Curriculum Vitae professional address: Sonoma State University Department of Geology Rohnert Park, CA 94928

Michael Elliot Smith

Education B.A. Geology, Carleton College, Northfield, MN [1999] Field Camp, University of Wisconsin-Madison [1999] M.S. Geology, University of Wisconsin-Madison [2002] Ph.D. Geology, University of Wisconsin-Madison [2007] Advisors: Alan R. Carroll and Brad S. Singer - Minor: Geography Appointments Assistant Professor, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA [2007-present] Visiting Professor, University of Montana, Missoula, MT [2006-2007] Visiting Instructor, Carleton College, Northfield, MN [Fall 2004] Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison [2000-2002; 2003-present] Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison [1999-2000; 2002-2003] Publications 2011 Smith, M.E., Singer, B.S., Simo, T., 2011, A time like our own? Radioisotopic calibration of the Ordovician greenhouse to icehouse transition: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 311, p. 364-374. 2010 Smith, M.E., Chamberlain, K.R., Singer, B.S., and Carroll, A.R., 2010, Eocene clocks agree: Coeval ^40Ar/^39Ar, U-Pb, and astronomical ages from the Green River Formation: Geology, v. 38, p. 527-530. Carroll, A.R., Graham, S.A., Smith, M.E., 2010, Walled Sedimentary Basins of China: Basin Research, v. 22, p. 17-32. 2008 Smith, M.E., Carroll, A.R., and Mueller, E.R., 2008, Nature-Geoscience, Elevated Weathering Rates in the Rocky Mountains during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum, v.1, p. 370-374. Smith, M.E., Singer, B.S., Carroll, A.R., and Fournelle, J.H., 2008, American Minerologist, Precise dating of biotite in distal volcanic ash: isolating subtle alteration using ^40Ar/^39Ar laser incremental heating and electron microprobe techniques, v. 93, p. 784-795. Smith, M.E., Carroll, A.R., and Singer, B.S., 2008, Geological Society of America Bulletin, Synoptic reconstruction of a major ancient lake system: Eocene Green River Formation, Western United States, v. 12, p. 54-84. Carroll, A.R., Doebbert, A.C., Booth, A.L., Chamberlain, C.P., Rhodes-Carson, M.K., Smith, M.E., Johnson, C.M., Beard, B.L., 2008, Capture of high-altitude precipitation by a low-altitude Eocene lake, western U.S., Geology, v. 36, p. 791-794. 2006 Smith, M.E., Singer, B.S., Carroll, A.R., and Fournelle, J.H., 2006, Geology, High-resolution calibration of Eocene timescales: ^40Ar/^39Ar geochronology of biotite in the Eocene Green River Formation, v. 34, p. 393-396. Secord, R., Gingerich, P.D., Smith, M.E., and Wilf, P., Singer, B.S., 2006, Geochronology and mammalian biostratrigraphy of middle and upper Paleocene continental strata, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. American Journal of Science, v. 306, p. 211-245. Carroll, A.R., Chetel, L., and Smith, M.E., 2006, Feast to Famine: Sediment Supply Control on Laramide Basin Fill: Geology, v. 34, p. 197-200. 2005 Wilf, P., Johnson, K. Cuneo, N.R., Smith, M.E., Singer, B.S., and Gandolfo, M.A., 2005, Eocene Plant Diversity at Laguna del Hunco and Rio Pichileufu, Patagonia, Argentina: The American Naturalist, v. 165, p. 634-650. 2004 Smith, M.E., Singer, B.S., Carroll, A.R., 2004, Reply: ^40Ar/^39Ar geochronology of the Green River Formation, Wyoming: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 116, no. 1, p. 253-256. 2003 Smith, M.E., Singer, B.S., Carroll, A.R., 2003, ^40Ar/^39Ar geochronology of the Green River Formation, Wyoming: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 115, p. 549-565. Pietras, J.T., Carroll, A.R., Singer, B.S., and Smith, M.E., 2003, 10 k.y. depositional cyclicity in the early Eocene: Stratigraphic and ^40Ar/^39Ar evidence from the lacustrine Green River Formation: Geology, v. 31, p. 593-596. Honors & Scholarships Sonoma State Summer Research Fellowship [2011] Baily Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship [2005-2006] UW-Madison Geology and Geophysics Best Student Paper Award [2003, 2008] GSA Research Grant [2002] AAPG Research Grant [2001] GSA Research Grant [2000] Sigma Xi Research Grant [2000] N.A.G.T. Summer Field Training Program, Nominated [1999] National Merit Scholarship, Carleton College [1995-1999] Abstracts Smith, M.E., Singer, B.S., and Simo, T., 2011, Tiered interpolation of radioisotopic and biostratigraphic geochronology resolves the tempo of the Ordovician greenhouse to icehouse transition. GSA 2011 Annual Meeting Abstract. Davidson, C., DiFiori, R., Smith, M.E., Mueller, E.R., 2011, From Kings Peak to the Delgado submarine canyon: Tracking littoral inputs to the deep sea at the Mendocino Triple Junction, California. AGU 2011 Annual Meeting Abstract. Smith, M.E., Carroll, A.R., 2011, Resolving tectonic, climatic, and geomorphologic signatures in the Eocene Green River Formation, Western U.S.  