2012 Calendar Year Annual Report for Department of

Geology Submitted by Dr. Steven G. Driese, Chair

June 1, 2013 to College of Arts and Sciences

Scholarship: Refereed Articles Published in 2012 (underline = GEO

faculty, * = GEO graduate student) *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) Bonumá, N.B., Rossi, C.G., Arnold, J.G., Reichart, J.M., Minella,, J.P., Allen, P.M., and Volk,

M., 2012, Simulating landscape sediment transport capacity by using a modified SWAT

model: Journal of Environmental Quality: doi:10.2134/jeg2012.0217.

4) Cusak, D.F., Chadwick, O.A., Hockaday, W.C, Vistousek, P.M., 2012, Mineralogical

controls on soil black carbon preservation: Global Biogeochemical Cycles. v. 26, GB004109,

2012.

5) Danley, P.D., Husemann, M., Ding, B., *DiPietro, L.M., *Beverly, E.J., and Peppe, D.J.,

2012, The impact of the geologic history and paleoclimate on the diversification of East

African cichlids: International Journal of Evolutionary Biology, v. 2012, Article ID

574851, 20 pages, doi:10.1155/2012/574851.

6) Dyar, M.D., Carmosino, M.L., Tucker, J.M. Brown, E.A., Clegg, S.M., Wiens, R.C.,

Barefield, J.E., Delaney, J.S., Ashley, G.M., and Driese, S.G., 2012, Remote laser-induced

breakdown spectroscopy analysis of East African Rift sedimentary samples under Mars

conditions: Chemical Geology, v. 294-295, p. 135-151.

7) Gondikas A.P., Masion A., Auffan M., Lau B.L.T., and Hsu-Kim H., 2012, Early-stage

precipitation kinetics of zinc sulfide nanoclusters forming in the presence of cysteine:

Chemical Geology, v. 329, p. 10-17.

8) Kinney, T., Masiello, C.A., Dugan, B., Hockaday, W.C., Dean, M.R., Zygourakis, K., and

Barnes, R.T., 2012, Hydrologic properties of biochars produced at different temperatures:

Biomass and Bioenergy, v. 41, p. 34-43.

9) Koarashi, J., Hockaday, W.C., Trumbore, S., and Masiello, C., 2012, Dynamics of decadally-

cycling carbon in subsurface soils: Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, v.

117, G0303.

10) Lau, B.L.T., Hockaday, W.C., Ijima, K., Furman, O., and Decho, A.W., 2012, A preliminary

assessment of the interactions between capping agents of silver nanoparticles and

environmental organic matter: Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering

Aspects: http://ac.els-cdn.com/S0927775712008370/dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2012.

11.065.

11) Luo, Y., Arnold, J., Allen, P.M., and Chen., X., 2012, Baseflow simulation using SWAT

model in an inland river basin in Tianshan Mountains, Northwest China: Hydrological and

Earth System Sciences, v. 16, p. 1259-1267.

12) Nordt, L.C., Hallmark, C.T., Driese, S.G., Dworkin, S.I., and Atchley, S.C., 2012,

Biogeochemistry of an ancient Critical Zone: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 87, p.

267-282.

13) Parker, D.F., Ren, M., Adams, D.T., and Long, L.E., 2012, Mid-Tertiary magmatism in

western Big Bend National Park, Texas, U.S.A.: Evolution of basaltic source regions and

generation of peralkaline rhyolite: Lithos, v. 144-145, p. 161-176.

14) Royer, D. L., Peppe, D. J., Wheeler, E. A., and Niinemets, U., 2012, Roles of climate and

functional traits in controlling toothed vs. untoothed leaf margins: American Journal of

Botany, v. 99, no. 5, p. 915-922.

*15) *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.

16) Sun, H., Hockaday, W.C., Masiello, C.A., and Zygourakis, K., 2012, Multiple controls on

the physical and chemical properties of biochars, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry

Research, 51, 3587-3597.

*17) *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.

18) Tryon, C.A., Peppe, D.J., Faith, J.T., *Van Plantinga, A., Nightingale, S., Ogondo, J., and

Fox, D.L., 2012, Late Pleistocene artefacts and associated fauna from Rusinga and Mfangano

islands, Lake Victoria, Kenya, Azania: Archaeological Research in East Africa., v. 47, p.

14-38.

19) Vulava, V.M., McKay, L.D., Broholm, M.M., McCarthy, J.F., Driese, S.G., and Sayler, G.S.,

2012, Dissolution and transport of coal tar compounds in fractured clay-rich residuum:

Journal of Hazardous Materials, v. 203-204, p. 283-289.

*20) *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.

Scholarship: Refereed Publications: Accepted, in Press, or

Published in 2013 (underline = GEO faculty, * = GEO student)

1) Ashley, G.R., Deocampo, D.M., Kahmann-Robinson, J.A., and Driese, S.G., 2013,

Groundwater-fed wetland sediments and paleosols: It’s all about water table: In New

Frontiers in Paleopedology and Terrestrial Paleoclimatology (S.G. Driese and L.C. Nordt,

eds.): SEPM Special Publication Volume No. 104, p. 47-61.

2) Atchley, S.C., Nordt, L.C., Dworkin, S.I., Cleveland, D.M., Mintz, J.S., and *Harlow, R.H.,

2013, Alluvial stacking pattern analysis and sequence stratigraphy: Concepts and case

studies: In New Frontiers in Paleopedology and Terrestrial Paleoclimatology (S.G. Driese

and L.C. Nordt, eds.): SEPM Special Publication Volume No. 104, p. 109-129.

3) Bennett, S.J., Dunbar, J.A., Rhoton, F.E., Allen, P.M., Bigham, J.M., Davidson, G.R., and

Wren, D.G., in press, Assessing sedimentation within aging of flood control reservoirs, In

The Challenges of Dam Removals and River Restorations, (J.V. DeGraff and J.E. Evans,

eds.): Reviews in Engineering Geology, v. 21, p. 25-44.

4) 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.

5) Conrad, J., Jenkins, K., Lehmann, T., Manthi, F., Peppe, D.J., Nightingale, S., Cossette, A.,

and Dunsworth, HM.., accepted, Harcourt-Smith, W.E.H., McNulty, K.P., accepted, New

specimens of Crocodylus pigotti (Crocodylidae) from Rusinga Island, Kenya, and generic re-

allocation of the species: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

6) Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., Waters, M.R., and Keene, J.L., 2013, Analysis of site formation

history and potential disturbance of stratigraphic context at the Debra L. Friedkin

archaeological site in central Texas, USA: Geoarchaeology, v. 28, p. 221-248.

