Ian P. Skilling (Curriculum Vitae) September 2^nd 2009

Work Address: Department of Geology and Planetary Science, 200 SRCC Building, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA

Current Home Address: 404 Marion Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15221, USA

Email: skilling@pitt.edu

Web: http://skilling.geology.pitt.edu

Tel: +1 412 624 5873 (W); +1 412 271 7626 (H); 412-728-3931 (cell/mobile)

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Education

· October 1981 to July 1984. BSc. (Hons.) (FIRST CLASS) in Geological Sciences. University of Aston, Birmingham, UK. Winner of University Prize in Geology and Departmental Mapping Prize

· October 1984 to July 1988. Ph.D entitled "Geological evolution of Suswa volcano, Kenya". University of Lancaster, UK. Advisors: Professor R. Macdonald and Dr L.A.J. Williams

Employment

· August 2002 to present. Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Planetary Science, University of Pittsburgh, USA

· March 2000 to August 2002. Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, USA

· August 1993 to December 1999. Lecturer, Department of Geology, Rhodes University, South Africa

· October 1988 to August 1993. Volcanologist, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK

Major Funded Research Grants

Building Ice-Age Dyngjufjöll: Processes, Products and Environments. Role: Principal Investigator. Funding agency: NSF-Petrology and Geochemistry. Dates: 10/2009 to 10/2012. Award amount: $304k.

· Using the Products of Volcano-Ice Interaction to Constrain Paleo-Ice Conditions. Role: Principal Investigator. Funding agency: NSF-Petrology and Geochemistry. Collaborative research with B.R. Edwards (Dickinson College). Dates: 1/06 to 1/09. Award Numbers NSF-EAR 0439699 (IPS) and 0439707(BRE). Pitt portion of award: $327k

· Explaining the Eruption of Huge Volumes of Magma-Sediment Mixtures Preceding Flood Basalt Volcanism: Karoo LIP, South Africa.

Role: Principal Investigator. Funding agency: NSF-Petrology and Geochemistry. Collaborative research with B. Houghton (University of Hawaii). Dates: 12/2001 to 12/2004. Award Numbers NSF-EAR-0125050 (IPS) and 0106103 (BH). 2 of the 3 years of funding were transferred to University of Pittsburgh. Pitt portion of award: $246k

· Miocene Volcanism in the Sierra Nevada, California: Stratigraphy, Volcanology, Geochronology and Structure. Role: Co-Investigator. Funding agency: NSF-Petrology and Geochemistry. Collaborative research with C. Busby (University of California-Santa Barbara). Dates: 3/2002 to 3/2005. Award number NSF-EAR 0125050 (IPS). All years of this award funding were transferred to University of Pittsburgh. Pitt portion of award: $100k

· Critical Evaluation of the Sub-Ice Volcano Origin for the Valles Marineris Interior Deposits Via Study of MGS Data and Terrestrial Features. Role: Collaborator. Funding agency: NASA-Mars Data Analysis Program. PI was M. Chapman, USGS. Dates: 1/2001 to 1/2004. Total award: $180k; Pitt portion of award: Skilling travel costs to Iceland for one field season

· Subglacial Basaltic Hyaloclastite Ridge Eruptions: Processes and Products. Role: Principal Investigator. Funding Agency: Oak Ridge Associated Universities (Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award). Dates: 5/2002 to 5/2003. All of this award was transferred to University of Pittsburgh. Total award: $10k

Other Funded Research Grants

· Determining Former Ice Presence, Ice Thickness and Paleo-Environments from Volcanic Fissures Erupted Under Ice During the Last Glacial Maximum, SW Iceland. Role: Graduate student advisor; Co-wrote with Ph.D student Emily Mercurio. Funding agency: Evolving Earth Foundation. Dates: 6/2009 to 6/2010. Total award: $2.6k

· Ice-Contact Structures in Basaltic Lava Flows in SW Iceland: An Important Record of Former Ice. Role: Graduate student advisor; Co-wrote with Ph.D student Holly Kagy. Funding agency: Geological Society of America (Student Research Grant). Dates: 1/2010 to 1/2011. Total award: $3k

Discriminating Vent Sites Along a Formerly Ice-Confined Basaltic Eruptive Fissure Complex at Sveifluháls, SW Iceland: Helping Untap a New Database on Former Ice Conditions. Role: Undergraduate student advisor. Co-write with University of Pittsburgh undergraduate student, Hilary Morgan. Funding

Agency: Geological Society of America (Student Research Grant). Dates: 7/2010 to 7/2011. Total award: $500.

