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RA position in paleosols with Dr. Rech
RA position in gastropod dating with Dr. Rech
Possible
thesis/dissertation topics:
Mid-Miocene climate change and uplift using paleosols in northern Chile (PhD).
Radiocarbon dating of North American Terrestrial Gastropods (MS).
Earthquakes and seismic pumping in the Atacama Desert, Chile (MS).
Current/recent
student research projects:
Nitrate soils in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert, Chile.
Late Quaternary paleohydrology of Wadi Hasa, Jordan.
Mid-Miocene nitrate soils in the Calama Basin, Chile.
Selected
publications:
Dong, Hailiang, Rech, Jason A., Jiang, Hongchen, Sun, Henry, and Buck, Brenda J., (2007) Endolithic Cyanobacteria in Soil Gypsum: Occurrences in Atacama (Chile), Mojave (USA),a nd Al-Jafr Basin (Jordan) Deserts, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 112 (G2) G02030, p. 1-11.
Betancourt, Julio L., Latorre, Claudio, Rech, Jason A., Quade, Jay, and Rylander, Kate A., (2007) A 22,000 year recrod of monsonnal precipitation from northern Chile's Atacama Desert, Science, 189:1542-1546.
Rech, J.A., Quintero, L.A., Wilke, P.J. and Winer, E.R. (2007) The Lower Paleolithic landscape of Ayoung Qedim, Jordan, Geoarcheology: An International Journal 22(2):261-275.
Rech, J.A., Currie, B.S., Michalski, G., Cowan, A.M. (2006) Neogene climate change and uplift in the Atacama Desert, Chile, Geology 34:761-764.
Latorre,
C., Betancourt, J.L., Rech, J.A., Quade, J., Holmgren, C., Placzek, C.,
Maldonado, A., Vuille, M., and Rylander, K., (2005) Late Quaternary
History of the Atacama Desert. In: 23 South: The Archaeology
and Environmental History of the Southern Deserts (Edited by M. Smith
and P. Hesse).
Rech, J.A. (2004) New uses for old laboratory techniques: How radiocarbon dating of mortar and plaster could change the chronology of the ancient Near East: Near Eastern Archaeology, 67(4):212-219.
Rech,
Jason A., Fischer, Alycia A., Edwards, Douglas R., and Jull, A.J. Timothy
(2003) Direct dating of plaster and mortar using AMS radiocarbon: a pilot
project from Khirbet Qana, Israel, Antiquity 77 (295):155:164.
Selected Grants:
National Science Foundation - Tectonics 2006-2009
Miocene Climate Change West of the Central Andes: Cause or Consequence of Uplift?; with Terry Jordan and Brian Currie
National Science Foundation - Sedimentary Geology and Paleontology 2006-2008
Radiocabon Dating of North American Terrestrial Gastropods; with Jeff Pigati and Jeff Nekola.
National Science Foundation - Tectonics 2008-2001
Forearc Cracks and the Rupture Segments of Great Earthquakes, N. Chile and S. Peru, with Richard Allmendinger and Matthew Pritchard.
Teaching
Interests:
GLG 111
- Physical Geology- click here
for a complete description.
GLG 335 - Ice Age Earth - click here for a complete description.
GLG 435/535 - Paleoclimatology.- click here
for a complete description.
GLG 454/554 - Geomorphology - click here
for a complete description.
GLG 710 - Soils and Paleosols - click here
for a complete description.
For
more information please visit Dr. Rech's personal website.
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