, Hazards and Risks of Earthquakes and Volcanoes -- Course reader for Geology 112: Simon & Schuster, publisher location, 186 p.
MEDIA PUBLICATIONS EXAMPLE:
Harden, D., 1998, Slide set to accompany California Geology textbook; 1st ed; Upper Saddle River, NJ, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 100 slides with explanatory text.
ABSTRACTS PUBLISHED EXAMPLES:
Messina, P., and Stoffer, P., 1997, Spatial analyses of sliding rock trails on the Racetrack Playa, (Death Valley, California): Implications for basin geometry-related wind dynamics: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, n.6, p.37.
Stoffer, P., Messina, P. and Chamberlain, J. A. Jr., 1997, Buried slumps in the Upper Pierre Shale and Fox Hills formations (Maastrichtian, Late Cretaceous) in Badlands National Park, South Dakota: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, n.6, p.6.
TECHNICAL ORAL PRESENTATIONS EXAMPLES:
Metzger, E.P., August, 1997, "Analytical techniques for the interpretation of XRD data to be returned from Mars," presented at the Research Review for the NASA-ASEE Summer faculty Fellowship Program, NASA Ames Research Center.
Williams, J. W., July 1997, Ethics in the academic world, Geological Society of American Presidential Conference on Ethics in the Geosciences, Portland, Oregon (invited presentation).
TRAVEL EXAMPLES:
Messina, P., March 1998: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.
Messina, P., October 1997: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.
SPECIAL STUDIES EXAMPLES:
Reed, D.L., July 3, 1998: IRIS K-12 Seismology education short course, Santa Cruz, CA.
Reed, D.L., June 5-9, 1998: Salt marsh ecology of the San Francisco Bay, Romberg-Tiburon Environmental Center of the San Francisco State University.
CONSULTING EXAMPLES:
Harden, D., Summer 1998: Guadalupe River Confluence Park, flood geomorphology information for park visitors; advisor.
Harden, D., March 1998: Soil development on terraces in the Elk Hills Noval Petroleum Reserve, Gerald Weber, consulting geologist.
GRANTS EXAMPLES:
Reed, D.L., "The Virtual Voyage" SJSU Learning Productivity Program Grant ($18,000, 7/1/97-6/30/98)
Reed, D.L., "Deep Seismic Imaging Study of the Taiwan Arc-Collision" ,National Science Foundation, ($256,000, 3/1/95-12/31/98) .
MISCELLANEOUS EXAMPLES
Messina, P., 1998, Peer reviewer for EOS.
Reed, D.L., November 4, 1997, Session Chair, International Conference and Sino-American Symposium on Tectonics of East Asia.
Sedlock, R., peer review of NSF proposals (2).
Williams, J.W Chair, National Association of State Boards of Geology Ethics Committee.