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Objective: Teaching/research or industry position
Education and Experience:
Ph.D., Geology, with an emphasis in applied coal petrology 1989, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska.
M.S., Geology, with an emphasis in clay mineralogy 1982, Western Washington University, Washington.
B.S., Geology, 1979, Western Washington University, Washington.
Teaching experience and interest: I have taught physical, environmental, and historical geology with labs, sedimentary petrology, sedimentation/stratigraphy with lab, sedimentary ore deposits, carbonate geology, natural hazards, evolution, and field techniques in the past. Lately, I have been teaching prehistoric life, co-teaching geobiology, and I designed a new course "applied palynology." In addition, I would be interested in teaching sedimentary geology and petrography, sedimentation and tectonics, the current mass extinction, earth system science, and introductory courses in coal and petroleum geology, and oceanography, as well as other soft-rock related courses.
Research experience and interest: During my Ph.D. work, I combined stratigraphy, geochemistry, mineralogy, coal geology, and clay mineralogy to correlate Tertiary tephra layers in coal-bearing sequences and interpret past volcanic history. I am also interested in depositional aspects of volcanism, such as compositional changes and how such changes can be related to the history of volcanoes and their deposits. Current interests include using palynology as a tool for interpreting paleoclimate, paleoenvironments, and stratigraphy; it is a powerful tool.
Analytical and computer skills: Thin-section petrography, digital photomicrography, scanning electron microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, x-ray diffraction analysis, direct current plasma spectrometry, atomic absorption, field techniques, diagenetic interpretations, and description and interpretation of core and outcrop. I am proficient with Microsoft Office as well as Corel X3 Graphics Suite as well as with various software programs used in photography. All the above are not current skills on state-of-the-art equipment and I may need some refresher instruction.
Teaching and research:
2006-present, Acting Assistant Professor and part-time Lecturer, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, 221 Johnson Hall, Box 351310, Seattle, WA 98195-1310. I have most recently been teaching history of life and I designed a new course, applied palynology. I have also been co-teaching stratigraphy and geobiology. For each course, I developed PowerPoint lectures.
2003-2006, and 2001-02, Visiting Scholar/Research Scientist, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, 221 Johnson Hall, Box 351310, Seattle, WA 98195-1310. Detailed analyses of pollen and spores from Neogene coal beds in sedimentary sequences near Homer, Alaska. The results will aid in interpreting paleoclimate, paleoenvironments, and flora in south-coastal Alaska, and twill be applied to larger models. This research has resulted in one major paper and will result in several additional papers. My research continues at a slower pace while teaching (see above).
2002–2003, Visiting Assistant Professor, North Dakota State University, Department of Geosciences, Fargo, ND 58105-5517. I taught a large, 450-student class in physical geology and a 200-student class in historical geology using PowerPoint as teaching tools. I also taught an upper-level environmental geology course.
2000-2001, Visiting Assistant Professor, Drake University – Olin Hall, Environmental Science & Policy Program, 2507 University Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50311. This was a full-time position where I taught 9-10 contact hours per week of principles of geology with lab, environmental geology with lab, and natural hazards.
1998-2000, Instructor, Department of Geography and Earth Science, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA 17815. This full-time position (leave-replacement position) involved teaching, 11-13 contact hours per week. I taught physical, environmental, and historical geology with labs, and the upper level sedimentation and stratigraphy with lab.
1992-94, UNV Specialist Geologist, UNDP Office, P.O. Box 345, Vientiane, Laos. I taught sedimentary petrology and carbonate geology to the senior personnel at the Department of Geology and Mines where I also had many other duties (see below under "Professional and Consulting work").
1989-1990, Foreign Expert, Foreign Affairs Office, Changchun University of Earth Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130026, People's Republic of China. I scheduled, prepared, and taught 14 hours per week of physical and historical geology, sedimentary petrology, and sedimentary ore deposits, plus occasional evening lectures in evolution. I assigned grades and counseled and advised students about their career interests. This was a one-year contract.
