Harmon D. Maher Jr.

Personal information

• Birthdate: August 31,1955
• Work address: Dept. Geography and Geology, University of Nebraska- Omaha, Nebraska 68182-0199
• Home address: 670 S. 68th Ave, Omaha, NE 68106
• phone numbers: office (402) 554 2662; fax (402) 554 3518; home (402) 630 0510
• email: harmon_maher@unomaha.edu

• Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, August 1984.
  • Dissertation title: "Structure and Stratigraphy of Midterhuken Peninsula, Bellsund, Spitsbergen
  • West Spitsbergen." Advisor - Dr. Campbell Craddock.
  • Distributed minor in rock mechanics and statistics.
  • Received Stanley Tylor Teaching Award; UW Geoclub Vice President.
• Master of Science, with Distinction, University of South Carolina at Columbia, August 1979.
  • Thesis title: "Stratigraphy, Metamorphism and Structure of the Kiokee and Belair Belts Near Augusta, Georgia." Advisors - Dr. Arthur Snoke and Dr. Don Secor.
• Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, State University of New York - Albany, May 1977.
  • Geology major, distributed minor. New York State Regents Scholarship.

• September 1983 to present: faculty member in Department of Geography and Geology at University of Nebraska - Omaha. Instructor (1983), Assistant Professor (1985), Associate Professor (1988), Professor (1996) of Geology at University of Nebraska Omaha. Tenure received in 1989.
• Fall 1997 to Spring 2001 Geography and Geology Department Chair.
• August 2007 to September 2010: Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Creative Activity for University of Nebraska at Omaha.
• Spring & Summer 1996 to Fall 2000 Consultant for SAGA Petroleum (in 1996,97,98), participant in University of Tromsø expedition to Spitsbergen (96, 97, 98), taught at Shell Canyon, Wyoming field camp (96 & 97), textbook reviewer for McGraw Hill and Houghton Mifflin.
• Summer 1995 Researcher in basement characterization and fault movement history of the Savannah River Site (S.C.), SCUREF Task 170 (P.I., Allen Dennis Univ. of S. Carolina at Aiken). Researcher on 10-day field expedition to Bjornøya (Bear Island) with SAGA Petroleum of Norway.
• Summer 1994 3 month fellowship at Univeristy of Tromsø in a collaboration with Dr. Steffen Bergh (on Svalbard Tertiary tectonism) including a 3 week mapping expedition to Svalbard. Lecturer on board the Polaris for American Museum of Natural History Discovery Cruise Spitsbergen to Bergen.
• June 1993 Participant in NSF short course on "Collection and evaluation of geologic data for environmental studies" at University of Missouri - Rolla
• March 1993 Seminar instructor, taught graduate seminar course on Southern Appalachian tectonics at Univeristy of Tromsø, Norway.
• Summer 92, 93 Participant in U. Tromsø Svalbard field expedition.
• Summer 1991 Expedition leader (2 person expedition!) for Norsk Polarinstitutt, geologic mapping at St. Jonsfjorden, Svalbard, Norway.
• 1988 Recipient of NTNF post-doc fellowship. Norsk Polarinstitutt (Oslo, Norway) was host institute. Research on Tertiary structures on Svalbard, including 2 month's field work.
• Summer of 1984 Research Associate, for Svalbard expedition led by Dr. Campbell Craddock, University of Wisconsin - Madison.
• Sept. 1982 to April 1983 Recipient of Shell Doctoral Fellowship at University of Wisconsin - Madison. Fellowship designed to aid those interested in pursuing a teaching career.Wrote dissertation and aided in structure and field methods courses.
• Sept. 1979 to 1982 Teaching Assistant at University of Wisconsin-Madison for courses in structural geology, field methods, Lake Superior and Wyoming field trips, White Lake field exercise (in Canada), and introductory geology.
• Summers of 1980, 81, 82 Research Assistant for Dr. Craddock, University of Wisconsin - Madison. Conducted field work in Svalbard, Norway, in 1980 and 1981; data analysis and compilation in 1982. Work also done for dissertation research.
• Sept. 1977 to May 1979 Teaching Assistant at University of South Carolina for courses in introductory and environmental geology, structural geology, petrology, and field mapping.
• Summers of 1977 and 78 Project Assistant to Dr. Arthur Snoke at University of South Carolina. Conducted field and laboratory research for Master's thesis.
• Fall 1976 Tutor, part-time, for Educational Opportunity Program at State University of New York at Albany. Aided non-majors in introductory geology courses.

Areas of expertise: structure, tectonics, structural diagenesis, fracture pattern characterization, geology of Barents Shelf and Svalbard, Great Plains intraplate tectonism, history and philosophy of geology, geoscience pedagogy, environmental geology.

Ongoing research projects: fracture characerization and stress evolution in Svalbard, Silurian-Devonian core complex in northwest Spitsbergen, structural diagenesis and structural history of Great Plains Cenozoic strata.

Publications:

• Maher, H., 1978, Stratigraphy and structure of the Belair and Kiokee Belts near Augusta, Georgia; in Snoke, A. W., editor, Geologic investigations of the eastern Piedmont, southern Appalachians: Carolina Geological Society 1978 Guidebook, Division of Geology, S.C. State Development Board, pp. 47-54.
• Maher, H., Jr., Palmer, A., Secor, D., Snoke, A., 1981, New Trilobite locality in the Piedmont of South Carolina, and its regional implications (research note); Geology, 9, 34-36.
