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Hi, welcome to my webpage. After 18 years working in the UK at the University of Leicester, I decided to come home to the US in 2012. I grew up in the northeast not far from eastern Connecticut, but since college, have lived in Arizona, Texas, Brazil and England. Returning to New England after so many years away is truly soul satisfying and I am delighted to be at Eastern Connecticut State University which is Connecticut's only public liberal arts institution and a rising star in Connecticut's higher education sector. I am a firm believer in Eastern's liberal arts mission and feel fortunate to have joined an institution that is forward looking and confident in its future. We have a great student body, talented faculty and an administration that is strongly supportive of all members of the university community. The Department of Environmental Earth Science is a relatively small, but dynamic department that has doubled its number of permanent faculty in the last 10 years and now has teaching and research expertise in stratigraphy/sedimentology, geomorphology, structure/tectonics, petrology, Quaternary and coastal geology, sustainable energy, hydrogeology and GIS and remote sensing. Eastern Connecticut is rural and scenic and underlain by high-grade metamorphic basement which is a veritable playground for structural geologists. Photos of some of the amazing geology within 20 miles of campus are presented on the linked page 'Connecticut Geology Photos'.
I teach structural geology, continental tectonics, mineralogy, igneous and metamorphic petrology, introductory geology courses, a career preparation course, an interdisciplinary course about 'The Mounain World', and domestic/international extended field courses which have taken place in Arizona in 2025, 2017, 2014, Idaho and Wyoming in 2022, 2019 and 2015, and Iceland in 2016.
I have active research projects in central Asia where I have conducted fieldwork during 21 summer seasons since 1994. In recent years, my field research has switched from Mongolia to western China. I also am developing projects with undergraduate researchers in Connecticut. Please see reference list below for some of my/our recent contributions.
NATO Research Fellow, University of Leicester, England, 1994-1995. Tectonic history of the Altai Range, Mongolia. Supervisor: Brian F. Windley.
NSF Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1993-1994. Structural geology of the eastern Brazilian Shield. Supervisor: Stephen Marshak. Academic visitor at the Universidade Federale de Ouro Preto, Brazil working with Fernando Alkmim.
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, May, 1993. Dissertation: Geological investigations at the southern tip of the Americas: The development of the Patagonian Orocline and uplift of the Cordillera Darwin metamorphic complex, southernmost Chile. Advisors: Ian W.D. Dalziel (Main Supervisor), Paul Mann, Sharon Mosher, James Austin. Awards: Mobil Graduate Fellowship (1992), Ewing/Worzel Graduate Research Fellowship (1990), Antarctic Service Medal (1990), Standard Oil Production Fund Fellowship (1987).
M.S. University of Arizona, 1986. Thesis: Superposed thrusting in the northwest Granite Wash Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Advisors: Peter J. Coney (Main Supervisor), George Davis, Steve Reynolds.
A.B. Dartmouth College, 1982, Graduated with Distinction in Earth Sciences, Advisor: Noye M. Johnson.
Fall, 2020 - Department Assistant Chair, Department of Environmental Earth Science, ECSU
2019 - Awarded Title of ECSU Distinguished Professor
2017-20 - Department Chair, Department of Environmental Earth Science, Eastern Connecticut St. University
2015 - Professor (tenured), Department of Environmental Earth Science, Eastern Connecticut St. University
2012-2015 Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Earth Science, Eastern Connecticut St. University
2004-2012 Senior Lecturer, Department of Geology, University of Leicester, England
1996-2004 Lecturer, Department of Geology, University of Leicester, England
2010 Research collaboration with Petro Matad Ltd, regional tectonics and oil exploration, Mongolia
2004-06 Research collaboration with Ivanhoe Mines Ltd, copper-gold exploration, Mongolia
1983-87 Chief Geologist and Proposal Coordinator for Arizona Superconducting Supercollider Project, Tucson, Arizona.
1982 Exploration Geologist, Engelhard Corp., talc exploration project, N. Vermont.
1981 Exploration Geologist, Superior Mining Co., copper exploration project, N. Maine.
2012-Present: Eastern Connecticut State University: structural geology, continental tectonics, dynamic Earth, introduction to geology, earth science laboratory, mineralogy, igneous and metamorphic petrology, EES career preparation, leader for Arizona (3x), Idaho-Wyoming (3x), New Hampshire-Maine (1x), and Iceland (1x) field courses.
1994-2012: University of Leicester: global tectonics, structural geology, photo-geology, remote sensing and GIS, mineral deposit evaluation, tutorials, basic field skills and mapping training in Arran, Scotland (3x) and Betic Cordillera, Spain (10x). Advanced structural mapping training in Anglesey, Wales (26x). Field trip co-leader to Swiss and Austrian Alps (3x), Tenerife, Canary Islands (1x), Nevada-Utah (1x).
1987-1991: University of Texas at Austin: teaching assistant for courses in field geology, introductory geology, geology for engineers, economic geology.
1981: Dartmouth College: teaching assistant: Earth history and planetary geology.
Mountain building processes, active tectonics, intracontinental deformation in Central Asia, transpressional fault systems and associated basins, tectonic geomorphology, restraining bend development, geology of Mongolia and western China, crustal evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, tectonic history of eastern Connecticut, New England pegmatites, kinematic analysis of rheomorphic ignimbrites and tectonic evolution of southern Snake River Plain region, Idaho, remote sensing methods applied to tectonics research, geological and environmental applications of airborne LiDAR, neotectonics and earthquake hazards in the Julian Alps, structural setting of mineral deposits, structural and geomorphological evolution of the Brazilian Highlands, geoheritage.
Google Scholar Reference List and Citation Indices
Yang, H., Lin, D., Yang, X., Cunningham, D., Hu, Z., Huang, X., Zhang, Y. and Li, A., 2024. Strain partitioning and strike‐slip faulting in the Nanjieshan, North Tibetan Foreland: Progressive widening of the Altyn Tagh Fault system with implications for regional earthquake hazards. Tectonics, 43(12), p.e2024TC008262.
Yang, H., Sun, X., Yan, Z., Yang, Y., Cunningham, D., Zhao, L., Zuo, Y., 2024, New Magnetotelluric Data Reveal Deep Fault Boundaries and Contrasting Late Cenozoic Fault Kinematics Between the Qilian Shan Thrust Wedge and Beishan-Alxa Block, Western China, Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL107659
Yang, H., Li, A., Cunningham, D., Zhan, Y., Luo, J., Yang, X., ... & Tang, R., 2023. Diachronous Quaternary development of the Jiayuguan Fault and implications for strain compartmentalization and modern earthquake hazards in the NW Hexi Corridor, China. Tectonics, 42(11), e2023TC007753.
Yang, H., Li, A., Cunningham, D., Yang, X., Zhan, Y., Chen, Z., et al. 2023., An evolving lithospheric-scale wrench fault system along the eastern end of the Altyn Tagh fault: Kinematics and Quaternary activity of the Heishan fault system, western China. Tectonics, 42, e2023TC007764. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023TC007764
Yang, H., Huang, X., Cunningham, D., Zhang, H., Yang, X., & Hu, Z., 2022, Lithological and structural anatomy of an unusually well exposed strike-slip fault pressure ridge in the Nanjieshan, western China. Journal of Structural Geology, 104757.
Zhang, J., Cunningham, D., Qu, J., Zhang, B., Li, J., Zhao, H., & Zhang, Y., 2022, Poly-phase structural evolution of the northeastern Alxa Block, China: Constraining the Paleozoic-Recent history of the southern central Asian Orogenic belt. Gondwana Research, 105, 25-50
Cunningham, D., 2021, Tectonic Geomorphology of Intracontinental Mountain Ranges, in: Owen, L. (Ed), Treatise on Geomorphology, Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818234-5.00091-2.