· Understanding Ice-Confined Fissure Eruptions: Unlocking the Largest Untapped Database on North Atlantic Terrestrial Ice Conditions. Role: Principal Investigator. Funding: University of Pittsburgh Hewlett International Grant. Dates: 7/2009 to 7/2010. Total award: $2k

· Building a New Glacial Record Using Basaltic Lava Flows Emplaced Beneath Ice. Role: Principal Investigator. Funding: University of Pittsburgh Hewlett International Grant. Dates: 7/2008 to 7/2009. Total award: $2.5k

· Construction and Evolution of an Ice-Confined Basaltic Volcano: Hlöðufell, SW Iceland. Role: Principal Investigator. Funding: University of Southern Mississippi Faculty Research Grants. Dates: 7/2001 to 7/2002. Total award: $5.5k

· Controls on the Development of Tuff Cones versus Tuff Rings: Koko Fissure, O’ahu, Hawai’i. Role: Principal Investigator. Funding: Rhodes University (South Africa) Sabbatical Research Grant. Dates 1/1997 to 1/1998. Total award: $7.5k

· Explaining the Origin of Voluminous Lahar-Like Deposits at the Base of the Karoo Flood Basalt Province, near Barkly East, South Africa. Role: Principal Investigator. Funding: National Research Foundation of South Africa. Dates: 4/94 to 4/95. Total award: $2.5k

· Development of the Brosterlea Complex, near Barkly East, South Africa: Voluminous Eruption of Magma-Sediment Mixtures at the Onset of Karoo LIP Volcanism. Role: Principal Investigator. Funding: National Research Foundation of South Africa. Dates: 3/95 to 3/96. Total award: $3k

· Investigating the Co-Collapse of Suswa and Longonot calderas, Kenyan Rift Valley. Role: Principal Investigator. Funding: National Research Foundation of South Africa. Dates: 12/96 to 12/97. Total award: $3.5k

· Mapping the Ilimaussaq Nepheline Syenite, near Narsarssuaq, SW Greenland. Role: Undergraduate student investigator. Funding: University of Aston (UK) Student Research Grant. Dates: 7/1982 to 7/1983. Total Award: $2k

Pending Research Proposals

· Ice-Contact Lava Flows on Earth and Mars: A New Record of Former Ice. Role: Principal Investigator. Tracy Gregg (University of Buffalo) is Co-I. Funding agency: NASA-Planetary Geology and Geophysics. Dates: 1/2010 to 1/2013. Total requested: S324k. Submitted 15^th May 2009.

· Laboratory Simulations of Lava-Ice Interactions on Earth and Mars. Role: Co-Investigator. Tracy Gregg (University of Buffalo) is PI. Funding Agency: NASA-Mars Fundamental Research. Dates: 1/2010 to 1/2013. Total requested: $k. Submitted 1^st July 2009.

In-Preparation Research Proposals (not submitted as of July 15^th 2009)

· Understanding Ice-Confined Fissure Eruptions: Unlocking the Largest Untapped Database on North Atlantic Terrestrial Ice Conditions. Role: Principal Investigator. Funding Agency: NSF-Paleoclimate. Dates: 1/2010 to 1/2011. Submission date: August 2009

· Making the Mix: Using Peperite to Understand the Formation of MFCI Pre-Mixes. Role: Principal Investigator. Funding Agency: NSF-Petrology and Geochemistry. Dates. 7/2010 to 7/2013. Submission date: December 2009

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Please see folder at: http://skilling.geology.pitt.edu/pubs for pdf files of publications

*University of Pittsburgh graduate student advised by Skilling

** University of Hawaii graduate student co-advised by Skilling and bulk of his research funded from collaborative research NSF grant NSF-EAR 125050 of Skilling (PI)

***Rhodes University (South Africa) undergraduate student advised by Skilling

2009

Carter, A, Ramsey, M, Durant, A, Skilling, IP and Wolfe, A. Micron-scale roughness of

volcanic surfaces from thermal infrared spectroscopy and scanning electron

microscopy. Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, B02213,

doi:10.1029/2008JB005632

Edwards, B, Skilling, IP, Cameron, B, Haynes, C, Lloyd, A and *Hungerford, J.

Evolution of an Englacial Volcanic Ridge: Pillow Ridge Tindar, Mount Edziza Volcanic

Complex, NCVP, British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal

Research (in press) doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2008.11.015

Edwards, B, Tuffen, H, Skilling, IP and Wilson, L. Introduction to the Special Issue on

Volcano-Ice Interaction: The State of the Science. Journal of Volcanology and

Geothermal Research, 2-4. (in press)

Espejel-Garcia, VV, Skilling, IP, Omenda, P, Anthony, EY, Ren, M, Macdonald, R and

White, JC. Suswa Volcano, Kenya Rift: Evidence of Magma Mixing, Na-F Complexing

and Eruptions Triggered by Recharge. Lithos (in review).

*LaMoreaux, K., Skilling, IP and Edwards, B. The Emplacement of Trachytic Lava

Beneath Ice: Mount Edziza, British Columbia, Canada. Bulletin of Volcanology (in

review)

Skilling, IP. Subglacial to Emergent Basaltic Volcanism at Hlöðufell, South-West

Iceland: A History of Ice-Confinement. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal

Research (in press). doi:10-1016/j/jvolgeores.2009.05.023

Skilling, IP, Edwards, B and *Hungerford, J. Characteristics of Basaltic Lava Flows

Emplaced Beneath Ice: Tennena Cone, Mount Edziza, British Columbia, Canada.

