Dr. Brennan T. Jordan
Associate Professor
Dept. of Earth Sciences
University of South Dakota
414 E. Clark St.
Vermillion, SD 57069
Ph. 605-677-6143
Fax 605-677-6121
Brennan.Jordan@usd.edu

Academic Background: Full CV
  Ph.D. 2002 Oregon State University
  M.S. 1994 Idaho State University
  B.A. 1990 Hofstra University

Teaching:
Spring 2010 Courses:
 
ESCI-101 Principals of Earth Science I
 
ESCI-423 Earth Materials II: Petrology 
  ESCI-396 Field Trip: New Mexico & W. Texas in Spring 2007
                                                                                    
Other Courses:                                                  
  Isles of Greece! See 2009 Pictures!
 
ESCI-203 Volcanoes and Earthquakes (last: Fall 2008)
 
ESCI-421 Earth Materials I: Mineralogy (last: Fall 2009, next Fall 2011)
 
ESCI-451 Earth Structures (last: Spring 2009, next Spring 2011)
  MTRO-201 Meteorology
(last: Fall 2008, next Fall 2010)
 
A&S-100 First Year Experience Seminar: He Blinded Me with Science (last: Fall 2009)
Current and Recent Research:
*Magmatic evolution of Tertiary rifts in northwestern Iceland: Keck Projects 2003, 2004, & 2007
*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

 

Chair, 2009 & 2010 IdeaFest and Graduate Forum

 

County coordinator for the CoCoRaHS precipitation monitoring network

Photo Galleries:

Iceland
mong
Mongolia
greece
Greece
italy
Italy

South Dakota area

NM & W. Texas
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Mt. St. Helens
cal
California
other
Other

Background photo: dark rhyolitic pumice from the 1875 eruption of Askja, Iceland