John Isbell
Professor
328 Lapham Hall
(414) 229-2877
jisbell@uwm.edu
Vita (pdf-26kb)
Degrees:
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
M.S., Northern Illinois University
B.A., Augustana College
Post Doc:
Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University
Research Interests: Clastic Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, Sequence Stratigraphy, Historical Geology, Glacial and fluvial deposits and processes, The Late Paleozoic Ice Age, Gondwana Geology, Geology of the Southern Hemisphere (Antarctica, Argentina, South Africa, Australia), Landscape evolution during the Cretaceous and Tertiary.
Teaching Areas: Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, Historical Geology, Petrology of Clastic Sedimentary Rocks, Conducted Field Trips in Sedimentary Geology, Sequence Stratigraphy
Other Activities:
- Department Chair
- Associate Editor of PALAIOS
- Delegate:The Gondwana Subcommission.
- Chief Scientist, 03-04 Beardmore Remote Research Camp, Antarctica
- Participant and Field Leader of 14 Research expeditions to Antarctica
Selected Publications:
Books:
Fielding, C.R., Frank, T.D., and Isbell, J.L. (Editors), 2008, Resolving the Late Paleozoic Ice Age in Time and Space: Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America Special Publication 441, 354 p.
Recent Papers:
Isbell, J.L., accepted, Environmental and paleogeographic implications of glaciotectonic deformation and glacial basinal deposits within Permian strata of the Metschel Tillite, Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica, In Lopez-Gamundi, O. and Buatois L., eds, Late Paleozoic glacial events and postglacial transgressions in Gondwana: GSA Special Paper.
Gulbranson E.L., Montañez, I.P., Schmitz, M., Limarino, C.O., Isbell, L.J., Marenssi, S.A., and Crowley, J., accepted, High-resolution U-Pb Calibration of Carboniferous Glacigenic Deposits, Río Blanco and Paganzo basins, Northwest Argentina: Geological Society of America Bulletin.
Briggs, D.E.G., Miller, M.F., Isbell, J. L., and Sidor, C.A., accepted, Permo-Triassic arthropod trace fossils from the Beardmore Glacier area , central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica: Antarctic Science.
Caputo, M.V., de Melo, J.H.G., Streel, M., and Isbell, J.L., 2008, Late Devonian and Early Carboniferous glacial records of South America, in Fielding, C.R., Frank, T.D., and Isbell, J.L., eds., Resolving the Late Paleozoic Ice Age in Time and Space:: Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America Special Publication., p. 161-173.
Fielding, C.R., Frank, T.D., and Isbell, J.L., 2008, The late Paleozoic ice age--A review of current understanding and synthesis of global climate patterns, in Fielding, C.R., Frank, T.D., and Isbell, J.L., eds., Resolving the Late Paleozoic Ice Age in Time and Space:: Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America Special Publication., p. 343-354.
Henry, L.C., Isbell, J.L., and Limarino, C.O., 2008, Carboniferous glacigenic deposits of the proto-Precordillera of west-central Argentina, in Fielding, C.R., Frank, T.D., and Isbell, J.L., eds., Resolving the Late Paleozoic Ice Age in Time and Space:: Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America Special Publication., p. 131-142.
Isbell, J.L., Fraiser, M.L., and Henry, L.C., 2008, Examining the Complexity of Environmental Change during the Late Paleozoic and Early Mesozoic: PALAIOS, v. 23, p. 267-269.
Isbell, J.L., Koch, Z.J., Szablewski, G.M., and Lenaker, P.A., 2008, Permian glacigenic deposits in the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica, in Fielding, C.R., Frank, T.D., and Isbell, J.L., eds., Resolving the Late Paleozoic Ice Age in Time and Space:: Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America Special Publication., p. 59-70.
Isbell, J.L., Cole, D.I., and Catuneanu, O., 2008, Carboniferous-Permian glaciation in the main Karoo Basin, South Africa: stratigraphy, depositional controls, and glacial dynamics, in Fielding, C.R., Frank, T.D., and Isbell, J.L., eds., Resolving the Late Paleozoic Ice Age in Time and Space:: Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America Special Publication., p. 71-82.
Sidor, C.A., Miller, M.F., and Isbell, J. L., 2008, Tetrapod burrows from the Triassic of Antarctica:. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 28, p. 277-284.
Montañez, I.P., Tabor, N.J., Niemeier, D., DiMichele, W.A., Frank, T.D., Fielding, C.R., and Isbell, J.L., Birgenheier, L.P., and Rygel, M.C., 2007, CO2-forced climate and vegetation instability during Late Paleozoic deglaciation: Science, v. 315, p. 87-91.