Lydia M. Staisch

Contact Information

Lydia Staisch

U.S. Geological Survey

345 Middlefield Rd. MS 973

Menlo Park, CA 94025

                                    

                                                 

 

Education

Ph.D., Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, advisor: Nathan Niemi

B.A., Geology, Carleton College, advisor: Sarah Titus

 

Professional Experience

USGS Research Geologist, GMEG Science Center

Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow, United States Geological Survey

Graduate Student Research Assistant, University of Michigan

Field Assistant in Salta Province, Argentina, University of Arizona                          

Field Geologist, GeoCorps America Intern, Klamath National Forest, CA                                                           

Teaching Experience

Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan

Mineral Resources, Economics, and the Environment

Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan Camp Davis

Introductory Geology in the Field

Teaching Assistant, Carleton College

Petrology

 

Awards

Scott Turner Award in Earth Science, University of Michigan

Outstanding Student Research Paper, American Geophysical Union                      

GSA Graduate Student Research Grant, Geological Society of America

Scott Turner Award in Earth Science, University of Michigan

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, National Science Foundation

BP Department Fellowship, University of Michigan

Magna Cum Laude, Carleton College

AWG Minority Scholarship, Association of Women Geoscientists                                                                  

Service

IDEAs Seminar Coordinator, University of Michigan

GeoClub President, University of Michigan

MentorNet Graduate Mentor, independent

                                        

Professional Affiliations

Geological Society of America, Member

American Geophysical Union, Member

Sigma Xi, Associate Member                    

 

Publications

Staisch, L.M., Kelsey, H.M., Sherrod, B.L., Möller, A., Paces, J.B., Blakely, R.J., Styron, R., 2017, Miocene – Pleistocene deformation of the Saddle Mountains: Implications for seismic hazard in central Washington, USA, GSA Bulletin, vol. 129, no. X/X,, p. XXX-XXX., doi.10.1130/B31783.1.

 

Kelsey, H.M., Ladinsky, T.C., Staisch, L.M., Sherrod, B.L., Blakely, R.J., Pratt, T.L., Stephenson, W.J., Odum, J.K., Wan, E., 2017, The story of a Yakima fold and how it informs late Neogene and Quaternary backarc deformation in the Cascadia subduction Zone, Manastash Anticline, Washington, USA, Tectonics, accepted, doi.10.1002/2017TC004558R.

 

Staisch, L.M., Niemi, N.A., Clark, M.K., Chang, H., 2016, Eocene – late Oligocene history of crustal shortening within the Hoh Xil Basin and implications for the uplift history of the northern Tibetan Plateau, Tectonics, vol. 35, p. 862–895, doi.10.1002/2015TC003972.

 

Bender, A.M., Amos, C.B., Bierman, P., Rood, D.H., Staisch, L.M., Kelsey, H.M., Sherrod, B.L., 2016, Differential uplift and incision of the Yakima River terraces, central Washington State, JGR Earth Surface, vol. 121, no. 1, p. 365–384, doi.10.1002/2015JB012303.

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Gomberg, J., Bodin, P., Bourgeois, J., Cashman, S., Cowan, D., Creager, K., Crowell, B., Duvall, A., Frankel, A., Gonzalez, F. and Houston, H., .... Staisch. L.M., .... 2016. Planning for a subduction zone observatory. Eos, 97, doi.10.1029/2016EO052635.

 

Staisch, L.M., Niemi, N.A., Chang, H., Clark, M.K., Rowley, D.B., Currie, B., 2014, A Cretaceous-Eocene depositional age for the Fenghuoshan Group, Hoh Xil Basin: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the northern Tibet Plateau, Tectonics, vol. 33, no. 3, p. 281-301, doi. 10.1002/2013TC003367.