Lee R. Kump

Professor of Geosciences

Affiliate, Earth System Science Center

The Pennsylvania State University

University Park, Pennsylvania  16802

 

Education

A.B. Honors, University of Chicago, 1981, Geophysical Sciences

Ph.D., University of South Florida, 1986, Marine Sciences

 

Professional Experience   

2005-          Reviewing Editor, Science

2004-2008    Associate Director, Earth System Evolution Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

2003-pres     Editor, Virtual Journal of Geobiology

1997-pres     Professor of Geosciences, Penn State

1996-2000    Co-Editor, Geology

1994-2000    Associate Head, Department of Geosciences, Penn State

1991-1997    Associate Professor of Geosciences, Penn State

1986-1991    Assistant Professor of Geosciences, Penn State

1981-1986    Research Assistant, University of South Florida

1981-1983    Geologist, United States Geological Survey Fisher Island Station (summers)

1979-1980    Research Assistant, University of Chicago

 

Honors and Awards

2007                       Wilson Research Award, Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences

2005                       Faculty Mentoring Award, Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences

2001                       Fellow, Geological Society of London

2000                       Distinguished Service Award, Geological Society of America

1999                       Pardee (Keynote) Symposium Lecturer, Geological Society of America

1997                       Fellow, Geological Society of America

1994                       Deike Research Award, Penn State

1991-1995                Marine Biological Association of the U.K., Geophysiology Modeling Fellowship

1992                       Provost's Award for Collaborative Instruction and Curricular Innovation

1990                       Bursary Fellowship, Marine Biological Association of the UK

1986-1987                Faculty Research Award

1985-1986                John B. Lake Fellowship in Marine Science

1982-1983                Graduate Council Fellowship, University of South Florida

1981                       National Association of Geology Teachers Summer Field Training Program Award

1981                       Special Honors in Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago

 

Membership in Professional Organizations

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Earth System Evolution Program, Fellow

Geological Society of London, Fellow

Geochemical Society

American Geophysical Union

Geological Society of America, Fellow

American Chemical Society, Geochemistry Division

American Academy of Underwater Sciences

 

Publications

Articles in Referred Journals

Kump, L.R. and Garrels, R.M., 1986.  Modeling atmospheric O2 in the global sedimentary redox cycle.,  American Journal of Science, 286:337-370.

Kirwan, A.D. and Kump L.R., 1987.  Models of geochemical systems from mixture theory:  diffusion.  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 51:1219-1227.

Kump, L.R., 1988.  Terrestrial feedback in atmospheric oxygen regulation by fire and phosphorus.  Nature, 335:152-154.

Byrne, R.H., Kump, L.R. and Cantrell, K.J., 1988.  The influence of temperature and pH on trace metal speciation in seawater.  Marine Chemistry, 25:163-181.

Kump, L.R., 1989.  Chemical stability of the atmosphere and ocean.  Global and Planetary Change, 1:123-136.

Kump, L.R., 1989.  Alternative modeling approaches to the geochemical cycles of carbon, sulfur and strontium isotopes.  American Journal of Science, 289:390-410.

Kump, L.R. and Byrne, R.H., 1989.  Palladium chemistry in seawater.  Environmental Science and Technology, 23: 663-665.

Bluth, G.J.S. and Kump, L.R., 1991.  Phanerozoic paleogeology:  A new dimension to geochemical cycling models.  American Journal of Science, 291:284-308.

      Kump, L.R., 1991.  Interpreting carbon-isotope excursions:  Strangelove oceans. Geology, 19:299-302.

Kump, L.R., Kasting, J.F., and Robinson, J.M., 1991.  Atmospheric oxygen variation through geologic time--introduction.  Global and Planetary Change, 97:1-3.

Kump, L.R. and Holland, H.D., 1992.  Iron in Precambrian rocks: Implications for the global oxygen budget of the ancient Earth.  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 56:3217-3223.

Byrne, R.H. and Kump, L.R., 1993.  Comment on "Speciation of aqueous palladium (II) chloride solutions using optical spectroscopies" by C.D. Tait, et al., Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 57:1151-1156.

Kump, L.R., 1993.  Oceans of change.  Nature (News and Views Section), 361:592-593.

Kump, L.R., 1993.  Bacteria forge a new link.  Nature (News and Views Section), 362:790-791.

Bluth, G.J.S. and Kump, L.R., 1994.  Lithologic and climatologic controls of river chemistry.  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 58:2341-2359

Gibbs, M.T. and Kump, L.R., 1994.  Global chemical erosion during the last glacial maximum and the present:  Sensitivity to changes in lithology and hydrology.  Paleoceanography, 9:529-543.

Lovelock, J.E. and Kump, L.R., 1994.  Failure of climate regulation in a geophysiological model.  Nature, 369:732-734.

Slingerland, R., Kump, L.R., Arthur, M., Fawcett, P., Sageman, B., and Barron, E., 1996. Estuarine circulation in the Turonian Western Interior Seaway of North America.Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 108: 941-952

Mackenzie, F.T. and Kump, L.R., 1995. Reverse weathering, clay mineral formation, and ocean element cycles. Science (Perspectives), 270: 586-587.

Kump, L.R. and Mackenzie, F.T., 1996. Regulation of atmospheric O2: Feedback in the microbial feedbag. Science (Perspectives), 271: 459-460.

Richards, P. and Kump, L.R., 1997. Application of geographic information systems approach to watershed mass balance studies. Hydrological Processes, 11: 671-694.

Gibbs, M., Barron, E.J., and Kump, L.R., 1997. An atmospheric pCO2 threshold for glaciation in the Late Ordovician. Geology, 25: 447-450.

Machusak, D. and Kump, L.R., 1997. Environmental controls on groundwater chemistry in an offshore island aquifer: Fiesta Key, Florida. Aquatic Geochemistry, 3: 129-167.

Kump, L.R., Arthur, M., Patzkowsky, M., Gibbs, M., Pinkus, D.S., and Sheehan, P., 1999. A weathering hypothesis for glaciation at high atmospheric pCO2 in the Late Ordovician. Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology Palaeogeography. 152: 173-187.

Kump, L.R. and Arthur, M.A., 1999. Interpreting carbon-isotope excursions: Carbonates and organic matter. Chemical Geology 161: 181-198.

Gibbs, M.T., Bluth, G.S., Fawcett, P.J., and Kump, L.R., 1999. Chemical weathering over the last 250 Myr: Variations due to paleogeography, paleoclimate, and paleogeology. American Journal of Science 299: 611-651.

Corbett, D.R., Kump, L.R., Dillon, W., and Chanton, J., 2000. Fate of wastewater-borne nutrients under low discharge conditions in the subsurface of the Florida Keys, USA. Marine Chemistry 69: 99-115.

Kump, L.R., Brantley, S.L., and Arthur, M.A., 2000. Chemical weathering, atmospheric CO2, and climate. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 28: 611-667.

Hotinski, R.M., Kump, L.R., and Najjar, R.G., 2000. Opening PandoraÕs Box: The impact of open system modeling on interpretation of anoxia. Paleoceanography 15:267-279.

Suits, N.S., Arthur, M.A., and Kump, L.R., in revision. A numerical simulation of sulfur isotopic fractionation during sulfate reduction and sulfide oxidation in modern sediments.  American Journal of Science.

Dillon, K.S., Corbett, D.R., Chanton, J.P., Burnett, W.C., and Kump, L.R., 2000.  Bimodal transport of a wastewater plume injected into saline ground water of the Florida Keys. Ground Water 38(4): 624-634.

Hotinski, R.M., Bice, K.L., Kump, L.R., Najjar, R.G., Arthur, M.A., 2001. Ocean stagnation and end-Permian anoxia. Geology, 29: 7-10.

Kump, L.R., Kasting, J.F., and Barley, M.E., 2001. Rise of atmospheric oxygen and the Òupside-downÓ Archean mantle. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 2, Paper number 2000GC000114.

Kump, L.R., 2001. What drives climate? Nature (News and Views section) 408: 651-652.

