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GEOL 101 -
Earth Processes and Environment - course website - Last
taught: 2012 Summer & Fall
GEOL 375 - Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic
Petrology - course
website - Last taught: 2013 Spring
GEOL 385 - Structural Geology (team-taught with Dr. Joe
Allen) - course
website - Last taught: 2010 Fall
GEOL/CHEM/PHYS 420: Electron Microscopy and X-ray
Microanalysis - course
website - Spring 2012
Research Interests
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Newberry Caldera,
Oregon, USA
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- Tephrochronology, the
use of volcanic ash (tephra) layers to provide
correlations between sites and age control -
including:
- analytical methods
for obtaining geochemical data (e.g. electron
microprobe, ICP-MS), including the development
of new procedures and new standard reference
materials
- cryptotephra
(locating and identifying trace volcanic ash
that does not occur as visible layers),
especially in glacial ice
- applications (e.g.
Quaternary geology, climate change,
paleolimnology, archaeology, paleoseismology)
- Volcanology &
petrology, especially of pyroclastic rocks -
including:
- Proximal
stratigraphy and geochemistry
- Eruption and
depositional mechanisms (from deposit
characteristics such as particle size variations
and thickness distributions)
- Dispersal patterns
related to wind
Professional History
and Education
- 2010-present: Research
Assistant
Professor, Concord University
Manager, Electron
Microprobe Laboratory
- 2009-2010: Visiting
Assistant Professor, Department of Geology,
Washington and Lee University
- 2007-2009: Post-Doctoral
Research Fellow, Earth and
Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta,
Canada
Tephrochronology, primarily in support of
Quaternary studies in the Canadian and Alaskan
arctic with Dr.
Duane Froese
- 2002-2006: Visiting Lecturer in Geology,
California State University, Stanislaus
- 1995-2002: Ph.D., Earth and
Environmental Sciences, Washington State
University, Pullman
Dissertation: "Stratigraphy, distribution, and
geochemistry of the Newberry volcano tephras" with
Dr.
Franklin (Nick) Foit
- 2001-2002, Instructor,
Geology
- 1999-2001, President,
Graduate and Professional Student Association
- 1998-1999, Instructor,
Geology
- 1995-1998, Teaching Assistant,
Geology
- 1992-1995: M.S.,
Earth and
Environmental Sciences, Washington State
University, Pullman
Thesis: "The Olympic-Wallowa Lineament, Hite
Fault System, and Columbia River Basalt Group
Stratigraphy in Northeast Umatilla County, Oregon" with Dr. Peter Hooper
- 1992-1995, Teaching Assistant,
Geology
- 1992 (summer): Geologist, Geophysics
Branch, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park,
California
Glacial ice
core from Mt. Logan, Yukon Territory
Is there tephra in there??
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- 1988-1992: B.S.,
Geology,
University
of Puget Sound
Thesis: "The geochemistry of Mount Rainier
volcano, Washington"
Student Projects
Supervised
- 2012-: Kalteyer, Donna
(Teye) - Tephras in the Carp Lake WA cores
revisited
- 2011-2012: Pritt, Joey
- Mt. St. Helens Set C tephras
- 2008-2009: Atkins,
Chris - Cryptotephra in the Mt. Logan PR Col ice
core (thesis)
- 2004-2005: Preppernau,
Charles - The Pumice Flat tephra of Newberry Volcano
(independent study)
Publications, Theses,
and Field Guides
- Lowe, D.J., Pearce, N.J.G., Jorgensen, M.A.,
Kuehn, S.C., Tryon, C.A., and Hayward, C.A.,
submitted, Advances in analyzing and correlating
tephras: Invited progress report for Progress in
Physical Geography.
- Pyne-O’Donnell, S.D.F, Hughes, P.D.M.,
Froese, D.G., Jensen, B.J.L., Kuehn, S.C.,
and eight others, 2012, High-precision ultra-distal
Holocene tephrochronology in North America,
Quaternary Science Reviews (rapid communication) 52,
pp. 6-11, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.07.024.
- Kuehn, S.C., Froese, D.G., and Shane,
P.A.R., 2011, The INTAV intercomparison of
electron-beam microanalysis of glass by
tephrochronology laboratories, results and
recommendations: Quaternary International. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2011.08.022.
