Geology Department
Lawrence University Tel: (920) 832-7015 FAX: (920) 832-6962
Appleton, WI 54912 e-mail: bjornerm@lawrence.edu
EDUCATION
PhD, Geology (1987), University of Wisconsin-Madison Minor: Rock Mechanics
MS, Geology (1985), University of Wisconsin-Madison
BS, Geophysics (1983), University of Minnesota-Minneapolis (with High Distinction)
Sept. 2002-present: Professor and Chair, Geology Department, and Director of Environmental Studies,
Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
Sept. 1995-August 2002: Associate Professor and Chair, Geology Department, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
August 1996-August 1999: Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Geological Engineering and Sciences,
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
July 1994-August 1995: Associate professor, Geology Department, Miami University, Oxford OH
Jan. 1989-July 1994: Assistant professor, Geology Department, Miami University, Oxford OH
Oct. 1987-Dec. 1988: First Byrd Postdoctoral Fellow, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University
Sept. 1986-Sept. 1987: University Graduate Fellow, Dept. of Geology & Geophysics, University of Wisconsin
Sept. 1983-Aug. 1986: National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, University of Wisconsin
Summer 1983: Intern, Office of Earthquakes, Volcanoes & Engineering, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Structural geology, tectonics, rock mechanics, history and philosophy of science.
COURSES TAUGHT (Lawrence and Miami Universities)
Introductory Geology Introduction to Environmental Science
Evolution of Earth and Life Dendroclimatology
Structural Geology Life on Mars
Advanced Structural Geology Impact Cratering
Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology Geology of the British Isles (field course)
Continental Rifting Freshman studies (Literature/writing course)
AWARDS, HONORS, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE OFFICES
Geological Society of America Fellow (elected 2003)
Fulbright Scholar, US-Norway Fulbright Foundation (2000-2001)
Editorial Board, Journal of Geoscience Education (1997-2000)
National Association of Geology Teachers Distinguished Speaker (1994-97)
National Science Foundation Innovator in Science Education (1994)
American Geological Institute teaching award nominee (1993)
Association of Women Geoscientists teaching award nominee (1993)
Miami University Outstanding Teacher of the Year award nominee (1990, 1993)
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1983-86)
National Merit Scholar, Carleton College, Northfield, MN (1979-80)
GRADUATE THESES DIRECTED (Miami University)
C.A. Hajcak (MS 1992): Pre- and post-lithification tectonic structures in a Silurian accretionary prism, N Ellesmere I.
A.P. Perham(MS 1992): Relationships between plutonism and deformation in the Penokean orogeny, W Wisconsin
H. Zhang (MS 1992): Computer simulations of shear-sense indicators
R.K. Fowlow (MS 1994): Microstructural study of the Perth Road mylonite, Grenville Province, SE Ontario
B. Boyer (MS 1995): Fractal characterization of ductile and quasi-ductile microstructures
ADVISOR and COLLABORATORS: Campbell Craddock (University of Wisconsin); Y. Ohta (Norwegian Polar Institute); H. Austrheim (Universitet i Oslo); H.P.Trettin (Geological Survey of Canada)
MAJOR EXTERNAL GRANTS
Research:
2000-01 Fulbright Research Grant: Fluids and faulting: Perspectives from two slices of Norwegian crust. 144,000 NOK
1996-97 NSF/Visiting Professorships for Women: Bridging 'Pure' and Applied Geology. (Sole PI) $60,377.
1991-94: NSF/Earth Sciences: Defining kinematic stability fields for shear-sense indicators. (Sole PI) $58,160.
1990-92: American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund: Interpreting a major structural and stratigraphic discontinuity in northern Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada. (Sole PI) $18,000.
Curriculum/instrumentation:
1996-97: NSF/ Academic Research Infrastructure: Acquisition of a computer imaging system for geological and bio-logical research. (Main PI: N. Wall; Co-PIs: G.Smith, B.DeStasio, M.Bjornerud, E.DeStasio) $61,064.