7) Driese, S.G., and Nordt, L.C., 2013, New frontiers in paleopedology and terrestrial

paleoclimatology: paleosols and soil surface analog systems: In New Frontiers in

Paleopedology and Terrestrial Paleoclimatology (S.G. Driese and L.C. Nordt, eds.): SEPM

Special Publication Volume No. 104, p. 1-3.

8) Dunbar, J.A., Allen, P.M., and Bennett, S.J., in press, Acoustic sub-bottom profiling surveys

of flood control reservoirs: Environmental & Engineering Geosciences.

9) Faith, J.T., Tryon, C.A., Peppe, D.J., and Fox, D.L., in press, The fossil history of endangered

Grevy’s zebra (Equus grevyi) in equatorial East Africa: Journal of Biogeography.

10) Furman, O., Usenko, S., and Lau, B.L.T., in press, Relative importance of the humic and

fulvic fractions of natural organic matter in the aggregation and adsorption of silver

nanoparticles: Environmental Science and Technology.

11) Ikuma, K., Decho, A. W., and Lau, B.L.T., in press, The extracellular bastions of bacteria –

A biofilm way of life!: Nature Education.

12) Lau B.L.T., Hockaday, W.C., Ikuma, K., Furman, O., and Decho, A.W., in press, A

preliminary assessment of the Interactions between the capping agents of silver nanoparticles

and environmental organics: Colloids & Surfaces: available online at:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2012.11.065.

13) Lau, B.L.T., *Huang, R., and Madden, A.S., in press, Electrostatic adsorption of hematite

nanoparticles on self-assembled monolayer surfaces: Journal of Nanoparticle Research.

14) Lin, S., *Huang, R., Cheng, Y., Liu, J., Lau, B.L.T., and Wiesner, M.R., in press, Silver

nanoparticle-alginate composite beads for point-of-use drinking water disinfection: Water

Research.

15) Li, Z.-H., Driese, S.G., and Cheng, H., accepted, A multiple cave deposit assessment of

suitability of speleothem isotopes for reconstructing paleo-vegetation and paleo-temperature:

A case study in Raccoon Mountain Cave, USA: Sedimentology.

16) Ludvigson, G.A., González, L.A., Fowle, D.A., Roberts, J.A., Driese, S.G., Villarreal, M.A.,

Smith, J.J., and Suarez, M.B., 2013, Paleoclimatic implications and modern process studies

of pedogenic siderite: In New Frontiers in Paleopedology and Terrestrial Paleoclimatology

(S.G. Driese and L.C. Nordt, eds.): SEPM Special Publication Volume No. 104, p. 79-87.

17) Maxbauer, D.P., Peppe, D.J., Bamford, M., McNulty, K.P., Edwards, L., and Harcourt-

Smith, W.E.H., accepted, Paleoclimate interpretations and a morphotype catalog of an Early

Miocene flora from the Hiwegi Formation, Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya:

Paleontologia Electronica.

*18) 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.

*19) 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.

20) Nordt, L.C., (in press), Late Quaternary fluvial landscape evolution of the Rio Casas Grandes

and San Pedro: Implications for the archaeological record. In Late Archaic Cerros de

Trincheras Sites of Chihuahua, Mexico, R. Hard and R. Roney (eds.): University of Utah

Press.

21) Nordt, L.C., Hallmark, C.T., Driese, S.G., and Dworkin, S.I., 2013, Multi-analytical

pedosystem approach to characterizing and interpreting the fossil record of soils: In New

Frontiers in Paleopedology and Terrestrial Paleoclimatology (S.G. Driese and L.C. Nordt,

eds.): SEPM Special Publication Volume No. 104, p. 89-107.

22) Peppe, D.J., 2013, Hot summers in continental interiors: The case against equability during

the early Paleogene: Geology. doi: 10.1130/focus012013.1. (Invited Research Focus article.

The article was peer-reviewed by the editor of Geology, but was not sent out for additional

peer-review)

23) Peppe, D.J., and Deino, A.L., in press, Dating rocks and fossils using the geologic record:

Nature Education Knowledge.

*24) 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: doi: 10.1016/j.yqres.2013.02.004.

*25) Trendell, A.M., Atchley, S.C., and Nordt, L.C., in press, Facies analysis of a probably large

fluvial fan depositional system: the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation at Petrified Forest

National Park, Arizona: Journal of Sedimentary Research.

*26) Trendell, A.M., Nordt, L.C., and Atchley, S.C., in press, 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.

27) Weissmann, G.S., Hartley, A.J., Scuderi, L.A., Nichols, G.J., Davidson, S.K., Owen, A.,

Atchley, S.C., Bhattacharya, P., Nordt, L.C., Chakraborty, T., Ghosh, P., *Michel, L.C., and

Tabor, N.J., 2013, Prograding distributive fluvial systems-Geomorphic models and ancient

examples: In New Frontiers in Paleopedology and Terrestrial Paleoclimatology (S.G. Driese

and L.C. Nordt, eds.): SEPM Special Publication Volume No. 104, p. 131-147.

Appointments, Awards, and Fellowships for 2012 (underline = GEO

faculty

Dr. Steven G. Driese elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of

Science (AAAS) in November, 2012.

Dr. Steven G. Driese was appointed as Geological Society of America Representative to the US

National Committee on Soil Science (USNC/SS) for the term 1 July 2012 through 30 June 2015.

Doctoral student Zachary P. Valdez was awarded the prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship

by the National Science Foundation in recognition of his research accomplishments and the

scientific importance of the research he is conducting at Baylor University. The award is

accompanied by stipend support ($30,000/yr) plus tuition reimbursement ($25,390/yr) for 3

years.

Dr. Boris L.T. Lau continues to receive the Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship to work at

the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

Professional Presentations for 2012 (underline = GEO faculty, * =

GEO graduate student; @ = GEO undergraduate student)

1) Atchley, S.C., Lane, E., 2012, Geologic risk assessment of the Mississippian Chat Formation

within the Lost Springs field area of central Kansas: a model for step-out oil development.

With Short Oil &Gas in collaboration with the Baylor University Applied Petroleum Studies

program.

2) Atchley, S.C., Nordt, L., Dworkin, S.I., Ash, S., Parker, W.G., Ramezani, J., and Bowring,

S.A., 2012, Tectonic and climatic controls on cyclic alluviation and biologic turnover within

the Late Triassic Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona: GSA Annual

Meeting in Charlotte, NC, November 2012. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7.

*3) *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.

*4) *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.

5) Browning, S., Dunbar, J.A., and Cronin, V.S., 2011, The use of physical models to

demonstrate seismic wave propagation and seismic hazards -- application to elementary

school students: Abstract SED13A-0795, EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union,

v. 90.