• Craddock, C., Hauser, E., Maher, H., Jr.,Sun, A. Y., and Zhu Guo-Qiang, 1985, Tectonic evolution of the West Spitsbergen fold belt; Tectonophysic, 114, 193-211.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., Craddock, C., Maher K., 1986, Kinematics of Tertiary Structures in Upper Paleozoic and Mesozoic strata Midterhuken, Spitsbergen; Geological Society of America Bulletin, 97, 1411-1421.
• Maher, H. D., Jr. 1986, Kinematic history of mylonitic rocks from the Augusta fault zone, South Carolina and Georgia; American Journal of Science, 287, # 8, 795-816.
• Maher, H. D., Jr. 1987, D3 Folding in the Eastern Piedmont associated with Alleghanian thrusting; in Secor, D. T. (editor), Anatomy of the Alleghanian Orogeny as seen from the Piedmont of South Carolina and Georgia; Carolina Geological Society Field Trip Guidebook, South Carolina Geological Survey, Columbia, S. C., 35-48.
• Dennis, A., Sacks, P. E., Maher, H. D., Jr., 1987, Nature of the Late Alleghanian Strike-slip deformation in the Eastern South Carolina Piedmont: The Irmo Shear zone; in Secor, D. T. (editor), Anatomy of the Alleghanian Orogeny as seen from the Piedmont of South Carolina and Georgia; Carolina Geological Society Field Trip Guidebook, South Carolina Geological Survey, Columbia, S. C., p. 35-48.
• Maher, H. D., Jr. & Craddock, C.C., 1988, Decoupling as an alternate model for transpression during the initial opening of the Norwegian-Greenland Sea; Polar Research Note, 6, 137-140.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., 1988, Photointerpretation of Tertiary structures in platform cover strata of interior Oscar II Land, Spitsbergen; Polar Research, 6, 155-172.
• Sacks, P. E., Maher, H. D., Jr., Secor, D. T. & Shervais, J. W., 1989, The Burks Mountain complex, Kiokee belt southern Appalachian Piedmont of South Carolina and Georgia; Geological Society of America Special Paper #231, p. 75-76.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., 1989, A storm related origin for the Jurassic Brentskardhaugen Bed, Spitsbergen, Polar Research, 7, 67-77.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., Ringset, N. & Dallmann, W., 1989, Tertiary structures in the platform cover strata of Nordenskiold Land, Svalbard; Polar Research, 7, # 2, 83-93.
• Secor, D. T., Jr., Dennis, A., Maher, H. D., Jr. & Sacks, P., 1989 , Geology and terrane analysis of the eastern Piedmont, S. C. and GA., Field Guidebook - IGCP Project 233 Geotraverse across the southern Appalachians, July 23-31, 1989, 91 ms. p. 8-31 to 8-91 and 9-1 to 9-17.
• Dallmann, W. D. & Maher, H. D., Jr. 1989, The Supanberget area - basement imbrication and detached foreland thrusting in the Tertiary fold-and-thrust belt, Svalbard; Polar Research, 7, 95-107.
• Maher, H. D., Jr, Sacks P., and Secor, D. T., 1991, The Eastern Piedmont of South Carolina: in Horton, W. & Zullo, V. A. (ed.) The Geology of the Carolinas: Carolina Geological Society 50th Anniversary Vol., Univeristy of Tennessee Press, p. 93-108.
• Welbon, A. I. & Maher, H. D., Jr., 1992, Tertiary tectonism and basin inversion of the St. Jonsfjorden region, Svalbard: Journal of Structural Geology, 14, 41-55.
• Maher, H. D., Jr. & S. N. Maher, 1992, "Geological Sciences", in L. Dabundo (ed)., Romanticism: An Encyclopedia, Garland Press, New York. p. 215-220.
• Maher, H. D., Jr. & Welbon, A., 1992, Influence of a Carboniferous basin margin influence on Tertiary tectonism at St. Jonsfjorden and Bellsund, Svalbard; Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift, 72, 67-78.
• Pray, J. R., Maher, H. D., Jr. & Welbon, A. I. 1992, Ruminations on Tuttle lamellae (fluid inclusion planes) in Carboniferous strata from Bellsund and St. Jonsfjorden, Western Svalbard; Norsk Geologisk Tiddskrift , 72, 77-82.
• Maher, H. D. Jr., 1992, Open and closed rock cycles; Journal of Geological Education, 40, 393-397.
• Maher, H. D., Jr, Dallmeyer, R. D., Secor, D. T., Jr., & Sacks, P. E., 1994, 40Ar/39Ar constraints on chronology of Augusta fault zone movement and late Alleghanian extension, southern Appalachian Piedmont, S.C. & Ga.; American Journal of Science, 295, 428-448.
• Maher, H. D.. Jr., 1994, The Role of Extension in Mountain-Belt Life Cycles; Journal of Geological Education, 42, 212-219.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., Shuster, R. D., Swearingen, J. & Honke, J., 1994, Undergraduate Involvement in the Development of an Environmental Geology Lab; Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly, vol 14, # 3, 131-133
• Braathen, A., Bergh, S. & Maher, H. D., Jr., 1995, Structural outline of a Tertiary basement-uplift/inversion structure in western Spitbergen: kinematics and controlling factors; Tectonics, 14, 95-119.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., Braathen, A., Bergh, S., Dallmann, W., Harland, W. B., 1995, Tertiary vs. Cretaceous age for Spitsbergen's fold-thrust belt on the Barents Shelf; Tectonics, 14, 1321-1326.