1984-1985, Teaching Assistant, Department of geology and Geophysics, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska 99775. I prepared and taught Introductory and historical geology labs, selected laboratory manuals, planned a curriculum, prepared lab setups, lab lectures, quizzes, and lab tests; corrected lab tests and lecture tests, and assigned grades. I had to be available to students at all times.
1980-1981, Teaching Assistant, Department of Geology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington 98225. I taught introductory geology and historical geology labs. This entailed planning a curriculum, lecturing, and set-up of labs, preparing and conducting quizzes and lab tests, grading quizzes and lab tests, being available to students at all times, correcting lecture tests and presenting grades to the faculty in form of histograms.
Professional and consulting work
1996-97, Senior Exploration Geologist/Project Geologist, GeoCompute Pty. Ltd., P.O. Box 252, Scarborough, Western Australia 6019 and TRA Mining (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, P.O. Box 18, 27200 Kuala Lipis, Pahang Darul Makmur, Malaysia. I organized, and supervised follow-up and new soil and stream sediment geochemical programs and integrated the data with side look radar geophysical information. I selected and logged samples at drill sites, organized bulldozer and excavator preparation of drill sites, both in plantation areas, primary, and secondary jungle, and on the mine site. I taught Malaysian nationals in field techniques and how to become accomplished and independent field assistants. This was a one-year contract..
1995-96, Laboratory Section Head, Skanska International Civil Engineering AB, P.O. Box 5164, Vientiane, Laos. I was responsible for the site laboratory, which involved the running of the laboratory, supervising 35 people, and finding appropriate road, bridge, and quarry material by using prior geological knowledge of the Vientiane area. A main part of my duties entailed investigative research of testing results for road and bridge construction material by collecting, compiling, and comparing past and present road compaction rates with expected rates. The aim was to check whether a predetermined standard was kept. The results earned Skanska a pecuniary claim. This was a six-month contract with a two-month extension to finish the job.
1994-95, Exploration Manager, Malaysia Mining Corporation Berhad & Bunduon SDN. BHD., P.O. Box 5976, Vientiane, Laos. The position involved epithermal gold and associated minerals exploration, establishing an office in Vientiane, coordinating work activities, and gathering information pertinent to future project activities. I was responsible for liaison with other mining companies, government offices, and businesses in Vientiane and Xieng Khouang province. I was also in charge of a reconnaissance and fact-finding mission to the proposed concession area in Xieng Khouang, Province and I supplied suggestions for future exploration sites. I planned and wrote all exploration strategies, programs, and budgets. The position ended when granting of the mineral concession was delayed for over a year and funding for the project was withdrawn.
1992-94, UNV Specialist Geologist, UNDP Office, P.O. Box 345, Vientiane, Laos. In close collaboration with the National Project Director for an UN-funded, national-executed project at the Department of Geology and Mines, I was responsible for assisting the government in the timely implementation and quality control of project activities, liaison with UN organizations, and coordination of UNDP inputs. I established a functional mineralogy and petrography laboratory, trained personnel in the field and in the lab, and I planned and participated in field activities, such as mapping and geochemical sampling. I initiated a research project where Cretaceous non-marine clastic sequences of the Vientiane basin were described and correlated with the Khorat Group clastic sequences of northeastern Thailand. This was a one-year contract with six months extension.
1991-92, Research Geologist, Department of Reservoir & Exploration Technology, Institute for Energy Technology, P.O. Box 40, N-2007 Kjeller, Norway. A main part of my work included scanning electron microscopy and petrography of North Sea shale and siltstone cores. In combination with other data, these data were to be used as input into a computer model for prediction of diagenesis, porosity, and permeability. I wrote a subsequent 170-page report. I also instructed staff in various methods of clay mineral preparations and techniques. This was an eight-month contract job.
1989, Field Consultant, To: Sphinx Mining Inc., P.O. Box 81978, Fairbanks, Alaska 99708. Staking claims, detailed mapping, and resource evaluation of sulfide mineral-bearing rocks in Michigan Creek and southern Brooks Range, Alaska. Short-term contract.