Cunningham, D., 2021, The Case for a Globally Recognized Geopark in the NE Gobi Altai Region of Mongolia. Geoheritage 13 (4), 1-20.
Yang, H., Yang, X., Cunningham, D., Huang, X., Hu, Z. Yang, H., and Abu-Alam, T.S., 2021, Late Miocene to Quaternary development of the Jiujing Basin, southern Beishan Block, China: Implications for the kinematics and timing of crustal reactivation north of Tibet, Lithosphere, 2021. 1.
Zhang, Jin, Cunningham, D., Yun, L., Qu, J., Zhao, H., Zhang, B., ...& Hui, J., 2021, Kinematic variability of Late Cenozoic fault systems and contrasting mountain building processes in the Alxa Block, western China, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 205, 104597.
Yang, H., Cunningham, D., & Yang, X., 2021, Quaternary crustal reactivation of the southwestern Beishan, NW China: The Liuyuan sinistral transpressional duplex, Tectonophysics 228758.
Cunningham, W.D. & Zhang, Jin., 2020, China | Mongolia: Mesozoic-Cenozoic. Encyclopedia of Geology, 2nd Edition, Elsevier. doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102908-4.00164-8.
Xiao, W., Windley, B, Zheng, Y-F., Schulmann, K., Cunningham, D., Hou, Z., Huang, B., Zhao, G., Zhang, S., Cunningham, W.D. & Zhang, Jin., 2020, China | Mongolia: Precambrian-Paleozoic. Encyclopedia of Geology, 2nd edition https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102908-4.00137-5
Yang. H., Yang, X., Cunningham, D., Hu, Z., Huang, X., Huang, W., Yang., H, Miao, S., and Zhang, L., 2020, A regionally evolving transpressional duplex along the northern margin of the Altyn Tagh Fault: new kinematic and timing constraints from the Sanweishan and Nanjieshan, China, Tectonics, doi: 10.1029/2019TC005749.
Yang, H., Yang, X., Zhan, Y., Cunningham, D., Zhao, L., Sun, X., Hu, Z., Huang, X., Huang, W. and Miao, S., 2019. Quaternary Activity of the Beihewan Fault in the Southeastern Beishan Wrench Belt, western China: Implications for crustal stability and intraplate earthquake hazards north of Tibet. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Vol 124, Issue 12, 13286-13309.
Yuan, R.; Wang, Y., Jin, J., Cunningham, D., 2019, Local structural and geomorphological controls on landsliding at the Leigu restraining bend of the Beichuan-Yingxiu fault system during the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake, Landslides, DOI 10.1007/s10346-019-01264-x.
Wu, G., Cunningham, D., Yuan, R., Zhou, Q, Zeng, X., Yang, X., 2017, Mass-wasting effects induced by the 2015 Gorkha (Nepal) Mw7.8 earthquake within a large paleo-landslide site adjacent to the Tatopani Border Station, Nepal: Implications for future development along the critical Bhote Khosi River valley transport corridor between Nepal and China, Landslides doi:10.1007/s10346-016-0792-5.
Cunningham, D. 2017, Folded basinal compartments of the southern Mongolian borderland: A structural archive of the final consolidation of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Geosciences, 7, 2; doi:10.3390/geosciences7010002
Cunningham, D., Zhang, J., Li, Y., 2016, Late Cenozoic transpressional mountain building directly north of the Altyn Tagh Fault in the Sanweishan and Nanjieshan, North Tibetan Foreland, China, Tectonophysics, 687, 111-128.
van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Cunningham, D., Straathof, G.B., Ganerod, M., Hendriks, B.W.H., Dijkstra, A.H., 2015, Triassic to Cenozoic multi-stage intra-plate deformation focused near the Bogd Fault system, Gobi Altai, Mongolia, Geoscience Frontiers, 6, 723-740.
Yuan, R.; Deng, Q., Cunningham, D., Han, Z., Zhang, D., Zhang, B., 2015, Newmark displacement model for landslides induced by the 2013 Ms 7.0 Lushan earthquake, China, Frontiers of Earth Science, DOI 10.1007/s11707-015-0547-y.
Cunningham, D., 2015, Late Cenozoic crustal reactivation and mountain building in the Gobi Corridor region of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, in Kroener, A., (ed.) The Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Geology, Evolution, Tectonics and Models, Borntraeger Science Publishers, Stuttgart, Germany, 253-262.
Arhin, E., Jenkin, G., Cunningham, D., and Nude, P., 2015, Regolith mapping of deeply weathered terrain in savannah regions of the Birimian Lawra Greenstone Belt, Ghana, Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 159, 194-207.
Grebby, S., Cunningham, D., Tansey, K. and Naden, J., 2014, The impact of vegetation on lithological mapping using airborne multispectral data: A case study for the North Troodos region, Cyprus, Remote Sensing , 6, 10860-10887.
Yuan, R.; Deng, Q., Cunningham, D., Xu, C., Xu, X., and Chang, C., 2013; Density Distribution of Landslides Triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake and their Relationships to Peak Ground Acceleration, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 103, No. 4, doi:10.1785/0120110233
Jin, Z., Cunningham, D., 2013, Polyphase Transpressional Development of a NNE-Striking Basement-Cored Anticline in the Xining Basin, northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Geological Magazine, doi:10.1017/S0016756812000866
Cunningham, D., 2013, Mountain building processes in intracontinental oblique deformation belts: Lessons from the Gobi Corridor, Central Asia, Journal of Structural Geology, Vol. 46, 255-282.
Rippington, S., Cunningham, D., England, R., Hendricks, B., 2013, The crustal assembly of southern Mongolia: New structural, lithological and geochronological data from the Nemegt and Altan Ranges, Gondwana Research, Vol. 23, No. 4, 1535-1553
Constenius, K., Coogan, J., Erdenebat, B., Tully, J., Johnson, C., Graham, S., Cunningham, D., 2013, Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous rifting in the Tugrug and Taatsin Tsagaan Nuur Basins, Gobi Altai region of SW Mongolia - implications for petroleum exploration, AAPG Search and Discovery On-line Journal, 10485.
Jin, Z., Cunningham, D., 2012, Kilometer-scale refolded folds caused by strike-slip reversal and intraplate shortening in the Beishan region, China, Tectonics, Vol. 31, Issue 3, DOI: 10.1029/2011TC003050.
Ma, F-.S., Deng, Q.-H., Cunningham, D., Yuan, R.-M., Zhao, H.-J., 2012, Vertical shaft collapse at the Jinchuan Nickel Mine, Gansu Province, China: Analysis of contributing factors and causal mechanisms, Environmental Earth Sciences, Vol. 69, 21-28
Grebby, S., Cunningham, D., Naden, J., Tansey, K., 2011, Application of airborne LiDAR data and airborne multispectral imagery to structural mapping of the upper section of the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus, International Journal of Earth Sciences, DOI 10.1007/s00531-011-0742-3
Grebby, S., Naden, J., Cunningham, D., and Tansey, K., 2011, Integrating airborne multispectral imagery and airborne LiDAR data for enhanced lithological mapping in vegetated terrain, Remote Sensing of Environment, 115, 214-226.
Piccardi, L., Sani, F., Moratti, G., Cunningham, D., Vittori, E., 2010, Present-day geodynamics of the Circum-Adriatic region: An overview, Journal of Geodynamics, doi:10.1016/j.jog.2010.09.002.
Jin, Z., Cunningham, D., Hongyi, C., 2010, Sedimentary characteristics of Cenozoic strata in central-southern Ningxia, NW China: Implications for the evolution of the NE Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 39, 740-759.
