TEACHING PHILOSOPHY:

Science is a process of learning, not just a body of facts. I try to get this across in my classes through hands-on scientific investigation and field work. I also believe that we are all stewards of the earth; as an earth scientist I feel a special responsibility to pass on an appreciation of the earth as a dynamic system and an understanding of some of the fundamental earth processes that affect our lives.

COURSES I TEACH:

Introduction to Geology (GEO 1010)

Honors Introduction to Geology (GEO 101H)

Earth Materials (about the classification and origin of minerals and rocks--GEO 3080, fall only)

Energy Use on Earth (ENVT 3800; also cross listed as PHYS 3800 and CHEM 3800, fall only)

Survey of Physical Science (spring only--PHSC 1000)

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. in geology from UC Santa Barbara, 1998

BA in physics from Carleton College, MN, 1989

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS I AM ASSOCIATED WITH:

Geological Society of America

Americal Geophysical Union

National Association of Geology Teachers

Council on Undergraduate Research

CURRICULUM VITAE:

WILLIAM S. DINKLAGE

PERSONAL

              Born, Poughkeepsie, NY , 1967.  Diploma, So. Burlington H.S., Vermont , 1985

 

EDUCATION

              Ph.D., Geology, March, 1998

University of California , Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Dissertation:  Extension of a convergent orogen: Structural evolution of the high-pressure/low-temperature Schist Belt, Brooks Range, Alaska .  Advisor: Phillip B. Gans

BA, Physics, June, 1989, cum laude

Carleton College , Northfield, MN

Geology field camp: Indiana University , Tobacco Root Mountains, MT

 

EXPERIENCE

Teaching 

Assistant Professor, Utah Valley State College, UT, Aug. 2002-present

• Earth materials, introduction to geology, survey of physical science, energy use on earth

Visiting Assistant Professor,  Carleton College, MN , Sept. 2001-June 2002

• Structural geology, igneous & metamorphic petrology, introduction to geology

Visiting Assistant Professor,  Wittenberg University, OH , Aug. 1999-June 2001

• Structural geology, sedimentology, physical geology, "Rocky Mountain Field Studies"

Associate instructor,   Moorpark College , Moorpark, CA , Jan. 1999-May 1999

• Physical geology, Physical geography

Associate instructor, Allan Hancock College , Santa Maria, CA , Sept. 1997- May 1999

• Physical geology, oceanography, engineering physics lab

Adjunct lecturer, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA , Sept.-Dec. 1998

• Physical geology, including an honors discussion section

Geology Instructor, Santa Barbara City College Continuing Ed., May & Oct. 1998

• 3-week course (3 lectures plus field trip) titled "Santa Barbara Geology"

Lab Instructor,  Santa Barbara City College , Santa Barbara, CA , Jan.-June 1998

• Physical geology lab

 

Research

     Current

• Deformation and metamorphism in biotite and garnet-grade rocks in the Pequop Mts., Nevada , during the Sevier orogeny

• Deformational history of the Santaquin Complex in the footwall of the Wasatch Fault.

• Tectonic setting of emplacement, age, and depth of intrusion of rhyolite porphyry dikes in the Little Cottonwood Stock, central Wasatch Mts., Utah

• Energy resources in the west, renewable energy, and anthropogenic global climate change

     Past

• Deformation fabrics in glacial till, Ohio, 2000-2001

• Field mapping and quartz petrofabric analysis, Kangmar gneiss dome, 1997-1998

• Field mapping of Cretaceous arc rocks and basement, Russian far east, 1995

     Dissertation

• Structural analysis and metamorphic petrology of the Schist Belt, Brooks Range, Alaska , with an emphasis on porphyroblast-matrix microstructure, 1990-1998

• Quartz petrofabric analysis (with Rick Law, Virginia Tech, fall 1995)

 

Industry 

Engineering Tech. (Temp., part-time), City of Santa Barbara, CA ,  June, 1998-May, 1999

• Geographic Information System (GIS) support (metadata, database design)  

 

Consulting geologist, CFS Engineering Geology, Santa Barbara, CA ,  June-Sept., 1998

• Geologic site inspections and distress mapping; geologic hazard assessment

 

Exploration geologist, Nevada Goldfields, Inc., Nixon Fork Mine, AK,  June-Oct, 1996

• Soil and stream sediment sampling; database-graphics interfacing 

 

Summer Intern, Amoco Production Co., Denver, CO ,  June-Oct, 1993

• Modeling of subsurface stratigraphy and structure of gas-producing Dakota sandstone

 

Geophysicist, Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA ,  Jan-June, 1990

   • Gravity and aeromagnetic survey data processing; correlation of regional data sets

•  "Brunton Compasses for Geologic Research," $840, UVSC Foundation (Exceptional Merit grant), 2005

•  "Student Participation at the 2005 Regional Geological Society of Conference," $1680, Office of Scholarship & Outreach (Presidential Scholar Award), 2004

•  "Metamorphic Mineral Growth and Deformation in the Ruby and East Humboldt Mts., Nevada," $5377, Scholarly Activities Committee, School of Science and Health, 2004

•  "Uplift of the Wasatch Front: a study of volcanic rocks near Lone Peak ," $5414, Scholarly Activities Committee, School of Science and Health, 2003

•  "Student Participation in a Regional Geology Conference": $1000, Office of Scholarship & Outreach (Presidential Scholar Award); $700, School of Science and Health, 2003

•  "Rocks you can see through," $1000, UVSC Foundation (Exceptional Merit grant), 2003

TALKS

•  “Foliation formed during Sevier thrusting hides inside biotite porphyroblasts," BYU Geology Dept., Sept. 29, 2005; Dept. of Earth Science seminar series, Sept. 28, 2005.

