Education

1993-1999 University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

Ph.D. in Earth Sciences, May 1999

Dissertation: Submarine Geomorphology of the Cascadia Accretionary Prism

Thesis Committee: Daniel Orange (Chair), J. Casey Moore, Eli Silver, Homa Lee

Funding: Shell Oil Foundation Fellowship; Amoco Minority Fellowship;

Office of Naval Research; Dissertation year fellowship, Vassar College

1991-1992 University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Diploma in Science, Geology, December 1992

Thesis: Havelock Geology: The Alpine Fault Zone Between the Cook and

Karangarua Rivers, South Island, New Zealand

Advisors: Richard Sibson, Richard Norris

Funding: J. William Fulbright Scholarship

1987-1991 Duke University, Durham, NC

B.S. Geology, May 1991

Thesis: Comparison of trace strontium and magnesium with the oxygen isotope

paleoclimate record, South Indian Ocean

Advisor: Paul Baker

Funding: Richard B. Dannenberg Mentorship (work with Orrin H. Pilkey,

Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines);

National Science Foundation, Science Opportunity Fellowship;

American Geologic Institute Minority Scholarship

Employment

1988-1989 Project for the Study of Developed Shorelines, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Summer 1989 Geologic Technician, Consolidated Natural Gas Development Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Summer 1991 Geologist, Shell Offshore Incorporated, New Orleans, Louisiana

Summer 1994 Teaching Assistant, University of California, Santa Cruz, California- Field Geology

1993-1997 Saturday Academy (volunteer)- Teaching young minority teens about geology and seismology.

1996 Geology Section Leader, Academic Excellence Honors Program (ACE helps non-traditional students

excel in university science and math courses)

Summer 1997 Exploration Geologist, Amoco Nigeria Corporation, Houston, Texas

1998-1999 Minority Scholar-in-Residence, Vassar College

1999-2001 Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Geography, Vassar College

2002-2004 Mary Clark Rockefeller Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Geography, Vassar College

2004-2005 Visiting Professor, Institute of Geology, ETH-Z, Zürich, Switzerland

2006-present Associate Professor, Department of Earth Science and Geography, Vassar College

Professional Societies

American Geophysical Union

European Geosciences Union

Geological Society of America

National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists

Funding/Awards

1990-1991 National Science Foundation, Science Opportunity Fellowship ($5000): Stable isotope analysis,

equipment, and travel.

1991-1993 J. William Fulbright Scholarship, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand:

Travel, tuition, equipment stipend, salary.

1993 Amoco Minority Fellowship: Summer salary

1993-1998 Shell Oil Foundation, Graduate Student Fellowship: Tuition, salary.

1999-2001 Vassar College Startup Grant ($42000): Lab setup, computers, etc.

1999-2001 Vassar College Environmental Sciences Research Fund ($4000): Snow Avalanche Hazard,

Mt. Washington, New Hampshire. Travel, equipment, avalanche safety course.

2001-2002 National Science Foundation ($34000): Surface Geomorphology from 3D Seismic,

Nankai Accretionary Prism, Japan. Travel, equipment, salary.

2002 Vassar College, Environmental Sciences Research Fund ($5000): Tsunami Deposits from the

1929 Grand Banks Earthquake, Taylor’s Bay, Newfoundland

2003-2004 National Science Foundation ($25000): Surface Geomorphology from 3D Seismic and

Multibeam Bathymetry: Implications for Cascadia Seismicity

2005-2010 National Science Foundation ($2.4 million): Developing International Protocols for Offshore Sediments

and their Role in Geohazards, with D. DeGroot (UMass) and J. DeJong (UC Davis), L. Baise and

P. Walker (Tufts), and T. Sheahan (Northeastern U.).

Field and Sea Experience

South Island, New Zealand, 1991-1992. Structural mapping, paleoseismology, and petrology of the Alpine Fault.

Oregon, 1993. RV Atlantis II/ALVIN cruise. Submarine geomorphology, surficial fluid venting, and structure on the toe

of the Cascadia Accretionary Complex using the submersible ALVIN.

Costa Rica, 1994. RV Atlantis II/ALVIN cruise. Submarine fluid flow and structure of the Costa Rica Accretionary Prism

using the submersible ALVIN.

Mid Atlantic Ridge, 1995. RV Atlantis II/ALVIN cruise. Structural geology and petrology south of the

Kane Fracture Zone using the submersible ALVIN.

Northern California, 1996 and 1998. RV Wecoma cruise. STRATAFORM Seafloor acoustic and geotechnical properties,

Eel River Basin.

Monterey Bay, California, 1993-1997. RV Point Lobos/ ROV Ventana. Seafloor fluid venting and geomorphology.

Eastern California/Central California, 1993-1997. Field assistant. Installation and occupation of

global positioning system networks.

Jamaica, 1999. Instructor. Geophysical survey of slave village, Keck Geology Consortium Summer research project.

Mt. Washington, NH, 2000. Snow avalanche hazard prediction.

Bahamas, 2001. Field Geology and Ecology Class, Vassar College

Newfoundland, Canada, 2002. Tsunami deposits from the 1929 Grand Banks earthquake. Coring marshes for tsunami sands in peat.