1991-94: NSF/Undergraduate Science, Engineering and Mathematics Education (Undergraduate Course and Curriculum Development Program): Restructuring an introductory geology laboratory around themes of Earth systems. (PI: M. Bjornerud Co-PIs: J.M. Hughes, A.D. Baldwin, Jr.) $76,898.
1991-93: NSF/Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement: Equipment to restructure an introductory geology laboratory around themes of Earth systems. (Co-PIs: M. Bjornerud, M. Cameron) $31,221.
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS *Teaching-related publication
Bjornerud, M. and Austrheim, H., In press. Inhibited eclogite formation: The key to rapid growth of strong and buoyant Archean continental crust. Accepted for Geology (September 2004 issue).
Bjornerud, M. and Magloughlin, J., In press. Positive feedback processes in the generation of pseudotachylytes. Journal of Structural Geology.
Bjornerud, M. and Inge Brynhi, In press. Stone in Oslo: A guide to building stones in Norway’s capital city. To be published by the National History Museums, Universitetet i Oslo.
Bjornerud, M., Austrheim, H., and Lund, M., 2002. Processes leading to densification (eclogitization) of tectonically buried crust. Journal of Geophysical Research, 107(B10), 10.1029/2001JB000527.
Bjornerud, M. and Austrheim, H., 2002. Comment on “Evidence for shear heating, Musgrave Block, central Australia”. Journal of Structural Geology, 24, p. 1537-1538.
Bjornerud, M., 2000. “Natural science, natural resources, and the nature of Nature”. Chapter 5 in The Earth Around Us. J. Schneidermann, editor. New York: W. H. Freeman.
* Rowe, J. and Bjornerud, M. 2000. Volcanic petrographic textures in ceramic-glaze interfaces. J. Geoscience Education, 48, p. 304-306 and 360-361.
*Bjornerud, M., 1999. The Blue Planet: A laboratory manual in Earth system science. (2nd ed.) New York: Wiley. 149 pp.
*Bjornerud, M., 1999. Instructor’s manual to accompany The Blue Planet. New York: Wiley. 49 pp.
Bjornerud, M., 1998. Superimposed deformation in seconds: Breccias from the impact site at Kentland, Indiana. Tectonophysics, v. 290, p. 259-269.
Bjornerud, M., 1997. Gaia: Gender and scientific representations of the Earth. J. National Women’s. Studies Assoc., 9, p. 89-106.
Bjornerud, M., 1997. Live Universes (letter to the editor), Nature, 385, p. 109.
Bjornerud, M., 1996. Geolinguística -- En pos de los orígenes de términos geológicos. Enseñanza de las Ciencias de la Tierra, v. 4, p. 181-185. Translation of 1995 J. Geosci. Ed. paper. Translated by Montserrat Domingo.
Bjornerud, M. and Boyer, B., 1996. Image analysis in structural geology using NIH Image. Personal Computers and Structural Geology, Declan DePaor, ed. New York: Elsevier, p. 105-122.
*Bjornerud, M., 1996. Snow and ice as rock analogs in conveying geologic concepts. J. Geoscience Education, 44, p. 549-553.
Balasov, Ju., Peucat, J., Tebenkov, A., Ohta, Y., Larionov, Bjornerud, M., 1996. Rb-Sr whole rock and U-Pb zircon dating of granitic-gabbroic rocks from the Skålfjellet Subgroup, SW Spitsbergen, Polar Research, 15, p. 167-181.
Bjornerud, M. and Zhang, H., 1995. Flow mixing, object/matrix coherence, mantle growth, and the development of porphyroclast tails. J. Structural Geology, 17, p. 1347-1350.
*Bjornerud, M. 1995. Geolinguisitics: Tracing the origins of geologic terms. J Geoscience Education., 43, p. 212-215.
Zhang, H. and Bjornerud, M., 1995. A Macintosh application program for simulating shear-sense indicators using object-oriented programming. Computers and Geosciences, 21, p. 365-375.
*Bjornerud, M., Hughes, J.M., and Baldwin, A.D., Jr., 1995. Guide to the Blue Planet: An introductory geology laboratory manual. New York: John Wiley and Sons. 187 pp.
