CURRICULUM VITAE

Robert M. Reed
Dept. of Geological Sciences
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78712

Geology Building Rm. 405
512-471-5763(0ffice)
e-mail: rmr@uts.cc.utexas.edu
Web: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rmr/
http://www.geo.utexas.edu/Rob_Reed/

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. Candidate, University of Texas, dissertation committee

Current Research

• Use of scanned cathodoluminesence in fracture and fabric analysis in sandstones. Including the distribution of quartz-lined microfractures in sandstones.
• The role of microfractures in sandstone diagenesis.
• 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.
• Formation mechanisms of myrmekite (I think deformation is involved in formation of some morphologies.)
• Microfabric analysis of deformed rocks.
• Determining protoliths of metamorphic rocks.

Work Experience:

Research Positions, UTDOGS, UT Department of Petroleum Engineering, U.T. Bureau of Economic Geology, Fall 1995 to present

Various projects involved in looking at the use of microfractures in sandstones to predict the density, distribution, and transmissivity of macrofractures in the same rocks. Supervisors: Steve Laubach, Jon Olson and Randall Marrett.

Teaching Assistant, UTDOGS, 1990-1995 and summers, 1996 & 1997

Teaching Assistant one or more times for the following courses, Introductory Geology, Earth Materials (Mineralogy), Sedimentary and Metamorphic Petrology, Introduction to Field Methods (majors), Introduction to Field Methods (non-majors), Structural Geology, and the graduate courses Thermodynamics, and Structural Petrology.

• 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

Abstracts

Contributions to Field Trip Guides

Barker, Daniel S., Muehlberger, William R., and Reed, Robert M. (1996) Stop 12; Coarse-grained granite at Wirtz dam. in Guide to the Precambrian Geology of the eastern Llano uplift: Geological Society of America, 30th Annual South-central section meeting Guidebook, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, p. 33-40

Reed, Robert M. (1996) Stop 10; Wolf Mountain Intrusion. in Guide to the Precambrian Geology of the eastern Llano uplift: Geological Society of America, 30th Annual South-central section meeting Guidebook, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, p. 25-30.

Reed, Robert M. (1996) Optional Stop; the Midway granite sill. in Guide to the Precambrian Geology of the eastern Llano uplift: Geological Society of America, 30th Annual South-central section meeting Guidebook, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, p. 31-33.

Robinson, Peter, Tucker, R.D., Gromet, L.P., Ashenden, D.D., Williams, M.L., Reed, Robert M., and Peterson, V.L. (1992) The Pelham dome, central Massachusetts: Stratigraphy , geochronology, and Acadian and Pennsylvanian structure and metamorphism. in Robinson, Peter and Brady, J.B., eds. Guidebook for field trips in the Connecticut Valley Region of Massachusetts and adjacent states, 84th Annual Meeting of the New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, Amherst, Massachusetts, p. 132-169.