Cunningham, D., 2010, Tectonic Setting and Structural Evolution of the Late Cenozoic Gobi Altai Orogen, in Kusky, T.M., Zhai, M.G., and Xiao, W.J., (eds), The Evolving Continents: Understanding Processes of Continental Growth and Stabilization, Geological Society, London, Special Publication, V. 338, 361-387.
Blight, J.H.S., Crowley, Q.G., Petterson, M.G., Cunningham, D., 2010, Granites of the southern Mongolia Carboniferous arc: New geochronological and geochemical constraints, Lithos, 116, 35-52.
Blight, J.H.S., Petterson, M.G., Crowley, Q.G., Cunningham, D., 2010, The Oyut Ulaan Volcanic Group: Stratigraphy, magmatic evolution and timing in the Carboniferous arc of southeast Mongolia, Journal of the Geological Society, 167, p.491-509.
Grebby, S., Cunningham, D., Naden, J., Tansey, K., 2009, Lithological mapping of the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus, using airborne LiDAR topographic data, Remote Sensing of Environment, 114, 713-724.
Cunningham, D., Davies, S., McLean, D., 2009, Exhumation of a Cretaceous rift complex within a Late Cenozoic restraining bend, southern Mongolia: Implications for the crustal evolution of the Gobi Altai region, Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 166, 321-333.
Maher, B.A., Mutch, T.J., Cunningham, D., 2009, Magnetic and geochemical characteristics of Gobi Desert surface sediments: Implications for provenance of the Chinese Loess Plateau, Geology, v. 37, p. 279-282.
Roberts, N., Cunningham, D., 2008, Automated alluvial fan discrimination, Quaternary fault identification, and the distribution of tectonically reactivated crust in the Gobi Altai region, southern Mongolia, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 29, No. 23, 6957-6969.
Kastelic, V., Vrabec, M., Cunningham, D., Gosar, A., 2008, Neo-Alpine structural evolution and present-day tectonic activity of the eastern Southern Alps: The case of the Ravne Fault, NW Slovenia, Journal of Structural Geology, 30, 963-975.
van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Straathof, G.B., Kuiper, K.F., Cunningham, D., Wijbrans, J., 2008, No vertical axis rotations during Neogene transpressional orogeny in the NE Gobi Altai: coinciding Mongolian and Eurasian early Cretaceous apparent polar wander paths, Geophysical Journal International, 173, 105-126.
Rippington, S., Cunningham, D., England, R., 2008, Structure and petrology of the Altun Uul ophiolite: New evidence for a Devonian-Carboniferous suture in the Gobi-Altai, southern Mongolia, Journal of Geological Society, London , Vol 165, 711-723.
Blight, J., Cunningham, Petterson. M., 2008, Crustal evolution of the Saykhandulaan Inlier, Mongolia: Implications for Palaeozoic arc magmatism, polyphase deformation and terrane accretion in the Southeast Gobi Mineral Belt, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 32, 142-164.
Cunningham, W. D. and Mann, P. (eds), 2007, Tectonics of Strike-Slip Restraining and Releasing Bends, Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 29.
Cunningham, W. D., and Mann, P., 2007, Tectonics of Strike-Slip Restraining and Releasing Bends in Cunningham, W. D. and Mann, P., (eds), Tectonics of Strike-Slip Restraining and Releasing Bends, Geological Society, London Special Publications, 290, 1-12.
Cunningham, D., 2007, Structural and Topographic Characteristics of Restraining Bend Mountain Ranges of the Altai, Gobi Altai and easternmost Tien Shan, in Cunningham, W. D. and Mann, P., (eds), Tectonics of Strike-Slip Restraining and Releasing Bends, Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 290, 219-237.
Cunningham, D. Grebby, S., Tansey, K., Gosar, A., and Kastelic, V., 2007, Multi-Disciplinary Investigations of Active Faults in the Julian Alps, Slovenia, Acta Geodynamica et Geomaterialia, Vol. 4, No. 1 (145), 2007.
Cunningham, D. Grebby, S., Tansey, K., Gosar, A., and Kastelic, V., 2006, Application of airborne LiDAR to mapping seismogenic faults in forested mountainous terrain, southeastern Alps, Slovenia, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 33, L20308, doi: 10.10/29/2006GL027014.
Howard, J., Cunningham, D., Davies, S., 2006, Competing processes of clastic deposition and compartmentalised inversion in an actively evolving transpressional basin, western Mongolia Journal of the Geological Society, London, 163, 657-670.
Dijkstra, A., Brouwer, F., Cunningham, D., Buchan, C., Badarch, G., & P. Mason, 2006, Late Neoproterozoic proto-arc ocean crust in the Dariv Range, Western Mongolia: a supra-subduction zone end-member ophiolite Journal of the Geological Society, London, , 163, 2006, 363-373.
Cunningham, Dickson, 2005, Active intracontinental transpressional mountain building in the Mongolian Altai: Defining a new class of orogen, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 240, 436-444.
Cunningham, Dickson, Owen, L.A, Snee, L, and Li Jiliang, 2003, Structural framework of a major intracontinental orogenic termination zone: the easternmost Tien Shan, China, Journal of Geological Society London,160, 4, 575-590.
Cunningham, W. Dickson, Davies, Sarah J., and G. Badarch, 2003, Crustal Architecture and Active Growth of the Sutai Range, Western Mongolia: A Major Intracontinental, Intraplate Restraining Bend, Journal of Geodynamics, 36, 169-191
Cunningham, D., Dijkstra, A., Howard, J. Quarles, A. and Badarch, G. , 2003, Active intraplate strike-slip faulting and transpressional uplift in the Mongolian Altai, from: Storti, F., Holdsworth, R.E. & Salvini, F. (eds), Intraplate Strike-slip Deformation Belts, Geological Society,London, Special Publications, 210, 65-87.
Howard, J., Cunningham, D, Davies, S., Dijkstra, A., and G. Badarch, 2003, Stratigraphic and structural evolution of the Dzereg Basin, Mongolia, Basin Research, 15, 45-72.
Badarch, G. Cunningham, D., and Windley, B., 2002, A new terrane subdivision for Mongolia: Implications for the Phanerozoic crustal growth of Central Asia, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 21, p.87-110
Buchan, C., Pfander, J., Kroner, A., Brewer, T., Tomurtogoo, O., Tomurhuu, D., Cunningham, D., and B. Windley, 2002, Timing of accretion and collisional deformation in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: implications of granite geochronology in the Bayankhongor Ophiolite Zone, Chemical Geology, 192, 23-45.
Buchan, C.,Cunningham, W.D., Windley, B.F., and D. Tomurhuu, 2001, Structural and lithological characterisitics of the Bayankhongor ophiolite zone, central Mongolia, Journal of the Geological Society of London, vol. 158, p.445-460.
Cunningham, W. Dickson, 2001, Cenozoic normal faulting and regional doming in the southern Hangay region, Central Mongolia: Implications for the origin of the Baikal Rift Province, Tectonophysics, Vol. 331/4, p.389-411.
Windley, B.F., Badarch, G., Cunningham, W.D., Kröner, A., Buchan, C., Tomurtogoo, O., Salnikova, E.B., 2001. Subduction-Accretion history of the Central Asian orogenic belt: constraints fromMongolia. In: Sklyarov, E.V., (ed.), Assembly and breakup of Rodinia supercontinent: evidence from south Siberia, Guidebook and IGCP-440 Workshop Volume,Irkutsk, 198-201.
Brueckner, H.K., Cunningham, W.D., Alkmim, F.F., and S. Marshak, 2000, Tectonic Implications of Precambrian Sm-Nd Dates from the Southern São Francisco Craton and adjacent Araçuaí and Coastal Mobile Belts, Brazil, Precambrian Research, 99, 255-269.
