Education:

• University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. M.S. in Geology, May 2005. Paul Bierman, advisor. Thesis: Erosion rates and patterns inferred from cosmogenic ¹⁰Be in the Susquehanna River Basin
• Carleton College, Northfield, MN. B.A., summa cum laude, June 2000. Major in Geology with distinction. Concentration in Environmental Sciences. Thesis: Apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry in the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming
• Arkansas School for Mathematics and Sciences, Hot Springs, AR. Diploma, May 1996.

Work and field experience:

• 08/02 - 05/05 -- Graduate Student, Geology Department, University of Vermont
• 11/00 - 8/02 -- Hydrologic Technician, River Studies Station, Columbia Environmental Research Center, U.S. Geological Survey.
• 7/00 - 10/00 -- Student Conservation Association position, Thermal Inventory, Spatial Analysis Center, Yellowstone National Park.
• 6/00 - 7/00 -- GIS Specialist, Carleton College.
• 8/99 - 10/99 -- Participant in Carleton College Geology Department off-campus studies seminar, Osservatorio Geologico di Coldigioco, Italy.
• 6/99 - 7/99 -- Participant in Keck Geology Consortium junior project: Isotopic Constraints on the Evolution of the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming.
• 6/98 - 7/98 -- Participant in Keck Geology Consortium sophomore project: Geologic Applications of Geographic Information Systems and the Global Positioning System, Trinity University.

Selected research projects:

• Erosion rates and patterns inferred from cosmogenic ¹⁰Be in the Susquehanna River Basin. M.S. thesis, University of Vermont, 2002-2005.
• Global compilation of ¹⁰Be data from fluvial sediment. University of Vermont, 2003-2005.
• Assessment of physical stream habitat, Bear Creek, Arkansas. USGS, 2001-2002.
• Physical habitat assessment for an interagency project: Assessment of fish assemblages and their relation to water quality and other environmental factors at Buffalo National River, Arkansas. USGS, 2000-2002.
• Habitat assessment, Missouri River at Hermann, Missouri. USGS, 2001.
• Apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry in the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming. Senior integrative exercise, Carleton College, 2000.
• Developing a GIS for the Spring Creek watershed, Northfield, Minnesota. Carleton College, 1999.
• A study of interactions between Atta cephalotes (leaf-cutter ants) and Paraponera clavata (bullet ants) at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica. Group project for the Tropical Rainforest Ecology class, Carleton College, December 1998.
• The effect of three Ozark geologic formations on forest composition. High school science fair project, 1996.

Computer, field, and lab skills:

• GIS and mapping: ArcView 3.x, ArcGIS 8.1 (including Workstation), Surfer, ENVI
• Experience obtaining, maintaining, and analyzing GIS data
• Wrote instructional handouts on the following ArcView topics for a GIS class at Carleton:
• Introduction to ArcView and analysis capabilities: An example from La Selva, Costa Rica
• Obtaining and working with DEMs, including hydrologic operations
• Digitizing maps
• Rectifying images
• Producing presentation-quality maps
• Produced approximately 200 maps for publication
• GPS: Trimble GeoExplorer II and ProXL units with Pathfinder Office software; PLGR; Garmin III+ with Waypoint+ software
• Surveying: Total Station with HP-48GX data logger and TDS-TFR software
• Hydroacoustic data:
• Bathymetric data collection with an Innerspace echo sounder; data processing using HyPack software in conjunction with custom Avenue and Perl scripts
• Substrate data collection with a RoxAnn system; data processing using HyPack software and custom Perl scripts
• Velocity data collection using an acoustic Doppler current profiler; data processing with WinRiver software and a custom Perl script
• 2D hydraulic modeling: experience with River2D; training with Surface-water Modeling System (RMA2)
• Programming: Avenue, Perl, html
• Miscellaneous software: MS Office, SigmaPlot, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW
• Department of the Interior Motorboat Operator Certification
• First Aid/CPR
• Experience with installation of staff gages, recording gages, and scour chains
• Experience with mineral separation: rock crushing, pulverizing, sieving, magnetic separation, use of heavy liquids, and hand picking

Teaching assistantships

• University of Vermont: Geohydrology, Spring 2003; Earth Hazards, Fall 2002
• Carleton College: Structural Geology, Spring 2000; GIS and Remote Sensing, Winter 2000; Introduction to Geology, Spring 1999

Awards and honors:

• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2003.
• Star Award, USGS, 2001 & 2002.
• Dean's list, Carleton College, 1996-1999.
• Duncan Stewart Fellowship, Carleton College Geology Department, 1999.
• National Merit Scholar, 1996.
• Westinghouse Science Talent Search Semifinalist, 1996.
• Girl Scout Gold Award, 1996.

