Jeffrey Scott Munroe
Assistant Professor
Geology Department
Middlebury College
Middlebury, Vermont 05753
Phone: 802-443-3446 FAX: 802-443-2072
e-mail: jmunroe@middlebury.edu
Education
B.A.- Bowdoin
College, 1994
M.S. - University of Wisconsin-Madison (Dept. of
Geology & Geophysics), 1996
Ph.D. - University of Wisconsin-Madison (Dept. of
Geology & Geophysics), 2001
Background
My
research and teaching interests involve glacial geology, soil geomorphology,
Quaternary geology, and Arctic environments. For my Masters thesis I
studied a sequence of soils developed in glacial deposits on the north side of
the Brooks Range in northern Alaska. Since 1996, I have also been actively
studying the late Quaternary history of the northern Uinta Mountains in
northeastern Utah. This work included my Ph.D. dissertation as
well as a number of separate projects. I also completed numerous geomorphic maps
of the northern Uintas as part of the land-systems inventory for the Ashley and Wasatch-Cache National
Forests. Prior to
the start of my Ph.D. research I taught earth science courses during the
1996-97 academic year at Northland College.
Courses Taught
- Arctic
and Alpine Environments (incl. lab) (GEOL/GEOG 250)
- Geomorphology (incl. lab)
(GEOL/GEOG 251)
- Quaternary Geology (incl.
lab) (GEOL/GEOG 352)
- Glacial Geology (inc. lab)
(GEOL 333)
- Environmental Geology (incl.
lab) (GEOL 112)
- Understanding Vermont
Lakes: Winter Field
Experience (J-term, 2002)
- Geologic
Evolution of the Hawaiian Islands (J-term, 2003)
- Geology Senior Seminar (GEOL
400)
- Senior Geology Research (GEOL
700)
- 19th Century
Exploration of the American West: First-Year Seminar 1070 (Fall, 2004)
Research
Recent Research Grants
- NSF
Geomorphology and Land-Use Dynamics: Workshop: UINTAS 2006-The Uinta
Interdisciplinary Assessment Symposium
- NSF
Geology & Paleontology, Supplement to Collaborative/RUI:
Late-Quaternary Glacial and Paleoclimate History of the Uinta Mountains, Northeastern Utah
- Lintilhac
Foundation: Investigating Soil Development in the Alpine Zones of the Green Mountains
- NSF
Earth Systems History: Collaborative: High-Resolution Records of
Holocene Climate Change, Drought Variability, and Monsoon Behavior from
the Uinta Mountains of Utah (with Katrina Moser, University of Western
Ontario; David Porinchu, The Ohio State University; and Glen MacDonald,
University of California, Los Angeles)
- NSF
Geology & Paleontology: Collaborative/RUI: Late-Quaternary Glacial
and Paleoclimate History of the Uinta Mountains, Northeastern Utah
(with David Mickelson and Brad Singer, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Vermont EPSCoR: Acquisition of a Modern Thermogravimetric
Analyzer for Use in Making Percent Loss-On-Ignition Measurements of
Sediment Organic Content at Middlebury
College
- NSF International
Program: Final research planning visit for collaborative study of the extent
of Late Pleistocene glaciation on the Eastern Qinghai-Xizang
Plateau
- USGS EDMAP Program:
Geologic
mapping of the southern Lake Fork Mtn.
quadrangle, Uinta Mountains, northeastern Utah
Publications
- Munroe,
J.S., “Properties of Alpine Soils Associated with Well-Developed
Sorted Polygons in the Uinta Mountains, Utah,
U.S.A.”
in press at Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research.
- Munroe,
J.S., “Exploring
Relationships Between Watershed Properties and Holocene Loss-On-Ignition
Records in High-Elevation Lakes, Southern Uinta Mountains, Utah,
U.S.A.” in press at Arctic,
Antarctic, and Alpine Research.
- Munroe,
J.S., Ryan, P.C., Carlson, H.A.*, and Miller, E.K., “Testing
Latest Wisconsinan Ice Flow Directions in Vermont through Quantitative
X-ray Diffraction Analysis of Soil Mineralogy” in press at Northeastern
Geology and Environmental Sciences.
- Munroe,
J.S., Doolittle, J.A., Kanevskiy, M.Z., Hinkel, K.M., Jones, B.M., Shur,
Y., Nelson, F.E., Kimble, J.M., “Application of Ground-Penetrating
Radar Imagery for Three-Dimensional Visualization of Near-Surface
Structures in Ice-Rich Permafrost, Barrow, Alaska” in press at
Permafrost and Periglacial Processes.
- Munroe, J.S., 2007: “In the Footsteps of
Timothy O’Sullivan: Rephotographing the
1869 King Survey in the Headwaters of the Bear River, Uinta
Mountains” Utah
Historical Quarterly, 75: 238-257.
- Roush, W.*, Munroe, J.S., and
Fagre, D.B., 2007: “Development of a Spatial Analysis Method
Using Ground-Based Repeat Photography to Detect Changes in the Alpine
Treeline Ecotone, Glacier National Park, Montana ” Arctic,
Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 39: 297-308.