Owen, L.A., Cunningham, W.D., Windley, B.F., Badamgarov, J. and Dorjnamjaa, D., 1999, The landscape evolution of Nemegt Uul: A late Cenozoic transpressional uplift in the Gobi Altai, southern Mongolia, Geological Society of London Special Publication on Uplift, Erosion and Stability, 162, 201-218.
Owen, L.A., Cunningham, W.D., Richards, B., Rhodes, E., Windley, B.F., Dorjnamjaa, D. and Badamgarav, J., 1999, Timing of formation of forebegs in the northeastern Gobi Altai, Mongolia: Implications for estimating mountain uplift rates and earthquake recurrence intervals, Journal of Geological Society of London, 156, p. 457-464.
Badamgarav, J., Badarch, G, Bat-Ireedui, Ya, Gerel, O., Dorjnmajaa, D, Cunningham, D., Windley, B., Buchan, C., 1998, Geotectonic map of Mongolia, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Paleontological Center, 1:2,500, 000.
Cunningham, W. Dickson, 1998, Lithospheric controls on Late Cenozoic construction of the Mongolian Altai, Tectonics, Vol. 17, No. 6, 891-902.
Cunningham, W.D., Alkmim, F.F. and S. Marshak, 1998, A structural transect across the Coastal Mobile Belt in the Brazilian Highlands (Latitude 20°S) The roots of a Precambrian transpressional orogen, Precambrian Research, 92, 251-272.
Owen, L.A., Richards, B., Rhodes, E., Cunningham, W.D., Windley, B.F., Badamgarav, J. and D. Dorjnamjaa, 1998, Relic permafrost structures and periglacial landforms in the Gobi of Mongolia, Journal of Quaternary Science, 13, (6), 539-547.
Cunningham, W. Dickson, Windley, Brian F., Owen, L.A., Barry, T., Dorjnamjaa, D., Badamgarav, G. Saandar, M., 1997, Geometry and style of partitioned deformation within a late Cenozoic transpressional zone in the eastern Gobi Altai Mountains, Mongolia, Tectonophysics, 277, 285-306.
Owen, L.A., Windley, B.F., Cunningham, W.D., Badamgarov, J. and Dorjnamjaa, D., 1997, Quaternary alluvial fans in the Gobi Desert, southern Mongolia: Evidence for neotectonics and climate change, Journal of Quaternary Science, 12 (3), 239-252.
Cunningham, W. Dickson, Marshak, Stephen and Alkmim, Fernando A., 1996, Structural style of basin inversion at mid-crustal levels: Two transects in the internal zone of the Brasiliano Araçuai Belt, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Precambrian Research, 77, p. 1-15..
Cunningham, W. Dickson, Windley, Brian F., Dorjnamjaa, D., Badamgarov, G. Saandar, M., 1996, Late Cenozoic transpression in southwestern Mongolia and the Gobi Altai-Tien Shan connection, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Vol. 140, No. 1-4, p. 67-82.
Reynolds, S. J., Spencer, J.E., Laubach, S.E., Peacock, S.S., Richard, S.M., and Cunningham, W.D., 1996, Geologic setting of mineral deposits of the Granite Wash Mountains, La Paz County, West-Central Arizona, in: Rehrig, W.A., Heidrick, T.L. and Frost, E.G., eds., Low-angle tectonic features of the southwestern United States and their influences on mineral resources: Society of Exploration Geologists, Guidebook Series v. 25 p. 141-155.
Cunningham, W. Dickson, Windley, Brian F., Dorjnamjaa, D., Badamgarov, G. Saandar, M., A., 1996, A structural transect across the Mongolian Altai: active transpressional mountain building in central Asia, Tectonics, Vol. 15, No. 1, p. 142-156.
Cunningham, W. Dickson, 1995, Orogenesis at the southern tip of the Americas: The structural evolution of the Cordillera Darwin metamorphic complex, southernmost Chile, Tectonophysics, Vol. 244, No. 4, 197-229.
Cunningham, W. Dickson, Dalziel, Ian W.D., Lee, Tung-yi and Lawver, L.A., 1995, Southernmost South America-Antarctic Peninsula relative plate motions since 84 Ma: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Scotia Arc region, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 100, no. B5, p. 8257-8266.
Cunningham, W. Dickson, 1994, Uplifted ophiolitic rocks on Isla Gordon, southernmost Chile: Implications for the closure history of the Rocas Verdes marginal basin and the tectonic evolution of the Beagle Channel region, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, Vol. 7 no. 2, p. 135-148
Cunningham, W. Dickson, 1993, Strike-slip faults in the southernmost Andes and the development of the Patagonian Orocline, Tectonics, V. 12, No. 1, p. 169-186..
Cunningham, W.D., 1993, Geological investigations at the southern tip of the Americas: The development of the Patagonian Orocline and uplift of the Cordillera Darwin metamorphic complex, southernmost Chile: Austin, University of Texas at Austin Ph.D. Dissertation, 261p.
Cunningham, W. Dickson, Klepeis, Keith A., Gose, Wulf A. and Dalziel, Ian W. D., 1991, The Patagonian Orocline: New Paleomagnetic Data from the Andean Magmatic Arc in Tierra del Fuego, Chile. Journal of Geophysical Research. Vol. 96, No. B10, P. 16,061-16,067.
Reynolds, S. J., Spencer, J. E., Laubach, S. E., Cunningham, W. D., and Richard, S. M., 1991, Geologic map and sections of the Granite Wash Mountains, West-Central Arizona, Arizona Geological Survey Map M-30, 1:24:000.
Reynolds, S.J., J.E. Spencer, S.E. Laubach, D. Cunningham, and S.M. Richard, 1989, Geologic Map, Geologic Evolution, and Mineral Deposits of the Granite Wash Mountains, West-Central Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology OFR-89-4, 51 p., scale 1:24,000.
Cunningham, D. DeWitt, E., Haxel, G., Reynolds, S.J., and Spencer, J. E., 1987, Geologic Map of the Maricopa Mountains, central Arizona: Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology OFR 87-4, scale 1:62,500.
Cunningham, W. D. 1987, Arizona and the Superconducting Super Collider: Fieldnotes V. 17, no. 1, p.1-15.
Reynolds, S. J., Spencer, J. E., Laubach, S. E., Cunningham, W. D., and Richard, S. M., 1987, Geologic map of the Granite Wash and Western Harcuvar Mountains, west central Arizona: Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology OFR 87-33, scale 1:24,000.
Sternberg, B. K., Sutter, T. C., and Cunningham, W. D., 1986, Report on gravity surveys for the Sierrita Desertron (SSC) Site, Laboratory for Advanced Subsurface Imaging Report 86-2, University of Arizona.
Cunningham, W. D., 1986, Geologic map of the northwest Granite Wash Mountains, and geologic cross sections to accompany geologic map of the northwest Granite Wash Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology Miscellaneous Map MM-86-B, 2 maps, scale 1:10,000.
Cunningham, W. D., 1986, Superposed thrusting in the northern Granite Wash Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona: Tucson, University of Arizona, M.S. Thesis, 112 p.
