Fiscal Year 2008
| Scientist Emeritus |
Team |
Project |
Legacy (L) / New research (N) |
| John Antweiler |
CR-MRT |
Gold-bearing
Cretaceous and younger strata and associated Quaternary alluvial deposits in
northwestern Wyoming and parts of adjacent states |
L |
| Larry Beyer |
WR-ESPT |
(1)
Understanding the Cenozoic tectonic history of the Los Angeles basin region,
and (2) preservation of California well samples |
L |
| Earl Brabb |
WR-ESPT |
Completion
of Chevron fossil information for California |
L |
| Bill Cobban |
CR-ESPT |
Mesozoic
Collections Project Proposal –
Digital Data Recovery-The Inoceramids |
L |
| Harry Cook |
WR-ESPT |
Carbonate
platform and reef facies through time
(Cambrian-Recent) |
L |
| Walter Dean |
CR-ESPT |
Are
sediments from the Black Sea, Cariaco Basin, and Peru margin analogues for
metalliferous black shales? |
L |
| James Fassett |
CR-ERT |
Geochronology
and oil and gas potential of Cretaceous-Tertiary strata, San Juan Basin, New
Mexico and Colorado |
L and N |
| Thomas Hamilton |
WR-ASC |
Surficial
geologic map & descriptive pamphlet of Noatak Natl Preserve |
L |
| Ketih Howard |
WR-ESPT |
Incremental
pluton assembly over tens of millions of years in
the Ruby Mountains, Nevada |
L and N |
| Keith Ketner |
CR-ERT |
Coarse-grained
arkosic strata in northwestern Nevada: petrology, origin, and correlatives |
L |
| Ronald Kistler |
WR-ESPT |
Compilation
& geologic interpretation of Sr, Pb, neodymium, & O isotopic data
determined for Mesozoic & Precambrian plutons exposed in southern CA |
L |
| Mel Kuntz |
CR-ESPT |
Geologic Map of the basalt lava fields of the eastern Snake River Plain, ID |
L |
| Marvin Lanphere |
WR-VHT |
Argon
Geochronology of Somma-Vesuvis, Italy |
N |
| David Lindsey |
CR-MRT |
Piedmont
alluvial deposits in the Santa Cruz River Valley |
L |
| Peter Lipman |
WR-VHT |
Supervolcanoes
in a NA Andean-type Arc Setting: Mid-Tertiary Volcanism in the Southern Rocky
Mountains |
N |
| Ivo Lucchita |
CR-ESPT |
Publication
of 4 maps of Grand Canyon geology |
L |
| Richard Madole |
CR-ESPT |
Geomorphic
and stratigraphic records of late Quaternary climate change in the Great Sand
Dunes area, Colorado |
N |
| Douglas Morton |
WR-ESPT |
Petrogenesis
of the northern Peninsular Ranges Batholith, southern California |
L |
| Douglas Nichols |
CR-ERT |
Description
and illustration of historically and scientifically important specimens of
fossil pollen |
L |
| Fred Peterson |
CR-ERT |
Late
Jurassic Dinosaurian Ecosystems in the Western Interior |
L |
| Kenneth Pierce |
CR-ESPT |
Quaternary
geology of the Jackson Hole area, Wyoming |
L and N |
| David Piper |
WR-MRT |
REE in
Pelletal Phosphate Deposits from Phanerozoic |
N |
| John Pojeta |
ER-ESPT |
Studies
of early molluscan evolution and
radiation using Cambrian and
Ordovician fossils |
L and N |
| Barney Poole |
CR-MRT |
Paleozoic
stratigraphy and tectonics of Sonora and northern Sinaloa, Mexico |
L and N |
| Dougls Rankin |
ER-ESPT |
(1)
Bedrock geology of northern New England
(2) Write paper on Appalachian geology
(3) publish geologic maps in VT and NH |
L |
| John Reed |
CR-ESPT |
The
roots of the Colorado Mountains |
N |
| Mitchell Reynolds |
CR-ESPT |
Geologic
framework of the greater Belt Mountains area, Montana |
L |
| Charles Sandberg |
CR-ERT |
(1)
Proximal and distal areas of sedimentary deposits resulting from Late
Devonian marine Alamo bolide Impact
(2) Maintenance and conversion of ongoing active-research “D/C Conodont
Database” |
L and N |
| Andrei Sarna-Wojcicki |
WR-ESPT |
Tephrochronological
database: conversion from analog to digital |
L |
| Kevin Scott |
WR-VHT |
Analyzing
the Mazama Park eruptive period at Mt. Baker Volcno Observatory, N. Cascades |