Memberships:

• American Geophysical Union
• Geological Society of America
• Sigma Xi
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Sigma Gamma Epsilon, President of the Eta Kappa chapter, University of Vermont, 2003-2004
• Association for Women Geoscientists

Peer-reviewed publications:

• Bierman, P.R., Reuter, J.M., Pavich, M., Gellis, A., Caffee, M.W., and Larsen, J., in press, Using cosmogenic nuclides to contrast rates of erosion and sediment yield in a semi-arid, arroyo-dominated landscape, Rio Puerco Basin, New Mexico: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
• Jacobson, R.B., Johnson, H.E., Reuter, J.M., and Wright, M.P., 2004, Physical aquatic habitat assessment data, Ozark Highlands, Missouri and Arkansas, USGS Data Series DS-94.
• Jacobson, R.B., Johnson, H.E., Laustrup, M.S., D'Urso, G.J., and Reuter, J.M., 2004, Physical habitat dynamics in four side-channel chutes, Lower Missouri River USGS Open-File Report 2004-1071.
• Reuter, J.M., Jacobson, R.B., and Elliott, C.E., 2003, Physical stream habitat dynamics in Lower Bear Creek, Northern Arkansas. USGS/BRD/BSR-2003--0002. Appendix 1 Appendix 2
• Jacobson, R.B., Laustrup, M.S., and Reuter, J.M., 2002, Habitat assessment, Missouri River at Hermann, Missouri. USGS Open-File Report OF 02-32.
• Crowley, P.D., Reiners, P.W., Reuter, J.M., and Kaye, G.D., 2002, Laramide exhumation of the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming: An apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology study: Geology, v. 30, p. 27-30.

Abstracts, field guides, and other publications:

• Reuter, J.M., Bierman, P.R., and Pavich, M.J., 2005, Using GIS to select drainage basins for sampling: an example from a cosmogenic ¹⁰Be study of erosion rates within the Susquehanna River Basin: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 37, No. 1, p. 32.
• Gellis, A.C., Pavich, M.J., Landwehr, J.M., Banks, W.S., Bierman, P.R., and Reuter, J.M., 2004, Identifying watershed sediment sources in the Chesapeake Bay: Eos Transactions, AGU, Fall Meeting Supplement, v. 85, p. Abstract H51C-1159.
• Reuter, J.M., Bierman, P.R., Pavich, M.J., Larsen, J., and Finkel, R.C., 2004, Linking 10-Be estimates of erosion with landscape variables: Compilation and consideration of multiple data sets from around the world, 32nd International Geological Congress.
• Reuter, J.M., Bierman, P.R., Pavich, M.J., Gellis, A.C., Larsen, J., and Finkel, R.C., 2004, Erosion of the Susquehanna River Basin: Assessing relations between ¹⁰Be-derived erosion rates and basin characteristics: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36, No. 2, p. 94.
• Reuter, J.M., Bierman, P.R., Pavich, M.J., Gellis, A.C., Larsen, J., and Finkel, R.C., 2003, Long-term sediment-generation rates derived from 10-Be in river sediment of the Susquehanna River basin, in Merritts, D., Walter, R., and de Wet, A., compilers, Southeast Friends of the Pleistocene Fall 2003 Fieldtrip Guidebook, p. 48-55.
• Pavich, M.J., Bierman, P.R., Gellis, A.C., Reuter, J.M., 2003, Rates and scales of sediment production in the Rio Puerco basin, New Mexico: XVI INQUA congress, Vol. 16, p. 119.
• Reuter, J.M. and Jacobson, R.B., 2002, Response of physical stream habitat to hydrologic disturbance, Bear Creek, Ozark Plateaus, Arkansas: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 34.
• Johnson, H.E., Jacobson, R.B., Reuter, J.M., and Panfil, M.S., 2002, Drainage-basin disturbance and stream geomorphology in the Ozarks, Missouri and Arkansas: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 34.
• Reuter, J., 2000, (U-Th)/He thermochronometry in the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming: Constraints on the timing of exhumation, in Mendelson, C.V., and Mankiewicz, C., compilers, Thirteenth Keck Research Symposium in Geology Proceedings, p. 119-122.
• Crowley, P.D., Reiners, P.W., Farley, K.A., Brown, H.E., Kaye, G.D., and Reuter, J.M., 1999, Apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology of the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming: Implications for structural and sedimentation history: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, v. 80, p. F1171.
• Reiners, P.W., Farley, K.A., Crowley, P.D., Brown, H.E., Kaye, G.D., and Reuter, J.M., 1999, Apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry of the Wind River and Bighorn Ranges: Contrasting uplift and exhumation styles of Wyoming Laramide uplifts: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, v. 80, p. F1035.
• Krause, M. and Reuter, J., 1999, Developing a GIS for the Spring Creek watershed, Northfield, Minnesota, in Mendelson, C.V., and Mankiewicz, C., compilers, Twelfth Keck Research Symposium in Geology Proceedings, p. 57-60.
• Reuter, J., 1995, The effect of three Ozark geological formations on forest composition: National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology Journal, v. 1, p. 30-32.

Contact information:

email: joanna dot reuter at alumni dot carleton dot edu