• West, T. E., Secor, D. T. Jr., Pray, J. R., Boland, I.B. & Maher, H.D., Jr., 1995, New field evidence for an exposure of the Appalachian decollement at the east end of the Pine Mountain terrane, Georgia; Geology, 23, 621-624.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., Bergh, S., Braathen, A., & Ohta, Y., 1997 , Svartfjella, Eidembukta, and Daudmannsodden Lineament - Tertiary orogen-parallel motion in the crystalline hinterland of Spitsbergen's fold-thrust belt; Tectonics, 16, 88-106.
• Pray, J. R., Secor, D. T., Jr., Sacks, P. E., Maher, H.D. Jr., 1997, Rotation of fabric elements in convergent shear zones, with examples from the Southern Appalachians; Journal of Structural Geology, 19, 1023-1036.
• Braathen, A., Bergh, S., Maher, H. D., Jr., 1997, Thrust kinematics in the central part of the Tertiary transpressional fold-thrust belt in Spitsbergen; Nor. Geol. Under. Bulletin, 433, 32-33.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., 1998, Resurgent Ideas in the History of Geology as Paradigms Regained; Journal of Geological Education, 46, 1-7.
• Braathen, A., Bergh, S., Maher, H. D., Jr., 1999, Application of a critical wedge taper model to the Tertiary, transpressional fold-thrust belt of Spitsbergen, Svalbard; Geological Society of America Bulletin, 111, 1468-1485.
• Braathen, A., Haabet, T. E., Kristensen, S. E., Maher, H. D., Tørudbakken, B. O., & Worsely, D.,1999, Caledonian thrusting on Bjørnøya, arctic Norway: implications for Paleozoic structuring of the western Barents Shelf; Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift, 79, 57-68.
• Braathen, A., Bergh, S., Maher, H. D., Jr., Hansen, A., Bergvik, A., Andresen, A., 1999, Kinematics of the Isfjorden-Ymerbukta Fault; a dextral oblique-thrust ramp in the Tertiary Fold-Thrust belt of Spitsbergen; Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift, 79, 227-240.
• Bergh, S. G., Maher, H. D., Jr., and Braathen, A., 2000, Tertiary divergent thrust directions from partitioned transpression, Brøggerhalvøya, Spitsbergen; Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift, 80, 63-82.
• Dennis, A. J., Shervais, J. W., and Maher, H. D. Jr., 2000, Outline of the geology of Appalachian Basement Rocks Underlying athe Savannah River Site, Aiken, S. C., in D. E. Wyatt and M. K. Harris (editors) Savannah River Site: Environmental Remediation Systems in Unconsolidated Upper Coastal Plain Sediments - Stratigraphic and Structural Considerations; Carolina Geological Society 2000 Annual Field Trip Guide, WSRC-MS-2000-00606 (CD ROM), 95-113.
• Maher, H. D. Jr, 2001, Manifestations of the Cretaceous High Arctic Large Igneous Province in Svalbard; Journal of Geology, 109, 91-104.
• Maher, H. D. Jr., Bergh, S. & Braathen, A., 2001, Discussion on pre-ocean opening compression of the Northwestern Atlantic margin: evidence from eastern Greenland, Journal of the Geological Society, London, 158, 728-730.
• Dennis, A. J., Shervais, J. W., Wright, J., Mauldin, J., & Maher, H. D. Jr., 2004, Petrology and geochemistry of Neoproterozoic Volcanic Arc Terranes beneath the Atlantic Coastal Plain, Savannah River Site, South Carolina; Geologic Society America Bulletin, 116, 572-593.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., Hays, T., Shuster, R. D., & Mutrux, J., 2004, Sandstone Petrography of Lower Cretaceous sandstones on Svalbard; Polar Research, 23, 147-165.
• Mutrux, J., Maher, H. D., Jr. Shuster, R. D., & Hays, T., 2008, Iron Ooid Beds of the Carolinefjellet Formation, Spitsbergen, Norway; Polar Research, v. 27.
• Maher, H. D. Jr. and Braathen, A., 2010, Løvehovden fault and Billefjorden fault rift basin segmentation and development, Spitsbergen, Norway; Geological Magazine, 148, 154-170.
• Bergh, S.G., Maher, H.D.Jr., Braathen, A. & Karlsen, F., 2011, Late Devonian transpressional tectonics in Spitsbergen, Svalbard, and implications for the Sørkapp-Hornsund High: Journal of the Geological Society of London; 168, 441-456.
• Braathen, A., Baelum, K., Maher, H. D. Jr. & Buckley, S., 2011, Growth of extensional faults and folds during deposition of an evaporite-dominated half-graben basin; the Carboniferous Billefjorden Trough, Svalbard; Norwegian Journal of Geology, 9, 137-161. 1http://www.geologi.no/data/f/0/20/71/1_2401_0/NJG_3_2011_Braathen_scr.pdf.
• Maher, H. D., Jr. & Shuster, R. D., 2012, Chalcedony vein horizons and clastic dikes in the White River Group as products of diagenetically driven deformation; Lithosphere, 4, 167-186, at http://lithosphere.gsapubs.org/content/4/3/167.abstract.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., 2014, Distributed normal faults in the Niobrara Chalk and Pierre Shale of the central Great Plains of the United States; Lithosphere, v. 6 no. 5 p. 319-334 at http://lithosphere.geoscienceworld.org/content/6/5/319.abstract .
