Geology-Geography Faculty Achievements
Kathy Bower
Publications:
K.M. Bower, Developing a Geologic Outreach Program, Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 50, n. 3, May, 2002, p. 303-307
K.M. Bower, C. Gable, and G. Zyvoloski, Effect of Grid Resolution on Control Volume Finite Element Groundwater Modeling of Realistic Geology, accepted for publication (with changes) by Ground Water, Sept., 2002
Bower, K.M., Glaciers formed Coles landscape, Charleston Times-Courier, pp. D2-D3, April, 22, 2003
Presentations:
Bower, K.M., Teaching Earth Science to K-12 Teachers, presentation at professional conference, North-Central Southeast Geological Society of America sectional meeting, Kentucky, April, 2002
Bower, K.M., Using Thought Experiments to Teach Earth Science, presentation to the North-Central Geological Society of America, Kansas City, MS, March 2003
Grants:
Geologic Outreach, $10,890 granted in 1999 by American Honda Foundation to start and maintain a geologic outreach program to area K-12 schools, this program is ongoing
Geology Excellence in Research, $1800 awarded in February, 2002 in order to trace the environmental history of ColesCounty
EIU College of Sciences Seed Grant, $1000 awarded February, 2002 in order to trace the environmental history of ColesCounty
Geology Excellence Award 02
Dr. Bower is continuing her work with Los Alamos National Laboratory to publish a paper grid generation. Sh is also on the Board of Directors of Trace Photonics, CharlestonIllinois.
Craig Chesner:
6 abstracts as follows:
Jorstad, R.B., and Chesner, C.A., 2001, The evolving role of national parks and monuments in the EasternIllinoisUniversity geology field camp, GSA Abst. w. Prog., v. 33, n.7, p. 729.
Halsor, S.P., Toothill, W., Chesner, C.A., and Jorstad, R.B., 2001, Yellowstone Caldera YNP: The ups and downs of a ground deformation survey, GSA Abst. w. Prog., v. 33, n. 7, p. 733.
Escobar, D., and Chesner, C.A., 2001, Volcanic hazards of San Miguel Volcano, El Salvador: Initial work, Eos Trans. AGU., v. 87, n. 47, p. 1376.
Thomas, J.B., Bodnar, R.J., Shimizu, N., and Chesner, C., 2001, The role of boundary layers during entrapment of melt inclusions: Evidence from melt inclusions in plagioclase, allanite, and zircon from the Toba tuffs, Sumatra, Eos Trans. AGU., v. 87, n. 47, p. 1349-1350.
Chesner, C.A., Pullinger, C., Schiek, C.G., 2001, Physical and chemical evolution of San Miguel Volcano, El Salvador, Eos Trans. AGU., v. 87, n. 47, p. 1405.
Schiek, C.G., Chesner, C.A., Halsor, S.P., and Boroughs, S.P., 2002, Sources of the Escuintla and La Democracia debris avalanches, Guatemala, GSA Abst. w. Prog. v. 34, n. 2.
Yuvan, J.G. and Chesner, C.A., 2003, Characterization and monitoring of hot springs in the LowerGeyserBasin, YellowstoneNational Park, GSA Abst. W. Prog. V. 35, n. 5.
1 publication as follows:
Major, J.J., Schilling, S.P., Pullinger, C.R., Escobar, C.D., and Chesner, C.A., 2001, Lahar-hazard zonation for San Miguel Volcano, El Salvador, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-395.
Awards
CFR Award 2003 – Source of the Escuintla Debris Avalanche, Guatemala
Undergraduate Research Grant project advisor (Jason Yuvan), Spring 2003, Characterization and monitoring of hot springs in the LowerGeyserBasin, YellowstoneNational Park
Redden Grant – Used to purchase the Powder Diffraction File for Minerals to be use with the department’s X-Ray Diffractometer
Mike Cornebise:
Received TEDE grant for project entitled “Improving Geographic Instruction: A Web-based Initiative.
-Developed an approved Study Abroad field course in Ireland with John Stimac. GEL/GEG 3970 and GEL/GEG 5590
-Completed Book Chapter entitled “Thirty Years After Sawatsky: Re-evaluating
Mennonite Settlement Patterns in Belize” in Brady, S. and Bass, J. (eds.) Revaluing Descriptive Geographies of Middle America. Currently under review at University of Texas Press.
