Faculty Dr. Lara Storm

Dr. Lara Storm
Visiting Assistant Professor of Geology
(Mineralogy/Petrology)

Department of Geology
Kaufman Building, Office 147
Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA 17013
USA

Phone: 717.245.1814
E-Mail:storml@dickinson.edu

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. Geology - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Aug. 2005)

M.S. Geology - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Dec. 2004)

B.S. Geology - Eastern Illinois University (April 2000)

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

Visiting Assistant Professor of Geology - Dickinson College (Fall 2008 – present)

Visiting Assistant Professor of Geology - Colby College (Fall 2007 – present)

Visiting Assistant Professor of Geology - Denison University (Sept. 2006 – May 2007)

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Sept. – Feb. 2006)

T.A. trainer - Office of Graduate Education, R.P.I. (Spring 2004)

Research Assistant - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Fall - Summer, 3 years)

Teaching Assistant – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2 Academic years)

 

Courses Taught:

Introductory Classes: Planet Earth, Earth & Environment, Geology of National Parks

Upper Level Classes: Earth Materials, Mineralogy, Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology

 

PUBLICATIONS

Ph.D. Thesis:

Storm, L.C. (2005) Methods of deciphering complex thermo-chronological histories of migmatitic metapelites: Applications within the Adirondack Highlands, New York. Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, p. 254. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.

 

 

 

Journal Articles:

Pyle, J.M., Spear, F.S., Wark, D., Daniel, C. and Storm, L.C. (2005) Contributions to

precision and accuracy of monazite microprobe ages. American Mineralogist, 90, 547-577.

 

Storm, L.C. & Spear, F.S. (2005) Pressure, temperature and cooling rates of granulite

facies migmatitic pelites from the southern Adirondack Highlands, New York. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 23, 107-130.

 

Conference Abstracts:

Storm, L.C. and Spear, F.S. (2005) Fast cooling of the southern Adirondack Highlands:

Constraints from diffusive modeling of both retrograde exchange and net-transfer reactions. An abstract presented at the Northeastern section of the Geological Society of America meeting – Saratoga Springs, NY (March 14-16).

 

Storm, L.C. and Spear, F.S. (2003) P-T-t evolution pf Precambrian terranes: Methods

in Precambrian metamorphic geology applied to the southern Adirondacks of NY, USA. An abstract presented at the 4th Stephan Müller Conference of the European Geosciences Union - Romania (May 31-June 5).

 

Seghedi, A., Spear, F.S., and Storm, L.C. (2003) The metamorphic evolution of the

Hercynian basement of north Dobrogea: Constraints from petrological studies and monazite dating. An abstract presented at the 4th Stephan Müller Conference of the European Geosciences Union - Romania (May 31-June 5).

 

Storm, L.C. and Spear, F.S. (2002) Taconian and Acadian rims on southern

Adirondack monazites: Hydrothermal fluids from Appalachian metamorphism. An abstract presented at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America - Denver, CO (October 27-30).

 

Spear, F.S., Cheney, J.T., Pyle, J.M., and Storm, L.C. (2002) Monazite; another

rosetta stone? An abstract presented at the 12th annual V. M. Goldschmidt conference - Davos, Switzerland (August 18-23).

 

Storm, L.C. and Spear, F.S. (2002) Thermometry, cooling rates, and monazite ages of

the southern Adirondacks. An abstract presented at the Northeastern Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America - 37th Annual Meeting (March 25-27).

 

Spear, F.S., Pyle, J.M., Wark, D., Storm, L.C., and Cheney, J.T. (2002) Monazite

dating on the electron microprobe: Instrument systematics. An abstract presented at the Northeastern Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America - 37th Annual Meeting (March 25-27).

 

 

Conference Field Trips:

McLelland, J. and Storm, L.C. (2004) Marble, Amphibolite, and Granitic Gneiss along

the Indian and Hudson Rivers/White-Water Rafting. A field trip held during the 11th International Symposium on Water Rock Interaction - Saratoga Springs, NY (June 27-July 2). (See also http://ees2.geo.rpi.edu/Storm/WRI_FT.html.)

 

McLelland, J., Bickford, M.E., Spear, F.S., and Storm, L.C. (2002). Geology and

geochronology of the eastern Adirondacks (pp. B1.1-B1.8). A field trip held during the 94th annual New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference - Lake George, NY (September 27-29).

 

Storm, L.C. and Spear, F.S. (2002) Metamorphism, cooling rates, and monazite

geochronology of the southern Adirondacks (pp. AA.1-AA.11). A field trip held during the 94th annual New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference - Lake George, NY (September 27-29).

 

McLelland, J., Storm, L.C., and Spear, F.S. (2002) Geology and geochronology of the

southern Adirondacks (pp. A1.1-A1.20). A field trip held during the 94th annual New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference - Lake George, NY (September 27-29).

 

Conference Workshops:

Spear, F.S., Pyle, J.M., and Storm, L.C. (2001) Thermodynamic modeling of mineral

reactions: An introduction to Program Gibbs. A short course presented at the Northeast Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America - Burlington, VT (March 12).

 

AWARDS

Founder’s Award of Excellence - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Nov. 2002)

Todd M. Weber Memorial Scholar - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2 Academic years)

Annie Weller Scholarship - Eastern Illinois University (April 2000)

Hobart Heller Honors Scholarship - Eastern Illinois University (Spring 1996 - Fall 1999)

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

Department of Geology

P.O. Box 1773 / 28 N. College St.

Dickinson College

Carlisle, PA 17013-2896

Phone: (717) 245-1814

Fax: (717) 245-1971

Email: storml@alum.rpi.edu