- Project Website -
Manuscript and
Supplemental Files
- Kuehn, S.C. and Froese, D.G., 2010,
Tephra from ice – A simple method to routinely
mount, polish, and quantitatively analyze sparse
fine particles: Microscopy and Microanalysis Article
online - Coordinate
transform spreadsheet
- Kuehn, S.C. and Negrini, R.N., 2010, A
250,000-year record of Cascade Range pyroclastic
volcanism from late Pleistocene lacustrine sediments
near Summer Lake, Oregon, USA: Geosphere.
Article
online Supplemental
figures with captions plus captions for the
supplemental tables: High-resolution
version (35 MB) Screen-resolution
version (3.3 MB).
- Lacelle, D., St-Jean, M., Lauriol, B., Clark,
I.D., Froese, D., Kuehn, S.C., Zazula, G.,
and Lewkowicz, A., 2009, Burial history of a relict
perennial snowbank body and vegetation by the Dawson
tephra (25,300 14C years BP) near Red Creek, Ogilvie
Mountains, central Yukon, Canada: Quaternary Science
Reviews. Article
online
- Kuehn, S.C., Froese, D.G. Carrara.
P.E., Foit, F.F., Pearce, N.J., and Rotheisler, P.,
2009, The latest Pleistocene Glacier Peak tephra set
revisited and revised: major- and trace-element
characterization, distribution, and a new chronology
in western North America: Quaternary Research, vol.
71, pp. 201–216. Article
online. Supplemental materials: Fig S1 (location
map), Table S1
(tephra localities), Table S2
(spreadsheet containing microprobe data), Table S3
(radiocarbon dates), Supplemental
references and bibliography.
- Kuehn, S.C. and Foit, F.F., 2006,
Correlation of widespread Holocene and Pleistocene
tephra layers from Newberry Volcano, Oregon, using
glass compositions and numerical methods: Quaternary
International, vol. 148, No. 1, pp. 113-137 (May
2006). Article
online (linked via DOI) - correctly reproduced Fig 1
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Glacier Peak and Mt. St. Helens tephras
in laminated lake sediments at Marias
Pass, MT
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- Kuehn, S.C., 2002, Stratigraphy,
distribution, and geochemistry of the Newberry
volcano tephras: Washington State University Ph.D.
dissertation, 701 pages. Complete
dissertation online
- Kuehn, S.C. and Foit, F.F., 2001,
Updated tephra stratigraphy at Summer Lake, Oregon,
a sub-basin of pluvial Lake Chewaucan, in Negrini,
R., Pezzopane, S., and Badger, T., eds., Quaternary
Studies near Summer Lake, Oregon: Guidebook for the
Friends of the Pleistocene Ninth Annual Pacific
Northwest Cell Field Trip. pp. SK1-SK9. Article online
(102kB
PDF)
- Jensen, R.A., Chitwood, L.A., Kuehn,
S.C., Donnelly-Nolan, J.M., Reynolds, R.W.,
Connolly, T.J., Castro, J., Linneman, S., and
Claeyssens, 2000, Newberry field trip guide, in
Jensen, R.A. and Chitwood, L.A., eds., What's New at
Newberry Volcano, Oregon: Guidebook for the Friends
of the Pleistocene Eighth Annual Pacific Northwest
Cell Field Trip. pp. 5-26.
- Kuehn, S.C. and Foit, F.F., 2000,
Silicic tephras of Newberry volcano, in Jensen, R.A.
and Chitwood, L.A., eds., What's New at Newberry
Volcano, Oregon: Guidebook for the Friends of the
Pleistocene Eighth Annual Pacific Northwest Cell
Field Trip. pp. 135-163. Lower resolution
article online (4.8 MB PDF) Higher
resolution article online (10.1 MB PDF)
- Kuehn, S.C., Davis, L., and Keatts,
K., 1999, Laboratory Exercises in Physical Geology,
5th edition: Pearson Custom Publishing, 248 p.Kuehn,
S.C., Davis, L., and Keatts, K., 1996, Laboratory
Exercises in Physical Geology, 4th edition: Burgess
International Group (now part of Pearson-Prentice
Hall), 229 p.
- Kuehn, S.C., 1995, The Olympic-Wallowa
lineament, Hite fault system, and Columbia River
Basalt Group stratigraphy in northeast Umatilla
County, Oregon: Washington State University M.S.
thesis, 170 pages. Complete thesis online: HTML or PDF (10.2
MB)
- Kuehn, S.C., 1992, The geochemistry of
Mount Rainier volcano, Washington: University of
Puget Sound, B.S. thesis, 112 pages.
