Professor of Geology
Education
- B.A., Carleton College, 1984
- M.Sc., University of Arizona 1987
- Ph.D., University of California-Santa Barbara, 1995
Curriculum vitae
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Current Projects and Federal Grants
Ice sheet erosional Interaction with Hot geotherm (ICI-Hot) in West Antarctica
Testing the linchpin for WAIS collapse using diatoms and IRD in Pleistocene and Late Pliocene strata of the Resolution Drift, Amundsen Sea, Antarctica
IODP 379, 2019-2021 Amundsen Sea – West Antarctic Ice Sheet History
Collaborative Research: A systems approach to understanding the Ross Ocean and ice Shelf Environment, and Tectonic setting Through Aerogeophysical surveys and modeling (ROSETTA-ICE)
Emplacement mechanism, paleoenvironment of formation, and lithification/fluid migration history of Neoproterozoic siliciclastics and injectites , Colorado Front Range
Recent Publications
Tankersley, M., Horgan, H., Siddoway, C., Caratori Tontini, F., and Tinto K., 2022, Basement topography and sediment thickness beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2021GL097371 .
Tikoff, B., Siddoway, C., Sokoutis, D., and Willingshofer, E., 2022, The lithospheric folding model applied to the Bighorn uplift during the Laramide orogeny, in Craddock, J.P. et al., eds., Tectonic Evolution of the Sevier-Laramide Hinterland: Geol. Soc. America Special Paper 555.
Siddoway, C., 2020, Antarctica, in Scott Elias, S. and Alderton, D. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Geology, 2nd edition; 17 pages. Amsterdam: Academic Press, doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102908-4.00136-3.
Flowers, R. M., Macdonald, FA., Siddoway, C.S., and Havranek, R., 2020, Diachronous development of the Great Unconformity prior to Snowball Earth, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1913131117.
Jordan, T.A., Riley, T.R. and Siddoway, C., 2020, Geology of West Antarctica, Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, doi:10.1038/s43017-019-0013-6.
- Field trippin’ in CO
- First Year Experience eye-opener (credit: D Rasmussen)
- Field work on West Coast of New Zealand
Courses taught currently
GY140 Introduction to the Earth System CC107 First-Year Seminar: Writing the Record of Earth GY212 Investigating Earth as a Physical System GY250 Topics in Geology (subjects vary year to year) GY315 Structural Geology GY316 Field analysis of Geological Structures GY445 Regional Studies in Geology [field course]
More on Teaching and Research Mentoring
Research Interests: Structural and metamorphic geology; tectonic development of West Antarctica and New Zealand within Gondwana; Rocky Mountains tectonics; the role of melt in deformation of migmatites; sandstone injectites.
Geological evolution of Antarctica