Eric E. Hiatt

Education:

• Postdoctoral Fellow, 1997-1999, Queen’s University, Canada

• Ph.D. 1997, Geology, University of Colorado. Dissertation title: A Paleoceanographic Model for Oceanic Upwelling in a Late Paleozoic Epicontinental Sea: A Chemostratigraphic Analysis of the Permian Phosphoria Formation
  
  
• Pre-doctoral visiting scientist, 1995, U.S. Geological Survey Isotope Branch, Denver, Colorado
  
  
• Research associate, 1991, Geochemistry and Diagenesis, Texaco Exploration and Production Technology Division
  
  
• B.S. 1988, Geology (Cum Laude), Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI)

Employment:

• 2019-present, Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Geology, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
• 2010-2019, Professor, Department of Geology, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
• 2010-Present Professor, Department of Geology, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
• 2005-2010, Associate Professor, Department of Geology, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
• 2000-2005, Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
• 1999-2000, Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
• 1997-1999, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queen’s University, Dr. Kurt Kyser, supervisor
• 1996, Graduate Instructor, Environmental Field Geochemistry, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Dr. John Drexler, supervisor
• 1994, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder
• 1992-1994, Research Assistant, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Dr. David A. Budd,
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• 1991, Research appointment and Internship with Texaco Exploration and Production Technology Division, Houston
• 1990-1991, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder
• 1988-1994, Research Assistant, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Dr. Philip W. Choquette, supervisor
• 1986-1988, Teaching Assistant, Department of Geology, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis
  

Other Appointments:

• 2009-2014, Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member, Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology
• 2004-present, Adjunct Professor, Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Queen's University, Canada
• 2007-present, Adjunct Professor, Earth & Environmental Science Department, Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• 2017-present, Adjunct Professor, Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Northern Illinois University.
• 2018-present, Adjunct Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso.
• Fall 2006, Visiting Scientist, Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada
• 1995, Visiting Scientist, U.S.G.S. Isotope Branch, Denver. Dr. Robert O. Rye, supervisor

Scholarships, Honors, and Awards:

• 2020 Excellence in Mentoring Award, College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
• 2017 University of Wisconsin Faculty Research Mentor Award
• 2016 Fulbright Fellowship, Brazil (2015- 2016)
• 2016 Erskine Fellowship, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
• 2016 University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Faculty Advisor Award
• 2015 Harrison McCain Foundation Visiting Professorship Award, Acadia University
• 2015 Rosebush Distinguished Professorship
• 2014 Nominated by students for UW Oshkosh Teaching Community Award
• 2013 Curwood Endowed Professorship
• 2013 Harrison McCain Foundation Visiting Professorship Award, Acadia University
• 2012 Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
• 2008 University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Research Professor
• 2007 Curwood Endowed Professorship
• 2003-2004, Vander Putten International Scholar
• 2000 Excellence in teaching award (runner-up, second place university-wide), Queen’s University
• 1996 Geoscience Fellowship, University of Colorado
• 1994 Outstanding Journal Paper Award (runner up/Honorable Mention) (Journal of Sedimentary Research)
• 1992 Rocky Mountain Section of SEPM Scholarship
• 1991 Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists Scholarship
• 1991 University of Colorado Longley-Wahlstrom-Warner Graduate Award
• 1990 University of Colorado Graduate Fellowship
• 1988 Purdue School of Science Teaching Assistant Award
• 1988 President Purdue School of Science (IUPUI) Student Council/Government (1987-1988)
• 1988 Indiana University Geology Field Course Scholarship
• 1988 National Association of Geology Teachers Field Course Scholarship
• 1988 The IUPUI Department of Geology Student Leadership Award
• 1988 The IUPUI Geology Department Academic Achievement Award
• 1987 Challenger Mission Scholarship (Scholarship for future science teachers)
• 1987 Outstanding Science Scholar Award (Purdue School of Science scholarship)
• 1986 Purdue Science Scholar Award
  
  

Publications: (available on: ResearchGate.com and Academia.edu)

Hiatt, E.E., Kyser, T.K., Polito, P.A., Marlatt, J., Pufahl, P.K., 2021, The Paleoproterozoic Kombolgie Subgroup (1.8 Ga), McArthur Basin, Australia: Sequence Stratigraphy, Basin Evolution, and Unconformity-Related Uranium Deposits following the great oxidation event: Canadian Mineralogist, accepted, in press.

Hiatt, E.E., Pufahl, P.K., da Silva, L.G., 2020, Iron and phosphorus biochemical systems and the Cryogenian-Ediacaran transition, Jacadigo basin, Brazil: Implications for the Neoproterozoic oxygenation event: Precambrian Research, v. 337, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2019.105533

Schwid, Max F., Xiao, Shuhai, Hiatt, Eric E., Fang, Yihang, and Nolan, Morrison R., 2020, Iron phosphate in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation of South China: a previously undocumented marine phosphate sink: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 560, 109993.

