BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: ROBERT L. BRENNER

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Geology, University of Missouri at Columbia, May, 1973. Advisor: Dr. David K. Davies

M.S., Geology, University of Montana, Missoula, December, 1964. Advisor: Dr. Robert M. Weidman

B.S., Geology, City College of the City University of New York, January, 1963.

 

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

1982-present: University of Iowa, Associate Professor of Geology; stratigraphy, petroleum geology, energy and the environment, subsurface geology, and sandstone petrology.

May, 1990:    China University of Geosciences and Chinese Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, Beijing, China, Distinguished Foreign Lecturer; advanced concepts of stratigraphy, basin analysis.

1988:                University of Bergen, Norway, Visiting Professor of Petroleum Geology; siliciclastic depositional environments, advanced concepts of stratigraphy, geologic controls over petroleum reservoir qualities.

1977-1982:    University of Iowa, Assistant Professor of Geology.

1973-1977:    Continental Oil Company (Conoco) - Exploration Research Division - Ponca City, Oklahoma Research and Development Center: Research scientist.

1964-1969:    Marathon Oil Company - Denver Research Center: Assistant Research Scientist.

 

TEN MOST RECENT PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Joeckel, R. M., Ludvigson, G. A., Witze, B. J., Kvale, E. P., Phillips, P.L., Brenner, R. L., Thomas, S. G. and Howard, L. M., 2005. Palaeogeography and fluvial to estuarine architecture of the Dakota Formation (Cretaceous, Albian), eastern Nebraska, USA in Blum, M., Marriott, S. B., and Leclair, S. (editors), Fluvial Sedimentology VII, Special Publication No. 35, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology. Blackwell Oxford, p. 453-480.

White, T. S., Witzke, B. J., Ludvigson, G. A., Brenner, R. L., 2005, Distinguishing base-level change and climate signals in a Cretaceous alluvial sequence. Geology, v 33, no. 1, p. 13-16.

Ufnar, D. F., Gonzlez, L. A., Ludvigson, G. A., Brenner, R. L., and Witzke, B. J., 2004. Evidence for increased latent heat transport during the Cretaceous (Albian) greenhouse warming. Geology, v 32, no.12, p. 1049-1052.

Ufnar, D. F., Ludvigson, G. A., Gonzlez, L. A., Brenner, R. L., and Witzke, B. J., 2004. High latitude meteoric d18O compositions: Paleosol siderite in the mid-Cretaceous Nanushuk Group, North Slope Alaska. Geological Society of America, Bulletin, V. 116, p. 463-473.

Kerey, E., Meri, E., Tunoglu, C., Kelling, G., Brenner, R. L., and Dogan, A. U., 2004, Black Sea - Marmara Sea Quaternary connections: new data from the Bosporus, Istanbul, Turkey, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, V. 204, no. 3-4, p. 277-295.

Ufnar, D. F., Ludvigson, G. A., Gonzlez, L. A., Brenner, R. L., and Witzke, B. J., 2004. Diagenetic overprinting of the sphaerosiderite paleoclimate proxy: Are records of pedogenic groundwater d18O values preserved? Sedimentology, V. 51, p. 127-144.

Brenner, R. L., Ludvigson, G. A., Witzke, B. J., Phillips, P. L., White, T. S. Ufnar, D. F., Gonzlez, L. A., Joeckel, R. M., Goettemoeller, A., and Shirk, B. J., 2003, Aggradation of gravels in tidally influenced fluvial systems, upper Albian (Lower Cretaceous) on the cratonic margin of the North American Western Interior foreland basin, Cretaceous Research, V. 24, No. 4, p. 439-448.

Sari , A. Bahtiyar, I., Brenner, R. L. and Dogan, A. U., 2003, Potential source rocks for the crude oils in the Ikizce and Tokaris oil fields, SE Turkey, Petroleum Geoscience, V. 9, p. 285-294.

Moussavi-Harmi, R., Mahboubi, A., Brenner, R. L., and Khanehbad, M., 2002, The role of tectonic on sedimentation and morphology of Kashafrud River in NE Iran: Journal of Science, University of Tehran, V. 28, no. 1, p. 53-68 (in Persian with English abstract).