• Maher, H. D., Jr., Ferguson, S., Korth, R. Marshal, J. & Pickett, L., 2015, Strata-bound vein array in the basal Pierre shale, Lake Francis Case, South Dakota; Rocky Mountain Geology, v. 50, 153-165. http://rmg.geoscienceworld.org/content/50/2/153.full.pdf+html .
• Maher, H. D, Jr., Ogata, K. & Braathen, A., 2016, Cone-in-cone and beef mineralization associated with Triassic growth basin faulting and shallow shale diagenesis, Edgeøya, Svalbard; Geological Magazine, 1-16.
• Maher, H. D., 2017, The Deepest Layer; in Maher, S. N, Lynch, T., Wall, D., & Wietzen, A. (editors, Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time; University of Nebraska Press, 11 p., 10 images.
• Braathen, A., Osmundsen, P.T., Maher, H., Ganerød, M., 2017, The Keisarhjelmen detachment records Silurian–Devonian extensional collapse in Northern Svalbard; Terra Nova, 1–6. DOI: 10.1111/ter.12305
• Braathen, A., Osmundsen, P. T., Maher, H. D., Ganerød, M., 2018, Reply to Comment on "The Keisarhjelmen detachment records Silurian–Devonian extensional collapse in Northern Svalbard'; Terra Nova, 30, https//doi.org/10.1111/ter.12334.
• Ogata, K., Mulrooney, M. J., Braathen, A., Maher, H., Osmundsen, P. T., Anell, I., Smyrak-Sikora, A. A., & Balsamo, F., 2018, Architecture, deformation style and petrophysical properties of growth fault systems: the Late Triassic deltaic succession of southern Edgeøya (East Svalbard); Basin Research, 32 p. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bre.12296 (open access).

• Maher, H. D., Senger, K., Ogata, K., Mulrooney, M., Smyrak-Sikora, A., Braathen, A., Osmundsen, P. T., in revision, Mesozoic regional stress field evolution in Svalbard; intended for Tectonics.
• Helmer, K & Maher, H. D., in prep., Deformation bands in Brule Formation strata of Slim Buttes, S. D.

• Maher, H. D. Jr, Engelmann, G., and Shuster, R. D., 2003, Roadside Geology of Nebraska, Mountain Press.

• Review of Diffendal, R. F., Jr. and Diffendal, A. P., Lewis and Clark and the Geology of the Great Plains; and of Lewis and Clark and the Geology of Nebraska and Parts of Adjacent States; review published in Great Plains Research, 15, 347-348, 2005.
• Review of Keith Heyer Meldahl, Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail; University of Chicago Press; review published in Great Plains Research, 19, 129-130, 2009.

• Maher, H. D., Jr., 1995, 28301-B2 Kinematic Evolution of Tertiary Structures in a Dextral Transpressional Plate Setting, Western Barents Shelf, Norway; in 40th Annual Report on Research, Petroleum Research Fund, p. 324-325.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., 1996, 28301-B2 Kinematic Evolution of Tertiary Structures in a Dextral Transpressional Plate Setting, Western Barents Shelf, Norway; in 41st Annual Report on Research, Petroleum Research Fund, p. 118-199.
• Maher, H D. , Jr., 1996, Atypical rifting during the Carboniferous of the NW Barents Shelf; internal report for Saga Petroleum, 18 p. w 9 figures.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., 1999, Tectonic history of the Loppa High, Barents Shelf; internal report for Saga Petroleum, proprietary website.

• Maher, H., 1979, The Belair Belt of South Carolina and Georgia; Stratigraphy and Depositional Regime as Compared to the Carolina Slate Belt; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstract, vol. 11, # 4, p.187.
• Maher, H., Craddock, C., Spatz, J.,1981, Tertiary Deformations by Transpression at Midterhuken, West Spitsbergen; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstract, vol. 13, # 6, p. 501.
• Handley, B., Craddock, C., Maher, H., 1982, Structural Evolution of the Hecla Hoek terrane, Midterhuken Peninsula, Spitsbergen;Geol. Soc. Am. Abstract, vol. 14, # 4, p. 261.
• Maher, H., Craddock, C., 1983, Decoupled Transpression During Tertiary Deformation Along Spitsbergen's West Coast; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstract, vol. 15, # 4, p. 230.
• Maher, H., Craddock, C., 1983, Transpression as a Kinematic Regime: West Spitsbergen Tertiary Fold-and-Thrust Belt; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstract, vol. 15, # 6, p. 633.
• Craddock, C., Hauser, E., Maher, H., and Zhu Guo-Qiang, 1983, Tectonic Evolution of the West Spitsbergen Foldbelt; IUGG Inter-disciplinary symposia, Programme and abstracts, vol. 1, Hamburg, p. 208.
• Craddock, C., Hauser, E., Maher, H., and Zhu Guo-Qiang, 1984, Caledonian and Tertiary Structures in West Spitsbergen; Abstract, 27th International Geologic Congress in Moscow.
• Maher, H. D., Craddock, C., 1984, Evidence for Middle Carboniferous Tectonism of Lower Carboniferous Beds, Midterhuken, West Spitsbergen; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstract, vol. 16, # 6, p. 582.
• Maher, H. D., 1985, A Partial History For Augusta Fault Zone Movement As Indicated ByFolded and Strained Granitic Veins; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstract, vol. 17. # 2.
