Elizabeth Ruth Goeke Visiting Assisstant Professor Department of Earth Science & Geography
	Ph.D., exp 2008, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Quantitative Textural Modeling of a High-Pressure Metapelites from Alp de Confin, Adula Nappe, Switzerland
	M.Sc., 2003, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Approach to equilibrium: a case study of the Bronson Hill Terrane, New England
	B.A., 1999, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT Pressure and temperature studies in the eastern contact aureole of the Victory Pluton, northeastern Vermont

 

office	Ely Hall 120
phone	+1 845 437 7704
email	elgoeke@vassar.edu
mail	Box 0389 124 Raymond Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12604

 

Courses at Vassar College:

Fall 2007	ESCI 271: Structural Geology
Spring 2008	ESCI 181: Volcanoes & Civilizations ESCI 201: Earth Materials ESCI 381: Volcanology

 

My research focuses on constraining metamorphic pressure-temperature-time paths to better understand how mountain belts are built and destroyed. My work ranges from constructing bulk composition specific phase diagrams ("pseudosections") using theoretical and experimental thermodynamic data to using X-ray computerized tomography (CT) scans to image garnets in 3D. I focused my PhD on a series of samples from the Adula Nappe in the Italian portion of Switzerland, which was done under the supervision of Tom Foster at the University of Iowa and in conjunction with Lukas Baumgartner at the Universite de Lausanne. The goal of the research was to constrain the path of the samples as they came back up to the surface of the earth after eclogite (high pressure) metamorphism. My master's research at Indiana University dealt with amphibolites from the Bronson Hill terrane in CT, MA, and NH and attempted to distinguish between Taconic, Acadian, and Alleghanian metamorphic events. I have a few possible projects in the Evan's Notch region of NH/ME and the Middlesex Fells in MA under current discussion and am looking forward to jumping back into Appalachian geology.

I taught for a year at Western Kentucky University between my masters and PhD, which was an exciting introduction into life on the Mason-Dixon line. Lecture notes, syllabi, and readings for the courses I taught at Western are located here.

I am the Association for Women Geoscientist's (AWG) liasion to the Girl Scouts of America. As part of that work, I try to facillitate connections between AWG members and local troops & councils; develop web resources on the existing geoscience try-its, badges, and interest patches; and help members to propose national geology events for all ages of Girl Scouts.

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