6) Brunt, M.R., Ellins, K.K., Boyd, D., Mote, A.S.., Pulliam, J., and Frohlich, C.A., 2012,

Promoting seismology education through collaboration between university research scientists

and school teachers: Abstract ED41B-0678 presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San

Francisco, CA, 3-7 December 2012.

7) Cronin, V.S., and *Lindsay, R.D., 2011, Using focal mechanism solutions to correlate

earthquakes with faults in the Lake Tahoe- Truckee area, California and Nevada, and to help

design LiDAR surveys for active-fault reconnaissance: Abstract S21A-2157, EOS

Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 90.

8) Cronin, V.S., 2011, Using earthquake focal mechanism solutions to find the surface trace of

seismogenic faults: Medellin, Colombia, Sociedad Colombiana de Geologia, XIV Congreso

Latinoamericano de Geologia, Memorias, p. 169.

9) Cronin, V.S., 2011, EarthScope resources and the multi-disciplinary search for seismogenic

faults: Presented at the EarthScope national meeting; May 17-20, 2011, Austin, Texas;

available online at

http://www.earthscope.org/es_doc/meetings/2011_national/esnm_2011_abstracts_all.pdf

10) Cronin, V.S., 2011, Some thoughts about the challenges of E&O for COCONet: Presented at

COCONet Workshop – community science, station siting and capacity building; February 3-

4, 2011, San Juan, Puerto Rico; available online at

http://www.unavco.org/community/meetings-events/2011/coconet/abstracts/cronin_abstract.pdf

*11) *Culbertson, A., 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.

12) Decho, A.W., Ikuma, K., and Lau, B.L.T., 2012, When nanoparticles enters the house of

microbes – the importance of biofilms in the fate and transport of nanomaterials: 1st

Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization Conference, Arlington, 2012.

*13) *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).

*14) *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.

15) Driese, S.G., 2012, “Multi-proxy approaches to interpreting climate and time in the geologic

record using Vertisols”: talk presented to Soil Sciences class at Iowa State University, Ames,

IA, Department of Agronomy, March 29, 2012).

16) Driese, S.G., 2012, “Using major-element oxide ratios in paleosols to interpret

paleoclimate”: Invited Pierre Colloquium talk presented at Iowa State University, Ames, IA,

Departments of Agronomy, and Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, March 29, 2012).

17) Driese, S.G., 2012, “Using major-element oxide ratios in paleosols to interpret

paleoclimate”: Invited talk presented at Texas A & M University, College Station, TX

Departments of Agronomy and Agricultural Engineering, October 24, 2012).

18) Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., Mintz, J.S., Robinson, A.E., and Miller, W.F., 2012, The

overlooked soil-forming factors: Distinguishing influences of soil age and hydrology from

climate influences on Vertisols, and application to paleosols: (talk presented at 49th

Annual

Soil Survey and Land Resource Workshop in College Station, TX, on February 2, 2012).

19) Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., *Stinchcomb, G.E., and @Kuijper, K., 2012, Towards

reconstructing climate and ecosystem for paleoVertisols using bulk geochemistry: poster

presented at June 2012 International Goldschmidt Conference in Montreal, Canada:

Mineralogical Magazine, v. 76, p. 1663.

20) Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., *Stinchcomb, G.E., and @Kuijper, K., 2012, Construction of a

fully searchable database integrating soil characterization data and whole-soil geochemical

data: invited keynote talk presented at June 2012 International Goldschmidt Conference in

Montreal, Canada: Mineralogical Magazine, v. 76, p. 1662.

21) Driese, S.G., Li, Z.-H., Cheng, H., *Stinchcomb, G.E., Kocis, J.J., Horn, S.P., and Boehm,

M. S., 2012, Speleothem micromorphology improves interpretations of floodplain

paleoclimate records and enhances interpretations of the timing and structure of the mid-

Holocene warm period: GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC, November 2012. GSA

Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7.

22) Du, B., Price, A.E., Casan, S., Kristofco, L.A., Ramirez, A., Chambliss, K.C., Yelderman Jr.,

J.C., and Brooks, B.W., 2012, Comparative analysis of contaminant of emerging concern

discharges from a centralized municipal plant and on-site wastewater treatment systems

receiving common wastewater influent: SETAC Europe, May 2012, Berlin, Germany

23) Dunbar, J. A., 2012, Extrusion model for the distribution of hydrate at Woolsey Mound,

Mississippi Canyon, Block 118, Gulf of Mexico: 2012 Ocean Sciences Conference, Book

of Abstracts, page 119, Salt Lake City, Utah, February 20-24, 2012.

24) Dunbar, J. A., *Speckien, M., and Pulliam, J., 2012, Magnetic Investigation of the

Continental-Oceanic Boundary in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Abstract T35C-2735

American Geophysical Union, 2012 Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 3-7, Dec 2012.

25) Dunbar, J.A., Cronin, V.S., Allen, P.M., and White, J.D., 2011, Recent fault movement in

Lake McDonald, Montana: Evidence from acoustic sub-bottom profiling: Abstract T31B-

2340, EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 90.

26) Dworkin, S.I., Nordt, L.C., and Atchley, S.C., 2012, Using bulk paleosol organic matter to

reconstruct atmospheric δ13

CCO2: presented at June 2012 International Goldschmidt

Conference in Montreal, Canada: Mineralogical Magazine, v. 76.

*27) 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.

28) Gallagher, M., Hockaday, W.C., and Masiello, C., 2012, Using 13

C nuclear magnetic

resonance spectroscopy to estimate biochemical stocks and biofuel feedstock quality: Soil

Science Society of America, USDA bioenergy project directors meeting, Cincinnati, OH.,

Oct. 23-25, 2012.

29) Hockaday, W.C., 2012, The roles of fire in the Earth System (Invited): The University of

Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, April 13, 2012.

30) Hockaday, W.C., and Lau, B.L.T., 2012, When Iron and Silver nanoparticles meet natural

organic matter: Probing interactions with molecular spectroscopy and quartz crystal

microgravimetry, June 2012 International Goldschmidt Conference in Montreal, Canada,

June, 2012

@31) @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.

*32) *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.

33) Ikuma, K., Madden, A.S., and Lau, B.L.T., 2012, The role of extracellular polymeric

substances in nanoparticle-biofilm interactions. Goldschmidt Conference, Montreal, 2012.