2023 AAUP Travel Award: ($2000, GSA Meetings)
2023 AAUP Travel Award: EGU Annual Meeting ($1500)
2022 CSU-AAUP Research Grant: Geological Investigations into the Crustal Evolution of Southeastern New England ($3200; PI)
2022 AAUP Travel Award: SSA Annual Meeting ($1500)
2021 AAUP Faculty Development Award: Constraining the Super-Eruption History of the Yellowstone Hotspot, Southern Idaho ($2467; PI)
2021 AAUP Travel Award: AGU Annual Meeting ($1000)
2020 AAUP Travel Award: GSA Annual Meeting ($1000)
2019 AAUP Travel Award: EGU Annual Meeting ($1000)
2018 AAUP Travel Award: AGU Annual Meeting and Plate Tectonics at 50 Conference ($1500)
2017 ECSU Curriculum Development Grant: White Mountains/Coastal Maine Field Course ($1006)
2016 AAUP Travel Award: AGU Annual Meeting ($1000)
2015 AAUP Travel Award: GSA Annual Meeting ($1000)
2014 CSU-AAUP Faculty Research Grant: Tectonic Processes in the Deep Core of a Collisional Mountain Range: The Structural Geology of Eastern Connecticut Revisited ($3128, PI)
2014 AAUP Travel Award: GSA Annual Meeting ($1000)
2013 AAUP Travel Award: AGU Annual Meeting ($1000)
2012 AAUP Travel Award: GSA Annual Meeting ($1000)
2012 AAUP Faculty Development Award: Investigating processes of continental interior tectonic reactivation: The enigmatic Helan Shan of north China ($750)
2010 Royal Society International Travel Grant: Active fault systems and earthquake hazards in the Tibetan foreland region near Dunhuang, NW China (£2239; PI)
2010 NERC Field Spectroscopy Facility: A Spectro-radiometric study of the North Troodos Ophiolite, Cyprus (£8,490 in kind; PI)
2010 NERC Airborne Remote Sensing Facility: Investigation of the lithological and structural architecture of the Northern Troodos Mountains, Cyprus (£98,567 in kind; PI)
2009 NERC Standard Grant: Scales and Frequencies of Snake River Type Super-Eruptions of the Yellowstone Hot-Spot Track, USA (£558,421, Co-I)
2008 Royal Society International Incoming Fellowship: Strike-Slip Fault Systems and Active Tectonics of the Bei Shan, NW China (£12,830; PI)
2006 NERC (BGS), PhD studentship supplement (£3000)
2004 NERC ARSF Grant, LIDAR mapping of seismogenic faults, Slovenia (£20,000, in kind; PI)
2003 NERC CONNECT B Grant, Transpressional Basin Evolution, Mongolia (£180,093; PI)
2003 NERC Geophysical Equipment Pool: Refraction/wide-angle reflection profiling of polydeformed intracontinental transpressional basins, southern Mongolia (in kind)
2003 Industrial Grant, Crustal Geophysics, Mongolia (£191,291; PI)
2001 NERC NIGL Award: Palaeozoic accretion in western Mongolia (in kind)
2003 Royal Society Research Grant 23901: Earthquake Geology, NW Slovenia (£3570; PI)
2001 Royal Society Research Grant 22077: Evolution of Restraining Bends, Mongolia(£4349; PI)
2001 Royal Society Conference grant to attend GSA Conference (£534)
2001 Leicester Geology Department research grant for work in Mongolia (£600; PI)
2000 Leicester Geology Department research grant for work in Mongolia (£300; PI)
2000 Royal Society IGCP grant to attend continental rifts workshop (£520)
1999 European Commission Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (£68,383; PI)
1999 Royal Society IGCP grant to attend continental rifts workshop (£770)
1998 National Geographic Society Research Grant 6308-98, "Geological Evolution of the Mongolian High Altai", (£10,870; PI)
1998 Royal Society Research Grant 19174: Origin of Hangay Dome, Mongolia (£3717; PI)
1997 Royal Society Conference grant to attend GSA Penrose Conference (£500)
1997 Royal Society IGCP grant to attend continental rifts workshop (£400)
1996 Leicester Geology Department research grant for work in Mongolia (£750; PI)
1993 National Science Foundation NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Science #9353701: Structural Investigations of the Altai Range, Western Mongolia (£28,900; PI).
1993 National Science Foundation International Programs Grant #9301292: Structural Geology of the Eastern Brazilian Shield (£21,850; PI).
GSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, 2023 (talk): Title: The Active Deformation Field of Central Asia North of Tibet: Lessons Learned that Apply to All Continents
GSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, 2023 (talk): Title: The Geoheritage and Geo-Cultural Importance of Mongolia’s Northeast Gobi Altai region
EGU Annual Meeting, Vienna, 2023 (talk), Title: Late Cenozoic Crustal Reactivation of the North Tibetan Foreland, Western Hexi Corridor, Beishan, and Gobi Corridor: Implications for Intraplate Fault Networks, Mountain Building Processes and Earthquake Hazards in Slowly Deforming Regions of Central Asia
Seismological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Albuqueque, 2020 (talk), Title: Miocene-Recent Crustal Reactivation of the North Tibetan Foreland, western Hexi Corridor and Southern Beishan, China: Implications for Intraplate Earthquake Hazards in Slowly Deforming Regions of Central Asia
Seismological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Albuqueque, 2020 (talk), Title: Cryptic Faults, Seismic Hazards and Lithospheric Controls on Crustal Reactivation in the Gobi Corridor Region, Central Asia
GSA Annual Meeting, Phoenix, 2019 (talk), Title: New fault kinematic and timing constraints on lateral expansion of northern Tibet by transpresional duplex development and juvenile mountain growth in the Dunhuang-NW Hexi Corridor, China
EGU Annual Meeting, Vienna, 2019 (talk), Title: Tibet’s slow but actively deforming northern foreland: Active sinistral transpressional faulting and juvenile mountain growth along the potentially shaky NW Hexi and Silk Road Corridor
EGU Annual Meeting, Vienna, 2019 (talk), Title: The Case for a Global Geopark in Mongolia’s Northeast Gobi Altai region
AGU Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 2017 (invited talk), Lithospheric controls on crustal reactivation and intraplate mountain building in the Gobi Corridor, Central Asia
AGU Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 2017 (talk), Northward expansion of Tibet beyond the Altyn Tagh Fault
Geological Society of London, William Smith Meeting: Plate Tectonics at 50, London, 2017, (talk), Intraplate mountain building in non-cratonized continental interiors: Lessons from Central Asia
SNET XVI Conference, Salvador, Brazil, 2017 (keynote talk), Mountain building processes in reactivated continental interiors: Lessons from Central Asia
AGU Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2016 (poster), Neotectonic Reactivation of the Gobi Corridor Region, Central Asia
GSA Annual Meeting, Baltimore, 2015 (talk), Lithospheric controls on intracontinental mountain building and earthquake hazards in the Gobi Corridor region of Central Asia, and comparisons with the interior of North America
GSA Annual Meeting, Baltimore, 2015 (poster), Late Cenozoic structural development of the Sanweishan and Nanjieshan, western China: Sinistral transpressional reactivation of Archean basement directly north of the Altyn Tagh Fault along Tibet's evolving northern boundary
GSA Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, 2014 (talk), Deformation localization and intraplate mountain building in the southern Altaids, Central Asia
AGU Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2013 (poster), Late Cenozoic topographic uplift of mountainous regions north of Tibet, Central Asia
GSA-GSC Roof of the World Meeting, Chengdu, China, 2013 (talk), Major Fault Systems and Mountain Building Processes in the Gobi Corridor and north Tibetan Foreland, NW China and S Mongolia
GSA Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC, 2012 (invited talk): Mountain building processes in intracontinental oblique deformation belts: Lessons from the Gobi Corridor, Central Asia
EGU Annual Meeting, Vienna, 2012 (talk), Title: Major Fault Systems and Mountain Building Processes in the Tibetan Foreland and Beishan Region, NW China