Mahboubi, A., Moussavi-Harami, R., Brenner, R. L., and Gonzlez, L. A., 2002 Diagenetic history of the Late Palaeocene potential carbonate reservoir rocks, Kopet-Dagh Basin, NE Iran. Journal of Petroleum Geology, V. 25, no. 4, p. 465-484.

 

EXTERNAL GRANTS (Since 1998)

National Science Foundation, 2006-2009, $300,000 (for 3 years) for Sequence Stratigraphic Analyses and Paleoclimatic Histories of Cretaceous Mixed Siliciclastic-Carbonate Shelf Strata of the Kopet-Dagh Basin, N.E. Iran; PI. Submitted for Review, July 16, 2005 round.

National Science Foundation, 2002-2005, $253,884 (for 3 years) for Quantifying Changes in Hydrologic Cycle Fluxes over the Americas During the mid-Cretaceous (Albian) Greenhouse World (EAR 01-25285).. CoPI (PI = L. A. Gonzlez). Funded for $253,884.

National (Korea) Institute for International Education Development, 2001, $130,000 for Workshop for Science Teachers from Korea - Korean Science Teachers Overseas Training Program. CoPI (Geoscience Coordinator; PI = R. Yager) Funded for $130,000.

National (Korea) Institute for International Education Development, 2000, $64,966 for Workshop for Earth Science Teachers from Korea - Korean Science Teachers Overseas Training Program. CoPI. (PI = R. Yager) Funded for $64,966.

 

COURSES TAUGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

012:001 Lec. Earth History & Resources, 012:003 Earth History & Resources, 012:005 - Introduction to Geology - Honors Laboratory section, 012:114 - Energy & the Environment, 012:130 - Sedimentary Geology, 012:134 - Sandstone Petrology, 012:161 Stratigraphy, 012:186 - Petroleum Geology, 012:190 Colloquium, 012:233 - Sedimentary Petrology, 012:261 - Regional Stratigraphy, 012:286 - Subsurface Geology.

 

GRADUATE STUDENT SPONSORSHIP (last 10 years):

Name

Years

Outcome

Comments

Philips, P. Lee, Co-Adv.

1997-2004

Ph.D., 2004

Assist. Prof. Geology, U. No. Car.-Pembroke

Ufnar, David F., Co-Adv

1998-2002

Ph.D., 2002

Assist. Prof. Geology, U. So. Mississippi

Goettemoeller, Adrian

2001-2002

Withdrew

Ph.D. student, Baylor Univ., Waco, TX

Diffenderffer, Meg

1995-1997

M.S. 1997

Geophysist/Executive Secretary Dallas, TX USA

Hamid, Taher

1993-1995

M.S. 1995

Petroleum Geologist Houston, TX USA

 

Select Academic Achievements and Contributions

Departmental Executive Committee, 2000-2004.

Faculty Advisor A.A.P.G. University of Iowa Student Chapter, 1999-present.

Geoscience Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Member, 1997-present; Chair, 2002-present.

Departmental Space Committee Member, 1999-present.

Undergraduate (Environmental Science majors: Geoscience Track) Advisor, 1998-Dec. 2002.

Undergraduate (Geoscience majors) Advisor, 1981-present.

Geological Society of America Campus (U. of Iowa) Representative, 1984-present.

Geosciences Alumni Advisory Board Departmental Steering Committee 2002-2003.

Honors Advisor (Geoscience Majors), 1992-2001.

Peer Review Committee (Geology/Geoscience Department Faculty), 1992-1993, 1993-1994 (Chair), 2000-2001, 2002-2003.

 

RECENT INVITED LECTURES (2000-2005)

Invited oral presentation at the Seventh International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. August, 2001, Aggradation of Fluvial Gravels During the Late Albian (Lower Cretaceous) Kiowa-Skull Creek Marine Cycle: Nishnabotna Member, Dakota Formation, Cratonic Margin of the Western Interior Foreland Basin.