- Munroe, J.S., Farrugia, G.*,
and Ryan, Peter C., 2007: “Parent material and chemical weathering
in alpine soils on Mt. Mansfield,
Vermont, USA”
Catena, 70: 39-48.
- Munroe,
J. S., Laabs, B.J.C., Shakun, J.D.*, Singer,
B.S., Mickelson, D.M., Refsnider, K., and Caffee,
M., 2006 “Latest Pleistocene
advance of alpine glaciers in the southwestern Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA: Evidence for the
influence of local moisture sources” Geology, 34: 841-844.
- Munroe,
J. S., 2006: “Investigating the spatial distribution of summit
flats in the Uinta Mountains of northeastern Utah,
USA.”
Geomorphology, 75: 437-449.
- Munroe,
J. S., Laabs, B. J. C., and Carson, E. C., 2006: “Quaternary
landscape change and modern process in western North
America” Geomorphology, 75: 281-282.
- Colgan, P. M., Munroe, J. S., and Zhou, S.,
2006: “Cosmogenic
nuclide evidence for the limited extent of Late Glacial Maximum glaciers
in the Tanggula Shan of the central Tibetan
Plateau.” Quaternary Research, 65: 336-339.
- Munroe,
J. S., 2005: “Glacial geology of the northern Uinta
Mountains” in Dehler et al., eds., Uinta
Mountain geology: Salt Lake City, Utah,
Utah Geological Association Publication 33.
- Munroe,
J. S., Laabs, B. J. C., Pederson, J. L., and Carson, E. C., 2005:
“From cirques to canyon cutting: New Quaternary research in the
Uinta Mountains,” in Pederson, J. L., and Dehler, C. M.,
eds., Interior Western United States: Geological Society of America Field
Guide 6, p. 53-78.
- Carson,
E. C. and Munroe, J. S., 2005: “Tree-ring based
reconstruction of streamflow for Ashley Creek,
northeastern Utah: Implications for paleohydrology of the southern Uinta
Mountains.” The Holocene, 14(4): 602-611.
- Munroe,
J. S., 2003: “Estimates of Little Ice Age climate inferred through
historical rephotography, northern Uinta Mountains, U.S.A” Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research,
35(4): 489-498.
- Bockheim,
J. G., O’Brien, J. D., Munroe, J. S., and Hinkel,
K.M., 2003: “Factors affecting the distribution of Populus balsamifera
on the North Slope of Alaska, U.S.A.” Arctic,
Antarctic and Alpine Research, 35(3): 331-340.
- Munroe,
J. S., 2003: “Sedimentology and paleoenvironments
of Holocene valley fills in the upper Henrys
Fork Basin,
northern Uinta Mountains, northeastern Utah,
U.S.A.”
The Holocene, 13 (2): 175-185.
- Munroe,
J. S. and Mickelson, D. M., 2002: “Reconstruction of latest
Pleistocene alpine glacier equilibrium line altitudes and paleoclimate,
northern Uinta Mountains, northeastern Utah,
U.S.A.”
Journal of Glaciology, 48 (161): 257-266.
- Munroe,
J. S., 2002: “Timing of post-glacial cirque reoccupation in the
northern Uinta Mountains, northeastern Utah,
U.S.A.”
Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 34 (1): 38-48.
- Munroe,
J. S. and Bockheim, J. G., 2001:
“Soil development in low-arctic tundra of the northern Brooks Range, Alaska.”
Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 33 (1): 78-87.
- Bockheim,
J. G., Munroe, J. S., Douglass, D. C., and Koerner, D., 2000:
“Soil development along an elevational gradient in the southeastern
Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA.”
Catena, 39: 169-185.
* denotes student co-author
Abstracts
·
2007 INQUA abstract “Investigating
Post-Glacial Environmental Gradients with Lacustrine Sedimentary Records: An
Example from the Uinta Mountains of Northeastern Utah, U.S.A.
·
2007 NE-GSA abstract
“Glacial geology of the Nulhegan
Basin area, northeastern Vermont, USA”
·
2007 NE-GSA abstract
“Post-glacial lake sediment records from northeastern Vermont, USA”
co-authored with C. Rodgers*
·
2006 AGU abstract “New
Cosmogenic Beryllium-10 Exposure-Age Limits on Terminal Moraines of the Last
Glaciation in the Bear River Drainage, Uinta Mountains, Utah” co-authored with B. Laabs, J.
