Kim Anne Kastens: Professional Activities

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Seagoing and Field Programs

1975-76

Several dozen one to three day trips on various boats and small ships in Long Island Sound and the New York Bight. Bathymetric profiling, gravity coring, grab sampling, Uniboom seismic profiling, current meter deployments. Varied responsibilities from boat operator to deck hand to navigator (horizontal sextant angles) to Chief Scientist.

1976

R/V Albatross IV. Three weeks biological tows and CTD casts for fisheries research on Georges Bank. CTD operator; deck technician.

1977

R/V Melville. One month Deep Towing on the East Pacific Rise and Tamayo Transform Fault. Deep Tow navigator.

1978

R/V Thomas Washington. Three weeks conventional geophysical surveying (magnetics, gravity, airgun, 3.5kHz) in the Gulf of California. Responsible for 5 day survey of Tamayo Transform Fault.

R/V Melville. One month Deep Towing, heat flow, coring and dredging in the Red Sea. Deep Tow navigator and piston coring technician.

R/V Melville. One month Deep Towing in the Mediterranean Sea. Deep Tow Assistant Watch Leader (thesis cruise).

Kim watches the sun set over the Rock of Gibralter at the end of her thesis cruise in the Mediterranean.

1979

DSRV Alvin/Lulu. Two weeks submersible diving at the Tamayo Transform Fault. Submersible diver, also responsible for all nighttime surveys (bathymetry and transponder net tie-ins).

1980

N/O Jean Charcot (French). One month SeaBeam surveying, camera tows and dredging in the eastern Mediterranean. SeaBeam cartographer.

R/V Melville. Three weeks Deep Towing, heat flow, coring, dredging, water sampling in the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California. Deep Tow Watch Leader.

1981

R/V Gyre. Two weeks SeaMARC I surveying on the U.S. East Coast continental margin. SeaMARC Watch Leader.

N/O Bannock (Italian). Two weeks coring and dredging in the eastern Mediterranean. Responsible for surveys, navigation,and ship positioning on station; assisted with core description.

R/V Gyre. One month Deep Towing at the Vema Fracture Zone. Deep Tow watchleader.

1982

C.S.S. Hudson (Canadian). Two weeks SeaMARC I surveying on the Nova Scotia continental margin. SeaMARC Watch Leader.

N/O Bannock (Italian). Two weeks coring and dredging in the Mediterranean. Responsible for surveys, navigation, and ship positioning on station; assisted with core description.

R/V Conrad. One month SeaMARC I and watergun surveying, Mississippi Fan, Gulf of Mexico (DSDP site survey). Co-principal investigator, SeaMARC Watchleader.

1983

R/V Thomas Washington. One month SeaMARC I, SeaBeam, and camera surveying on the East Pacific Rise, Clipperton Fracture Zone and nearby seamounts. SeaMARC Watchleader.

R/V Conrad. Two weeks SeaMARC I and camera surveying, searching for the Titanic on the continental rise off Nova Scotia. SeaMARC watchleader.

1984

R/V Conrad. Two weeks SeaMARC I and SeaBeam surveying on the Ebro and Valencia Fans (western Mediterranean). Co-chief scientist, SeaMARC Watchleader.

R/V Conrad. One month SeaMARC I, SeaBeam and camera surveying in the eastern Mediterranean. Chief Scientist, SeaMARC Watchleader.

C.S.S.Endeavour (Canadian). Three weeks SeaMARC I surveying on the Juan de Fuca Ridge and Endeavour Ridge, northeastern Pacific. Co-principal investigator, SeaMARC watchleader.

N/O Bannock (Italian). Three weeks coring and dredging in the eastern Mediterranean. Responsible for surveys, navigation, and ship positioning on station; assisted with core description.

1985

DSRV Alvin/Atlantis II. Three weeks submersible diving, SeaBeam and camera surveying, on the Clipperton Fracture Zone and East Pacific Rise. Co-principal investigator, submersible diver, responsible for camera surveys.

Kim looks out the observer's viewpoint of the DSRV Alvin before a dive in the Clipperton Fracture Zone.

1986

Joides Resolution. Seven weeks deep sea drilling in the Tyrrhenian Sea (central Mediterranean). Co-chief Scientist.

Kim and the Captain of the Joides Resolution discuss a new core from the Tyrrhenian Sea.

1987

Liberty Star. Four weeks SeaMARC I surveying and camera tows, U.S. East Coast continental rise. SeaMARC watch leader, responsible for transponder navigation.

1988

Global Positioning System (GPS) geodetic experiment. Three weeks reconnaissance plus 3 weeks observation campaign, south Aegean region, Greece. Project leader.

1989

Global Positioning System (GPS) geodetic experiment. Three weeks reconnaissance plus 2 weeks observation campaign, North Aegean region, Greece. Project leader.

1989-2000

R/V Thomas Washington. One month camera towing, SeaBeam surveying, dredging and rock coring, East Pacific Rise. Co-principal investigator.

