Nathaniel (Nate)
Lorentz
lorentz@usc.edu
University of Southern California
Department of Earth Sciences
- ZHS 211
3651 Trousdale Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740
Education
Ph.D., Geology (expected 2007), University of Southern
California (Frank
Corsetti, advisor)
Sed/strat of the Neoproterozoic Reed Dolomite, White-Inyo
Mountains, CA
M.S., Geology, University of Southern
California, 2003 (Frank
Corsetti, advisor)
Thesis: Implications for isochroneity of Neoproterozoic
glaciations from the Scout Mountain Member of the Pocatello Formation,
southeastern Idaho and analysis of global radiometric constraints
B.S. w/ Honors, Geoscience,
Winona State
University, 2000 (Cathy
Summa, advisor)
Includes field
geology through Lehigh University (Summer of
2000) and an REU project through the Great Lakes Water Institute,
UW-Milwaukee (Summer of 1999)
Awards (*received whilst at WSU)
USC College of
Letters, Arts, and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship:
2006-2007 academic year
USC College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences General Education
Teaching
Assistant Award, Crises of a Planet: 2003-2004 academic year
USC Earth Sciences Departmental Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
for Majors, Surficial Processes and Stratigraphy: Fall 2004
USC Earth Sciences Departmental Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
for General Education, Crises of a Planet: Spring 2004
USC Earth Sciences Departmental Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
for Majors, Surficial Processes and Stratigraphy: Fall 2003
USC Keck Fellowship: 2003
USC Earth Sciences Departmental Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
for Majors, Surficial Processes and Stratigraphy: Fall 2002
USC Earth Sciences Departmental Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
for General Education, Oceanography: Spring 2002
USC Earth Sciences Departmental Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
for Majors, Surficial Processes and Stratigraphy: Fall 2001
USC Keck Fellowship: 2001
*WSU Disability Services Certificate of Appreciation in Teaching: 2001
*WSU Geoscience Department Diane Suchomel Award (departmental service):
2000
*WSU Geoscience Department Steve Tuftin Award (field work): 2000
*WSU Geology Alumni Scholarship: 1999
*Flambeau Mining Company Scholarship: 1997
*Flambeau Mining Company Scholarship: 1996
Grants
Geological Society of America student research grant: 2005
Geological Society of America student research grant: 2002
Evolving Earth Foundation student research grant: 2002
USC Earth Sciences Departmental research grant: 2004
USC Earth Sciences Departmental research grant: 2002
Synergistic Activities
2006 Penrose Conference "When Did Plate Tectonics Begin
on Earth? Theoretical and Empirical Constraints."
Helped supervise undergraduate field and laboratory research
projects: Jennifer Clark, USC, 2005; Matthew Smith, USC, 2004; Caleb
Stroup, WSU, 2004; Robert Iverson, USC, 2004
Co-leader of a Geological Society of America pre-meeting fieldtrip to
study the Neoproterozoic succession near Pocatello, ID: Fall 2005
Assisted with USC/Agouron geobiology fieldtrip to Owens Valley and
Walker Lake: Summer 2005
Co-leader of a youth geology workshop, Deane Dana Friendship Park
Nature Center, San Pedro: Spring 2005
Areas of notable fieldwork experience: Open-pit copper mine, northern
WI (environmental geology); Mississippi River Coulee Region, MN and WI
(sedimentology and stratigraphy); Iron Range, northern MN (geology,
chemistry, technology, and history of iron mining); Lake Michigan
(general chemistry and biology); Yellowstone Lake, WY (sulfur
chemistry); Cordillera of California, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, and
Utah
(mapping, sedimentology, and stratigraphy for both classes and
research); Walker Lake, NV (sedimentology and geochemistry)
Paid Work Experience
University of Southern California
Research Assistant, 1/2005-5/2006
Sed/strat of the Neoproterozoic Reed Dolomite, White-Inyo
Mountains, CA
University of Southern
California
Teaching Assistant, 8/2001-12/2004
Laboratory instruction for Surficial Processes and Stratigraphic
Systems, Crises of a Planet, and
Oceanography
New T.A. mentor in USC's graduate student orientation (Fall 2004)
Winona State University Geoscience
Department Laboratory Instructor, 8/2000-5/2001
Laboratory instruction for Dynamic Earth (Introduction to
Geology), Earth and Life Through Time (Historical Geology), and
Oceanography
Winona State University Undergraduate
Teaching Assistant, 1/1999-5/2000
Laboratory assistance for Dynamic Earth, Earth and Life Through
Time, and Field Methods I
Soudan
Underground Mine State Park
Mine Interpreter, 6/1998-8/1998
Developed and guided underground tours of a retired iron mine
Flambeau
Mining Company (a Kennecott
subsidiary) Backfill Quality Assurance/ Quality Control Technician,
5/1997-8/1997
Supervised and documented open-pit operations, ensured adherence
to backfill guidelines and procedures, and surveyed
Flambeau Mining Company Environmental
Intern, 5/1996-8/1996
Sampled soil, air, and effluent, maintained a prairie grass test
plot and river buffer zone, and planned and implemented erosion control
measures
Papers and
*abstracts
Lorentz, N.J.
and Corsetti, F.A., in press. Another test for snowball
Earth. Geology (Invited Op-Ed).