AGU 2011 Annual Meeting Abstract. Smith, M.E., Scott, J.J., and Carroll, A.R., 2009, Weathering, springs, and the origin of Na-evaporites in the Early Eocene Green River Formation: GSA 2009 Annual Meeting Abstract. Smith, M.E., Chamberlain, K., Singer, B.S., and Carroll, A.R., 2009, Coeval ^40Ar/^39Ar, U-Pb, and astronomical clocks in the Early Eocene: GSA 2009 Annual Meeting Abstract. Hoefer, J., Smith,M.E., and Mueller, E.R., 2009, Tracking the downstream fate of diverse lithologies in modern fluvial systems, Northern Rocky Mountains, Idaho: GSA 2009 Annual Meeting. Mueller, E.R., Pitlick, J., and Smith, M.E., 2008, Lithologic and hydraulic controls on network-scale variations in sediment yield: Big Wood and North Fork Big Lost Rivers, Idaho, AGU Annual Meeting. Smith, M.E., Carroll, A.R., 2007, High denudation rates in the Eocene Rocky Mountains: A record from evaporites and alluvium in the Green River Formation of Wyoming, International Limnogeology Congress Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, July 11th-14th. Smith, M.E., Carroll, A.R., 2007, Temporal Evolution of Eocene Paleohydrology in the Laramide Foreland, Western U. S., International Limnogeology Congress, Barcelona, July 11-14. Smith, M.E., Carroll, A.R., 2007, Complex High-Resolution Lacustrine Record of Laramide Tectonism: Green River Formation, Wyoming, AAPG Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA. Smith, M.E., Carroll, A.R., Singer, B.S., 2006 High weathering rates and episodic regional deformation in the Eocene Rocky Mountains: A record from evaporites in the Green River Formation of Wyoming, AGU Annual Meeting. Smith, M.E., Carroll, A.R., 2005, Fine-scale stratigraphic and temporal calibration of orogenic strata adjacent to the Uinta Uplift using the Wilkins Peak Member of the Green River Formation, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, No. 5. Smith, M.E., Singer, B.S., and Carroll, A.R., 2005, On the ^40Ar/^39Ar age of biotite in Green River Formation ash: The advantages of incrementally heating single crystals with a laser: Goldschmidt 2005 Conference in Moscow, ID. Carroll, A.R., Graham, S.A., and Smith, M.E., 2005, Aridity and the evolution of closed basins in Asia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, No. 5. Smith, M.E., Carroll, A.R., Singer, B.S., 2004, 8 m.y. of Eocene Lake Strata Surrounding the Uinta Uplift: ^40Ar/^39Ar Temporal Constraints on Uplift, Subsidence, and Paleohydrology in the Laramide Foreland [abs.]: Eos. Trans. AGU, 85(47) Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T51D-07. Carroll, A.R., Graham, S.A., and Smith, M.E., 2004, Walled Sedimentary Basins of China: Perpetrators or Victims of Plateau Growth? [abs.]: Eos. Trans. AGU, 85(47) Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T31B-1303. Smith, M.E., Secord, R., Wilf, P., Gingerich, P.D., and Singer, B.S., 2004, New radioisotopic age control on late Paleocene continental strata: implications for the age of Chron 26N: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, Paper No. 192-8. Smith, M.E., Carroll, A.R., Singer, B., 2003, Correlation of Lacustrine Strata across the Uinta Uplift using ^40Ar/^39Ar Geochronology [abs.]: Third International Limogeology Congress (ILIC3), Tuscon, Arizona, March 29 - April 2. Pietras, J.T., Smith, M.E., Carroll, A.R., Singer, B.S., 2002, Direct measurement of depositional cyclicity using ^40Ar/^39Ar dating; a 430 thousand year record from Eocene Lake Gosiute: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no. 6, p. 479. Carroll, A.R., Smith, M.E., Pietras, J.T., Rhodes, M.K., Singer, B.S., 2002, Accumulation rates in ancient lakes; relationship to lake type evolution of the Green River Formation, Wyoming: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no. 6, p. 479 Bohacs, K.M., Carroll, A.R., Pietras, J.T., Rhodes, M.K.,Smith, M., 2002, Evolution of the Great Lakes system of the Green River Formation; tectonically & topographically conditioned records of climate change, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no. 6, p 478-479. Carroll, A.R., Smith, M.E., Singer, B.S., Pietras, J.T., 2001, Laser Fusion ^40Ar/^39Ar geochronology and cyclostratigraphy of the Green River Formation: Testing micro- and meso- scale climate forcing [abs.]: Eos. Trans. AGU, 82(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T21D-08. Smith, M.E., Singer, B.S., Carroll, A.R., 2001, Precise ^40Ar/^39Ar laser fusion geochronology of the Green River Formation, Wyoming: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, no. 6, p. 79. Carroll, A.R., Smith, M.E., Singer, B.S., Pietras, J.T. , 2000, Deposition, alteration and crystallinity of Eocene tuffs of the Green River Formation, Wyoming and Utah: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 7, p. 459.