-Presentation: The Belizean Mennonites. Foreign Language Week at Eastern IllinoisUniversity, March 5, 2002
-Presentation: The Mennonites of Belize: A Geographic Perspective. Illinois Geographic Society Conference, Rantoul, IL, April 27, 2002
Abstract for Presentation: The Changing Role of Cuba’s Campismo Popular: From National Tourism to Ecotourism. Midwest Association of Latin American Studies Conference, November 2003.
Completed Dissertation at University of Tennessee: The Social Construction of Tourism in Cuba: A Geographic Analysis of the Representations of Gender and Race during the Special Period, 1995-1997.
August 15, 2003.
Vince Gutowski
Grants
2002Eastern IllinoisUniversity, John S. and Margaret Redden Fund for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education, $1,500.
2002Eastern IllinoisUniversity, Instructional Technology Enhancement Grant, $12,345.
2001Eastern Illinois University, College of Sciences, Academic Program Enhancement Grant, “Development of a Field Course for Social Science Teachers in the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains and Pacific Northwest”, $2950
2001EIUCollege of Sciences Special Projects Grant, “An Assessment of Shoreline Erosion Mitigation Techniques at the Charleston Side-Channel Reservoir”, $3,600.
2001Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Conservation 2000 Program Grant, ALand Use and Conservation Implementation Tracking Database in Muddy Creek Watershed@, $5,300.
2003Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Habitat Study Grant, $1,000
2003Eastern IllinoisUniversity, John S. and Margaret Redden Fund for the Improvement of Undergraduate Instruction, $1,400.
2003Rose Zeller Excellence in Research Award, “Precision Survey of the Dove Creek Archeological Site, Cortez, CO”, $1,577.
2003Eastern IllinoisUniversity, College of Sciences, Seed Grant Award, $1,000.
2003Eastern IllinoisUniversity, Instructional Technology Enhancement Grant, $13,053.
Grants under review
2003with Tom Over, US Geological Survey; Janice Coons and Henry Owen, EIU Biological Sciences, “Impact of Biogeographical Factors on the Disjunct Distribution of Lesquerella Lodoviciana”, National Science Foundation Collaborative Research at Undergraduate Institutions Grant, $593,819, 3/12/03.
Manuscripts Reviewed
2002“Paha Formation in the High Arctic” for the Transactions of the IllinoisStateAcademy of Science.
Student Research Grants Mentored (these were previously mentioned under faculty/student collaborations segment)
2002 Eastern Illinois University, Undergraduate Research Awards, “Investigation of the Effects of Bendway Weir Installation on Scour Pool Depth and Bed Materials in a Large Illinois River”, $1500, (mentored the work of Nic Cheviron).
2001EasternIllinoisUniversity, Department of Geology/Geography, Grace Markwell Meier Research in Geography Award, ARural Water Systems and Land Values@, $500 (mentored the work of Michelle West).
Publications
2002with Dan Osterman, “Hurricane Creek Watershed Implementation Plan”, Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Office of Resource Conservation, Springfield, IL, 70 p.
2001with K. L. Baumann ”Distribution of Fine Atmospheric Particulates: Central U.S.
1994-1998", Papers and Proceedings of Applied Geography Conferences, V. 24, Graham Tobin ed., Ft. Worth, TX, pp. 65-73.
2002Mundell, J. A., Beyer, G. B., Henson, H., Gutowski, V. P., and Dove, D. E., The Use of
Geophysical Surveys For Archeaological Excavation Planning at the MitchellSprings Ruins in Cortez Colorado, in Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems, Las VegasNevada, Proceedings: Denver, Colorado, Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society, 10p.
2003with S. M. DiNaso, D. J Osterman, and M. Sweeney, “Habitat Modification and Streambank Stabilization in the Embarras River, East-Central Illinois”, Annual Meeting of the East Lakes and West Lakes Divisions of the Association of American Geographers, Abstracts with Programs, Kalamazoo, MI, October 16 – 18.
2003with H. Henson, C. Adams, D. Dove, J. Mundell and G. Beyer, “Magnetic Exploration
and Data Processing at the MitchellSprings Ruins in Cortez, Colorado”, 55th Annual
Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Section of the Geological Society of America, Abstracts
with Programs, Vol. 35, No. 5, Durango, Co, May 7-8.
