Curriculum Vitae for Joseph Daniel Ortiz (see links on website for publications, grants and cruise experience)

Associate Professor
Department of Geology, Kent State University
McGilvrey Hall, Lincoln and Summit Streets, Kent OH 44242
Email: jortiz @kent.edu
Web: http://www.personal.kent.edu/~jortiz/


Education:

Ph.D., Oceanography, 1995.
          Oregon State University, Corvallis OR, Major: Marine Geology.
          Thesis: Planktic Foraminifers of the California Current at 42oN: Last Glacial Maximum and Present.
          Advisor: Dr. Alan C. Mix.

B.S., with honors, 1988.
        Brown University, Providence RI, Major: Aquatic Biology.
        Honors thesis: An Ecological Model of Stable Isotope Variation and Size Distribution in Northern
                                Indian Ocean Populations of G. bulloides.
        Advisor: Dr. Warren Prell.


 

Honors and Awards

·   Outstanding Teaching Award, KSU Student Disability Services/Ability Unlimited, 2005

·   Promoted to full member, Sigma XI, 2003

·   Nominee, KSU College of Arts and Sciences Student Advisory Council Distinguished Teacher Award, 2003

·   American Geophysical Union Editors’ Citation: Excellence in Refereeing for Paleoceanography, 1998.


National/International Invited Talks

 

17th Biennial Meeting, American Quaternary Association, Anchorage Alaska, Quaternary Marine Productivity Variations off Baja California, 2002.

 

Fourth International Congress of Paleoceanographers (ICP-VI), Lisbon, Portugal, Non-invasive sediment monitoring methods: Current and future  tools for high-resolution climate studies, 1998.

 


Mentoring Experience

KSU Graduate Students

·   Beth Hart, NSF funded GK-12, Ph.D. student

·   Nishanthi Wijekoon, NOAA funded NERR, Ph.D. student

·   Yvette Vlack NSF funded GK-12, M.S. student

·   Akindele Balogun, Department funded M.S. student and GSA fellowship awardee

·   Matthew Wilsbacher, NSF funded, M.S. student

 

KSU Undergraduate Students

·   Lyanne Yurco, KSU Geology Honors undergraduate

·   Allie Sherwood, KSU Geology Honors undergraduate

·   Kathleen Wilson, WRRI REU Student

·   Drew Feucht, WRRI REU Student (co-mentor with Munro-Stasiuk)

·   Sarah Reagan, WRRI REU Student (co-mentor with Witter)

·   Chris Stefano, KSU Geology undergraduate

·   Nathan Saraceno, Laboratory research volunteer

·   Christopher Wargo, Honors Independent Study, Spring Term

·   Christopher Mauser, Independent Study, Fall Term

Mentoring Experience, Prior Institutions

·   Co-Mentor to Jeff DelViscio (Wesleyan), Senior Undergraduate Honors thesis: Decadal-

      scale climate variability in the Northeast Pacific Oxygen Minimum Zone: Evidence

      from carbonate and organic carbon records, 2001.

·     L-DEO Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Co-mentor to Jeff DelViscio

      (Wesleyan) Centennial to Decadal Variability in Soledad Basin sediments,

      Baja California, 2001.

·     Co-mentor to Post-doctoral Fellow Dr. Richard Zeebe (L-DEO), 1999-2000.

·     L-DEO Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Co-mentor to Adam

    Goss (Wesleyan). Elemental ratios of North Atlantic sediments as a climate proxy, 1999.

·   Co-mentor to Ben Raker (Wesleyan)

      Senior Undergraduate Honors thesis: True colors of climate change: Spectral

      Reflectance analysis and the Southern Ocean paleoenvironment during the Mid-

      Pleistocene Revolution, 1998-1999.

·   Co-Mentor to Jai Ranganathan (Wesleyan)

      Senior Undergraduate Honors thesis: Optical methods for determining calcium

      carbonate Concentrations within Ocean Drilling Program sediment cores, 1996-1997.


