Taylor F. Schildgen

Taylor Schildgen, a Williams College undergraduate at the time, worked in the former home of the UVM Geology Department, the Perkins Building, preparing quartz that became the foundation of her undergraduate thesis and a later publication. Her work examined the history of Boulder Canyon.

PhD Thesis (in progress)

Ph D thesis River incision history in southern Peru as a proxy for Altiplano uplift

Additional Degree

University of Edinburgh, M.S. Geography, 2001
MS thesis (download pdf)

Undergraduate Degree

Williams College, B.A. summa cum laude Geosciences, 2000

Projects

Colorado Front Range, River Incision Rates and Moraine Ages
Laramide Erosion Rates and Surface Dynamics

Other Related Links

Massachusetts Institute of Technology homepage
Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Department, MIT

Email Address

tfs@mit.edu

Current Position and Contact Information (3/2008)

Ph.D. Candidate
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

First-Authored, Refereed Publications Based on UVM Research

Schildgen, T., Dethier, D., Bierman, P.R., and Caffee, M., 2002, ²⁶Al and ¹⁰Be dating of late Pleistocene fill terraces: a record of glacial and non-glacial fluvial deposition and incision, Colorado Front Ranges and Landforms: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 27, p. 773-787. (download pdf)

Junior-Authored Meeting Abstracts Based on UVM Research

Dethier, D.P., Schildgen, T.F., Bierman, P.R., and Caffee, M.W., 2001, Cosmogenic analysis of the Rocky Flats Alluvium near Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, p. A-312. (download pdf)

Dethier, D.P., Schildgen, T.F., Bierman, P.R., and Caffee, M.W., 2000, The cosmogenic isotope record of late Pleistocene incision, Boulder Canyon, Colorado: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, p. A-473. (download pdf)

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