David Mickelson

Dave is a glacial geologist with whom we worked sampling outcrops in Wisconsin along and behind the glacial margin in a project with Pat Colgan. Work on these outcrops showed that cold, near margin Laurentide ice was not effective at eroding rock. Inheritance mattered in this continental setting.

Doctoral Degree

Ohio State University, Ph.D., 1971

Email Address

davem@geology.wisc.edu

Current Position and Contact Information (4/2008)

Professor Emeritus, Quaternary and Glacial Geology
Geology and Geophysics Department
University of Wisconsin-Madison
256B Weeks Hall
1215 W Dayton St.
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 262-7863

Junior-Authored, Refereed Publications Based on UVM Research

Colgan, P.M., Bierman, P.R., Mickelson, D.M., and Caffee, M.W., 2002, Variation in glacial erosion near the southern margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, south-central Wisconsin, USA: Implications for cosmogenic dating of glacial terrains: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 114, p. 1581-1591. (download pdf)

Other Meeting Abstracts Based on UVM Research

Bierman, P.R., Davis, P.T., Marsella, K., Colgan, P.M., Mickelson, D.M., Larsen, P., and Caffee, M., 1998, What do glaciers take away? What do they leave behind?: Geological Society of America, 1998 annual meeting Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, v. 30, p. 299. (download pdf)

Colgan, P.M., Mickelson, D.M., Bierman, P.R., and Caffee, M., 1998, Cosmogenic 10-Be and 26-Al evidence for an early deglaciation of the Green Bay Lobe, before 15,500 calendar years bp: Geological Society of America, 1998 annual meeting Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, v. 30, p. 135. (download pdf)

Other Publications Based on UVM Research

Bierman, P.R., Caffee, M.W., Davis, P.T., Marsella, K., Pavich, M., Colgan, P., Mickelson, D., and Larsen, J., 2002, Rates and timing of Earth surface processes from in situ-produced cosmogenic Be-10, in Grew, E.S., ed., Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry: Beryllium; mineralogy, petrology, and geochemistry, Volume 50: Washington, DC, United States, Mineralogical Society of America and Geochemical Society, Washington, DC, p. 147-205. (download pdf)