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CURRICULUM VITAE |
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Background, Interests, Etc. |
Kenneth Andrew Rasmussen, Ph.D.
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Professor of Geology and
Oceanography |
Adjunct Instructor |
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Department of Geology |
Program in Geosciences
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The George Washington University |
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8333 Little River Turnpike |
Washington, DC 20052 |
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Annandale, VA 22003 |
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Phone: 703/323-2139 |
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RESEARCH INTERESTS Marine and lacustrine sedimentary geology Sedimentary records of climate change Carbonate sedimentology and depositional
environments
Origin and development of microbial reefs Hardground genesis, paleoecology, and
taphonomy
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Ph.D. Marine Science,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989 Dissertation:
"Unconformities and transgressive carbonate sequences within a karstic
platform interior; Bight of Abaco, Bahamas", under direction of A.
Conrad Neumann M.S. Geology, University of
Rochester, Rochester, NY, 1983 Thesis: "An ecologic and taphonomic
analysis of submarine cave communities: Salt River Canyon, St. Croix,
U.S.V.I.", under direction of Carlton E. Brett B.S. Biology-Geology, University of
Rochester, Rochester, NY, 1981 Thesis: "Organic carbon loading and
depositional characteristics of Salt River Submarine Canyon, St. Croix,
U.S.V.I."
1999-
Professor, Department of Geology,
Division of Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, Northern Virginia
Community College, Annandale Campus 1992- Visiting
Researcher, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History,
Smithsonian Institution 1992-99 Assistant
and Associate Professor, Department of Geology, Division of Mathematics,
Science, and Engineering, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale
Campus
1994 NSF-NATO
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia (Jan.-Aug.) 1989-92 Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
Institution
1989 Research
Associate and Lecturer, Curriculum in Marine Sciences, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill 1981-82 Summer Research
Assistant, Marine Geology and Geophysics, Sediment Core Laboratory (under
direction of Dr. David A. Johnson) 2007 Virginia Community College System (VCCS)
Professional Development Grant for Physical Geology Lab Manual Development
(with Callan Bentley) 2005 Virginia Community College System (VCCS)
Professional Development Grant for new course: "Natural History and
Environment of Chesapeake Bay” 2004 Virginia Community College System (VCCS) Professional Development Grant for new course: "The Geology of the Mid-Atlantic States - A Natural Laboratory” 2003 NVCC Educational Foundation Grant for: “Acquisition of a Hydrolab Multi-Parameter Water Quality Instrument for Oceanography/Limnology Field Use” 2002 Presidential Sabbatical Awardee (central Asian paleoclimate research, Spr. 2002) Northern Virginia Community College 2000 Virginia Community College System (VCCS) Professional Development Grant for “The History of Central Asian Paleoclimate Change Recorded in Deep Sediments of Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia” 1999 National Science Foundation / Earth Systems
History, Co-PI for "The Late Quaternary Paleoclimatic Archives of Lake
Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan: Calibration and Extension of the
Sedimentological/Geochemical Proxy-Record", August, 1999- 2002. Virginia Community College System (VCCS) Professional
Development Grant for"Unraveling the Sedimentological Clues of Changing
Climate: An 8,000-Year Textural And Constituent Record From Lake Issyk-Kul,
Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia". 1998 Virginia Community College System (VCCS)
Professional Development Grant for"Geological Analyses of Deep Sediment
Cores from Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan: A Unique Sedimentary Archives of
Central Asian Paleoclimate". 1996 National Science Foundation / Earth Systems
History, Principal Investigator (PI) for "The Quaternary Record of
Lake-level Oscillation and Climate Change: Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan,
Central Asia", Aug. 1996-98. Virginia Community College System (VCCS) Professional
Development Grant for "Recent Discoveries of Geologically Ancient
Life-Forms: The Paleontological Significance of Modern Microbialite
Reefs".
1995 Virginia Community College System (VCCS)
Professional Development Grant for "Geologic Evidence for Climate Change
and Lake-level Oscillation: Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan (C.I.S.), Central
Asia".