Informal Education Experience

·   Consultant to NSF Geodiversity Education Grant, Connecting with the River: Geoscience

         Research and Education for Hartford, CT (PI’s S. O’Conell, J. J. Morrison, J. Osbourn),

         2001-2003.

 

·   Scientific Partner, Signals of Spring (http://www.signalsofspring.com), 2000-2004.

 

·   Leadership team member, Earth2Class (http://www.earth2class.org), 2000-2001.

         Distance learning based, continuing education program, serving middle and high school

         Earth Science teachers in the Northeastern United States.

 

·   Co-Organizer, Project STEF (Science Teachers Ensure the Future) Workshop, 2000

         NSF funded teacher enhancement and mentoring workshop designed to improve the

         quality and quantity of earth science teachers in New York Metro Area.

 

·   Saturday Workshops for Educators, CO2 Studies and climate changes, 1999.

         Lectured on climate and climate change as part of a K-12 teacher training program

         conducted in cooperation with: Westchester Section of STANYS, Eastern Section of the

         National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) and the American Meteorological

         Society Maury Project Peer trainers program (In conjunction with Dr. Michael Passow,

         White Plains Middle School).

 

·   L-DEO Open House, CO2: Where does it comes from? Where does it go?, 1998.

         Demonstration for K-12 students and parents monitoring effects of photosynthesis,

         respiration and fossil fuel combustion on [CO2] in an enclosed space using a nondispersive

         IR CO2 sensor  (In conjunction with Drs. Lex van Geen and Kim Kastens).

 

·   L-DEO Open House, Core-Lab Exhibit: Planktic Foraminifers!, 1996, 1997.

         Interactive presentation on taxonomy and ecology of planktic foraminifers for K-12

         students and parents. (In conjunction with Rusty Lotti, L-DEO Corelab Curator).


 

Invited Meeting and Workshop Participation (16 total)

·   Member, COREWALL Steering Committee, and participant, JOI sponsored

   COREWALL Planning Meeting, 2006.

 

·   Co-Convener, Session T1, Monitoring Environmental Properties of Large Lakes,

    North Central Section GSA 40th Annual meeting, 20-21 April 2006, University

    of Akron, Akron, Ohio.

 

·   Co-Convener, Session T23, Undergraduate Research Poster Session, North Central

   Section GSA 40th Annual meeting,  20-21 April 2006, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio

 

·   Participant, Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) Data Services

   Workshop, 2004.

 

·   Speaker, “Constuctivist Activities in Large Class Settings”, Transforming University

   Teaching in Mathematics and Science NEOCEx Conference, KSU, April 28, 2004.

 

·   Participant, NSF-ATM/IMAGES workshop on Image analysis, Sediments and

   Paleoenvironments, Conveners: P. Francus, R. Bradley, and J. Thurow, University of

   Massachuetts, Amherst, 2001.

 

·   Participant, NSF workshop on Collaboratives for Excellence in Teacher Preparation

   (CETP), March, 2001.

 

·   Co-Chair, IMAGES Western Pacific Margins (WEPAMA) Workshop on Paleoceanography

   of western Pacific marginal basins, (Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.), Feb, 2001.

 

·   Participant, “Experiments in Active Learning”, Keck Foundation Undergraduate Teaching

      Workshop focusing on data rich teaching strategies, Aug., 2000.

 

·   Section leader, CORE/MATE Workshop on Future Trends for Marine Technicians and

      Technology in the Academic Workplace, Seattle, Washington, September, 1999.

 

·   Co-Convener, Stable Isotopes and Trace Substances: Their Use in Oceanography and

   Climate Research on Various Time Scales (IUGG 99), Birmingham UK, July, 1999.

 

·   Co-Secretary, IMAGES Western Pacific Margins (WEPAMA) Working Group, (Kaohsiung,

   Taiwan, R.O.C.), International working group formulated by IMAGES to evaluate and

   implement giant piston coring sites and objectives for the Marion Dufrense in the

   Western Pacific, January 27-28, 1999.

