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Robert Lee Dean III
Geologic Technician
Department of Geology
Dickinson College
Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17013
[email protected]
Office: 717-245-1109
Cell: 717-579-0644
1. EDUCATION:
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M.S. Geology (with Honors), University of Texas at El Paso, 2004; Advisor: C. L. Andronicos
o Thesis Title: Aureole Structure of 1.4 Ga Plutons in Southern Colorado and Their
Tectonic Implications
B.S., Geological Sciences (Summa Cum Laude), Towson University, 2001; Advisor: R. Burks
o Thesis Title: Kinematics of the Basal Contact of the Setters Formation
2. WORK EXPERIENCE:
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Geologic Technician, Dickinson College, July 2007 to present
Adjunct Faculty, Montgomery College, January 2006 to May 2007
Instructional Lab Coordinator, Montgomery College, July 2004 to July 2007
Research Assistant, University of Texas at El Paso, June 2002 to August 2003
Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at El Paso, July 2001 to May 2002
Laboratory Assistant, Towson University, September 1999 to April 2001
3. INVOLVEMENT:
-Professional Societies
• Geological Society of America
• American Geophysical Union
-Memberships
• Alpha Lambda chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, National Earth Sciences Honor Society 2001 –
2004 (President 2002-2003)
• Member: UTEP Tectonics Research Group (TRG) 2001-2004
• Towson University Geology Club 1999-2001(Secretary 1999-2000, President 2000-2001)
• Appalachian Mountain Club 1997-Present
-Other Activities
• Volunteer annually for Department of Energy National Science Bowl Competition
• Served as judge for the Carlisle Area Science Advisory Committee Science Fair
• Baltimore Running Festival Half Marathon 2008 Participant
• Step Out To Fight Diabetes, Washington D.C. participant
• Mentored Montgomery College Robotics Club and provided logistical support for attendance of
the Mini-Grand Challenge at Penn State Abington
• Served as a judge for the UTEP Geological Sciences Department 21st Annual Student Colloquium
4. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Teaching Experience
-Dickinson College
• Global Climate Change (Lab)
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• Various instructional labs on departmental research equipment theory and use
-Montgomery College
• Physical Geology
• Introductory Astronomy
-University of Texas at El Paso
• Principles of Earth Sciences (Lab)
• Introduction to Environmental Science (Lab)
Equipment (Examples of major research instruments used/maintained)
-Dickinson College
• JEOL JSM 5900 Scanning Electron Microscope equipped with an Oxford Instruments Energy
Dispersive System and Cathodoluminescence Detector
• Phillips PW 2404 Wavelength-Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer
• Phillips XRG 3100 X-Ray Powder Diffraction Spectrometer
• Guralp CMG-PEPPT 3-Component Digital Output Broadband Seismometer
• Shimadzu Total Organic Compound Analyzer with solids module
• Trimble Pathfinder GPS
• Logitech CL50
• Various thin sectioning and sample prep instruments
• Map Star Digital Compass and Impulse LR200 Laser Ranger Finder with TDS Recon
-Montgomery College
• Struers Discoplan TS
• ZCorp Z310 3-D Printer/Rapid Prototyper
• Davis Vantage Pro Weather Station
• Wireless Classrooms (25 laptops w/ access point, printer, and Sympodium)
• 16" Meade LX200GPS Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope with an SBIG ST9XE CCD
• Lightning Mapping Array (LMA) detector developed by New Mexico Tech
-University of Texas at El Paso
• Cameca SX-50 Electron Microprobe
• Lacoste-Romberg Model G Gravimeter
• Ref Tek Miniature Seismic Recorder (Texan) Model 125A
Research
• My latest work has focused on relating Buchan style metamorphic isotherms in metapelitic and
metacarbonate rocks to Arsenic anomalies in groundwater in Maine. In some areas, As anomalies
have exceeded EPA limits and it’s believed to be leaching from the bedrock. As contents in
bedrock vary as a function of prograde metamorphism and that variance, in conjunction with
bedrock hydrology, serves as a possible control on As occurrences in groundwater.
• I maintain an interest in Proterozoic tectonics of southwestern North America. My graduate
research has carried over to work focusing on the characterization of Mesoproterozoic orogenesis
and distinguishing it from Paleoproterozoic tectonic events.
• Work has been undertaken with Dr. Peter Sak (Dickinson) and Dr. Nadine McQuarrie (Princeton)
to update and digitize geologic bedrock maps in central Pennsylvania and quantify strain in the
folded cover sequence of sediments that characterize the fold and thrust belt of central
Pennsylvania.
• While at Montgomery College, I worked with researchers from New Mexico Tech, NASA, and the
National Weather Service (NWS) on development of a lightning mapping array (LMA) for the
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DC metro area and installation of a monitoring station on MC’s campus. The LMA provides near
real time data to the NWS for severe weather prediction over the internet.
Work was conducted with faculty and students from the Anthropology Department at Montgomery
College to aid in characterization and provenance of temper material in Late Woodland pottery
sherds as part of an investigation into a local, Paleo-Indian site.
Thesis Research, 2002-2004:
My thesis research included work investigating the origin and nature of 1.4 Ga granites in southern
Colorado and the thermal evolution of Proterozoic crust and consisted of a comparative study of
the 1.44 Ga. Oak Creek Pluton and the 1.46 Ga. Eolus Granite. Both the Oak Creek and the Eolus
Granites occur as Mesoproterozoic plutons which intrude Paleoproterozoic crust. This project
involved field mapping of two areas on 1:6,000 and 1:12,000 scales. Remote, rugged terrain
afforded the opportunity to gain valuable field experience. Two detailed maps were produced at
1:24,000 and 1:50,000. Work included an 40Ar/39Ar study and extensive qualitative and
quantitative petrologic analyses to develop a P-T-t-D path for two separate terranes.