Caird, R.A., Pufahl, P.K., Hiatt, E.E., Abram, M.B., Dourado, A.R., Kyser, T.K., 2017, Ediacaran stromatolites and intertidal phosphorite of the Salitre Formation, Brazil: Phosphogenesis during the Neoproterozoic Oxygenation Event, Sedimentary Geology, v. 350, p. 55-71, DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.01.005.

Hiatt, E.E. & Pufahl, P.K., Edwards, C.T., 2015, Sedimentary phosphate and associated fossil bacteria in a Paleoproterozoic tidal flat in the 1.85 Ga Michigamme Formation, Michigan, USA: Sedimentary Geology, v. 319, p. 24-39. DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2015.01.006.

Beyer, S., Hiatt, E.E., Kyser, T.K, Marlatt, J.M., Drever, G., 2015, Stratigraphy and burial evolution of the Roraima Basin, Guyana, South America: Precambrian Research, v. 267, p. 227–249; doi:10.1016/ j.precamres.2015.06.017.

Raye, U., Pufahl, P.K., Kyser, T.K., Hiatt, E.E., Ricard, E., 2015, The role of sedimentology, oceanography, and alteration on the ∂56Fe value of the Sokoman Iron Formation, Labrador Trough, Canada: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 164, p. 205-220.

Alexandre, P., Kyser, K., Layton-Matthews, D., Beyer, S.R., Hiatt, E.E., Lafontaine, J., 2015, Formation of the enigmatic Matoush uranium deposit in the Paleoproterozoic Otish Basin, Quebec, Canada: Mineralium Deposita, DOI 10.1007/s00126-014-0569-5.

Hiatt, Eric E. and Pufahl, P.K., 2014, Cathodoluminescence petrography of carbonate rocks: application to understanding diagenesis, reservoir quality, and pore system evolution: in Coulson, I. (ed.) Cathodoluminescence and its application to geoscience: Mineralogical Association of Canada, Short Course Series Volume 45, p. 75-96.

Pufahl, P.K., Anderson, S.L., Hiatt, Eric E., 2014, Dynamic sedimentation of Paleoproterozoic continental margin iron formation, Labrador Trough, Canada: paleoenvironments and sequence stratigraphy: Sedimentary Geology, v. 309, p. 48-65.

Akin, Sara J., Pufahl, Peir K., Hiatt, Eric E., Pirajno, Franco, 2013, Oxygenation of shallow marine environments and chemical sedimentation in Paleoproterozoic peritidal settings: Frere Formation, Western Australia: Sedimentology, v. 60, p. 1559–1582, doi: 10.1111/sed.12038.

Pufahl, Peir K., Pirajno, Franco, Hiatt, Eric E., 2013, Riverine mixing and fluvial iron formation: a new type of Precambrian biochemical sediment: Geology, accepted, published online October, 2013, doi:10.1130/G34812.1

Eriksson, P.G., Banerjee, S., Catuneanu, O., Corcoran, P.L., Eriksson, K.E., Hiatt, E.E., Laflamme, M., Lenhardt, N., Long, D.G.F., Miall, A.D., Mints, M.V., Pufahl, P.K., Sarkar, S. , Simpson, E.L., Williams, G.E., 2013, Secular changes in sedimentation systems and sequence stratigraphy: Gondwana Research, Special Issue, V. 24, p. 468-489.

Pufahl, P.K. and Hiatt, Eric E., 2012, Oxygenation of the Earth's atmosphere-ocean system: a review of physical and chemical sedimentologic responses: Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 32, no. 1, p. 1-20.

Beyer, S.R., Kyser, K., Hiatt, E.E., Polito, P.A., Alexandre, P., & Hoksbergen, K., 2012, Basin Evolution and Unconformity-Related Uranium Mineralization: The Camie River U Prospect, Paleoproterozoic Otish Basin, Quebec: Economic Geology, v. 107, p. 401-425.

Edwards, C.T., Pufahl, P.K., Hiatt, E.E., Kyser, T.K., 2012, Paleoenvironmental and taphonomic controls on the occurrence of Paleoproterozoic microbial communities in the 1.88 Ga Ferriman Group, Labrador Trough, Canada: Precambrian Research, v. 212-213, p. 91-106.

Pufahl, P.K., Hiatt, E.E., Kyser, T.K., 2011, Does the Paleoproterozoic Animikie Basin record the sulfidic ocean transition? REPLY: Geology, v. 39, p. e242-e243.

Beyer, S.R., Hiatt, E.E., Kyser, T.K., Dalrymple, R.W., Pettman, C., 2011, Hydrogeology, sequence stratigraphy and diagenesis in the Paleoproterozoic western Thelon Basin: Influences on unconformity-related uranium mineralization: Precambrian Research, v. 187, p. 293-312.

Zentmeyer, R.A., Pufahl, P.K., James. N.P., & Hiatt, E.E., 2011, Dolomitization on an evaporitic Paleoproterozoic ramp: Widespread synsedimentary dolomite in the Denault Formation, Labrador Trough, Canada: Sedimentary Geology, v. 238, p. 116-132.

