Katherine A. Adelsberger
       Douglas and Maria Bayer Faculty Chair in Earth Sciences
         Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Studies
         Knox College
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Education 

 

Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences, August 2008

Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO     

 

A.M. in Earth and Planetary Sciences, December 2005

Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

 

B.S. in Anthropology and Geology (honors), Summa Cum Laude, 2002   

Beloit College, Beloit, WI    

 

Grants and Fellowships

 

2011-2012      ACOR-CAORC Senior Fellowship, American Center for Oriental Research, Amman: Small-Scale Hydrologic Interactions on the Dhiban Plateau

2011              Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant: Bitumen Sourcing in Central Jordan

2011              Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant: Geoarchaeology of Water Storage at Dhiban, Jordan

2011              Community-Based Research Grant, Center for Research and Advanced Study with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (with Amy Singer): Food Deserts in   
  Galesburg 

2011              Faculty Career Enhancement (FaCE) Presentation Grant, Associated Colleges of the Midwest (with Danielle S. Fatkin): Recruitment Efforts on ACM Campuses

2011              Faculty Career Enhancement (FaCE) Presentation Grant, Associated Colleges of the Midwest (with Danielle S. Fatkin): The Dhiban Excavation and Development Project: Paleolandscape Assessment

2010             Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant: Paleoenvironmental Assessment of Dhiban, Jordan

2009              Faculty Career Enhancement (FaCE) Grant, Associated Colleges of the Midwest (with Danielle S. Fatkin): The Dhiban Excavation and Development Project: Paleolandscape Assessment


Pre-Professional Grants, Fellowships and Awards

2003-2008      National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2007-2008      Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, Washington University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

2007              Geological Society of America Student Research Grant

2007              Claude C. Albritton, Jr. Award, Geological Society of America Archaeological Geology Division

2007              Douglas C. Kellogg Award, Society for American Archaeology Geoarchaeology Interest Group

2007              Geological Society of America North-Central Section Student Travel Grant, GSA Annual Meeting

2007              U.S. National Committee for Quaternary Science Travel Fellowship, XVII INQUA Congress, Cairns

2007              INQUA Congress Student Travel Grant, XVII INQUA Congress, Cairns

2006              Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research

2006              Carl Tolman Prize for Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, Washington University EPSc

2006              Poster Award, Washington University GIS Day

2006             Wheeler Fellowship, Washington University EPSc (summer)

2005             Geological Society of America Student Research Grant

2005             Poster Award, Washington University GIS Day

2005             Geological Society of America North-Central Section Student Travel Grant, GSA Annual Meeting

2002             Geological Society of America North-Central Section Student Travel Grant, GSA Annual Meeting

2002             Beloit College Honors Term recipient

2002             Walter S. Haven Geology Prize, Beloit College

2002             Mineralogy Prize, Beloit College Geology

2001-2002     James R. Ferwerda Scholarship, Beloit College Geology

2001-2002     Allan and Betty Dorn Schneider Scholarship, Beloit College Geology

2001-2002     Monta E. and Martha R. Wing Scholarship, Beloit College Geology

2001             Mortar Board member, Beloit College

2001             Phi Beta Kappa Junior inductee, Beloit College

2001             William Simpson Godfrey, Jr. Award, Beloit College Anthropology

2001             Outstanding Teaching Award as a Laboratory Assistant, Beloit College Geology

1998-2002     Beloit College Presidential Scholarship (merit)

1998-2002     Rock Island Scholarship (merit), Beloit College

1998-2002     Dean’s List Honors, Beloit College



Publications (* indicates undergraduate co-author)

 

Adelsberger, K.A., K.R. Wirth, A.Z.P. Mabulla, and *D.C. Bowman, 2011, Geochemical and mineralogic characterization of Middle Stone Age tools of Laetoli, Tanzania, and        
            comparisons with possible source materials.  In Harrison, T. (Ed.), Paleontology and Geology of Laetoli: Human Evolution in Context.  Volume I: Geology,

Geochronology, Paleoecology and Paleoenvironment, Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology, DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-9956-3_7, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., Ch. 7, pp. 143-165.

 

Adelsberger, K.A., and J.R. Smith, 2010, Paleolandscape and paleoenvironmental interpretation of spring-deposited sediments in Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert of Egypt: Catena,

            v. 83, p. 7-22. 

 

Kleindienst, M.R., J.R. Smith, and K.A. Adelsberger, 2009, The Kharga Oasis Prehistory Project (KOPP), 2008 Field Season: PART I.  Geoarchaeology and Pleistocene Prehistory:

Nyame Akuma, v. 71, p. 18-30. 

 

Adelsberger, K.A., and J.R. Smith, 2009, Desert pavement development and landscape stability on the eastern Libyan Plateau, Egypt: Geomorphology, v. 107, p. 178-194.

 

Kidder, T.R., Adelsberger, K.A., Arco, L.J., and Schilling, T.M., 2008, Basin-scale reconstruction of the geological context of human settlement: an example from the lower Mississippi Valley, USA: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 27, no. 11-12, p. 1255-1270.

 

Adelsberger, K.A. and T.R. Kidder, 2007, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Human Settlement in the Lower Missississippi Valley, 5500-2400 Cal. B.P.  In Wilson, L.,

P. Dickinson, & J. Jeandron (Eds.), Reconstructing Human-Landscape Interactions. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, UK. Chapter 5, pp. 84-108.

 

Arco, L.J., K.A. Adelsberger, L.-y. Hung and T.R. Kidder, 2006, Alluvial Geoarchaeology of a Middle Archaic Mound Complex in the Lower Mississippi Valley, U.S.A.:

Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, v. 21, no. 6, pp. 591-614.

 

McDonald, M.M.A., J.R. Smith, A.R. Warfe, J.M. Kieniewicz, and K.A. Adelsberger, 2005, Report on the 2005 field activities of the Kharga Oasis Prehistory Project (KOPP):

Nyame Akuma, v. 64, pp. 2-9.



Selected Recent Presentations 

2011

Adelsberger, K.A., B. Routledge, A. Wilson, B.W. Porter and D.S. Fatkin, Evidence for karst utilization in water storage at Tall Dhiban, Jordan: Geological Society of America

Abstracts with Programs, v. 43, no. 5, p.247. 

 

Adelsberger, K.A., *S. Kasaju, B. Routledge, A. Farahani, A. Wilson, B.W. Porter and D.S. Fatkin, Slope sedimentation and soil development at Tall Dhiban, Jordan: Geological

Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 43, no. 5, p.247. 

Adelsberger, K.A., B. Routledge, and A. Wilson. Landscape Stability at Tall Dhiban, Jordan, paper presented at the American Schools of Oriental Research annual meeting,

            San Francisco, California

2010

Adelsberger, K.A., D.S. Fatkin, B.W. Porter and B. Routledge, Geoarchaeology at Dhiban: Research potentials of a multiperiod site in cenntral Jordan: paper presented at the

75th Annual Society for American Archaeology meeting, St. Louis, Missouri.

 

Fatkin, D.S. and K.A. Adelsberger, The 2010 Excavations at Dhiban, Jordan: paper presented at Monmouth College as part of the 2010-2011 lecture series of the American Institute of Archaeology, Western Illinois Society.

Adelsberger, Katherine A., B. Routledge, B.W. Porter, D.S. Fatkin and A. Wilson, Identification of Occupational Contexts at Tall Dhiban, Jordan: Geological Society of America

Abstracts with Programs, v. 42, n.7, p. 153.