1988, Field Consultant, To: U.S. Bureau of Mines, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska 99775. Reconnaissance mineral resource evaluations in the Ray River area, north of the Yukon River, Alaska. Detailed mapping and geochemical sampling; consultation on location and identification of crandallite-rich, altered tephra layers in coal beds of the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska (Crandallite-bearing layers are phosphate-rich and I discovered these while doing fieldwork for my Ph.D). Two short-term contracts.
1981-83, Associate Geologist, Marathon Oil Company, P.O. Box 269, Littleton, Colorado 80160. Stratigraphy, petrography, paleogeography, and provenance studies of the Salinas and San Joaquin basins, California. The work included interpreting well logs, preparing cross sections and fence diagrams of wells, photomicrography, and field work on turbidite sequences. I gave presentations, participated in conferences, and I attended courses: Formation Evaluation was taught by H.K. Van Poolen and Associated, Inc., Recent Sedimentation by Dr. Miles O. Hayes in a course in South Carolina, and Tertiary Depositional Environments in California was taught by Dr. Stephan Graham in California. I left Marathon to pursue a Ph.D.
Miscellaneous work:
1983-84, Laboratory Technician, Mineral Industry Research Laboratory, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775. I prepared extraction of pollen by crushing and sieving coal, digesting coal with nitric acid, and decanting, flooding, and centrifuging the liquids and the coal, and adding KOH. The end product consisted of pollen mounted permanently on glass slides for microscope identification.
1978-80, Part-time Laboratory Technician, for Dr. David Pevear, Department of Geology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225: Particle analyses, and preparation of clay samples for atomic absorption. In the summer of 1979, I worked for Placid Oil Company, 425 "G" Street, Suite 800, Anchorage, AK 99501, as a Field Assistant, exploring for sulfide minerals in southeast Alaska. Work included geochemical sampling, detailed mapping, core logging, and responsibilities with helicopter sling loading, and drill operations. In the summer of 1980, I worked as a Laboratory Technician, for Marathon Oil Company, P.O. Box 269, Littleton, CO 80160. I prepared clay samples for X-ray analyses, separated conodonts from limestone, gathered well data in Midland, Texas, and described the Tensleep Formation in Wyoming.
Honors and awards:
2004 The Quaternary Research Center Opportunities Fund ($2,000).
2001-02, Estella B. Leopold research Fund ($12,000) University of Washington.
1989, Best foreign teacher award, Foreign Affairs Office, Changchun University of Earth Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130026, People's Republic of China.
1989, Post-doctoral fellowship/research assistantship, Mineral Industry Research Laboratory, University of Alaska. Resource assessment, compilation, and recommendations for future development of Alaskan coal resources.
1986-88, Fellowship, Mineral Industry Research Laboratory, University of Alaska. Ph.D. research on the origin, geochemistry, mineralogy, and environment of deposition of tephra layers in Tertiary coal beds of the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, and their use in correlating coal-bearing sequences and interpreting past volcanic history. The research included several summers of fieldwork. Scanning electron microscopy, electron microprobe, direct current plasma spectrometry, atomic absorption, X-ray diffraction, optical microscopes using reflected and transmitted light, and oxygen-plasma instrument for low-temperature ashing were used for chemical and mineralogical analyses.
1984-89, My Ph.D. research was partially funded by scholarships and research grants from Atlantic Richfield ($474), Gulf Oil ($1,000), Sohio Petroleum ($4,200), Marathon Oil ($1,000), and Mobil Oil ($500) companies.
Professional Associations/Certifications:
The Geological Society of America
The American Geophysical Union
State of Washington Geologist License No. 2231
Academic References:
Will be provided
Publications and abstracts:
Leopold, E.B., Reinink-Smith, L.M., and Gengwu Liu, 2007, Overview of Alaskan Tertiary floras--building on the work of Jack Wolfe, Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, v. 258, p. 129-138.
