Harry Rowe
Professional Summary
October 15, 2013
Business address: The University of Texas at Austin
Bureau of Economic Geology
University Station, Box X
Austin, TX 78713-8924
E-mail address:
Academic Background
B.A. Geology, Miami University of Ohio, 1993
M.S. Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, 1995
Ph.D. Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, 2002
Areas of Expertise
- Chemostratigraphy of mudrock systems.
- Paleoceanography of marginal marine systems.
- Development of x-ray fluorescence for rapid core/hand sample analysis.
- Paleoclimatology records in karst environments.
- Stable isotope geochemistry.
Professional Work Experience
A. Present Position: Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin (August 2012 - Present).
B. Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Texas at Arlington (August 2008 - August 2012).
C. Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Kentucky (July 2002 - July 2008).
D. Visiting Assistant Professor, Univ. of Illinois-Chicago (September 2001 - May 2002).
E. Research and Teaching Assistantships, Stanford University (July 1998 - September 2001).
F. Research and Teaching Assistantships, Rice University (January 1996 - June 1998).
G. Research and Teaching Assistantships, University of New Mexico (August 1993 - December 1995).
Awards and Honorary Societies
22nd Annual Meeting of the Society Organic Petrology, September 11–14 2005, Louisville, 2005
Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry-Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Mini-Grant Award (Tuition and Stipend), 2000 - 2001
Geological Society of America Grant-in-Aid of Research, 2000
McGee Fellowships, GES, Stanford University, 1999 - 2000
Nettie S. Autrey Fellowship (Tuition and Stipend), Rice University, 1997 - 1998
Student Research Allocations Committee (3 Grants), UNM, 1994 - 1995
Visiting Fellowship, Institute for Rock Magnetism (IRM), U. of Minn., 1995
New Mexico Geological Society Welnitz Fellowship, 1995
Geology Alumni Scholarship, E&PS, UNM, 1994 - 1995
Departmental supplementary Aid for PACLIM and IRM, E&PS, UNM, 1995
Office of Graduate Studies RPT Grant Program, OGS, UNM, 1994
Grants-in-Aid of Research, Sigma Xi, 1994
Alcoa Foundation Scholarship, 1990 - 1993
Wells Geology Fieldcamp Scholarship, Miami University, 1993
Limper Geology Awards, Miami University, 1992 - 1993
Center for High Pressure Research Fellowship, SUNY-Stony Brook, 1992
R.E. Radabaugh Geology Scholarship, Miami University, 1992
Miami University Alumni Scholarship, 1990
Committee Responsibilities and Professional Activities
Member, Mudrock Systems Research Laboratory Industry Associates Consortium, Bureau of Economic Geology, Arlington, Texas, 2012 - present
Chair, Earth and Environmental Sciences Search Committee, University of Texas at Arlington, 2008 - 2012
Member, College and Science Workload Committee, University of Texas at Arlington, 2008 - 2012
Acting Director, Stable Isotope Facility, University of Kentucky, 2002 - 2008
Member, Graduate Committee for the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kentucky, 2002 - 2008
Member, Personnel and Budget Committee, University of Kentucky, 2002 - 2008
Publications
Guidebooks
Rimmer, S. M., Hawkins, S. J., Rowe, H. D., and Francis, H., 2006, Geochemistry of the Cleveland Member of the Ohio Shale, Appalachian basin: indicators of depositional environment during sediment accumulation, in Hannibal, J., Rimmer, S. M., Carr, R. K., Banks, P. O., and Dunn, D., field-trip leaders, Guide to classic Cleveland Shale localities in the Cleveland, Ohio: NC-GSA Meeting, Akron Field Guide, 1–22.
Articles
Algeo, T. J., Henderson, C. M., Ellwood, B. B., Rowe, H., Elswick, E., Bates, S., Lyons, T. W., Hower, J. C., Smith, C. I., Maynard, J. B., Hays, L. E., Summons, R. E., Fulton, J., and Freeman, K. H., 2012, Evidence for a diachronous Late Permian marine crisis from the Canadian Arctic region: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 124, no. 9/10, p. 1424‒1448.