Polito, P.A., Kyser, T.K., Alexandre, P., Hiatt, E.E. and Stanley, C., 2011, Advances in understanding the Kombolgie Subgroup and Unconformity-Related Uranium Deposits in the Alligator Rivers Uranium Field and how to explore for them using lithogeochemical principles: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 58, no. 5, p. 453-474.

Hiatt, Eric E., Palmer, S.E., Kyser, T.K. and O’Connor, T.K., 2010, Basin evolution, diagenesis and uranium mineralization in the Paleoproterozic Thelon Basin, Nunavut, Canada: Basin Research, v. 22, p. 302-323.

Pufahl, P.K., Hiatt, E.E., Kyser, T.K., 2010, Does the Paleoproterozoic Animikie Basin record the sulfidic ocean transition?:  Geology, v. 38, p. 659-662.

Nelson, G.J., Pufahl, P.K., and Hiatt, E.E., 2010, Paleoceanographic constraints on Precambrian phosphorite accumulation, Baraga Group, Michigan, USA: Sedimentary Geology, v. 226, p. 9-21.

Beyer, S.R., Kyser, K., Hiatt, E.E., Fraser, I., 2010, Geological evolution and exploration geochemistry of the Boomerang Lake unconformity-type uranium prospect, Northwest Territories, Canada, in Goldfarb, R.J., Marsh, E.E., and Monecke, T., eds., The challenge of finding new mineral resources: global metallogeny, innovative exploration, and new discoveries: Society of Economic Geologists Special Publication, number 15, volume II: zinc-lead, nickel-copper-PGE, and uranium, p. 675-702.

James, N.P., Eyles, C.H., Eyles, N., Hiatt, E.E., and Kyser, T. K., 2009, Oceanographic significance of an extreme cold-water carbonate environment: glaciomarine sediments of the Pleistocene Yakataga Formation, Middleton Island, Alaska: Sedimentology, v. 56, no. 2, p. 1-31.

Choquette, Philip W., Hiatt, Eric E., 2008 Shallow-burial dolomite cement:  A major component of many ancient sucrosic dolomites: Sedimentology, v. 55, no. 2, 423-460.

Hiatt, Eric E., Kyser, T.K. Fayek, M., Polito, P., Holk, G.J., Riciputi, L.R., 2007, Early quartz cements and evolution of paleohydraulic properties of basal sandstones in three Paleoproterozoic continental basins: evidence from in situ ∂18O analysis of quartz cements: Chemical Geology, v. 238, p. 19-37.

Pufahl, P.K., Hiatt, E.E., Stanley, C.R., Morrow, J.R., Nelson, G.J., Edwards, C.T., 2007,  Proximal to Distal Ejecta in the Baraga Group, Michigan: Physical and Chemical Evidence of the 1850 Ma Sudbury Impact Event: Geology, v. 35, no. 9, p. 827–830.

Hiatt, Eric E. and Kyser, T. Kurt, 2007, Sequence stratigraphy and hydrostratigraphy in the Proterozoic Manitou Falls Formation, Eastern Athabasca Basin: implications for mineralising fluid flow: in Jefferson, C.A. and Delaney, G., (eds.), Geology and Uranium Exploration technology of the Proterozoic Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan and Alberta: Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 588, 643 p.

Hanly, A.J., Kyser, T.K., Hiatt, Eric E., Marlatt, J., Foster, S., 2006, The uranium mineralization potential of the Paleoproterozoic Sioux Basin and its relationship to other basins in the southern Lake Superior region: Precambrian Research, v. 148, no. 1-2, p. 125-144.

Palmer, Sarah E., Kyser, T. Kurt and Hiatt, Eric E., 2004, Provenance of the Proterozoic Thelon Basin, Nunavut, from detrital zircon and quartz populations: Precambrian Research, v. 129, no. 1-2, p. 115-140.

Hiatt, Eric E., Kyser, T.K., Dalrymple, R.W., 2003, Relationships among sedimentology, stratigraphy and diagenesis in the Proterozoic Thelon Basin, Nunavut, Canada: implications for paleo-aquifers and sedimentary-hosted mineral deposits: The Journal of Geochemical Exploration, v. 80, no. 2-3, p. 221-240.

Hiatt, Eric E. and Budd, D.A., 2003, Extreme paleoceanographic conditions in a Paleozoic oceanic upwelling system: organic productivity and widespread phosphogenesis in the Permian Phosphoria Sea: Chapter 15, pp. 245-264 in Chan, M.A. and Archer, A.W. (eds.) Extreme depositional environments: Mega end members in geologic time: Geological Society Special Paper 370.

Kyser, T.K. and Hiatt, Eric E., 2003, Fluids in Sedimentary Basins: An Introduction: The Journal of Geochemical Exploration, v. 80, no. 2-3, p. 139-149.