*Bjornerud, M., Hughes, J.M., and Baldwin, A.D., Jr., 1995. Instructor's Manual to Accompany Guide to the Blue Planet. New York: John Wiley and Sons. 53 pp.
Bjornerud, M. and Zhang, H., 1994. Rotation of porphyroblasts in non-coaxial deformation: Insights from computer simulations. J. Metamorphic Geology, 12, p. 135-139.
Bjornerud, M. and Bradley, D.C., 1994. Silurian foredeep and accretionary prism in northern Ellesmere Island: Implications for the nature of the Ellesmerian orogeny. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Arctic Margins, D.K. Thurston, ed. Anchorage. AK: US Minerals Management Service. p. 129-133.
*Bjornerud, M., 1993. "Understanding Earth's interior", "Brittle vs. ductile deformation" and "Tree rings as records of the past". Exercises for On the Rocks: Earth Science Activities for grades 1-8, S. Stover and R.H. Macdonald, eds. Society for Economic Geologists, Paleontologists and Mineralogists. p. 58, 69, 102.
Bjornerud, M., 1992. Evidence for extensive post-Caledonian karst development in southern Spitsbergen. Geological Magazine, 129, p. 465-469.
Bjornerud, M., 1991. Structural evolution of the Kulutingwak zone, NW Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories: the northern edge of Paleozoic North America? Current Research, n. 91-1E, Geol. Survey of Canada, p. 187-195.
Bjornerud, M., Decker, P.L. and Craddock, C., 1991. Reconsidering Caledonian deformation in southwest Spitsbergen. Tectonics, 10, p. 171-190.
*Bjornerud, M., 1991. Conveying principles of finite strain with standard graphics software, J. Geological Ed., 39, p. 23-27.
Bjornerud, M., 1990. An Upper Proterozoic unconformity in northern Wedel Jarlsberg Land, SW Spitsbergen: Lithostratigraphy and tectonic implications. Polar Research, 8, p. 127-139.
Bjornerud, M., Craddock, C. and Wills, C.J., 1990. A major late Proterozoic tectonic event in southwestern Spitsbergen. Precambrian Research, 48, p. 157-165.
Dallman, W., Hjelle, A., Ohta, Y, Salvigsen, O., Maher, H., Bjornerud, M., Hauser, E. and Craddock, C., 1990. Geological map of Svalbard, Sheet B11G: Van Keulenfjorden, Temakart 15, Norsk Polarinstitutt, Oslo.
Bjornerud, M., 1989. Toward a unified conceptual framework for shear-sense indicators. J. Structural Geology, 11, p. 1045-50.
Bjornerud, M., 1989. Mathematical model for folding of layering near rigid objects in shear deformation.
J. Structural Geology, v. 11, p. 45-54.
Bjornerud, M., 1989. Structural transects in northwestern Ellesmere Island: Current Research, no. 89-1G, Geol. Survey of Canada, p. 125-131.
PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS *Teaching-related presentation
Planavaksy, N. and Bjornerud, M., 2004. Blowing in the Wind: the Copper Harbor stromatolites revisited. Institute on Lake Superior Geology Proceedings, v. 50 p.135-136.
Clark, J. and Bjornerud, M., 2003. Renovating the curriculum from the ground up, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 84, ED12A-0121.
Buttram, M. and Bjornerud, M. , 2003. Textural constraints on the origin of rapakivi textures in the Wolf River Batholith, Institute on Lake Superior Geology Proceedings, v. 49 p. 11.
Garbowicz, A. and Bjornerud, M., 2003. Paleostress inferences from slip vectors in the eastern part of the Wisconsin segment of the Midcontinent rift, Institute on Lake Superior Geology Proceedings, v. 49 p.18.
Bjornerud, M. and Schultz, E., 2002. Strain heterogeneity in an early Proterozoic metavolcanic complex, central Wisconsin. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, v. 34.
