Courses Taught 

My Schedule

Research

Selected Publications

Other Activities
 

Timothy S. Paulsen 

Associate Professor
Structural Geology & Tectonics
paulsen@uwosh.edu
Mailing address (920) 424-7002


 
Courses Taught:

Link to Web Site

Course Number

Course Name

Next Taught

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51-140

Intro. Geologic Field methods

Spring 2008

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51-326

Geophysics

Spring 2008

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51-331

Structural Geology

Spring 2008

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51-311

Applied Geologic Field Methods

Spring 2009

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51-344

Field Geology

Summer 2008


My Schedule:

HOUR

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

8:00

 

 

 

 

51-331

9:10

51-331

51-326

51-331

 

51-331

10:20

 

51-326

 

 

51-331

11:30

51-326

51-326

51-326

 

 

12:40

Office Hrs

 

Office Hrs

 

 

1:50

 

 

 

 

 

3:00

51-140

 

 

 

 

4:10

51-140

 

 

 

 

5:20

51-140

 

 

 

 

 Research Interests:

My research focuses on five topics:

(1)   Fold-thrust belt map-view curvature 

(2)   Continental interior tectonics

(3)   Gondwana assembly in Antarctica and India

(4)   Gondwana break-up and rift system evolution in Antarctica

(5)   Contemporary stress field in Antarctica

Grants in Aid of Research (last 7 years):

NSF-ANDRILL SMS Drilling Project Grant (~$30,954); Stress Field History and Contemporary Stress, Victoria Land Basin, Antarctica; 2007-08

 

NSF-ANDRILL MIS Drilling Projects Grant (~$33,831 over two years); Stress Field History and Contemporary Stress, Victoria Land Basin, Antarctica; 2007-09

 

NSF-ANDRILL MIS Drilling Projects Grant (~$33,497); Stress Field History and Contemporary Stress, Victoria Land Basin, Antarctica; 2006-08

 

NSF-OPP Grant ($72,548 to UWO; $78,542 to OSU over 3 years); Collaborative Research with Ohio State University: Antarctic Stress Map Project Phase I: Neogene –Quaternary Volcanic Alignments in the Transantarctic Mountains/Ross Sea Region; 2000-03  

 

NSF-OPP-9910879 Supplement ($18,000); Collaborative Research with Ohio State University: Antarctic Stress Map Project Phase I: Neogene–Quaternary Volcanic Alignments in the Transantarctic Mountains/Ross Sea Region; 2002-03

 

UW FDP-Research Grant; Mountain Building History of the Himalayas; FDR934; 2002

 

Subcontract OSU to UWO ($11,466); The SWEAT Model and Neoproterozoic Cambrian Orogenies in Antarctica: Tests from the Nimrod Glacier area: Collaborative Research; 2000-01           

 

Recent Publications:

Paulsen, T.S., Encarnación, J., Grunow, A., Layer, P.M., and Watkeys, M. 2007. New age constraints for a short pulse in Ross orogen deformation triggered by East-West Gondwana suturing. Gondwana Research, doi:10.1016/j.gr.2007.05.011.

 

Paulsen, T.S., Demosthenous, C.M., Myrow, P.M., Hughes, N.C., and Parcha, S.K., 2007, Paleostrain stratigraphic analysis of calcite twins across the Cambrian-Ordovician unconformity in the Tethyan Himalaya, Spiti and Zanskar valley regions, India: Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v. 31, p. 44-54.

 

Paulsen, T.S., and Wilson, T.J., 2007, Elongate summit calderas as Neogene paleostress indicators in Antarctica, in Cooper, A.K., et al., eds., Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World – Online Proceedings of the 10th ISAES, USGS Open-File Report 2007-1047, Short Research Paper 072, doi:10.3133/of2007-1047.srp072.

 

Millan, C, Wilson, T., and Paulsen, T., 2007, Microstructural study of natural fractures in Cape Roberts Project 3 core, Western Ross Sea, Antarctica, in Cooper, A.K., et al., eds., Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World – Online Proceedings of the 10th ISAES, USGS Open-File Report 2007-1047, Short Research Paper 053; doi:10.3133/of2007-1047.srp053.

