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	William Mode Professor Glacial/Quaternary/Environmental Geology Mode@uwosh.edu Mailing address (920) 424-7004

Position: Professor

Specialties: Glacial and Quaternary Geology

Courses Taught:

Course Number	Course Name	Next Taught
Geology 110	Honors:  Geology	Spring 2008
51-150	Environmental Geology	--
51-302	Seminar in Geology	--
51-320	Geomorphology	Fall 2008
51-335/535	Glacial Geology	Fall 2009
51-360-301	Spring Field Trip	--

My Class and Office Hour Schedule for Fall Semester, 2008:

HOUR	MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
8:00	--	320 lecture	--	320 lecture	--
9:10	--	320 lab	--	320 lab	--
10:20	Office hour	Office hour	Office hour	Office hour	Office hour
11:30	--	--	--	--	--
12:40	Meeting	--	--	--	--
1:50	Office hour	Meeting	Office hour	Meeting
3:00	--	--	--	--	--
4:10	--	--	--	Geoclub	--
5:20	--	--	--	--	--

Education:

Ph.D. 1980, University of Colorado, Boulder, Geology
M.S. 1976, University of Wisconsin Madison, Geology
M.S. 1976, University of Wisconsin Madison, Water Resources Management
A.B. 1973, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL, Geology

Research Interests:

My research concerns Quaternary environmental change, focusing especially on the Arctic.  I have done field work in Alaska, Baffin Island, and the Kola and Kanin Peninsulas of Arctic Russia as well as Colorado and Wisconsin.  My work entails geomorphic and geologic mapping, facies analysis of measured stratigraphic sections, and pollen and macrofossil analysis of cores and surface samples.

Selected publications:

Hooyer, T. S., and Mode, W. N., 2007, Preliminary Quaternary geologic map of the northern Fox River lowland, Wisconsin:  Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, Open File Report 2007-05, Scale 1:100,000. 1 plate.

Hooyer, T. S., and Mode, W. N., 2005, Preliminary Pleistocene geologic map of Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Madison, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, Open File Report 2005-01, Scale 1:100,000, 1 plate.

Hooyer, T. S., Mode, W. N., Clayton, Lee, and Attig, J. W., 2005, Preliminary Quaternary geologic map of the southern Fox River lowland, Wisconsin: Madison, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, Open File Report 2005-03, Scale 1:100,000, 1 plate.

Snyder, J. A., MacDonald, G. M., Forman, S. L., Tarasov, G. A., and Mode, W. N., 2000, Postglacial climate and vegetation history, north-central Kola Peninsula, Russia:  pollen and diatom records from Lake Yarnyshnoe-3: Boreas, v. 29, p. 261-271.

Miller, G. H., Mode, W. N., Sauer, P. E., Wolfe, A. P., Bennike, O., Forman, S. L., Short, S. K., Stafford, Jr., T. W., and Williams, K. M., 1999, Stratified interglacial lacustrine sediments from Baffin Island, arctic Canada: chronology and paleoenvironmental implications:  Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 18, p. 789-810.

Snyder, J. A., Forman, S. A., Mode, W. N., and Tarasov, G. A., 1997, Deglaciation and postglacial sea-level history:  sediment and diatom records of emerged coastal lakes, north-central Kola Peninsula, Russia:  Boreas, v. 26 p. 329-346.

Jacobs, J. D., Headley, A. N., Maus, L. A., Mode, W. N., and Simms, È. L., 1997, Climate and vegetation of the interior lowlands of southern Baffin Island:  long-term stability at the Low Arctic limit:  Arctic, v. 50, p. 167-177.

Mode, W. N., 1996, The terrestrial record of postglacial vegetation and climate from the arctic/subarctic of eastern Canada and west Greenland:  Geoscience Canada, v. 23, p. 213-216.

Williams, K. M., Short, S. K., Andrews, J. T., Jennings, A. E., Mode, W. N., and Syvitski, J. P. M., 1995, The eastern Canadian Arctic at ca. 6 ka BP:  a time of transition:  Geographie physique et Quaternaire, v. 49, p. 13-27.