• Rogers, G. D., Craddock, C., Maher, H., 1985, Structures and Stratigraphy of the Proterozoic Hecla Hoek Succession Near Orvinfjellet, Wedel Jarlsberg Land, Spitsbergen; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstract, vol. 17, # 4.
• Kalinec, J., Bray, A., Bjornerud, M., Maher, H. D., Nania, J. C., Craddock, C., 1985, Structural Style in the Younger Hecla Hoek Strata South of Dunderdalen, West Spitsbergen; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstract, vol. 17, # 4.
• Bjornerud, M., Bray, A., Kalinec, J., Nania, J. C., Craddock, C., Maher, H., 1985, Structural Style in the Older Hecla Hoek Strata South of Dunderdalen, West Spitsbergen; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstract, vol. 17, # 4.
• Bray, A., Bjornerud, M., Kalinec, J., Craddock, C. C., Nania, J. C., Maher, H. D., 1985, Structures in Proterozoic Strata Near Dunderdalen, West Spitsbergen; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstract, vol. 17, # 6, p. 531.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., 1986, Mesoscopic Structures in a Major Alleghanian Dextral Shear Zone, Clarks Hill Quad, South Carolina; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, vol. 18, # 3, p. 253.
• Sacks, P. E., Maher, H. D., Secor, D. T., Jr., 1987, The Burks Mountain Belt of Ultramafic Rocks in the Kiokee Belt, Southern Appalachian Piedmont; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, vol. 19, # 2, p. 127.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., 1988, Photointerpretation of Tertiary structures in interior Oscar II Land; Norsk Polarinstitutt Rapport Series # 42, extended abstract, 55-59.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., 1988, Minimum estimate of Tertiary shortening suggested by surface structures exposed on Midterhuken, Bellsund; Norsk Polarinstitutt Rapport Series # 42, extended abstract, p. 35-39.
• Dallmann, W. & Maher, H. D., Jr., 1988, Thick and thin-skinned tectonics in the SW part of the Tertiary fold-and-thrust belt, Spitsbergen; Annual Tectonic and Structural Geology Study Group; Interne Skrifter Institute for Geologi # 54, University of Oslo, 10.
• Sacks, P. E., Maher, H. D., Jr., Secor, D. T., Jr. & Dallmeyer, R. D., 1989, Structural transect across the Kiokee Belt and Adjacent Carolina Slate and Belair Belts, South Carolina and Georgia; Geol. Soc. of Am. Abstracts, vol. 21, # 3.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., Sacks, P. & Secor, D. T., 1989, Controls on development of an Alleghanian crustal detachment, the Modoc zone, SE Appalachian Piedmont of S.C. and GA.; Geol. Soc. of America Abstracts, vol. 21, # 6.
• Welbon, A. I. and Maher, H. D., 1989, Reconstructing the early basin history within a thrust belt; Carboniferous tectonics and sedimentation in the St. Jonsfjorden area, Spitsbergen; 19th Nordic Geological Wintermeeting (19th Nordiske Geologiske Vintermote), Stavanger 1990.
• Secor, D. T., Jr., Sacks, P. E., Dennis, A. J., Maher, H. D., Jr., 1990, Kinematics of plate motions during the Alleghanian orogeny; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, vol. 22, #1.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., Dallmeyer, R. D., Sacks, P. , & Secor, D. T., Jr., 1990, Age of movement on the Augusta fault zone in the eastern Piedmont of S.C. and Ga., late Alleghanian extension; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, vol. 22, # 3.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., Andresen, A., Dallmann, W. & Welbon, A., 1990, Structural styles in a Tertiary intracratonic convergent mobile zone, Svalbard; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, vol. 23, # 1, p. 233.
• Pray, J., Maher, H. D., Jr. & Welbon, A. I., 1990, Evidence for and ruminations on Carboniferous deformation in Bellsund and St. Jonsfjorden, Western Svalbard:Symposium on Post-Devonian Tectonic evolution of Svalbard, Oslo, Norway jointly sponsered by the University of Oslo Geology Dept. and the Norsk Polarinstitutt, extended 2 page abstract.
• Welbon, A., Andresen, A. & Maher, H. D., Jr., 1991, Upper crustal response to transpressional plate motions, horizontal decoupling of deformation and its control by crustal structure, Spitsbergen; Geological Association of Canada Abstract.
• Maher, H.D., Jr., Sacks, P., Secor, D., & Wright, J., 1992, Magmatic softening in the orogenic hinterland; southern Appalachian Piedmont, Georgia; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, vol. 24, # 2.
• Secor, D. T., Barker, C. A., Boland, I.B., Pray, J. R., Steinke, T. R., West, T. E., Dallmeyer, R. D., Dennis, A. J., Maher, H. D., Sacks, P.E., and Wright, J. E., 1992, The Alleghany orogeny in the southern Appalachians: perspective from the hinterland; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, vol 24, # 1, p. 290.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., Boland, I., Brueggeman, M., Pospisil, M., Pray, J.,Sacks, P., Secor, D.T., Steinke, T. & West, T., 1992, Tectonic architecture of central Georgia Piedmont; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, vol 24, # 1, p. 186.
• Braathen, A., Bergh, S. G., Andresen, A., & Maher, H. D., 1992, Variasjoner i Tertiar Tektonisk av Hetrogent Underlag, Vestlige Spitsbergen, Svalbard; 22nd Nordic Geological Wintermeeting (22nd Nordiske Geologiske Vintermote).