Kump, L.R., 2001. Chill taken out of the tropics. Nature (London), vol.413, no.6855, pp.470-471, 04 Oct 2001.

Beerling, D.J., Lomax, B.H., Royer, D.L., Upchurch, G.R. Jr., and Kump, L.R., 2002. New constraints on atmospheric CO2 changes following the terminal Cretaceous biotic crisis. Proc. NatÕl. Acad. Sci. 99, 7844-7847.

Kump, LR. 2002. Reducing uncertainty about carbon dioxide as a climate driver. Nature, v. 419, pp. 188-190.

Hotinski, R.M., Kump, L.R., and Bice, K.L., 2002. Comment on ÒCould the Late Permian deep ocean have been anoxic?Ó by R. Zhang et al. Paleoceanography 17: 1052, doi:10.1029/2001PA000680.

Dillon, K., Burnett, W., Kim, G., Chanton, J., Corbett, D.R., Elliott, K., and Kump, L., 2003 (in press). Groundwater flow and phosphate dynamics surrounding a high discharge wastewater disposal well in the Florida Keys. J. Hydrol.

Hotinski, R.M., Kump, L.R., and Arthur, M.A., 2004. A d13C gradient from platform carbonates of the Pethei Group (Great Slave Lake Supergroup, N.W.T. Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 116: 539-554.

Griggs, E.M., Kump, L.R., and Bohlke, J.K., 2003. The fate of wastewater-derived nitrate in the subsurface of the Florida Keys: Key Colony Beach, Florida. Est. Coastal Shelf Sci. 58: 517-539.

Richards, P. and Kump, L.R., 2003. Soil pore-water distributions and the temperature feedback of weathering in the field. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 67: 3803-3816.

Kurtz, A.C., Kump, L.R., Arthur, M.A., Zachos, J.C., and Paytan, A., 2003. Early Cenozoic decoupling of the global carbon and sulfur cycles. Paleoceanography 18(4), 1090, doi:10.1029/2003PA000908.

Anderson, S.P., Blum, J., Brantley, S.L., Chadwick, O., Chorover, J., Derry, L., Drever, J., Hering, J., Kirschner, J., Kump, L., Richter, D., and White, A., 2004. Proposed initiative would study EarthÕs weathering engine. EOS 85: 265-269.

Kump, L.R., Pavlov, A., and Arthur, M.A., 2005. Massive release of hydrogen sulfide to the surface ocean and atmosphere during intervals of oceanic anoxia. Geology 33: 397-400.

Herman, E.K. and Kump, L.R., 2005. Numerical models of microbial mats under Precambrian oceanic conditions: a modeling study. Geobiology 3: 77-92.

Zachos, J.C. and Kump, L.R., 2005. Carbon cycle feedbacks and the initiation of Antarctic glaciation in the earliest Oligocene. Global and Planetary Change 47: 51-66.

Kump, L.R. and Seyfried, W.E., 2005. Hydrothermal Fe fluxes during the Precambrian: Effect of low oceanic sulfate concentrations and low hydrostatic pressure on the composition of  black smokers. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 235: 654-662.

Kump, L.R., 2005. Ironing out the oxidation of the biosphere. Science (Perspectives) 307: 1058-1059.

Panchuk, K.M., Holmden, C., and Kump, L.R., 2005. Sensitivity of the epeiric sea carbon isotope record to local-scale carbon cycle processes: Tales from the Mohawkian Sea. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 228: 320-337.

Kump, L.R., 2005. Foreshadowing the glacial era. Nature (News and Views) 436: 333-334.

Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., Hanski, E.J., Kump, L.R., Lepland, A., Prave, A.R., and Strauss, H., 2005. Emergence of the aerobic biosphere during the Archean-Proterozoic transition: Challenges of future research. GSA Today 15: 4-11.

Bowen, G.J., Bralower, T.J., Dickens, G.R., Delaney, M., Kelly, D.C., Koch, P.L., Kump, L.R., Meng, J., Sloan, L.C., Thomas, E., Wing, S.L., and Zachos, J.C., 2006. Eocene hyperthermal event offers insight into greenhouse warming. EOS 87: 165, 169.

Kump, L.R., Pavlov, A., and Arthur, M.A., 2006. Reply to Berner and Ward comment on Kump et al., 2005. Geology, on line forum.

Riccardi, A.L., Arthur, M.A., Kump, L.R., and DÕHondt, S., 2006. Sulfur isotopic evidence for chemocline upwater excursions during the end-Permian. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70: 5740-5752.

Riccardi, A.L., Kump, L.R., Arthur, M.A., and DÕHondt, S., 2007. Carbon isotopic evidence for chemocline upward excursions during the end-Permian event. Palaeogeograpy Palaeoclimatology Paleoecology 248: 73-81.

Payne, J.L., Lehrmann, D.J., Follett, D., Seibel, M., Kump, L.R., Riccardi, A., Altiner, D., Sano, H., Wei, J., 2007. Erosional truncation of uppermost Permian shallow-marine carbonates and implications for Permian-Triassic boundary events. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 119: 771-784.

Payne, J.L. and Kump, L.R., 2007. Evidence for recurrent Early Triassic massive volcanism from quantitative interpretation of carbon isotope fluctuations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 256: 264-277.

Suits, N.S., Arthur, M.A., and Kump, L.R., in review. A numerical simulation of sulfur isotopic fractionation during sulfate reduction and sulfide oxidation in organic carbon-rich sediments. Chemical Geology.

Kump, L.R. and Barley, M.E., 2007. Continental tectonics, increased subaerial volcanism and the rise of atmospheric oxygen. Nature 448: 1033-1036.

Panchuk, K.M., Ridgwell, A., and Kump, L.R., 2008. Sedimentary response to Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum carbon release: A model-data comparison. Geology 36: 315-318.

Young, S. A., Saltzman, M. R., Foland, K. A., Linder, J. S., and Kump, L. R., in revision. A volcanic-weathering hypothesis for the Late Ordovician ice age. Geology.

Hilting, A. K., Kump, L.R., and Bralower, T. J., 2008. Variations in the oceanic vertical carbon isotope gradient and their implications for the Paleocene-Eocene biological pump. Paleoceanography 23(3) PA3222, doi:10.1029/2007PA001458.

Meyer, K. J. and Kump, L. R., 2008. Oceanic euxinia in Earth history: Causes and Consequences. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences 36:251–88.

Meyer, K.J., Kump, L.R., and Ridgwell, A., 2008. The biogeochemical controls on photic-zone euxinia during the end-Permian mass extinction. Geology 36: 747-750.

Kump, L.R., 2008. The rise of atmospheric oxygen. Nature v. 451: 277-278.

Kump, L.R. and Pollard, D., 2008. Brevia: Amplification of Cretaceous warmth by biological cloud feedbacks. Science, 320: 195.

Ohmoto, Hiroshi; Runnegar; Bruce; Kump, Lee R.; Fogel, Marilyn L.; Kamber, Balz; Anbar, Ariel D.; Knauth, Paul L.; Lowe, Donald R.; Sumner, Dawn Y.; Watanabe, Yumiko, 2008. Biosignatures in Ancient Rocks: A Summary of Discussions at a Field Workshop on Biosignatures in Ancient Rocks. Astrobiology 8: 883-907.

Kump, L.R., 2009. Tipping pointedly colder. Science (Perspectives) 323: 1175-1176.

 

 

 

Books and Book Chapters

Kump, L.R. and Hine, A.C., 1986. Ooids as sea-level indicators. In: van de Plassche, O. (ed.), Sea Level Research, Geobooks, Norwich, England. (Principal Author)

White, T.S., Morrison, J.L., and Kump, L.R., 1990.  Formation of iron sulfides in modern salt marsh sediments (Wallops Island, Virginia).  Chapter 11 in:  Orr, W.L. and White, C.M. (eds.)  Geochemistry of Sulfur in Fossil Fuels, ACS Symposium:  Series 429, pp. 204-217.

Kump, L.R., 1990.  Neogene geochemical cycles; Implication concerning phosphogenesis.  In:  Burnett, W. and Riggs, S.R. (eds.), Phosphate Deposits of the World, Vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, England, pp. 273-282.

