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David M. Rohr

Emeritus Professor of Geology

Sul Ross State University

Curriculum Vitae

DAVID M. ROHR

Address:  Department of Biology, Geology & Physical Sciences

Sul Ross State University, 400 N. Harrison St.

Alpine, Texas 79832

Phone: 432 837 8167 (office),   E-mail: drohr@sulross.edu

 Born: Portsmouth, Virginia

 Military service:  Honorable discharge, Captain, US Army Reserve, 1977.

 Education:

College of William and Mary, B.S. Geology, 1969.

Indiana University Geology Field Camp, summer, 1969.

Oregon State University, M.S. Geology, 1972.

Oregon State University, PhD, Geology, 1977.

 Specialties:

Taxonomy, biogeography and biostratigraphy of Lower Paleozoic gastropods; paleoecology; and carbonate depositional environments and stratigraphy.

 Experience:

Distinguished Emeritus Professor since 2014.

Professor of Geology, Sul Ross State University; Department Chair, 1992-2002, 2006-2014. Associate Professor, 1985‑1989; Assistant Professor, 1980‑1985; teaching Historical Geology, Geology of West Texas, Dinosaurs, Paleontology, Stratigraphy, Sedimentation, Sedimentary Petrology, Carbonate Petrology, and Paleoecology.

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Washington, 1979‑80.

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, summer sessions, 1977‑84, teaching Field Camp in southern and northeastern Oregon.

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, 1977‑79.

Grants received:

National Geographic Society, field work in Newfoundland and Alaska.1992-2006

Eisenhower Grant for short course for earth science teachers, 1993

Geological Society of America Penrose Grants, 1971, 1972, and 1973.

National Science Foundation Summer Grants, 1981, 1983, 1985‑87.

American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund, 1982, 1984, 1990.

National Science Foundation Equipment Grant, 1984.

 Memberships:

Geological Society of America (Fellow), Geological Association of Canada (Fellow), Paleontological Society (Chair South-Central Section, 2002), West Texas Geological Society.

Recent Publications.

Rohr, David M., Hoiland, Carl,and Blodgett, Robert B. submitted, 2018. A Silurian Coelocaulid Gastropod from Arctic Alaska and its paleogeographic significance. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin.

Rohr, D.M., E.A. Measures, and W.D. Boyce. (2018 in press) Additional Gastropods from the Lower and Middle Ordovician of Western Newfoundland. Newfoundland Department of Mines and Energy, Report

Wahlman, G.P, Pate, C.R,. Rohr, D.M. and Ross, C.A. 2017. Leonardian (lower Permian) fusulinids from the Cibolo Formation, Chinati Mountains, Presidio County, Texas, USA. Stratigraphy, v. 14 (1-4), pp. 425441.

Walker. S.E., Nichols, K.M., and Rohr, D. 2017. In Memoriam: Arthur James Boucot (1924-2017). Journal of Paleontology, 91(6), p. 1318.

Platt, S.G., E.A. Measures, D.M Rohr, K. Platt, and T. R. Rainwater. 2017. Batagur trivittata (Burmese roofed turtle) nesting site and substrate. Herpetological Review 48(2), p. 420-422.

Elmore, Stephanie N,, and Rohr, David M. 2017. An Oligocene-Miocene lake limestone in Big Bend Ranch State Park, Texas. West Texas Geological Society Bulletin 56 (4), p. 7-9.

Frederick Jr., Philip A., Sweet, Dustin E., and Rohr, David M., 2016. Facies Analysis and Age Relationships of Late Devonian-Middle Pennsylvanian Carbonates of the Southern Alexander Terrane, SE Alaska. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. vol.

Rohr, David, M. Mitchell May and Robert B. Blodgett. 2016. Shell Borings in Permian Brachiopods from Southeastern Alaska. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 73.

Rohr, David M. and Blodgett, Robert B. 2016. Silurian septate gastropod from Glacier Bay, Alaska. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 73.

