CURRICULUM VITA

 

Michael Bruce Underwood

February 2003

 

A. PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

Born:  24 May 1954; Lodi, CA., United States Citizen

Married: 29 Dec 1972 - Two Children: born 24 Jan 1978, 28 Dec 1980

Office Address:  307 Geology Building, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO  65211

Home Address: 119 Crestmere Ave, Columbia, MO  65203

Telephone: 573-882-4685 (work); 573-443-0637 (home)            

FAX:  573-882-5458

Email: UnderwoodM@missouri.edu                                                             

Web Site: http://web.missouri.edu/~geoscmbu

 

 

B. EDUCATIONAL TRAINING

                      

Ph.D. -  Marine Geology and Sedimentation, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1978-1982.  Degree conferred May 1984.

                      

B.S. - Earth Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 1972-1976. Degree conferred June 1976.

 

 

C. PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

 

Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Missouri (1994-present)

 

Associate Professor, Dept. Geological Sci., University of Missouri, Columbia, MO  (1988-1994)

Visiting Associate Professor, Dept. of Geology-Geophysics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu (1989)

Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO (1982-1988)

W.A.E. Faculty Appointment, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA (1983-1988)

Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (1980-1982)

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (1978-1980)

Physical Science Technician, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA (1976-1979)

 

 

D. UNIVERSITY RESPONSIBILITIES

 

Courses Taught at University of Missouri

 

GS-2, Physical Geology

GS-10, Environmental Geology

GS-102GH, Faults and Earthquakes: Past, Present, and Future

GS-112, Oceanography (Math Reasoning Proficiency)

GS-127, Surficial Earth Processes & Products

GS-308, Sedimentology (aka Sedimentary Environments and Facies)

GS-335, Investigations of Earth Materials (team taught)

GS-336, Field Course (team taught)

GS-380, Marine Geology

GS-411, Tectonics & Sedimentation

 

Administrative Duties (of significance)

 

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Geological Sciences (1990-1994)

Committee on Curriculum, Instruction, and Advising, College of Arts & Science (1990-1994)

Ad Hoc Committee on Math Reasoning Proficiency, College of Arts & Science (1990-1992)

Academic Grievance Board, campus-wide (1996-2001)

A&S Representative to Committee on Undergraduate Education, campus-wide (1997-2000)

Environmental Studies Executive Committee (2002-present)

 

Graduate Students

 

M.S. - degrees completed (16) - Fulton, Norville, White, McDonald, Poole, Hathon, Evoy, Strong, Kang, Quinn, Shultz, Solomon, Meyer, Breting, Hoke, Orr; active candidates (none)

 

Ph.D. - degrees completed (2) - Laughland, Deng; active candidate (1) - Steurer

 

University Honors and Awards

 

1986          Purple Chalk Award, UMC Arts & Science Student Government

1989          Gold Chalk Award, UMC Graduate and Professional Council

1993          Sigma Gamma Epsilon, Instructor of the Year, UMC Department of Geological Sciences

1996           Chancelloršs Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences

 

 

E. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

 

NORPAC (North Pacific) Steering Committee, Ocean Drilling Program (1985-1986)

Vice-Chairman, SEPM Research Group, Turbidites & Deep-Water Sedimentation (1985)

Chairman, SEPM Research Group, Turbidites & Deep-Water Sedimentation (1985-1987)

COMFAN II, International Research Group on Submarine Fans (1988)

Nomination Committee, GSA Division of Sedimentary Geology (1987-1988)

2nd Vice-Chairman, GSA Sedimentary Geology Division (1990-1991)

U.S. Working Group, IGCP Project 294: Very Low Grade Metamorphism (1990-1993)

Panel Member, Ocean Drilling Program, Sedimentary and Geochemical Processes (1993-1996)

SGPP Liaison to Tectonics Panel, Ocean Drilling Program (1993-1996)

Invited Participant, MARGINS Workshop, Stratigraphic Evolution of Continental Margins (1993)

Invited Participant, SEPM Workshop, Sedimentary Geology & Paleontology in 21st Century (1994)

Steering Committee, JOI/USSAC/GSA Penrose Conference on Triple Junctions (1994)

Ad Hoc SEPM Subcommittee on Educational Issues and the Future of Sedimentary Geology (1995)

Alternate Chairperson, JOIDES Science Steering and Evaluation Panel (1997-1998)

Invited Participant, MARGINS Workshop, Seismogenic Zone Experiment - SEIZE - (1997)

U.S. Delegate to JOIDES Conference on Cooperative Ocean Riser Drilling - COMPLEX (1997)

Invited Participant, MARGINS Workshop, Subduction Factory (1998)

Organizing Committee, MARGINS Workshops, Source-to-Sink Sedimentation (1999 and 2000)