Northern Arizona, 2003. Fire, Water and People: Geology and Ecology of the Desert Southwest (Environmental Sciences 254).

Field course studying water resource management and fire ecology of Northern Arizona.

Antarctica, 2004. Alumnae and Alumni of Vassar College study trip group leader. Provided readings and two ship board

lectures on the geology of the Antarctic Peninsula and the potential implications of oil development on the region.

Sri Lanka and Maldives, 2005. Field survey of the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Sumatra, 2005a. International Tsunami Survey Team (ITST) member, field survey of Indian Ocean tsunami.

Sumatra, 2005b. ITST II, survey of December 2004 and March 2005 earthquakes and tsunami on offshore islands.

Sumatra, 2005c. Simeulue Island, offshore Sumatra. Collecting stories from tsunami survivors and documenting

mangrove swamps and rehabilitation efforts.

US Gulf of Mexico Coast, 2005. Field survey of Hurricane Katrina damage and sediment deposits.

Sri Lanka, 2006. Paleotsunami deposits search, assessment of post-tsunami aid distribution.

Publications

Papers

McAdoo, B. G. Havelock Geology: The Alpine Fault Between the Cook and Karangarua Rivers, South Island, New Zealand.

Post-Graduate Diploma in Science, Geology Thesis, University of Otago, 1993.

McAdoo, B. G., D. O. Orange, E. A. Silver, K. McIntosh, L. Abbott, J. Galewsky. L. Kahn, and M. Protti, Structural Observations,

Costa Rica Accretionary Prism, Geophysical Research Letters, 23, no. 8, 883-886, April 15, 1996.

Kahn, L. M., E. A. Silver, D. Orange, R. Kochevar, B. G. McAdoo, Surficial evidence of fluid expulsion from the

Costa Rica accretionary prism, Geophysical Research Letters, 23, no. 8, 887-890, April 15, 1996.

McAdoo, B. G., D. L. Orange, E. Screaton, H. Lee, and R. Kayen, Slope basins, headless canyons, and submarine paleoseismology

of the Cascadia accretionary prism. Basin Research , 9, p. 313-324, 1997.

Orange, D. L., B. G. McAdoo, E. Screaton, H. Chezar, H. Lee, M. Reid, R. Vail, Headless submarine canyons and fluid flow

on the toe of the Cascadia accretionary complex. Basin Research , 9, p. 313-324, 1997.

Densmore, A. L., R. S. Anderson, B. G. McAdoo, and M. A. Ellis, Hillslope evolution by bedrock landslides,

Science, 275, no. 5298, p. 369-372, January 17, 1997.

McAdoo, B. G., Submarine Geomorphology of the Cascadia Accretionary Prism, Ph.D. Dissertation,

University of California, Santa Cruz, 1999.

McAdoo, B. G., Mapping Submarine Landslides, in Marine and Coastal Geographic Information Systems,

edited by Dawn Wright and Darius Bartlett, part of the Research Monographs in Geographic Information Systems

series, edited by Peter Fisher, Taylor and Francis, Publishers, 1999.

McAdoo, B. G., L. Pratson, and D. L. Orange, Submarine landslide geomorphology, US continental slope, Marine Geology, 169, p. 103-136, 2000.

McAdoo, B. G., and P. Watts, Tsunami hazard from submarine landslides on the Oregon continental slope. Marine Geology 203, p. 235-245, 2004.

McAdoo, B. G., M. Capone, and J. Minder, Seafloor geomorphology of convergent margins: Implications for Cascadia seismic hazard, Tectonics 23, 2004.

Gieskes, J., C. Mahn, S. Day, J. Martin, J. Greinert, T. Rathburn, and B. McAdoo, A study of the chemistry of pore fluids and

authigenic carbonates in methane seep environments: Kodiak Trench, Hydrate Ridge, Monterey Bay, and Eel River Basin, Chemical Geology 220, p. 329-345, 2005.

Yalciner, A. C., D. Perincek, S. Ersoy, G. Prasetya, R. Hidayat, and B. McAdoo, December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami field survey

(Jan. 21-31, 2005) at north of Sumatra Island., UNESCO IOC Report, 2005.

LaCerva, G. and B. McAdoo, Simeulue Island Mangrove Rehabilitation Assessment, report for CARE Indonesia, 2005.

Papadopoulos, G., R. Caputo, B. McAdoo, S. Pavlides, V. Karastathis, A. Fokaefs, K. Orfanogiannaki, and S. Valkaniotis,

The large tsunami of 26 December 2004: Field observations and eyewitnesses’ accounts from Sri Lanka, Maldives Is. and Thailand, Earth Planets Space 58, p. 233-241, 2006.

In Preparation

McAdoo, B. G., L. Dengler, V. Titov, and G. Prasetya, Smong: How an oral history saved thousands on Indonesia’s

Simeulue Island, in press, Earthquake Spectra.

McAdoo, B.G., N. Richardson, and J. Borrero, Inundation distances and runup measurements from ASTER,

QuickBird and SRTM data, Aceh Coast, Indonesia, in press, International Journal of Remote Sensing.