Andrews, J. T., Syvitski, J. P., Osterman, L. E., Williams, K. M., Mode, W. N., Kravitz, J. E., and Locke, W. W., III, 1994, Quaternary geology of Sunneshine Fiord (Baffin Island):  Geological survey of Canada Open File Report 3004, 2 sheets.

Recent Abstracts:

Mode, W. N., Hooyer, T. S., Clayton, Lee, and Attig, J. W., 2007, Details of glacial Lake Oshkosh stratigraphy and history revealed through geologic mapping:  Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, no. 6, p. 162.

Attig, J. W., Clayton, L., Hooyer, T. S., and Mode, W. N., 2007, A bursting ice dam, a big flood, and sub-lake moraines – the transition from glacial Lake Wisconsin to glacial Lake Oshkosh:  Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, no. 6, p. 81.

Alessi, Timothy, Mode, W. N., Hooyer, T. S., Clayton, Lee, and Attig, J. W., 2005, Sedimentary record of late glacial events in the Fox River lowland, east-central Wisconsin:  Geological Society of America, 2005 Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, no. 5, p. 14.

Attig, J. W., Hooyer, T. S., Mode, W. N., and Clayton, Lee, and  2005, Glacial lakes Wisconsin and Oshkosh -- two very different ice-marginal late-glacial lakes in Wisconsin:  Geological Society of America, 2005 Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, no. 5, p. 22.

Mickelson, D. M., Hooyer, T. S., Socha, B. J., Maher, L. J., Clayton, Lee, Winguth, C., Attig, J. W., and Mode, W. N., 2005, Glacial advance, retreat, and the record of late glacial climate change in northeastern Wisconsin:  Geological Society of America, 2005 Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, no. 5, p. 92.

Fischer-Guex, L. J., Mode, W. N., and Pillsbury, R. W., 2005, A diatom-based paleolimnological study of Rush Lake, Wisconsin:  Geological Society of America, 2005 Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, no. 5, p. 95.

Hooyer, T. S., Schoephoester, P., Mode, W. N., Clayton, Lee, and Attig, J. W., 2004, Glacial outburst floods from proglacial lakes in Wisconsin:  Geological Society of America, 2004 Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no. 5, p. 281.

Hooyer, T. S., Mode, W. N., Forman, S. L., Attig, J. W., and Clayton, Lee, 2003, Assessing the deglacial chronology of the Green Bay Lobe:  evidence from glacial Lake Oshkosh:  Geological Society of America, 2003 Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, no. 7, p. 109.

Mode, W.  N., Hooyer, T.  S., Attig, J.  W., Clayton, Lee., and Kostka, S.  J.*, 2003, Late Wisconsin stratigraphy of the glacial lake Oshkosh basin, Wisconsin:  Geological Society of America, 2003 Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, no. 2, p. 60. (*undergraduate)

Hooyer, T.  S., Clayton, Lee, Attig, J. W., and Mode, W.  N., 2003, History of the glacial Lake Oshkosh basin, Wisconsin:  Geological Society of America, 2003 Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, no.  2, p. 60.

Alessi, T.*, Baker, G. S.  Ham, N., Goetz-Ensminger, S.  L., Trople, D., and Mode, W.  N., 2003, Vegetative succession of forested glacial ice at the Matanuska Glacier, Alaska:  Geological Society of America, 2003 Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, no. 2, p. 46 (*undergraduate).

Snyder, J. A., Forman, S. L., Tarasov, G. A., Khasenkaev, V. B., Mode, W. N., Muzikar, P. F., 2002, Late Pleistocene glaciation of Kanin Peninsula, Russia:  field observations and preliminary surface exposure dating (abstract):  Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no. 6, p. 549..

Kostka, S. J.*, and Mode, W. N., 2001, Till deposition and clast pavement formation, Door County, Wisconsin (abstract):  Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, no. 6, p. A-317 (*undergraduate).

Kostka, S. J.*, and Mode, W. N., 2001, A glacial clast pavement in Door County, Wisconsin (abstract):  Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, no. 4, p. A-3 (*undergraduate).

Fantle, P. W.*, and Mode, W. N., 2000, Pollen evidence of an undiscovered archaeological site in east-central Wisconsin (abstract):  Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 4, p. A-12 (*undergraduate).

Other Activities:

Odyssey 2006: New Student Orientation

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