Holk, G.J., Kyser, T.K., Chipley, D., Hiatt, Eric E. and Marlatt, J., 2003, Mobile Pb-Isotopes in Proterozoic sedimentary basins as guides for exploration of uranium deposits: The Journal of Geochemical Exploration, v. 80, no. 2-3, p. 297-320.

Hiatt, Eric E. and Budd, D.A., 2001, Sedimentary phosphate formation in warm shallow waters: new insights into the paleoceanography of the Permian Phosphoria Sea: Sedimentary Geology, v.145, no. 1-2, p 119-133.

Hiatt, Eric E., 2000, Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy in Basin Analysis and Paleohydrologic Studies: p. 19-38 in Kyser, K., (ed.) Fluids and Basin Evolution, Mineralogical Association of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 262 p.

Hiatt, Eric E. and Kyser, T.K., 2000, Links between Depositional and Diagenetic Processes in Basin Analysis: Porosity and Permeability Evolution in Sedimentary Rocks: p. 63-92 in Kyser, K., (ed.) Fluids and Basin Evolution, Mineralogical Association of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 262 p.

Kyser, T.K., Hiatt, Eric E., Renac, C., Durocher, K., Holk, G.J., Deckart, K., 2000, Diagenetic fluids in paleo- and meso-Proterozoic sedimentary basins and their implications for long protracted fluid histories: p. 225-262 in Kyser, K., (ed.) Fluids and Basin Evolution, Mineralogical Association of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 262 p.

*Budd, DA and Hiatt, Eric E., 1993, Mineralogical stabilization of high-magnesium calcite: Geochemical evidence for intracrystal recrystallization within Holocene porcellaneous foraminifera: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 63, p. 261-274.
* Honorable Mention for the 1993 Outstanding Paper Award.

Short Course Notes:

Pufahl, P.K., and Hiatt, E.E., 2010, Sedimentary phosphate deposits:  ore formation and exploration: short course notes, Society of Economic Geologists and Agéncia para o Desenvolvimento Technólogico da Indûstria Mineral Brasileira, EXMIN 2010, May 27-28, Ouro Preto, Brazil, 113 p. 

Book Review:

Hiatt, Eric E., 2006, Book review of "Life Cycle of the Phosphoria Formation—From Deposition to the Post-Mining Environment.", Hein, J.R. (ed.), Economic Geology, v. 101, no. 2, p. 480-481.

Works Related to Teaching:

Hiatt, Eric E. and Kyser, T. Kurt, 2011, Integrating quantitative geochemical analyses in an international field course in Bermuda: increasing geological metacognition and problem-solving skills through field investigations: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, v. 43, no. 5, p. 481.

Hiatt, E.E. & Gertz, H.M., 2008, Exploring Coral Reefs: A Virtual Dive in the Bermuda Triangle: a resource for instructors: Enduring Resources in Earth Science Education: http://serc.carleton.edu/dev/sp/erese/activities.html

Gertz, H.M. & Hiatt, E.E., 2008, Coral Reefs Under Siege: Understanding the Major Stresses: Enduring Resources in Earth Science Education.

2012, Gateway Success Initiative Proposal: Building Peer Evaluations and Shared Learning Pedagogies into Gateway Geology Laboratory Exercises: COLS, UW-Oshkosh. Funded.

Research Grants:

• 2016, Fulbright Scholar Grant– Fulbright-Brazil Scientific Mobility Program Research proposal “Ice ages, Oceanography, and Earth’s Last Great Iron Formation”, Funded.
• 2016, Marine biochemical sedimentation during the last global “Snowball Earth” ice age: evidence from the Serra do Caeté Formation, western Brazil, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Faculty Development Research Grant FDR-971. Funded.
• 2015, Biochemical sediments and paleo-oceanography of the Paleoproterozoic Kombolgie Subgroup, Northern Territory, Australia, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Faculty Development Research Grant FDR-921. Funded.
• 2014, Relationships between the Neoproterozoic “Snowball Earth” ice age, oxygenation of the deep oceans, and the last major iron formation in Earth history: Urucum Iron Formation, Mato Grosso do Sol, Brazil, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Faculty Development Research Grant R-843. Funded.
• 2013, Sedimentary basin analysis of the 1.8 billion-year old Roraima Group, Guyana, South America, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Faculty Development Research Grant R-768. Funded.
  