Bulletin of Volcanology (in review)

2008

Busby, C, DeOreo, S, Skilling, IP, Gans, P and Hagan, JC. Carson Pass-Kirkwood

Paleocanyon System: Implications for the Tertiary Evolution of the Sierra Nevada.

Geological Society of America Bulletin, 120, 274-299

Busby, C, Hagan, J, Putirka, K, Pluhar, CJ, Gans, P, Wagner, DL, Rood, D, DeOreo, S

and Skilling, IP. The Ancestral Cascades Arc: Cenozoic Evolution of the Central

Sierra Nevada (California), In: Wright, JE and Shervais, JW(eds) Geological Society

of America Special Paper, 438. Ophiolites, Arcs and Batholiths: A Tribute to Cliff

Hopson, 331-378

**McClintock, M, White, JDL, Houghton, B and Skilling, IP. Physical Volcanology of a

Large Crater-Complex Formed During the Initial Stages of Karoo Flood Basalt

Volcanism: Sterkspruit, Eastern Cape, South Africa. In: Skilling, IP and White, JDL

(eds) Physical Volcanology of LIPs, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal

Research Special Issue,172, 93-111. (note that McClintock was a graduate student

based at University of Hawaii, but jointly advised by Skilling and Houghton

(University of Hawaii)

2005-2007

Ross, PS, Ukstins-Peate, I, **McClintock, M, Xu, YG, Skilling, IP, White, JDL and

Houghton, B. (2005) Mafic Volcaniclastic Deposits in Large Volume Igneous

Provinces: a Review. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research,

145, 281-314.

2002-2004

Skilling, IP (2002) Basaltic Pahoehoe Lava-Fed Deltas: Clast Generation, Emplacement

Mechanisms and Environmental Discrimination. In Smellie et al. (eds) Volcano-Ice

Interaction on Earth and Mars. Journal of Geological Society of London. Special

Publication 202, 91-113.

Skilling, IP, White, JDL and McPhie, J. (2002) Peperite: A Review of Magma-Sediment

Mingling In: Skilling, White and McPhie (eds), Peperite: Processes and Products of

Magma-Sediment Mingling. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Special Issue, 114, 1-17.

White, JDL, McPhie, J and Skilling, IP. (2002) Peperite: a useful genetic term. Bulletin

of Volcanology, 62, 65-66.

PRE-2002

Chapman, MG, Allen, CC, Skilling, IP and Waitt, RB (2000) Volcano-Ice Interactions on

Earth and Mars. In: Gregg and Zimbelman (eds) Environmental Effects on Volcanic

Eruptions: From the Deep Oceans to Deep Space. Plenum Press, p39-73.

Macdonald, R, Kjarsgaard, B, Skilling, IP, Davies, GR and Hamilton, DL (1993) Liquid

Immiscibility Between Carbonate and Trachyte in an Ash Flow Tuff, Kenya.

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 114, 276-287.

Scott, SC and Skilling, IP (1999) Recognizing Synchronous Caldera-Forming Events on

Quaternary volcanoes of the South Kenya Rift-the Role of Tephrochronology. In:

Firth and McGuire (eds), Volcanoes in the Quaternary. Journal of Geological Society

of London, Special Publication, 161, 47-67.

Skilling, IP (1993) Incremental Caldera Collapse of Suswa volcano, Gregory Rift Valley,

Kenya. Journal of Geological Society of London, 150, 885-896.

Skilling, IP (1994) Evolution of an Englacial Volcano: Brown Bluff, Antarctica Bulletin

of Volcanology, 56, 573-191.

Smellie, JL and Skilling, IP (1994) Products of Subglacial Eruptions Under Different Ice

Thicknesses: Two Examples from Antarctica. Sedimentary Geology, 91, 115-129.

Books

Skilling, IP, White, JDL and McPhie, J. (2002) (eds), Peperites: Processes and Products

of Magma-Wet Sediment Mingling. Elsevier, ISBN 0-444-51160-1. This was a

hardback book publication of the collection of papers in Skilling et al. (eds) Journal

of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Special Issue 114

Journal Editorships

Skilling, IP, White, JDL and McPhie, J. (2002) (eds), Peperites: Processes and Products

of Magma-Wet Sediment Mingling. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Special Issue, 114, 185pp.

Skilling, IP and White, JDL (2008) (eds) Physical Volcanology of Large Igneous

Provinces. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Special Issue, 172,

162pp.

Edwards, B, Skilling, IP, Tuffen, H and Wilson (2009) (eds) Volcano-Ice Interaction on

Earth and Mars, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research Special Issue (in

press)

Papers in Preparation for Peer-Reviewed Journals

*Bluth, J and Skilling, IP. Syn-Eruptive Incision of Phreatomagmatic Tephra by

Condensed Steam and Hot Debris Flows: A Re-Appraisal of the Type Locality of

“Surge-Eroded U-Shaped Channels”. In preparation for Bulletin of Volcanology.