Corsetti, F.A., Link, P.K.,
and Lorentz,
N.J., in press. d13C
chemostratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic succession near Pocatello,
Idaho. SEPM Special Publication.
Corsetti, F.A. and
Lorentz,
N.J., 2006.
On Neoproterozoic cap carbonates as chronostratigraphic
markers. In Xiao,
S. and Kaufman, A.J. (Eds.) Neoproterozoic
Geobiology and Paleobiology (27). p. 273-294, Springer, New York, NY.
Link, P.K., Corsetti, F.A., and Lorentz, N.J., 2005.
Pocatello Formation and Overlying Strata, Southeastern Idaho: Snowball
Earth Diamictites, Cap Carbonates, and Neoproterozoic Isotopic
Profiles. 2005 GSA Field Guide 6.
Lorentz, N.J.,
Corsetti, F.A.,
and Link, P.K., 2004. Seafloor
precipitates and C-isotope stratigraphy from the Neoproterozoic Scout
Mountain Member of the Pocatello Formation,
southeast Idaho: implications for Neoproterozoic Earth System
behavior. Precambrian Research, 130, 57-70.
Corsetti, F.A., Lorentz, N.J.,
and Pruss, S.B.,
2004.
Formerly-aragonite seafloor fans from Neoproterozoic strata, Death
Valley and southeastern Idaho, United States: implications for
“cap carbonate” formation and snowball Earth. In Jenkins, G.S., McMenamin,
M.A.S., McKay, C., and Sohl, L. (Eds.) The Extreme
Proterozoic: Geology, Geochemistry, and Climate. American
Geophysical Union.
Lorentz, N.J., Corsetti, F.A.,
and Link, P.K., 2002. Seafloor
precipitates and negative d13C
values from the Scout Mountain Member of the Pocatello Formation,
southeast Idaho.
In Corsetti, F.A. (Ed.)
Proterozoic-Cambrian of the Great Basin and Beyond, Volume and
Guidebook 93, Pacific Section SEPM.
*Lorentz, N.J. and Corsetti,
F.A., 2006. High-resolution C-isotope stratigraphy from the Reed
Dolomite, White-Inyo Mountains, CA. Geological Society of
America, program with abstracts.
*Lorentz, N.J. and
Corsetti, F.A., 2005. Likely tectonism
during Reed Dolomite deposition, White-Inyo Mountains, California and
Nevada. Geological Society of America, abstracts with programs.
*Lorentz, N.J., Corsetti, F.A.,
and Stroup, C.N., 2004. Evidence
of
syn-depositional tectonism in the Neoproterozoic Reed Dolomite,
White-Inyo Mountains, eastern
California.
Geological Society of America, program with abstracts.
*Olcott,
A.N., Lorentz, N.J.,
Corsetti, F.A., and Berelson,
W.M.,
2004.
Reevaluating gravimetric determination of Carbonate Associated Sulfate
concentrations.
Geological Society of
America, program with abstracts.
*Lorentz, N.J., Corsetti, F.A.,
and Link, P.K., 2003. C-isotopes and
seafloor precipitates from the Pocatello Formation, southeast Idaho:
implications for Neoproterozoic Earth
history.
Geological Society of America, program with abstracts.
*Lorentz, N.J., Corsetti, F.A.,
and Link, P.K., 2002. Another
possible cap carbonate in the Neoproterozoic Pocatello Formation,
southeastern Idaho. Geological Society
of
America, Rocky Mountain Section, program with abstracts.
*Link, P.K., Corsetti, F.A., and Lorentz,
N.J., 2002.
Siliciclastic-carbonate cycles of the Neoproterozoic Blackrock Canyon
Limestone, southeastern Idaho.
Geological Society of
America, Rocky Mountain Section, program with abstracts.
*Lorentz, N.J. and Cuhel, R.L.,
1999, Quantitative analysis of hydrogen
sulfide, sulfite and thiosulfate from Yellowstone Lake hydrothermal
vents by use of High Performance
Liquid
Chromatography, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. American
Society of Limnology and Oceanography/ American
Geophysical
Union, program with abstracts.
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