34) Jenkins, K., Tyler Faith, J., Tryon, C., Peppe, D., Nightingale, S., Ogondo, J., Roure

Johnson, C., and Driese, S.G., 2012, New excavations of a late Pleistocene bonebed and

associated MSA artifacts, Rusinga Island, Kenya: Archaeological Society meeting, Memphis,

TN, April 2012.

*35) *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.

@36) @Kuijper, K., 2012 Testing the universal paleoprecipitation equation (CIA-K) using the

newly constructed NRCS/Baylor soil geochemical database: (talk presented at 49th

Annual

Soil Survey and Land Resource Workshop in College Station, TX, on February 2, 2012).

37) Knuppel, M., Pratt, K.W., *Evanzia, D., Gurrola, H., and Pulliam, J., 2012, Receiver

function analysis of the Texas Gulf Coast to better understand the Ouachita Orogeny,

opening of the Gulf of Mexico, and current state of the southern margin of North America:

Abstract T53C-2723 presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 3-7

December 2012.

38) Lau B.L.T., 2012, Adsorption of metal-based nanoparticles: the importance of surface

modification from simple to complex organics: Keynote lecture for the 7th International

Conference on Interfaces Against Pollution, Nancy, France. 2012.

*39) *Lemons, C., and Peppe, D.J. (presenter), 2012, Are fern leaf economics coherent enough

to use as a proxy for fossil interpretations?: Midcontinent Paleobotanical Colloquium.

40) Li, Z.-H., Cheng, H., and Driese, S.G., 2012, Episodic drought during mid-Holocene warm

period revealed by speleothem carbon and oxygen isotopes and UV fluorescence in southern

Appalachians, USA: Fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in San Francisco,

CA, December 2012.

41) Ludvigson, G.A., González, L.A., Fowle, D.A., Roberts, J.A., Driese, S.G., Villarreal, M. A.,

and Suarez, M., 2012, What’s the low down on soil-formed siderite?: Modern process studies

and validation of deep time terrestrial paleoclimate proxy: GSA Annual Meeting in

Charlotte, NC, November 2012: GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7.

42) Ludvigson, G.A., Ludvigson, G.A., González, L.A., Fowle, D.A., Roberts, J.A., Driese, S.G.,

Suarez, M., and Villarreal, M. A., 2012, The paleoclimatic record of pedogenic siderites:

Validation by modern process studies and new application to the Cretaceous Arctic: Fall

American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in San Francisco, CA, December 2012.

43) Masiello, C.A., Perez, T., Giuliante, A., Rasse, R.J., Hockaday, W.C., Barnes, R.T.,

Hernandez, J.C., and Donoso, L., 2012, Dissolved and particulate organic carbon exports

from 4 Venezuelan rivers: effects of developing world urbanization on coastal carbon

delivery (Invited): American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, December, 2012.

@44) @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.

45) Medaris, G., Jr., Driese, S.G., Boerboom, T., and Jirsa, M., 2012, Granitic saprolites in the

Lake Superior region: K-metamorphism, intensity vs. magnitude of weathering, and

estimates of atmospheric pCO2: 58th

Annual Institute for Lake Superior Geology meeting in

Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, May, 2012.

*46) *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.

*47) *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.

*48) *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).

*49) *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.

*50) *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.

*51) *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.

52) Nordt, L.C., Atchley, S.C., Dworkin, S.I., Ramezani, J., and Bowring, S.A.,, 2012,

Characterization and interpretation of a well-dated succession of late Triassic paleosols from

Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona: GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC, November

2012: GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7.

53) Nordt, L.C., Waters, M.R., Forman, S.L., Bousman, C.B., Driese, S.G.,, 2012, A soil and

paleosol informatics approach to developing paleoclimate proxies. GSA Annual Meeting in

Charlotte, NC, November 2012: GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7. (Invited)

54) Parker, D.F., 2012, Flood rhyolite magmatism of the Davis Mountains, Trans-Pecos Texas:

Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 44, no. 1, p.9 (Given at Alpine,

Texas at South-Central GSA meeting).

55) Parker, D.F., Price, J.D., and Ren, M., 2012, Late Quaternary magmatism in the Three

Sisters region, Central Oregon Cascades: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting

(Abstract Reference Number 1483243), San Francisco, CA.

56) Peppe, D.J., and Hickey, L.J., 2012, Unexpected patterns of floral heterogeneity in the

Western Interior of North American during the Paleocene: Leaf Summer Working Group,

Yale University.

57) Price, A.C., Brooks, B.W., and Yelderman, J.C., Jr., 2012, Using whole effluent toxicity

(WET) to compare water quality of 8 wastewater treatment stems (Poster): regional SETAC

meeting in Waco, Texas, June 1, 2012,

58) Pulliam, J., *Rockett, C., Xia, Y., and Grand, S.P., 2012, Origin of a seismic anomaly in the

upper mantle beneath the Trans-Pecos, GSA South-Central Section - 46th Annual Meeting

(8–9 March 2012).

59) Snell, K.E., Peppe, D.J., Eiler, J.M., Wernicke, B.P., and Koch P.L., 2012, Recent advances

and on-going challenges of estimating past elevation from climate proxy data: EOS

Transactions AGU: T24C-07 (Invited Abstract).

*60) *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).

*61) *Stinchcomb, G. E., Messner, T. C., Driese, S.G., Nordt, L. C., and Stewart, R. M., 2012,

Pre-colonial (A.D. 1100-1600) sedimentation related to prehistoric maize agriculture and

climate change in eastern North America: Paper presented at Middle Atlantic Archaeological

Conference, March 22 - 25, 2012, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

*62) *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.

*63) *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)

*64) *Valdez, Z., 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, USDA bioenergy project directors meeting, Cincinnati, OH., Oct. 23-25,

2012

65) Yelderman, J.C., Jr., 2012, Recharge and flow in the northern segment of the Edwards BFZ

aquifer, Progress report: Bell County Stakeholder meeting, 12-12-12, Salado, TX.

66) Yelderman, J.C., Jr., 2012, Recharge and flow in the northern segment of the Edwards BFZ

aquifer, Progress report: Bell County Stakeholder meeting, 11-28-12, Austin, TX.

67) Yelderman, J.C., Jr., 2012, The Salado Springs portion of the northern Edwards aquifer,

Progress report: Bell County Water Symposium, 10-15-12, Belton, TX.

68) Yelderman, J.C., Jr., 2012, Salado Springs; Hydrogeology of the northern Edwards aquifer:

Stakeholder meeting, 6-8-12, Salado, TX.

69) Yelderman, J.C., Jr., Wong, S.S., and Ju, D., 2012, Management challenges in shallow

alluvial aquifers: NGWA Groundwater Summit, Garden Grove, California.