EGU Annual Meeting, Vienna, 2012 (poster), Title: Mountain building processes in intraplate, intracontinental oblique deformation belts: Lessons from the Gobi Altai, Mongolia
Geological Society of London Conference on "The coupling between tectonics and surface processes", 2011 (invited talk): The modern landscape expression of Late Cenozoic oblique deformation in the Tibetan foreland, Beishan and Gobi Altai regions of Central Asia
AOGS Annual Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011 (invited talk): Major Fault Systems and Mountain Building Processes in the Tibetan Foreland and Beishan Region, NW China
AOGS Annual Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011 (talk): Tectonic setting and structural evolution of the Late Cenozoic Gobi Altai Orogen
TSG Annual Meeting, Birmingham, 2010 (talk), Title: Late Cenozoic reactivation of polydeformed basement in the Chinese Beishan region north of Tibet
AGU Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2009 (talk), Title: Tectonic setting and structural evolution of the Late Cenozoic Gobi Altai Orogen, Mongolia
SNET XII Conference, Ouro Preto, Brazil, 2009 (keynote talk), Title: Intracontinental strike-slip faulting and transpressional mountain building: Examples from Central Asia
TSG Annual Meeting, Keele, 2009 (talk), Title: Exhumation of a Cretaceous rift complex within a Late Cenozoic restraining bend, southern Mongolia: Implications for the crustal evolution of the Gobi Altai region
EGU Annual Meeting, Vienna, 2007 (poster), Title: Application of LiDAR to mapping seismogenic faults in forested mountainous terrain, Julian Alps, NW Slovenia
EGU Annual Meeting, Vienna, 2007 (talk), Title: Intracontinental Transpressional Mountain Building and Coupled Basin Development in the Gobi Altai Region, Mongolia
TSG Annual Meeting, Glasgow, 2007 (talk), Title: Application of LiDAR to mapping seismogenic faults in forested mountainous terrain, Julian Alps, NW Slovenia
GRSG Annual Conference: Remote Sensing of Earth Resources, London, 2006 (talk), Title: LiDAR mapping of faults in forested mountainous terrain, Julian Alps, NW Slovenia
COST-Action 625 Workshop on Active Faults, Florence, 2006 (talk), Title: Application of LiDAR to mapping seismogenic faults in forested mountainous terrain, Julian Alps, NW Slovenia
EGU Meeting, Vienna (talk), 2006 (talk), Title: Structural and topographic characteristics of restraining bend mountain ranges in the Altai, Gobi Altai and easternmost Tien Shan
COST-Action 625 Workshop on Active Faults (talk), Wroclaw, Poland 2005 (invited talk), Title: Investigations into Active Faulting, Earthquake Hazards and Crustal Structure, NW Slovenia
Geological Society of London Conference on the Tectonics of Strike-Slip Restraining and Releasing Bends in Continental and Oceanic Settings London, 2005 (talk), Title: Mountain building processes in intracontinental intraplate transpressional mountain belts: Lessons from the Altai, Gobi Altai, and easternmost Tien Shan
EGU Meeting, Vienna, 2005 (talk) Title: Mountain building processes in intracontinental intraplate transpressional mountain belts: Lessons from the Altai and Gobi Altai, Mongolia
TSG Annual Meeting, Plymouth, 2004 (talk) Title: Mountain Building Processes in Intracontinental Intraplate Transpressional Mountain Belts: Lessons from the Altai and Gobi Altai, Mongolia
AGU Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2004 (talk) Title: Processes of Active Intraplate Deformation in the Mongolian Altai and Gobi Altai
COST-Action 625 Workshop on Active Faults, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2003 (invited talk) Title: Active deformation in NW Slovenia
EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, 2003 (talk) Title: Active Faulting and Intracontinental Deformation in the Mongolian Altai
TSG Annual Meeting, Liverpool, 2003 (talk) Title: Restraining Bends, Flower Structure Coalescence, and Transpressional Duplexing in the Mongolian Altai
COST-Action 625 Workshop on Active Faults, Camerino, Italy, 2002 (talk) Title: Criteria for identifying active range bounding faults and documenting their kinematic nature: examples from Mongolia and western China
GSA Cordillera Section Meeting, Los Angeles 2001, (talk) Title: Crustal Architecture of the Northwestern Mongolian Altai
TSG Annual Meeting, Leeds, 2001 (talk), Title: Cenozoic Transpressional Reactivation of the Mongolian High Altai
AGU Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2000 (poster), Title: Crustal Architecture of the Northwestern Mongolian Altai
IGCP 400 Conference on Continental Rifting, Dead Sea,Israel, 2000 (talk), Title: Lithospheric Controls on the development of intraplate rifts and depressions in Central Asia: Extrusion revisited
Geoscience 2000, Manchester, England, 2000 (talk), Title: Mechanisms of Late Cenozoic mountain building in the easternmost Tien Shan, Mongolian Altai and Hangay Dome
TSG Annual Meeting, Manchester, England, 2000 (talk), Title: Late Cenozoic extension in the southern Hangay Dome region, Mongolia: Implications for the evolution of the Baikal Rift Province
IGCP 400 Conference on Continental Rifting, Irkutsk, Russia, 1999 (talk), Title: Late Cenozoic extension in the southern Hangay Dome Region, Mongolia: Implications for the evolution of the Baikal Rift Province
EUG Strasbourg, France, 1999 (talk), Title: Intracontinental crustal doming and regional extension in Central Mongolia: Structural evidence for an active plume beneath Central Asia
GSA Penrose Conference on Tectonics of Continental Interiors, Cedar City, Utah, 1997 (talk), Title: Lithospheric controls on Late Cenozoic construction of the Mongolian Altai
EUG Strasbourg, 1997 (talk), Title: Cenozoic Development of the Mongolian Altai
TSG Transpression Conference, London, 1997 (talk), Title: Late Cenozoic Transpressional Mountain Building in the Mongolian Altai
GSA fall meeting, New Orleans, 1995, (talk), Title: Intracontinental mountain building in western Mongolia: the late Cenozoic transpressional uplift of the Altai.
GSA fall meeting, Seattle, 1994, (talk), Title: Proterozoic-Present tectonism in the Araçuai Belt along the eastern margin of the São Francisco Craton, Brazilian Highlands: the mid-to lower crustal roots of a polyphase orogen.
AGU fall meeting, San Francisco, 1992, (talk), Title: Quantification of southern South America-Antarctic Peninsula relative motion since 90 Ma: Implications for Scotia Arc tectonics.
AGU Chapman Conference on Tectonics and Topography, Snowbird, Utah, 1992 (poster), Title: Strike-slip faulting in the southernmost Andes and the development of the Patagonian Orocline.
GSA fall meeting, San Diego, 1991 (talk), Title: Strike-slip faulting in the southernmost Andes and the development of the Patagonian Orocline.
GSA Penrose Conference on Transpression, Bellingham,WA, 1990 (poster), Title: New evidence for strike-slip faulting in Cordillera Darwin, southernmost Chile: Implications for southern Andean orogenesis and the development of the Patagonian Orocline.
AGU spring meeting, Baltimore, 1990 (poster), Title: The Patagonian Orocline: New Paleomagnetic Data from the Andean Magmatic Arc in Tierra Del Fuego.
I have given invited lectures (non conference) at the following institutions, organizations and learned societies:
University of Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Central Connecticut State University, SUNY Stony Brook, University of Wuhan, China, Ningxia Institute of Uranium Geology, China, China National Nuclear Corporation, Urumqi, China, Cambridge University, Oxford University, University of London, Royal Holloway, University of Leeds, Open University, Imperial College, University of Liverpool, University of Birmingham, East Midlands Geological Society, Geologists Association, Cambridge Geological Society, Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, UConn - CLIR, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil, Observatorio Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tohon O'odham Nation, Arizona.
