704 Burke St.
Easton, PA 18042
(610) 252-8944
Department of Geological Sciences
Columbia University
Lamont- Doherty Earth Observatory
Palisades, NY 10964
(914)365-8621; fax: (914) 365-8154
E-mail: love@ldeo.columbia.edu
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EDUCATION
1969-1973: Smith College, Northampton, MA - A.B. in History
1978: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH - Special Graduate Student
1978-1979: Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI - Special Graduate Student, Teaching Assistant
1979-1982: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH - A.M. in Geology, Teaching Assistant: Thesis topic: "Stratigraphy and Structure of the Southeastern Rumney 15 minute Quadrangle, New Hampshire"
1983-1989: Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL - Unclassified Graduate Student: Courses in coal petrology, organic geochemistry, paleontology, sedimentology
1993-present: Columbia University, Lamont- Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY - Graduate Student/ Faculty Fellow, Ph.D. Program: M.Phil. in Geology, May 1995
SHORT COURSES
December 1985: Modern and Ancient Deep- Sea Fan Sedimentation, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Short Course, New Orleans, LA
March 1990: Subsidence and Thermal History of Extensional Basins: Techniques and Histories, Northeast Sectional Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Syracuse, NY
October 1991: Quantitative Sedimentary Basin Modeling, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA
EMPLOYMENT
Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.:
Washington, D.C., 1973-1974. - U.S. Embassy at Oslo, Norway, 1974- 76.
Special Subject Assistant: Maps, Baker Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 1977-1978.
Research Assistant: Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, Summer 1979. Dr. William I. Rose, supervisor - Research topic: Microprobe analysis of Fe-Ti oxides from volcanic ash.
Geologist: Noranda Exploration, Inc., Cobalt, ID, summer 1981 - Detailed mapping of geology and alteration in Proterozoic clastic sediments.
Researcher: Coal Characterization Lab, Department of Geology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, November 1982- June 1985. Computer programming and coal petrology.
Field Geologist: Office of the State Geologist, New Hampshire, Summer 1985.
Private Study and Research: August 1985- April 1990 - Assisted or collaborated with research scientists in the collection or analysis of data (mineral reflectivity; computer programming of finite strain techniques). Sole investigator on study of graptolite reflectance trends in northern Maine.
Research Associate: Lafayette College, Easton, PA, April 1990-present - Graptolite and vitrinite reflectance studies in northern New England.
AWARDS
Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research, June 1980
Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research, June 1988
Geological Society of America Research Grant, April 1994 - Industrial Award recipient and Outstanding Mention
ORGANIZATIONS
Geological Society of America, 1982-present.
€Committee on Geology and Public Policy, 1986-1988.
€Convener, "The Urbanized Desert: A Challenge for the Geosciences".
€Public Policy Forum, GSA Annual Meeting, Phoenix, 1987
American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1982- present
€The Society for Organic Petrology, 1990-present
€Outreach Committee, 1992-present
€Chairman, 1993-present
Sigma Xi, 1984-present
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Member, Parent Advisory Committee on Gifted Education, Easton Area School District, 1992-93
Secretary, Penguin Figure Skating Club, Allentown, PA , 1993-94
Seeing Eye-4-H Puppy Raising Project, 1991-1994
Member, Penguin Precision Figure Skating Team, Allentown, PA, 1991-present
PUBLICATIONS
€Abstracts
Love, M.A., Wunderman, R.L., and Rose, W.I., Jr., 1979, Fe- Ti oxides of large silicic tephra eruptions, northern Central America (abstract); EOS, vol. 61, no. 6, p. 66.
Malinconico, M.L., and Lyons, J.B., 1983, Stratigraphy and depositional environment of the southeastern Rumney 15' quadrangle, Merrimack Synclinorium, New Hampshire: Geol. Soc. America Abstracts with Programs, v. 15, no. 3, p. 191.
Zimmerman, J., and Malinconico, M.L., 1986, Finite strain in the Missouri Mountain Formation (Silurian), south-central Benton Uplift, Arkansas, Geol. Soc. America Abstracts with Programs, v. 18, no. 3, p. 273.
Malinconico, M.L., 1989, Graptolite reflectance study of the Ordovician Winterville Formation, north central Aroostook County, Maine: Geol. Soc. America Abstracts with Programs, v. 21, no. 6, p. 327.
Malinconico, M.L., 1990, Graptolite reflectance in Maine, north of the biotite isograd: Geol. Soc. America Abstracts with Programs, v. 22, no. 2, p. 53.
Malinconico, M.L., 1990, Graptolite reflectance in the prehnite- pumpellyite and chlorite zones in northern Maine, U.S.A.: Abstracts and Program, Annual Meeting of the Society for Organic Petrology, v. 7, 23-24.
Malinconico, M.L., 1991, Reflectance crossplot analysis of graptolites from the anchi-metamorphic region of northern Maine, U.S.A.: Abstracts and Program, Annual Meeting of the Society for Organic Petrology, v. 8, (pages not numbered).
Malinconico, M.L.and D.C.Roy, 1993, Tectonometamorphic history of northern Maine based on graptolite reflectance and other low- grade metamorphic indicators: Geol. Soc. America Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, no. 6, p. A-31.
Malinconico, M.L., 1995, Duration of rifting and thermal modeling of the Triassic Taylorsville Basin, Virginia, based on vitrinite reflectance: Abstracts and Program, Annual Meeting of the Society for Organic Petrology, v. 12, 9-11.
€Papers
Rose, W.I., Jr., Hahn, G.A., Drexler, J.W., Malinconico, M.L., Peterson, P.S., and Wunderman, R.L., 1980, Quaternary tephra of northern Central America in Self. S., and Sparks, R.S.J., ed., Tephra studies as a tool in Quaternary research, NATO Advanced Study Institute Series, Series C, Math. and Phys. Sci., v. 75, p. 193- 211.
Robinson, P.D., Hughes, J.M., Malinconico, M.L., 1986, Blossite, alpha- Cu 2V2O7, a new fumarolic sublimate from Izalco Volcano, El Salvador, Descriptive mineralogy and crystal structure: American Mineralogist, v. 72, p. 397- 400.
Hughes, J.M., Starkey, S., Malinconico, M.L., and Malinconico, L.L., Jr., 1987, Lyonsite, Cu3Fe4(VO4)O6, a new fumarolic sublimate from Izalco Volcano, El Salvador, Descriptive mineralogy and crystal structure: American Mineralogist, v. 72, p. 1000-1005.
Hughes, J.M., Drexler, J.W., Campana, C.F., Malinconico, M.L., 1988, Howardevansite, (Na,K)CuFe2(VO4)3,a new fumarolic sublimate from Izalco Volcano, El Salvador, Descriptive mineralogy and crystal structure: American Mineralogist, v. 73, p. 181- 186.
Malinconico, M.L., (ed.), 1988, The Urbanized Desert: A Challenge for the Geosciences, Report of the Committee on Geology and Public Policy, Geological Society of America.
Malinconico, M.L., 1990, Geology of Mt. Moosilauke and environs, Dartmouth Outing Club.
Malinconico, M.L., 1992, Graptolite reflectance in the prehnite- pumpellyite zone, northern Maine, U.S.A.: Organic Geochemistry, v. 18, no. 3, p. 263-271.
Malinconico, M.L., 1993, Reflectance crossplot analysis of graptolites from the anchi-metamorphic region of northern Maine, U.S.A.: Organic Geochemistry, v. 20, no. 2, p. 197-207.