70) Yelderman, J.C., Jr., and Price, A., 2012, The effects of influent equalization dosing

compared to NSF Standard 40 design loading on aerobic onsite units: Annual Meeting of the

Texas Onsite Wastewater Association (TOWA), Waco, Texas.

Grant Proposals and Contracts in force for 2012 – including

Principal Investigator/ Title/ Funding Source

Funding for Allen, P.M.

NAME

(PI #1 first)

SUPPORTING

AGENCY AND

AWARD

NUMBER

TOTAL $

AMOUNT

EFFECTIVE

DATES

TITLE OF PROJECT

Active

P.M. Allen

J.A. Dunbar

USDA/ARS $13,860 07/01/11 to

06/30/13

Sediment budget and

reservoir sediment

evaluation techniques for

the SWAT watershed

model, Kenya

P.M. Allen

J.A. Dunbar

USDA/ARS $24,000 05/31/11 to

09/30/13

Determining groundwater

recharge from irrigation

systems for production of

biofuels in Hawaii

P.M. Allen USDA/EPA $30,000 03/31/12 to

03/31/13

Determining stream

channel degradation and

the potential need for

stream rehabilitation in

urbanizing environments

Funding for Atchley, S.C.

NAME

(PI #1 first)

SUPPORTING

AGENCY AND

AWARD

TOTAL $

AMOUNT

EFFECTIVE

DATES

TITLE OF PROJECT

NUMBER

Active

S.C. Atchley Husky Energy

(Ltd.) Canada

$46,500 9/20/12 to

8/31/2013

Stratigraphic controls on

enhanced oil recovery:

Mississippian Rundle

Group at Caroline Field,

Alberta

Funding for Driese, S.G.

NAME

(PI #1 first)

SUPPORTING

AGENCY AND

AWARD

NUMBER

TOTAL $

AMOUNT

EFFECTIVE

DATES

TITLE OF PROJECT

Active

D.O. Breecker

S.G. Driese

L.C. Nordt

NSF EAR-

0921356

Geobiology and

Low-

Temperature

Geochemistry

$96,957

(Baylor

portion)

10/2009 to

09/2012

Collaborative research:

Calibrating the paleosol

carbonate CO2

paleobarometer for vertic

paleosols by monitoring

soil CO2 in modern

Vertisols

Z.-H. Li

S.P. Horn

S.G. Driese

NSF EAR

0823131 Paleo-

Perspectives on

Climate

Change (P2C2)

$61,057

(Baylor

portion)

10/2009 to

09/2013

Collaborative research:

Pleistocene-Holocene

climate variability of the

southern Appalachian

region, southeastern U.S.

K.P. McNulty

A. Deino

L. MacLatchy

J. Rossie

D. J. Peppe

S.G. Driese

NSF-BCS-IPG

1241812

Behavioral and

Cognitive

Sciences

$152,906

(Baylor

portion)

01/01/13 to

12/31/17

Collaborative research:

IPG: Research on East

African catarrhine and

hominoid evolution

W.C.

Hockaday

S.G. Driese

D. Peppe

P. Farmer

B.L.T. Lau

NSF EAR/IF

Instrumentation

and Facilities

$92,800 8/1/2012 to

7/31/2013

Early Career: Acquisition

of a shared solid-state

NMR spectrometer for

Earth Science Research at

Baylor University

S.G. Driese

S.I. Dworkin

R. Zhang

Baylor FRIP

(Faculty

Research

Investment

Program)

$17,131 06/01/12 to

05/31/13

Hydrogen stable isotope

analysis of speleothem

fluid inclusions

Funding for Dunbar, J.A.

NAME

(PI #1 first)

SUPPORTING

AGENCY AND

AWARD

NUMBER

TOTAL $

AMOUNT

EFFECTIVE

DATES

TITLE OF PROJECT

Active

P.M. Allen

J.A. Dunbar

USDA/ARS $13,860 07/01/11 to

06/30/13

Sediment budget and

reservoir sediment

evaluation techniques for

the SWAT watershed

model, Kenya

P.M. Allen

J.A. Dunbar

USDA/ARS $24,000 05/31/11 to

09/30/13

Determining groundwater

recharge from irrigation

systems for production of

biofuels in Hawaii

L. Macelloni

C. Lutken

K. Sleeper

J.A. Dunbar

U. S.

Department of

Energy

National

Energy

Technology

Laboratory

$189,796

(Baylor

portion)

01/01/13 to

12/31/14

Temporal characterization

of hydrates system

dynamics beneath seafloor

mounds integrating time-

lapse electrical resistivity

methods and in situ

observations of multiple

oceanographic parameters

Funding for Hockaday, W.C.

NAME

(PI #1

first)

SUPPORTING

AGENCY AND

AWARD

NUMBER

TOTAL $

AMOUNT

EFFECTIVE

DATES

TITLE OF PROJECT

Active

C. Masiello

T. Perez

W. Hockaday

NSF OCE

0928941

$40,000

(Baylor

portion)

8/2009 –

7/2013

Impact of developing-world land-

use on riverine organic carbon

delivery to the ocean

C. Masiello

W. Hockaday

USDA NIFA

AFRI

Renewable

Bioenergy

2011-67009-

20074

$100,811

(Baylor

portion)

12/2010 –

12/2013

Effect of Nitrogen Management

Strategies on Biofuel Crop

Biochemistry & Soil Carbon

Stocks

W. Hockaday

S.J. Kim

Baylor OVPR Salary &

fringes

6/2012 –

5/2014

Baylor University Postdoctoral

Fellowship Program

W. Hockaday

S. Driese, D.

Peppe, P.

Farmer, B.

NSF EAR/IF $92,800 8/1/2012 –

7/31/2013

Early Career: Acquisition of a

shared solid-state NMR

spectrometer for Earth Science

Research at Baylor University

Lau

S. Nesmith,

C. Wynveen,

B. Brooks,

W. Hockaday,

C. Matson

Baylor URC $6,000 6/1/2012 –

5/31/2013

Paludology Pedagogy: A wetland

environmental education academy

for P-12 teachers

Funding for Lau, B.L.T.

NAME

(PI #1

first)

SUPPORTING

AGENCY AND

AWARD

NUMBER

TOTAL $

AMOUNT

EFFECTIVE

DATES

TITLE OF PROJECT

Active

B.L.T. Lau European

Union’s

Seventh

Framework

Programme,

Marie Curie

International

Incoming

Fellowship

€230,627

09/01/11

to

08/31/13

The role of microbial metabolites

in Pb-Calcite surface interactions

B.L.T. Lau City of Waco $75,000 10/01/11

to

04/30/13

Impact of backwash strategies on

biofiltration performance

B.LT. Lau Tarrant

Regional

Water District

$11,250 10/01/10

to

09/31/12

Particle Analysis for Tarrant

Regional Water District Water

Supplies

W.C.