• Pray, J. R., Wright, J. E., Dallmeyer, R. D., Maher, H. D.,Jr., & Sacks, P. E., 1993, Geochronology of Alleghanian Tectonothermal Events in the Southern Appalachian Piedmont; American Geophysical Union Abstract, Spring Meeting - Baltimore, MD.
• Maher, H.D., Jr. & Secor, D. T., Jr, 1993, The Augusta fault zone as a guide to Alleghanian extension in the southern Appalachian Piedmont; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, vol.25, # 4 .
• Sacks, P.E., Secor, D. T., Jr, Maher, H.D., Jr., Wright, J. & Dallmeyer, D., 1993, Early Alleghanian oblique dextral extension and magmatism along the Modoc fault zone, eastern Appalachian Piedmont, SC-Ga; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, vol.25, # 4 .
• West, T. E., Jr., Secor, D. T., Jr., Maher, H. D., Jr., 1994, Is the Appalachian decollement exposed at the east end of the Pine Mountain terrane in central Georgia? New field evidence; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, vol 26, # 2.
• Secor, D. T., Jr., Pray, J. R., West, T. E., Jr., Maher, H. D., Jr., 1994, Character of the Alleghanian orogeny in the hinterland of the southern Appalachians: Kinematics and tectonic models; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, vol 26, # 2.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., Bergh, S., Braathen, A., & Ingebrigtsen, A, 1994, SED Lineament, West Spitsbergen, Norway: strike-slip counterpart to the Tertiary fold-thrust belt in a case of partitioned transpression(?); Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, vol 26, # 7, p. 198.
• Bergh, S. G., Braathen, A. & Maher, H. D., Jr., 1994, The Lomfjorden fault zone; basement-controlled Carboniferous subsidence and Tertiary contractional reactivation in the Svalbard Foreland, East Spitsbergen; Tectonics and Structural Geology Studies Group of Norwegian Geological Society, Tromso 10-11.
• Castelhano, T. A. R., Maher, H. D., Jr., Berger, D. R., Bergh, S., & Braathen, A., 1995, Kinematic evolution of the Tertiary fold-thrust belt Brøggerhalvøya, Spitsbergen, Norway from slip-linear plots; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, v. 27, # 3, p. A-42
• Berger, D., Castelhano, T. A. R., Maher, H. D. Jr., Braathen, A., & Bergh, S., 1995, Tertiary deformation of Lower Cretaceous diabase sills in Carboniferous strata, West Spitsbergen, Norway ; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, v. 27, # 3, p. A-39
• Shuster, R. D., Maher, H. D., Jr., Shroder, J. F., Jr. & Engelmann, G. F., 1995, Involving undergraduates in geologic research at an urban university; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, v. 27, # 3, p. A-85.
• Dennis, A. J., Maher, H.D., Jr., Pray, J. R., 1995, Character and relative ages of brittle structures in basement cores, Savannah River Site, S.C.; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, v. 27, # 6, p. A-282.
• Maher, H. D., Jr. & Dennis, A. J., 1995, Character and relative ages of ductile structures in basement cores beneath the Savannah River Site, S.C.; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, v. 27, # 6, p. A-283
• Maher, H. D., Jr., Haabet, T., Braathen, A., Worsley, D., Kristensen, S. E., & Tørudbakken, B. O., 1996, Atypical style of Carboniferous rifting on NW Barents Shelf, Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, v. 28, # 6, p. 501
• Turco, J.J, Maher, H.D., Reeder, P., and Nealon, John S., 1997, A pilot study of lectromagnetic conductivity and microtopographic surveys in mapping pioneer gravesites in loess, Mormon Pioneer cemetary, Omaha, Nebraska: Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts , v. 29, no. 4, p. 76.
• Jacobs, M., Heim, K., and Maher, H.D., Jr., 1997, Initial Component of Urban Geology Database for Omaha, NE; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, v. 29, #6, p. A-148.
• Maher, H.D., Jr., Alder, T., Heim, K., Nihsen, M., Persing, D., and Welch, J., 1997, Neotectonic Joints in Loess of Omaha, Nebraska; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, vol. 29, #6, p. A-417.
• Dennis, A. J., Wright, J. E., Maher, H. D., Jr., Mauldin, J. C., Shervais, J. W., 1997, Repeated Phanerozoic reactivation of a southern Appalachian fault zone beneath the up-dip coastal plain of South Carolina; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, vol. 29, #6, A-223.
• Bergh, S. G., H. D. Maher, Jr. and A. Braathen, 1998, Along strike segmentation of Svalbard's Tertiary fold-thrust belt, International Conference on Arctic margins (ICAM III) meeting, Hanover, Germany.
• Shroder, J. F., Jr., Maher, H. D., Engelmann, G. F., and Bishop, M. P., 1998, Field camp with enviromental and geotechnical modules; Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts, v. 30, #6, p. A-256.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., Covey, J., Heim, K., Elvebakk, G., Worsley, D., 1998, Mesozoic Reactivation of Paleozoic Structures in the Formation of the Loppa High on the Barents Shelf; EOS, Transactions, AGU v. 79, # 45, p. F809
• Maher, H. D. Jr., 1999, Character of Cretaceous High Arctic LIP From a Svalbard Perspective; GSA abstracts with Programs, 31, # 7, 430.