Kump, L.R. and Volk, T., 1991.  Gaia's garden and BLAG's greenhouse: global biogeochemical climate regulation.  In: Schneider, S.H. and Boston, P.J.0 (eds.), Scientists on Gaia, MIT Press, p. 191-199.

Kump, L.R., 1991.  Biogeochemical cycle of oxygen.  In: Nierenberg, W.A. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Earth System Science, Vol. 3 (M-Re), Academic Press, NY.

Kump, L.R., 1992.  Coupling of the carbon and sulfur biogeochemical cycles over Phanerozoic time. In: Wollast, R. (ed.),  Interactions of C, N, P and S Biogeochemical Cycles, NATO ASI Series, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 475-490.

Kasting, J.F., Holland, H.D., and Kump, L.R., 1992.  Atmospheric evolution:  the rise of oxygen.  Chapter 4.6 in Schopf, J.W. and Klein, C. (eds.), The Proterozoic Biosphere:  A Multidisciplinary Study.  Cambridge University Press, England, pp. 159-165.

Kump, L.R., and Alley, R.B., 1994. Global chemical weathering on glacial time scales.  In: Usselman, T.M. and Hay, W.W. (eds.), Material Fluxes on the Surface of the Earth, National Research Council, Washington, DC, pp. 46-60.

Kump, L.R. and Lovelock, J.E., 1995.  The geophysiology of climate.  In:  Henderson-Sellers, A. (ed.),  Future Climates of the World, V. 16, World Survey of Climatology, Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam, Chapter 14p. 537-553.

Kump, L.R., Gibbs, M., Arthur, M., Patzkowsky, M., and Sheehan, P., 1995. Hirnantian glaciation and the carbon cycle. In: Ordovician Odyssey: Short Papers for the Seventh International Symposium on the Ordovician System, Society of Sedimentary Geology, p. 299-302.

Kump, L.R. and Arthur, M.A., 1997. Global chemical erosion during the Cenozoic: Weatherability balances the budget. In: W. Ruddiman (ed.), Tectonics Uplift and Climate Change, Plenum Publishing Co., pp. 399-426.

Kump, L.R., Kasting, J.F., and Crane, R.H., 1999. The Earth System. Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 350 pp.

Kump, L.R. and Slingerland, R.L., 1999. Circulation and stratification of the Early Turonian Western Interior Seaway: Sensitivity to a variety of forcings. In: Barrera, E. and Johnson, C. (eds.), The Evolution of Cretaceous Ocean/Climate Systems, Special   Paper of the Geological Society of America 332: 181-190. 

Gibbs, Mark T; Bice, Karen L; Barron, Eric J; Kump, Lee R, 2000. Glaciation in the early Paleozoic "greenhouse"; the roles of paleogeography and atmospheric CO2. In: Huber, B.T., MacLeod, K.G., and Wing, S.L., eds., Warm Climates in Earth History,Cambridge Univ. Press, U.K., 386-422.

Kump, L.R., Kasting, J.F., and Crane, R.G., 2004. The Earth System, 2/e. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 419 pp.

Kump, L.R., 2004. Self-regulation of ocean composition by the biosphere. In: Schneider, S.H., Miller, J.R., Crist, E. and Boston, P.J. (eds.) Scientists Debate Gaia II. MIT Press, Cambridge Mass. pp. 93-100..

Kump, L.R., 2004. The geochemistry of mass extinction. In: Turekian, K.K. and Holland, H.D. (eds.) Treatise on Geochemistry. Holland: Elsevier, Ch. 7.14, p. 351-368.

Kump, L. R., 2008. The role of seafloor hydrothermal systems in the evolution of seawater composition during the Phanerozoic. In: Lowell, R.P., Seewald, J.S., Metaxas, A., and Perfit, M.R. (eds.), Magma to Microbe: Modeling Hydrothermal Processes at Ocean Spreading Centers. Geophysical Monograph Series 178, Amer. Geoph. Union, pp. 275-284.

Mann, M. and Kump, L., 2008. Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming. DK Publishing, New York, 208 pp.

Slingerland, R.L. and Kump, L.R., submitted. Mathematical Modeling for Geoscientists. Princeton University Press, in revision.

Meyer, K.M., Kump, L.R., Macalady, J., Schaperdoth, I., and Freeman, K., in review. Benthic production of a putative planktonic biomarker. Geobiology.

 

 

 

Book Reviews

Kump, L.R., 1988.  It's a small world (Review of "Global Biogeochemical Cycles").  Nature, 335:466.

Kump, L.R., 1989.  Review of "History of Earth's Atmosphere."  Terra Nova, 1, 383-384.

Kump, L.R., 1992.  Review of "Numerical Adventures with Geochemical Cycles."  Journal of Geological Education, 40, p. 33.

 

 

Abstracts Presented at Meetings

Kump, L.R. and Garrels, R.M., 1985. Development of box models for prediction of oxygen levels in paleoatmospheres. Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstr. Progr. 17: 635.

Kump, L.R., 1986. Evaporites, phosphorites, and the modeling of changes in ocean chemistry during the Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition. Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstr.  Progr. 18: 663.

Kump, L.R., 1986. Controls of atmospheric O2 on different time scales. EOS 67: 868.

Kump, L.R., 1987.  The long term regulation of atmospheric O2.  Presented at the "Annual Workshop in Earth System Science," Penn State, August, 1987.

Kump, L.R., 1987.  Interpreting isotopic records with global geochemical cycling models.  Presented at the AAPG research conference "Chemostratigraphy and Chemical Evolution of the Ocean-Atmosphere System," Fort Burgwin, New Mexico, October 1987.

Kump, L.R., 1987.  Iron isotopic variability in geological settings.  Abstract with Program, Geological Society of America 99th Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, October 1987.

Bluth, G.R. and Kump L.R., 1988.  Determination of iron isotope ratios by neutron activation analysis.  EOS, 69:115.

Kump, L.R. and Barron, E.J., 1988.  Coupled models of geochemical cycles and climate.  V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Baltimore, MD, May 11-13, 1988.

Kump, L.R. and Barron, E.J., 1988.  Geologic and geographic effects on paleoclimate.  Abstract with Program, Geological Society of America 20(7):A257.

Seymour, V.M. and Kump, L.R., 1989.  Early diagenesis of iron in coastal sediments.  EOS, 70:361.

Bluth, G.J., Kump, L.R., Schultz, P.A. and Barron, E.J., 1989.  Effects of geography, geology and the CO2-cycle on paleoclimates.  Abstract with Program, Geological Society of America 21(6): A138.

Kump, L.R., 1989. From geochemical cycles to earth system science: the unfinished work of Robert M. Garrels. Amer. Chem. Soc. Ann. Meeting, Miami.

Kump, L.R., 1990.  A two-box-ocean carbon isotope model: Implications for "Strangelove" oceans.  V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Baltimore, MD, May 2-4, 1990.

Kump, L.R., 1990.  Cretaceous paleogeology and its implications for paleoclimate.  SEPM Research Conference, Denver, CO, Aug. 20-24, 1990.

Bluth, G.J.S. and Kump, L.R., 1990.  Chemical denudation of the continents: Cretaceous and Recent.  Geological Society of America Abstract Program 22.

Kump, L.R. and Holland, H.D., 1990. Precambrian shales, iron formations, and the global iron cycle. Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstr. Progr. 22.

Kump, L.R., Barron, E.J., Bluth, G.J.S. and Schultz, P.A., 1990.  Phanerozoic chemical weathering and paleoclimate.  Chemical Geology 84:160-161.

Schultz, P.A. and Kump, L.R., 1991.  Applicability of CCM-derived runoff in future- and paleoenvironmental studies.  EOS 72:82.

Arthur, M.A., Kump, L.R., Dean, W.E., and Larson, R.L., 1991.  Superplume, supergreenhouse?  EOS 72:301.

Kump, L.R. with Bluth, G.J.S., Erosional Area-Age Curves for the Phanerozoic, invited, Geological Society of American National Meeting, 1991.

Kump, L.R. with Arthur, M.A.A., Global Chemical Weathering and the Carbon Cycle, invited, V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, 1992.