Invited Participant, MARGINS Workshops, Source-to-Sink Sedimentation (1999 and 2000)

U.S. Delegate to JOIDES Conference on Multi-Platform Exploration of the Ocean - CONCORD (1999)

Steering Committee, U.S. MARGINS Initiative (1997-2000)

Member, United States Science Advisory Committee (USSAC) (1998-2001)

Panel Member, National Undersea Research Program, West Coast & Polar Regions (1999)

Associate Editor, Journal of Sedimentary Research (2000-present)

Distinguished Lecturer, Joint Oceanographic Institutions/USSAC (2001-2002)

Invited Participant, Conference on U.S. Participation in IODP (2002)

Group Leader, International Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone (NanTroSEIZE) Workshop (2002)

Visiting Scientist, Japan Marine Science and Technology Center (2002)

Invited Participant, MARGINS Workshop, Central America Seismogenic Zone Experiment (2002)

 

 

F. RESEARCH INTERESTS and EXPERIENCE

 

General Themes of Current Interest

 

Sedimentary and thermal evolution of modern/ancient continental margins and subduction zones

Role of sedimentary facies and diagenesis in subduction-margin fluid budgets

Links among physical properties of sediments, compaction, diagenesis, fluid flow, and shear strength

Effects of lithology and clay mineralogy on seismogenic fault activity

 

 

ODP Shipboard Experience

 

1990 - Leg 131 - Nankai Trough Accretionary Prism (Taira/Hill co-chiefs)

1994 - Leg 156 - Barbados Ridge Fluid Flow (Shipley/Ogawa co-chiefs)

1996 - Leg 168 - Juan de Fuca Flank-Flux Experiment (Davis/Fisher co-chiefs)

2000 - Leg 190 - Return to Nankai Trough (Moore/Taira co-chiefs)

 

Other Oceanographic Experience

 

1976 - Southern Bering Sea, R/V Sea Sounder, Vallier/Gardner co-chief scientists

1977 - Southern Bering Sea, R/V Sea Sounder, Vallier/Gardner

1978 - Southern California Borderland, R/V S.P. Lee, Vedder

1979 - North Pacific Seamounts, R/V Sea Sounder, Menard/Vallier/Scholl

1979 - Aleutian Trench & Ridge, R/V Sea Sounder, Scholl/Vallier

1979 - Kodiak Shelf & Trench Slope, R/V Sea Sounder, Bouma/Hampton

1980 - Puerto Rico Trench, R/V Eastward, Pilkey

1987 - Western Aleutian Trench & Abyssal Plain, R/V Farnella, Vallier/Karl

1993 - Cascadia Subduction Zone, R/V Atlantis II and DSV Alvin, Orange

2001 - TicoFlux I, Costa Rica, R/V Maurice Ewing, Silver/Fisher

2002 ­ TicoFlux II, Costa Rica, R/V Melville, Fisher/Silver

 

Geologic Field Experience

 

1976 - Franciscan Complex, central California

1980 - Franciscan Complex, northern California

1981 - Franciscan Complex, northern California

1983 - Franciscan Complex, northern & central California

1983 - Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas

1984 - Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas & Oklahoma

1985 - Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas & Oklahoma

1987 - Franciscan Complex, central California

1988 - Franciscan Complex, central & northern California

1989 - Franciscan Complex, northern California

1990 - Kandik Basin Region, east-central Alaska

1991 - Kandik Basin Region, east-central Alaska; Brooks Range & ANWR, northern Alaska

1993 - Brooks Range & Colville Basin, northern Alaska

1996 - Franciscan Complex, central California coast

1997 - Franciscan Complex, Mendocino triple junction, San Andreas fault

1998 - Franciscan Complex, Mendocino triple junction, San Andreas fault

1999 - Franciscan Complex, northern California

 

 

G. GRANTS & CONTRACTS

 

Active Grants

 

Oil Seeps and Petroleum Systems in the Wake of a Migrating Triple Junction (American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund, $60,000, two years).

 

Strike-Parallel Variations in Clay Mineralogy and Their Impact on the Cascadia Seismogenic Zone (National Science Foundation), $69,767, two years).

 

Clay Mineralogy and Clay Diagenesis, Nankai Trough and Shikoku Basin (U.S. Science Support Program, $25,550, one year).

 

Collaborative Research: Frictional and Mineralogical Properties of Sediments Entering Subduction Zones: Controls on Stress State and Earthquakes (National Science Foundation, $106,025, two years).

 

 

Expired Grants

 

Sedimentologic and stratigraphic analysis of the lower Atoka Formation, Ouachita fold-thrust belt, central Arkansas (ARCO Oil & Gas Company, $6,000, one year).