*Hungerford, JD, Skilling, IP and Edwards, B. Emplacement of Basaltic Lavas Beneath

Ice: Conceptual Models. In preparation for Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal

Research

Skilling, IP. Stratigraphy and Evolution of the Koko Fissure Craters, O’ahu, Hawaii. In

preparation for Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research.

Skilling, IP, Busby, C and *Imai, T. Mass Wasting Events Triggered By Ancestral

Cascades Arc Lava Dome Collapses in Miocene Paleocanyons of the Central Sierra

Nevada (CA): Evidence for High Relief. In preparation for International Geological

Review

Skilling, IP, White, JDL and Zimanowski, B. Making the Mix: Using Peperite Textures

to Understand Volcanic MFCI Pre-Mixing. In preparation for Bulletin of Volcanology

Reports (not Peer-Reviewed)

British Antarctic Survey Report R/1988/G9. Volcanology field report of the James Ross Island Scientific Cruise 1988-89

British Antarctic Survey Report R/1990/GL6. Geological field report 1990-91 season. Volcanic studies at Brown Bluff, Tabarin Peninsula

Confidential reports for DeBeers Ltd on the surface geology of Mwadui Kimberlite Crater, Tanzania and Jwaneng Kimberlite Crater, Botswana

Meeting Abstracts

2009 (as of September 2nd)

*Mercurio, E, Skilling, IP and Cameron, B. Construction and Evolution of an Ice-

Confined Basaltic Eruptive Fissure Complex: Sveifluháls, SW Iceland. Joint American

Geophysical Union-GACMAC Meeting, Toronto, Canada (April

2009).

*Mercurio, E, Skilling, IP and Cameron, B. Construction and Evolution of an Ice-

Confined Basaltic Eruptive Fissure Complex: A Planetary Perspective. Geological

Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon. October 2009

Skilling, IP. Ice-Confined Basaltic Volcanoes: Edifice Types, Processes and

Depocenters. Nordic Volcanological Institute Summer School, Laugarvatn, Iceland

(30^th June to 9^th July 2009) (invited)

Skilling, IP, *Mercurio, EC and Cameron, B. Ice-Confined Basaltic Eruptive Fissure

Complexes in Iceland: Accessible Analogs for Understanding Shallow Submarine

Ridge Construction. Fall AGU Meeting (December 2009)

2008

Skilling, IP and Gregg, TK. Basaltic Lava Flow Ice-Contact Structures: A Distinctive

Record of Former Ice. IAVCEI General Assembly, Reykjavik, Iceland (invited)

Skilling, IP, *Hungerford, J, Cameron, B and Edwards, B. Identifying Basaltic

Lava Flows Emplaced Under Ice: Clues from the Mount Edziza Volcanic Complex,

British Columbia, Canada. IAVCEI General Assembly, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Skilling, IP, White, JDL, **McClintock, M and Ross, PS (2008) Break-Up of Basaltic

Magma Jets in Wet Sediment and Generating Magma-Water Explosions: Insights from

Peperite Textures. IAVCEI General Assembly, Reykjavik, Iceland.

2007

Cameron, BI, Wright, MD, Skilling, IP, *Hungerford, J. and Edwards, B. Ice Thickness

Estimates Based on Volatile Content of Pillow Glasses from the Mount Edziza

Volcanic Complex, northern British Columbia. 2^nd Volcano-Ice Interaction on Earth

and Mars Conference, Vancouver.

Edwards, B, Lloyd, A, Russell, JK, Mathews, A and Skilling, IP. Convoluted Columns

and Pillow Piles: Constraints on Lava Cooling from Field, CSD and Conduction

Models. 2^nd Volcano-Ice Interaction on Earth and Mars Conference, Vancouver,

Canada

Edwards, B, Russell, JK, Skilling, IP, Evenchick, C, Simpson, K, and Cameron, B.

Physiographic Controls on Glaciovolcanism and the Cordilleran Ice Sheet on the

northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province, Western Canada. 2^nd Volcano-Ice

Interaction on Earth and Mars Conference, Vancouver.

*Hungerford, JDG, Skilling, IP and Edwards, B. Emplacement of Sinuous Basaltic Pillow

Lava Ridges on the Flanks of the Mount Edziza Volcanic Complex, British Columbia,

Canada. 2^nd Volcano-Ice Interaction on Earth and Mars Conference, Vancouver.

Skilling, IP, *Hungerford, J and Edwards, B. Using Coherent Lavas to Infer Former Ice

Conditions. Geological Society of America Cordillieran Section Meeting, Bellingham,

WA, May 2007 (invited)

Skilling, IP, *Hungerford, J, Edwards, B, *LaMoreaux, K and Cameron, B. Using Lavas at

the Mount Edziza Volcanic Complex (British Columbia, Canada) to Infer Ice-Contact

and Processes of Syn-Eruptive Subglacial WaterDrainage. 2^nd Volcano-Ice Interaction

on Earth and Mars Conference, Vancouver, Canada.