• 2012, Phosphorus mineralization in the Peru oceanic upwelling system: the role of bacteria and oceanography, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Faculty Development Research Grant R-702. Funded.
• 2012, CO-PI, NSF-EAR  - Major Research Instrumentation Grant.  MRI:  Acquisition of an X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer for Geoscience Research: NSF proposal # 7025696, In review.
• 2008, Early marine life, bioessential elements, biomineralization and paleoenvironments of the 1.9 Billion-Year-Old Paleoproterozoic Labrador Trough: University of Wisconsin- Oshkosh, Research Professor Grant. Funded.
• 2007, Paleoceanographic study of early oceans: Ocean Productivity on an Ancient marine Shelf, The Ferriman Group, Labrador, Canada, in Collaboration with Dr. Peir Pufahl, Acadia University, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Faculty Development Grant R375. Funded.
• 2007, Successor Basin Study, Canadian Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, with P.I. Dr. Kurt Kyser, Queen's University.  Funded
• 2006-2007, Geochronology Study, McArthur Basin, Australia, Sabbatical Grant: University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Faculty Development Grant. Funded.
• 2006, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Faculty Development Research Grant: Seafloor Carbonates in Pleistocene Glacial Sediments, Middleton Island, Gulf of Alaska: Cold Water, Arctic Limestones.
• 2005, Stelzer, R., Drecktrah, G., Hiatt, E.E., Vadeboncoeur, Y, and Bruch, R., The Role of Sturgeon in the Lake Winnebago Food Web: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
• 2005, Evidence of Biological Activity in the Formation of the Earliest Marine Phosphate Deposits: University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Undergraduate Student and Faculty Collaborative Research Small Grant with undergraduate Geology major, Cole Edwards.
• 2004, Lead Contamination in Sediments of Rush Lake, Wisconsin: Lead Speciation and Bioavailability: University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Undergraduate Student and Faculty Collaborative Research Project Grant with undergraduate Geology major, Heidi Faris.
• 2003, Isotopic and trace element geochemistry of Late Permian brachiopods in the Phosphoria Rock Complex: paleotemperatures and the oceanic upwelling model, American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund Grant #40250-GB2.
• 2003, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Faculty Development Grant: Trace element geochemistry as an indicator of oceanographic conditions in a Late Paleozoic oceanic upwelling system: the Retort member of the Phosphoria Formation, western U.S.A.
• 2003, International Collaborative Global Basin Analysis Research Project, Vander Putten International Research Grant, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
• 2002, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Faculty Development Grant: Reconstructing an ancient sedimentary basin: the Sibley Basin, Ontario, Canada.
• 2002, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Undergraduate Student and Faculty Collaborative Research Project Grant with undergraduate Geology major, Nick Geboy: Evolution of ancient hydrologic systems.
• 2002, Short Course: Phosphate Geochemistry Short Course: An Off-Campus Proposal funded by the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Faculty Development Program, October 2002.
• 2001, University of Wisconsin Faculty Development Grant: Tracing Aquifers in an Ancient Sedimentary Basins.
• 2000, Successful Canadian Natural Science and Engineering Research Council grants (with Dr. Kurt Kyser, Queen's University)
• 1992, American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund Grant #25988-AC8 (with Dr. David A. Budd).
  

Professional Affiliations:

• The Geological Society of America (GSA)
• The Mineralogical Association of Canada (MAC)
• The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
• Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) University Liaison, 2001-present
• National Association of Geology Teachers (NAGT)
• National Earth Science Teachers Association (NESTA)
• Society of Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)
  

Presentations (Abstracts):

Hiatt, E.E. and Pufahl, P.K., 2019, Origin and diagenesis of biochemical rhythmites deposited at the end of the Marinoan ice-covered Snowball Earth world, southwestern Brazil: Geological Society of America, National Meeting, Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 51, No. 5. doi: 10.1130/abs/2019AM-340697

Hiatt, E.E., Pufahl, P.K., DaSilva, L.G., 2018, Biochemical siderite, phosphate, and hematite, and glaciomarine sedimentation during the waning Marinoan ice age: Jacadigo Basin, Corumbá, Brazil: Resources for Future Generations Meeting, the Geological Association of Canada, and the Mineralogical Association of Canada, June 16-21, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Abstract, vol. 41.

Beyer, S.R., Hiatt, E.E., Lahusen, L., Polito, P.A., Drever, G.L., Marlatt, J., 2018, From formation to exploration: Kurt Kyser’s contributions to fluid flow in Proterozoic sedimentary basins: Resources for Future Generations Meeting, the Geological Association of Canada, and the Mineralogical Association of Canada, June 16-21, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Abstract vol. 41.

Hiatt, E.E., Schwid, M.F., Porto, C.G., Abram, M.B., 2017, Phosphorite and iron formation deposited during the Marinoan Snowball Earth Ice Age, Mato Grosso, Brazil: paleoceanography of a glaciomarine biochemical system: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, v. 49, no. 6, doi: 10.1130/abs/2017AM-306556.

Hiatt, E.E., Silva , L.G., Pufahl, P.K., 2016, The end Cryogenian and Early Ediacaran boundary and the onset of phosphogenesis in a transitional sedimentary succession: Jacadigo and Corumbá groups, southwestern Brazil: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, v. 48, no. 7, p. 115-4, doi: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-284077.

Bane, L.T., Hiatt, E.E., Pufahl, P.K., 2015, Authigenic and diagenetic processes in the Peru shelf phosphorites: fundamental processes in the development of economic phosphorite and implications for ancient analogs: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, v. 47, no. 7, p. 365.