Rosenbaum, and K. Refsnider
·
2006 AGU abstract “High
Resolution Analysis of Sub-fossil Midges from the Great
Basin, United States Provides Evidence of 20th Century
Warming” co-authored with D. Porinchu, A. Potito,
G. MacDonald, and K. Moser
·
2006 GSA abstract
“Parent material and chemical weathering in alpine soils on Mt. Mansfield, Vermont, USA” co-authored with Gianina Farrugia*
and Pete Ryan, Middlebury
College
·
2006 GSA abstract
“Vermont Terroir: Investigating the relationship between maple syrup
chemistry and bedrock lithology” co-authored with Lee Corbett*, Middlebury College
·
2006 GSA abstract
“Cosmogenic radionuclide 10Be exposure ages for two glacial advances in
the Boduizangbu and Palongzangbu river valleys, southeastern Tibetan
Plateau” co-authored with Pat Colgan, Zhou Shangzhe, Xu Liu Bing, Daniel
Douglass, Kurt Refsnider, and Dave Mickelson
·
2006 AMQUA abstract
“Lacustrine loss-on-ignition records from the southern Uinta
Mountains”
·
2005 GSA abstract “Lacustrine
loss-on-ignition records from the southern Uinta Mountains”
·
2005 GSA abstract “New
evidence of synchroneity between deglaciation of the
Uinta Mountains and the fall of Lake Bonneville” co-authored with Ben
Laabs, Gustavus Adolphus College, Jeremy Shakun*,
Middlebury College, and Marc Caffee, Purdue PRIMELab
·
2005 NE-GSA abstract
“Investigating alpine pedogenesis on Mt. Mansfield,
Vermont” co-authored with Gianina
Farrugia*, Middlebury
College
·
2004 GSA abstract
“Evidence for multiple glaciations of the Tanggula
Shan of the central Tibetan Plateau”
·
2003 GSA abstract
“A lacustrine sedimentary record of the Holocene climatic optimum in the
Uinta Mountains, northeastern Utah”
·
2003 GSA abstract
“Last Glacial Maximum equilibrium-line altitudes and paleoclimate,
northeastern Utah”
co-authored with Jeremy Shakun*, U. Massachusetts-Amherst
·
2003 GSA abstract
“Cosmogenic-exposure age limits on the last glacial maximum in the
south-central Uinta Mountains, northeastern Utah” co-authored with Ben Laabs,
U. Wisconsin-Madison
·
2003 INQUA abstract
“Past and present glacier extent in the Tanggula
Shan of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China” co-authored with Pat Colgan, Grand Valley State
University, and Zhou Shangzhe, Guangzhou
University
·
2002 GSA abstract
“A 5000-year record of fire and sedimentary response for the Uinta
Mountains, northeastern Utah” co-authored
with Jamie Laidlaw*, Middlebury College
link to
poster
·
2002 AMQUA abstract
“Application of historical rephotography for quantifying post-Little Ice
Age changes in timberline forests, northern Uinta Mountains, northeastern Utah”
·
2001 GSA abstract
“Reconstructed late Pleistocene glacier equilibrium line altitudes provide
evidence for lake-effect snow from Lake
Bonneville”
·
2001 GSA abstract “Dendrochronology-based reconstruction of stream for Ashley Creek
and Whiterocks River,
Uinta Mountains, northeastern Utah”
co-authored with Eric Carson, U. Wisconsin-Madison
·
2000 GSA abstract
"Post-Last Glacial Maximum history of the northern Uinta
Mountains inferred from upper subalpine geomorphology, palynology and radiocarbon dating"
·
2000 GSA abstract "Climate
required for Holocene glaciation in the Uinta Mountains, Utah" co-authored with Keith
Brugger, U. Minnesota-Morris
·
2000 AMQUA abstract
"Sedimentology and paleoenvironments of Holocene
valley fills from the upper Henrys Fork river basin, Uinta Mountains,
northeastern Utah"
·
2000 GSA
Rocky Mountain abstract
"Radiocarbon dates provide constrains on the extent of Neoglaciation in
the Uinta Mountains, northeastern Utah"
·
1999 GSA abstract
"Structural controls on dynamics of alpine glaciers of the northern Uinta Mountains during the Smiths Fork and Blacks Fork
glaciations"
·
1998 GSA abstract "Physical
and chemical evidence for eolian additions to subalpine soils in the eastern
Uinta Mountains, northeastern Utah"
·
1998 GSA North-Central abstract "Soils
in the glaciated headwaters of South Fork Ashley Creek, Uinta Mountains, northeastern Utah"
·
1998 GSA North-Central abstract
"Anomalous Hummocky Lateral Moraines in the Eastern Uinta Mountains, Northeastern Utah: Evidence for Extensive
Mass-Wasting-Derived Supraglacial Debris?"
* denotes student co-author
Reports to the US
Forest Service
- Surficial Geology of the Northern Uinta Mountains (6/21/01)
- Glacial Geomorphology of the Northern Uinta Mountains (6/21/01)
- Descriptions of the Glaciated
Valleys of the Northern Uinta Mountains (6/21/01)
- An Analysis of the Geologic
and Hydrologic Factors Leading to the Dry Fork Slope Failure, May 18, 1997
(6/26/00)
- Preliminary report of
investigations of two sediment cores from Lily Lake
(3/20/00)
- Sedimentology and paleoenvironments of Holocene valley fills in the
upper Henrys Fork drainage: a preliminary report of investigations (3/22/99)
- Factors governing the origin
and persistence of upper subalpine dry meadows in the Whiterocks Basin,
Uinta Mountains, northeastern Utah:
An outline of proposed investigations and preliminary report (11/18/98)
Link
to c.v.
Last
updated by J. Munroe 9/10/07