Bjornerud, M. and Austrheim, H., 2001. Fluid-triggered, rheologically buffered eclogite metamorphism, Bergen Arcs, western Norway. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, v. 33, p. 51.
Bjornerud, M. and Austrheim, H., 2001. Metamorphism as a heterogeneous, discontinuous, nonequilibrium process: A model for the partially eclogitized granulites of the Bergen Arcs. Geonytt: Norsk Geologisk Forenings Landsmøte Program og Sammendrag, 17, p. 31-32.
Bjornerud, M., 1999. Natural science, natural resources, and the nature of Nature. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, v. 31, p.60.
Bjornerud, M. & Rowe, J., 1999. Volcanic petrographic textures in ceramic glazes.Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, v.31, p.82.
Bjornerud, M. & Corkery, J. 1998. Brittle to ductile transition in marbles deformed during ‘Caledonian’ tectonism, Krossfjorden, Spitsbergen. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, v. 30, n. 7, p. 239.
Vitton, S., Ferrill, B. & Bjornerud, M., 1997. Development and implementation of a zoning ordinance for shale slopes in Huntsville, Alabama, in Characterization of Weak and Weathered Rock. 40th Annual Association of Engineering Geologists Meeting, Portland, Oregon.
Skeen, S., Vitton, S., Bjornerud, M., & Maclean, A., 1997. Identification of paleolandslides using 3-D geologic models with draped remote sensing data. Geo-Logan 97, Logan Utah.
Bjornerud, M., 1995. Gaia: Science, metaphor or myth? Proceedings of National Science Foundation Conference Women and Science: Celebrating Achievement, Charting Challenges. Washington, DC, 13-15 December 1995.
Fowlow, K. & Bjornerud, M., 1994. Structural studies along the Perth Road shear zone, Frontenac terrane, southern Ontario. Geol. Assoc. Can.-Min. Assoc. Can. Prog. w. Abs.
*Bjornerud, M., Baldwin, A.D. Jr., & Hughes, J. M., 1993. Rethinking the introductory geology laboratory,
EOS: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 74, p. 59. (Invited abstract).
*Bjornerud, M., Baldwin, A.D. Jr., Hughes, J. M., & Cameron, M., 1992. Beyond rocks in boxes: An introductory geology laboratory organized around themes of Earth systems, Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, v. 24, p. A133.
Zhang, H. & Bjornerud, M., 1992. A menu-driven Macintosh program for simulating shear-sense indicator development, Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, v. 24, p. A184.
Bjornerud, M., 1992. A possible Silurian accretionary prism in northernmost Ellesmere Island, International Conference on Arctic Margins Abstracts, v. 1, p. 7.
Hajcak, C. & Bjornerud, M. 1991. Pre- and post-lithification tectonic structures in a Silurian accretionary prism, N Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada, Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, v. 23, p. A474.
Bjornerud, M. & Hajcak, C., 1990. Pre-lithification tectonic structures in Silurian turbidites, N Ellesmere Island, EOS: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 71, p. 1593.
Bjornerud, M., 1989. A classification system for shear-sense indicators, Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, v. 21, p. A264.
Bjornerud, M., 1988. Fragments of a Proterozoic-Paleozoic Arctic terrane in N Ellesmere Island and SW Spitsbergen, Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, v. 20, p. A166.
Bjornerud, M., 1987. Clast-controlled deformation in Proterozoic diamictites of SW Spitsbergen, Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, v. 19, p. 590.
Bjornerud, M., Decker, P. & Craddock, C., 1987. Caledonian deformation paths in SW Spitsbergen Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, v. 19, p. 189.
Rector, S. & Bjornerud, M., 1987. Quartz petrofabric and microstructural analysis of Antoniabreen Sequence rocks east of Recherchebreen, west Spitsbergen, Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, v. 19, p. 814.
Bjornerud, M. & Craddock, C. 1986. Superposed deformation in SW Spitsbergen, Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, v.18, p.280.
Decker, P., Craddock, C. & Bjornerud, M., 1986. Deformed clasts in the Hecla Hoek succession, Wedel Jarlsberg Land, West Spitsbergen, Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, v. 18, p. 285.