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Mr. Connell with his trusty Jacob staff standing just below an early Pleistocene ash in the Ancha Fm, Santa Fe area.

Senior Managing Geologist
New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources,
A Division of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology,
Albuquerque Field Office
2808 Central Ave. SE
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106-2245

(505) 366-2534 or 366-2530 (main office)
(505) 366-2559 (fax)

OFR-539: Geologic Framework of the Colorado Plateau-MRGB Transition (21 MB)

Documentary on Sandia Mts, produced by PBS-affiliate KNME. See section on geology documentary (Chapter 2)

Experimental Stratigraphy (Pages)

Education and Previous Experience:

• Ph.D., Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, 2010
• M.S., Geology, University of California at Riverside, 1995
• B.S., Geology, California State University at Northridge, 1988
  
• Senior Managing Geologist, April 2010-present, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources
• Faculty Adjunct, 1999-present, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM
• Field Geologist, 1996-2010, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources
• Geologist, 1987-1992, Allan E. Seward Engineering Geology, Inc., Newhall, California
• Resume (updated May, 2010)

Specialties:

• Stratigraphy, soil-geomorphology, and magnetic-polarity stratigraphy in the Rio Grande rift of New Mexico.
• Tectonic geomorphology of extensional basins in continental settings.
• Environmental and Engineering Geology.

Current Projects:

• Geologic mapping of the Albuquerque Basin under that New Mexico Statemap Program
• Compilation of the geology of the Albuquerque-Rio Rancho metropolitan area at a scale of 1:50,000.
• Stratigraphy of the Neogene Santa Fe Group in the Albuquerque Basin.
• Compilation and study of subsurface data (borehole geophysical logs, cuttings, drillers' reports, etc.) in the Albuquerque Basin.
• Cuttings and core archives of water-supply and environmental wells drilled in the Albuquerque and Española basins.

Professional Affiliations:

• Geological Society of America, Rocky Mountain Section
• Association of Engineering Geologists, Rocky Mountain Section
• New Mexico Geological Society
• American Geophysical Union
• Albuquerque Geological Society
  

Professional Licenses:

• Registered Geologist, State of California
• Certified Engineering Geologist, State of California

Topics of Current Research:

• Stratigraphy and hydrogeology of the Santa Fe Group.
• Geology and geomorphology of the Albuquerque Basin.
• Experimental stratigraphy.

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