• Shuster, R. D., Maher, H. D. Jr, Engelmann, G. E., and Shroder, J. F. Jr., 1999, Undergraduate Research and the non-traditional student: special challenges and special opportunities; GSA abstracts with Programs, 31, # 7, p. 318.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., 1999 Identification of fracture sets in loess deposits in the Omaha area using sliding sector rose diagrams; Proceedings of Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division of AAAS, v. 39, # 2, p. 26.
• Hays, T., Maher, H. D. Jr.,& Shuster, R. D., 2002, Sedimentologic Record of the High Arctic Large Igneous Province in the Cretaceous Strata of Midterhuken, Svalbard, Norway; Program and Proceedings of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, p. 57.
• Shuster, R. D., Maher, H.D. Jr., Engelmann, G.E., and Shroder, J. F., Jr., 2002, Urbanizing geoscience in the midwest, GSA Abstracts w Programs, vol 34, # 6
• Maher, H.D., Jr., Hays, T., Shuster, R. D., & Mutrux, J., 2002, Signature of a mafic volcanic source in Barremian to Albian sandstones on Spitsbergen, Norway; GSA Abstracts w Programs, vol 34, # 6.
• Mutrux, J., Maher, H. D., Jr. Shuster, R. D., & Hays, T, 2003, Chamosite Ooid Horizons of the Carolinefjellet Formation, Spitsbergen, Norway; GSA Abstract w Programs, vol 35, # 3, p. 18
• Maher, H. D., Jr., Braathen, A., & Mutrux, J., 2003, Devonian Kinematics Along the Long Lived Billefjorden Fault Zone, GSA Abstract w Programs, vol 35, # 3, p. 47.
• Shuster, R. D., Mutrux, J. G., & Maher, H.D., Jr., 2004, Neodymium isotopic analysis of Cretaceous rocks from Svalbard, Norway; GSA Abstracts w Programs, vol. 36, #3, p.46.
• Moak, W., Tegels, J., & Maher, H. D., Jr., 2004, Faults and veins in White River Group Strata of Toadstool Geologic Park, Northwest Nebraska; GSA Abstracts w Programs, vol. 36, #3, p.41.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., 2004, An early undergraduate field and research experience, the Toadstool Geologic Park project in northwest Nebraska; GSA Abstracts w Programs, vol 36, # 6.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., Berrigan, J., Dervin, R., Firkins, J., Hart, B., Marshall, L. & Moak, W., 2004, Relationships between veining and faulting at Toadstool Geologic Park, Northwest Nebraska; GSA Abstracts w Programs, vol. 36, # 6.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., 2005, Possible Basin and Range Strain in the Great Plains; AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, T22C-03.
• Maher, H. D., Jr. & Shuster, R. D., 2007, Attributes of a Cretaceous storm bed from Spitsbergen, Norway: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 39, No. 3, p. 68.
• Maher, H. D., Jr, 2007, Identifying contributions of earth science to general education, GSA Abstracts w Programs, vol. 39, # 6.
• Hoff, W., Kinkade, J., Mertes, J., Schneiderwind, S., Weihs, B., and Maher, H. D., Jr., 2007, Scale dependence of chalcedony vein strike uniformity within the Chadron Formation of Badlands National Park; GSA Abstracts w Programs, vol. 39, #6.
• Nanfito, A., Mertes, J., Valentour, N., Arthur, T., Young, E., Pistiillo, S., & Maher, H. D., Jr., 2007, Comparison of tensile features in loess and bedrock of Harlan County Reservoir, Nebraska; GSA Abstracts w Programs, vol. 39, # 6.
• Nanfito, A. & Maher H. D., Jr., 2008, Kinematic analysis of deformation along the Billefjorden fault zone of Spitsbergen, Svalbard; GSA Abstracts w Programs, vol. 40.
• Nanfito, A., Maher, H.D., Braathen, A., 2008, TI: Timing of Evaporite Deformation and Diagenesis Along the Billefjorden Fault Zone of Spitsbergen, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T21B-1965.
• Maher, H. D., 2008, Orientation Patterns of Chalcedony Veins and Clastic Dikes in Tertiary strata of NW Nebraska and SW South Dakota; Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T13A-1934
• Shuster, R. D. & Maher, H. D. Jr., 2009, Are clastic dikes in Badlands National Park a result of structural diagenesis?, GSA Abstracts w Programs, vol. 41, #7, p. 413.
• Maher, H. D. Jr., Braathen, A., & Baelum, K., 2009, Implications of the Petuniabukta syncline for the timing of Billefjorden Basin Development on Spitsbergen; GSA Abstracts w Programs, vol. 41, #7, p. 52.
• Cubrich, B. & Maher, H. D. Jr., 2010, Use of the multinomial function to map variations in the degree of organization in fracture systems: GSA Abstracts w Programs, vol. 42, #2, p. 64.
• Nicholson, B. E., Cubrich, B. T., Tipton, B., Hines, R., Hegdahl, N., Kinkade, J., Maher, H. D. Jr., Shuster, R. D. & Holmes, M. A., 2010, Diageneis in Tertiary strata and the formation of chalcedony vein horizons: Badlands National Park, South Dakota; GSA Abstracts w Programs, vol. 42, #2, p. 64.
• Wheeler, W. H., Lauitzen, S. E., Tveranger, J., Braathen, A., Maher, H., Stemmerik, L., Breesch, L., Heincke, B., Rossi, C., Hanken, N. M. & Sanna, L., 2010, Breccias in Late Paleozoic strata, Billefjorden trough, Spitsbergen: origin and evolution in an outcrop to basin context; 29th Nordic Geological Winter Meeting, Jan. 11-13th, Oslo, abstract p. 211.