Skilling, IP, *LaMoreaux, K and Edwards, B. Using Cooling-Contraction Joints in a

Trachyte Lava Dome to Infer Ice Contact and Water Ingress: Mount Edziza Volcanic

Complex, British Columbia. 2^nd Volcano-Ice Interaction on Earth and Mars

Conference, Vancouver, Canada

2006

Carter, AJ, Ramsey, M, Durant, AJ and Skilling, IP. Multispectral Three-Dimensional

Imaging of Volcanic Products on the Macro- and Micro-Scale. AGU Fall Meeting

abstract

Skilling, IP. Interpreting Explosive Eruption and Primary Depositional Processes from

Kimberlitic Intra-Crater Deposits. Kimberlite Emplacement Workshop, Saskatoon,

Canada. September 7^th-12^th, 2006 (invited)

Skilling, IP, Edwards, B and *Hungerford, J. Using Glaciovolcanic Products and

Processes at Mt Edziza, BC, Canada to Constrain Paleo-Ice Conditions: Initial

Results. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting

2005

DeOreo, S, Busby, CJ and Skilling, IP. Carson Pass-Kirkwood Paleocanyon System:

Implications for the Tertiary Evolution of the Sierra Nevada, California. Geological

Society of America Cordilleran Section Meeting, San Jose, April 2005.

Skilling, IP. Using Basaltic Sub-Ice Intrusions to Infer the Presence of Former Ice.

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting

2004

Edwards, B, Russell, JK, Simpson, K and Skilling, IP. Glaciovolcanism Within the

Northern Cordilliera Volcanic Province, British Columbia, Canada. IAVCEI

International Volcanological Congress, Chile.

*McClintock, M, White, JDL, Houghton, B and Marsh, J. Evolution of the Sterkspruit

Complex, South Africa: A Composite Maar Crater-Complex Developed During LIP

volcanism. 2^nd International Maar Conference, Hungary.

Skilling, IP. Mechanisms of Formation of Cored Ash-Lapilli and Elongate Fluidal Ash-

Lapilli During Hydrodynamic Mingling with Sediment. 2^nd International Maar

Conference, Hungary.

Skilling, IP, Busby, C and *Imai, T. Andesitic Peperitic-Bearing Debris Flows: Physical

Volcanology and Paleoenvironment of the Miocene Mehrten Formation, California.

Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 36 (4), 85

2003

*Bluth, J and Skilling, IP. Syn-Eruptive Incision of Koko Crater, Oahu, Hawaii by

Condensed Steam and Hot Cohesive Debris Flows. Cities on Volcanoes 3 Meeting,

Hilo, HI

DeOreo, S, Busby, CJ and Skilling, IP. Tertiary Paleogeography and Paleotectonic

Evolution of the Sierra Nevada in the Carson Pass-Kirkwood Area, California.

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.

*Imai, T and Skilling, IP. Peperite-Fed Andesitic Debris Flows in the Miocene Mehrten

Formation, Kirkwood, California, USA. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.

**McClintock, M, Houghton, BF, Skilling, IP and White, JDL. Evolution of a Large-

Volume Explosive Vent Complex at the Base of the Karoo LIP: Sterkspruit Complex,

South Africa. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, V52G-05

Skilling, IP. Facies Analysis of Hlöðufell Volcano, Iceland: Insights into Subglacial

Melting and Drainage. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.

Skilling, IP. Basaltic Pahoehoe Lava-Fed Deltas: Slope Processes and Slope Stability.

Cities on Volcanoes 3 Conference, Hilo, Hawaii

2002

**McClintock, M, Houghton, BF, Skilling, IP and White, JDL. The Volcaniclastic Opening

Phase of Karoo Flood Basalt Volcanism: Drakensberg Formation, South Africa.

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.

Skilling, IP. Processes and Products of Subglacial to Emergent Volcanism at Hlöðufell

volcano, South-West Iceland. AGU Chapman Conference, Explosive Subaqueous

Volcanism, Dunedin, New Zealand (January 2002)

Skilling, IP. Magma Fragmentation in Fluidal Peperite: Implications for Understanding

Morphological Complexity in Hydrovolcanic Tephra. American Geophysical Union

Chapman Conference, Subaqueous Explosive Volcanism, Dunedin, New Zealand

(January 2002) (invited)

Skilling, IP. Sub-ice Processes and Products at Hlöðufell volcano, Iceland: Geomorphic

Criteria for Recognition of Martian “tuyas”. American Geophysical Union Fall

Meeting (invited)

Skilling, IP, Chapman, M and Lucchitta, B. Young, Blocky Flows in East Ius/West Melas

and West Candor Chasmata Mars: Debris Avalanche Deposits Derived from Interior

Layered Deposit (ILD) Mounds? 33^rd Lunar Planetary Science Conference, Houston,

Texas.