Leopold, E.B., Mustoe, G.E., Yancey, T.E., and Reinink-Smith L.M., 2007, The Wilkes Formation; using stratigraphy and paleobotany to study the effects of ancient volcanic activity in a Miocene forest: Poster session, Northwest Geological Society 20Th Anniversary Symposium & Reception, Seattle, Washington, October 13, 2007.
Reinink-Smith, L. M., and Leopold, E.B., 2007, Palynology as a tool for constraining the timing of the Alaska Range uplift: Abstract, Geological Society of America, Cordilleran Section, 103rd Annual Meeting, Bellingham, Washington, May 4-6, 2007.
Leopold, E.B., Reinink-Smith, L.M., and Mustoe, George, E., A deciduous forest pollen record from the Wilkes Formation (Miocene) of southwestern Washington: Geological Society of America, Cordilleran Section, 103rd Annual Meeting, Bellingham, Washington, May 4-6, 2007.
Leopold, E.B., Reinink-Smith, L.M., and Gengwu Liu, 2006, Building on Jack Wolfe's Neogene floras of Alaska: Abstract, Advances in Paleobotany conference, Gainesville, Florida, March, 12-15, 2006.
Reinink-Smith, L.M. and Leopold, E.B., 2005, Warm climate in the Late Miocene of the south coast of Alaska, and the occurrence of Podocarpaceae pollen, Palynology, v. 29, p. 205-262.
Reinink-Smith, L.M. and Leopold, E.B., 2004, Using pollen data to estimate the age of the Alaska Range uplift: Abstract, AGU, CGU, SEG, EEGS Joint Assembly, Montreal, Canada, May 17-21, 2004.
Reinink-Smith, L.M. and Leopold, E.B., 2003, Miocene pollen from the warm-temperate Homerian type section near Homer, Alaska—an in-depth study: Abstract, 2003 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, November 2-5, 2003.
Reinink-Smith, L.M., 1995, Tephra layers as correlation tools of Neogene coal-bearing strata from the Kenai lowland, Alaska, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 107, p. 340-353.
Reinink-Smith, L.M., 1990, Relative frequency of Neogene volcanic events as recorded in coal-partings from southern Kenai Peninsula, Alaska: A comparison with deep sea core data, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 102, p. 830-840.
Reinink-Smith, L.M., 1990, Mineral assemblages, characteristic of volcanic and non-volcanic materials in Tertiary coal seams, southern Kenai Peninsula, Alaska: Clays and Clay Minerals, v. 38, p. 97-108.
Merritt, R.D., Lueck, L.L., Rawlinson, S.E., Belowich, M.A., Goff, K.M., Clough, J.G., and Reinink-Smith, L.M., 1987, Southern Kenai Peninsula (Homer district) coal-resource assessment and mapping project: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Public-data File 87-15, 126p, 14 plates.
Reinink-Smith, L.M., 1987, The origin, mineralogy, and geochemistry of inorganic partings in coal seams near Homer, Alaska: in Focus on Alaska's Coal '86;, Rao, P.D., editor, MIRL Report No. 72, p. 211-228.
Lueck,L.L., Rawlinson, S.E., Belowich, M.A., Goff, K.M., Clough, J.G., and Reinink-Smith, L.M., 1986, Kenai coal assessment and mapping project: in Focus on Alaska's Coal '86;, Rao, P.D., editor, MIRL Report No. 72, p. 198-210.
Reinink-Smith, L.M., 1985, Description and mineralogy of Tertiary volcanic ash partings and their relationship to coal seams near Homer, Alaska: Program and abstracts 1985 (poster session), 60th Annual Meeting, AAPG-SEPM-SEG Pacific Section, Anchorage, p. 65.
Reinink-Smith, L.M., 1985, Description and mineralogy of Tertiaty volcanic ash partings and their relationship to coal seams near Homer, Alaska: Abstracts, 1985 International Clay Mineral Conference, Denver, p.194.
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