Kurt Shoemaker
Title: Professor of Geology
Subject Area: Geology
Office Location: MAS025A
Phone: (740) 351-3395
Email: kshoemaker@shawnee.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 听(Geology), Miami University, Oxford OH, 2004
鈥⑻ 听Dissertation: 听The tectonomagmatic evolution of the late Cenozoic Owyhee Plateau, Oregon-Nevada-Idaho.
B.A. 听(History), 黑料社, Portsmouth OH, 2022
B.S. 听(Geology, minor in Chemistry), Mount Union College, Alliance OH, 1995
ABOUT
Dr. Shoemaker is a Professor of Geology in the Department of Natural Sciences at 黑料社. 听Originally a magmatic geochemist studying the origins of basaltic volcanism in the inland northwestern US, he now conducts interdisciplinary research in the upper Ohio Valley with two major focuses: (1) the evolution of the incipient Ohio River system before and during the Pleistocene Epoch (鈥淚ce Age鈥), and (2) the intersection of geologic setting and phenomena with human history.
TEACHING
Dr. Shoemaker is the recipient of the 2019 黑料社 Board of Trustees Distinguished Teaching Award.
COURSES TAUGHT (since 2015)
GEOL 1201 Physical Geology & Human Environment
GEOL 1202 Historical Geology
NTSC 1501 Environment & Society
GEOL 2111 Introduction to Geologic Field Methods
GEOL 2203 Mineralogy
GEOL 3205 Igneous & Metamorphic Petrology
GEOL 4206 Structural Geology & Tectonics
GEOL 3100 Field Studies in Regional Geology: 听
鈥⑻ 听The American Southwest (Fall 2019)
鈥⑻ 听The Ozarks (Spring 2019)
鈥⑻ 听Blue Ridge Mountains (Spring 2018)
鈥⑻ 听Caves, Karst and Limestone at Mammoth Cave National Park (Spring 2015)
GEOL 3390 Seminar in Geology:
鈥⑻ 听The Ice Age in the Ohio Valley (Spring 2017)
SCHOLARSHIP
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (since 2015; 听黑料社 student co-authors underlined)
Brueseke, M.E. and Shoemaker, K.A. (session conveners), 2021, From the Afar Rift to Alaskan Arcs (and the Oregon Plateau in between): Honoring the Career and Contributions of William K. Hart: 听Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland OR. 听
Rogers, S., Boyd, A.N., Shoemaker, K.A., and Erjavec, J., 2019, Shoreline features of Pleistocence Proglacial Lake Tight in Carter County, Kentucky: 听Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Phoenix AZ. 听
Shoemaker, K.A., and Erjavec, J., 2018, 听Pleistocene seismicity associated with the impoundment of proglacial Lake Tight, Pike County, Ohio: 听Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Indianapolis IN. 听
Boyd, R., Leesburg, J.N., and Shoemaker, K.A., 2017, 听Stream piracy in the Teays River system prior to the impoundment of Pleistocene Lake Tight: 听The evolution of the Tygarts Creek and Little Sandy River drainage basins of northeast Kentucky: 听Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle WA. 听
Shoemaker, K.A., 听2017, 听An outrageous hypothesis for the origin of Pleistocene 鈥渄unes鈥 in the Ohio Valley at Sandy Springs, Ohio, and Vanceburg, Kentucky: 听Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle WA. 听
Shoemaker, K.A., and Erjavec, J., 听2015, 听Early impoundment history of Pleistocene Lake Tight: 听New insights from subsurface study of the Teays Formation, Pike County, Ohio: 听Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Baltimore MD. 听
Cooper, J.B., Shoemaker, K.A., and Erjavec, J., 听2015, 听Possible seismites in the Pleistocene Teays Formation, Pike County, Ohio: 听Geological Society of America Southeastern Section Meeting, Chattanooga TN. 听
BOOKS, COMMUNITY PRESENTATIONS, MEDIA APPEARANCES, etc. (since 2015)
Protected for Progress: Two Centuries of Floods and Flood Defense at Portsmouth, Ohio. 听(book, in preparation). 听
The Floodwalls before The Floodwall: Portsmouth and Flood Defense Prior to the 1936 Flood Control Act: 听黑料社 Faculty Research and Teaching Expo, 2024.
This is the Ohio: Life, Death, and Rebirth of the Beautiful River. 听Documentary film, Morgan Atkinson, producer, 2024.
Flood Proof? 听黑料社 College of Arts & Sciences Connecting Classrooms podcast, 2024.
Historical Population Growth and Decline in Greater Portsmouth, Ohio: 听A Geologic Perspective: 听黑料社 Festival of Faculty Achievement, 2023
Scioto Pre-historical: 听The Ice Age and the Creation of the Ohio River, ca. 750,000 BCE: 听Southern Ohio Museum Prehistory Lecture Series, 2022.
Greetings from scenic Lake Tight: 听Understanding an Ice Age lake and its influence on the Ohio Valley: 听黑料社 Festival of Faculty Achievement, 2015. 听
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Dr. Shoemaker fears being mauled by a walrus.
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