Eric Horsman

Eric Horsman - Curriculum Vitae

U.S. Geological Survey
345 Middlefield Rd, MS 973
Menlo Park, CA 94025
650-329-5308
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Last updated: 2 Jan 2009. This is an abbreviated version. If you prefer, you can download my full CV.

Education & Relevant Work Experience

Mendenhall Fellow, U.S.G.S., beginning Winter 2007/08
Research focus: Examining heterogeneous deformation using a 3-d geological map of the Peninsula segment of the San Andreas fault
Research Scholar, University of California - Berkeley & Research Associate, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Fall 2006 through Winter 2007/08
Research focus: (1) Fabric and texture development in poly-phase naturally deformed rocks & (2) Igneous emplacement processes in the shallow crust
Ph.D. in Geology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Spring 2006
Dissertation: Quantifying heterogeneous deformation: theory and application
Advisor: Basil Tikoff
M.S. in Geology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Spring 2003
Thesis: Using three-dimensional fabric analysis to constrain emplacement history of the Maiden Creek sill, Henry Mountains, Utah
Advisor: Basil Tikoff
Environmental Geologist, Summer 1999 through Summer 2000
URS - Dames & Moore Corp., Houston, TX
B.A. in Geology, Rice University, Spring 1999
Senior Project: Lineation rotation due to pluton emplacement, Mt. Morrison pendant, Sierra Nevada, California: testing transpressional models
Advisor: Virginia Sisson

Awards & Grants

Distinguished Graduate Student Award (departmental), Spring 2006
Innovative Teaching Award (university-wide), Spring 2006
Ciriacks Distinguished Graduate Fellowship (departmental), academic year 2005-06
Thomas A. Berg Award for Excellence in Teaching (departmental), Spring 2005
Geology & Geophysics Teaching Enhancement Award (departmental), Spring 2005
G.S.A. Student Research Grant, Spring 2005
G.S.A. Structure & Tectonics Division Outstanding Student Research Award, Spring 2004
G.S.A. Student Research Grant, Spring 2004
Thomas A. Berg Award for Excellence in Teaching (departmental), Spring 2001
Weeks Research Assistantship (departmental), academic year 2000-01
Undergraduate research grant, G.S.A. South Central Section, Spring 1998
Undergraduate research grant, Rice University, Spring 1998

Teaching Experience

Lecturer, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Spring 2003
Taught structural geology (both lecture and lab).
Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 4 semesters
Taught lab sections for structural geology, historical geology, field methods, and a course combining physical geology and field methods.
Delta program Certificate in Research, Teaching and Learning (click here to find out what this entails)

Publications (excluding abstracts)

Horsman, E., Morgan, S., Saint-Blanquat, M. (de)., Gabert, G., Hunter, R.S., Nugent, R. & Tikoff, B. (in press). Emplacement and assembly of shallow plutons through multiple magma pulses, Henry Mountains, Utah. Accepted for a special volume of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Horsman, E., Czeck, D. & Tikoff, B. (2008). Rheological implications of heterogeneous deformation at multiple scales in the Late Cretaceous Sierra Nevada, California. G.S.A. Bulletin 120: 238-55. PDF (~2.5 Mb).
Morgan, S.S., Stanik, A., Horsman, E., Tikoff, B., de Saint-Blanquat, M., & Habert, G. (2008). Emplacement of multiple magma sheets and wallrock deformation: Trachyte Mesa intrusion, Henry Mountains, Utah. Journal of Structural Geology 30: 491-512. PDF (~3.5 Mb).
Horsman, E. & Tikoff, B. (2007). Constraints on deformation path from finite strain gradients. Journal of Structural Geology, 29: 256-72. PDF (~0.5 Mb).
de Saint-Blanquat, M., Habert, G., Horsman, E., Morgan, S., Tikoff, B., Launeau, P., & Gleizes, G. (2006). Mechanisms and duration of non-tectonically assisted magma emplacement in the upper crust, the Black Mesa pluton, Henry Mountains. Tectonophysics, 428: 1-31. PDF (~5 Mb).
Horsman, E. & Tikoff, B. (2005). Quantifying simultaneous discrete and distributed displacement. Journal of Structural Geology, 27: 1168-89. PDF (~0.6 Mb).
Horsman, E., Tikoff, B. & Morgan, S. (2005). Emplacement-related fabric and multiple sheets in the Maiden Creek Sill, Henry Mountains, Utah. Journal of Structural Geology, 27: 1426-44. PDF (~1.3 Mb).
Morgan, S., Horsman, E., Tikoff, B., de Saint-Blanquat, M. & Habert, G. (2005). Sheet-like emplacement of satellite laccoliths, sills, and bysmaliths, Henry Mountains, southern Utah. In: Pederson, J. & Dehler, C.M. (eds.) Interior Western United States: G.S.A. Field Guide 6: 283-309. PDF (~2 Mb).

Publications in review or preparation

Czeck, D., Fissler, D., Horsman, E., & Tikoff, B. (in review). Strain analysis and rheology contrasts in polymictic conglomerates: an example from the Seine metaconglomerates, Superior Province, Canada. Submitted to the Journal of Structural Geology, Fall 2008.
Horsman, E., Titus, S. & Tikoff, B. (in prep.). Shallow pluton emplacement in magmatic arcs. For submission to Lithosphere, Winter 2008-09.
Horsman, E., Tikoff, B. & Czeck, D. (in prep.). Evolution of fabric and LPO in naturally deformed rocks, Seine metaconglomerate, Superior Province, Canada. For submission to the Journal of Structural Geology, Spring 2009.

Professional Development

Reviewer - Geological Society of America Bulletin
Reviewer - Journal of Structural Geology
Reviewer - Journal of South American Earth Science
Invited talk - University of California - Davis, Spring 2008
Invited talk - Sonoma State University, Fall 2006 and Fall 2007
Invited talk - San Jose State University, Fall 2006
Session co-convener - Understanding strike-slip faults, A.G.U. Fall meeting, Winter 2008
Session co-convener - Combining geology and geophysics to solve geoscience problems, G.S.A. annual meeting, Fall 2007
Session co-convener - Visualization in the Geosciences, G.S.A. annual meeting, Fall 2006
Presentation of teaching research at the National Advisory Board meeting for the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL), Spring 2005
Presentation of teaching research at the Teaching and Learning Symposium; University of Wisconsin - Madison, Spring 2005
Panelist at Project Kaleidoscope workshop on building interdisciplinary programs, Spring 2005
Panelist at the Diversity Forum, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Spring 2005
Developed and co-led TA training sessions for the Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Fall 2005

Eric Horsman
U.S. Geological Survey
345 Middlefield Rd, MS 973
Menlo Park, CA 94025
650-329-5308
email me

Last modified 2 January 2009