Rohr, D. M., Robert B. Blodgett, and Phil A .Frederick. 2016. Ordovician Gastropod Opercula from the Cratonic Portion of Eastern Alaska. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 74. 233-237.

May, M., Rohr, David M, Baichtal, James F., Blodgett, and Robert B. 2016. Potential cool water origins of a Permian carbonate unit in The Alexander Terrane, Alaska. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. vol. 48(4).

Michell, C., and D.M. Rohr. 2015 Cretaceous karst deposits of Shafter, Texas. West Texas Geological Society Bulletin 54(6): 15-18

Rohr, D.M., Harper, D.A.T., Stouge, S. & Christiansen, J.L. 2015. Ordovician Gastropoda from Northeast Greenland. Bulletin of Geosciences 90(4), 795–805

Frederick, Philip A. Jr., Shiller, Thomas, Rohr, David M., Baichtal, James F. 2015. A Preliminary Report on the Stratigraphy and Biostratigraphy of the Peratrovich Formation and Ladrones Limestone. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 47, No. 4.

Baichtal, James F., Blodgett, Robert B., Frederick, Philip A. Jr., Rohr, David M., Shiller, Thomas, and Stevens, Calvin H. 2015. An Overlooked Permian Unit in The Craig Quadrangle, Alexander Terrane, SE Alaska. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 47, No. 4

Frederick, P. A. and David M. Rohr. 2015. First reported occurrence of Late Ordovician through early Silurian gastropod genera: Phragmolites, Oriostoma, Pachystrophia, Euomphalopterus, Onychochilus, and Platyostoma from the eastern Great Basin of North America. In: Sullivan, R. M. and Lucas, S. G., eds., Fossil Record 4. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 68. pp. 77-83.

Rohr, David M., Susan M. Karl, Robert B. Blodgett, James F. Baichtal, and Elizabeth A. Measures. 2014. Ordovician Carbonate Facies of Prince of Wales Island, Southeast Alaska. Alaska Geological Society Newsletter 44(7), pp. 4-6.

Blodgett, R. B., Andrew W. Tainter, and David M. Rohr. 2014. The Siberian origin of the Alexander terrane of southeast Alaska. Alaska Geological Society Newsletter 44(5), pp. 5-8.

Mitchell, Casey M. and David Rohr. 2014. Cretaceous Karst deposits of Shafter, Texas. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 46, No. 6, p.394

Reyes, A. T., David M. Rohr and Paul Dolliver. 2014. Stratigraphy and depositional environment of the basal Presidio Formation (lower Cretaceous) at the Shafters silver mine, Presidio County, Texas. WTGS Bulletin Vol. 54(1), p. 25-29.

Rohr, David, Susan M. Karl, Robert B. Blodgett, James F Baichtal, and Elizabeth Measures. 2013. Ordovician carbonate facies of Prince of Wales Island, southeastern Alaska. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 45, No. 7, p.1

Reyes, A. T. and Rohr, David M. 2013. Depositional setting of the basal Presidio formation (Lower Cretaceous), at the Rio Grande Mining Company Shafter silver mine, West Texas. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 45, No. 7, p.126.

David M. Rohr, Robert B. Blodgett. 2013. Silurian Tropical Marine Shelf to Basin Transition at Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve: the “exotic” Alexander Terrane of Alaska. Journal of Geography, Tokyo Geographical Society, Chigaku Zasshi. Vol. 122 (5) p. 905-911.

Ebbestad,  Jan Ove R., Jiří Frýda, Peter J. Wagner, Radvan J. Horny, Mare Isakar, Sarah Stewart, Ian Percival, Veronica Bertero, David Rohr, John S. Peel1, Robert B. Blodgett, and Anette E. S. Hogstrom. 2013. Biogeography of Ordovician and Silurian gastropods, monoplacophorans and mimospirids. in: Harper, D. A. T. & Servais, T. (eds) Early Palaeozoic Biogeography and Palaeogeography. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 38, 191–212.

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