Building: Science Building, Room: S106
Campus Box: F20
Extension (on-campus): 304-384-6322
E-mail Address: sckuehn@concord.edu
Office Hours:
M,W 10-11 am; Thurs 2:30-3:30 pm
- Ph.D. 2002, Washington State University
- M.S. 1995, Washington State University
- B.S. 1992, University of Puget Sound
* Tephrochronology, the use of volcanic ash (tephra) layers to provide correlations between sites and age control - including:
-- analytical methods for obtaining geochemical data (e.g. electron microprobe, ICP-OES), including the development of new procedures and new standard reference materials
-- cryptotephra (locating and identifying trace volcanic ash that does not occur as visible layers), especially in glacial ice
-- applications (e.g. Quaternary geology, climate change, paleolimnology, archaeology, paleoseismology)
* Volcanology & petrology, especially of pyroclastic rocks - including:
-- Proximal stratigraphy and geochemistry
-- Eruption and depositional mechanisms (from deposit characteristics such as particle size variations and thickness distributions)* Selected field localities:
-- Newberry Volcano, Oregon
-- Summer Lake and Fossil Lake, Oregon (Great Basin region)
-- central Alaska
-- Mt. St. Helens, Washington
Recent publications:
Kuehn, S.C., Froese, D.G., and Shane, P.A.R., 2011 (in press), The INTAV intercomparison of electron-beam microanalysis of glass by tephrochronology laboratories, results and recommendations: Quaternary International.
Kuehn, S.C. and Froese, D.G., 2010, Tephra from ice – A simple method to routinely mount, polish, and quantitatively analyze sparse fine particles: Microscopy and Microanalysis.
Kuehn, S.C. and Negrini, R.N., 2010, A 250,000-year record of Cascade Range pyroclastic volcanism from late Pleistocene lacustrine sediments near Summer Lake, Oregon, USA: Geosphere.
Lacelle, D., St-Jean, M., Lauriol, B., Clark, I.D., Froese, D., Kuehn, S.C., Zazula, G., and Lewkowicz, A., 2010, Burial history of a relict perennial snowbank body and vegetation by the Dawson tephra (25,300 14C years BP) near Red Creek, Ogilvie Mountains, central Yukon, Canada: Quaternary Science Reviews.
2010-present: Concord University
2009-2010: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, Washington and Lee University
2007-2009: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada
2002-2006: Visiting Lecturer in Geology, California State University, Stanislau
- Geology 101: Earth Processes & Environment
- Geology 375: Igneous, Sedimentary, & Metamorphic Petrology
- Geology 385: Structural
- Geology (team-taught with Dr. J. Allen)
- University 100