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University Service and Professional Activities
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Chair of the Geology and Physics Department at the
University of Southern Indiana.
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President (2005-07) of the Southern Oregon Chapter of
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. The
mission of the Chapter focuses on inducting undergraduate students into
membership in recognition of their research accomplishments.
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Member of the American Association of Petroleum
Geologists (AAPG), Association for Women Geoscientists (AWG), American
Geophysical Union (AGU), Geological Society of America (GSA), International
Association of Sedimentologists, National Association of Geoscience Teachers
(NAGT), and the Society of Sedimentary Geology (SEPM).
Recent Abstracts &
Publications (* - denotes undergraduate student authors)
Elliott, W. S., Jr.,
2009, Sequence stratigraphy and depositional history of the Upper
Cretaceous Hornbrook Formation in southwestern Oregon and northern
California: Tectonic implications for Western North America: American
Association of Petroleum Geologists Abstracts with Programs.
*Martin, L. C. and
Elliott, W. S., Jr., 2009, Determining the provenance of clasts within conglomerates
of the Payne Cliffs Formation, Jackson County, Oregon: Proceedings of the
Oregon Academy of Sciences, v. 45, p. 28-29.
*Shapiro, R. and
Elliott, W. S., Jr., 2009, Growth experiments of Acidithiobacillus
ferroxidans to resolve the oxidation rate of
sulfide minerals at the abandoned Blue Ledge Mine, Siskiyou County,
California: Proceedings of the Oregon Academy of Sciences, v. 45, p. 30.
*McKay, L. K.,
*Brettner, N. P., and Elliott, W. S., Jr., 2008, Examining the geochemistry
of natural waters underlain by massive sulfide deposits near the Blue Ledge
Mine, Siskiyou County, California: Proceedings of the Oregon Academy of
Sciences, v. 44, p. 36-37.
Elliott, W. S. Jr.,
Suttner, L. J., and Pratt, L. M., 2007, Tectonically induced climate and
its control on the distribution of depositional systems in the continental
Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Wyoming: Sedimentary Geology, v. 202, p. 730-753.
Elliott, W. S., Jr., 2007, Field Trip Guide to the
Upper Cretaceous Hornbrook Formation and Cenozoic Rocks of southern Oregon
and northern California: Geological Society of the Oregon Country,
September 8, 24 p.
*Bywater, S. V., and Elliott, W. S., Jr., 2007,
Petrographic Analysis of Sandstone Concretions in the Upper Cretaceous
Hornbrook Formation, Siskiyou County, California: Geological Society of
America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, no. 6, p. 628-629.
*Carrington, E. M., and Elliott, W. S., Jr., 2007,
Geochemistry and Grain Size Analysis of Sediments Recovered from Gold Ray
Reservoir and Implications for Dam Removal on the Rogue River, Jackson
County, Oregon: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.
39, no. 6, p. 61.
Elliott, W. S., Jr.,
*Johnson, J. A., *Wikstrom, M. A., and Jones, P., 2007, Acid Mine Drainage
and assessment of recent remediation efforts at the Blue Ledge Mine,
Siskiyou County, California: Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, no. 6, p. 404.
Elliott, W. S. Jr., Douglas, B. J., and Suttner,
L. J., 2003, Structural control on Quaternary and Tertiary sedimentation in
the Harrison Basin, Madison County, Montana: Mountain Geologist, v. 40, p.
1-18. (Best Paper Award, Rocky
Mountain Association of Geologists, 2003)
Grants and Fellowships
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National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2008, $22,218
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Partners in
Science, Murdock Charitable Trust, 2006, $14,000
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Research
Petrographic Microscopes, Donation, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company,
2006, $78,000
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Professional
Development Grant, Southern Oregon University, 2005, $3,232
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Carpenter
Grant, Southern Oregon University, 2005, $500
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Major
Research Instrumentation Grant, National Science Foundation, 2004, $219,484
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Oregon
Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, seismograph at SOU, 2004,
$3,000
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Carpenter
Grant, Southern Oregon University, 2003, $350
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Petroleum
Research Fund, American Chemical Society, 2003, $7,000
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