Catherine A. Riihimaki, Ph.D. Biology Dept. and Environmental Studies and Sustainability Program Drew University 36 Madison Ave. Madison, NJ 07940 criihimaki at drew.edu Office Phone:973-408-3349 Fax: 973-408-3824 URL: http://users.drew.edu/criihimaki/ EDUCATION 2004-2007 Keck Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Bryn Mawr College Projects: Cirque glacier dynamics, Grinnell Glacier, Montana, and Late-Cenozoic stream incision based on clinker ages, Powder River Basin, Wyoming Advisor: Don C. Barber 1998-2003 Ph.D. Earth Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz Dissertation: Quantitative Constraints on the Glacial and Fluvial Evolution of Alpine Landscapes Advisor: Robert S. Anderson 1994-1998 B.A. Geosciences and Mathematics, Williams College Summa Cum Laude and Highest Honors Senior Honors Thesis: Rates of Aggradation and Pedogenesis, Southeastern Puye Quadrangle, New Mexico Advisor: David P. Dethier TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2008-present Assistant Professor, Biology Department and Environmental Studies and Sustainability Program, Drew Universty Courses taught: Earth Systems and the Environment, Geographic Information Systems, Earth's Dynamic Surface: From Mt. Everest to the Ocean Floor, Introduction to Environmental Geology Independent study student: Ciara Perez 2007-2008 Lecturer, Department of Geology, Bryn Mawr College Courses taught: Problem Solving in the Environmental Sciences, How the Earth Works laboratory, Earth History laboratory, Earth Systems and the Environment laboratory Senior thesis student: Anna Mazzariello Independent study student: Paige Walker 2004-2007 Keck Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geology, Bryn Mawr College Courses developed and taught: Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies, Problem Solving in the Environmental Sciences, Glaciology and Glacial Geology Course taught: Earth Systems and the Environment Senior thesis students: Beth Copeland, Shannon Ulrich, Andrea Cutruzzula, Kaitlin Friedman, Nathaniel Grabman 2003-2004 Visiting Asst. Professor, Department of Geology, Colby College Courses taught: Physical Processes of Planet Earth, Geomorphology (with lab) Courses developed and taught: Geology in the Movies 2001-2003 Teaching Assistant, Earth Sciences Department, UC-Santa Cruz Taught lab sections: Geologic Field Methods, The Dynamic Earth 2002 Instructor, COSMOS Program, University of California, Santa Cruz Course developed and taught: The Mountains 1997-1998 Teaching Assistant, Geosciences Department, Williams College Assisted with lab sections: Environmental Geology, Oceanography HONORS 2004-2007 Keck Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Bryn Mawr College 1999-2002 NSF Graduate Fellowship, UC-Santa Cruz 1998-1999 University of California Regents Fellowship 1998 Highest Honors, Department of Geosciences Williams College 1998 Phi Beta Kappa 1998 Freeman Foote Award, Best Thesis Presentation, Department of Geosciences Williams College 1998 National Association of Geosciences Teachers Student Fellowship 1997 Council on Undergraduate Research Summer Research Fellowship PRINCIPAL RESEARCH INTERESTS 1) Sensitivity of surface processes to climate fluctuations, 2) GIS and numerical modeling of landscape evolution, 3) Real-time measurements of glacial environments, 4) Cosmogenic and thermochronologic constraints on landform ages RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2008-present Lake Tahoe, Nevada and California Water quality sampling from stream water column and floodplain Suspended sediment concentrations and grain-size distribution from water samples Numerical and GIS modeling of effects of stream restoration projects 2005-present Grinnell Glacier, Glacier National Park, Montana Real-time measurements of glacier surface velocity using differential GPS Meteorology station programming, wiring, and installation Lake-coring to document glacial erosion rates Numerical modeling of glacier mass balance and glacial erosion 2005-present Powder River Basin, Wyoming (U-Th)/He dating of clinker Numerical modeling of stream incision 1998-present Rocky