Poe, P.L., Hiatt, E.E., Choquette, P.W., 2015, The complexity of dolomite and implications for interpreting stable isotopic secular variation: an example from the Permian Phosphoria and Park City Formations: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, v. 47, no. 7, p. 581.

Beyer, S.R., Hiatt, E.E., Kyser, T.K., Drever, G.L. and Marlatt, J.M., 2014, Amazonian craton tectonism recorded in the evolution of the Roraima Basin, Guyana, South America: Geological Association of Canada-Mineralogical Association Joint Annual Meeting, Fredericton, Abstracts, v. 37, p. 28.

Alexandre, P., Kyser, K., Layton-Matthews, D., Beyer, S.R., Hiatt, E.E., Lafontaine, J., 2014, The formation of the Matoush uranium deposit in the Otish Basin, Quebec, Canada: Geological Association of Canada-Mineralogical Association Joint Annual Meeting, Fredericton, Abstracts, v. 37, p. 5.

Pufahl, P.K., Hiatt, E.E., Pirajno, F., 2013, Fluvial iron formation: a new Precambrian biogeochemical sedimentary system, Eraheedy Basin, Western Australia:  Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, v. 45, no. 7.

Marlatt, J., Kyser, T.K., Hiatt, E.E., 2013, The role of deposit models and collaborative research and development in mineral exploration: IAEA Technical Meeting on Classification of World Uranium Deposits with a Focus on Volcanic-related Deposits, 19 – 22 February 2013, Vienna, Austria.

*Pufahl, P.K., Reid, C., Hiatt, E.E., 2012, Heterozoan limestones and authigenesis: fingerprinting paleonutrient levels in carbonate settings: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, v. 44, no. 7.  * Invited presentation

*Hiatt, E.E., Kyser, T.K., Pufahl, P.K., and Beyer, S.R., 2011, Oxygenation of the atmosphere and unconformity-related uranium mineralization: GAC-MAC Joint Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Abstracts, v. 34, p. 91. * Invited presentation

Akin, Sara, Pufahl, P.K., Hiatt, E.E., and Pirajno, F., 2011, Deposition of iron formation in nearshore Paleoproterozoic shelf environments, Frere Formation, Earaheedy Basin, Western Australia: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, v. 43, no. 5, p. 283.

Beyer, S.R., Kyser, T.K., Hiatt, E.E., 2011, Evidence for multiple fluid events in the Paleoproterozoic Otish Basin, Quebec: the Camie River Unconformity-related uranium prospect: GAC-MAC Joint Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Abstracts, v. 34, p. 18.

Beyer, S.R., Hiatt, E.E., Kyser, K., and Alexandre, P., 2011, The Application of Stable-Isotope Geochemistry to Sedimentary Basin Analysis and Uranium Exploration: ASITA: Advances in Stable Isotope Techniques and Applications: June 12 –June 15, 2011, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, p. 10.

*Hiatt, E.E., 2010, Phosphogenesis in epicontinental and marginal sedimentary basins: problems with using the modern as an analog for the ancient rock record: SIMEXMIN 2010 - Joint Meeting between the Society of Economic Geologists and The Agency for the Technological Development of the Brazilian Mining Industry, Ouro Preto, Brazil, in press.  * Invited presentation

Edwards, C.T., Pufahl, P.K. and Hiatt, E.E., 2010, Fossil Microbial Communities Preserved Within Chemical Sediments of the Ferriman Group, Labrador Trough, Canada: GeoCanada GAC-MAC Joint Assembly Meeting, Calgary.

Beyer, S.R., Kyser, T.K., Hiatt, E.E., Pettman, C., Fraser, I., O’Connor, T.K., 2010, Applying the concept of ‘holistic’ basin analysis to unconformity-related uranium prospects in under-explored Paleoproterozoic basins: GeoCanada GAC-MAC Joint Assembly Meeting, Calgary.

*Beyer, S.R., Kyser, K., Hiatt, E.E., Fraser, I., Geological evolution and exploration geochemistry of the Boomerang Lake unconformity-type uranium prospect, Northwest Territories, Canada: 2010 Society of Economic Geologists Meeting in Keystone, Colorado, USA. * Invited presentation

Hiatt, E.E., Edwards, C.T., and Pufahl, P.K., 2009, Fossil Biofilms, Microbial Communities and Phosphogenesis in the Paleoproterozoic Baraga Group, Michigan: EOS Trans. AGU, v. 90, no. 22, American Geophysical Union-Geological Association of Canada-Mineralogical Association Joint Meeting, U21D-04.

Pufahl, P.K., Hiatt, E.E., Morrow, J.R., Kyser, T.K., Stanley, C.R., Nelson, G.J., Edwards, C.T., 2009, The 1850 Ma Sudbury impact event in northern Michigan and changing Paleoproterozoic oceanography: EOS Trans. AGU, v. 90, no. 22, American Geophysical Union-Geological Association of Canada-Mineralogical Association Joint Meeting, U73A-05.