Skilling, IP, Regan, H and Busby, C. Miocene Volcanic and Sedimentological History of

the Northern Sierra, Kirkwood area, Alpine County, California. American

Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.

Stiefenhofer, J, Farrow, DJ and Skilling, IP. Recent Advances in Understanding of the

Mwadui Kimberlite, Shinyanga District, Tanzania. 11^th International Kimberlite

Conference

2001

Skilling, IP, Chapman, M and Smellie, J. Terrestrial Sub-Ice Volcanism and Pre-Flood

Basalt Hydrovolcanism as Analogs for Magma-Volatile Interaction on Mars. Eos

Trans, American Geophysical Union, 82 (20), Spring Meet. Suppl. Abstract V42A-09

(invited)

2000

***Blake, A and Skilling, IP. Eruption and Emplacement of an Unusual Deposit of Mixed

Quartzofeldspathic Sand and Dense Magma Lapilli, at the Base of the Karoo Flood

Basalt sequence, Sterkspruit Valley, near Barkley East, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

IAVCEI General Assembly, Bali, Indonesia (July 2000)

Skilling, IP. Basaltic Pahoehoe Lava-Fed Deltas: Clast Generation, Emplacement

Mechanisms and Environmental Controls. Volcano-Ice Interaction on Earth and Mars

Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland (August 2000)

Tanaka, K, Skilling, IP and Skinner, B. Mega-Lahars of Elysium, Mars. Volcano-Ice

Interaction on Earth and Mars Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland (August 2000)

1998

Skilling, IP. Mechanisms of Globular Peperite Formation at Welgeisen, Eastern Cape

Province, South Africa. International Volcanological Congress, Cape Town, South

Africa (July 1998)

1997

Skilling, IP. Progressive Extensional Control on Synchronous Caldera Collapse: Suswa

and Longonot Volcanoes, Kenya Rift Valley. IAVCEI International Volcanological

Congress, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

1995

Skilling, IP. The Role of Extension and Basalt Barriers to Trachyte Magma Movement in

the Caldera Development of Southern Kenya Rift Central Volcanoes. Proceedings of

the 10^th Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.

1994

Skilling, IP. Evolution of an Englacial Volcano: Brown Bluff, Antarctica. IAVCEI

International Volcanological Congress, Ankara, Turkey (September 1994)

1992

Skilling, IP. Processes and Products of Subglacial Eruptions under Different Ice

Thicknesses: Two Examples from Antarctica. International Conference on Subglacial

Sedimentology, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland (September 1992)

1991

Skilling, IP. Englacial Eruptive Environment of <7Ma old James Ross Island Volcanic

Group: Evidence from Palagonite and Zeolite chemistry. International Antarctic

Earth Science Symposium, Japan (September 1991)

1990

Skilling, IP. Volcanism in a Subglacial and a Submarine Environment, James Ross

Island, Antarctica. IAVCEI International Volcanological Congress, Mainz, Germany

(September 1990)

1989

Smellie, JL, Hole, M, Sykes, MA and Skilling, IP. The Relationship Between Late

Cenozoic Volcanism and Glaciation in the Antarctic Peninsula. IAVCEI General

Assembly, Santa Fe, USA

1985

Leat, PT, Macdonald, R, Skilling, IP and Williams, LAJ. Trachytic Ash-Flow Tuffs from

Quaternary Caldera Volcanoes of the Kenya Rift Valley. 13^th Colloquium of African

Geology, University of St. Andrews, Scotland (September 1985)

Geological Research Fieldwork (1989 to July 2009)

· July 2009. SW Iceland. Reconnaissance mapping (for fieldwork in August 2009, with two Ph.D graduate students (Mercurio and Graettinger) and one undergraduate student, Morgan) at Sveifluháls

· August 2008. SW Iceland. Lithofacies and structural mapping, sample collection, SW Iceland (with one Ph.D student, Emily Mercurio) at Sveifluháls

· February 2008. Oahu, Hawaii. Mapping, sample collection and sedimentary logging (with one M.S. student, Elizabeth Simoneau) at Koko Crater

· July 2006. British Columbia. Mapping, sample collection, sedimentary logging (with two graduate students, Jeff Hungerford (Ph.D) and Kristen LaMoreaux, M.S.) at Mount Edziza. Samples collected for petrographic analysis, dating and geochemistry.

· July 2005. California. Mapping, sample collection, sedimentary logging (with one M.S. student, Tracee Imai) in the Kirkwood, Alpine County region. Samples collected for petrographic analysis, geochemistry and dating

· August 2004. California. Mapping, sample selection, sedimentary logging (with one M.S. student, Tracee Imai) in the Kirkwood, Alpine County region. Samples collected for petrographic analysis, geochemistry and dating

· July 2004. South Africa. Mapping, sample collection, sedimentary logging (with one Ph.D student, Murray McClintock) in the Barkley East area. Samples collected for geochemistry, petrographic analysis and dating

· May 2004. Oahu, Hawaii. Mapping, sample collection, sedimentary logging (with one M.S. student, Jessica Bluth) at Koko Crater. Samples collected for petrographic/textural analysis

· August 2003. South Africa. Mapping, sample collection, sedimentary logging (with one Ph.D student, Murray McClintock) in the Barkly East area. Samples collected for geochemistry, petrographic analysis and dating.

