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OLIVER BURNS3852 Saxonbury Way Charlotte, NC 28269 | [email protected] | 205.789.9984LinkedIn Profile
SKILLS & ABILITIES Sample preparation skills: radiometric and cosmogenic nuclide dating, clay mineral extraction and glycolation, geomicrobiological antiseptic culture transfer, critical point drying,and gold sputter coating
Field work skills: water quality monitoring and analysis, sample retrieval and in situ culturing,geologic mapping, and cave exploration
Analytical skills: X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, water analysis including: pH, total dissolved solids and oxygen, conductivity, and temperature
RELEVANTEXPERIENCE
RESEARCH ASSISTANT LEAKEY FOUNDATION PROJECT “NEW INVESTIGATION AT THE MIOCENE SITE OF LOPEROT, TURKANA DISTRICT, KENYA”AUGUST 2013 – DECEMBER 2014
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction by sediment analysis methods: X-ray diffraction (bulk and clay mineralogy), and optical microscopy, and data interpretation and synthesis
RESEARCH ASSISTANT UNITED KINGDOM NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL (NERC) PROJECT “CLIMATE HISTORY CONTROLS FUTURE LANDSLIDE HAZARD”MAY – JULY 2014
Extensive sensitive sample preparation for radiometric and cosmogenic nuclide dating
RESEARCH ASSISTANT NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION AND NORTH CAROLINA SPACE GRANT PROJECT “SUSTAINED ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACT IN CARTER SALTPETER CAVE, CARTER COUNTY, TENNESSEE AND THE POTENTIAL EFFECTS ON MANGANESE CYCLING”NOVEMBER 2011 – JUNE 2013
Cave exploration, sample retrieval, and in situ culturing, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) preparation: critical point drying, gold sputter coating, and SEM analysis with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), and the design of media for biologic cultures
EDUCATION APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY, BOONE, NCB.SC. GEOLOGY, CONCENTRATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY, FALL 2014
GPA: 3.20
Awards: Best Undergraduate Poster Award at 17th Annual Celebration of Student Research and Creative Endeavors, out of 115 submitted abstracts (April 2014). Undergraduate Research Assistantships from the Office of Student Research (Spring and Fall 2014)
Relevant Coursework: Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, Geomorphology, Hydrogeology, Advanced Environmental and Engineering Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry
ABSTRACTS Burns, O.E., Liutkus-Pierce, C., Grossman, A., 2014, “Exploring Early Miocene African catarrhine evolution through paleoenvironmental reconstruction; Loperot, Kenya”: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, no. 6.
Burns, O.E., Liutkus-Pierce, C., Grossman, A., 2014, “Apes and Monkeys Living Together? Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of an Early Miocene primate ecosystem at Loperot, Kenya”: 17th Annual Celebration of Student Research and Creative Endeavors, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.
REFERENCES DR. CYNTHIA LIUTKUS-PIERCE PREVIOUS EMPLOYER, RESEARCH ADVISER, PROFESSORAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY
[email protected] I 828-262-6933, (c): 732-841-8380
DR. ROB PARKER PREVIOUS EMPLOYER, POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATECARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EARTH AND OCEAN SCIENCES
[email protected] I +44(0)29 208 74051
DR. SARAH CARMICHAEL PREVIOUS EMPLOYER, RESEARCH ADVISER, PROFESSORAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY
[email protected] I 828-262-8471
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