Hockaday

S.G. Driese

D.J. Peppe

P. Farmer

B.L.T. Lau

NSF EAR/IF $92,800 8/1/2012 –

7/31/2013

Early Career: Acquisition of a

shared solid-state NMR

spectrometer for Earth Science

Research at Baylor University

Funding for Nordt, L.C.

NAME

(PI #1 first)

SUPPORTING

AGENCY AND

AWARD

NUMBER

TOTAL $

AMOUNT

EFFECTIVE

DATES

TITLE OF PROJECT

Active

D.O. Breecker

S.G. Driese

NSF EAR-

0921356

$96,957

(Baylor

10/2009 to

09/2012

Collaborative research:

Calibrating the paleosol

L.C. Nordt Geobiology and

Low-

Temperature

Geochemistry

portion) carbonate CO2

paleobarometer for vertic

paleosols by monitoring

soil CO2 in modern

Vertisols

Funding for Peppe, D.J.

NAME

(PI #1 first)

SUPPORTING

AGENCY AND

AWARD

NUMBER

TOTAL $

AMOUNT

EFFECTIVE

DATES

TITLE OF PROJECT

Active

C.A Tryon

D.L. Fox

D.J. Peppe

NSF-BCS

program

$52,722

(Baylor

portion)

9/01/10 to

08/31/13.

Collaborative research:

Quaternary Archaeology

and Environments of

Rusinga and Mfangano

Islands, Kenya

K.P. McNulty

A. Deino

L. MacLatchy

J. Rossie

D. J. Peppe

S.G. Driese

NSF-BCS-IPG

1241812

Behavioral and

Cognitive

Sciences

$152,906

(Baylor

portion)

01/01/13 to

12/31/17

Collaborative research:

IPG: Research on East

African catarrhine and

hominoid evolution

W.C.

Hockaday

S.G. Driese

D.J. Peppe

P. Farmer

B.L.T. Lau

NSF EAR/IF

Instrumentation

and Facilities

$92,800 8/1/2012 to

7/31/2013

Early Career: Acquisition

of a shared solid-state

NMR spectrometer for

Earth Science Research at

Baylor University

D.J. Peppe American

Chemical

Society,

Petroleum

Research Fund

$100,000 1/1/13 to

8/31/15

Climate, tectonics and the

ecosystem response:

exploring the relationship

between extrinsic controls

and cyclic alluvial stratal

accumulations within the

Paleocene Nacimiento

Formation, San Juan Basin,

New Mexico, USA

D.J. Peppe The Leakey

Foundation

$13,500 06/01/2012 to

05/31/2013

Paleoenvironment

reconstruction of the Early

Miocene of Rusinga Island,

Kenya

D.J. Peppe Baylor

University

Young

Investigator

$24,550, 6/1/11 to 6/1/12 Influence of phylogeny and

ecology on leaf size and

shape: implications for

paleoclimatic interpretation

Program (YIP)

Funding for Pulliam, J.

NAME

(PI #1 first)

SUPPORTING

AGENCY AND

AWARD

NUMBER

TOTAL $

AMOUNT

EFFECTIVE

DATES

TITLE OF PROJECT

Active

J. Pulliam National

Nuclear

Security

Agency (U.S.

Dept. of

Energy)

$291,825

09/01/09 to

08/31/12

Seismic velocity estimation

from multiple waveform

functionals: P- & S-wave

receiver functions,

waveform fitting, and

surface wave dispersion

J. Pulliam

J. Dunbar

H. Gurrola

Norman

Hackerman

Advanced

Research

Program, Texas

Higher

Education

Coordinating

Board

$74,138

(Baylor

portion)

06/01/10 to

05/31/13

Deep seismic investigation

of a rifted margin: Gulf of

Mexico to the Llano Uplift,

Central Texas

J. Pulliam Gulf Coast

Association of

Geological

Societies

(GCAGS)

$10,000

06/01/10 to

05/31/12

Broadband Seismic

Investigation of a Rifted

Margin: The Texas Gulf

Coastal Plain

J. Pulliam

S.P. Grand

National

Science

Foundation

(Earth Sciences

Division,

EarthScope

Program)

$482,029 06/01/08 to

05/31/13

SIEDCAR: Seismic

Investigation of Edge

Driven Convection

Associated with the Rio

Grande Rift

D. Simpson

J.Pulliam

O. Cabello

J. Louie

NSF/OISE $100,000 01/01/13 to

12/31/14

Pan-American Advanced

Studies Institute on New

Frontiers in Geophysical

Research: Bringing New

Tools and Techniques to

Bear on Earthquake

Hazard Analysis and

Mitigation

Funding for Yelderman, J.C., Jr.

NAME

(PI #1 first)

SUPPORTING

AGENCY AND

AWARD

NUMBER

TOTAL $

AMOUNT

EFFECTIVE

DATES

TITLE OF PROJECT

Active

J.C.

Yelderman,

Jr.

The Southern

Trinity

Groundwater

Conservation

District

$20,328 01/01/12 to

12/30/12

Internship

Expenditures for Grant Proposals and Contracts in force for 2012 –

including Principal Investigator/ Title/ Funding Source (from OSP)

Project Title PI Source Sponsor Expenditures Cost Share Adjusted Exp F & A Cost Share Transfers Adjusted F&A Total

32110112 Collaborative Research: Quart Peppe FEDERAL NSF 25,538.38 25,538.38 2,553.84 2,553.84 28,092.22

32110115 Changes in On-Site Wastewater Yelderman STATE TOWTRC 48,644.61 48,644.61 7,296.73 7,296.73 55,941.34

32110106 Gas Hydrate Gulf of Mexico-DOE Dunbar FEDERAL DOE 37,456.13 37,456.13 5,526.94 5,526.94 42,983.07

32110116 Analysis for TRWD supplies Lau STATE TRWD 828.38 828.38 301.68 301.68 1,130.06

32110119 Determining Groundwater-USDA Allen FEDERAL USDA 38,841.18 (4,518.90) 34,322.28 12,054.22 (8,622.00) 3,432.22 37,754.50

