Department of Geosciences, the University of Montana

Sharon Bywater-Reyes

Department of Geosciences, The University of Montana

http://www.cas.umt.edu/geosciences/people/students.php?id=1809

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Education

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Ph.D. Candidate Geosciences

Department of Geosciences

University of Montana, Missoula, Montana

Expected Degree Completion Spring 2015

G.P.A. 3.96/4.00

Adviser: Dr. Andrew Wilcox

M.S. Geology

Department of Geology and Geophysics

University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming

Degree Completed Fall 2009

G.P.A. 4.00/4.00

Adviser: Dr. Barbara Carrapa

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B.S. Geology

Department of Geology

Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon

Degree Completed Summer 2007

Summa cum laude

G.P.A. 3.98/4.00

B.A. German

Department of Foreign Languages and Literature

Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon

Degree Completed Summer 2007

Summa cum laude

G.P.A. 3.98/4.00

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Awards & Honors

·  EPA STAR Graduate Fellowship, 2012 – 2015

·  Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division (GSA) J. Hoover Mackin Research Award, 2012

·  AWRA Montana 1st Place Poster Award 2012 Annual Conference, 2012

·  Bertha Morton Scholar (University of Montana), 2012

·  Outstanding Masters Student, Department of Geology and Geophysics (University of Wyoming), 2009

·  Colorado Scientific Society Student Night 2nd Place Speaker, 2008

·  Association for Women Geoscientists Outstanding Geoscience Student Award (University of Wyoming), 2008

·  Outstanding Female Graduate (Southern Oregon University Dankook Award), 2007

·  Distinguished Student Research Award (Southern Oregon University), 2007

·  American Association of University Women Outstanding Graduate (Southern Oregon University), 2007

·  Outstanding Senior in Geology (Southern Oregon University), 2007

·  Outstanding Junior in Geology (Southern Oregon University), 2006

·  Outstanding Mineralogy Student (Southern Oregon University), 2005

·  Outstanding Upper Division German Student (Southern Oregon University), 2004

Teaching and Outreach Experience:

Lecturer: SpectrUM STEM Role Model (University of Montana), 2014

·  Led science component of place-based writing retreat for educators at Milltown Dam Superfund and restoration site.

·  Lectured to SpectrUM science center educators on fluvial geomorphology.

·  Featured in river exhibit display.

Instructor: Hellgate High School Milltown Science Excursion (Missoula, Montana), 2014

·  Developed and taught a river morphology and sediment transport field activity for 9th grade high school students.

Teaching Assistant: Geosciences Field Camp (University of Montana), 2013

·  Assisted in hydrogeology component of field camp with Dr. William Woessner, including demonstrating surveying, measuring and installing piezometers, measuring stream discharge, and constructing groundwater flow maps.

Teaching Assistant: Process Geomorphology (University of Montana), 2014

·  Assisted with field trips for process geomorphology, including total station survey instruction with Dr. Andrew Wilcox.

Guest Lecturer: Process Geomorphology (University of Montana), 2013

·  Lectured on ecogeomorphology and my dissertation research for Dr. Andrew Wilcox.

Teacher: Watershed Education Network (Missoula, Montana), 2012

·  Co-taught field trip and activities at Milltown Dam Superfund and restoration site for middle school students.

Assistant Coordinator: Physical Geology Laboratory (University of Wyoming), 2010

·  Coordinated and managed weekly laboratory and six teaching assistants for Dr. Erin Campbell-Stone.

·  Taught laboratories as needed.

Teaching Assistant: Geology Field Camp (University of Wyoming), 2008 & 2009

·  Assisted students in rock identification, description, and mapping with Dr. Erin Campbell-stone.

Teaching Assistant: Earth and Mineral Resources (University of Wyoming), 2008

·  Taught laboratories for lower-division and non-major students, graded, and proctored quizzes and exams for Dr. James Myers.

Teaching Assistant: Physical Geology Laboratory (University of Wyoming), 2007

·  Taught introductory geology laboratory exercises for lower-division and non-major students, graded, and proctored quizzes and exams for Dr. Erin Campbell-Stone.