2003with G. B. Beyer, J. A. Mundell, H. Henson and D. Dove, “Use of Multiple Geophysical
Methods for Archaeological Excavation Planning at the MitchellSprings Ruins, Cortez, Colorado”, Sypmosium on the Applications of Geophysics to Environmental and Engineering Problems, Las Vegas, NV.
2001with S. M. DiNaso and D. J. Osterman, AA Preliminary Analysis of Bendway Weirs on the Embarras River, East-central Illinois, abs. 93rd Annual Meeting of the Illinois State Academy of Science, Macomb, IL, April 20-20, p. 65.
Poster Session Presentations
2003R. U. Fischer and V. P. Gutowski, “The Effects of Streambank Stabilization Structures on Stream Channel Morphology and Fish Community Structure. 64th. Annual Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Kansas City, Missouri. To be presented in December, 2003.
2003with Nic Cheviron, “Changes in Stream Channel and Sediment Size, After Installation of Streambank Stabilization Structures”, 95th Annual Meeting of the Illinois State Academy of Science, Bloomington, IL, April 4-5.
2002with S. M. DiNaso, D. Osterman, M. Sweeney, “ Effects of Streambank Stabilization in the Embarras River, East Central Illinois”, 53rd Annual Meeting of the West Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers, Oct 17 – 19, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Illustrated Papers
2003with G. Obia, “A Summary of Landowner Attitudes and Opinions In the Hurricane Creek Pilot Watershed, East Central Illinois”, 98th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA, April 4th.
2003with S. DiNaso, D. Osterman and M. Sweeney, “ Effects of Using Bendway Weirs for Streambank Stabilization in the Embarras River, East Central Illinois”, 98th Annual Meeting of the Association of AmericanGeographers, New Orleans, LA, April 4th.
Bob Jorstad
2002; Stefos, Melissa and Jorstad, Robert B.; An Initial Investigation of Eocene Pollen from Northern Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA;;GSA Abstracts with Programs
2001, Jorstad, R.B. and Chesner, C.A.; The Evolving Role of National Parks and Monuments in the Eastern Illinois University Geology Field Camp; GSA Abstracts with Programs
2001, Toothill, W., Halsor, S, Chesner, C.A. and Jorstad R.B., Yellowstone Caldera YNP: The Ups and Downs of a Ground deformation Survey; GSA Abstracts with Programs
2002; Stefos, Meliss and Jorstad R.B; a Palynological Investigartion in YellowstoneNational Park; the Undergraduates Perspective; GSA Abstracts with Programs
2002; Jorstad, R.B. Stefos, M,and Chesner, C..; A Continuing Investigation of the Eocene
Palynoflora of the Yancey Creek Drainage Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming:
2001, An Example of Virtual and real world Flagging in a Geology Field Camp Mapping Project from Deadman Gulch, Black Hills, South Dakotae; GSA Abstracts with Programs
2001, Jorstad, R.B., Stefos, M., and Chesner, C.A.; A Preliminary Investigation of the Eocene Palynoflora of the Yancey Creek Drainage Basin, Yellowstone National Park,Wyoming: submitted to National Park Service and
Belayet Khan:
Publications:
Khan, B. H., El Nino Occurrences and Aspects of Weather Anomalies in Bangladesh, Program and Abstracts, Association of the American Geographer’s Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2003.
Khan, B. H., An Investigation of Weather Variability and Recent El Nino Occurrences, Abstracts, Climate Change and Variability in Northern Europe, Sahari Tuhkanen and Marko Oja (eds.), No. 165, Turku, Finland, 2002.
Grants and Awards:
Paul Overton Award 2002 for Outstanding Service to Off-Campus Students and School of Adult and Continuing Education, 2002
Achievement and Contribution Award in teaching/performance of primary Duties, 2001
Geology/Geography Outstanding Faculty Award Nominee for the College of Sciences,
ScienceFest 2002
Geology/Geography Department Rose Zeller Excellence in Research Award, 2002
Chosen by Dean of Graduate School for presentation to Presidential Graduate Teaching
Assistantship Workshop on the Attributes and Quality of Effective Teaching, 2002
FacultyDevelopmentCollege Grant for Geography Awareness Week, 2001
Visiting Scholar Award, College of Sciences, 2001
Instructional Technology Enhancement Grant for improved classroom technology, 2001
Recognized for Nomination of Distinguished Honors Faculty Award for teaching and
outstanding service to Eastern Illinois University Honors Program, 2002
Godson Obia
Godson C. Obia. 2002. "Agricultural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa." Chapter 13 In: Aryeetey-Attoh, Sam (ed.) Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall Publishers.