•  “Energy in the West," part of a panel presentation, “Energy in the West: a Discussion on the Politics, Economics, and Science of Energy and Energy Efficiency in the Western States,” Shaping the American West conference, Snowbird, Utah, June 11, 2005.

•  “How the Sevier Orogeny grew garnet and foliated rock," Dept. of Earth Science seminar series, April 6, 2005.

•  "The Geologic Setting of Gem Minerals in Utah," Mineral Collectors of Utah, Salt Lake City, Sept. 29, 2004; Timpanogas Gem and Mineral Society, Orem, Jan. 26, 2005.

•  “The Rover Mission on Mars,” Mike Bunds and Bill Dinklage, Dept. of Earth Science seminar series, UVSC, Jan. 16, 2004.

•  “Rhyolite porphyry dikes in the Little Cottonwood Stock, central Wasatch Range, Utah,” Utah Geological Association, Salt Lake City , Jan., 2004.

FIELD TRIPS

•  “Geology of the Wasatch Mts: Two billion years of earth history,” Danny Horns, Mike Bunds, Bill Dinklage, Geological Society of America (GSA) annual meeting, Salt Lake City, Oct., 2005.

•  “Geology Along the Wasatch Front,” Danny Horns, Mike Bunds, Bill Dinklage, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) meeting in Salt Lake City, May 10, 2003.

HONORS & AWARDS

    •  Faculty Scholar of the year, 2005-2006, UVSC

    •  UVSC Board of Trustees Award of Excellence, 2004-2005 

 

 

Lee, J., Hacker, B.R., Dinklage, W.S., Wang, Y., Gans, P.B., Calvert, A., Wan, J., Chen, W., Blythe, A., and McClelland, W., 2000, Evolution of the Kangmar Dome, southern Tibet: structural, petrologic, and thermochronologic constraints.  Tectonics, v.19, pp. 872-895.

Keller, E.A., Zepeda, R.L., Rockwell, T.K., Ku, T., Dinklage, W.S., 1998.  Active tectonics and soil chronology of the Wheeler Ridge anticline, southern San Joaquin Valley, California .  Geol .Soc. Am. Bull.  v.110, pp. 298-310.

Patrick, B.E., Till, A.B., Dinklage, W.S., 1995.  An inverted metamorphic field gradient in the Central Brooks Range, Alaska and implications for exhumation of high-pressure/low-temperature metamorphic rocks.  Lithos, v. 33, pp. 67-83.

ABSTRACTS

Dinklage, W.S., M.P. Bunds, A. Holt, E. Stokes, D. Deming, R. Pay, D. Pusey, K. Durney, and M. Alvaro, 2006, Structure of the Santaquin Complex in the footwall of the Wasatch Fault, Utah , and its influence on Wasatch Fault development, submitted to Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program, v.38, no.6., p.12.

Horns, D., W.S. Dinklage, M. Bunds, 2005, Assessing the use of research to motivate students at an open-enrollment college, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program, v.37, no.7, p.?.

Dinklage, William S., Adam R. Healey, and Victoria A. Sailer, 2005, Production of multiple foliations in garnet zone rocks: a response to Sevier crustal thickening and extension in the Pequop Mts. , Nevada , Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program, v.37, no.6, p.8.

Sailer, Victoria, Adam Healey, and William Dinklage, 2005, Using GIS and thin section analysis to study metamorphism and foliation development in response to thrust faulting in the Pequop Mts., northeast Nevada, Proceedings of the 19^th National Conference on Undergraduate Research, p.520.

Green, Andrew G., Andrew M.R. McKane, Victoria A. Sailer, William S. Dinklage, 2004, Rhyolite Porphyry Dikes in the Little Cottonwood Stock, Central Wasatch Range, Utah, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program, v.36, no.4, p.90.

Dinklage, W.S., 1997.  Simultaneous shear on two foliations during crustal extension: Evidence for foliation reactivation and porphyroblast non-rotation.  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program., v.29, no. 6, p.163.

Dinklage, W.S., 1995.  Decompressional growth of albite porphyroblasts in the high pressure Schist Belt of the Brooks Range , AK.  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program, v.27, no.5, p.14.

Dinklage, W.S., Patrick, B.E., 1994.  Petrofabric and structural data from the central Brooks Range Schist Belt: implications for the role of extension in Brookian evolution.  EOS Transactions, v.75, no.44, p.647.

Dinklage, W.S., 1994.  Gravitational collapse of the thickened Brookian orogen at Walker Lake, south-central Brooks Range, Alaska .  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program, v.26, no.7, p.133.

Dinklage, W.S., and Patrick, B.E., 1992.  Structural and metamorphic evidence for the mechanism of exhumation of the Schist Belt, south-central Brooks Range, Alaska .  Geological Society of Abstracts with Program,  v.24, no.7, p.182.

August,  2006