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Elizabeth Gierlowski-Kordesch | 1998-present | | Associate Professor | | 1995-1998 | | Adjunct Associate Professor | | 1989-1995 | | Adjunct Assistant Professor | | | | | | PhD, 1985 | | Case Western Reserve University | | MS, 1983 | | Case Western Reserve University | | BA (Honors), 1978 | | University of Chicago |
Office: 211 Clippinger Laboratories
Office Phone: 740-593-1989
Fax: 740-593-0486
Research Interests
a) Sediments and associated features of modern reservoir lakes impacted by acid mine drainage in Ohio including limnological monitoring of lake characteristics.
b) Limnogeologic investigations (study of fossil lakes) that include sedimentologic and petrographic analysis of nonmarine carbonate palustrine rocks and mudstone-rich lake sequences.
c) Global impact of lake systems through time. | |  | | |
Representative Publications >¤ Gierlowski-Kordesch, E.H., Jacobson, A.D., Blum, J.D., and Valero Garcés, B.L., 2008. Watershed reconstruction of a Paleocene-Eocene lake basin using Sr isotopes in carbonate rocks. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 120, p. 85-95.
>¤ Park, L.E. and Gierlowski-Kordesch, E.H., 2007. Paleozoic lake faunas: establishing aquatic life on land. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 249, p. 160-179.
>¤ Wolela, A.M. and Gierlowski-Kordesch, E.H., 2007. Diagenetic history of fluvial and lacustrine sandstones of the Hartford Basin (Triassic-Jurassic), Newark Supergroup, USA. Sedimentary Geology, v. 197, p. 99-126 (doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.09.006).
>¤ Rasbury, E.T., Gierlowski-Kordesch, E.H., Cole, J.M., Sookdeo, C., Spataro, G., and Nienstedt, J., 2006. Calcite cement stratigraphy of a nonpedogenic calcrete in the Triassic New Haven Arkose (Newark Supergroup), in Alonso, Zarza, A.M., and Tanner, L.H., Eds., Paleoenvironmental Record and Applications of Calcretes and Palustrine Carbonates, Geological Society of America Special Paper 416, p. 203-221.
>¤ Kidder, D.L. and Gierlowski-Kordesch, E.H., 2005. Impact of grassland radiation on the nonmarine silica cycle and Miocene diatomite. Palaios, v. 20, in press.
>¤ Gierlowski-Kordesch, E.H. and Park, L.E., 2004. Comparing lake species diversity in the modern and fossil record. Journal of Geology, v. 112(6), p. 703-717.
>¤ Gierlowski-Kordesch, E.H., and Gibling, M.R., 2002. Pedogenic mud aggregates in rift sedimentation, in Renaut, R. and Ashley, G. M., Eds., Sedimentation in Continental Rifts, Society for Sedimentary Geology Special Pub. No. 73, p. 195-206.
>¤ de Wet, C. B., Mora, C. I., Gore, P., and Gierlowski-Kordesch, E., and Cucolo, S. J., 2002. Deposition and geochemistry of lacustrine and spring carbonates in Mesozoic rift basins, eastern North America, in Renaut, R. and Ashley, G. M., Eds., Sedimentation in Continental Rifts, Society for Sedimentary Geology Special Pub. No. 73, p. 309-325.
>¤ Gierlowski-Kordesch, E. H. and Kelts, K.R. (Editors), 2000. Lake Basins Through Space and Time, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Studies in Geology 46, 638p. | | | | |
Courses Taught  | GEOL 130: Geology of National Parks | | GEOL 553: Physical Limnology | | GEOL 555: Limnogeology |
Awards and Memberships >¤ American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
>¤ International Association of Limnogeology (IAL), President
>¤ International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS)
>¤ Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)
>¤ Geological Society of America (GSA), Fellow
>¤ Ohio Academy of Science (OAS)
>¤ International Society of Salt Lake Research (ISSLR)
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