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Rich Wildman: curriculum vitae
Education
current:
fifth-year Ph.D. student, Caltech,
Division of Geology and Planetary Sciences,
Environmental Science and Engineering Option
degrees held:
M.S., 2005
Environmental Science and Engineering, Caltech
B.S., 2001
Chemistry, Yale University
Publications
Wildman, R.A., Domagalski, J.L., and Hering, J.G. Advective and redox controls
of river subsurface solutes under agriculturally-enhanced groundwater flow. Submitted to
Water Resources Research.
Domagalski, J.L., Phillips, S.P., Bayless, R.E., Zamora, C., Kendall, C.,
Wildman, R.A., and Hering, J.G. Influences of the unsaturated, saturated,
and riparian zones on the transport of nitrate near the Merced River, California.
Hydrogeology Journal, in press.
Saltikov, C.W., Wildman, R.A., Newman, D.K. (2005).
Expression dynamics of arsenic respiration and detoxification in
Shewanella species strain ANA-3. Journal of Bacteriology 187(21): 7390-7396.
Wildman, R.A., Berner, R.A., Petsch, S.T., Bolton, E.W., Eckert,
J.O., Mok, U., and Evans, J.B. (2004). The weathering of
sedimentary organic matter as a control on atmospheric O2: I.
Analysis of a black shale. American Journal of Science 304: 234-249.
Wildman, R.A., Hickey, L.J., Dickinson, M.B., Berner, R.A., Robinson,
J.M., Dietrich, M., Essenhigh, R.H., and Wildman, C.B. (2004). Burning of
Forest Materials under Late Paleozoic High Atmospheric Oxygen Levels.
Geology 32(5): 457-460.
Berner, R.A., Beerling, D.J., Dudley, R., Robinson, J.M., Wildman, R.A.
(2003). Phanerozoic Atmospheric Oxygen. Annual Reviews of Earth and
Planetary Sciences 31: 105-134.
Selected Recent Presentations
Wildman, R.A., Miller, J., and Hering, J.G. (2006). Effects of drought-induced sediment resuspension on phosphors availability in Lake Powell, Utah. Eos Transactions AGU 87(52), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract H41C-0426. (poster presented by Wildman)
Wildman, R.A. (2006). Geochemical effects of drought on Lake Powell, Utah and Arizona. Robert A. Berner Retirement Symposium: New Haven, CT, December 8-9, 2006. (invited oral presentation by Wildman)
Wildman, R.A., Miller, J., and Hering, J.G. (2006). Some geochemical effects of low lake level at Lake Powell. Lake Powell Cooperators Group Meeting: Page, AZ, December 5, 2006. (invited oral presentation by Wildman)
Wildman, R.A., Chan, N.W., Anderson, M., and Hering, J.G. (2005). Redox
chemistry and trace metal contamination in Lake Powell sediments. Lake Powell
Cooperators Group Meeting: Page, AZ, December 6, 2005. (invited oral presentation
by Wildman)
Wildman, R.A., Domagalski, J.L., and Hering, J.G. (2004). Mobility of major
and trace elements in a coupled groundwater-surface water system: Merced River,
CA. Eos Transactions AGU 85(47), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract H21B-1017. (poster presentation given by Wildman)
Extended Abstracts
Berner, R.A., Bolton, E.W., Wildman, R.A., and Petsch, S.T. (2004). Organic matter weathering and atmospheric oxygen: A field and modeling study of black shale oxidation. Water Rock Interaction 11 (Wanty, R.B. and Seal, R.R., eds.): 805-808.
Beck, J., Liu, X., Essenhigh, R.H, Wildman, R.A. (2003). Determination of
Low-Limit Oxygen Concentration in Flame Spread Down Paper Cylinders. In
Proceedings of the 3rd Joint Meeting of the U.S. Section of the Combustion
Institute, paper C36.
Research Experience
2003-present: graduate school, Caltech
Ph.D. thesis: effects of reservoir operation on trace metals and nutrient mobilization
in Lake Powell, Utah
other research topics:
subsurface solute chemistry at the Merced River, California
microbial reduction of arsenate in sediments
2001-2003: research assistant, Yale Department of Geology and Geophysics
research topics:
the role of varied atmospheric oxygen in Palezoic wildfires
oxygen dependence of black shale weathering
aqueous phosphate oxygen isotopes as a geochemical tracer
aqueous geochemistry and benthic ecology of riparian ecosystems
Awards
2007: Caltech Graduate Student Council Teaching Assistant Award
2004: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention
2003: Caltech Geology and Planetary Sciences Epstein Fellow
2001: Yale Geology Estwing Hammer Prize (awarded for outstanding undergraduate
thesis presentation)
Teaching Experience
(all at Caltech unless otherwise noted)
research co-mentor for undergraduates (2005, 2006, 2008)
teaching assistant (TA): Aquatic Chemistry (2005, 2006)
TA: Earth and the Biosphere (2007)
TA: Introduction to Environmental Science and Engineering ('05, '06)
TA: Regional Field Geology of the Southwestern U.S. (2005)
TA: Organic Geochemistry (2004)
resident associate: Avery House (2005-2007)
high school social studies volunteer teacher (see below, 2005-2006)
organic and general chemistry MCAT instructor (The Princeton Review, 2002-2003)
Volunteer Experience
2006-2007: I have identified and mentored a rising senior at Environmental
Charter High School (ECHS; Lawndale, CA) with environmental career goals. I coached
him through his college preparation and selection process and advised a summer research
paper.
2005-2006: I worked with ECHS to create a year-long elective class,
Environmental Science and Society, in which Caltech volunteers created and
implemented a curriculum that explored society's response to current environmental
problems.
2004-2005: I founded an outreach program in which Caltech graduate students
spoke about their work to environmental science and biology students at ECHS.
2002-2003: I led about six Yale Outdoors trips to the Stuart B. McKinney
National Wildlife Refuge, Milford, CT to build trails and observation platforms.
(this page last updated April 6, 2008)
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