Kump, L.R., Clues about end-Permian Environmental Changes from Carbon Isotopic Composition of Coals, invited, V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, 1992.

Kump, L.R. with Kacandes, G. and Barnes, H.L., Experimental Study of the Smectite-Illite Reaction, invited, V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, 1992.

Kump, L.R., Bluth, G.J.S., Gibbs, M., and Barron, E.J., 1992.  The role of paleogeology in CO2-induced climate change.  International Geological Congress, Kyoto, Japan, August, 1992.

Kump, L.R., 1992, Atmospheric CO2 and Mesozoic Paleogeology.  Fourth International Congress on Paleoceanography, Kiel, Germany, September 1992.

Kump, L.R., 1992.  Geological perspective on climate change.  Keynote Symposium, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 1992.

Caldeira, K. and Kump, L.R., 1993.  Sr-isotopes, chemical weathering and atmospheric CO2 on the glacial-interglacial timescale. EOS 74, p. 177 (KC presentor).

Kump, L.R., Slingerland, R.L., Arthur, M.A. and Barron, E.J., 1993.  Modelling anoxia in the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway.  National Meeting, Geological Society of America, Boston, October 1992.

Richards, P.A. and Kump, L.R., 1994. Scale dependence of chemical erosion rates in the field:  Results from the Susquehannar River Basin, Northeastern United States.  EOS 75, p. 97. (PAR presenter).

Kump, L.R., 1994.  Geophysiology of marine trace metals:  Response to mass extinctions.  Abstr. Prog., Geol. Soc. Amer. 26 (7), p. A-23.

Gibbs, M.T. and Kump, L.R., 1994. Increased riverine bicarbonate delivery to the ocean       during deglaciations. EOS xxx, p. 362. (MTG presenter)

Arthur, M.A., Kump, L.R. and Freeman, K.H., 1994.  The late Cretaceous carbon cycle and global paleoclimate.  Abstr. Prog., Geol. Soc. Amer. 26(7), p. A-93. (MAA presentor).

Altman, S.J. and Kump, L.R., 1994.  Non-conservative behavior of bromide, chloride and nitrate during a groundwater tracer test near the saturated/unsaturated interface.  Abstr. Progr., Geol. Soc. Amer. 26(7), p. A-200.

Monaghan, L. and Kump, L.R., 1995. The behavior of wastewater nutrients in the saline groundwaters of the Florida Keys. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting.

Arthur, M.A., Slingerland, R., Kump, L.R., 1996. A new hypothesis for the origin of limestone/marlstone couplets in deposits of the Cretaceous Interior Sea of North America. Abstr. Progr., Geol. Soc. Amer. 28, p. A-65. (MAA presenter)

Kump, L.R., Arthur, M.A., Gibbs, M., Patzowsky, M. and Pinkus, D., 1996. Isotopic and modeling constraints on Late Ordovician atmospheric carbon dioxide levels: Climate paradox solved? Abstr. Progr., Geol. Soc. Amer. 28, p. A-226.

Kump, L.R., 1996. Introductory Earth system science: a geophysiological approach to Earth science education. Abstr. Progr., Geol. Soc. Amer. 28, p. A-99.

Kump, L.R., 1996. Evolution of marine trace metal regulation. Gaia in Oxford II: Evolution of the Superorganism, Oxford University.

Hotinski, R.M., and Kump, L.R., 1997. A geochemical investigation of the Pethei Group, Northwest Territories, Canada: Implications for Paleoproterozoic ocean chemistry. CSPG-SEPM Joint Convention, Program with Abstracts, p. 132.

Slingerland, R., Arthur, M.A., and Kump, L.R., 1997. Circulation and sediment transport in the Cenomanian/Turonian Western Interior Seaway of North America: Predictions from a Climate-Ocean Model. CSPG-SEPM Joint Convention, Program with Abstracts, p. 257.

Kump, L.R., 1997. Geophysiology as an organizational model for Earth system science laboratory exercises. Abstr. Prog. Geol. Soc. Amer. 29(6): A-179.

Hotinski, R.M., and Kump, L.R., 1997. The evolution of carbon isotope gradients through the Proterozoic and its implications for Neoproterozoic carbon dioxide levels. Abstr.         Prog. Geol. Soc. Amer. 29(6): A-195.

Gibbs, M.T., Bice, K.L., Barron, E.J., and Kump, L.R., 1997. Glaciation in the early Paleozoic ïgreenhouseÍ: The roles of paleogeography and atmospheric CO2. Abstr. Prog. Geol. Soc. Amer. 29(6): A-281.

Gibbs, M.T., Kump, L.R., and Barron, E.J., 1997. Late Ordovician GCM experiments with differing atmospheric CO2 levels implications for the Hirnantian glaciation. Abstr. Prog. Geol. Soc. Amer. 29(6): A-354.

Kump, L.R., Arthur, M., Patzkowsky, M., Gibbs, M., Pinkus, D.S., and Sheehan, P., 1997. High atmospheric carbon dioxide during Late Ordovician glaciation. Abstr. Prog. Geol. Soc. Amer. 29(6): A-354.

Arthur, M.A. and Kump, L.R., 1998. The Phanerozoic history of seawater oxygen isotopic composition. Spring Meeting, American Geophysical Union, Boston.

Hotinski, R., Kump, L.R., Bice, K., Najjar, R., Arthur, M.A., 1998. Quantiative assessment of ocean stagnation hypotheses for end-Permian extinction. Abstr. Progr. Geol. Soc. Amer. Ann. Meet. 30: A310.

Arthur, M.A., Sagemena, B.B., Dean, W.E., Slingerland, R.L., Kump, L.R., and White, T.S., 1998. Transgression, advection of oxygen-depleted water, and eutrophication of he mid-Cretaceous western interior seaway of North America. Abstr. Progr. Geol. Soc.             Amer. Ann. Meet. 30: A398.

Kump, L.R., 1998. The geophysiology of climate. International Ecology Conference, Florence, Italy.

Hotinski, R., Kump, L.R., and Najjar, R., 1998. Quantitative test of ocean stagnation hypotheses. 6th International Conf. on Paleoceanography, Lisbon, Portugal.

Arthur, M.A., Kump, L.R., Najjar, R., Hotinski, R., and Bice, K., 1998. When the rivers ran dry: an hypothesis for end-Permian mass extinction. Fall Meeting, Amer. Geop. Union, San Francisco.Zachos, J.C., Dickens, G.R., and Kump, L.R., 1999. Geologic evidence for biogeochemical feedbacs on greenhouse gas induced global warming: The Late Paleocene thermal maximum event. Abstr. Progr. Ann. Geol. Soc. Amer. 31(7): A120.

Kump, L.R., Zachos, J.C., 1999. Climate overshoots and adjustments: The Eocene-Oligocene transition. Abstr. Progr. Ann. Geol. Soc. Amer. 31(7): A121.

Hotinski, R.M., Kump, L.R., Arthur, M.A., and Bice, K.L., 1999. The role of ocean bioigeochemistry in the end-Permian mass extinction: numerical modeling results. Abstr. Progr. Ann. Geol. Soc. Amer. 31(7): A326.

Kump, L.R., 2000. High-resolution paleoceanography reveals the Òheartbeat of Gaia.Ó 2nd AGU Chapman
Conference on the Gaia Hypothesis, Valencia, Spain, June, 2000.

Kump, L.R., 2000. Mantle redox evolution and the rise of oxygen. Astrobiology Science Conference, NASA-Ames Research Center, May, 2000.

Kump, L.R., 2000. Climate, weathering, and the Pangean supercycle. Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Earth System Evolution Program Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2000.

Kump, L.R., 2000. Mantle redox evolution and the rise of oxygen. Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Earth System Evolution Program Meeting, Sainte-Adele, Quebec, Canada, Dec. 2000.

Kump, L.R., Kasting, J.F., and Barley, M.E., 2000. Plume Activity And The Rise Of Atmospheric Oxygen. Ann. Meeting, Geological Society of America, Reno, NV, Nov. 2000.