Rowe, H., Hughes, N., and Robinson, K., 2012, The quantification and application of handheld energy-dispersive x-ray fluorescence (ED-XRF) in mudrock chemostratigraphy and geochemistry: Chemical Geology, v. 324‒325, p. 122‒131.
Algeo, T. J., and Rowe, H., 2012, Paleoceanographic applications of trace-metal concentration data: Chemical Geology, v. 324‒325, p. 6‒18.
Acton, P., Fox, J., Campbell, Elizabeth, Jones, A., Rowe, H. D., Martin, D., and Bryson, S., 2011, The role of soil health in maintaining environmental sustainability of surface coal mining: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 45, p. 10265-10272.
Ellwood, B. B., Algeo, T. J., El Hassani, A., Tomkin, J. H., and Rowe, H. D., 2010, Defining the timing and extent of the Kačák Interval within the Eifelian/Givetian boundary GSSP, Mech Irdane, Morocco, using geochemical and magnetic susceptibility patterns: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 304, nos. 1–2, p. 74–84, doi:10.1016/ j.palaeo.2010.10.012.
Johnson, C., Hudson, S. M., Rowe, H. D., and Efendiyeva, M. A., 2010, Geochemical constraints on the Palaeocene-Miocene evolution of eastern Azerbaijan, with implications for the South Caspian basin and eastern Paratethys: Basin Research, v. 22, p. 733–750, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00427.x.
Hardt, B., Rowe, H. D., Springer, G. S., Cheng, H., and Edwards, R. L., 2010, The seasonality of east central North American precipitation based on three coeval Holocene speleothems from southern West Virginia: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 295, p. 342–348.
Rech, J., Currie, B. S., Shullenberger, E. D., Dunagan, S. T., Jordan, T. E., Blanco, N., Tomlinson, A., Rowe, H. D., and Houston, J., 2010, Evidence for the development of the Andean Rainshadow from a Neogene isotopic record in the Atacama Desert: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 292, p. 371–382.
Springer, G. S., White, D. M., Rowe, H. D., Hardt, B., Mihimdukulasooriya, L. N., Cheng, H., and Edwards, R. L., 2010, Multiproxy evidence from caves of Native Americans altering the overlying landscape during the Late Holocene of east-central North America: The Holocene, v. 20, no. 2, p. 275–283.
Coates, J. W., Ettensohn, F. R., and Rowe, H. D., 2010, Correlations across a facies mosaic within the Lexington Limestone of central Kentucky, USA, using whole-rock stable isotope compositions, in Finney, S., Berry, W., and Barnes, C., eds., Ordovician earth system: Geological Society of America Special Paper 466, p. 177–193.
Springer, G. S., Rowe, H. D., Hardt, B., Cocina, F. G., Edwards, R. L., and Hai Cheng, 2009, Holocene climate and stream channel processes in the Greenbrier River watershed Of Southeastern West Virginia: Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, v. 71, no. 2, p. 121–129.
Campbell, J. E., Fox, J., Davis, C. M., Rowe, H. D., and Thompson, N., 2009, Carbon and nitrogen isotopic measurements from southern Appalachian soils: assessing soil carbon sequestration under climate and land use variation: Journal of Environmental Engineering, v. 135, no. 6, p. 439–448.
Heckel, P. H., Algeo, T. J., Maynard, J. B., and Rowe, H. D., 2008, Modern and ancient epicratonic seas and the superestuarine circulation model of marine anoxia, in Holmden, C., and Pratt, B. R., eds., Dynamics of epeiric seas: sedimentological, paleontological and geochemical perspectives: Geological Association of Canada Special Publication, v. 48, p. 7–38.
Jiang, H., Dong, H., Yu, B., Ye, Q., Shen, J., Rowe, H. D., and Zhang, C., 2008, Dominance of putative marine benthic archaea in Qinghai lake, Northwestern China: Environmental Microbiology, v. 10, p. 2355–2367.
Thompson, V. D., Stoner, W. D., and Rowe, H. D., 2008, Early pottery technology and hunter-gatherer interactions along the Atlantic coast of the southeastern United States: Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 3, p. 191-213.
Springer, G. S., Rowe, H. D., Hardt, B., Edwards, R. L., and Cheng, H., 2008, Solar forcing of Holocene droughts in a stalagmite record from West Virginia in east-central North America: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 35, L17703, doi:10.1029/2008GL034971.
