CURRICULUM VITA

Dennis E. Dahms
Associate Professor of Physical Geography
University of Northern Iowa 
September, 2001

#127 Sabin Hall (319)-273-6845/2772
Cedar Falls, Iowa50614-0406 E-mail: Dennis.Dahms@uni.edu
EDUCATION

Ph.D.1991.University of Kansas: Physical Geography (Geology specialty).
M.A.1983.University of Colorado-Denver: Anthropology (specialty in Quaternary Studies)
M.A.1973.University of Missouri-Columbia: Documentary Film & Broadcasting.
B.J.1971.University of Missouri-Columbia: Journalism.

RESEARCH INTERESTS -- Quaternary History & Stratigraphy,Soil Geomorphology, Paleoclimatology. Geoarcheology.
 
 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1996-             Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Northern Iowa.

1998-       Visiting Associate Professor, University of Missouri, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Branson Field Laboratory, Lander, WY. 
1991-96    Assistant Professor, Geography, University of Northern Iowa.
1990-91    Instructor, Department of Geography, University of Northern Iowa.
1988-89    Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Kansas.
1980-83    Staff Archeologist/Geomorphologist, Science Applications, Inc. and Overland Archeology, Inc., Boulder, Colorado.
1973-77    Producer-Cinematographer-Editor. Documentary Film Unit, South Carolina Public Broadcasting Network.


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Association for the Advancement of Science
Association of American Geographers
American Geophysical Union
American Quaternary Association
Geological Society of America
International Quaternary Association
International Society of Soil Science
Soil Science Society of America

PUBLICATIONS

Journals

2001Dahms, D.E. Glacial Stratigraphy of Stough Creek Basin, Wind River Range, Wyoming. In press, Geomorphology.
2001Applegarth, M. and D.E. Dahms. Soil catenas of calcareous tills, Whiskey Basin, Wyoming, USACatena, 42 (1): 17-38.
1998Dahms, D.E., and Holliday, V.T. Soil Taxonomy and Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction: A Critical Commentary. Quaternary International, 51/52: 109-114.
1998Dahms, D.E., Reconstructing Paleoenvironments from Ancient Soils: A Critical Review. Quaternary International, 51/52: 58-59.

1998Dahms, D.E., Holliday, V.T., and Birkeland, P.W. Paleosols and Devonian Forests.Science, 279 (5348):151a.

1997Dahms, D.E., Shroba, R.R., Hall, R.D., Reheis, M.C., Gosse, J.C., and Sorenson, C.J. Relation between soil age and silicate weathering rates determined from the chemical evolution of a glacial chronosequence: Comment. Geology 25(4): 381-382.

1996Dahms, D.E., and Rawlins, C.L. (1996) A Two-Year Record of Eolian sedimentation from the Wind River Range, Wyoming.Arctic and Alpine Research 28(2):210-216.

1994Dahms, D.E. Mid-Holocene Erosion of Soil Catenas on Moraines Near the Type Pinedale Till, Wind River Range, Wyoming. Quaternary Research 42, 41-48.

1993Dahms, D.E. Mineralogical Evidence for Eolian Sediments in Soils on Late Quaternary Moraines, Wind River Mountains, Wyoming. Geoderma 59, 175-196.

1992Dahms, D.E. Comment on 'Origin of Silt-Enriched Surface Mantles, Indian Basin, Wyoming.' Soil Science Society of America Journal 56, 991-992.

Book Chapters
2001Dahms, D.E., in press.Glacial Limits in the Middle and Southern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A., south of Yellowstone National Park. In, P.L. Gibbard and J. Ehlers (Eds.), "World-Wide Extent and Chronology of Glaciations." International Quaternary Association (INQUA), Commission on Glaciations, Workgroup 5. Includes map (1:1000000 scale) (9.2001).
2001Dahms, D.E., in press.The Quaternary of the Wind River Range. In, J. Gerrard and R. Fairbridge, (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Quaternary Science, Kluwer.

In Review

Dahms, D.E., Birkeland, P.W., Miller, C. Dan, Shroba, R.R., and Kihl, R. Latest Quaternary Glacial and Periglacial Stratigraphy, Wind River Range, Wyoming. Geological Society of America Bulletin (2.2001) 
James, L.A., Harbor, J., Fabel, D., Dahms, D.E., and Elmore, D.Late Pleistocene glaciation in the northwestern Sierra Nevada, California. Quaternary Research (3.2001).
Fabel, D., Harbor, J., Dahms, D., James, A., Elmore, D., Daley, K., and Steele, C. Spatial patterns of glacial erosion at a valley scale derived using cosmogenic radionuclide concentrations in rock.Annals of the AAG(9.2000).

