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Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Robert E. Garrison
Professor, Geological Oceanography
Birthdate: October 25, 1932, Dallas, Texas

Contact Information
Phone: (408)459-5563
FAX: (408)459-4882
E-Mail: regarris@cats.ucsc.edu

Address
Ocean Sciences Department
Earth & Marine Sciences Bldg
University of California
Santa Cruz, Calif. 95064


Education

1958 Stanford University: B.S., 1955; M.S.

1958-59 Innsbruck University, Austria

1964 Princeton University: Ph.D.


Professional Experience

1955-57 Officer, U.S. Air Force

1959-61 Geologist, Sunray DX Oil Co., Wyoming

1964-65 Research Associate, Princeton University

1965-66 Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara

1966-68 Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia

1968-1973 Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz

1973 - 1994 Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz

1992-1994 Faculty Director, Education Abroad Program, U.C. Santa Cruz

1994-present Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz

1994-95 Director, Geology & Paleontology Program, National Science Foundation

1995-96 Visiting Professor, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories

1996-present Adjunct Professor, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories


Honors

1958-59 Fulbright Scholar, University of Innsbruck, Austria

1972-73 Guggenheim Fellowship, University of Oxford (Fellow of Wolfson College), England

1981-82 Faculty Research Lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz

Elected 1981 Fellow, Geological Society of America

Elected 1981 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

1984: President-elect, 1983; Past President, 1985President, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists

1985 Lewis G. Weeks Lecturer, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1987 Fulbright Scholar, Bureau of Mineral Resouces, Canberra, Australia

Visiting Lecturer for 1991 Japan National Oil Corporation

2000 Pettijohn Medal for Excellence in Sedimentology, Society of Sedimentary Geology


Major Professional Experiences

July-August 1969 Sedimentologist, Leg 6 of Deep Sea Drilling Project, Western Pacific

1970-71 Co-Investigator of lunar rocks returned by Apollo 12 mission

1970-72 Chairman, Earth Sciences Board, University of California, Santa Cruz

1973-76 Member of Budget Committee, University of California, Santa Cruz

April-May 1975 Sedimentologist, Leg 42A of Deep Sea Drilling Project, Mediterranean Sea

1975-78 Chairman, Geosciences Training Committee, Circum-Pacific Council on Energy and Mineral Resources

1974-83 Consultant on energy resources to the Office of International Geology, U.S. Geological Survey

1976-79 Co-Investigator, N.S.F.-sponsored Egyptian-U.S. study of the origin and geologic history of the Red Sea

1978-79 Chairman of the Faculty, Stevenson College, University of California, Santa Cruz

1979-80 Chairman, Faculty Committee on Research, University of California, Santa Cruz

February-July 1981 Visiting Professor, Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, September 1980 to February1981; The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

1981-84 Member of Ocean Paleoenvironment Panel, Deep Sea Drilling Project

1982-84 Associate Editor, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology

Member, Grant Review Panel for Programs in Paleontology-Stratigraphy and Surficial Geology

1982-85 Division of Earth Sciences, National Science Foundation

1983-86 Co-Investigator, U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation study of sedimentary phosphorites in the Middle East

1986-89 (liaison to Western Pacific Regional Panel, 1988-89) Member of Sediments and Ocean History Panel, Ocean Drilling Program

October-December 1986 Sedimentologist, Leg 112 of Ocean Drilling Program, Perú Margin

1990-1993 Member, U.S. Science Advisory Committee for the Ocean Drilling Program of USSAC Executive Committee, 1991-93

1990-present Member of the Editorial Board, Atlas Series on Sedimentary Structures, Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM).