· July 2003. California. Mapping, sample selection, sedimentary logging (with one M.S. student, Tracee Imai) in the Kirkwood, Alpine County region

· May 2003. Oahu, Hawaii. Mapping, sample selection, sedimentary logging (with one M.S. student, Jessica Bluth) at Koko Crater

· July 2002. SW Iceland. Mapping, sample selection, sedimentary logging. Samples collected for textural analysis

· July 1999. Botswana. Mapping, sample selection and sedimentary logging at Jwaneng, Botswana (with one M.S. student, Kim Machin). Samples collected for geochemistry and textural analysis

· May 1999. South Africa. Mapping, sample selection, sedimentary logging of Rooiberg rhyolites. Samples collected for geochemistry and textural analysis with Dr François Chalot-Prat (University of Nancy, France)

· May 1998. South Africa. Mapping, sample selection, sedimentary logging of Rooiberg rhyolites. Samples collected for geochemistry and textural analysis.

· April-May 1997. Oahu, Hawaii. Mapping, sample selection, sedimentary logging

· January 1997: Kenya. Mapping, sample selection, sedimentary logging at Suswa and Longonot volcanoes, Kenya Rift with Dr Stuart Scott (University of Plymouth, UK)

· May 1996. South Africa. Mapping, sample selection, sedimentary logging (with one undergraduate student, Alison Blake) in the Barkley East area.

· May 1995. South Africa. Mapping, sample selection, sedimentary logging (with one M.S. student, Grant Surtees and undergraduate students) in the Barkley East area

· 1990: Brown Bluff, Antarctica (3 months, while employed by British Antarctic Survey)

· 1989: James Ross Island, Antarctica (3 months, while employed by British Antarctic Survey)

List of Collaborators (Since 2002)

· Libby Anthony (University of Texas-El Paso)

· Cathy Busby (University of Santa Barbara)

· Barry Cameron (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

· Ben Edwards (Dickinson College, PA)

· Magnus Guðmundsson (University of Iceland)

· Ármann Höskuldsson (University of Iceland)

· Tracy Gregg (University of Buffalo)

· Bruce Houghton (University of Hawaii)

· David McGarvie (Open University, UK)

· James White (University of Otago, New Zealand)

Invited Talks (International Meetings)

Skilling, IP, Chapman, M and Smellie, J. (2001) Terrestrial Sub-Ice Volcanism and Pre-

Flood Basalt Hydrovolcanism as Analogs for Magma-Volatile Interaction on Mars. Eos

Trans, American Geophysical Union, 82 (20), Spring Meet. Suppl. Abstract V42A-09

(invited)

Skilling, IP. (2002a) Magma Fragmentation in Fluidal Peperite: Implications for

Understanding Morphological Complexity in Hydrovolcanic Tephra. American

Geophysical Union Chapman Conference, Subaqueous Explosive Volcanism, Dunedin,

New Zealand (January 2002) (invited)

Skilling, IP. (2002b) Sub-ice Processes and Products at Hlöðufell volcano, Iceland:

Geomorphic Criteria for Recognition of Martian “tuyas”. American Geophysical

Union Fall Meeting (invited)

Skilling, IP. (2006) Interpreting Explosive Eruption and Primary Depositional Processes

from Kimberlitic Intra-Crater Deposits. Kimberlite Emplacement Workshop,

Saskatoon, Canada. September 7^th-12^th, 2006 (invited)

Skilling, IP, *Hungerford, J and Edwards, B. (2007) Using Coherent Lavas to Infer

Former Ice Conditions. Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section Meeting,

Bellingham, WA, May 2007 (invited)

Skilling, IP and Gregg, TK. (2008) Basaltic Lava Flow Ice-Contact Structures: A

Distinctive Record of Former Ice. IAVCEI General Assembly, Reykjavik, Iceland

(invited)

Skilling, IP. (2009) Ice-Confined Basaltic Volcanoes: Edifice Types, Processes and

Depocenters. Nordic Volcanological Institute Summer School, Laugarvatn, Iceland

(30^th June to 9^th July 2009) (invited)

Invited Talks (University Departments)

· University of Arizona (14^th August 2002)

· Arizona State University (16^th August 2002)

· Northern Arizona University (17^th August 2002)

· University of British Columbia (5^th September 2003)

· Dickinson College, PA (October 25^th 2004)

· University of Western Ontario, Canada (February 18^th 2005)

· Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University (March 2005)

· Dickinson College, PA (27^th February 2007)

· University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (8^th March 2007)