Undergraduate Research, 2000-2001
Conducted a kinematic analysis along the contact of the Baltimore Gneiss and the Setters
Formation within the western limb of the Towson Anticline. Research was conducted as part of an
undergraduate thesis and included a structural study at the macro-, meso-, and microscopic scales,
as well as petrographic analyses to differentiate episodes of deformation and discriminate tectonic
events.
Research Experiences for Undergraduates, Summer 2000
Investigated the origin of the Carroll Knob Ultramafic Complex using geological, geophysical, and
geochemical techniques. Completed the research project as a member of an REU program and
produced three abstracts presented with posters at the Southeastern Geological Society of America
annual meeting.
5. GRANTS, AWARDS, & HONORS:
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Dickinson College R&D Committee Professional Development Grant, March 2008: $1990
Montgomery College Outstanding Team Effort Award: Dept. Of Energy Science Bowl
Montgomery College Forty for the Fortieth Staff Profile
Smart Technologies SMARTer Kids Foundation Technology Grant 2005
University of Texas at El Paso College of Science Outstanding Graduate Student recipient 2004
University of Texas at El Paso Geological Sciences Department Outstanding Geology Thesis
Recipient 2004
Best Student Poster Runner-Up, SWAAPG Regional Meeting October 17-18, 2003
Best Graduate Oral Presentation, Geological Sciences Student Colloquium 2003
Research Assistantship funded by the National Science Foundation, Continental Dynamics Rocky
Mountains Experiment (CD-ROM)
University of Texas, El Paso Outstanding New Graduate Student 2001
Hunt Memorial Scholarship recipient 2001
Cotton Memorial Scholarship recipient 2001
Best Undergraduate Poster Award, Geological Society of America Southeastern Section – 50th
Annual Meeting (April 5-6, 2001)
International Order of Odd Fellows Scholarship recipient 1998 - 2004
Breidenbaugh Memorial Scholarship recipient 1998 - 2004
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PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS:
Dean, R. L., Development of a Lightning Mapping Array for the DC Metro Area. Montgomery College
Science Engineering and Mathematics Exchange, Rockville MD, (November 2, 2006) Oral
Dean, R. L., Andronicos, C. L., Aureole Structure of 1.4 Ga Plutons and their Tectonic Significance.
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver Colorado, (November 7-10, 2004). Oral
Dean, R. L., Andronicos, C. L., Chronology of Proterozoic Deformation in the Needle Mountains,
Southwestern Colorado. SWAAPG Regional Meeting (March 6-9). Poster
Kaiwen, W., Andronicos, C. L., Dean, R. L., Metamorphic pressures and temperatures during
Paleoproterozoic arc construction, Needle Mountains, Colorado. University of Texas Geological
Sciences 18th Annual Student Colloquium (April 2, 2004). Poster
Dean, R. L., Andronicos, C. L., Constraints on Proterozoic tectonics at 1.4 Ga from plutonic aureoles.
National AAPG/SEG Student Expo (October 17-18, 2003). Poster
Dean, R. L., Andronicos, C.L., Noel, M.E., and Mansfield, M.R., Spatially restricted deformation around
the 1.4 Ga Eolus Granite, Needles Mountains, Colorado: Constraints on regional deformation
fields at the time of 1.4 Ga. Geological Society of America Rocky Mountain Section Meeting
(May 7-9, 2003). Oral
Silva, A., Andronicos, C.L., Noel, M.E., Dean, R.L., and Mansfield, M.R., Contact Metamorphism
around the 1.4 Ga Eolus Granite, Needle Mountains, Southwest Colorado. Geological Society of
America Rocky Mountain Section Meeting (May 7-9, 2003). Poster
Dean, R. L., Andronicos, C.L., Noel, M.E., and Mansfield, M.R., Spatially restricted deformation around
the 1.4 Ga Eolus Granite, Needles Mountains, Colorado: Constraints on regional deformation
fields at the time of 1.4 Ga. 17th Annual Geological Sciences Colloquium, University of Texas at
El Paso (April 4th, 2003). Oral
Dean, Robert L., Andronicos, Chris L, Siddoway, Christine, and Ray, Jimmy, Syntectonic emplacement
of the 1.44 Ga. Oak Creek Pluton, Wet Mountains, Colorado. Geological Society of America,
2002 Denver Annual Meeting (October 27-30, 2002). Poster
Dean, Robert Lee III, Ray, Jimmy, Acevedo, Gabriel, Andronicos, Christopher L., and Siddoway,
Christine, Precambrian granulite facies metamorphism in the Wet Mountains of Southeaster
Colorado: Implications for Laramide right-slip. Geological Society of America South-Central
Section - 36th Annual Meeting (April 11-12, 2002). Poster
Omenda, P A. Simiyu, S. Anthony, E Y. Keller, G R. Dean, R L, Lithospheric structural controls on
magma composition: the Kenya Rift. Eos Trans. AGU, 82(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract
V51C-1017, 2001. Poster
Dean, R., et al., (2001). Geophysical transects across the margins of the Carroll Knob mafic/ultramafic
complex, Macon County, North Carolina. Southeastern GSA Annual Meeting, April 2001.
Meyer, J., et al., (2001). Geochemistry and petrogenesis of the Carroll Knob mafic/ultramafic complex,
Macon County, North Carolina. Southeastern GSA Annual Meeting, April 2001.
Bierly, L., et al., (2001). Petrographic and field relations of a portion of the Carroll Knob mafic/ultramafic
complex, Eastern Blue Ridge, Macon Co., NC. Southeastern GSA Annual Meeting, April 2001.
References Available on Request
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