In Preparation

Dahms, D.E.Pleistocene Glacial Stratigraphy of Sinks Canyon, Wyoming. (GSA Bulletin)
Dahms, D.E., Fabel, D., Harbor, J., James, A., Elmore, D. Ice Dynamics in Two Alpine Valleys of Wyoming from 10Be and 26Al Exposure Ages. (Quaternary Research)
Applegarth, M.T., and Dahms, D.E. Eolian Modification of Moraine Soils, Wind River Range, Wyoming. (Physical Geography)
ABSTRACTS WITH PRESENTATIONS
2000
Dahms, D.E., and Birkeland, P.W.Glacial Stratigraphy of Stough Creek Basin, Wyoming, and a latest Quaternary Glacial and Periglacial Stratigraphy for the Wind River Range, GSA Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, v. 32(7), p. A-16.

Dahms, D.E., Fabel, D., Harbor, J., James, L.A., Elmore, D.Glacial Stratigraphy and Geomorphology of Two Alpine Valleys in Wyoming: Results of 10Be and 26Al Exposure Ages. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, v. 96, p.155-156.

Applegarth, M.T., and Dahms, D.E.Eolian Modification of Moraine Soils, Wind River Range, Wyoming. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, v. 96, p.20-21.

Harbor, J., Fabel, D. Dahms, D., James, A. Spatial Patterns of Glacial Erosion at a Valley Scale from Cosmogenic Radionuclide Concentrations. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, v. 96, p.290.

James, A., Harbor, J., Fabel, D., Dahms, D.Late Quaternary Glacial Advances n Northwestern Sierra Nevada, California. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, v. 96, p.349.

James, A., Harbor, J., Fabel, D., Dahms, D., and Elmore, D.Extent and Timing of Late Quaternary Glaciations in the Northwestern Sierra Nevada, California.GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 32(7), p. A-472.

1999

Dahms, D.E. Glacial Stratigraphy of Sinks Canyon, Wind River Range, Wyoming., GSA Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs 31(7), A-57.

Dahms, D.E., Fabel, D., Harbor, J., James, A., Elmore, D. Cosmogenic Radionuclide Exposure Ages for Glacial Chronology, Middle Popo Agie basin, Wyoming. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs 95, p.119.

Gosse, J., Davis, P.T., Burr,G., Jull, T., Bozarth, S., Sorenson, C., Klein, J., Lawn, B., Dahms, D. Late Pleistocene/Holocene Glacial and Paleoclimatic History of Titcomb Basin, Wind River Range, Wyoming based on Lake sediments and cosmogenic nuclide dating. Abstracts with Programs, GSA Annual Meeting, Denver, A-56.

Fabel, D., Harbor, J., Steele, C., Dahms, D., and James, A. Spatial Variation in Valley-Scale Glacial Erosion Rates from 10Be and 26Al Inheritance in Bedrock.. Abstracts with Programs, AAG Annual Meeting, Honolulu, 23-27 March.

Alexander, M. A., Dahms, D.E., and Scott, R. Assessing Classification Accuracy of Remotely-Sensed Data with an Existing Alpine Vegetation Map. Abstracts with Programs, AAG Annual Meeting, Honolulu, 23-27 March.

1998

Dahms, D.E., Fabel, D., Harbor, J., Elmore, D., James, A. Relative-Age Evidence for the Late Quaternary Glacial History of the Middle Popo Agie Valley, Wind River Range, Wyoming.Abstracts with Programs, AAG Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, p. 175-76.

Fabel, D., Harbor, J. Dahms, D., James, A. Spatial Patterns of Glacial Erosion and Glacial Chronology in Alpine Valleys from Cosmogenic Radionuclide Measurements.Fall meeting, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, Dec. 6-10.

Fabel, D., Daley, D., Harbor, J., Dahms, D. Spatial Patterns of Glacial Erosion from Cosmogenic Radionuclides. Abstracts with Programs, AAG Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, p. 235.