Teaching Interests:

Geomorphology, fluvial geomorphology, remote sensing and GIS for Earth scientists, restoration science, general geology, general environmental studies, field methods, sedimentology, tectonic geomorphology.

Research Experience:

Doctoral Research: Department of Geosciences (University of Montana), 2011 – present (research adviser: Dr. Andrew Wilcox).

·  Field experiments and numerical simulations quantifying the flow and scour constraints on uprooting of pioneer woody seedlings.

·  Remote-sensing (ground-based LiDAR) investigation of vegetation-induced landscape engineering in river channels.

·  Remote-sensing (airborne LiDAR) and numerical simulations of the influence of riparian vegetation on flow-steering in channels.

Research Scientist: Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute (University of Wyoming), 2010

·  Conducted literature review pertinent to understanding the Madison Limestone of the Moxa Arch (SW Wyoming) for the purpose CO2 sequestration.

Master’s Research: Department of Geology and Geophysics (University of Wyoming), 2007 – 2009 (research adviser: Dr. Barbara Carrapa).

·  Tectonic and climatic reconstruction of the margin of the Central Andean Plateau via stratigraphy, geochronology, and stable isotope investigation of Miocene-Pliocene deposits of NW Argentina.

·  Uplift history of the Puna Plateau of the Central Andes quantified with clumped isotope analysis.

·  Exhumation history of the Puna Plateau of the Central Andes quantified with low-temperature thermochronology

Undergraduate Research: Department of Geology (Southern Oregon University), 2007 – 2009 (research adviser: Dr. William Elliott).

·  Tectonic provenance analysis of the Upper Cretaceous Hornbrook Formation via petrographic analysis of sandstone concretions.

Research Interests:

·  Interaction between biota and Earth surface processes

·  Influence of climate, tectonics, and humanity on Earth surface processes

·  Process-based river restoration

Publications

·  Bywater-Reyes, S., A.C. Wilcox, J. Stella, and A. Lightbody, submitted, Flow and scour constraints on uprooting thresholds for pioneer woody seedlings: Water Resources Research.

·  Schoenbohm, L.M., B. Carrapa, H.M. McPherson, J.R. Pratt, S. Bwater-Reyes, and E. Mortimer, 2015, Climate and tectonics along the southern margin of the Puna Plateau, NW Argentina: Origin of the late Cenozoic Punaschotter conglomerates in DeCelles, P.G., M.N. Ducea, B. Carrapa, and P.A. Kapp, eds., Geodynamics of a Cordilleran Orogenic System: The Central Andes of Argentina and Northern Chile: Geological Society of America Memoir 212, p. 251–260.

·  Carrapa, B., K.W. Huntington, M. Clementz, J. Quade, S. Bywater-Reyes, L.M. Schoenbohm, and R.R. Canavan, 2014, Uplift of the Central Andes of NW Argentina associated with upper crustal shortening, revealed by multiproxy isotopic analyses: Tectonics, Vol. 33, No. 6, p. 1039–1054.

·  Carrapa, B., S. Bywater-Reyes, R. Salipour, E.R. Sobel, L.M. Schoenbohm, P.G. DeCelles, P.W. Reiners and D. Stockli, 2013, The effect of inherited paleotopography on exhumation of the Central Andes of NW Argentina: GSA Bulletin, Vol. 126, No. 1/2, p. 66–77.

·  Carrapa, B., S. Bywater-Reyes, E. Mortimer, P.G. DeCelles, J. Trimble and G. Gehrels, 2011, Late Eocene–Pliocene basin evolution in the Eastern Cordillera of northwestern Argentina (25°–26°S): regional implications for Andean orogenic wedge development: Basin Research, Vol. 23, p. 1–20.

·  Bywater-Reyes, S., B. Carrapa, L. Schoenbohm and M. Clementz, 2010, Effect of late Cenozoic aridification on sedimentation in the Eastern Cordillera of NW Argentina (Angastaco Basin): Geology, Vol. 38, No. 3, p. 235–238.

