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John R. (Jack) Wood
Ph.D. Candidate
Fields of Study
Late Quaternary fluvial and eolian changes along the Arkansas River, Western Kansas (Ph.D)
Late Quaternary proglacial lake systems, central Indiana (M.S. 2009)
Chemistry (B.S. 1999)
Contact information
Office: SES 3154
Phone: (312) 413-8132
email:
Mailing Address
Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
Earth and Environmental Sciences Dept. Rm 2440
845 W. Taylor Ave. (M/C 186)
Chicago, IL 60607
Papers and other manuscripts
Wood, J.R., Forman, S.L., Pierson, J., and Gomez, J., (2010) Lacustrine sediments in Porter Cave, Central Indiana, USA and possible relation to Laurentide ice sheet marginal positions in the middle and late Wisconsinan : Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 298, p. 421-431.
Wood, J.R., Forman, S.L., Pierson, J., and Gomez, J., (2010), New insights on Illinoian deglaciation from deposits of Glacial Lake Quincy, central Indiana: Quaternary Research, v. 73, no. 2, pp. 374-384. - doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2009.10.008
Wood, John R; Pushing the limits: A history of Quaternary proglacial lakes from
central Indiana’s Mill Creek Valley; (Thesis) University of Illinois at Chicago 2009, Chicago, Illinois, p 102. - Link (.pdf)
Select abstracts
Wood, John R., and Forman, Steven L.; Aerial photographic analysis of active aeolian landforms in southwest Kansas during the Dust Bowl drought (ca. 1936); Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Oct 2011 - Link
Wood, John R., Forman, Steven L., and Everton, David W.; New evidence for speleogenesis Ca. 50 to 30 ka from Porter Cave, central Indiana: potential glacial hydrologic and dynamic controls; Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, vol. 39, no. 6, pp.488, Oct 2007
Wood, John R., Forman, Steven L., and Everton, David W.; The extent and timing of a pre-Late Wisconsinan ice margin in central Indiana: A new view from glacial-lacustrine sediments from Porter Cave, Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, National Speleological Society Annual Meeting, July 2007 abstracts, v.6 no. 3, pp 369, Dec 2007.
Links of interest
National Speleological Society - Organization for people interested in caves from a recreational to a scientific standpoint
Cave Research Foundation - Organization dedicated to the study and conservation of caves and karst terraines, systems and ecosystems through out the world.
Illinois Speleological Survey - Organization dedicated to the study and conservation of Illinois caves and karst terraines.
The Indiana Cave Survey - Resource for cave maps and location information within Indiana
Terra Society - the Earth and Environmental Science Department's student organization
Luminescence Dating Research Laboratory
Photographs from the field, near and far afield: Here