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Terri Woodburn

Terri Woodburn

Office: 419 Lindley
Phone: 864-4253
Email: terriw@ku.edu

  • B.S. Geography, Northwest Missouri State University (1998)
  • M.A. Physical Geography, University of Kansas (2008)
    Thesis: "Historical Response of the Wakarusa River Channel to Anthropogenic Influences"

Publications

 

Research Interests

Johnson, William C. [2003] 2011, Surficial geology of Kearny County, Kansas; Playa deposits and Arkansas River terrace by William C. Johnson and Terri L. Woodburn:  Kansas Geological Survey, Map M-62 (revised).

Bozarth, Steven and Terri Woodburn, 2011, Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction at 41TV410 (Area-3) based on Biosilicate, Charred Phytolith, and Particulate Charcoal Analysis.  In Results of Archeological Significance Testing at 41TV410 and 41TV540 and Associated Geomorphical Investigations on a Segment of Onion Creek in Travis County, Texas (A. McGraw, Ed.).  Center for Archeological Research, Report No. 420, pp. 211-225.  Texas Department of Transportation: San Antonio, TX.

Johnson, William C. and Alan F. Arbogast [1993] 2010, Surficial geology of Finney County, Kansas; Playa deposits and Arkansas River terrace by William C. Johnson and Terri L. Woodburn: Kansas Geological Survey, Map M-28 (revised).

Johnson, William C. and Terri L. Woodburn, 2010, Surficial geology of Ford County, Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey, Map M108.

Johnson, William C., Terri L. Woodburn, and Lisa G. Messinger, 2009, Surficial geology of Morton County, Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey, Map M-116.

William C. Johnson, Dane G. Bailey, and Terri L. Woodburn, 2006.  Pedological Investigations of Three Areas along the Santa Fe National Historic Trail in the Kansas City Metro Area, Jackson County, Missouri.   Submitted to Superintendent, National Trails Systems Office, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Publications in Review

Woodburn, Terri L. and William C. Johnson.  Surficial geology of Jewell County, Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey, Map Series.  (In review)

Woodburn, Terri L. and William C. Johnson.  Surficial geology of Hodgeman County, Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey, Map M107.   (In review)

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 

My research interests include paleoenvironment reconstructions, Quaternary Geology focused on loess depositional environments, biosilicate analyses, soil geography, geomorphology, and ichnology

Dissertation:

“Paleoenvironmental reconstruction from the Brady Soil in the Nebraska loess uplands using biosilicate, particulate charcoal, and bioturbation analyses.”

Recent Presentations:

William C. Johnson, Joseph A. Mason, Terri L. Woodburn, and Alan F. Halfen, 2011.  Loess Record of Pedogenesis During the Last Glacial—Interglacial Transition within the Central Great Plains.  Minerva Gentner Symposium on Aeolian Processes (paper).   

Terri L. Woodburn, William C. Johnson, and Steven R. Bozarth, 2011.  High-Resolution Biosilicate Analysis of the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition:  The Brady Soil, Southwestern Nebraska.  8th International Meeting on Phytolith Research (poster). 

William C. Johnson, Terri Woodburn, and Joseph Mason, 2011.  Pedogenic Climate Signals in the Great Plains (USA) during the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition (Bølling/Allerød – Boreal).  International Union for Quaternary Research, XVIII INQUA-Congress (poster). 

William C. Johnson, Joseph A. Mason, Terri L. Woodburn, Alan F. Halfen, Stephen T. Hasiotis, and Robin Moore, 2011.  The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in the Central Great Plains: An Unashamed Lust for Loess.  Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting (paper).

Alan F. Halfen, William C. Johsnon, Paul Hanson, Terri L. Woodburn, and Aaron R. Young, 2010.  New Ages of Dune Activity During and Following the Medieval Climatic Anomaly on the Eastern Margin of the Great Plains.  Geological Society of America Annual Meeting (paper).

Terri L. Woodburn, William C. Johnson, and Steven R. Bozarth, 2010.  Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironment Characteristics of the Brady Soil in Southwestern Nebraska.  Great Plains – Rocky Mountain Division of the Association of American Geographers Meeting (paper).

Steve R. Bozarth and Terri L. Woodburn, 2010.  Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction at Four Sites in the Great Plains Based on Biosilicate Analysis.  Great Plains – Rocky Mountain Division of the Association of American Geographers Meeting (poster).

Scott T. Klopfenstein, William C. Johnson, Terri L. Woodburn, and John W. Dunham, 2010.  A New Geologic Map of Ford County, Kansas.  Great Plains – Rocky Mountain Division of the Association of American Geographers Meeting (poster).

William C. Johnson, Joseph A. Mason, Christoph E. Geiss, Terri L. Woodburn, Stephen T. Hasiotis, and Robin R. Moore, 2010.  Brady Soil Chronicles Environmental Change at the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition: Multiproxy Approach to Deciphering Environments of the Pleistocene-Holocene Transitional Brady Soil of the Central Great Plains.  American Quaternary Association Annual Meeting (poster).

T. L. Woodburn, W. C. Johnson, and S. R. Bozarth, 2010.  Environmental Reconstruction of a Brady Soil in Southwestern Nebraska, Using High-Resolution Biosilicate and Charcoal Analysis.  Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting (paper). 

 

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