 

·   Session Rapporteur, Climate Forcing on Short Timescales (External & Internal

   Mechanisms), Session 07 of the Conference on Multiple Platform Exploration

   (COMPLEX, Vancouver, BC), May, 1999.

 

·   Co-Convener, NOAA/CORC Southern Ocean Ventilation Workshop: Assessing Southern

   Ocean Ventilation Power at Present and during the Last Glacial Maximum, June, 1998.

 

·   ICTP Conference on Warm World Climates, (Trieste, Italy), Organizer Dr. G. Philander 

   (Princeton), Presentation (with J. Lynch-Stieglitz; L-DEO): A synthesis of the oceanic

   response during the Hypsithermal, 1997.

 

·   Participant, NSF Workshop, Working Group on LGM Oceanic SST, Organizers:

   Drs. W. Prell (Brown), A. Mix (OSU), 1997.


Service to the University

·   Assistant Director of the Water Resources Research Institute (WRRI), Kent State University, 2006-present.

 

·   Member, Arts and Sciences Graduate Council, 2006.

 

·   Panel Moderator, 20th Annual Graduate Student Senate Colloquium, 2005.

 

·   Speaker, KSU new faculty orientation program, 2005.

 

·   Geography Department Internal Review Committee, 2005.

 

·   Honors College Advisory and Planning Committee, 2004-

 

·   Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Recruitment  in the Sciences Working Group, 2004-

 

·   NEOCEx Advisory Board, 2003-

 

·   Graduate Recruitment Subcommittee of the KSU Enrollment Planning Steering Committee, 2003-

 

·   KSU Undergraduate Research Working Group, 2003-

 

·   Member, Kent State University Department of Education Ad-Hoc Science Education Search Committee, 2003.

 

·   Member, Kent State University Diversity Advisory Committee, 2002-2004.


Service to the Department

 

·   Graduate Coordinator, Department of Geology, 2006.

 

·   Member, Department of Geology, Website and Computer Committee, 2002-

 

·   Chair, Department of Geology, Website and Computer committee, 2002-2005.

 

·   Chair, Department of Geology AQIP committee, 2002.

 

·   Member, Department of Geology Faculty Advisory Committee, 2002-2004, 2006-

 

·   Member, Department of Geology Graduate Studies Committee, 2001-2005.


Service to the Field

 

·   Participant, two NSF ESH Holocene PIs meetings, 2005, 2006

 

·   Panel Member, National Science Foundation, ESH Program, 2005.

 

·   AMQUA Councilor for Marine Geoprocesses, 2004-

 

·   Panel Member, NSF Robert Noyce Scholarship Program, 2004.

 

·   Editorial Review Board, Kluwer Encyclopedia of Paleoclimate, 2003-

 

·   Panel Member, National Science Foundation, ESH Program, 2003.

 

·   Reviewer, ODP MST Legacy Data CD-ROM Format.

 

·   Panel Member, National Science Foundation, STEMTP Program, 2002.

 

·   Member, JOIDES Scientific Measurements Panel (SCIMP) Ad-hoc Working Group on

    Core-Log-Seismic Integration, 2000-2001.

 

·   Member, GEOLOGY Editorial Board, 1998-2001.

 

·   Member, JOIDES Scientific Measurements Panel, (SciMP), 1999-2001.

 

·   Member, four JOIDES, Post-cruise US Science Support Review Panels for ODP Legs,

   1996-completion of program.


Departmental Seminars (21 total)


Professional Affiliations

Internal

NEOGEO

Cenozoic Processes Research Group

Large Classes Learning and Teaching Learning Community

External

American Geophysical Union (AGU)              The Oceanography Society (TOS)

The Geological Society of America (GSA)      Sigma Xi (Scientific research honor society)

American Quaternary Society (AMQUA)        National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT)

Northeast Ohio Geological Society (NOGS)