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Brendan McNulty
Title: Professor
Department: Earth Science
Phone: 310-243-3412
Email: bmcnulty@csudh.edu
Office Location: NSM B312
Research Interests:
plate tectonics
structural geology
Andes Mountains
flat slab subduction
groundwater contamination
Highest degree obtained: Ph.D.
Discipline: Earth Science
Institution/Year: University of California Santa Cruz / 1994
Thesis Title/Director: Emplacment
and deformation of granitoids in the Sierra Nevada California
Master's Degree:
Discipline: Geology
Institution/Year: San Diego State University / 1990
Thesis title/director: Polyphase deformation in the Lower
Paleozoic Lang sequence, Northern Sierra Nevada, CA
Bachelor's Degree:
Discipline: Geology
Institution/Year: San Diego State University 1987
Positions since highest degree earned:
Assistant Professor, CSUDH
AssociateProfessor, CSUDH
Professor, CSUDH
Grants:
National Science Foundation GEO 0503417,
$148,000 (August 2007- December 2008)
Characterization and assessment of MTBE contamination of groundwater:
Student immersion in a “real-world problem”, funded as “Supplement”
under the Opportunities for Enhancement of Diversity in Geosciences
Program.
National Science Foundation GEO 0503417, $84,569 (June 2005- May 2007)
Characterization and assessment of MTBE contamination of groundwater:
Student immersion in a “real-world problem”, funded under the
Opportunities for Enhancement of Diversity in Geosciences Program.
National Science Foundation EAR 0126309, $172,769, (01/2002 – 12/2004)
Detachment faulting and basin development in a convergent setting: The
Cordillera Blanca, Peru.
National Science Foundation EAR 9802825 , $129,044, (01/1998 - 12/2001)
Tectonic controls on magmatism and deformation in the Cordillera Blanca,
Peru: Towards a definitive model for Andean-type magmatic arcs.
National Science Foundation EAR 9404697(co-wrote for postdoc, PI:
O.Tobisch), $150,000
Elongate plutons in a large-volume magmatic arc, central Sierra Nevada,
California: Do they represent dike-fed magma chambers?
University of California Research Expedition Program, Field work in
Peru, $16,000 (1996,
1997)
CSU Sally Casanova Memorial RSCAAP Mini-Grants, $13,909 (1997, 1998,
2000)
CSU Dominguez Hills President’s grant, $7000 (2001)
Faculty Development Awards, CSU Dominguez Hills, $1600 (1997, 1998,
1999)
Retention, Tenure and Promotion Grant, CSU
Dominguez Hills, $1000 (1997)
Awards and Recognitions: CSUDH Excellence in Research Award, 2006
Publications:
Gilder, S. A., and McNulty, B. A., 1999, Tectonic exhumation and
tilting of the Mount Givens
pluton, central Sierra Nevada, California, Geology, v. 27, p. 919-922.
Girty, G. H., Yoshinobu, A. S., Girty, M. S., Wracher, M. D., Bryan, K.
A., Skinner, J. E.,
McNulty, B. A., Bracchi, K. A., Harwood, D. S., and Hanson, R. E., 1993,
U/Pb geochronology of the Emigrant Gap composite pluton: Implications
for the Nevadan Orogeny; in Mezozoic paleogeography of the W. United
States-II (Dunne, G. and McDougall: eds.), SEPM, p. 332-342.
McNulty, B. A., 1995, Pseudotachylyte developed in the semi-brittle and
brittle regimes, Bench Canyon shear zone, central Sierra Nevada, Journal
of Structural Geology, v. 17, p. 1507-1521.
McNulty, B. A., 1995, Shear zone development during magmatic arc
construction: the Bench Canyon shear zone, central Sierra Nevada,
California, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 107, p.
1094-1107.
McNulty, B. A., Tong, W., and Tobisch, O. T., 1996, Assembly of a
dike-fed magma chamber:
The Jackass Lakes pluton, central Sierra Nevada, California, Geological
Society of America Bulletin, v. 108: p. 926-940.
McNulty, B. A., Farber, D. L., Wallace, G., Lopez, R., and Palacios, O.,
1998, Role of plate kinematics and plate-slip-vector partitioning in
continental magmatic arcs: Evidence from the Cordillera Blanca, Peru,
Geology, v. 26: p. 827-830.
McNulty, B. A., Tobisch O. T., Cruden, A. R., and Gilder, S., 2000,
Multi-stage emplacement
of the Mount Givens pluton, central Sierra Nevada, California,
Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.112, p. 103-119.
McNulty, B. A., and Farber, D. L., 2002, Active detachment faulting
above the Peruvian flat slab, Geology, v. 30, p. 567-570.
Nugal, K., Tong, W., McNulty, B., 2006, Contamination of Groundwater in
California by MTBE: How Do We Constrain the Problem?, American
Geophysical Union Fall 2006 Meeting, San Francisco, California, in
press.
Nugal, K., Tong, W., McNulty, B., 2006, Characterization and assessment
of MTBE contamination of groundwater in selected regions of California:
SACNAS (Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in
Science) National Conference, October 26-29, 2006, Tampa, Florida, in
press.
Rousse, S., Gilder, S., Farber, D., McNulty, B., and Torres, V., 2002,
Paleomagnetic evidence
for rapid vertical-axis rotation in the Peruvian Cordillera at ca. 8 Ma,
Geology, v. 30, p. 75-78.
Rousse, S., Gilder, S., Farber, D., McNulty, B., Patriat, P., Torres,
V.Sempere, T.,
2003, Paleomagnetic tracking of mountain building in the Peruvian Andes
since 10 Ma” Tectonics, v. 22, no. 5.
Tobisch, O. T., McNulty, B. A., and Vernon, R. H., 1997, Microgranitoid
enclave swarms in granitic plutons, central Sierra Nevada, California,
Lithos, v. 40, p. 321-339.
Tobisch, O. T., Saleeby, J. B., Renne, P. R., McNulty, B. A. & Tong, W.,
1995, Variations in deformation fields during development of a large
volume magmatic arc, central Sierra
Nevada, California, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 107, p.
148-166.
Presentations:
Session Chair: “Paleogeodesy in magmatic
arcs: A Symposium in Honor of Othmar T. Tobisch GSA Cordilleran meeting,
Corvallis, Oregon, 2002
Session Chair: “Recent Advances in Our Understanding of Flat Slab
Subduction: Examples from North and South America”, GSA Annual meeting,
Reno Nevada., 2000
Session Chair: "Cordilleran Plutonism in the Americas", GSA Cordilleran
Section Centennial meeting, 1999
Session Chair: “Tectonics of the Ring of Fire III”, AGU Fall meeting,
1997
Session Chair: “Cordilleran Granites”, GSA Cordilleran Section meeting,
1996
Co-Editor, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, Special Volume,
2002, in press
Penrose Conference Participant: Mesozoic Evolution of the Cordilleran
Continental Margin in Central and Southern California, 1995
Hutton Symposium Participant: College Park, Maryland, 1995
Panelist, Best Student Presentation, 1998 GSA Cordilleran Section
meeting
Invited speaker:
CSU Long Beach San Jose State University
CSU Fullerton Ball State University
San Diego State University Georgia Southern University
University of Southern California CSU Dominguez Hills (Sigma Xi)
University of California, Los Angeles
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