1994 NSF-NATO Post-Doctoral Fellowship, PI for
"Quaternary beachrock of modern and ancient Lake Issyk-Kul: Geologic and
climatic significance". 1992 Shuler Open Moment Fellowship, Northern
Virginia Community College, for "Modern stromatolite reefs fringing a
brackish coast of Belize, Central America: A modern analogue for Precambrian
life?".
1991 National Science Foundation / Geology and
Geophysics, Co-PI for "Carbonate Ramp Deposition in the Northern Bahamas",
Jan. 1991- July 1993. NOAA National Undersea Research Program, Co-PI for
"Factors controlling the origin of submarine topography on Great Bahama
Bank".
1990 National Academy of Sciences, PI for
"Comparative Genesis and Expression of Hungarian and Bahamian
Paleokarst/Carbonate Cycles", Aug. 1990. 1988 National Science Foundation/Geology and
Geophysics, Co-PI for "The Genesis of Cyclic Limestones and
Unconformities in the Bahamas", Oct. 1988- Mar. 1991. 1992- Northern Virginia Community College,
Annandale Campus 2001-02 Guest Lecturer, Foreign Service Institute
(US Department of State) 1994 Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Geology,
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (spring) 1989 Instructor, Curriculum in Marine Sciences,
University of North Carolina 1983-89 Teaching Assistant, Curriculum in Marine
Sciences, University of North Carolina 1981-83 Teaching Assistant, Department of
Geological Sciences, University of Rochester
1995 NVCC "Faculty
of the Year" award, Northern Virginia Community College 1994 NSF-NATO Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Lake
Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, CIS 1992 Shuler Fellowship, Northern Virginia
Community College
1991 Invited speaker, Department of Mineralogy,
Eotvos L. Univ., Budapest, Hungary 1989 Invited speaker, International Geological
Correlation Program (IGCP-287) "Correlation of Mesozoic/Tertiary
Bauxites and Related Paleokarst in the Tethyan Realm", Sumeg, Hungary 1988 Invited contributor, Paleokarst, N.P. James
and P.W. Choquette, eds. 1987 Invited speaker, Geological Society of
America Penrose Conference on "Late Quaternary Sea Levels", Bermuda 1984 Guest speaker, Institute of Geology,
University of Naples, Italy 1993-2000 Co-Chief Scientist, Quaternary
sedimentation, paleoclimate, and microbialite studies, Lake Issyk-Kul,
Kyrgyzstan
1992 Bahamian island stratigraphy and bauxite
studies, Eleuthera, Bahamas Co-Chief Scientist, R/V Bellows 9207,
Bahamas
1991 Co-Chief Scientist, R/V Calanus 9108,
9115, and 9123, Bahamas Co-Chief Scientist, Stromatolite reef and coastline
modification studies, Belize 1990 Scientist, submersible Nekton Delta
dive series, Western Great Bahama Bank, Bahamas 1989 Tethyan carbonate platform evolution and
bauxite studies, Hungary 1987-92 Coastal bioerosion/community-disturbance
field studies, Bimini, Bahamas 1987 Co-Chief Scientist, R/V Calanus 8711,
Bahamas Coastal bioerosion by chitons, San Salvador Island, Bahamas 1986 Chief Scientist, R/V Calanus 8616,
Bahamas and Straits of Florida 1985 Chief Scientist, R/V Calanus 8516,
Bahamas Co-Chief Scientist, R/V Calanus 8501, Bahamas 1984 Scientist, R/V Atlantis II - DSRV Alvin