James, A., Harbor, J., Fabel, D., Dahms, D. Glacial Mapping in Northwestern Sierra Nevada: Preliminary Cosmogenic radionuclide Dates. Abstracts with Programs, AAG Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, p. 388-98.

Davis, P.T., Gosse, J., Romito, M., Sorenson, C., Klein, J., Dahms, D., and Zielinski, G.Younger Dryas Age for Type Titcomb Basin and Type Temple Lake Moraines, Wind River Range, Wyoming, U.S.A. GSA Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, 30(7) p.66.

1997

Dahms, D.E., Horn L.L., Harbor, J., and Elmore, D. Late Pleistocene - Holocene moraine stratigraphy of Stough Creek Basin, Wind River Range, Wyoming.In: Special Session, “The New Revolution in Geomorphology: Cosmogenic Nuclides.” Abstract, AAG Annual Meeting, Ft. Worth, TX.

Applegarth, M., and D.E. Dahms. Clay and carbonate content in soils catenas, Whiskey Basin, Wyoming.Abstract, AAG Annual Meeting, Ft. Worth, TX.

1996

Horn, L.L., Dahms, D.E., James, A., Harbor, J., Elmore, D. Reconstructing Patterns of Glacial Erosion: A New Approach using Cosmogenic Radionuclides.GSA Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, 27.

Applegarth, M., and D.E. Dahms. Soils Developed on calcareous tills, Whiskey Basin, Wyoming.Abstracts with Programs, AAG Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC, p. 9.

1995

Dahms, D.E. Glacial Record of the Middle PopoAgie Valley, SE Wind River Range, Wyoming.Invited Paper, Geomorphology Specialty Group: Late Quaternary Landscape Changes.Abstracts with Programs.AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, Ill., p.58.

Applegarth, M., and D. E. Dahms. Soil Development along moraine catenas of Whiskey Basin, Wyoming.Abstracts with Programs, West Lakes Div. Meeting, Assoc. of American Geographers, Mankato State University, Mankato, MN.

1994

Dahms, D.E. Profile Development Indices for Soils on 30 Pinedale and Temple Lake moraines, Wind River Range, Wyoming. GSA Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, 26(7):A511.Theme session T20: Records of glaciation and Climate Change along the leading edge during the last glacial maximum and the Pleistocene and Holocene transition.

1993

Dahms, D.E., and C. Rawlins. A 2-Year Record of Eolian Sedimentation in the Wind River Mountains, Wyoming, USA. Abstracts with Programs, AAG Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA., April 6-9, p. 50.

1992

Dahms, D.E. Buried Soils on Late Quaternary moraines of the Wind River Mountains, Wyoming. GSA Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, 24(7), A348.

Dahms, D.E., Hall, R.D., and Shroba, R.R. Variability of Soils Formed on Pleistocene Tills in the Wind River Mountains, Wyoming. Abstracts with Programs, West Lakes Div., AAG, Columbia, Mo., Oct. 9-11.

1990

Dahms, D.E. The Role of Holocene Eolian Sediments in Soil Development, Wind River Mountains, Wyoming. Abstracts with Programs, AAG Annual Meeting, p.47.

Dahms, D.E. Eolian Sedimentation as a Primary Soil-Forming Process on the Type Pinedale, Temple Lake, and Indian Basin Moraines, Wind River Range, Wyoming. Abstracts for Poster Papers, 21st Ann. Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium., Soils and Landscape Evolution, p. 27.

1989

Dahms, D.E. Buried Soils on Pinedale Moraines of the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming. GSA Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs 21(5), p. 71.

1988

Dahms, D.E. Buried Soils on Pinedale Moraines of the Wind River Mountains, Wyoming. AAG Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, p.36.

Karlstrom, Eric T., Dort, Wakefield, Jr., Dahms, D.E., Mandel, Rolfe, Sorenson, Curtis J. Properties and Paleoclimatic Significance of a Strongly Developed Soil in "Kansan" Till, Topeka, Kansas.GSA South-Central Section, Abstracts with Programs, Lawrence, Kansas.

1986

Dahms, D.E. Eolian Contamination of Soils on Glacial Deposits of the Wind River Mountains, Wyoming, AAG Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, p. 52. [Invited paper, Soil Geomorphology Symposium].

Other Publications

Dahms, D.E. (1988). Discrepancy in Termination of Pinedale Glaciation, Wind River Mountains, Wyoming. Current Research in the Pleistocene 5, 81-83.