1990

R/V Maurice Ewing. Two weeks Hydrosweep and SeaMARC II surveying, Reykjanes Ridge. SeaMARC/Hydrosweep watchleader.

1992

Global Positioning System (GPS) geodetic experiment. Observation campaign in Aegean region, Greece. Project leader.

Kim supervises the training of GPS observing teams prior to the 1992 Aegean field season.

1993

R/V Maurice Ewing. Surveying with Hydrosweep, L-DEO multi-spectral deep-towed sonar, magnetics, single-channel seismics. Gravity coring and dredging. Vema Fracture Zone. Chief Scientist.

Professional Service and Societies: Science

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Executive Committee (1993-1995); Director Search Committee: (1991-1992); Storke-Doherty Selection Committee (1993-1996); Promotions & Careers Committee (Co-Chair, 1999-2002; member, 2003-2004); Administrative Committee (1998-2001); LODOS (Laboratory for Ocean Drilling, Observation and Sampling) (2004-present).

Ocean Drilling Program

Mediterranean Working Group (1984-1986); Site Survey Panel (1989-1995; Chair 1993-1994); COSOD II Working Group on "Brittle and Ductile Deformation of the Lithosphere," (1987).

American Geophysical Union

Special session on "Tectonics of the Mediterranean and circum-Mediterranean," American Geophysical Union Meeting, Co-convener (1989); Special session on "Recent and Active Tectonics of the Eastern Mediterranean," American Geophysical Union Meeting, Co-convener (1994).

Journal reviewer

Journal of Geophysical Research, Marine Geology, Marine and Petroleum Geology, Marine Geophysical Research, Nature, Tectonics, Tectonophysics.

Proposal reviewer

National Science Foundation (U.S.), NASA, NERC (Great Britain), INFREMER (France), U. S. Geological Survey.

Invited speaker

Barnard College, Colgate University, Cornell University, Duke University, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, North Carolina State University, Queens College, S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook, Texas A&M University, University of California at Berkeley, University of Delaware, University of Rhode Island, University of South Carolina, Yale University; Flinders University (Adelaide, Australia), Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (Wormley, England), Monash University (Melbourne, Australia); U.S.Geological Survey, Institute for Geology and Mineral Exploration (Athens, Greece); Columbia University Alumni Society of Greece.

Professional Societies

American Geophysical Union, Sigma Xi, American Women in Science, Association of Women Geoscientists.

Professional Service and Societies: Education

Columbia University

Senate Commission on the Status of Women (1992-present; Co-Chair 2002-2005); Multimedia Classroom Committee (1995-present); Provost's Salary Equity Committee (1999-2002).

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Planning Committee, Co-Chair Education Working Group (1991-1992); Lead author of LDEO Strategic Plan section on Education & Outreach (2004-2005).

L-DEO Open House

Organizer, Voyage of the Mimi exhibition (1991); Organizer: "Instructional Technology for Earth and Environmental Science Education: A Hands-on Workshop for Pre-college Teachers" (1994, 1995); Organizer: map skills exhibit (1997-2005).

Columbia Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (1995-present); Admissions Committee (1996-present).

American Geophysical Union

Committee on Education and Human Resources (1999-2000).

National Science Foundation

"Visiting Professorship for Women in Science" recipient (1986-1987); POWRE review panel member (1997); Awards to Facilitate Geoscience Education review panel member (1998); Participant, Workshop on Diversity in the Geosciences (2000); CAREER review panel member (2001); Research on Learning and Education review panel member (2001); Geoscience Advisory Board (member; 2000-2002; vice-chair: 2001-2002); Science of Learning Center Site Visit Team (2005).

National Research Council

Member, NRC panel on Thinking Spatially: The Incorporation of Geographic Information Science Across the K-12 Curriculum (2000-2004).

National Academy of Sciences

Invited speaker, workshop on Integrating Education in BioComplexity Research (2002).

Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)

Portals to the Future Workshop, Chair, Collections Committee (August 1999); Chair: Collections Standing Subcommittee (2000-2003), Management Council (2002-present).

Journal of Geoscience Education

Manuscript reviewer, Associate Editor (1998-2000).

Invited Speaker

Sea Education Association;
New York Metropolitan area Oracle User's Group;
Harlem Environmental Access Project;
Columbia University's "Educating Americans for the 21st Century" seminars;
Center for Children and Technology;
Northwestern University School of Education;
National Association of Geology Teachers Northeastern section (Keynote Speaker, 1994)

Professional Societies

National Association of Geoscience Teachers.

Sea Education Association

Member of the Corporation (1997-2001).

Biosphere II

Education Advisory Committee (1996-1998)

Advisory Committee or Project External Advisor

Voyage of the Mimi, children's educational video series, advisor and featured scientist (1981).
American Museum of Natural History, Science advisory panel for Hall of Planet Earth exhibit (1995-1999).
Hudson Valley Children's Museum, Advisory Board (1993-2001).
Investigating & Questioning our World through Technology instructional materials development project, Northwestern University (2005-present)