32110105 Crossing the Shoreline-UT Pulliam PRIVATE UT 37,331.38 37,331.38 3,733.14 3,733.14 41,064.52

32110110 Seismic Velocity-UT Pulliam FEDERAL UT 75,832.68 75,832.68 22,451.89 22,451.89 98,284.57

32110113 NHARP-Pulliam Pulliam STATE THECB 13,789.76 13,789.76 - - 13,789.76

32110114 Broadband Seismic Investigatio Pulliam PRIVATE GCAGS 6,291.67 6,291.67 - - 6,291.67

32110118 Regional Reservoir-Husky Oil Atchley PRIVATE Husky Oil 48,918.17 48,918.17 21,530.85 (3,675.69) 17,855.16 66,773.33

32110104 Paleoclimate Proxy-NSF Driese FEDERAL NSF 734.84 734.84 208.55 208.55 943.39

32110107 ARRA-NSF-Driese Driese FEDERAL NSF 15,690.38 15,690.38 5,099.38 5,099.38 20,789.76

32110109 NSF-Driese Driese FEDERAL NSF 544.00 544.00 176.80 176.80 720.80

32110117 Effect of Nitrogen Management Hockaday FEDERAL Rice Univ 7,991.94 7,991.94 1,758.22 1,758.22 9,750.16

32110120 ARRA-Rice Univ-Organic Carbon Hockaday FEDERAL Rice Univ 25,070.42 25,070.42 9,150.72 9,150.72 34,221.14

383,503.92 (4,518.90) 378,985.02 91,842.96 (8,622.00) (3,675.69) 79,545.27 458,530.29

Total Research Expenditures = $458,530.29

Undergraduate Program

Dr. Rena M. Bonem, Undergraduate Program Director and Dr. Joe C.

Yelderman, Jr. Secondary Advisor Geo 43C0 Spring 2012

GEO 43C0-02 Senior Thesis Dunbar, John

1

GEO 43C0-12 Senior Thesis Driese, Steven G.

1

GEO 43C0-13 Senior Thesis Dworkin, Steve

1

Geo 43C1 Colloquium Spring 2012

GEO 43C1-01 Senior Colloquium Capstone Hockaday, Bill

6

Geo 4V90

Summer 2011 Geo 4V90-09 Special Problems Byars, Bruce W. 1

Fall 2011 GEO 4V90-15 Special Problems Pulliam, Jay

1

Spring 2012 Geo 4V90-03 Special Problems Bonem, Rena M. 1

Spring 2012 Geo 4V90-12 Special Problems Driese, Steven G. 1

Spring 2012 Geo 4V90-13 Special Problems Dworkin, Steve 1

General education course for majors

Summer 2012

GEO 1406-F1 Earth Through Time Bonem, Rena M.

12

GEO 3344-F2 Sedimentary Fld Studies Dworkin, Steve

1

GEO 3643-F1 Field Geology Dworkin, Steve

17

Fall 2012

GEO 1405-01 The Dynamic Earth Cronin, Vincent S.

71

GEO 1405-02 The Dynamic Earth Allen, Peter M.

26

GEO 1406-01 Earth Through Time Atchley, Stacy Conrad

24

GEO 3427-01 Rocks & Rock-Forming Minerals Wegert, Daniel

10

GEO 3435-01 Invertebrate Paleontolog Bonem, Rena M.

11

GEO 3445-01 Structural Geology Cronin, Vincent S.

3

GEO 4313-01 Astronomy Greene, Donald M.

17

GEO 4346-01 Hydrogeology Yelderman, Joe C

4

Geo 4485-01 Intro Geographic Info Systems Byars, Bruce W. 10

Geo 4V90-02 Geodynamics Dunbar, John 2

Geo 4V90-17 Paleobotany Peppe, Dan 1

Spring 2012

GEO 1405-01 The Dynamic Earth Allen, Peter M. 23

GEO 1406-01 Earth Through Time Bonem, Rena M.

48

GEO 3319-01 Intro to Geophysics Dunbar, John Speckien, Mark Andrew

11

GEO 3342-01 Field Strat-Sediment Peppe, Dan

15

GEO 3430-01 Petrology Parker, Don

10

GEO 4341-01 Intro to Hydrology Allen, Peter M.

6

GEO 4345-01 Water Management Foss, Laura Kaye Yelderman, Joe C

2

GEO 4373-01 Global Soil Systems Michel, Lauren Nordt, Lee C.

7

GEO 4386-01 Remote Sensing White, Joseph D.

3

GEO 4485-01 Intro Geographic Info Systems Byars, Bruce W.

7

GEO 4487-01 Advanced GIS Analysis Byars, Bruce W.

1

GEO 4V90-01 Clastic/Carb.Depositional Syst Atchley, Stacy Conrad

1

GEO 4V90-05 Kinematics of the Lithosphere Cronin, Vincent S.

2

Number of Majors in Spring 2012: 57

Number of Majors in Fall 2012: 75

Number of Graduates: 12? Another 3-5 will graduate in August.

We have 7 students listed as majors in our lists who either transferred or were suspended for low

grades.

There are also 3 senior theses in the fall. Some of these are currently in progress. We might

consider breaking the senior thesis up into 1 hour blocks, since it takes at least a year to do a

thesis properly.

Number of majors in Spring 2013: We currently have 79 majors: 21 seniors (10 should be

continuing), 17 juniors, 28 sophomores, and 13 freshmen. Seven are Geophysics (though 2 are

switching to Geology), 10 are Earth Science, 1 Geography (graduating), and the rest are

Geology. The fall breakdown of the 75 majors was similar, but 2 less Earth Science and 2 less

Geology.

Undergraduate research: 2012-2013 Senior Theses completed (8)

Cestari, Nick, 2013, Developing a paleovegetation proxy along a forest to grassland transition in

Central Texas: (B.S. Thesis, supervisor: Hockaday)

DeGarmo, Dillon, 2013, Magnetostratigraphy of the Paleocene Tongue River Member of the

Fort Union Formation (Williston Basin, North Dakota): (B.S. Thesis, supervisor: Peppe)

Kuijper, Kimberly E., 2012, Analysis of the CIA-K geochemical proxy for Alfisols using the

Baylor soil geochemical database: (B.S. Senior Thesis, co-supervisors: Driese and

Stinchcomb).

Horner, William H., 2012, Determining depositional heterogeneity through clay mineralogy and

particle size analysis of an early Miocene paleo-forest paleosol, Hiwegi Formation, Rusinga

Island, Kenya: (B.S. Thesis, co-supervisors: Peppe and Michel)

McCollum, Mark, 2013, Magnetostratigraphy of the Early Miocene Hiwegi Formation

(Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya): (B.S. Thesis, supervisor: Peppe).

Mehta, Christopher, 2012, Geodynamics of coronae formation on Venus: (B.S. Thesis,

supervisor: Dunbar)

Rouze, Gregory S., 2013, The dynamics of soil organic matter in central Texas soil profiles:

Implications for climate reconstructions inferred from paleosol organic matter: (B.S. Thesis,

supervisor: Dworkin).