At Eastern Connecticut State University (2013 - ):
Xavier Jackson-Ward (2021) Geological Features of Central and Eastern Connecticut Expressed on 1-m LiDAR – Highlighted Examples
Thomas Zimmerman (2019-20) Unravelling the structural evolution and regional tectonic importance of the Honey Hill Fault Zone, SE, Connecticut – a key to understanding the orogenic collapse of the southern New England Appalachians
Haibo Yang (2018-19) Visiting PhD Scholar, Kinematics, timing and mountain building processes along active fault systems on the northern Tibetan margin and in the southern Beishan region, China
Dominic Livoti, James Wargo and Madison Knox (2018-19), Lithological and Structural Evolution of the Soapstone Mtn Metagabbro Complex, Somers, CT
Madison Knox (2018-19), Poly-deformational geological history between Colchester and south Salem, CT: Documenting the mid-crustal structure north and south of the Honey Hill Fault Zone
Benjamin van Dine (2018-19), Petrographic evidence for a cryptic ophiolitic suture in western Connecticut
Madison Knox (2017-18), Structural geology of rocks within and adjacent to the Honey Hill Fault Zone, Salem, CT
Katherine Hope (2017-18), Pegmatite mineralogy and mining legacy of the Haddam District, Connecticut
Kevin Lacy (2016-17), Structural Evolution of the Lantern Hill Silicified Fracture System, North Stonington, CT
Luke Davis (2016-17), Developing Geological Learning Units for Community Outreach and Recruitment Enhancement
Rachel Mackewicz (2015-16), A structural and petrographic study of the Lebanon Gabbro, eastern Connecticut
Trent Stevens (2015-16), A cryptic suture in western Connecticut? A petrographic study of talc, tremolite, serpentinite and kyanite schists in the Harwinton-New Hartford region
Kevin Mokoski (2014-15), Structural architecture of the Valley Falls and Bolton Notch staurolite schist belt, Vernon-Bolton, CT
Ujjwal Davda (2014), Polyphase evolution of agmatitic and migmatitic gneiss complexes in coastal exposures of New London County, CT
Mackenzie Fannon, (2103-14), Geological characteristics and kinematic history of super-eruption derived ignimbrite units along the Yellowstone hot spot track, Brown's Bench, southern Idaho
Anthony Sylvester, (2103-14), Lithological characteristics and kinematic history of a major ignimbrite sequence, Shoshone Hills, southern Idaho
Daniel Grondin, (2103-14), Rheomorphic folds in super-hot ignimbrites from the southern Snake River Plain, Idaho
Matthew Gonsalves, (2103-14), Structural and Petrological Analysis of the Soapstone Mtn Metagabbro Complex, Somers, CT
Catherine Carr, (2103-14), Gem-Producing Pegmatites of the Haddam and Glastonbury Districts, CT
At The University of Leicester (1996-2012):
Jason Ramsdale: (M.Geol. thesis, 2012), The effect of sea level rise on coastal Vietnam: A quantitative approach
Callum Ginbey: (M.Geol. thesis, 2012), Structural and lithological setting of the Paguanta Mineral District, northern Chile
Ade Bland: (M.Geol. thesis, 2012), Deformation of the Yamana Plutonic Suite, Cordillera Darwin, Chile
Alex Robbins: (M.Geol. thesis, 2012), Structural Analysis of bedrock joints in Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire
Tim Merrick (M.Geol. thesis, 2012), A remote sensing investigation of glacial retreat in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru
William Swinnerton (M.Geol. thesis, 2012), The effects of sea level rise and coastal flooding on the Greater London Area
Rowan Vernon (Ph.D., U. of Leicester, 2011-14), Mountain Building Processes in the Tibetan Foreland: The Precambrian-Recent Evolution of the Dunhuang Block, NW China
Emmanuel Arhin (Ph.D., U. of Leicester, 2010-13), Use of regolith geochemistry and remote sensing to delineate potential gold targets in savanna regions of Ghana
Liam McDonnell: (M.Geol. thesis, 2011), The distribution of tectonically reactivated crust in the Dunhuang region, N China as revealed by satellite imagery and digital topographic data
Isabella Gredzinski: (M.Geol. thesis, 2011), The distribution of tectonically reactivated crust in the Beishan, N China as revealed by satellite imagery and digital topographic data
Howard Daley: (M.Geol. thesis, 2011), Investigation of the three-dimensional architecture and structural and stratigraphic evolution of the Shargyn Basin, western Mongolia
Andrew Bedford: (M.Geol. thesis, 2011), Peneplain remnants in the Cenozoic mountain ranges of Central Asia: Topographic characteristics and tectonic implications
Jamie Walker: (M.Geol. thesis, 2011), Structural and Lithological Controls on the Geomorphology and Geological Evolution of Leicestershire as Revealed by High-Resolution Digital Topographic Data
Anthony Webster: (M.Geol. thesis, 2011), Structural Evolution and Active Faulting of the Junggar Gate, NW China
Michael Williams (M.Geol. thesis, 2010), Fluvial fans and transpressional basins of western Mongolia
Daniel Wagstaff (M.Geol. thesis, 2010), The structural significance of D3 kink bands in the deformed metasediments at Rhoscolyn, Holy Island, Anglesey
Sarah Owen: (Ph.D., U. of Leicester, 2009-12), Geological origins of sugar loaf peaks in eastern Brazil and their environmental importance as refugia for Atlantic rain forest preservation. University of Leicester University of the Year Scholarship
Dr Zhang Jin: (2008-9), Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellow: Active Tectonics of the Beishan, China
Andy McCluskey: (M.Geol. thesis, 2009), The Swithland Slates of NW Leicestershire: Structure, metamorphism, and historical importance as an economic resource
Abigail Hackston: (M.Geol. thesis, 2009), The Active Tectonics of the Stanovoy Belt, Eastern Siberia
Sarah Owen: (M.Geol. thesis, 2009), Glacial Lake Outburst Flood Hazards in Northern Tibet and the Easternmost Tien Shan
Scott Dempsey: (M.Geol. thesis, 2008), Igneous Geochemistry of Mesozoic Lavas in the Northern Gobi Altai, Mongolia: A product of Continental Rifting, a Mantle Plume, or both?
Thomas Roworth: (M.Geol. thesis, 2008), Active Deformation and Geological Evolution of the Tarbagatay Range, Western China
Stephen Grebby, (Ph.D., U. of Leicester, 2007-2010) Application of airborne LIDAR to fault mapping, structural analysis, and identification of fracture controlled mineralisation, Slovenia and Cyprus. NERC CASE
Douwe van Hinsbergen, NERC Postdoctoral Fellow: Mesozoic-Cenozoic Basin Evolution, Gobi Altai, Mongolia
Abdullah Bamousa, (Ph.D., U. of Leicester, 2004-2007), Structural evolution of the Carmel Head thrust system, Anglesey, Wales
Nick Roberts: (M.Geol. thesis, 2006), Application of Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Digital Elevation Data to Understanding Processes of Intracontinental Mountain Building and Basin Evolution, Mongolia
Kay Phillips (M.Geol. thesis, 2004), Petrography of a Devonian Sedimentary Succession from Omni Hayrhan Uula, Mongolian Altai
Natasha Lee (M.Geol. thesis, 2004), Metamorphic geology and U-Pb dating of granite emplacement, Mongolian Altai.
Stephen Rippington (Ph.D., U. of Leicester, 2003-2007) The structural geology of the Nemegt Range, Mongolia: Implications for the development of hydrocarbon traps adjacent to restraining bends and within transpressionally inverted rift basins. NERC CASE
Vanja Kastelic (Ph.D., U.of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2003-2008) Structural evolution and seismotectonic character of the Ravne Fault, NW Slovenia.