Moore, A., B. McAdoo, and A. Ruffman, Landward fining from multiple sources in a sand sheet deposited by the

1929 Grand Banks tsunami, Newfoundland, in press, Sedimentary Geology.

Bruce E. Jaffe, Jose C. Borrero, Gegar S. Prasetya, Lori Dengler, Guy Gelfenbaum, Rahman Hidayat, Bretwood Higman,

Ettiene Kingsley, Lukiyanto, Brian McAdoo, Andrew Moore, Robert Morton, Robert Peters, Peter Ruggiero,

Vasily Titov, Widjo Kongko, and Eko Yulianto, The December 26th 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Northwest Sumatra

and Offshore Islands, in press, Earthquake Spectra.

Fritz, H., B. McAdoo, and C. Synolakis, Maldives field survey of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, in press, Earthquake Spectra.

Abstracts

McAdoo, B. G., D. L. Orange, P. Bowering, J. C. Moore, P. A. Teas, H. Tobin, H. Chezar, H. Lee, R. Vail,

M. Underwood, P. Linke, M. Schluter, Fluid flow and submarine canyons: observations from an ALVIN

and camera tow program on the toe of the Cascadia Accretionary Complex, Offshore Oregon, EOS,

Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 75, no. 16, Suppl., p. 324, 1994.

Gieskes, J. M., C. F. You, E. Zuleger, E. A. Silver, D. L. Orange, L. D. Abbott, B. G. McAdoo,

J. Galewsky, L. M. Kahn, L. Ferioli, K. D. McIntosh, E. Screaton, M. Protti, M. Langseth,

Chemistry of interstitial waters of ALVIN push cores (APC) in black, clam hosting sediments;

Costa Rica accretionary prism, EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 75, no. 16, Suppl., p. 324, 1994.

Kahn, L. M., E. A. Silver, B. G. McAdoo, L. Ferioli, K. D. McIntosh, L. D. Abbott, E. Screaton, M. Protti, J. Galewsky,

M. Langseth, E. Zuleger, C. F. You, J. Gieskes, Evidence of fluid venting from the Costa Rica Accretionary Prism,

EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 75, no. 16, Suppl., p. 324, 1994.

Silver, E. A., D. L. Orange, M. Langseth, K. D. McIntosh, J. Gieskes, L. D. Abbott, E. Screaton, L. M. Kahn,

B. G. McAdoo, E. Zuleger, C. F. You, M. Protti, J. Galewsky, L. Ferioli, Importance of out-of-sequence thrusts

as fluid conduits in the SW Costa Rica accretionary complex, EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union,

75, no. 16, Suppl., p. 324, 1994.

Orange, D. L., B. G. McAdoo, J. C. Moore, H. Tobin, H. Chezar, H. Lee, M. Reid, R. Vail, E. Screaton,

Headless submarine canyons and fluid flow on the toe of the Cascadia accretionary complex;

all seeps are in canyons, but not all canyons have seeps, and not all seeps are alike,

Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 26, no. 7, p. 458, 1994.

Orange, D. L., B. G. McAdoo, J. Yun, ROV and submersible observations link fluid flow and canyon formation in Monterey Bay and Cascadia,

Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 27, no. 6, p. 129, 1995.

McAdoo, B. G., D. L. Orange, E. Screaton, R. Kayen, H. Lee, Headless Submarine Canyons and Fluid Flow,

Cascadia Accretionary Prism, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 80, p. 605, 1996.

McAdoo, B. G., D. L. Orange, E. Screaton, R. Kayen, and H. Lee, Headless canyons and transient slope failure:

Cascadia accretionary complex, Offshore Oregon. Abstract for 1996 GSA Annual Meeting.

Sternberg, R, B. G. McAdoo, M. Savina, J. Delle, Geophysical Prospection at Marshall's Pen,

Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, April 5-9, 2000

Figueroa, E., R. Sternberg, J.A. Delle, N. D. Lawrence, B. G. McAdoo, M. E. Savina, Soil magnetism and magnetic

anomalies at the Marshall's Pen archaeological site, Mandeville, Jamaica, AGU Spring Meeting, 2002.

McAdoo, B. G., J. Minder, J. C. Moore, C. R. Ranero, W. Weinrebe, Submarine Landslides, Seafloor Roughness, and

Tsunami Hazard on Convergent Margins, AGU Annual Meeting, 2002

McAdoo, B. G., and M. Capone, Offshore Geomorphic Evidence for a Slow Cascadia Rupture Mechanism, AGU Annual Meeting, 2002.

College Activity

Classes Taught. Oceanography, Earth, the Environment, and Humanity (Introduction to Geology), Global Geophysics and Plate Tectonics, Digital Underground (Field Geophysics), Oil, Continental Margins, Field Geology and Ecology of the Bahamas, Fire and Water in the American Southwest, Rethinking New Orleans.

Committees. Department Computer Committee, Committee on College Life, Faculty Policy and Conference Committee (governance), Environmental Sciences Steering Committee, Learning and Teaching Center Steering Committee.