Kurtz, A., Kump, L.R., Arthur, M.A., and Zachos, J.C., 2000. The Importance Of Terrestrial Organic Matter In The Evolution Of Marine Sulfur And Carbon Isotopic Compositions In The Paleogene. Ann. Meeting, Geological Society of America, Reno, NV, Nov. 2000.

Kump, L.R. and Seyfried, W. E. Jr., 2001. Depressuriaztion of hydrothermal vents during Snowball Earth: Effects on ocean chemistry. Earth System Processes Meeting (Geol. Societies of London and America), Edinburgh, June 2001.

Hurtgen, M., Arthur, M.A., and Kump, L.R. 2001. The sulfur isotopic evolution of neoproterozoic seawater sulfate. Ann. Meeting Geological Soc. Amer, Boston, MA, Nov. 2001.

Kump, L.R., Griggs, E., Elliott, K., and Bohlke, J.K., 2002. Fate of wastewater nutrients in groundwaters of the Florida Keys. Geochemistry of the Earth Surface meeting, Oahu, May, 2002.

Kump, L.R., Arthur, M.A., Hotinski, R.M., and Pollard, D., 2002. Ocean circulation during Snowball Earth. Astrobiology Science Conference, NASA Ames, CA, April, 2002.

Kump, L.R., 2002. Carbon dioxide as a climate driver. V.M. Goldschmidt Conference of the Geochemical Society, Davos, Switzerland, August, 2002 (invited keynote).

Kump, L.R., 2002. Weathering through Earth History: Controls and Consequences. V.M. Goldschmidt Conference of the Geochemical Society, Davos, Switzerland, August, 2002 (invited keynote).

Zerkle, A., House, C., Kump, L., 2002. Microbial influences on trace-metal cycling in a meromictic lake. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA (Zerkle presented).

Arthur, M. and Kump, L., 2002. Carbon isotope excursions: fluxes feedbacks and fallacies. Geol. Soc. Amer. Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, October 2002. (Arthur presented)

Herman, E. and Kump, L., 2002. Mathematical models of ancient and modern microbial mats. Geol. Soc. Amer. Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, October 2002. (Herman presented)

Kurtz, A., Kump, L., Arthur, M., Zachos, J. and Paytan, A., 2002. Paleogene decoupling of the global carbon and sulfur cycles. Geol. Soc. London, Dec. 2002. (Kurtz presented)

Bachmann, M. and Kump, L.R., 2003. Tidal pumping and the fate of wastewater nutrients in the Florida Keys. Fall Meeting, Amer. Geop. Union, San Francisco, Dec. 2003. (Bachmann presenting)

Kump, L.R., Pavlov, A., Arthur, M.A., Kato, Y., and Riccardi, A., 2003. Death by hydrogen sulfide: A kill mechanism for the end-Permian mass extinction. Ann. Meeting, Geol. Soc. Amer., Seattle, Nov. 2003.

Bachmann, M., Kump, L., and Regan, J., 2004. Using nirS gene expression as a proxy for gene expression. Eos Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H21A-0996.

Riccardi, A.L., Arthur, M.A., Kump, L.R., and DÕHondt, S., 2004. Perturbations to the carbon aand sulfur cycle during the Permian-Triassic boundary event in southern China. Eos Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP41A-0581.

Kump, L.R., 2004. Why did the rise of oxygen precede its ÒcauseÓ? Abstr. Progr. Ann. Meeting Geol. Soc. Amer. Nov. 2004, Denver, Paper No. 105-13.

Kump, L.R., 2005. Environmental Upheval in the early Paleoproterzoic and the Timing of the Rise of Oxygen. Origins of Life Gordon Conference, January, 2005, Ventura, CA.

Kump, L.R., 2005. Oceanic Anoxia during Warm Intervals of Earth History. AAAS Annual Meeting, February, 2005, Washington, D.C.

Panchuk, K., Holmden, C., and Kump, L., 2005. Interpreting the global carbon isotope secuar curve in the context of epeiric sea dynamics. Earth System Processes 2, Calgary, Alberta Canada, August, 2005.

Riccardi, A., Kump, L., Arthur, M., and DÕHondt, S., 2005. Changes to the carbon and sulfur cycles during the end-Permian mass extinction. Earth System Processes 2, Calgary, Alberta Canada, August, 2005.

Panchuk, K., Ridgwell, A., and Kump, L., 2005. Looking forward by looking back: Response of the carbonate system to massive carbon addition at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary. Earth System Processes 2, Calgary, Alberta Canada, August, 2005.

Bachmann, M., Kump, L., and Regan, J., 2005. Gene expression as a proxy for subsurface microbial respiration rates: denitrification and the NIRS gene. Annual Meeting, Geol. Soc. Amer., Salt Lake City, Oct. 2005.

Ridgwell, A., Panchuk, K., and Kump, L., 2005. Carbonate lysocline and d13C changes at the PETM: How much carbon. EOS Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP42A-06.

Melezhik, V., A.E. Fallick, E.J. Hanski, C.J. Hawkesworth, L.R. Kump, A. Lepland, A.R. Prave and H. Strauss, 2006. The Emerging Aerobic Earth System through Archaean-Palaeoproterozoic Transition: Problems and Perspectives. EGU, Vienna, 2006.

Meyer, K., Kump, L., and Ridgwell, A., 2006. Hydrogen sulfide eruptions and the Permian extinction. Astrobiology Science Conference, Washington DC, March, 2006.

Meyer, K., Kump, L., and Ridgwell, A., 2006. The Late Permian Ocean: WhatÕs the Big Stink? AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December, 2006.

Kump, L. and Barley, M., 2006. Abrupt onset of subaerial volcanism . . . GSA Ann. Meeting, Philadelphia, 2006.

Gill, B., Lyons, T., Kump, L., and Saltzman, M., 2006. Kinderhookian-Osagean carbon isotopic . . . GSA Ann. Meeting, Philadelphia, 2006.

Horodyskyj, L., White, T., and Kump, L., 2006. Search for early terrestrial life: . . . GSA Ann. Meeting, Philadelphia, 2006.

Meyer, K., Kump, L., and Ridgwell, A., 2006. Hydrogen sulfide release form the end-Permian ocean . . . GSA Ann. Meeting, Philadelphia, 2006.

Kump, L., Meyer, K., and Ridgwell, A., 2006. Hydrogen sulfide as a linke between . . . GSA Ann. Meeting, Philadelphia, 2006.

Bice, D., Bralower, T., Freeman, K.,  Furman, T., House, C., Kump, L., and Macalady, J., 2006. Undergraduate curricula for the 21st century . . . GSA Ann. Meeting, Philadelphia, 2006.

Riccardi, T., Arthur, M., and Kump, L., 2006. Carbon isotopic evidence for . . . GSA Ann. Meeting, Philadelphia, 2006.

Ridgwell, A., Panchuk, K., and Kump, L., 2007. Application of Earth system models to understanding catastrophic changes in global carbon cycling at the PETM. EUG, Vienna, 2007.

Gill, B., Lyons, T., Saltzman, M., Kump, L., 2008. Geochemical evidence of enhanced ocean anoxia during the Late Cambrian SPICE event and implications for trilobite biomere extinctions. Cordilleran Section (104th Annual) and Rocky Mountain Section (60th Annual) Joint Meeting of the Geological Society of America (19–21 March 2008).

Kump, L.R., 2007. Yet another solution to the warm polar climate problem. Earth System Evolution Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Annual Meeting, Quebec City, Quebec, 2007. (invited)

Presentation to the Paleocene-Eocene Carbon and Water Cycle project workshop, Santa Cruz, 2007. (invited)

Kump, L.R., 2007. Elevating atmospheric oxygen: ramp, steps, or roller coaster. Geological Society of American Annual Meeting, Denver, 2007 (invited).

GILL, Benjamin, LYONS, Timothy, KUMP, Lee, YOUNG, Seth, and SALTZMAN, Matt, 2007. A LATE CAMBRIAN OCEAN ANOXIC EVENT. Geological Society of American Annual Meeting, Denver, 2007 (submitted).