Godson C. Obia. 2002. “The African Great Lakes.” In: Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe and Eyoh, Dickson Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. London, England: Routledge. Forthcoming in December 2002.
Godson C. Obia. 2002. “African Environmental Movements.” In: Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe and Eyoh, Dickson Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century African History. London, England: Routledge. Forthcoming in December 2002.
Betty Smith:
- Smith, Betty E. 2002 (forthcoming) Central City Morphology of a South American City and Experimental Analysis of Nine Monocentric Urban Population Density Models,Proceedings of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers and Universitat Jaume I Spain, Chapter in Volume 1: Urbanization in Latin America, (Universitat Jaume I, Spain). This 25 page paper is a tangible result of a Faculty Development Grant and an International Travel Award.
- Smith, Betty E. 2002 Manufacturing Work Stoppage in East Central Illinois: The Case of Trailmobile, Inc.,Bulletin of the Illinois Geographical Society, (IllinoisStateUniversity, Normal, Illinois). This 11 page paper is a tangible result of a Summer Research Grant.
- Smith, Betty E. 2001 (in collaboration with EIU undergraduates), Analysis of the Charleston-Mattoon Corridor, Charleston, Illinois, a 51-page report presented to City Planning Director and Coles Economic Development Planner, December 11, 2001, (Eastern Illinois University). This is an example of faculty-student-community collaboration and community service.
- Smith, Betty E. 2001 Morfología urbana central de una ciudad sudamericana (Abstract) in Seminario Internacional Nuevas Tendencias en América Latina en el Contexto de la Globalización, Pages 227-228, (Universidad Autónomo Chapingo, Huatusco, Veracruz, Mexico). This is a tangible result of a Faculty Development Grant.
Presentations
- Presenter, Exodus Out of Ecuador, 98th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), March 19-23, 2002, Los Angeles, California.
- Chair of an organized paper session on “Migration In and To Europe,” (participants from University of California at Los Angeles; University of Dublin, Ireland; Salem State College in Massachusetts; and The Ohio State University), Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, March 19-23, 2002, Los Angeles, California.
- Guest Lecture (with colleague Dr. José Deustua, History Department), “Machu Picchu,” EIU Foreign Language Week, March 5, 2002.
- Lecture to Community and Campus (with colleagues Dr. John Stimac and Mr. Michael Cornebise), “Study Abroad in Ireland and Ecuador,” February 25 and 28, 2002.
- Translator, Co-presenter and Organizer of Exhibit and Public Lecture at TarbleArtCenter, “Traditional Textiles of Ecuador,” with Dr. Mario Andino, Visiting Adjunct Faculty, Oct. 29, 2001.
- Presenter, Recent Migrations of Ecuadorians to Spain, 51st Annual Meeting of the Midwest Association of Latin American Studies (MALAS), October 18-20, 2001, Cleveland, Ohio (written and presented with co-
author Dr. Mario Andino).
Grants and Awards - Betty E. Smith
- Technology Enhanced and Delivered Education (TEDE) Grant, Professional Development Category, Eastern Illinois University, Arc View 8 GIS Workshop and Education User Conference (July 1-9, 2002 in Redlands and San Diego, California), granted April 2002, ($2,000).
- 2002 Rose Zeller Excellence in Research Award,Eastern Illinois University, Data from Ecuador: Recent Migrations of Ecuadorians to Spain, granted February 2002, ($600).
John Stimac
John Stimac – Geology/Geography representative to the College of Sciences as Outstanding Teacher during ScienceFest.
John Stimac – Redden Fund recipient, fall 2001.
John Stimac – reviewer for Tectonics, Journal of Geoscience Education, and Oregon Geology. 2001 to present.
M. A. Kays and J.P. Stimac, Geologic map of the Balm Creek Reservoir Quadrangle, Oregon, 1:24,000; to be published 2002/2003.
M. A. Kays and J.P. Stimac, Geologic map of the Bennett Peak Quadrangle, Oregon, 1:24,000; to be published 2002/2003.
M. A. Kays and J.P. Stimac, Geologic map of the Krags Peak Quadrangle, Oregon, 1:24,000; to be published 2002/2003.
M. A. Kays and J.P. Stimac, Geologic map of the Sparta Butte Quadrangle, Oregon, 1:24,000; to be published 2002/2003.