Robert M. Reed
Ph.D. Structural Geologist
Bureau of Economic Geology
The University of Texas at Austin
Box X, University Station
Austin, TX 78713-8924
512-471-0356(Office)
E-mail:
Web: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rmr/
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rmr/CLweb/

More recent vita in PDF format. See this for a complete list of publications.

My staff page at the Bureau of Economic Geology.

Education:

• B.S. Geology, University of Texas, 1985
• M.S. Geology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1993. Thesis topic: Microfabric analysis of the northern part of the Pelham Dome, central Massachusetts. Supervisor: Michael L. Williams
• Ph.D. Geology, 1999, The University of Texas at Austin, dissertation committee

Current Research (in no particular order)

• Microfabric analysis of deformed rocks.
• Use of scanned cathodoluminesence in fracture and fabric analysis.
• Granite emplacement mechanisms and internal deformation in plutons.
• Recognizing minor (or not so minor) amounts of deformation in granite.
• The Town Mountain Granite suite of the Llano Uplift of central Texas
• Deformation during low pressure metamorphism in the Llano Uplift.
• Determining protoliths of metamorphic rocks.

Awards:

• Petrography Award, Department of Geological Sciences, Univ. of Texas, 1992.
• Outstanding Student Research Award, the Geological Society of America, 1994.
• National Merit Scholarship, University of Texas, 1981

Memberships:

Geological Society of America
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Austin Geological Society

Abstracts (way out of date, but has links to full text of some)

Web Page Awards

For Rob's Granite Page:

1001 Best Web Sites-Geology Sites, PC Computing, December 1995
Profiled in VirtualCity, Spring 1996 (168 kb, lower part)

Field photo, me and a mylonitized and brittlely deformed granite.

Or more scientifically, but less important overall, I'm in haplogroup G2. Which is about as diverse as I get.