 

An integrated study of sedimentary facies and structural style, Ouachita frontal thrust belt, Oklahoma (ARCO Oil & Gas Company, $5,000, one year).

 

Detrital mineralogy and provenance of sand deposits, Aleutian arc-trench system, North Pacific Ocean and southern Bering Sea (UMC Research Council, $2,595, one year).

 

Thermal maturity of the Franciscan Complex, Coast Ranges of California (U.S. Geological Survey, $4,100, one year).

 

Sedimentology, stratigraphy, and thermal maturity of the lower Atoka Formation, frontal Ouachita fold-thrust belt, western Arkansas (Texaco, USA, $19,155, one year).

 

Sedimentology, petrology, and structural evolution of the lower Atoka Formation, frontal Ouachitas, Arkansas and Oklahoma (Texaco, USA, $17,800, one year).

 

Assessment of paleotemperature within the Franciscan Complex of California using vitrinite reflectance and illite crystallinity (U.S. Geological Survey, $8,800, one year).

 

Dispersal of suspended sediment within the Aleutian forearc (UMC Summer Research Fellowship, $4,300, one year).

 

Analysis of sedimentary facies within the Jackfork Group and Atoka Formation, Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas and Oklahoma (SOHIO Petroleum Company, $4,000, one year).

 

Deep-marine sedimentation in the Aleutian forearc, North Pacific Ocean (UM Weldon Spring

Endowment, $11,483, two years).

 

Thermal structure of a hot accretionary complex: Upper Shimanto Group, Shikoku, Japan  (National Science Foundation, $15,000, one year).

 

Thermal maturation of the Upper Shimanto Group, Muroto Peninsula, Shikoku, Japan (American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund, $35,000, two years).

 

Ocean Drilling Program, Leg 131 (Joint Oceanographic Institutes, U.S. Science Support Program, $18,769, one year).

 

Thermal maturity and fluid-rock interactions within Franciscan and related rocks: a test of the slab-window hypothesis (National Science Foundation, $90,000, two years).

 

Thermal, structural, and petrologic evolution of the Kandik Basin region, east-central Alaska (ARCO Alaska, Inc., $8,150, one year).

 

Thermal maturity of the Hoh accretionary complex, Olympic Peninsula, Washington (University of California, Santa Cruz,  $5,000, one year).

 

Sediment transport by unconfined turbidity currents: Aleutian forearc, North Pacific Ocean (National Science Foundation, $28,686, two years).

 

Provenance and diagenesis of clay minerals and organic matter in lutites and mudstones, Nankai accretionary prism (Joint Oceanographic Institutes, U.S. Science Support Program, $20,937, two years).

 

Thermal and structural evolution of the Kandik Basin region, east-central Alaska: A continuation (ARCO Alaska, Inc., $4,860, one year).

 

Thermal consequences of thrust faulting: An example from the Kandik Basin, east-central Alaska (American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund, $40,000, two years).

 

Correlation of paleotemperature indicators for blueschist-facies metamorphic sequences (MU Weldon Spring Endowment, $20,298, two years).

 

Fluid-rock interactions, Los Burros District, Big Sur Coast, CA (University of Missouri Research Board, $13,300, one year).

 

Ocean Drilling Program Leg 156: Northern Barbados Ridge (Joint Oceanographic Institutes, U.S. Science Support Program, $25,117, one year).

 

An integrated study of paleothermal structure, diagenetic history, and fluid-rock interactions within the frontal                 Brooks Range and Colville Basin, north-central Alaska (ARCO Alaska, Inc., $5,000, one year, and British Petroleum Co., $5,000, one year).

 

Analysis of clay mineralogy, clay chemistry, and clay-mineral diagenesis: Northern Barbados accretionary prism (Joint Oceanographic Institutes, U.S. Science Support Program, $27,286, 18 months).

 

Ocean Drilling Program Leg 168: Juan de Fuca Flank-Flux Experiment (Joint Oceanographic Institutes, U.S. Science Support Program, $30,203, one year).

 

Sedimentology of the eastern Juan de Fuca Ridge flank, Leg 168 of the Ocean Drilling Program (Joint Oceanographic Institutes, U.S. Science Support Program, $27,464, 18 months).

 

Eel River Basin Petroleum System (Amoco Production Company, $3,240, one year).

 

Clay Diagenesis and Seismogenic Faults (University of Missouri Research Board, $26,518, one year).

 

Shipboard Participation in Leg 190 of the Ocean Drilling Program, Nankai Trough (Joint Oceanographic Institutions, U.S. Science Support Program, $44,493, one year).

 

Shipboard Participation, Costa Rica Seismogenic Zone Experiment (University of Missouri Research Council, $3,820, 9 months).