{"id":6,"date":"2012-10-25T18:35:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T18:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/csiddoway\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2025-08-31T23:14:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:14:25","slug":"6-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/csiddoway\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"822\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/csiddoway\/files\/2025\/07\/CS_-GC-2025-for-webpg-822x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-756 size-full\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/csiddoway\/files\/2025\/07\/CS_-GC-2025-for-webpg-822x1024.jpg 822w, http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/csiddoway\/files\/2025\/07\/CS_-GC-2025-for-webpg-241x300.jpg 241w, http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/csiddoway\/files\/2025\/07\/CS_-GC-2025-for-webpg-768x957.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/csiddoway\/files\/2025\/07\/CS_-GC-2025-for-webpg-1233x1536.jpg 1233w, http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/csiddoway\/files\/2025\/07\/CS_-GC-2025-for-webpg.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Professor of Geology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">   Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ph.D., Univ. California-Santa Barbara, 1995<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>     B.A., Carleton College, 1984<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>     M.Sc., University of Arizona 1987<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/csiddoway\/files\/2025\/08\/CSiddowayCV-2025-CC_10yr.pdf\">Curriculum<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradocollege.edu\/basics\/contact\/directory\/_docs\/CSiddowayCV-2024-CC_10yr-web.pdf\"> vitae<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Research metrics:&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scopus.com\/authid\/detail.uri?authorId=6507015930\">Scopus<\/a>&nbsp; \/\/&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Christine_Siddoway2\/stats\">Research Gate<\/a> &nbsp; &nbsp; \/\/ &nbsp; G<a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=tkrqR1UAAAAJ=en\">oogle Scholar<\/a>&nbsp; \/\/&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradocollege.academia.edu\/ChristineSiddoway\/Analytics\">Academia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Media items:&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/evidence-from-snowball-earth-found-in-ancient-rocks-on-colorados-pikes-peak-its-a-missing-link-242002\">The Conversation<\/a><strong> \/\/<\/strong><strong>&nbsp; BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-56904548\">Science <\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/earth\/2014\/09\/strange-formation-colorado-rockies-sheds-light-earths-past\">news<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp; \/\/&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2014\/10\/a-maverick-sandstone-that-calls-a-granite-home\/\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">Ars Technica<\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp;\/\/&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradocollege.edu\/newsevents\/newsroom\/2023\/cc-is-breaking-polar-research-barriers.html\">CC The Peak<\/a>&nbsp; \/\/&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christine_Siddoway\">Wikipedia<\/a><strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Projects and Federal Grants<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ice sheet erosional Interaction with Hot geotherm (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=1917176\">ICI-Hot<\/a>) in West Antarctica<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=1939146\">Testing the linchpin for WAIS<\/a> collapse using diatoms and IRD in Pleistocene and Late Pliocene strata of the Resolution Drift, Amundsen Sea, Antarctica<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iodp.tamu.edu\/scienceops\/precruise\/amundsensea\/summary.html\">IODP 379<\/a>, 2019-2021 Amundsen Sea &#8211; West Antarctic Ice Sheet History<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emplacement mechanism, paleoenvironment of formation, and lithification\/fluid migration history of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/earth\/2014\/09\/strange-formation-colorado-rockies-sheds-light-earths-past\">Neoproterozoic siliciclastics and injectites<\/a>&nbsp;, Colorado Front Range<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Recent Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Courtney-Davies, L., Flowers, R.M., Siddoway, C., Tasistro-Hart, A., and Macdonald, F., 2024, Hematite U-Pb Dating of Snowball Earth Meltwater Events, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 121 (47) doi: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.241075912\">10.1073\/pnas.241075912<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cox, S.C., Smith Lyttle, B., Elkind, S., Siddoway, C., Morin, P., Capponi, G., Abu-Alam, T. and 22 others, 2023, A continent-wide detailed geological map dataset of Antarctica, Nature Scientific Data, 10, 250, doi: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41597-023-02152-9\">10.1038\/s41597-023-02152-9<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tankersley, M., Horgan, H., Siddoway, C., Caratori Tontini, F., and Tinto K., 2022, Basement topography and sediment thickness beneath Antarctica&#8217;s Ross Ice Shelf, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029\/<a href=\"10.1029\/2021GL097371\">2021GL097371<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1130\/2021.2555(08)\">Geol. Soc. America Special Paper 555<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Siddoway, C., 2020, Antarctica, <em>in<\/em> Elias, S. and Alderton, D. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Geology, 2nd edition; 17 pages. Amsterdam: Academic Press, doi.org\/10.1016\/B978-0-08-<a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/B978-0-08-102908-4.00136-3\">102908-4.00136-3<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jordan, T.A., Riley, T.R. and Siddoway, C., 2020, Geology of West Antarctica, Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, doi:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43017-019-0013-6\">10.1038\/s43017-019-0013-6<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"997\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/csiddoway\/files\/2016\/07\/FIELD-PHOTO-csidd-997x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/csiddoway\/files\/2016\/07\/FIELD-PHOTO-csidd-997x1024.jpg 997w, http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/csiddoway\/files\/2016\/07\/FIELD-PHOTO-csidd-292x300.jpg 292w, http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/csiddoway\/files\/2016\/07\/FIELD-PHOTO-csidd-768x789.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 997px) 100vw, 997px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" data-id=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/csiddoway\/files\/2016\/07\/GOG-CS-point-to-W_DRasmuss.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/csiddoway\/files\/2016\/07\/GOG-CS-point-to-W_DRasmuss.jpg 720w, http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/csiddoway\/files\/2016\/07\/GOG-CS-point-to-W_DRasmuss-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"226\" data-id=\"60\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/csiddoway\/files\/2012\/10\/CS_GreenlandGr_md.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/csiddoway\/files\/2012\/10\/CS_GreenlandGr_md.jpg 225w, http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/csiddoway\/files\/2012\/10\/CS_GreenlandGr_md-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Courses taught currently<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">GY140&nbsp;&nbsp; Introduction to the Earth System<br>CC107   First-Year Seminar: Writing the Record of Earth<br>GY212&nbsp; &nbsp;Investigating Earth as a Physical System<br>GY315&nbsp;&nbsp; Rock Deformation and the Structure of Mountains<br>GY316&nbsp;&nbsp; Field analysis of Geological Structures<br>GY345&nbsp;&nbsp; Regional Studies in Geology [next taught Spring 2026]<br>GY400   Collaborative Research Seminar (contemporary problems, e.g.  2025: Colorado's geological record of Snowball Earth)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>More on <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/csiddoway\/teaching-and-research-mentoring\/\">Teaching and Research Mentoring<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Interests: &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/csiddoway\/antarctica-research\/\">Geological evolution of Antarctica<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2410759121\">Cryogenian Sedimentary Rocks of Colorado<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Siddoway family: &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>Colorado College has another professor by the name of Siddoway, and you guessed it, the two of us are married. Mike teaches Mathematics. If you are seeking the Prof. Siddoway whose research is in <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/msiddoway\/selected-publications-and-research-awards\/\">divisibility theory of arithmetical rings<\/a>, you can reach Mike&#8217;s professional web page <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/msiddoway\/\">here<\/a>.&nbsp; To reach Mike, email him at msiddoway@coloradocollege.edu.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/csiddoway\/files\/2012\/10\/Chris_Bighorns_resize1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/csiddoway\/files\/2012\/10\/Chris_Bighorns_resize1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Christine with field assistant, Pearl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Geology Education Ph.D., Univ. 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