L and N |
| Daniel Shawe |
CR-MRT |
Slick Rock
Uranium-Vanadium District in SW CO |
L |
| Betty Skip |
CR-MRT |
Geologic
map of the Fish Creek Reservoir 7 ½’quadrangle, Blaine County, Idaho |
L |
| David Stewart |
ER-ESPT |
Publish
‘The Ellsworth Terrane, Coastal Maine: Geochronology, Geochemistry, and
Neodymium-Lead Isotopic Composition of a Middle Cambrian “Gulf of California”
Analogue |
L |
| Roland Tabor |
WR-ESPT |
Compiling
completed 1:24,000 scale geologic mapping in the Puget Sound region,
Washington on recently obtained LIDAR topographic base. |
N |
| Ted Theodore |
WR-MRT |
Search
for syngenetic gold in Nevada and the Russian Far East |
N |
| Charles Thorman |
CR-MRT |
The
Elko Orogeny – Middle Jurassic Orogenesis in the Cordilleran Miogeocline |
L and N |
| Thomas Wright |
WR-VHT |
200-year
interprestative history of Kilauea Volcano |
L |
Fiscal Year 2007
| Scientist Emeritus |
Program |
Project |
Legacy (L) / New research (N) |
| John Antweiler |
CR-MRT |
Proposal
is to finish work on gold-bearing strata in NW Wyoming and adjacent Idaho and
Montana |
L |
| Larry Beyer |
WR-ESPT |
Tectonic
History of Los Angeles Basin |
L and N |
| Maurice Chaffee |
CR-MRT |
Geochemistry
of the Eureka Mining District and Vicinity in Nevada |
L |
| Jack Epstein |
ER-ESPT |
Chicken
Creek 7.5 minute quadrangle and Argyl 7.5 minute quadrangle, South Dakota |
L |
| James Fassett |
CR-ERT |
Geochronology
and Stratigraphy of the Rocks Adjacent to the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in
the San Juan Basin, NM and CO |
L and N |
| Thomas Hamilton |
WR-ASC |
Noatak
National Preserve and Arctic National Park maps/reports |
L |
| Keith Ketner |
CR-ERT |
Stratigraphy,
Structure, and Petrology of Arkosic Rocks in NW Nevada |
L |
| Keith Ketner |
|
Geologic
Map of Gold Creek Gold District, NV |
L |
| Marvin Lanphere |
WR-VHT |
Argon
Geochronology of Vesuvius, Italy |
N |
| Peter Lipman |
WR-VHT |
Supervolcanoes
in a NA Andean-type Arc Setting: Mid-Tertiary Volcanism in the Southern Rocky
Mountains |
N |
| Ivo Lucchita |
CR-ESPT |
Maps of
Grand Canyon National Park |
L |
| Richard Madole |
CR-ESPT |
Origin and
Age of a Complex Array of Surficial Deposits and Reconstruction of Recent
Prehistory of the San Luis Valley |
N |
| Fred Peterson |
CR-ERT |
Late
Jurassic Dinosaurian Ecosystems |
L |
| David Piper |
WR-MRT |
REE in
Pelletal Phosphate Deposits from Phanerozoic |
N |
| John Pojeta |
ER-ESPT |
Early
molluscan phylogeny and evolution based fossil record |
N |
| Barney Poole |
CR-MRT |
3 maps in
Sonora, Mexico |
L |
| Barney Poole |
CR-MRT |
2 maps in
NV |
L |
| John Reed |
CR-ESPT |
Roots of
the Rocky Mountains |
N |
| Charles Sandberg |
CR-ERT |
Alamo
Impact Studies; Stratigraphic Studies for IUGS Subcommission on Devonian
Stratigraphy; and Contributions to Legacy Studies |
L and N |
| Andrei Sarna-Wojcicki |
WR-ESPT |
Tephrachronology
Database |
L |
| Kevin Scott |
WR-VHT |
Anatomy of
the Mazama Park Eruptive Period at Mt. Baker, N. Cascades |
N |
| Daniel Shawe |
CR-MRT |
Slick Rock
Uranium-Vanadium District in SW CO |
L |
| Paul Sims |
CR-MRT |
Continental
Scale Shear System |
L |
| David Stewart |
ER-ESPT |
Ellsworth
schist and Castine volcanic of the Ellsworth Mascarene Terrain, Coastal Maine:
Geochemistry, Pb-U Zircon Geochronology, Epsilon Neodymium Determinations,
and Implications for middle Cambrian Paleotectonic Setting |
L |
| Roland von Huene |
WR-EHT |
Marine
Investigation of Subduction Zones in Support of the USGS Tsunami Source
Working Group in Menlo Park |
L and N |
| Carl Wentworth |
WR-ESPT |
Quaternary
Santa Clara Valley |
N |
| Thomas Wright |
WR-VHT |
Kilauea
Volcano |
L |