James Blight (Ph.D., U. of Leicester, 2002-2006) Batholith hosted porphyry copper deposits of the Gobi Desert, Mongolia: Towards a predictive model. NERC CASE
Arjan Dijkstra, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, 2000-2003, Basement geology of the Mongolian Altai
James Howard (Ph.D., U. of Leicester, 2000-2003) Basin evolution in the Mongolian Altai
Robert Ganis (Ph.D., U. of Leicester, 2001-2003) Biostratigraphic controls on the emplacement history of the Hamburg Klippe, Pennsylvania
Kathryn Moores (M.Geol. thesis, 2003) U-Pb dating of Mongolian Altai granitoids: Timing constraints on basement deformation and crustal assembly
David Clifford (M.Geol. thesis, 2003) The intermediate and felsic volcanic rocks of Tugal Nuur, western Mongolia: Geochemical characteristics and tectonic significance
Neil Ford (M.Geol. thesis, 2002) Remote sensing study of the Beishan, China
James Blight (M.Geol. thesis, 2002) Geology of the Tolbo Nuur Iron Skarn Deposit, western Mongolia
Michael Cottam (M.Geol. thesis, 2000) Active tectonics and geomorphology of the southern Caucasus region, Georgia, a remote sensing analysis.
James Duggleby (M.Geol. thesis, 2000) Alluvial basins in the Mongolian Gobi Desert: their remote sensing expression, basin geology, hydrogeology and agricultural potential.
Michael Rose (BSc. Dissertation, 2000) Landslides in the Castleton/Edale region, Peak District.
Craig Buchan (Ph.D., U. of Leicester, 1997-2001) Mongolian ophiolites: Their role in the Palaeozoic crustal growth of Central Asia. NERC supported
Stephen Donnegan (MSc. U. of Leicester, 1998) An investigation into potential tectonic activity within the Gobi Altai Mountains of Mongolia using Landsat MSS and SIR-C.
Lucy Porritt (BSc. Dissertation, 1999) An assessment of gold occurrences in southern Mongolia involving Landsat image interpretations
Joe Rydell (BSc. Dissertation, 1999): A RADAR image interpretation of the Sub-Andean petroleum basins of northern South America
Thomas Wiggins (BSc. Dissertation, 1999): Geological investigation of the Black Ven near Lyme Regis, Dorset: Active mass wasting and implications for future coastal hazards
Ben Kennedy (BSc. Dissertation, 1997) A remote sensing study of the geology and current tectonic activity of the Bayangobi region, Central Mongolia.
Chris Wilcox, 2011, Eruptive, Magmatic and Structural Evolution of a Large Explosive Caldera Volcano: Los Humeros, Central Mexico, University of Leicester
Vanja Kastelic, 2008, Seismotectonic Research of the Ravne Fault and the 1998 and 2004 Earthquakes in the Upper Posocje, Slovenia, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Timothy Kinnaird, 2008, Tectonic and sedimentology response to diachronous continental collision in the easternmost Mediterranean, Cyprus, University of Edinburgh
Graham Andrews, 2006, Emplacement and deformation of high-temperature tuffs: a structural analysis of the Grey's landing ignimbrite, Snake River plain, Idaho, University of Leicester
Andrew Mason, 2003, The South Harris Igneous Complex, University ofLeicester
Annette McGrath, 1999, Structural and Geochemical Evolution of an Extensional Metamorphic Core Complex, Paros, Greece, University of Leicester.
2014 GSA Structural Geology/Tectonics Symposium: Contrasting Styles of Phanerozoic Intracontinental Tectonics: North America vs. Asia
2012 EGU Continental Transform Symposium,Vienna
2012 EGU Transpressional Deformation Symposium,Vienna
2009 EGU Airborne and Terrestrial Laser Scanning and geomorphology: possibilities, problems, and solutions, Symposium, Vienna.
2007 EGU Active Tectonics of Circum-Adriatic Region Symposium,Vienna
2006 EGU Mountain Building Processes Symposium,Vienna
2005 3-Day Conference on "The Tectonics of Restraining Bend and Releasing Bends in Continental and Oceanic Settings", Burlington House London, main organizer with Paul Mann
2005 EGU Indo-Eurasia Collision Symposium,Vienna
2002 TSG Annual Meeting, Leicester, UK, main organizer
2000 Central Asia tectonics symposium, Geosciences 2000, Manchester
1997 Leicester Visiting Speaker Seminar Programme
1995 GSA Global Tectonics symposium, New Orleans
2024 - International Representative, Tectonic Studies Group of the Geological Society, United Kingdom
2022 - Editorial Board for GeoHazards
2017-2021 - Section Editor for Elsevier's Encyclopedia of Geology
2015 - Editorial Board for Lithosphere
2014 - Geological Society of America Representative to American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Consortium of Affiliates for International Programs
2006-2014 - Editorial Board for Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
1999-2013 - Editorial Board for Tectonophysics
2010 - Journal of Geodynamics, Guest Editor
2007 - Special Publication Editor, Geological Society
2011-13 - EGU Tectonics and Structural Geology Committee, Leader of strike-slip tectonics theme
2002-7 - European Commission COST-Action 625: Active Faults: Analysis, Processes and Monitoring, served as UK representative on Management Committee
1997-0 - IGCP 420 participant, Crustal growth in the Phanerozoic: evidence from east-central Asia
1997 - IGCP 400 participant, Geodynamics of Continental Rifting
2009-2012 - Appointed Visiting Examiner to Earth Sciences Sub-Board of Examiners, Royal Holloway, University of London
2011 - Tectonic Studies Group, Geological Society of London Panel Judge for best student mapping project and poster session
2003-2006 - Treasurer to Tectonic Studies Group, Geological Society of London
At Eastern Connecticut State University
ECSU Presidential Search Campus Advisory Committee, 2023-24
ECSU Employability Coordinator 2022-23
ECSU Department Evaluation Committee, Biological Sciences
ECSU Co-Chair Employability Council, 2018-2021
ECSU Chair, Department of Environmental Earth Science 2017-2020
ECSU Assistant Chair, Department of Environmental Earth Science 2015-17, fall,2020
ECSU Academic Program Review Committee 2015-18
ECSU Campus Master Plan Committee, 2015-2016
ECSU Faculty Scholars Forum Organizer, 2015-19, 2022-24
ECSU Faculty Advisor, Theta Upsilon Chapter of SGE National Honor Society in the Earth Sciences, 2018-
ECSU Latin American Council, 2016-18
ECSU Liberal Studies Major Advisory Committee 2014-
ECSU Senator, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, 2014-16
ConnSCU TRANSFORM 2020 - Portfolios of Excellence Committee Member, 2014-15
ECSU Department Representative and Chair of ASRCE/CREATE Committee 2014-2016
ECSU Summer Curriculum Development Committee, 2014-2015
ECSU Department Representative for ASRCE Committee 2012-2013
ECSU Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Advisory Council, 2013 - ongoing
ECSU Interdepartmental Education Task Force, winter-spring, 2013-2014
ECSU Faculty Development Committee, 2013-14
ECSU Honorary Degree Committee, 2013-2016 (Chair)
ECSU Department Library Point Person 2012-17
ECSU Tenure-Track Search Committee, 2012-2013
Previously, at the University of Leicester, UK:
Departmental Teaching Director 2009-2012
University Academic Committee, 2009-2012
Departmental Examination Officer 2006-2009
Departmental Research Director 2003-2005
Founder and Leader of Orogenic Processes Research Group
Departmental Admissions Tutor, 1997-2001
Departmental Careers Tutor, 1996-2000
Departmental Postgraduate Tutor, 1996-2000
Member of Department Learning and Teaching Committee, Research Committee, Fieldwork Committee, Safety Committee, Computer Committee, University Widening Participation Programme Committee
Department Safety Officer on field trips.
