Donn Gorsline   Present Position Wilford & Daris Zinsmeyer Professor Emeritus Education B.S. Petroleum Engineering, Montana School of Mines, 1950 M.S. Geology, University of Southern California, 1954 Ph.D. Geology, University of Southern California, 1958 Positions Held Assistant Professor, Oceanographic Institute, Florida State University,1957-61 Associate Professor, Oceanographic Institute, Florida State University,1961-62 Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, USC1961-66 Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, USC,1966-86 W. & D. Zinsmeyer Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Earth Sciences, USC,1986-97 Military Service Active duty, U. S. Naval Reserve; general duty and officer training, 1944-46 Inactive Duty, USNR, 1946-51 Ensign, Lt J.G., USNR, Active duty, 1951-52 Inactive Reserve, USNR; Retired Inactive USNR Honors F. P. Shepard Memorial Medal for Excellence in Marine Geological Research, SEPM President, SEPM Life Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science Senior Fellow, Geological Society of America Honorary Member, SEPM Honorary Member, Pacific Section, SEPM Distinguished Lecturer, American Association of Petroleum Geologists A. Raubenheimer Award, Excellence in Research, USC Professional Service Editor, Marine Geology Editor, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology Council Member, SEPM Member, Board of Directors, AGI Member, Advisory Council, AAPG Member, Council, University National Oceanographic Laboratories System Member, Chair, Numerous Panels, Committees, NSF, DOE, ONR, DSDP, AAPG, SEPM, GSA, IGCP Students Over 120 MS and PhD students directed during academic career Areas of Research Sedimentology, Marine Geology Sedimentology, processes and history, California Continental Borderland Sedimentary history, paleooceanography, Gulf of California margin basins Coastal geology, Baja California Selected Recent Publications A digital system for recording and rapidly processing settling tube data: Journal of Sedimentary Research, A65:575-579 (with R. A. Robinson, R. H. Osborne, M. C. Robertson), 1995 Contemporary channel-levee systems in active borderland basin plains: Sedimentary Geology, 104:53-72 (with J. R. SChwalbach, B. D. Edwards), 1996 A review of the occurrences of Holocene and Late Pleistocene laminated sediments in California Continental Borderland basins: products of a variety of depositional processes: In Kemp, A. E. S. (ed.), Paleoclimatology and Paleooceanography from Laminated Sediments, Geological Society of London Spec. Publ. 116:93-110 (with E. M. Nava-Sanchez, J. M. Murillo de Nava), 1996 Depositional events in Santa Monica Basin, California Borderland during the past five centuries: Sedimentary Geology, 104:73-88, 1996 Wave effects on fan deltas of the Gulf of California: Proceedings of the International Coatal Synposium, ICS98, Spec. Issue 26:312-319 (with S. Troyo-Dieguez, E. Nava-Sanchez), 1998 Evidence of Holocene climatic changes from aeolian deposits in Baja California Sur, Mexico: Quaternary International, 56:141-154 (with Janete Murillo de Nava), 1999 The El Coyote fan delta: a wave-dominated example from the Gulf of California, Mexico: Quaternary International 56:129-140 (with E. Nava-Sanchez, L. Godinez-Orta), 1999 Seismically triggered turbidites in small margin basins: Alfono basin, western Gulf of California, and Santa Monica basins, California Borderland: Sedimentary Geology, (with E, Nava-Sanchez, T. De Diego) in press, 2000 Holocene sediments of the Southern California mainland shelf: Quaternary International, (with R. Slater, R. Kolpack, G. Shiller), in review, 2000 Late Pleistocene sedimentary facies of the California Borderland: more evidence for ventilation changes in the northeast Pacific: Paleooceanography (with R. S. Robinson), in review, 2000