·  Thyne, G.D., M. Tomasso, S.V. Bywater-Reyes, D.A. Budd and B.M. Reyes, 2010, Characterization of porosity and permeability for CO2 sequestration models in the Mississippian Madison Group, Moxa Arch–LaBarge Platform, southwestern: Wyoming Rocky Mountain Geology, Vol. 45, No. 2, p. 133–150.

Abstracts

·  Bywater-Reyes, S., A.C. Wilcox, J. Stella, L. Kui and A. Lightbody, 2014, Flow and sediment transport constraints on uprooting thresholds for pioneer woody seedlings: 2014 Northwest Scientific Association/Plum Creek Lecture Series conference.

·  Bywater-Reyes, S., A.C. Wilcox, R. Manners, A. Lightbody and J.C. Stella, 2014, Flow steering and river engineering of woody riparian trees quantified with ground-based LiDAR: 2014 Geological Society of America Joint Rocky Mountain/Cordilleran Section Meeting, Vol. 46, No. 5.

·  Bywater-Reyes, S., A.C. Wilcox, R. Manners and A. Lightbody, 2013, Ground-based LiDAR to investigate landscape engineering by woody riparian trees: American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting 2013, EP43A.

·  Bywater-Reyes, S., A.C. Wilcox, A. Lightbody, K. Skorko and J.C. Stella, 2012, Uprooting force balance for pioneer woody plants: A quantification of the relative contribution of above- and below-ground plant architecture to uprooting susceptibility: American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting 2012, EP41A-0768.

·  Bywater-Reyes, S., A. Wilcox, J. Stella and W. Woessner, 2012, Scour susceptibility of Black Cottonwood on the Bitterroot River, Montana: Insights for successful restoration of riparian areas: American Water Resource Association Montana Section Annual Meeting, 2012.

·  Kui, L., J. Stella, K. Skorko, A.Lightbody, A. Wilcox and S. Bywater-Reyes, 2012, Flood effects on native and exotic woody riparian seedlings: Ecological Society of America annual meeting, Portland, OR.

·  Wilcox, A.C., P.B. Shafroth, A. Lightbody, J.C. Stella and S. Bywater-Reyes, L. Kiu, and K. Skorko, 2012, “Feedbacks among floods, pioneer woody vegetation, and channel change in sand-bed rivers: Insights from field studies of controlled flood releases and models: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 14, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.

·  Carrapa, B., P.G. DeCelles, S. Bywater-Reyes, E. Mortimer, K.W. Huntington and M.T. Clementz, 2011, Cenozoic record of paleotopography and paleoenvironment in the Central Andes of NW Argentina: American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting 2011, T13F-2447.

·  Bywater-Reyes, S.V., B. Carrapa, L. Schoenbohm and M. Clementz, 2010, The effect of Late Cenozoic aridification on sedimentation in the Eastern Cordillera of NW Argentina (Angastaco Basin): Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 41, No. 7, p. 522.

·  Bywater-Reyes, S.V., B. Carrapa and E. Mortimer, 2010, Basin analysis of an evolving foreland basin in the Eastern Cordillera (Angastaco Basin, NW Argentina): Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 41, No. 7, p. 657.

·  Bywater, S., B. Carrapa, E. Mortimer, M. Clementz, L. Schoenbohm and L. Vietti, 2009, Tectono-climate evolution of the Eastern Cordillera (NW Argentina) in the Miocene and Pliocene via a multidisciplinary study of the Angastaco Basin: Annual AAPG Convention, Abstracts 2009, Abstract # 1009368.

·  Schoenbohm, L., B. Carrapa, S. Bywater, H. McPherson and J. Pratt, 2008, Climatic and tectonic controls on deposition of the Punaschotter conglomerate in Neogene marginal basins of the Puna Plateau (NW Argentina): Evidence from zircon U-Pb geochronology: American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting 2008, T41C-04.

·  Bywater, S.V., J. Trimble, B. Carrapa and D.F. Stockli, 2008, Exhumation of the southern Puna Plateau margin revealed through apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology: Implications for the evolution of the Central Andean Plateau: FT 2008 – The 11th International Conference on Thermochronometry.