1993-96 Member of the Sedimentary Geochemistry and Processes Panel, Ocean Drilling Program

1993-98 Vocal (Counselor), Sociedad Geológica de Peninsular, Baja California, México

1998 Professor, Semester at Sea, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Spring Voyage

1998-2001 Associate Editor, GEOLOGY

1999-2002 Member of the Adisory Board, Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS


Professional Organizations

  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow)
  • American Association of Petroleum Geologists (National plus Pacific Section)
  • American Geophysical Union
  • California Academy of Sciences
  • Geological Society of America (Fellow)
  • Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists (National plus Pacific Section)

Fields of Scientific Interests

  • Sedimentology, diagenesis, and paleoceanographic significance of carbonates and deep water marine sediments
  • Geologic history of pelagic sedimentation as a record of global climate change
  • Evolution of sedimentary basins and geometry of sedimentary facies
  • Natural resources, economic development, and education in emerging nations

Current Research Projects

  • Sedimentology and diagenesis of pelagic deposits, Monterey Formation, Miocene, California
  • Sequence stratigraphy, cyclostratigraphy and mass accumulation rates of silica, phosphorus and carbon in sedimentary successons of upwelling regions
  • Submarine hydrocarbon seeps and sources of seasurface oil slicks

Selected Publications:

106 PUBLICATIONS AND 10 EDITED BOOKS, OF WHICH THE FOLLOWING ARE TYPICAL

1. R.E. Garrison, M. Kastner, and C.E. Reimers, Miocene phosphogenesis in California, In Burnett, W.C. and Riggs, S.R. (eds.), Phosphate Deposits of the World, Vol. 3, Neogene to Modern Phosphorites: Cambridge University Press, Ch. 23, p. 285-299. 1990

2. C.E. Reimers, M. Kastner, and R.E. Garrison, The role of bacterial mats in phosphate mineralization with particular reference to the Monterey Formation, ibid, Ch. 24, p. 300-311. 1990

3. M. Kastner, R.E. Garrison, Y. Kolodny, C.E. Reimers and A. Shemesh, Coupled changes of oxygen isotopes in PO4 3- and CO32- in apatite, with emphasis on the Monterey Formation, California, ibid, Ch. 25, p. 312-324. 1990

4. R.E. Garrison, and M. Kastner, Phosphatic sediments and rocks recovered from the Peru Margin ODP Leg 112 : Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, Volume 112, p. 95-134. 1990

5. M. Kastner, H. Elderfield, J.B. Martin, E. Suess, K. Kvenvolden, and R.E. Garrison, Diagenesis and interstitial-water chemistry at the Peruvian continental margin-major constituents and strontium isotopes, ibid, p. 413-440. 1990

6. D. El-Sabbagh and R.E. Garrison, Silica diagenesis in the Santa Cruz Mudstone (Upper Miocene), La Honda Basin, California, in Garrison, R.E. et al. (eds), Geology and Tectonics of the Central California Coastal Region, San Francisco to Monterey: Pacific Section AAPG Volume and Guidebook, Book GB67, p. 123-132. 1990

7. R.E. Garrison, Pelagic and hemipelagic sedimentary rocks as source and reservoir rocks, in Brown, G.C., Gorsline, D., and Schweller, W.J. (eds.), Deep-Marine Sedimentation: Depositional Models and Case Histories in Hydrocarbon Exploration and Development: Pacific Section SEPM, Short Course Volume 66, p.123-149. 1990

8. K.B. Fˆllmi and R.E. Garrison, Phosphatic sediments, ordinary or extraordinary deposits? The example of the Miocene Monterey Formation (California), in Mueller, D., McKenzie, J., and Weissert, H. (eds.), Controversies in Modern Geology: Academic Press, Ch. 5, p. 55-84. 1991

9. K.B. Fˆllmi, R.E. Garrison, and K. Grimm, Stratification in phosphatic sediments: Illustrations from the Neogene of California, in Einsele, G., Ricken, W., and Seilacher, A. (eds): Cyclic and Event Stratification, Springer Verlag, Berlin, p. 492-507. 1991

10. K.B. Fˆllmi, R.E. Garrison, W.J. Kennedy, F. Zambrano-Ortiz, P.C. Ramirez, and B. Lehner, Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleontology (Ammonoidea, Palynomorphs) of phosphate-rich sequences in the Upper Cretaceous of Tausa and Iza, Colombia: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology , v. 93, p. 151-182. 1992