· University of Southern Illinois (27^th March 2007)

· Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University (April 19^th 2007)

· Honors College, University of Pittsburgh (January 18^th 2008)

· University of Buffalo (February 28^th 2008)

· Michigan Technological University (September 29^th 2008)

Professional Service

· Co-Convener. Basaltic and Kimberlitic Volcanism: Comparisons, Contrasts and Controversies. AGU Spring Meeting, May 2009

· Leader of field excursion to examine Hlöðufell volcano, SW Iceland (Nordic Volcanological Institute International Summer School on Volcano-Ice Interaction, Laugarvatn, Iceland). 4^th July 2009. 40 people attended

· Initiator, member of the Organizing Committee and abstract reviewer for the first international conference on volcano-ice interaction: Volcano-Ice Interaction on Earth and Mars (Reykjavik, Iceland, August 13^th-18^th 2000). The conference was attended by 75 scientists. Web Page: http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Projects/VolcanoIceWorkshop/old_site/index.html

· Member of the Organizing Committee of the 2^nd international conference on volcano-ice interaction: VII2 (Vancouver, Canada, July 2007)

Web Page: http://volcanoes.dickinson.edu/VIWG/meetings/home.html

· Served on the Publications Committee of the VGP (Volcanology, Geochemistry, Petrology) section of the American Geophysical Union (2004-2006)

· Co-convener. Volcaniclastic Strata: Process, Paleogeography and Tectonic Reconstructions, GSA-AAPG-SEPM meeting, San Jose, California (April 2005)

· Member of Scientific Committee of 2^nd International Maar Conference (September 2004, Hungary)

· Co-leader with Professor Cathy Busby of field excursion entitled “Cenozoic Volcanological and Structural Geology of the Carson Pass-Sonora Pass Areas, Central Sierra Nevada, California” (July 22^nd to July 25^th, 2004)

· Co-convener. “Etna” symposium at Cities on Volcanoes 3 conference (July 2003), Hilo, HI

· Member of Organizing Committee for American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference entitled Subaqueous Explosive Volcanism (January 2002, Dunedin, New Zealand)

· Co-Leader of the IAVCEI (International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of Earth’s Interior) Commission on Volcanogenic Sediments (1998-2002)

· Co-convener. “Peperite”, symposium at the International Volcanological Congress, Cape Town, South Africa (12th July 1998)

· Co-leader with Professor Julian Marsh (Rhodes University, South Africa) of field excursion entitled “Karoo Volcanism, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa” (International Volcanological Congress, Cape Town, South

Africa, July 1998)

· Lectures/workshops on volcanism at South African National Science Festival in 1998/9.

· Six articles with geological themes published in popular US magazine, “World and I”

· Reviewed draft textbook manuscripts for CUP, OUP, Wiley and WW Norton

· Reviewed manuscripts for Bulletin of Volcanology, Journal of Geophysical Research, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Geology, Sedimentology, Quaternary Science Reviews, Journal of Geological Society of London, Jökull (Icelandic Journal of Earth Science)

· Reviewed grant proposals for National Science Foundation and NASA

University of Pittsburgh Service

· Spring 2008. Reviewed proposals for Hewlett International Grants

· 2007 to present. Department of Geology and Planetary Science. Member of the Scholarship Committee. Review of undergraduate and graduate student applications for department and University scholarships. Increase in award of Mellon scholarships to GPS students during this time.

· 2006-2008. Department of Geology and Planetary Science. Member of the Graduate Committee. Helped revise graduate student guidelines for the department, set up a successful annual review of graduate students and a new preliminary examination for incoming graduate students

· 2002-2005. Department of Geology and Planetary Science. Member of the Space Committee. All aspects of usage of space in the GPS department

· Fall 2002. Co-PI on a proposal to NSF-Undergraduate Education to obtain funds for purchase of microscopes for undergraduate students in the Department of Geology and Planetary Science

Outreach

· October 5^th 2005. Seminar and workshop on lava flows presented to high school student members of Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science (PJAS)

· 17^th March 2004. Talk on the geology of Antarctica to Pittsburgh International Womens Society

· Nov 15^th2002: Talk on planets in our solar system to 5^th grade students at St Thomas Moore School, Pittsburgh

Professional Memberships

· Joint Commission on Volcano-Ice Interaction of International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI) and International Association of Cryospheric Sciences

· Commission on Volcanogenic Sediments (CVS) of International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI)

· Commission on Explosive Volcanism (CEV) of International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI)

· Geological Society of America

· American Geophysical Union

· International Association of Sedimentologists

· International Glaciological Society

· Fellow of Royal Geographical Society (FRGS)

Teaching Experience (University of Pittsburgh)

· 2002-2003 Academic Year

· Arrived in Pittsburgh in August 2002

· Intelligent Life in the Universe (0871) (u-grad)

· The Planets (0870) (u-grad)

· 2003-2004 Academic Year

· Volcanology (2750) (u-grad and grad)