SALTZMAN, Matthew R.1, YOUNG, Seth1, GILL, Ben2, LYONS, Tim2, KUMP, Lee3, and RUNNEGAR, Bruce4, 2007. INCREASED CARBON ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION DURING THE LATE CAMBRIAN SPICE EVENT AND A PULSE OF ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN. Geological Society of American Annual Meeting, Denver, 2007 (submitted).

Gill, B,
 Young, S,
 Kump, L, Saltzman, M,
 Lyons, T, 2007. The Geochemical Figure Print of an Early Paleozoic OAE. Amer. Geop. Union Annual Meeting, 2007. (invited).

Meyer, K.M., Kump, L.R., and Ridgwell, A., 2007. Global Warmth and Nutrient Trapping Enhance End-Paleozoic Euxinia in an Earth System Model. Amer. Geop. Union Annual Meeting, 2007. (invited).

Horodyskyj, L., White, T., and Kump, L. R., 2008. Soil formation in the prevegetated world. Astrobiology Science Conference, Santa Clara, California, April, 2008. (submitted).

Gill, B., Saltzmann, M., and Kump, L.R., 2008. Paleozoic oceanographic and climatic changes: Evidence from seawater geochemistry and sedimentology records. Ann. Meeting, Geol. Soc. Amer., Houston.

White, T., Kump, L., Junium, C., 2008. Evidence for PETM carbon cycle disruption in the high Arctic: Results of the WUN-pACE initiative. 33rd International Geology Conference, Oslo, August, 2008. (invited)

Kump participation in ICDP FAR-DEEP Workshop, Trondheim, Norway May 2008

Kump, L.R., 2008. Seafloor spreading and ocean chemistry. Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Earth System Evolution Program Annual Interaction Meeting, Quebec City, Canada, April 2008. (invited)

Kump, L.R., 2008. Permian extinction by hydrogen sulfide: birth (and death?) of a good idea. Urbino Summer School for Paleoclimatology Keynote Lecture, Urbino Italy, July 2008.

Meyer, K.M., Kump, L.R., and Ridgwell, A., 2008. The nitrogen cycle duringthe transition to euxinia. Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, abstract #PP42A-03, San Francisco, Dec. 2008. (invited)

Kump, L.R., Meyer, K.M., and Ridgwell, A., 2008. Investigating the cause and consequences of oceanic anoxia. Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, abstract #PP33D-05, San Francisco, Dec. 2008. (invited)

Saltzmann, M.R., Kump, L.R., Gill, B., Lyons, T., Young, S., and Runnegar, B., 2008. The Late Cambrian SPICE Event: A global carbon cycle perturbation. Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, abstract #PP33A-1533, San Francisco, Dec. 2008. (contributed)

Horodyskyj, L.B., White, T.S., and Kump, L.R., 2008. Biosignatures in Middle Cambrian paleosols. Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, abstract #P54A-03, San Francisco, Dec. 2008. (contributed)

Schneider, L. J.; Bralower, T. J.; Kump, L. R.; Hilting, A. K., 2008. The Paleoecology of Eocene Nannoplankton and Global Oceanographic Variability During the Early-Middle Eocene. Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, abstract #P33B-1551, San Francisco, Dec. 2008. (contributed)

 

 

Organization of and Participation in Seminars and Workshops

Robert M. Garrels Colloquium on Geochemical Cycles in the Hydrosphere and Atmosphere, November, 1987, Geochemical Society, Co-Convener and speaker.

Earth Sciences Seminar, Prentice-Hall, June, 1989, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., invited participant.

Global Change Course Educational Initiative, June, 1989, National Center for Atmospheric Research, invited participant.

National Research Council, Panel on Surficial Geofluxes, July, 1989, Washington, D.C., panel member.

USA Today - NASA Visions of Exploration, December, 1990, NASA-Lewis Research Center, invited participant.

International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, Working Group on Geochemistry of Weathering, Diagenesis and Sedimentary Processes, 2nd International Symposium, July, 1990, Aix-en-Provence, France, Secretary-General, elect

Atmospheric Oxygen Variation Through Geologic Time, July, 1990, PSU Earth System Science Center, Conference Organizer (with Kasting and Robinson).

NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Interactions of C, N, P, and S Biogeochemical Cycles, March, 1991, Melrieux, Belgium, invited speaker, rapporteur

Clay Mineral Diagenesis in Sedimentary Basins, May, 1992, Goldschmidt Conference, Reston, Virginia, Co-Convener.

Global Carbon Cycle and Climate Change, August, 1992, International Geological Congress, Kyoto, Japan, Co-Convener.

Geochemistry of the Earth Surface, August, 1993, Penn State, International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, Secretary-General and Chair of the Symposium

NSF Workshop on Environmental Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry, May, 1994, Airlie, Virginia, rapporteur.

NSF RIDGE/NOAA Workshop on Global Impact on Submarine Hydrothermal Processes, September, 1994, Boulder, Colorado, Invited Participant

Marine Trace Metal Biogeochemistry and the Sedimentary Record, October, 1994, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Co-Convener

Global Change Curriculum Workshop, Lehigh University, invited participant, May, 1995.

Geochemical Cycles, SEPM Congress on Sedimentology, 1995, Session Chair

Workshop on Geochemical Earth Reference Model, 1996, Lyon, Co-Convener.

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Earth System Evolution Program, 1996, Bochum, Germany, Invited Workshop Participant

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Earth System Evolution Program, 1996, Toronto, Canada. Member.

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Earth System Evolution Program, 1997, Ottawa, Canada. Member.

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Earth System Evolution Program, 1998, Santa Cruz (co-organizer).

Preparing Graduate Students for Teaching, National Association of Geology Teachers Workshop, October 1999. (Participant)

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Earth System Evolution Program, 2000, Calgary.

ODP Opportunities in Geochemistry for Post-2003 Drilling. Tyngsboro, MA, Oct. 2000.

Participated in workshop, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ÒFlorida Keys Carrying Capacity Study,Ó Key Largo Florida, Jan. 2001.

Gave plenary address to conference on Sustained and Sustainable Development, European Union Treaty for Atomic Energy, Madrid Spain, Dec. 2002

DOSECC drilling workshop, Washington, DC, Oct. 2005

Lecturer for 1 week, Agouron Geobiology Summer School, July 2005

Invited Lecture, Agouron meeting on Oxygen, Santa Fe, NM, April, 2006

Invited Lecturer, 2006 RIDGE Theoretical Institute, Mammoth Lakes, CA

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Earth System Evolution Program, 2006, Chicago

Agouron Institute Drilling Workshop, Pasadena, CA, Nov. 2006

 

 

 

Speaking Engagements

Department of Oceanography, Old Dominion University, Invited Speaker, January, 1988.

Department of Geography, Penn State, Invited Speaker, April, 1988.

New York Academy of Sciences, Geological Sciences Section, Invited Speaker, January,        1989.

Lehigh University, Department of Geological Sciences, Invited Speaker, October, 1990.

University of Michigan, Department of Geological Sciences, Turner Distinguished Lecturer,

October, 1991

Marine Biological Association, United Kingdom (Plymouth, England), Visiting Lecturer, July, 1992

New York University, Department of Applied Sciences, invited lecture, June, 1993

University of Wyoming, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Wolf Foundation

Distinguished Lecture Series, October, 1993

Rutgers University, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, April, 1994

Marine Biological Association, United Kingdom (Plymouth, England), Visiting Lecturer, 1994

Northwestern University, Department of Geological Sciences, October, 1994

University of Hawaii, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, lecturer, 1995.

Old Dominion University, Distinguished Visitors Seminar Program, College of Science, 1996.

Yale University, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Global Change Lecture Series, 1996.

University of Chicago, Dept. of Geophysical Sciences, 1997.

University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, Dept. of Geological Sciences, 1997.

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Lewis G. Weeks Lecture, 1997.

Dartmouth University, Dept. of Earth Sciences, 1998.

Syracuse University, Dept. of Geology, 1998.

University of Vermont, Dept. of Earth Sciences, 1998.