11. L.D. White, R.E. Garrison, and J.A. Barron, Miocene intensification of upwelling along the California margin as recorded in siliceous facies of the Monterey Formation and offshore DSDP sites, in Summerhayes, C. P., Prell, W. L., and Emeis, K.C. (eds.). Evolution of Upwelling Systems Since the Early Miocene: Special Publication, Geological Society (London), p. 429-442. 1992

12. R.E. Garrison, Neogene phosphogenesis along the eastern margin of the Pacific: Revista Geologica de Chile, v. 19, p. 91-111. 1992

13. R.E. Garrison, Neogene lithofacies and depositional sequences associated with upwelling regions along he eastern margin of the Pacific, in Tsuchi, R. and Ingle, J.C. (eds.), Pacific Neogene: Environment, Evolution and Events. Univ. of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, p. 43-68. 1992

14. C.R. Glenn and others (incl. R.E. Garrison), Phosphorous and phosphorites: sedimentology and environments of formation: Ecologae geol. Helvetica, v. 87, p. 747-788. 1994

15. G.M. Filipelli, M.L. Delaney, R.E. Garrison, S. Khan Omarzai and R.J. Behl, Variability of phosphorus accumulation and the controls on phosphogenesis in a Miocene low oxygen basin: the Monterey Formation, California. Marine Geology, v. 116, p. 419-430. 1994

16. Y. Kolodny and R.E. Garrison, Sedimentation and diagenesis in paleo-upwelling zones of epeiric sea and basinal settings: a comparison of the Cretaceous Mishash Formation of Israel and the Miocene Monterey Formation of California, in Iijima, A., Garrison, R.E. and Abed, A.M. (eds.), Siliceous, Phosphatic and Glauconitic Sediments of the Tertiary and Mesozoic: Symposium Volume, 29th International Geological Congress (Kyoto), VSP International Science Publishers, Zeist, The Netherlands, p. 133-157. 1994

17. R.J. Behl and R.E. Garrison, The origin of chert in the Monterey Formation of California (USA), ibid, p. 101-132. 1994

18.R.E. Garrison, B.W. Hoppie, and K.A. Grimm, Phosphates and dolomites in coastal upwelling sediments of the PerÙ margin and the Monterey Formation (Naples Beach Section), California, in Hornafius, J.S. (ed.), Field Gudie to the Monterey Formation between Santa Barbara and Gaviota, California: Pacific Section, Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Guidebook GB-17, p. 67-84. 1994

19. P.C. Ramirez and R.E. Garrison, Stratigraphy of fine-grained facies of the Sisquoc Formation, Santa Maria Basin, California: paleoceanographic and tectonic implications: U.S. Geological Survey Bull. 1995-U, 15 p. 1998

20. I.W. Aiello, D.S. Stakes, M. Kastner, and R.E. Garrison, Carbonate vent structures in the Upper Miocene Santa Cruz Mudstone at Santa Cruz, California, in Garrison, R.E., Aiello, I.W., and Moore, J.C. (eds.), Late Cenozoic Fluid Seeps and Tectonics Along the San Gregorio Fault Zone in the Monterey Bay Region, California: Pacific Section American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Volume and Guidebook GB-76, p. 35-51. 1999

21. B.J. Thompson, R.E. Garrison, and J.C. Moore, A Late Cenozoic sandstone intrusion west of Santa Cruz, California: fluidized flow of water- and hydrocarbon-saturated sediments, in Garrison, R.E., Aiello, I.W., and Moore, J.C. (eds.), Late Cenozoic Fluid Seeps and Tectonics Along the San Gregorio Fault Zone in the Monterey Bay Region, California: Pacific Section American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Volume and Guidebook GB-76, p. 53-74. 1999

22. J.C. Moore, R.E. Garrison, I.W. Aiello, BJ. Thompson, D.S. Stakes, and K.A. Salamy, Field Trip No. 1, Modern and ancient fluid seep systems in the Monterey Bay Region, California: surface and subsurface observations, in Garrison, R.E., Aiello, I.W., and Moore, J.C. (eds.), Late Cenozoic Fluid Seeps and Tectonics Along the San Gregorio Fault Zone in the Monterey Bay Region, California: Pacific Section American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Volume and Guidebook GB-76, p. 93-117. 1999

 

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