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
--	51-140	Intro. Geologic Field methods	Spring 2010
--	51-326	Geophysics	Spring 2010
--	51-331	Structural Geology	Spring 2009
--	51-311	Applied Geologic Field Methods	Spring 2009
--	51-344	Field Geology	Summer 2009

My Schedule:

HOUR	MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
8:00	Class Prep	Research	Class Prep	51-140	Class Prep
9:10	Class Prep	Research	Class Prep	51-140	Class Prep
10:20	Class Prep	Research	Class Prep	Office Hrs	Class Prep
11:30	51-331	Research	51-331	Research	Class Prep
12:40	Meeting	Research	Office Hrs	Research	Class Prep
1:50	Research	Research	Class Prep	Research	51-331
3:00	Research	Research	Class Prep	Research	51-331
4:10	Research	Research	Class Prep	Speaker Series	51-331
5:20	Research	Research	Class Prep	Speaker Series	Catch Up

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

Recent Publications:

Paulsen, T.S., Encarnación, J., Grunow, A., Valencia, V.A., and Rasoazanamparany, C., 2008, Late Sinistral Shearing along Gondwana’s Paleo-Pacific Margin in the Ross Orogen, Antarctica: New Structure and Age Data from the O’Brien Peak Area. Journal of Geology, v. 116, p. 303-312.

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. 9^th 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. 9^th 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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