Taylor, Blake, 2013, Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Late Pleistocene deposits in the Lake

Victoria Region using clay mineralogy and geochemistry: (B.S. Thesis, co-supervisors:

Peppe and Beverly)

Graduate Program

Dr. Stephen I. Dworkin, Graduate Program Director

Completed Ph.D. Dissertations (3) and M.S. Theses (11)

Ph.D.:

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).

Stinchcomb, G.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).

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).

M.S.:

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)

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)

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: (M.S. Thesis, supervisor: Peppe)

Lindsay, Ryan, 2012, Seismogenic faulting, Tahoe Basin CA: (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)

Von Bargen, Justin, 2013, Charcoal chemistry: Developing a proxy for paleofire regimes: (M.S.

Thesis, supervisor: Hockaday)

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)

Highlights

10 first-authored, journal articles were published by GEO Ph.D. students in 2012-

2013.

Department has a record-size incoming recruiting class in Fall of 2013 with 8 new

M.S. and 7 new Ph.D. students:

New M.S. students (student name, probable BU advisor, former university):

Brian Crass – Atchley – Texas Tech University

Collard, Adam – Dunbar – University of Dallas

Andrew Flynn – Peppe – Miami University, Oxford Ohio

Erin Idleman – Atchley – Boston College

Jeffrey Jex – Dunbar – Brigham Young University, Idaho

Josh Kirby – Yelderman – Oklahoma State University

Tanner Mills – Dworkin - Brigham Young University, Utah

Kieron Prince – Atchley – Loma Linda University, CA

New Ph.D. students (student name, BU advisor, former university):

Joshua Brownlow – Yelderman – West Texas A & M University

Hunter Harlow – Atchley/Peppe – University of Kansas

Cong Jin – Dworkin – University of Tulsa

Caitlin Leslie - Atchley – Grand Valley State University, Michigan

Bill Lukens – Driese – Temple University, PA

Don Esker – Nordt – University of Cincinnati

Yohan Letourmy – Driese – Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

Faculty Additions & Promotions

The fall semester of 2012 brought the start of two searches for (1) a tenure-track Assistant

Professors in Applied Geophysics and (2) a full Professor in Paleoclimatology. The spring

semester of 2013 saw two candidates brought to campus for each position, and both resulted in

successful hires for (1) Assistant Professor Dr. Pier Paolo Bruno and (2) Professor Dr. Steven L.

Forman. The Department has requested permission to search for two faculty members during the

fall semester of 2013: a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Mineralogy-Petrology (replacement

for Dr. Don Parker) and a tenure-track new faculty line in water-related research that is part of

the CRASR Major Strategic Proposal.

Assistant Professors Drs. Bill Hockaday, Boris Lau, and Dan Peppe continued to advance in their

tenure-tracks.

Emeritus Professor Dr. Don Parker continued to be active in the Department, not only conducting

research on volcanic rocks, and supervising a Ph.D. student, but also teaching as a temporary

lecturer in Geology in 2012-2013. Don taught the Petrology course in the spring of 2012 and

taught the entire Field Geology course during the summer of 2012 while Dr. Steve Dworkin was

on sabbatical. He also taught the Mineralogy course in the fall of 2012.

Departmental Highlights

The annual late summer Welcome Picnic was held on Friday, August 24th

, 2012 at the

Redwood Shelter in Cameron Park. The Geology Alumni Homecoming Event with food

and refreshments was hosted by the Geology Department in the Baylor Sciences Building

on Friday, November 2nd

, 2012. The annual Christmas Party for faculty and staff was

held on December 9th

, 2012, for the first time, at the Elite Cafe in Waco. The Geology

Department held its annual “Geology Spaghetti Supper” event in the Baylor Faculty

Center on February 9th

of 2012 for faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students,

and their spouses and children; the group was joined by 10 prospective graduate students

who were visiting the Department for a 3-day “recruiting” weekend.

The Geology 5050 Colloquium Series held a regular schedule of talks at 3:00 PM in

room E231 on Friday afternoons, with a 2:30 PM reception prior to each lecture in the 4th

floor clock tower E401. The Department budget continued to support funding for up to 4

to 5 far-away (airfares) speakers each semester, in an effort to increase Department

visibility at a national level and to expose Geology students to researchers from across

the country. With the addition of the new OT Hayward Excellence Fund we are able to

invite an additional world-class speaker at least once each year.

The GEO 5050 Colloquium in the Fall semester of 2012 was organized by Dr. John

Dunbar, and guests included Dr. Christina Chan-Park (Baylor Science Librarian), Dr.

Jason Greenwood (Resistivity Surveys), Dr. Patricia Kelly, Univ. of. North Carolina-

Wilmington), Dr. Michael Waters (TAMU Anthropology), Dr. Juan Gonzales (UT-Pan

American), Dr. Brian Clark (USGS-Arkansas), and Dr. Isabel Montañez, UC-Davis).

The GEO 5050 Colloquium in the Spring semester of 2013 was organized by Dr. Steve

Driese and guests included Dr. Katharine Hayhoe (Texas Tech University Climate

Research Center), Dr. David Fastovsky (University of Rhode Island), Dr. John Holbrook

(Texas Christian University), Dr. Deborah Smith (Carnegie Institute of Washington), Dr.

Steven Forman (University of Illinois at Chicago), Dr. Henry Posamentier (Chevron

Research), Dr. Danielle Sumy (USGS, Pasadena, CA), Dr. Pier Paolo Bruno (University

of Utah and National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology: INGV ‐ Italy), Dr. David

Rudolph (University of Waterloo, Ontario), and Dr. Peter Nico (Lawrence Berkeley

National Laboratory, CA).

In 2009 Baylor GEO alumnus Connie Hudson, and his wife Virginia, established the O.T.

Hayward Excellence Fund, which has been used to support bringing world-class

researchers to the Geology Department and Baylor University to give talks on their

research and to interact with faculty and students. The 5th

OT Hayward Speaker was Dr.

Henry Posamentier of Chevron Corporation, who presented his talks on February 28-

March 1, 2013.

Dr. David Rudolph from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada presented the

prestigious Darcy Lecture on March 18th

, 2013, sponsored by the National Groundwater

Association.

The Baylor Geological Society (BGS) and the Baylor Geology American Association of

Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) student groups held occasional Wednesday noon

“brownbag” talks with guest and local speakers. A BGS special viewing of the film

“Switch” was held on the Baylor University campus on Monday, April 22nd

, 2013, and

was attended by 130 people.