112-3 lithoherm dive series, Straits of Florida Cretaceous carbonate platform
studies, Italy/Sicily 1982 Co-Chief Scientist/Aquanaut, HYDROLAB
Mission 82-11, Salt River Canyon, St. Croix, USVI PUBLICATIONS
- Journals, books, and reports Ferronsky,
V. I., Polyakov, V. A., Brezgunov, V.S., Vlasova, L.S., Karpychev, Yu.
A., Bobkov, A.F., Romanovsky, V.V., Johnson, T.C., Ricketts, R.D., and
Rasmussen, K.A., 2003. Variations in the hydrological regime of
Kara-Bogaz-Gol Gulf, Lake Issyk-Kul, and the Aral Sea assessed based on data
of bottom sediment studies. Water Resources, v. 30, p. 252-259. (Transl. from
Vodnye Resursy, v. 30, 2003, p. 281-288) Rasmussen,
K.A., Ricketts, R.D., Johnson, T.C., Romanovsky, V.V., and Grigina, O.M.,
2001, A 8,000 Year Multi-proxy Record from Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, PAGES
News, Vol. 9, No. 2, July 2001, p. 5-6. Ricketts,
R. D., Johnson, T. J., Brown, E. T., Rasmussen, K. A., and Romanovsky,
V. V., 2001, The Holocene paleolimnology of Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan: Trace
element and stable isotope composition of ostracodes: Palaeogeography,
Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 176, p. 207-227. Johnson,
T. J., Rasmussen, K. A., and Romanovsky, V. V., 1999, Research of natural
processes taking place in Issyk-Kul lake and Issyk-Kul hollow by means of
isotopic methods, Science and New Technologies, Special issue No. 1, Bishkek,
p. 86-91. Rasmussen,
K. A., 1995, Lake Issyk-Kul: Kyrgyzstan's Imperiled Natural Wonder, Surviving
Together: Quarterly Publication of the Institute for Soviet-American
Relations, Vol. 13, p. 13-15. Boss,
S. K. and Rasmussen, K. A., 1995, Misuse of Fischer plots as sea-level
curves, Geology, Vol. 23, p. 221-224. (and Reply, Geology, Vol. 23, p.
1049-1050). Kuehnast,
K.R., Prior, D., and Rasmussen, K.A., 1994, "Kyrgyzstan in the
Transition Period", United Nations Report: Transition in Europe and
Central Asia, New York. Rasmussen,
K. A., Macintyre, I. G., and Prufert, L., 1993, Modern stromatolite reefs
fringing a brackish coastline, Chetumal Bay, Belize, Geology, Vol. 21, No. 5,
p. 199-202. (Cover photo) Rasmussen,
K. A., and Frankenberg, E.W., 1991, Intertidal bioerosion by the chiton
Acanthopleura granulata; San Salvador, Bahamas, Bulletin of Marine Science,
Vol. 47, p. 680-695. Rasmussen,
K. A., Haddad, R. I., and Neumann, A. C., 1990, Stable isotope record of
organic carbon from an evolving carbonate banktop, Bight of Abaco, Bahamas,
Geology, Vol. 18, p. 790-794. Boardman,
M. R., Neumann, A. C., and Rasmussen, K. A., 1989, Halocene sea level in the
Bahamas, in: Mylrole, J. E. ed., Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on the
Geology of the Bahamas: CCFL Bahamian Field Station, Vol. 4, p. 45-52. Rasmussen,
K. A., and Neumann, A. C., 1988, Holocene Overprints of Pleistocene
Paleokarst: Bight of Abaco, Bahamas, in: James, N. P. and Choquette, P. W.
eds., Paleokarst , Springer-Verlag, New York, p. 132-148. Rasmussen,
K. A. and Brett, C.E. 1988, Modern Reef Community, Virgin Islands, USA, in:
Moores, E. M. and Whal, F. M., eds, The Art of Geology, Geological Society of
America Special Paper 225, p. 104-105 Rasmussen,
K. A. and Brett, C.E. 1985, Taphonomy of Holocene cryptic biotas from St.
Croix, Virgin Islands: Information loss and preservational biases, Geology ,
V. 13 (7), p. 551-553. (Cover photo) Johnson,
D. A. and Rasmussen, K. A. 1984, Late Cenozoic turbidite and contourite
deposition in the southern Brazil Basin, Marine Geology , Vol. 58, p.
225-262.