Selected and Recent
Conference Presentations and Abstracts
Multiple tephra beds
in Pleistocene lake sediments
at Summer Lake,
Oregon
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- Kuehn, S.C., 2012, The topographic
sand box, a tool for improved understanding and
visualization of topographic maps: Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs. vol. 44,
No. 7, p.101 (poster 29-176) Conference poster
- Kuehn, S.C. and Allen, J.A., 2012,
Microanalysis across the curriculum - integrating
electron microprobe and micro-XRF instruments into
undergraduate teaching and research; Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs. vol. 44,
No. 7, p.101 (poster 29-172) Conference
poster
- Kuehn, S.C, 2012, Secondary standards
and sodium-loss: results and recommendations from a
large interlaboratory comparison of four natural
glasses. Microanalytical Reference Materials 2012,
Golden, CO, May 15-17.
- Kuehn, S.C, Froese, D.G., and Shane,
P, 2011, Assessing microanalytical performance
using secondary standards: Results of an electron
probe interlaboratory comparison using four natural
volcanic glasses. Microscopy & Microanalysis
2011, Nashville, TN. Abstract
- Conference
Poster
- Kuehn, S.C, Froese, D.G., Shane, P,
Davies, S, and Alloway, B, 2010, The INTAV
intercomparison of tephrochonology laboratories:
International Field Conference and Workshop on
Tephrochronology, Volcanism and Human Activity,
Kirishima, Japan. Abstract
- Froese, D.G., Kuehn, S.C, Fisher, D.,
Zdanowicz, C, Atkins, C, Dunning, H, and Jensen, B,
2010, Establishing independent age models for ice
cores using tephrochronology: International Field
Conference and Workshop on Tephrochronology,
Volcanism and Human Activity, Kirishima, Japan.
- Kuehn, S.C., Froese, D.G., Pearce,
N.J.G., and Foit, F.F., 2009, ID3506, a New/Old
Lipari Obsidian Standard for Characterization of
Natural Glasses and Tephrochronology: Eos
Transactions of the AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract
V31E-2010. Abstract Poster
- Schupack, B.B., Miller, G.H., Kuehn,
S.C., 2009, Pushing the Limits of Volcanic
Cryptotephra Detection in the High Arctic,
Spitsbergen, Svalbard: GSA Abstracts with Programs,
V. 41, No. 7, Abstract No. 159929. Abstract
- Kuehn, S.C., 2005, New Details From
The Tephra Stratigraphy At Summer Lake, Oregon, A
Sub-Basin Of Pluvial Lake Chewaucan: GSA Abstracts
with Programs Vol. 37, No. 7.
- Kuehn, S.C., Preppernau, C., 2005,
Pumice Flat tephra of Newberry volcano, Oregon: A
mixed-magma Plinian eruption: GSA Abstracts with
Programs Vol. 37, No. 4. (with student co-author)
- Poster
(web-resolution graphics - 788 KB PDF)
- Poster
(high-resolution graphics - 15 MB PDF)
- Kuehn, S.C., Foit, F.F., 2003, Distal
correlation of Newberry volcano tephras and updated
tephra stratigraphy for the Summer Lake sub basin of
pluvial Lake Chewaucan: XVI INQUA Congress Programs
with Abstracts, p. 182.
- Kuehn, S.C., 2003, Plinian Newberry
pumice and related eruptions of Newberry volcano,
central Oregon, USA: Eos Transactions of the AGU,
84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V42B-0354.
- Kuehn, S.C., 1997, Geochemistry and
stratigraphy of the tephras of Newberry volcano,
central Oregon: Geological Society of America
Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, no. 6, p. A419.
Tephra
in core from
Summer Lake, OR
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- Kuehn, S.C., Hooper, P.R., Thiessen,
R.L., Watkinson, A.J., 1996, Structures in the
Columbia River basalts associated with the
Olympic-Wallowa lineament and Hite fault, Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 28,
no. 5, p. 83.
- Kuehn, S.C., Hooper, P.R., Eggers,
A.A., Kerrick, C, 1995, Petrogenetic constraints at
Mount Rainier volcano, Washington: EOS Transactions
of the American Geophysical Union, v. 76, no. 46, p.
F651.
- Kuehn, S.C., Hooper, P.R. Eggers,
A.A., 1993, Mount Rainier, a decade volcano:
Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Programs, v. 25, no. 5, p. 65.
Etc.
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