Algeo, T. J., Rowe, H. D., Hower, J. C., Schwark, L., and Heckel, P. H., 2008, Oceanic denitrification during late Carboniferous glacial-interglacial cycles: Nature Geoscience, v. 1, p. 709–714, doi:10.1038/ngeo307.
Nguyen, T. K. T., Algeo, T. J., Shen, Y., Lyons, T. W., Rowe, H. D., and Zhang, T., 2008, Association of 34S-depleted pyrite layers with negative carbonate δ13C excursions at the Permian/Triassic boundary: evidence for upwelling of sulfidic deep-ocean water masses: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 9, no. 4, doi:10.1029/2007GC001823.
Hudson, S. M., Johnson, C. L., Efendiyeva, M. A., Rowe, H. D., Feyzullayev, A. A., and Aliyev, C. S., 2008, Stratigraphy and geochemical characterization of the Oligocene-Miocene Maikop Series: implications for the paleogeography of eastern Azerbaijan: Tectonophysics, v. 451, p. 40–55.
Theissen, K. M., Dunbar, R. B., Rowe, H. D., and Mucciarone, D. A., 2008, Multidecadal- to century-scale arid episodes on the northern Altiplano during the middle Holocene: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 257, no. 4, p. 361–376, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.09.011.
Rowe, H. D., Loucks, R. G., Ruppel, S. C., and Rimmer, Susan, 2008, Mississippian Barnett Formation, Fort Worth Basin, Texas: bulk geochemical inferences and Mo-TOC constraints on the severity of hydrographic restriction: Chemical Geology, v. 257, p. 16–25.
Piper, D. Z., Perkins, R. B., and Rowe, H. D., 2007, Rare-earth elements in the Permian Phosphoria formation: paleoproxies of ocean geochemistry: Deep-Sea Research II, Topical Studies in Oceanography, v. 54, p. 1396–1413.
Algeo, T. J., Ellwood, B. B., Nguyen, T. K. T., Rowe, H. D., and Maynard, J. B., 2007, The Permian-Triassic boundary at Nhi Tao, Vietnam: evidence for recurrent influx of sulfidic watermasses to a shallow-marine carbonate platform: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 252, p. 304–327.
Algeo, T. J., Hannigan, R., Rowe, H. D., Brookfield, M., Baud, A., Krystyn, L., and Ellwood, B. B., 2007, Sequencing events across the Permian-Triassic boundary, Guryul Ravine (Kashmir, India): Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 252, p. 328–346.
de la Rue, S. R., Rowe, H. D., and Rimmer, Susan, 2007, Palynological and bulk geochemical constraints on the paleoceanographic conditions across the Frasnian–Famennian boundary, New Albany Shale, Indiana: International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 71, p. 72–84.
Maharaj, R. J., Barton, C. D., Karathanasis, A. D., Rowe, H. D., and Rimmer, Susan, 2007, Distinguishing "new" from "old" organic carbon on reclaimed coal mine sites using thermogravimetry: I. Method development: Soil Science, v. 172, no. 4, p. 292–301.
Maharaj, R. J., Barton, C. D., Karathanasis, A. D., Rowe, H. D., and Rimmer, Susan, 2007, Distinguishing "new" from "old" organic carbon on reclaimed coal mine sites using thermogravimetry: II. Field validation: Soil Science, v. 172, no. 4, p. 302–312.
Thomas, W. A., Becker, T. P., Rowe, H. D., Skema, V., and Denison, R. E., 2007, Late Paleozoic limestones from the northern Appalachian basin: passive recorders of Alleghenian exumational history: Northeastern Geology, v. 29, no. 1, p. 15–24.
Mukherjee, A., Fryar, A. E., and Rowe, H. D., 2007, Regional-scale stable isotopic signature of recharge and deeper groundwater in the arsenic affected areas of Gangetic West Bengal, India: Journal of Hydrology, v. 334, p. 151–161.
Aseltyne, T. A., Rowe, H. D., and Fryar, A. E., 2006, Stable isotopic fingerprint of a hyporheic-hypolentic boundary in a reservoir: Hydrogeology Journal, v. 14, p. 1688–1695.