·  Bywater, S.V. and W.S. Elliott, 2007, Petrographic analysis of sandstone concretions in the Upper Cretaceous Hornbrook Formation, Siskiyou County: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 39, No. 6, p. 628.

Scholarships & Grants

·  EPA STAR Graduate Fellowship, 2012 - 2015

·  NCALM Graduate Seed Grant, 2013

·  Dr. Scholl’s Scholarship (University of Wyoming), 2008

·  National Association of Geoscience Teachers Field Scholarship (Southern Oregon University), 2007

·  Northern California Geological Society 2006-2007 Undergraduate Scholarship (Southern Oregon University), 2006

·  Avista “Minds in Motion” Scholarship (Southern Oregon University), 2006

·  Marie & Harlan Bosworth Scholarship (Southern Oregon University), 2006

·  Gerhard Heiter Scholarship, Language Department (Southern Oregon University), 2006

·  Alumni Undergraduate Scholarship (Southern Oregon University), 2006

·  Medford School District Scholarship (Southern Oregon University), 2006

·  John & Marjory Culver Scholarship (Southern Oregon University), 2005

·  Sharkey Family Foundation Scholarship, Science Department (Southern Oregon University), 2005

·  Ida Crawford Scholarship (Southern Oregon University), 2005

·  Oregon Safety Engineers Scholarship (Southern Oregon University) 2003

University Service:

Student Member: Hydrogeology Faculty Search Committee, Department of Geosciences (University of Montana), 2014 - present

·  Responsible for organizing student luncheons with candidates and representing student body to the committee in addition to reviewing candidate applications.

Senator: Graduate Student Association (University of Montana), 2014 – present

·  Represent the Department of Geosciences graduate student body and serve on university committees.

Student Member: OpenTopography Advisory Committee, 2013 – 2014

·  Advised OpenTopography on community user needs.

Judge: Montana State Science Fair (University of Montana), 2012 & 2013

·  Served as general and advanced-round physical and environmental science fair judge.

Co-Coordinator: Department of Geosciences Seminar Series (University of Montana), 2012

·  Developed and organized seminar series.

Graduate Student Representative: Geology and Geophysics Department Faculty Meetings (University of Wyoming), 2009

·  Attended faculty meetings and disseminated knowledge to fellow graduate students.

Judge: Wyoming State Science Fair Judge (University of Wyoming), 2008 & 2009

·  Served as first round general physical science fair judge.

Clubs and Affiliations

·  Northwest Scientific Society Member since 2014

·  American Geophysical Union Member since 2012

·  Run Wild Missoula Member since 2011

·  Geological Society of America Member since 2007

·  Sigma Xi, associate member of the Southern Oregon Chapter, 2007

Workshops and Training Attended

·  Environmental Systems Analysis, Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland, 2014

·  Geomorphic Change Detection: Restoration Monitoring Workshop: Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 2012

·  Community Workshop: Charting the Future of Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) in the Earth Sciences and Related Fields, UNAVCO, Boulder, Colorado, 2011

·  Basic Well Log Analysis, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Short Course, 2011

·  Sequence Stratigraphy for Graduate Students, Geological Society of America Short Course, 2007

Volunteer Activities

Volunteer: Book’n it for the Library Race (Missoula Public Library, Montana), 2014:

Volunteer: National Fossil Night (University of Montana Paleontology Center), 2013

Volunteer Subject: Science Journalism Master’s Student’s project (University of Montana), 2013

Co-President: Geology Club (Southern Oregon University), 2006-2007

·  Planned field trips, fundraisers, and community outreach for club.

Coordinator: Ecology Center of the Siskiyous “Trash Survey” (Southern Oregon University), 2005

·  Organized and conducted public, televised trash survey on the Southern Oregon campus.

Coordinator: KS-Wild environmental public awareness (Southern Oregon University), 2004

Co-Coordinator: Oregon PIRG Clean Air and Environmental Campaign (Southern Oregon University), 2004

·  Organized successful campaign to uphold air quality regulations in the Rogue Valley (southern Oregon).