Mountains, Wyoming, Colorado, and Montana Cosmogenic radionuclide dating of terraces Numerical modeling of stream incision and flexural isostasy 1999-2002 Bench Glacier, Alaska Real-time measurements of glacier surface velocity using differential GPS and theodolite Sediment and water discharge measurements Meteorology station programming and installation Statistical analysis of glacial and fluvial time-series 1998 Rio Puerco, New Mexico NAGT Intern, US Geologic Survey 1997 San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico Senior thesis research mapping surficial geology along Rio Grande RESEARCH GRANTS 2007-2009 US Forest Service. Total grant $111,245; Bryn Mawr share is $10,000. For Methodology to predict total and fine sediment load reductions as a result of channel restoration in Lake Tahoe streams. Collaborator: Nicole Beck, 2NDNATURE, LLC 2005-2008 National Science Foundation, Geology and Paleontology. Total grant is $150,000; Bryn Mawr share is $32,000. For Collaborative Research: Clinker Geochronology and Geomorphic Evolution of the Powder River Basin, Wyoming. Collaborator: Peter Reiners, University of Arizona 2005 American Philosophical Society. $4,000 for Glaciology and geomorphology in Glacier National Park: How do cirques form? Collaborator: Kelly MacGregor, Macalester College SERVICE 2008-present Associate Editor, Lithosphere, Geological Society of America 2007 Co-leader, Undergraduate field trip to Hawaii, Bryn Mawr College 2006-present Reviewer, National Science Foundation 2006 Leader, Undergraduate field trip to Santa Cruz, CA, Bryn Mawr College 2006 Co-chair, Topical Session, American Geophysical Union, Fall National Meeting 2005-2008 Faculty representative, Environmental Studies Steering Committee, Bryn Mawr College 2005-2008 Co-organizer and participant, Math-Science Partnership of Greater Philadelphia 2005-2008 Representative, Science Computer Committee, Bryn Mawr College 2005 Co-leader, Undergraduate field trip to San Salvador, Bahamas, Bryn Mawr College 2004 Co-organizer, Tri-College Mellon Modeling Group, Bryn Mawr College 2004 Co-leader, Undergraduate field trip to Canadian Rockies, Bryn Mawr College 2002 Co-chair, Topical Session, Geological Society of America, Fall National Meeting 2001-2003 Graduate Student Representative, Earth Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Geophysical Union, Geological Society of America, Sigma Xi, Association for Women Geoscientists, Council on Undergraduate Research PUBLICATIONS Foster, D., Brocklehurst, S., MacGregor, K., and Riihimaki, C. A. (submitted), Glacial valley longitudinal profile evolution under rock uplift: insights from numerical modelling, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. MacGregor, K. R., Riihimaki, C. A., Myrbo, A., Shapley, M. D., and Jankowski, K. (accepted), Geomorphic and climatic change over the past 12,900 years at Swiftcurrent Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana, Quaternary Research. Riihimaki, C. A., Reiners, P. W., and Heffern, E. L. (2009), Quaternary coal fires correlate with climate fluctuations, Powder River basin, Wyoming and Montana, Geology, 37, 255-258. Riihimaki, C. A., and Libarkin, J. C. (2007), Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides as paleoaltimetric proxies, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 66, 269-278. Riihimaki, C. A., Anderson, R. S., and Safran, E. B. (2007), Impact of rock uplift on rates of late Cenozoic Rocky Mountain river incision, Journal of Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, 112, F03S02, doi:10.1029/2006JF000557. Riihimaki, C. A., Anderson, R. S., Safran, E. B., Dethier, D. P., Finkel, R. C., and Bierman, P. R. (2006), Longevity and progressive abandonment of the Rocky Flats surface, Front Range, Colorado, Geomorphology, 78, 265-278. Stock, G. S., Riihimaki, C. A., and Anderson, R. S. (2006), Age constraints on cave development and landscape evolution in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming, USA, Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, 68, 76-84. Anderson, R. S., Riihimaki, C. A., Safran, E. B., and MacGregor, K. R. (2006), Facing reality: Late Cenozoic evolution of smooth peaks, glacially ornamented valleys and deep river gorges of Colorado's Front Range, GSA Special Paper 398, 397-418. Riihimaki, C. A., MacGregor, K. R., Anderson, R. S., Anderson, S. P., and Loso, M. G. (2005), Sediment evacuation and glacial erosion rates at a small alpine glacier, Journal of Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, 110, F03003, doi:10.1029/2004JF000189. MacGregor, K. R., Riihimaki, C. A., and Anderson, R. S. (2005), Spatial and temporal evolution of sliding velocity on a small alpine glacier: Bench Glacier, Alaska 1999 and 2000, Journal of Glaciology, 51, 49-63. Anderson, R. S., Anderson, S. P., MacGregor, K. R., Waddington, E. D., O'Neel, S., Riihimaki, C. A., and Loso, M. G. (2004), Self-defeating unsteady sliding of an alpine glacier, Journal of Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, 109, F03005, doi:10.1029/2004JF000120. MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION Riihimaki, C. A., MacGregor, K. R., Catania, G., and Copeland, E. Affects of global warming on Grinnell Glacier, Glacier National Park, Montana, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research. Riihimaki, C. A., and McMillan, M. E., Late Cenozoic flexural uplift of the Rocky Mountains, Geophysical Research Letters. MEETING ABSTRACTS Riihimaki, C. A., Reiners, P. W., and Heffern, E. L. (2008), Evidence for climatic control on Quaternary landscape evolution in the central Rocky Mountains, Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, Abstracts with Program. Reiners, P. W., Riihimaki, C. A., and Heffern, E. L. (2008), Landscape evolution from shallow exposure/weathering ages: Examples from clinker geochronology, Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, Abstracts with Program. Riihimaki, C. A., Reiners, P. W., and Heffern, E. L. (2007), Rates of Late Cenozoic landscape evolution constrained by (U-Th)/He dating of clinker, Powder River basin, Wyoming and Montana, Geological Society of America, Fall National Meeting, Abstracts with Program. MacGregor, K. R., Riihimaki, C. A., Myrbo, A., Dunn, E., and Jankowski, K. (2007), Geomorphic and climatic controls on Holocene sedimentation in two proglacial lakes: Swiftcurrent Lake and Lake Josephine, Glacier National Park, Montana, Geological Society of America, Fall National Meeting, Abstracts with Program. Riihimaki, C. A., Anderson, R. S., and Safran, E. B. (2006), Modeling the impact of epeirogenic rock uplift on late Cenozoic river incision in the central Rocky Mountains, Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, Abstracts with Program, Invited talk. Jones, L. C., Riihimaki, C. A., MacGregor, K. R., Jankowski, K. L., Myrbo, A., and Shapley, M. (2006), Coulometric analysis of a sediment core from Swiftcurrent Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana, Geological Society of America, Fall National Meeting, Abstracts with Program. Jankowski, K. L., MacGregor, K. R., Riihimaki, C. A., Myrbo, A. E., and Shapley, M. (2006), Preliminary limnogeological characterization of glacial erosion and environmental change from sediment cores, Swiftcurrent Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana, Geological Society of America, Fall National Meeting, Abstracts with Program. Libarkin, J. C., Riihimaki, C. A., and Farley, K. (2006), Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides as paleoaltimeters: new approaches and future potential, Goldschmidt Conference. Riihimaki, C. A., and MacGregor, K. R. (2005), Source-to-sink study of erosion at Grinnell Glacier, Glacier National Park, Montana, Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, Abstracts with Program. Safran, E. B., Anderson, R. S., Riihimaki, C. A., and Armstrong, J. (2005), Longitudinal stream profile morphology and patterns of knickpoint propagation in the Bighorn Range, Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, Abstracts with Program. Riihimaki, C. A., Anderson, R. S., and Safran, E. B. (2004), Testing the impact of late Cenozoic rock uplift on the topography of the Rocky Mountains, Geological Society of America, Fall National Meeting, Abstracts with