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J. Richard Bowersox

Title:Geologist, Energy and Minerals Section

Address:
Kentucky Geological Survey
504 Rose Street
228 Mining and Mineral Resources Bldg.
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0107
Phone: 859-323-0536
Fax: 859.257.1147

E-mail: j.r.bowersox@uky.edu

Education

• 1973, BS Geology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California
• 1974, MS Geology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California
• 2006, PhD Geology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida

Responsibilities

Research responsibilities focus on geologic storage of carbon in deep saline reservoirs in the subsurface of western Kentucky. Additional responsibilities include subsurface correlation and mapping of geologic units, stratigraphy and clastic sedimentology, and communication and presentation of geologic information to industry and the public. Instructor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences of the University of Kentucky teaching GLY 110 – Endangered Planet: An Introduction to Environmental Geology.

Professional Organizations

• State of Florida, Professional Geologist PG2027
• State of California, Registered Geologist 3514
• American Institute of Professional Geologists, Certified Professional Geologist #6309
• American Association of Petroleum Geologists
• Pacific Section, American Association of Petroleum Geologists
• Geological Society of America
• SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology
• American Geophysical Union

Recent Publications

• Bowersox, J.R., and Harries, P.J., 2007a, Multivariate analysis of molluscan biofacies of the Pliocene Etchegoin group, San Joaquin Basin, central California [abstract]: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs vol. 39, no. 6, p. 398.
• Bowersox, J.R., and Harries, P.J., 2007b, Cross-scale temporal and spatial diversity and structure of molluscan faunas from the Pliocene Etchegoin group, San Joaquin Basin, central
  California [abstract]: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs vol. 39, no. 6, p. 567.
• Bowersox, J.R., 2005, Reassessment of extinction patterns of Pliocene molluscs from California and environmental forcing of extinction in the San Joaquin Basin: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 221, p. 55-82.
• Bowersox, J.R., 2004a, Late Neogene Paleobathymetry, Relative Sea Level, and Basin Margin Subsidence, Northwest San Joaquin Basin, California [abstract]: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Annual Convention Abstracts Volume, v.13, p. A16; American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Search and Discovery Article #90026 http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/abstracts/annual2004/Dallas/bowersox.htm
• Bowersox, J.R., 2004b, Late Neogene Paleobathymetry, Relative Sea Level, and Basin Margin Subsidence, Northwest San Joaquin Basin, California: American Association of Petroleu
  Geologists, Search and Discovery Article #30029, unpaginated [7 p.]. http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2004/bowersox/index.htm
• Bowersox, J.R., 2004c, Determining freshwater Sr isotopic contribution to paleosalinity in the Pliocene San Joaquin Basin, California [abstract]: EOS, Transactions of the American
  Geophysical Union, vol. 85, no. 28, Western Pacific Geophysical Meeting Supplement, Abstract OS21A-23. http://www.agu.org/meetings/wp04/waiswp04.html
• Bowersox, J.R., 2004d, Sea-level control of molluscan diversity and extinction in the Pliocene San Joaquin Basin, central California [abstract]: Geological Society of America, Abstracts
  with Programs, vol. 36, no. 5, p. 366. http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2004AM/finalprogram/abstract_75459.htm
• Bowersox, J.R., 2003a, Reassessment of Pliocene marine mollusc extinction patterns: Western Atlantic, Eastern Pacific, and San Joaquin Basin, California [abstract]: Geological Society of
  America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 35, no. 1, p. 66. http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2003SC/finalprogram/abstract_48794.htm
• Bowersox, J.R., 2003b, Pliocene age of the Etchegoin Group, San Joaquin Basin, California [abstract]: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Search and Discovery Article
  #90014. http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/abstracts/spe_aapg2003/bowersox.pdf
• Bowersox, J.R., 2003c, Salinity tolerance of the freshwater mussel Anodonta dejecta Lewis in Holocene lake Cahuilla, southeastern California: a caution in the use of fossil freshwater
  mussels as a freshwater indicator in stable isotope studies [abstract]: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 35, no. 6, p. 212. http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2003AM/finalprogram/abstract_57904.htm