Shor,
A.N., Jones, G.A., Rasmussen, K.A. and Burckle, L.H., 1983, Carbonate spikes
and displaced components at deep sea drilling site 515: Pliocene/Pleistocene
depositional processes in the southern Brazil Basin, in: Barker, P.F. et al.,
eds., Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, Vol. 72, p. 885-893. Rasmussen, K.A., Ricketts, R.D., Johnson, T.C.,
Romanovsky, V.V., and Grigina, O.M., 2000, An 11,000-year History of Central
Asian Paleoclimate Change Recorded in Deep Sediments of Lake Issyk-Kul,
Kyrgyzstan. Abstracts of the American Geophysical Union, Fall meeting, San
Francisco, California. Ricketts, R. D., Rasmussen, K. A., Brown, E. T., and
Johnson, T. J., 1999, Stable isotope and trace element composition of
ostracodes from Lake Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan, American Geophysical Union Fall
Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 12. Rasmussen, K. A., Ricketts, R. D., Johnson, T. C., and
Romanovsky, V. V., 1999, Late Quaternary sedimentation of Lake Issyk Kul,
Kyrgyzstan: An 8,000 year record of deposition and Central Asian paleoclimate
change, The Second International Congress of Limnogeology, Plouzane, France,
May 25-29.
Ricketts, R. D., Liu, X., Johnson, T. C., and
Rasmussen, K. A., 1998, The paleoclimate record from Lake Issyk Kul,
Kyrgyzstan, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco,
California, December 6-10. Rasmussen, K. A., Johnson, T. C., and Romanovsky, V.
V., 1998, Deep sediments of Lake Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan: Depositional history
and evidence for Central Asian paleoclimate change, GSA Abstracts with
Programs, Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, October 25-29. Rasmussen, K. A. Romanovsky, V.V., Macintyre, I.G., and
Prufert, L., 1996, Late Quaternary coastal microbialites and beachrocks of
Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan: Geologic, hydrographic, and climatic
significance, GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. Rasmussen, K. A. and Romanovsky, V.V., 1995, Late
Holocene climate change and lake-level oscillation: Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan,
Central Asia, Program and Abstracts, 1st SEPM Congress on Sedimentary
Geology, St. Petersburg, FL, p. 103. Boss, S.K., Neumann, A.C., and Rasmussen, K. A., 1995,
Cross-platform sediment flux: A prerequisite for sustained "high-stand
shedding" of sediment from carbonate platforms, Program and Abstracts,
1st SEPM Congress on Sedimentary Geology, St. Petersburg, FL, p. 32. Jarrett, B.D., Boss, S.K., Neumann, A.C., and
Rasmussen, K.A., 1994, Carbonate cements: applications for environmental
interpretation and for eolianite preservation, GSA Abstracts with Programs,
Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. Boss, S.K., Neumann, A.C., and Rasmussen, K.A., 1994,
Misuse of Fischer plots as sea-level curves, GSA Abstracts with Programs,
Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. Boss, S.K., Neumann, A.C., and Rasmussen, K.A., 1993,
Depositional "cyclicity" on carbonate platforms: Real-world limits
on computer model output, GSA Abstracts with Programs. Rasmussen, K.A., Boss, S.K., and Neumann, A.C., 1992,
Submarine hardgrounds of the northern Great Bahama Banktop, GSA Abstracts
with Programs, Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, Vol. 24. Boss, S.K., Rasmussen, K.A., and Neumann, A.C., 1992,
Comparative depositional geometries and facies within windward rimmed
platform and carbonate ramp sequences, GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual
Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, Vol. 24. Boss, S. K., Rasmussen, K.A., and Neumann, A.C., 1992,
Early sequence evolution during carbonate platform flooding: A case study on
Great Bahama Bank, SEPM/IAS Research Conference, Carbonate Stratigraphic
Sequences: Sequence Boundaries and Associated Facies, La Seu, Spain. Rasmussen, K.A., Neumann, A.C., Boss, S.K., and
Boardman, M. R., 1992, Alternative styles of carbonate banktop submergence:
Internal Vs external transgression, Abstracts, South -Central Section GSA,
Houston, TX.
Hardman, T., Rasmussen, K.A., Neumann, A.C., Boss,
S.K., Dennis, P., and Harwood, G., 1992, Depositional environments of
transgressive Holocene Bahamian carbonates: Evidence from geochemistry of
carbonate muds, Abstracts, 9th Meeting of Carbonate Sedimentologists,
Liverpool University, Liverpool, UK. Macintyre, I.G., Rasmussen, K.A., and Prufert, L.,
1991, A tropical stromatolite reef complex, Chetumal Bay, Belize, Abstracts,
International Society for Reef Studies Annual Meeting, Berkeley, CA, p. 40. Boss, S. K., Neumann, A.C., and Rasmussen, K.A., 1991,
Contrasting depositional patterns on a high-energy carbonate platform,
Northern Great Bahama Bank, GSA Abstracts with Programs, San Diego, CA, p.