Myrow, P.M., Thompson, K.R., Hughes, N.C., Paulsen, T.S., Sell, B.K., and Parcha, S.K., 2006, Cambrian stratigraphy and depositional history of the northern Indian Himalaya, Spiti Valley, north-central India: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 118, p. 491-510.

Myrow, P.M., Snell, K.E., Hughes, N.C., Paulsen, T.S., Heim, N.A., and Parcha, S.K., 2006, Cambrian depositional history of the Zanskar Valley region of the Indian Himalaya: Tectonic implications: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 76, p. 364-381.

Csatho, B., Schenk, T., Krabill, W., Wilson, T., Hallam, C., Lyons, B., Manizade, S., McKenzie, G., and Paulsen, T., 2005. Airborne Laser Scanning for high-resolution mapping of polar environments in Antarctica. EOS, v. 86, no. 25, p. 237-238.

Paulsen, T., Encarnacion, J., and Grunow, A., 2004, Structure and timing of transpressional deformation in the Shackleton Glacier area, Ross orogen, Antarctica. Journal of the Geological Society of London. V. 161, p. 1027-1038.

Paulsen, T., and Wilson, T., 2004, Subglacial Bedrock Structure in the Transantarctic Mountains and its Influence on Ice Sheet Flow:  Insights from RADARSAT SAR Imagery. Global and Planetary Change, v. 42, 227-240.

Myrow, P.M., Hughes, N.C., Paulsen, T., Williams, I., Parcha, S.K., Thompson, K.R., Bowring, S.A., Peng, S.-C., and Ahluwalia, A.D., 2003, Integrated tectonostratigraphic analysis of the Himalaya and implications for its tectonic reconstruction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 212, p. 433-441.

Paulsen, T., Jarrard, R., and Wilson, T., 2002, A simple method for orienting drill core by correlating features in whole-core scans and oriented borehole-wall imagery, Journal of Structural Geology, 24, 1233-1238.

Wilson, T., and Paulsen, T., 2001, Fault and Fracture patterns in the CRP-3 core, Victoria Land Basin, Antarctica, Terra Antartica, v. 8, 177-196.

Wilson, T., and Paulsen, T., 2000, Constraints on Neogene-Quaternary stress regime from CRP-2/2A fracture arrays, Terra Antartica, v. 7, 287-298.

Recent Abstracts:

Paulsen, T., Demosthenous, C., Myrow. P., Hughes, N, and Parcha, S.K.,  2005. Calcite strain analysis of limestones across the Cambrian-Ordovician unconformity in the Spiti and Zanskar regions, Indian Himalaya. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 37, No. 7, p. 211.

 

Paulsen, T., and Wilson, T., 2004. Neogene-Quaternary Volcanic Alignments in the Transantarctic Mountains and West Antarctic Rift System, Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Eos Trans. AGU, 84(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T11A-1232.

 

Paulsen, T., Wilson, T., Csatho, B., Schenk, T., Krabill, W., 2003. Airborne Laser Swath Mapping of the Erebus Volcanic Province, Antarctica: New Means to Map Structure of Volcanic Cinder Cones and Volcanic Alignments. Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract G11A-0244.

 

Paulsen, T., and Wilson, T., 2003. Volcanic cone alignments and the intraplate stress field in the Mount Morning region, South Victoria Land. 9th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences Programme and Abstracts, Potsdam, Germany, p. 251.

 

Wilson, T., Henrys, S., Barrett, P., Hannah, M., Fielding, C., Jarrard, R., and Paulsen, T., 2003, New rift history for the southwestern Ross Sea, Antarctica. 9th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences Programme and Abstracts,  Potsdam, Germany, p. 347.

 

Wilson, T., Paulsen, T., and Wilch, T., 2003. Structural control on Neogene-Quaternary volcanism in the Transantarctic Mountains, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica: Influence of regional stress field vs. Glacio-isostatic flexure. EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, France, Geophysical Research Abstracts v. 5, p. 14357. 


 

Other Activities and Interests:

Sundance and Cassidy, Green Bay Packers,
Antarctica, and Geology......

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