Lehigh University, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 1999

Cornell University, Dept. of Geology, 1999

Bucknell University, Dept. of Geology, 1999

University of Iowa, Dept. of Geology, 1999

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Geology and Geophysics, 2000

Dalhousie Univeristy, 2000

University of Rochester, 2002

Boston University, 2002

Texas A&M, 2003

USC, 2003

Washington University, 2003

SUNY-Binghamton, 2004

University of Hawaii, 2004

Rice University, 2005

Norwegian Geologic Survey, Goldschmidt Lecturer, 2005

Harvard University, 2006

Visiting Scholar, James Madison University, March, 2006

Yale University, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, October, 2006

Conference on the Gaia Hypothesis, Northern Virginia Park System, George Mason University, October, 2006

Caltech, Dept. of Geological and Planetary Sciences, December, 2006

University of Nebraska T. Mylan Stout Lecturer, March 28, 2008.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Invited Lecturer, October 15-16, 2008.

University of Cincinnati, Department of Geology, Invited Lecturer, November 14, 2008.

New Rochelle High School, New York, New Rochelle Fund for Educational Excellence, November 17, 2008.

 

Professional Activities

Worldwide Universities Network, Climate and Oceanography Exemplar, PSU Representative

V.M. Goldschmidt Award Committee, Geochemical Society (2001-2002); Chair, 2003

Penrose Medal Committee, Geological Society of America (2001-2003)

Associate Editor, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (2000-2006)

Editor, Virtual Journal of Geobiology (2002-present)

Associate Editor, Geobiology (2007-present)

Co-Editor, Geology (1996-2000)

Nominator, The Heinz Award (1995-2000)

Publications Committee, Geological Society of America (1996-2000)

Penrose Medal Committee, Geological Society of America (2001-2004)

Executive Committee, International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, Working Group on Geochemistry of Weathering and Diagenesis of Sediments, 

Search Committee, DeanÕs Position, College of Marine Science, University of South Florida (2006)

National Research Council, Committee on the Importance of Deep-Time Geologic Records for Understanding Climate Change Impacts (2007-2009)

 

Manuscripts Reviewed for:

American Journal of Science                  Geology

Meteoritics                                         Journal of Sedimentary Petrology

Nature                                               Science

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta         Global and Planetary Change
Journal of Geology                              Chemical Geology

Paleoceanography                                Terra Nova

 

Proposals Reviewed for:

National Science Foundation

American Chemical Society (Petroleum Research Fund)

Joint Oceanographic Institutions

NERC (UK)

NSERC (Canada)

 

Departmental Reviews

Eckerd College, Program in Marine Sciences, 2000

University of Kansas, Dept. of Geology (AAAS Review), 2000

Northwestern University, Dept. of Geological Sciences, 2001

University of South Carolina, EPSCOR review, 2001

University of North Carolina, Dept. of Geological Sciences, 2006

 

Grants and Contracts

1983-1984                    American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Grant-in-Aid, $700, A Study of the Geology of West Florida

1986-1987                    Pennsylvania State University, Faculty Research Award, $3,000, A Study of the Iron Stable Isotopes

1987-1989                    Petroleum Research Fund, $18,000, A Study of the Iron Stable Isotopes

1988-1990                    National Science Foundation, $140,000, Coupled Models of Geochemical Cycles and Climate (with E. Barron)

1988-1989                    Texaco, $15,000, Isotopic Modeling of Carbon and Sulfur Cycles

1989-1992                    National Science Foundation, $145,900, Minority Recruitment Outreach Demonstration Project (J.J. Cahir, Principal Investigator)

1989-1990                    National Science Foundation, $23,611, Global Change Course Development (NCAR)

1990-1991                    National Science Foundation, $13,406, Natural Variability in Iron Stable Isotopes

1990-1992                    Gas Research Institute, $130,000, Clay Conversion in the Formation of Pressure Chambers in Sedimentary Basins

1990-1992                    National Science Foundation, $97,000, Phanerozoic Chemical Weathering and Paleoclimate (with E. Barron)

1991-1992                    PAC of Clays, $2,500, Faculty Research Award

1992                            Gas Research Institute, $360,213, Clay Conversion in the Formation of Pressure Chambers in Sedimentary Basins

1992-1994                    National Science Foundation, $250,000, Global Change in Cretaceous Seaways (one of four co-PIs)

1992-1995                    National Science Foundation, $218,695, Kinetics of Smectite-Illite Transformation

1992-1996                    Shell Research Limited (Marine Biological Association of the UK), $40,000, Geophysiology Modeling

1993-1995                    National Science Foundation, $112,768, Atmospheric CO2 and Glaciation

1994-1997                    Penn State University, $45,000, Nutrient Behavior in Saline Groundwater of the Florida Keys

1994-present                  NASA, $1,830,000, Global Water Cycle:  Extension Across the Earth Sciences  (E.J. Barron, Principal Investigator)

1995-1997                    Environmental Protection Agency, $100,000, Fate of Wastewater Nutrients in the Florida Keys.

1996-1997                    NASA, $9480, Investigation of isotopic evidence for an active planktonic biota in the Paleoproterozoic (seed grant)

1997-1999                    EPA, $100,000, Behavior of Wastewater Nutrients in Groundwater of the Florida Keys.

1998-2000                    NSF, $97,203, Quantitative Assessment of Ocean Stagnation Hypotheses.

2002-2006                               NASA, ~$4.5M, Penn State Astrobiology Research Center (co-PI; H. Ohmoto, Principal Investigator)

2002-2005                               NSF, $158,047, Upgrading Computing Hardware to Support Geoscience Initiatives,

(one of 11 co-PIs)

2002-2007                               NSF, $260,936, The Consequences of Greenhouse Warming on Biocomplexity and Biogeochemical Cycles across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary (Penn State share; J. Zachos, UC Santa Cruz PI, 6 other co-PIs)

2002-2006                               NSF, $250,000, Extremes of Ocean Biogeochemistry: Focus on the Permian-Triassic

                                   Boundary (Kump, PI; M. Arthur, co-PI)

2003                            Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection, $90,000, Assessment of the impact of waste-

                                   water injection on nearshore waters of the Florida Keys

2005-2007                    Understanding carbon isotope excursions in the Paleozoic (co-PI with M. Saltzman, Ohio

                                   State) NSF, $61,946 (PSU part)

2006-2010                    Collaborative Research; The Dynamics Of Carbon Release And Sequestration: Case Studies Of Two Early Eocene Hyperthermals. NSF-Carbon and Water Cycle, (T.           Bralower, Co-I), $605,145.

2008-2012                    Collaborative Research: The Siberian Traps and the end-Permian Extinction: Coincidence       and Causality, one of several co-PIs, NSF Continental Dynamics, Kump part $410,732, funded.

2007-2008                    FAR-DEEP: Fennoscandian Arctic Russia Drilling Early Earth Project, NSF and NASA,        Kump PI on US part, $76,250 to each agency, funded.

2007-2009                    Numerical Modeling of the Greenhouse-Icehouse Transition: Eocene-Oligocene Boundary        (D. Pollard, co-PI), NSF Geobiology and Environmental Geochemistry, $250,266,         funded.

2008-2010                    Collaborative Research: Environmental and Biogeochemical

Reorganization During the Rise of Atmospheric Oxygen (NASA/NSF; Kump,

PI; PSU part            $100,000) funded.

2009-2013                 Signature of Life from Earth and Beyond (Kump one of several co-

                                   PIs, NASA Astrobiology Institute, Kump part $349,342).