Dahms, D.E. (1993). Reconstructing Paleoenvironments from Ancient Soils: A Critical Review.INQUA/ISSS Paleopedology Commission Newsletter #9, 28-31.

Dahms, D.E. (1984). Bone Technology at Little Box Elder Cave, Wyoming: Evidence for a Late Wisconsinan Occupation. AMQUA-Abstracts of the 8th Biennial Meeting, Boulder, CO, p. 29.

TECHNICAL REPORTS
Anderson, M. L., and Dahms, D. E. (1993). Geomorphology and Alluvial Stratigraphy at 13BT13. In, A Phase II Investigation of 13BT13, Butler County, Iowa. Project Completion Report, Vol. 16, #45. Office of the State Archeologist, Iowa City, 132 p.
Dahms, D.E. (1989). Soils and Glacial Stratigraphy of the Wind River Mountains, Wyoming. Contribution to 1989 Annual Field Conference, Friends of the Pleistocene, Rocky Mountain Cell. [Co-Leader, with G.M Richmond, P.W. Birkeland, R.R. Shroba, R. Hall, C.J. Sorenson, P. T. Davis, and G. Zielinski]. University of Kansas, 19 p.
Eddy, Frank W., Carillo, R.F., Dahms, D.E., Farmer, T.R., Friedman, P.D., and Walker, D.N. (1981). The Archeological Mitigation Program at 5MF605, Brown's Park National Wildlife Refuge, Moffatt County Colorado.Colorado Fish and Wildlife Service, 183 p.
Eddy, Frank W., Dahms, D.E., Farmer, T.R., Holliday, V.T., Leichtman,B., Oberlin, R.E., Reining, J.J., VanCouvering, J. (1981). A Cultural Resource Inventory of the John Martin Reservoir, Bent County, Colorado. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 419 p.

THESES and DISSERTATIONS

1991Eolian Sedimentation and Soil Development on Moraine Catenas of the Wind River Mountains, West Central Wyoming.Unpublished Ph.D dissertation, Department of Geography, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Ks.

1983Late Pleistocene Occupation of Little Box Elder Cave, Wyoming: Evidence of A Bone Technology. Unpublished Thesis, University of Colorado.


EXTERNAL RESEARCHFUNDING
Funded
2000Purdue University, PRIME Lab. "Using 10Be and 26Al Data to Constrain ages of pre-Pinedale glacial deposits, Sinks Canyon, Wyoming." ($10,000).

1996-8 National Science Foundation.“Reconstructing Spatial Patterns of Glacial Erosion:A New Approach Using Cosmogenic Nuclides.” Subgrant #500-1397-3108-01 to D.E. Dahms under NSF Grant No. SBR-9631437 to J. Harbor & D. Elmore, Purdue University ($180,000), 30 mos.

Pending

NSF-SGER.“Collaborative Research: Hydrologic Patterns of Holocene drought from sediments in high elevation lakes of the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming.” D. Dahms, L. Doner ($63,000).

US Civilian Research and Development Foundation.“Soil Organic Carbon Spatial-Temporal Changes in High Elevation Ecosystems of Mt. Elbrus region, Russia and the Wind River Mountains, USA:Implications for a Global Warming Scenario.A. Gennadiyev, J.G. Bockheim, S. Chernyanskii, Y. Pikovskii,T. Alexeeva, G. Sakharov, A. Bakhmanova, D. Dahms. ($69,945).

In Preparation

NSF - Post-glacial climate change in the southern Wind River Range from cave speleothems in Sinks Canyon, Wyoming. [D. Dahms, R. Denniston].

NSF.Extending Cosmogenic Radionuclide Dating of Terminal Glacial Deposits from Type Localities to Alpine Valleys. [D. Dahms, J. Harbor, D. Fabel, D. Elmore, and P. Sharma - Purdue University, and A. James - South Carolina.].
NSF – Late Pleistocene Climate change recorded in sediments of alpine lakes, Wind River Range, Wyoming. [D. Dahms, L. Doner, E. Ito].
INTERNAL FUNDING

2001Dean’s Challenge Grant (2 weeks).“Records of past climate recorded in cave speleothems in Sinks Canyon, Wind River Range, Wyoming.”($2742).