Program, Invited talk. Riihimaki, C. A., MacGregor, K. R., Anderson, R. S., Anderson, S. P., and Loso, M. G. (2003), Interpretation of fine and coarse sediment yield from Bench Glacier, Alaska, Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, Abstracts with Program. Anderson, R. S., Riihimaki, C. A., and Safran, E. B. (2003), A numerical sketch of late Cenozoic evolution of the Front Range, Colorado, Geological Society of America, Fall National Meeting, Abstracts with Program. Riihimaki, C. A., Anderson, R. S., and Safran, E. B. (2002), Age and Mechanics of Formation of the Rocky Flats and Analogous Surfaces Bounding Laramide Ranges in Northern Colorado and Wyoming, Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, Abstracts with Program. Safran, E. B., Zellers, N. A., Anderson, R. S., Gilbert, G. J., and Riihimaki, C. A., (2002), Interpreting Longitudinal Stream Profile Morphology in the Laramide Ranges, Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, Abstracts with Program. Riihimaki, C. A., Anderson, R. S., and Safran, E. B. (2002), Morphology of the Granite Mountains, Wyoming, as an Analogue for Pre-exhumation Laramide Ranges, Geological Society of America, Fall National Meeting, Abstracts with Programs. Anderson, R. S., Riihimaki, C. A., Safran, E. B., and Stock, G. M. (2002), Late Cenozoic Glacial and Fluvial Incision of Laramide Ranges, Geological Society of America, Fall National Meeting, Abstracts with Programs. Safran, E. B., Gilbert, G. J., Anderson, R. S., Riihimaki, C. A., and Zellers, N. A. (2002), Laramide Range Morphology and Geomorphic Implications, Geological Society of America, Fall National Meeting, Abstracts with Programs. Riihimaki, C. A., Anderson, R. S., and Safran, E. B. (2001), Modeling of Non-Uniform, Late Cenozoic Exhumation of the Laramide Landscape Using Proposed Geophysical and Climatic Forcing Mechanisms, Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, Abstracts with Program. Riihimaki, C. A., MacGregor, K. R., Anderson, R. S., and Anderson, S. P. (2000), Fine and Coarse Sediment Evacuation and Subglacial Channel Network Evolution at the Bench Glacier, Chugach Range, Alaska, Geological Society of America, Fall National Meeting, Abstracts with Programs. MacGregor, K. R., Riihimaki, C. A., Anderson, R. S., Anderson, S. P., and Waddington, E. D. (2000), Developing a Linked Glaciological and Hydrological Data Set to Understand Valley-Scale Subglacial Erosion over Glacial-Interglacial Cycles, Geological Society of America, Fall National Meeting, Abstracts with Programs. Riihimaki, C. A., MacGregor, K. R., Anderson, R. S., and Anderson, S. P. (1999), Sediment yield of the Bench Glacier, Alaska, during the 1999 melt season, Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, 80, F426-F427. MacGregor, K. R., Anderson, R. S., Anderson, S. P. Riihimaki, C. A., and Harper, J. T. (1999), Spatial and temporal ice velocities and implications for subglacial erosion: Bench Glacier, Alaska. Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, 80, F426. Riihimaki, C. A., and Dethier, D.P. (1998), Rates of Holocene aggradation and pedogenesis, southeastern Puye Quadrangle, New Mexico, Geological Society of America, Northeastern Section, 33rd Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, 30, 70. INVITED LECTURES 2008 Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Lafayette College 2008 Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota 2008 Biology Department, Drew University 2008 Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College 2008 Natural Sciences Department, Bentley College 2007 Paleoaltimetry Short-course, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 2007 Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University 2007 Geosciences Department, Earlham College 2006 Philadelphia Mineralogical Society 2006 Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania 2006 Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Lafayette College 2005 Geology Department, University of Delaware 2005 Center for Science in Society, Bryn Mawr College 2004 Geology Department, Bryn Mawr College 2003 Geology Department, Colby College