 

 

 

Course Instruction

Sedimentary Geochemistry, Geosciences 523

Field Methods in Sedimentary Geochemistry, Geosciences 597B

Gaia - The Earth System, Earth 2

Chemical Evolution of Atmosphere and Ocean, Earth 402

Marine Biogeochemistry, Geosciences 497D

Modeling the Carbon Cycle, Geosciences 497A

Advanced Earth System Science Seminar, Geosciences 597C

Physical and Chemical Sedimentology, Geosciences 497A

Mathematical Modeling in the Geosciences, Geosciences 561

The Cause of Coral Reef Demise, Earth 497 (CAUSE ï97)

Evolution of the Biosphere, Geosc 502

Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics, Geosc 597

Astrobiology Seminar, Geosc 597

Himalayan Uplift: Tectonic and Climate Implications, Geosc 597

Freshman Seminar, EMS 100S

Introductory Geochemistry, Geosc 202

Astrobiology Field Course, ABIOL 570

 

Membership on Graduate Degree Candidates' Committees

 

Doctoral Candidates in Progress

 

           

Lev Horodyskyj              Major Advisor

Jamey Fulton                  Member

            Joel Moore                     Member

            Vyllinniskii Cameron       Member

            Daniel Hummer               Member

            Heidi Albrecht                Member

Aaron Diefendorf Member

Chris Junium                  Member

Clayton Magill               Member

Jonathon Schueth            Member

Jennifer Williams                        Member

 

Doctoral Candidates, Program Completed

 

Katja Meyer                    Co-Advisor (with Freeman)

Karla Panchuk                 Major Advisor

Matt Bachmann               Major Advisor (BRIE Advisor: Regan, CEE)

Anthony Riccardi                        Co-Advisor (with Arthur)

Robert Hotinski              Major Advisor

Mark Gibbs                    Major Advisor

Gregg Bluth                   Major Advisor

Paul Richards                 Co-Advisor

George Kacandes             Co-Advisor (never completed)

Libby Hausrath               Member

Pushker Kharecha            Member

            Erin McMullin                Member (Biol)

Nikolai Pedentchouk        Member

Aubrey Zerkle                 Member

            Heather Buss                  Member

Alex Pavlov                   Member

Kosei Yamaguchi                        Member

            Jennifer Lewicki              Member

Alexander Pavlov                        Member

Byong-Hun Jeon             Member (CEE)

Shuhei Ono                    Member

            Persa Batra                     Member

            Atsu Ennyu                    Member

            Matt Hurtgen                  Member

Benjamin Turner             Member

            Timothy White               Member

            Mark Pagani                   Member

            Yingje Guo                    Member

            Karen Bice                     Member

            Richard Pancost              Member

            Neil Suits                      Member

            Greg Tucker                   Member

            Tetsuya Kato                  Member

            Wolfgang Albrecht           Member

            Susan Altman                 Member

            Peter Fawcett                  Member

            Daniel Greeman               Member

            Michael Guebert              Member

            Rigel Lustwerk               Member

            Wofgang Polster              Member

            Armando Ramirez            Member

            Martin Schoonen             Member

            Chie Soong                    Member

            Peter Schultz                  Member

            Ruth Robinson               Member

 

Masters Degree Candidates, Program In Progress

 

Katie Brennan                 Member

            Louise Miltich                Member

           

Masters Degree Candidates, Program Completed

 

Anna Hilting                  Co-Advisor (with Bralower)

            Ellen Herman                  Co-Advisor (with White)

            Mike Moreland               Major Advisor

            Erin Griggs                    Major Advisor

Lea Monaghan                Major Advisor

            Don Machusak                Major Advisor

            Virginia Seymour                        Major Advisor

            Melinda Foland               Member

            Mary Howard                  Member

Jennifer Aring                 Member

Kay Elliott                     Major Advisor

            Sharon Givens                Member

            Stacey Hoeltje                 Member (Agriculture)

            Erin Matlack                   Member

            Jaime Whitlock               Member

            Jane Lock                       Member

            Simmy Yau                    Member

            Myrna Martinez               Member

            Jennifer DeLurio              Member

            Egide Nizeyemana           Member

            Wanda Kapsner               Member

            Rebecca Mellinger           Member

            Melissa Nugent               Member

            Doctoral Candidates in Progress

 

            Robert Hotinski              Major Advisor

            George Kacandes                         Co-Advisor

            Kosei Yamaguchi                        Member

            Yingje Guo                                            Member

            Shuhei Ono                                            Member

            John Rogie                                             Member

            Benjamin Turner             Member

            Alex Pavlov                                           Member

 

            Doctoral Candidates, Program Completed

 

            Paul Richards                                         Co-Advisor

            Mark Gibbs                                            Major Advisor

            Gregg Bluth                                           Major Advisor

            Reide Corbett (FSU)        Member

            Timothy White                           Member

            Karen Bice                                             Member

            Mark Pagani                                           Member

            Richard Pancost                          Member

            Neil Suits                                                          Member

            Greg Tucker                                           Member

            Tetsuya Kato                              Member

            Wolfgang Albrecht                       Member

            Susan Altman                             Member

            Peter Fawcett                              Member

            Daniel Greeman                           Member

            Michael Guebert                          Member

            Rigel Lustwerk                           Member

            Wofgang Polster                          Member

            Armando Ramirez                        Member

            Martin Schoonen                         Member

            Chie Soong                                            Member

            Peter Schultz                                          Member

            Ruth Robinson                           Member

_          Masters Degree Candidates, Program In       Progress

           

            Simmy Yau                                            Member

            Myrna Martinez               Member

            Atsu Ennyu                                            Member

            Sharon Givens                            Member

            Erin Matlack                               Member

            Masters Degree Candidates, Program           Completed

 

            Jody Gibson                                           Member

            Kay Elliott                                                         Major Advisor   

            Lea Monaghan                            Major Advisor

            Don Machusak                            Major Advisor

            Virginia Semour                          Major Advisor

            Egide Nizeyemana                       Member

            Wanda Kapsner                           Member

            Rebecca Mellinger                       Member

            Melissa Nugent                           Member

            Jennifer DeLurio                          Member

 

Undergraduate Theses Supervised

 

B.S.            Gloria Ferrandez              1992

B.S.            William Otten                1992

B.S.            Gregory Steele                1993

B.S.            Richard Seltenreich          1993

B.S.            Stanley Jasinski              1994

B.S.            Joshua Tusai                  1994

B.S.            Jennifer McCollum          1994

B.S.            Christopher Proulx          1994

B.S.            Jodie Hobman                 1994

B.S.            Martin Knox                   1995

B.S.            Mark Chadwick               1996

B.S.            Micah Weltmer               1996

B.S.            Karoline Mehalchick        1998

B.S.            Sue Avau                       1998

B.S.            Eileen Scott                    1998

B.S.            Leah Moore                    1998

B.S.            Tara Graham                   2000

B.S.            Justin Lottig                   2000

B.S. Katie Ryan                    2004

 

University Committee Work

 

National Science Foundation Youth Participation Program, College of Earth and Mineral Science ad hoc Committee, 1987.

General Education Course Proposals, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, ad hoc committee, 1987.

Geosciences Departmental Reorganization Committee, 1987-1988.

Strategic Planning Committee, Geosciences Department, 1988-89

Undergraduate Recruiting Task Force, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Geosciences Representative, 1988-.

Graduate Program Committee, Geosciences Department, 1989-1991

Seminar Committee, Geosciences Department 1989-present

Admissions Committee, Geosciences Department, 1990-91, Chair, 1991-94

Safety Committee, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, 1990-93

Marine Sciences Minor Committee, 1989-present, Chair, 1991-94

Science Scholars 1991, Judge, April, 1991

Earth Systems Minor Committee, 1991-

Strategic Planning Committee, Geosciences Department, 1991-1993

Interdisciplinary Council, Office of Undergraduate Education, 1992-

Promotion and Tenure Committee, Geosciences Department, 1992-1995

Advisor to the Marine Science Society, 1993-1994

Associate Head of Graduate Programs and Research, Department of Geosciences, 1994-

EMS Strategic Planning Committee, 1995-1997

EMS Faculty Advisory Committee, 1996-1997

Geosciences Surficial Processes Faculty Search Committee, 1996

Geosciences Environmental Geochemistry Faculty Search Committee, 1997

Geosciences Astrobiology Faculty Search Committee, 1999

EMS Ad Hoc Nominating Committee, Distinguished Professor Award, 1999

Geosciences Undergraduate Program Committee, 2000-2004

Geosciences Geomorphology Search Committee (Chair), 2001

Geosciences Promotion and Tenure Committee (Chair), 2000-2002

Geosciences Astrobiology Search Committee, 2003-2004