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NicholasB.

Sullivan
129EastGorhamStreet,Apartment3
Madison,Wisconsin53703
(607)279-5570
nsullivan742@gmail.com

EDUCATION
2010-2013 UniversityofCincinnati
CandidateforMasterofScienceinGeology
x Nasteis ThesisAdviser:CarltonE.Brett:RefinementstotheDepositional
HistoryofLowerSilurianStrataintheNortheasternUnitedStatesbymeansof
ConoJont Biostrotiqropby
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CChemostratigraphy,SequenceStratigraphy,and
MagneticSusceptibility

2006-2010 StateUniversityofNewYorkatGeneseo
BachelorofArtswithHonorsinGeologicalSciencesMinorinMathematics
x UndergraduateThesis:TheEifelian-GivetianBoundaryatTsakhir,GoviAltai
Region,SouthernMongolia

WORKEXPERIENCE
July2012Present WisconsinGeologicalandNaturalHistory
CHRONOMAPResearchAssistant
x Compilepublishedinformationontheage,correlation,anddepositional
environmentsofSilurianrockunitsintheLower48UnitedStates
x Synthesizedataintoregionalchronostratigraphiccorrelationcharts
StateMap:ManitowocCountyResearchAssistant
x AssistteamsextractingandloggingcoredrilledinManitowocCounty,WI
x Processbulkcarbonatesamplesforconodontmicrofossilextraction
Sept2010June2012 UniversityofCincinnati,DepartmentofGeology
PrimaryCourseInstructor Cincinnotion Poleontoloqy onJ Strotiqropby
x Presentedlectures,ledfieldtrips,createdandgradedassessments
TeachingAssistant
x DirectedlabsandclassactivitiesforEnvironmentalScience,PhysicalGeology,
Oceanography,andHistoryofLifeCourses
Feb2008May2010 StateUniversityofNewYorkatGeneseo
TeachingAssistant
x DirectedlabsandclassactivitiesforintroductoryEarthsciencecourses
July2009Aug2009 KeckGeologyConsortium
UndergraduateStudentResearcher
x Executedresearchonconodontbiostratigraphyandmagneticsusceptibilityof
MiddleDevonian(Givetian)StratainSouth-CentralMongolia
May2009July2009 StateUniversityofNewYorkatGeneseo
ResearchAssistant
x CollaboratedonresearchintotheageandregionaldistributionoftheMarcellus
SubgroupinupstateNewYork
x Processbulkcarbonateandshalesamplesformicrofossilextraction

RECENTPUBLICATIONS
Sullivan,N.B.;Kleffner,M.A.;Brett,C.E.;(inreview).ConstraintsontheAgeandDepositional
EnvironmentoftheBasalWilliamsonFormation(SecondCreekBed)inWestCentral
NewYorkState.PalaeontologicaElectronica.
Sullivan,N.B.;Brett,C.E.;(inreview).IntegratingMagneticSusceptibilityDatawithSequence
StratigraphyintheIronstoneBearingSuccessions(LowerSilurian)ofEasternNorth
America.Stratigraphy.
Sullivan,N.B.;Brett,C.E.;McLaughlin,P.I.;(2012).Ironstones,CondensedBeds,andSequence
StratigraphyoftheClintonGroup(LowerSilurian)initsTypeArea,CentralNewYork.in
Rayne,T.W.(ed.),FieldTripGuidebookforthe84
th
AnnualMeetingoftheNewYorkState
GeologicalAssociation.pp.B5-1B5-40.
Sullivan,N.B.;(2010).TheEifelian-GivetianBoundary(MiddleDevonian)atTsakhir,GoviAltai
Region,SouthernMongolia.indeWet,A.P.,andHeister,L.(eds.):Proceedingsofthe23
rd

AnnualKeckResearchSymposiuminGeology.pp.238-243

RECENTPROFESSIONALPRESENTATIONS
Sullivan,N.B.;Brett,C.E.;McLaughlin,P.I.;Kleffner,M.A.;Cramer,B.D.;Thomka,J.R.;(2013).
ConstraintsontheAgeandCorrelationofTwoProblematicTelychian(Llandovery;
Silurian)StratigraphicUnitsinOhioanu Kentucky Synthesizing Biostiatigiaphy
13
Ccarb
Chemostratigraphy,andSequenceStratigraphy.inLindskog,A.;andMehlqvist,K.(eds.)
ProceedingsfromtheInternationalGeoscienceProgramme(IGCP)Project5913
rd
Annual
Meeting.GFFVol.135,No.2.
Sullivan,N.B.;Brett,C.E.;Kleffner,M.A.;(2012).AgeTaphonomy,andPaleoecologyofaPyritic-
PhosphaticLagBedintheLlandovery(LateTelychian)ofWestCentralNewYorkState.
AbstractsfromtheInternationalGeoscienceProgramme(IGCP)Project5912
nd
Annual
Meetingand1
st
FoersteSymposium.p.33
Sullivan,N.B.;Brett,C.E.;McLaughlin,P.I.;andThomka,J.R.;(2012).RevisedSequence
StratigraphicFrameworkinAeronianandTelychianStrata(Llandovery;Silurian)ofthe
EastCincinnatiArch.GeologicalSocietyofAmericaAbstractswithPrograms,Vol.44,No.
5,pp.17.

GRANTSandCONTRACTS
GeologicalSocietyofAmerica-GraduateStudentResearchGrant:$2000
SocietyforSedimentaryGeology(SEPM)-StudentAssistanceGrant:$500
UniversityofCincinnatiGraduateStudentGovernanceAssociationAward:$500

PROFESSIONALAFFILIATIONS
GeologicalSocietyofAmerica
PanderSociety(conodontworkers)
SigmaGammaEpsilon

SERVICE
2011-2012 InstructorfortheBoyScoutsofAmericaGeologyMeritBadgeChallenge
2002-2006 VolunteeratthePaleontologicalResearchInstitution,Ithaca,NY

SKILLSandQUALIFICATIONS
x Skilleddrafteroffigures(specialtyinAdobeIllustratorandPhotoshop)
x Adeptbiostratigrapherwithexperienceextractingandidentifyingconodonts
x Experiencegenerating,analyzing,andinterpretinggeochemical
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Ccarb)and
geophysical(magneticsusceptibility)datasets
x AbilitytoconductstatisticalanalysesandprogramusingR
x Experiencemeasuring,analyzing,andsamplingdrill-cores
x Comprehensivefieldexperience,withparticularemphasisonOrdovician-Carboniferous
stratigraphicsuccessionsofthenortheasternUnitedStates

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