Rimmer, S., Rowe, H. D., Taulbee, D. N., and Hower, J. C., 2006, Influence of maceral content on 13C and 15N in an upper Carboniferous coal: Chemical Geology, v. 225, p. 77–90.
Rowe, H. D., Theissen, K. M., Zinniker, D. A., Moldowan, J. M., and Dunbar, R. B., 2005, Pronounced occurrence of long-chain alkenones and dinosterol in a 25,000 year lipid molecular fossil record from Lake Titicaca, South America: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 69, no. 3, p. 623–636.
Rowe, H. D., and Dunbar, R. B., 2004, Hydrologic-energy balance constraints on the Holocene lake-level history of Lake Titicaca, South America: Climate Dynamics, v. 23, p. 439–454.
Rowe, H. D., Guilderson, T. P., Dunbar, R. B., Southon, J. R., Seltzer, G. O., Mucciarone, D. A., Fritz, S. C., and Baker, P. A., 2003, Timing of late Quaternary lake level change: Lake Titicaca, South America: Global and Planetary Change, v. 38, p. 273–290.
Abbott, M. B., Wolfe, B. B., Wolfe, A. P., Seltzer, G. O., Aravena, R., Mark, B. G., Polissar, P. J., Rodbell, D. T., Rowe, H. D., and Vuille, M., 2003, Holocene paleohydrology and glacial history of the central Andes using multiproxy lake sediment studies: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 194, p. 123–138.
Seltzer, G. O., Rodbell, D. T., Baker, P. A., Tapia, P. M., Fritz, S. C., Rowe, H. D., and Dunbar, R. B., 2002, Early warming of tropical South America at the last glacial-interglacial transition: Science, v. 296, p. 1695–1696.
Seltzer, G. O., Rodbell, D. T., Tapia, P. M., Baker, P. A., Fritz, S. C., Rowe, H. D., and Dunbar, R. B., 2002, Response to “Early Deglaciation in the Tropical Andes by Peter Clark”: Science, v. 298, p. 7a.
Fritz, S. C., Seltzer, G. O., Rowe, H. D., Dunbar, R. B., Mucciarone, D. A., and Baker, P. A., 2002, Insolation, moisture balance and climate change on the South American Altiplano since the last glacial maximum: Climatic Change, v. 52, p. 175–199.
Baker, P. A., Seltzer, G. O., Fritz, S. C., Dunbar, R. B., Grove, M. J., Tapia, P. M., Cross, S. L., Rowe, H. D., and Broda, J. P., 2001, The history of South American tropical precipitation for the past 25,000 years: Science, v. 291, p. 640–643.
Rowe, H. D., Ruppel, S. C., Rimmer, Susan, and Loucks, R. G., 2009, Core-based chemostratigraphy of the Barnett Shale, Permian Basin, Texas: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 59, p. 675-686.
Clark, S., Day, J., Ellwood, B. B., Rowe, H. D., and Tomkin, J. H., 2009, Astronomical tuning of integrated upper Fammenian–early Carboniferous faunal, carbon isotope and high resolution magnetic susceptibility records: western Illinois Basin, in Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy Newsletter #24, February.
Abstracts
Rowe, H. D., Gao, Y., Buckles, J., Springer, G. S., Cheng, H., Edwards, R. L., and Hardt, B., 2011, Integrating the pre-LGM stalagmite record from the southern Appalachians of eastern North America with tropical, east Asian, and Greenland paleoclimate records (abs.), in American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco.
Buckles, J., Rowe, H. D., Gao, Y., Cheng, H., Springer, G. S., Edwards, R. L., and Hardt, B., 2011, A continuous record of trace element and stable isotope variations in a West Virginia speleothem: pre-LGM to early Holocene (abs.), in American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco.
Acton, P., Fox, J., Campbell, J., Rowe, H. D., and Jones, A., 2011, Soil organic carbon and nutrient dynamics in reclaimed Appalachian mine soil (abs.), in American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco.
Buckles, J., Rowe, H. D., and others, 2011, A novel method for trace elemental analyses of speleothems using micro-XRF (abs.), in GSA Annual Meeting, October 9–12, Minneapolis.