<2025년 1학기 지리학과/지리교육과 콜로퀴엄>
연사: Prof. John Weber, Grand Valley State University, USA
주제: "The many ways to make mountains"
일시: 2025년 3월 21일 금요일
시간: 오후 4시
장소: 교육관 406호
Seminar Abstract: This seminar will take us on a tour of the mountain ranges and peaks that I have studied and climbed, lived in, travel through, and taught in as a professional geologist over the past three decades. We will cover their geography and geology, and how mountains influence biology and even human culture. We will journey through and explore several of North America’s ranges, then cross the Atlantic to travel through and examine Europe’s Alps and then explore east into Asia (Korea). Our tour will also include a tour of the tropical mountain ranges of the Caribbean.
Speaker Bio: John Weber, Professor of Geology at Grand Valley State University, USA, did an undergraduate geology degree at Southern Illinois University (SIU), then an NAGT-USGS field camp internship at the USGS in Reston, VA working on coal geology of the Appalachians, then did a M.S. degree at SIU in structural geology in the Ouachita Mountains. He next taught geology and physics at two community colleges, then earned a Ph.D. at Northwestern University specializing in structural geology, geodesy, and neotectonics, and interning at the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), and then did a post-Doc at the University of Miami-RSMAS. He now teaches geology field camp at Yellowstone Bighorn Research Association (YBRA) and serves as YBRA Vice President. His academic research takes him to various meteorite impact structure sites, and to the Caribbean, Adriatic, and Caucasus Mountains. He also regularly consults and teaches for the oil and gas industry and consults on seismic hazard projects. He was elected a Geological Society of America (GSA) Fellow in 2014.
Related References:
Arkle, J. C., Weber, J., Enkelmann, E., Owen, L. A., Govers, R., Jess, S., 2021, Exhumation of the coastal metamorphic belt above the subduction-to-transform transition, in the southeast Caribbean plate corner. Tectonics, 40, e2020TC006414. https:// doi.org/10.1029/2020TC006414
Kim, D., Weber, J., Seong, Y., Reminga, K., and Yu, B.Y., 2023, accepted, Late Quaternary-Recent intraplate topographic uplift of the Ste. Francois Mountains (Ozark Plateau), Missouri (USA) driven by differential density and erosion, Geology, 51, 356-361, https://doi.org/10.1130/G50585.1 .
Kim, D.-E., Seong, Y. B., Byun, J.-M., Weber, J. C., and Min, K., 2016, Geomorphic Disequilibrium in the eastern Korean peninsula: Evidence for reactivation of a rift-flank margin?, Geomorphology, 254, 130-145, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.11.022 (3.819, 11, 10)
Lee, C.H., Seong, Y.-B., Weber, J., Ha, S., Kim, D.-E., Yu, B.-Y., 2024, Geomorphic indices for unveiling fault segmentation and tectono- geomorphic evolution with insights into the impact of inherited topography, Ulsan Fault Zone, Korea, EUGSphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-198.
Weber, J., Arkle, J., de Verteuil, L., Murphy, J., Noriega, N., Reznick, D., and Jowers, M., 2024 in press, Trinidad and Tobago geogenomics: Exploring connections between geology and vicariance and dispersal biogeography: a review and synthesis, Palaeogeography, Palaeoecology, Palaeoclimatology, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018224006710?dgcid=author