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Ben DeJong



Ben came to UVM in 2010 as a USGS SCEP employee to work on a PhD degree. His research interests generally involve documenting landscape evolution over the past several glacial-interglacial swings in an attempt to determine what is happening in the present.

PhD dissertation, Natural Resources (University of Vermont, 2015)

Using the Past as the Key to the Present: Informing Coastal Resources Management with Geologic Records
download pdf of PhD dissertation proposal
download pdf of PhD dissertation

MS Thesis (Utah State University, 2007)

Effects of Quaternary Climate Change on Tributary Sedimentation and Geomorphology in Eastern Grand Canyon

Undergraduate degree

Calvin College, B.S. Geology, 2003

Current Position and Contact Information (11/2011)

UVM Geology Department
Delehanty Hall
180 Colchester Ave.
Burlington,VT 05405
802-656-3396

Refereed Papers

Balco, G., DeJong, B., Ridge, J. C., Bierman, P. R. and Rood, D. H., (2020) Atmospherically-produced beryllium-10 in annually laminated late-glacial sediments of the North American Varve Chronology, Geochronology. doi.org/10.5194/gchron-2020-16

Portenga, E., Bierman, P. R., Trodick, C., Dejong, B., Greene, S. and Pavich, M. (2019) Erosion rates and sediment flux within the Potomac River basin quantified over millennial timescales using beryllium isotopes. GSA Bulletin. doi.org/10.1130/B31840.1

DeJong, B. D., Bierman, P. R., Newell, W. L., Rittenour, T. M., Mahan, S.A., Balco, G. and Rood, D. H. (2015) Pleistocene relative sea levels in the Chesapeake Bay region and their implications for the next century. GSA Today. v. 25(8), p. 4-10. doi:10.1130/GSATG223A.1

Abstracts

Portenga, E. W., Bierman, P. R., Trodick, C. D., DeJong, B., Rood, D. H., and Pavich, M. J. (2019) The current state of post-colonial landscape disturbance to the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ. v. 51(5), Abstract 213-8. doi:10.1130/abs/2019AM-332323

Dejong, B., Bierman, P. R., and Hidy, A. J. (2019) 26Al-10Be isochron burial dating of early-mid Pleistocene river gravels of the Chesapeake Bay region, east-central United States. GSA Abstracts with Programs, SE section meeting, Charleston, SC. Abstract 15-3. doi:10.1130/abs/2019SE-327256

DeJong, B., Balco, G., Ridge, J., Rood, D. and Bierman, P. R. (2015) Meteoric 10Be Flux records potentially synchronize North American varved sediments with Greenland Ice. GSA Abstracts with Programs, NE section meeting, Bretton Woods, NH. v. 47(3), p. 62, Abstract 16-1. (download pdf)

DeJong, B. D., Balco, G., Ridge, J. C., Rood, D. H. and Bierman, P. R. (2014) Synchronizing North American varved sediments with Greenland ice using meteoric 10Be flux records. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia. v. 46(6), p. 784, Abstract 325-6. (download pdf)

DeJong, B. D., Bierman, P. R., Newell, W. L., Rittenour, T. M. and Mahan, S. A. (2014) State and fate of mid-Atlantic sea levels: geologic evidence from Chesapeake Bay. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia. v. 46(6), p. 580, Abstract 236-4. (download pdf)

DeJong, B. D., Bierman, P. R., Balco, G. and Rood, D. H. (2014) 26Al-10Be isochron burial ages for Plio-Pleistocene river gravels of the Chesapeake Bay region, east – central United States. AMS-13 conference, Aix, France. (download pdf)

DeJong, B. D., Balco, G., Ridge, J. C., Rood, D. H. and Bierman, P. R. (2013) Synchronizing the North American Varve Chronology with Greenland ice core records during the MIS 3-MIS 2 transition using Meteoric 10Be Flux. European Geosciences Union. Abstract EGU2013-8159. (download pdf)

DeJong, B. D., Balco, G., Ridge, J. C., Rood, D. H. and Bierman, P. R. (2013) Towards synchronizing the North American varve chronology with Greenland ice core records using meteoric 10Be flux. GSA Abstracts with Programs, NE section meeting, Bretton Woods, NH. v. 45(1), p. 84, Abstract 33-1. (download pdf)

DeJong, B. D., Balco, G., Ridge, J. C., Rood, D. H. and Bierman, P. R. (2012) Synchronizing the North American Varve Chronology with Greenland ice core records using meteoric 10Be flux. EOS, AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA. Abstract GC33B-1017. (download pdf)