2000UNI summer Fellowship (8 weeks), "Mapping the Latest Quaternary Glacial Deposits in Deep Lakes Basin, Wyoming." ($5000).

Dean’s Challenge Grant(2 weeks) "Holocene Climate change Recorded in Sediments of Alpine Lakes near Treeline, Wind River Range, Wyoming." ($2647)

1999Dean’s Challenge Grant (2 weeks). "Numeric Age-Dating of glacial vs. non-glacial deposits, Sinks Canyon, Wyoming. (Successful)

1998Microcomputer Equipment Grant (College - $3500)

Dean’s Challenge Grant (2 weeks). “Cosmogenic nuclide dating of glacial vs. pre-glacial deposits, Wind River Range, Wyoming.”

UNI summer Fellowship (8 weeks), Reconstructing the Environmental Record of the Last Interglacial in the Middle Rocky Mountains.” ($5000).

1997Sabbatical Leave (Fall semester). “Glacial Landform Analyses Using Cosmogenic Nuclides.”

1996UNI Summer Fellowship (8 weeks), “Mapping the Quaternary Deposits of the Middle PopoAgie valley, Wyoming.” $5000.

1995Dean’s Challenge Grant, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2-week summer salary for grant proposal to NSF Global Change Program.

Graduate College Project Grant, “Micromorphology of Soils on the western slope of the Wind River Range, Wyoming.”Funds for thin-section preparation.

1994UNI Summer Fellowship (8 weeks), "Late Quaternary Glacial and Climatic History of the Middle Popo Agie valley, Wind River Range, Wyoming." $5000.

1993Dean's Challenge Grant (2 weks).

Graduate College Project Grant, "Total Chemistry of silty floodplain and eolian sediments of the Green River Basin and Wind River Range, Wyoming." ($500)

Microcomputer Equipment Grant (Provost - $2100)

1992UNI Summer Fellowship (8 weeks). Timing of Ice cap retreat, Wind River Range, Wyoming. $4900.

Graduate College Project Grant, "Bog-Bottom Organics Date onset of Ice Retreat from Wind River Range, Wyoming." ($500)

1991Graduate College Project Grant, "Buried soils on piedmont moraines, Wind River Range, Wyoming." ($500)

Microcomputer Equipment Grant ($2143.79)


GRADUATE THESES - Supervisor
Mark Alexander (Geography MA - 2000), Assessing Classification Accuracy of Remotely Sensed Data with an Existing Alpine Vegetation Map. Awarded Best UNI Masters Thesis, 2000.
Michael Applegarth (Geography MA - 1997), Soil Development on Moraine Catenas of Whiskey Basin, Wyoming. Nominated for UNI’s Best Thesis, 1997
Raymond Johnson (Geography MA), Title pending -- Geographic distribution of avalanches.
Dale Splinter (Geography MA), Late Quaternary Alluvial Stratigraphy of the Little Cedar River valley near Nashua, Iowa.
Carrie Thorpe (Geography MA), Petrographic Analyses of Paleoindian projectile points. 
Jennifer Sink (Geography, MA).The Alden Quarry North section: Type Locality of the Sheldon Creek glaciation.
Brian Steinberg (Geography MA.), Soils and Stratigraphy of Sand and Dune Deposits along the Cedar River valley near Cedar Falls, Iowa. 
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
1999-Member: INQUA Commission on Glaciations, Workgroup 5 ("Extent and Chronology of Glaciations").

Nominee -- AMQUA councilor, Terrestrial Geoprocesses

1999-2002Awards Committee - Mountain Specialty Group; Assoc. of American Geographers.

1997Advisor (Quaternary geology) for video production “The Wind River Range”, Lander, Wyoming.

1996Co-organizer ofSoil Geomorphology I: Arid Regions and Soil Geomorphology II: Humid Regions (with R. Schaetzl, Michigan State Univ.), Annual Meeting, Assoc. of American Geographers, Charlotte, N.C., April 6-9.Session Chair: Soil Geomorphology II: Humid Regions.

1993Session Chair:Soils. Annual Meeting, AAG, Atlanta, GA.

1992-98Manuscript reviews: Quaternary Research, Geomorphology, Catena,Physical Geography, Proceedings 2nd Int’l Paleodedology symposium (Quaternary International).

Proposal Reviews:NSF: Earth system History, Geography & Regional Science.