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Dr. Spencer Staley [he/him]
Assistant Research Professor
Phone 
(775) 673-7321
E-Mail 
Spencer.Staley@dri.edu
Campus 
Reno Campus
Division 
Earth and Ecosystem Sciences

Education

Year

Degree

Concentration

Institution
2023 Ph.D. Earth & Planetary Sciences University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2018 M.S. Earth & Planetary Sciences University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2013 B.A. Geology Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

Research Areas

  • Quaternary Period surface processes in the Southwestern US
  • Eolian Processes
  • Paleoclimate
  • Paleo-geomorphology
  • Paleoecology
  • Weathering and Erosion rates
  • Watershed Processes
  • Limnology

Keywords

Quaternary geology, geomorphology, paleoclimate, dust, weathering, erosion

 

Publications
2023
Staley, S. E., Fawcett, P. J., Jiménez-Moreno, G., Anderson, R., Markgraf, V. (2023). Long-Term Landscape Evolution in Response to Climate Change, Ecosystem Dynamics, and Fire in a Basaltic Catchment on the Colorado Plateau, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 128 (e2023JF007266), 1-19. American Geophysical Union, 10.1029/2023JF007266

Jiménez-Moreno, G., Anderson, R., Markgraf, V., Staley, S. E., Fawcett, P. J. (2023). Environmental and climate evolution in the Southwest USA since the last interglacial deduced from the pollen record from Stoneman lake, Arizona, Quaternary Science Reviews, 300 (107883), 1-15. Pergamon, 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107883

2022
Staley, S. E., Fawcett, P. J., Anderson, R., Jiménez-Moreno, G. (2022). Early Pleistocene–to–present paleoclimate archive for the American Southwest from Stoneman Lake, Arizona, USA, GSA Bulletin, 134 (3/4), 791-814. Geological Society of America, 10.1130/B36038.1