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Dr. Brennan
T.
Jordan
Associate
Professor
Dept. of Earth Sciences University of South Dakota 414 E. Clark St. Vermillion, SD 57069 Office: AK-309 Ph. 605-677-6143 Fax 605-677-6121 Brennan.Jordan@usd.edu |
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Academic Background: Full CV |
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| Teaching: Fall 2012 Courses: ESCI-101 Principals of Earth Science I ESCI-423 Earth Materials II: Petrology Other Courses: MTRO-201 Meteorology (last: Fall 2010, next Fall 2012) ESCI-203 Volcanoes and Earthquakes (last: Fall 2008) ESCI-421 Earth Materials I: Mineralogy (last: Fall 2011, next Fall 2013) ESCI-451 Earth Structures (last: Spring 2009, next Spring 2013) ESCI-396 Field Trip: New Mexico & W. Texas (last Spring 2010, next Spring 2013) A&S-100 First Year Experience Seminar: Science Goes to the Movies (Fall 2011) UHON-390 Honors Seminar: Environmental Movements (Fall 2010) Summer Courses: Isles of Greece! May 22-June 11, 2012 See 2009 Pictures! Iceland Volcanology Field Camp July 29-August 17, 2012 (taught through SD School of Mines) |
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| Current and Recent
Research: *Magmatic evolution of Tertiary rifts in northwestern Iceland: Keck Projects 2003, 2004, 2007, and 2011. *Origin of Tertiary alkaline volcanics of central Mongolia: Mongolia 2006 Keck Project, see pictures *Tectonic significance of metabasalts of the Black Hills, focus on Homestake/DUSEL *Cause of west-migrating volcanism of the Oregon High Lava Plains: see animation *Opposing models for the origin of the Yellowstone-Snake River Plain trend and Columbia River basalts: see contribution to mantleplumes.org page *Plume versus non-plume models for intraplate and anomalous plate margin volcanism *GIS model of time-space patterns of deformation of the Brothers fault zone, central Oregon: summary |
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County coordinator for the CoCoRaHS precipitation monitoring network |
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Greece |
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Italy |
South Dakota area |
NM & W. Texas |
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Background photo: dark rhyolitic pumice from the 1875 eruption of Askja, Iceland