*Hiatt, E.E. and Kyser, K., 2008, Basin architecture, hydrostratigraphy and basin evolution in the development of unconformity-type uranium mineralization: examples from three Proterozoic continental sedimentary basins: Geological Association of Canada-Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Quebec City, Quebec, Abstracts, v. 33, p. 72-73. * Invited presentation

*Beyer, S.R., Kyser, K., Hiatt, E.E., Fraser, I., 2008, The Boomerang Lake unconformity-related uranium prospect, western Thelon Basin, N.W.T., Canada: a true Athabasca analogue?: Geological Association of Canada-Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Quebec City, Quebec, Abstracts, v. 33, p. 21. * Invited presentation

Edwards, C.T., Hiatt, E.E., Pufahl, P.K., 2007, Preserved fossil bacteria in the earliest marine phosphorite deposits: 1.85 billion year-old Baraga Group, Michigan: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, p. 409.

Nelson, G.J., Pufahl, P.K.1, and Hiatt, E.E., 2007, Shallow-water phosphorite accumulation in the Paleoproterozoic Baraga Group, Michigan, USA: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, p. 310.

Zentmyer, R.A., James, N.P., Pufahl, P.K, Hiatt, E.E., 2007, Restricted Paleoproterozic basin: a candidate environment for synsedimentary dolomite precipitation?: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, p. 420.

Pufahl, P.K., Hiatt, Eric E., Stanley, C.R., Nelson, G.J., and Edwards, C.T., 2006, The iron formation to phosphorite oceanographic transition: a diachronous event along the Nuna continental margin as recorded in the 1.8 billion year old Baraga Group, Michigan, and Ferriman Group, Labrador: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, p. 57.

James, N.P., Eyles, C.H., Eyles, N., Hiatt, Eric E., Kyser, T.K., 2006, Oceanographic significance of an extreme cold-water carbonate environment: glaciomarine sediments of the Pleistocene Yakataga Formation, Middleton island, Alaska: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, p. 89.

Hanly, Adrienne, Kyser, Kurt, Hiatt, Eric, Marlatt, Jim, 2006, Using holistic basin analysis to evaluate the potential of Proterozoic basins to host unconformity-type uranium: A comparison of the North American Sibley, Sioux, and Athabasca Basins: Extended abstracts, 12th Quadrennial Iagod Symposium 2006. Understanding the genesis of ore deposits to meet the demands of the 21st century, Moscow, Russia, 4p.

Choquette, P.W. and Hiatt, Eric E., 2005, The importance of dolomite cement in the evolution of pore systems in sucrosic dolostones: America Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, Program with Abstracts, Vol. 14, p. 26-27.

Hiatt, Eric E., 2004, Paleoenvironmental controls on syngenetic deposition of phosphorites and associated metals in the Permian Phosphoria Formation, western United States: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no. 5, p. 199.

Hanly, A.J., Hiatt, Eric E., Kyser, K., and Marlatt, J., 2004, The age and fluid characteristics of the Sibley Basin and its relationship to other Proterozoic basins on the Canadian Shield: Geological Association of Canada and Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Abstracts with programs, v. 29. p. 451.

*Hiatt, Eric E., 2003, Phosphogenesis under extreme paleoceanographic conditions: chemo stratigraphic evidence from the Late Permian Retort member of the Phosphoria Formation, western U.S.A., Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, No. 6, p. 493. * Invited presentation

Hanly, Adrienne, Geboy, Nicholas J., Hiatt, Eric E., and Kyser, T. Kurt, 2003, Diagenesis, stratigraphy, paleohydrology, and lead isotope study of the Proterozoic Sibley Group, western Ontario: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, No. 6, p. 234.

Kyser, T.K., Polito, P.A., Holk, G.J., and Hiatt, Eric E., 2003, Pb-isotope ratios in sandstones near unconformity-related uranium deposits in Australia - a guide for exploration: Association of Exploration Geochemists' 21st International Geochemical Exploration Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, p. 75.

Hiatt, Eric E. and Kyser, K., 2002, Sequence stratigraphy and basin analysis of the Paleoproterozoic Kombolgie Basin, Northern Territory, Australia: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs Vol. 34, No. 6, p. 278.

Yang, W., Lehrmann, D., Hiatt, Eric, Wei, J., Yu, Y., Wignall, P., 2002, Productivity-controlled peritidal carbonate cycles in a super-greenhouse climate in the aftermath of the end-Permian extinction, the Lower Triassic (Olenekian) Great Bank of Guizhou, South China: 2002 America Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, Program with Abstracts, v. 11, p. A194.

Hiatt, Eric E., Fayek, M., Kyser, T.K., Polito, P., 2001, The importance of early quartz cementation events in the evolution of aquifer properties of ancient sandstones: isotopic evidence from ion probe analysis of sandstones from the McArthur, Athabasca, and Thelon basins: GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 33, No. 6, p. A74.