385.
Rasmussen, K.A., Macintyre, I.G., and Prufert, L.,
1991, Modern tropical stromatolite reefs along the brackish Belizean coast,
GSA Abstracts with Programs, San Diego, CA, p. 66. Rasmussen, K.A., Neumann, A.C., Boss, S.K., and
Trumbull, W.J., 1991, Controls upon banktop carbonate cycles: Sea level Vs
antecedent topography, Abstracts, The Second International Symposium on the
Adriatic Carbonate Platform, Zadar, Yugoslavia, p. 77. Rasmussen, K.A., Neumann, A.C., Boardman, M.R., and
Trumbull, W.J., 1991, Submergence styles and intrinsic controls upon banktop
carbonate cycles, Abstracts, NE/SE Section GSA, Baltimore, MD. Rasmussen, K.A. and Neumann, A.C., 1990, Carbonate
sequence development and the taphonomy of subaerial exposure surfaces within
a flooded paleokarstic basin; Bight of Abaco, Bahamas, Abstracts, 13th
International Sedimentological Congress of the IAS, Nottingham, England, p.
449.
Rasmussen, K.A., and Frankenberg, E.W., 1990, Faecal
pellet deposition and coastal limestone bioerosion by the intertidal chiton
Acanthopleura granulata; San Salvador Island, Bahamas, Poster Abstracts, 13th
International Sedimentological Congress of the IAS, Nottingham, England, p.
184.
Rasmussen, K.A. and Neumann, A.C., 1990, Comparative
marine diagenetic overprints of submerged subaerial unconformities; Bight of
Abaco, Bahamas, Abstracts, 13th International Sedimentological Congress of
the International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS), Nottingham, England,
p. 450.
Rasmussen, K.A. and Neumann, A.C., 1990, Transgressive
modification of subaerial carbonate substrata; Bight of Abaco, Abstracts,
Fifth Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas, CCFL Bahamian Field Station. Boardman, M.R., Neumann, A.C., and Rasmussen, K.A.,
1989, Holocene sea level in the Bahamas, in: Mylroie, J.E. ed., Abstracts,
Fourth Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas, CCFL Bahamian Field station,
p. 4.
Rasmussen, K.A., Haddad, R.I., and Neumann, A.C., 1988,
Stable isotopic record of organic carbon from an evolving carbonate lagoon:
Little Bahama Bank, GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Vol. 20, p.
A70.
Rasmussen, K.A., and Neumann, A.C.,1988, Cycles and
surfaces in the Quaternary of the Bahamas, Abstracts, SEPM Annual Mid-year
Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, p. 43. Wilber, R.J. , Rasmussen, K.A. and Neumann, A.C. 1986,
Discontinuity surfaces within carbonate platforms: Styles of production and
preservation and chronostratigraphic importance, SEPM Annual Mid-year Meeting
Abstracts, Raleigh, NC, p. 117. Rasmussen, K.A. and Neumann, A.C. 1986, Holocene
overprints on Pleistocene paleokarst: Taphonomic gradients along lagoonal
unconformities, SEPM Annual Mid-year Meeting Abstracts, Raleigh, NC, p. 93. Rasmussen, K.A. and Brett, C.E. 1986, Biotic and
physical controls on taphonomic bias in recent cavity vs. coral-undersurface
encrusting communities, Fourth North American Paleontological Convention
Abstracts, Boulder, CO, p. 57. Rasmussen, K.A. and Neumann, A.C. 1985, Unconformities
in the making: the Holocene/Pleistocene contact developing in Bahaman
lagoons, SEPM Annual Mid-year Meeting Abstracts, Golden, CO, p. 74. Rasmussen, K.A. and Brett, C.E. 1983, Taphonomy of
Recent cryptic biotas: Bathymetric and successional biases and biotic
"erasure", GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 15, p. 666. Johnson, D.A. and Rasmussen, K.A., 1982, Late
Pleistocene deposition of bioclastic turbidites and contourites in the Brazil
Basin, EOS, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, Vol. 63, p. 361. |
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