Hiatt, Eric E. and Kyser, T.K., 2000, Sequence stratigraphy of Paleoproterozoic sedimentary successions: the relationships between basin evolution, systems tracts and paleohydrology in non-actualistic depositional systems: Geological Association of Canada-Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, Abstracts, v. 25.

Kyser, T.K. , Renac, C., Hiatt, Eric E., Holk, G.J., Durocher, K., 2000, Comparison of diagenetic fluids in Proterozoic basins, Canada and Australia: Implications for long, protracted fluid histories in stable intracratonic basins: Geological Association of Canada-Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Calgary, Albert, Abstracts, v. 25.

Hiatt, Eric E., Kyser, K., Dalrymple, R.W., 1999, Sequence stratigraphy of the Proterozoic Thelon Formation, Nunavut Territory, Canada: accommodation space and systems tracts in an ancient fluvial-dominated clastic system: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, no. 7, p. 424.

Durocher, K., Kyser, K., Hiatt, Eric E., Holk, G. J., and Palmer, S.,1999. Silicification in Paleoproterozoic basins: Fluid flow histories and cation exchange in authigenic illite; Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, no. 7, p. 341.

Kyser, K., Hiatt, Eric E., and Holk, G., 1999, Timing and origin of fluids in ancient basins and their effect on the formation of ore deposits: Geological Association of Canada-Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting Abstracts, v. 24, p. 65.

Hiatt, Eric E., 1998, Sequence stratigraphy of the Permian Phosphoria Formation: interrelationships between systems tracts, paleoproductivity, and upwelling in an ancient epicontinental sea: Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, p. 397.

Hiatt, Eric E., 1996, An alternate paleoeanographic mode for upwelling and the formation of ancient phosphorites: stratigraphic and geochemical evidence from the Permian Phosphoria Formation: Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, v. 28, p. 225-226.

Choquette, P.W. and Hiatt, Eric E., 1995, Occult dolomite cement: a major component in sucrosic shelf dolostones: The First SEPM Congress on Sedimentary Geology, Program and Abstracts, v. 1, p. 38.

Hiatt, Eric E., 1994, Mechanisms of phosphogenesis: geochemical and petrographic evidence from the Permian Phosphoria Formation: Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, vol. 26, p. 423.

Hiatt, Eric E., 1993, Productivity, intensity of upwelling, and the connection to sea level change in the Permian Phosphoria Sea: Society for Sedimentary Geology, Mid-Year Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, p.49.

Hiatt, E.E. and Choquette, P.W., 1993, The effects of dolomite neomorphism on the geochemical signature of a Permian marginal marine dolomite: implications for the use of sedimentary dolomite geochemistry as a paleoenvironmental indicator: Society for Sedimentary Geology, Mid-Year Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, p. 34.

Dawson, W.C., O’Hearn, T.C., and Hiatt, Eric E., 1993, Diagenetic and sedimentologic aspects of Pinda (Albian) Dolomites: Offshore West Africa: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, p. 90.

Choquette, P.W. and Hiatt, Eric E., 1991, Multigenerational dolomitization of a Permian shelf-carbonate complex: the Ervay Sequence (Park City Fm), western Wyoming, U.S.A.: p. 50 in Bosellini and others, Dolomieu Conference on Carbonate Platforms and Dolomitization, Ortisei, Italy, 300 p.

Clark, W.J., Choquette, P.W., Hiatt, Eric E., Garfield, T.R., Budd, D.A., and Hurley, N.F., 1991, Sequence stratigraphic interpretation of the Ervay member (Permian, Park City Fm.), west-central Wyoming paleoshelf: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 75, p. 553.

Choquette, P.W., Hiatt, Eric E., and Oesleby, T.W., 1989, Styles of dolomitization in the Late Permian Ervay carbonates, Wind River Basin region, Wyoming: petrographic, d13C, and d18O characteristics: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 21, p. A-18.

Courses Taught:

• Physical Geology Lecture and Laboratory (102)
• Sedimentology (314)
• Sedimentary Petrology (315)
• Oceanography (328)
• Seminar in Geology (302)
• Petroleum Geology (Special Topics) (460)
• Carbonate Sedimentology and Diagenesis (at Queen’s University)
• Geology Spring Field Trip: Coral Reefs and Geology of Bermuda (360)
• Geology Spring Field Trip: Oceanography and Geology of the Florida Keys (360)
• Historical Geology Laboratory (109)
• Environmental Geology Laboratory (150)

Ongoing research projects:

• Isotopic signatures of clay minerals of moraines in Transantarctic Mountains to determine provenance of material deposited in the Ross Sea
• Paleoceanographic study of early oceans: Labrador, Canada
• Paleoceanographic, diagenesis study of Pleistocene Yakataga Formation, Middleton Island, Alaska
• Basin analysis project, Otish Basin Project, Quebec, Canada
• Basin analysis project, Deer Lake Basin, Newfoundland, Canada
• Basin analysis project, Central Mineral Belt, Labrador, Canada