• Braathen, A., Osmundsen, P. T. & Maher, H. D. , Jr., 2010, Characteristics of a major Devonian extensional detachment on Spitsbergen - the Keiserhjelmen detachment; 29th Nordic Geological Winter Meeting, Jan. 11-13th, Oslo, abstract p. 29.
• Cubrich, B. & Maher, H. D. Jr., 2010, Using the Multinomial function to investigate complex fracture patterns: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 42, No. 5, p. 263.
• Diggins, M. P., Urban, A., Cubrich, B.T., Shuster, R., & Maher, H. D., Jr., 2010, Clastic Dikes in the Cedar Pass Area, Badlands National Park, SD: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 42, No. 5, p. 458.
• Carritt, J., Maher, H. D., Jr. & Tefft, R., 2011, Significance of strata-bound vein arrays in the Oligocene Brule Formation, Scotts Bluff National Monument, NE; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 423, No. 4, p. 86.
• Halligan, T., Korth, R., Maher, H. D. Jr., Shuster, R. D., 2011, The relationship of clastic dikes in northwestern Nebraska to those in Badlands National Park; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 423, No. 6.
• Osmundsen, P. T., Braathen, A. & Maher, H.D., Jr., 2012, The geology of Svalbard: structural, stratigraphic and geomorphic response to the formation of two passive margins; Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 14, EGU2012-7495, EGU General Assembly 2012.
• Osmundsen, P.T., Braathen, A., Maher, H., Smyrak-Sikora, A., Ogata, K. 2, Husteli, B., Anell, 2012, Architecture of syndepositional faults and half-graben in the Triassic succession at Kvalpynten, Edgeøya, East Svalbard; Norsk Geologisk Forening Onshore-Offshore relationships on the North Atlantic Margin, 17-18 October 2012, Trondheim.
• Maher, H. D., Jr. & Shuster, R. D., 2012, Significance of an ESE fracture direction in Tertiary Strata of South Dakota and Nebraska?, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 44, No. 7, p. 547
• Ferguson, S., Guirra, M., Olree, E., Zhou, Z. & Maher, H. D. Jr., 2013, Synsedimentary, low-angle normal detachment in White River Group strata of NW South Dakota; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 45, No. 7, p. 592.
• Korth, R. & Maher, H. D. Jr., 2013, Spatial analysis of seismic activity in the central Great Plains; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 45, No. 7, p.592.
• Maher, H. D., Jr., 2013, Distributed normal fauls in the Niobrara Chalk and Pierre Shale of the central Great Plains: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 45, No. 7, p.829
• Ferguson, S., Korth, R., Maher, H. D., Jr., Marshal, J. & Picket, P., 2014, Strata-bound vein array in the basal Pierre shale, Francis Case Lake, South Dakota; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 46, No. 4, p.58.
• Halligan, T., Maher, H. D. Jr. & Shuster, R. D., 2014, Analysis of smectite/illite clays within the White River Group; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 46, No. 6, p.769 .
• Braathen, A., Mulrooney, M., Ogata, K., Anell, I.M., Smyrak-Sikora, A., Lecomte, I., Osmundsen, P.T., Maher Jr. H., 2015, Trias North: Late Triassic shallow faulting in Edgeøya, Svalbard: structural style, deformation mechanisms and seismic expression, Geological Society of Norway Winter Meeting, 12-14 January, Stavanger, Norway.
• Ogata K., Anell I., Braathen A., Osmundsen P.T., SmyrakSikora A., Husteli B., Olaussen S. & Maher H., 2014, Syndepositional faulting in the Late Triassic succession of Kvalpynten, Edgeøya, East Svalbard; 87°: Congresso della Società Geologica Italiana e 90° Congresso della Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia si terranno in forma congiunta dal 10 al 12 Settembre 2014
• Olree, E. & Maher, H. D. Jr.. 2015, Stratigraphic analysis of half grabens in White River Group of NW South Dakota; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 47, No. 5, p.15 - https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2015NC/webprogram/Paper255602.html .
• Osmundsen, P. T., Braathen, A., Redfield T. F., Peron-Pinvidic, G. & Maher, H., 2016, What is reactivated when at rifted margins? comparing the Northwest Svalbard and Møre segments of the NE Atlantic margin, EGU General Assembly, 17-22 April, Vienna, Austria, Abstract EGU2016-15,306.
• Maher, H., Senger, K., Ogata, K., Mulrooney, M., Smyrak-Sikora, A., Braathen, A., Osmundsen, P. T., 2016, Mesozoic regional stress field evolution in Svalbard; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 48, No. 7 doi: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-281384 - https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2016AM/webprogram/Paper281384.html (ppt of presentation available at link).
• Maher, H., Senger, K. & Braathen, A., 2017, Within-unit Fracture Domains, Cretaceous Sills of Svalbard as an Example; American Geophysical Union abstract, Fall New Orleans Meeting, Dec.
• Ngoma, D., Brown, R. & Maher, H. D., 2018, Comparison of Brule Formation vs. Arikaree Group Channel Complexes, Southern Slim Butes, SD; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 50, No. 4 doi: 10.1130/abs/2018NC-312975. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2018NC/webprogram/Paper312975.html .
• Helmer, K. & Maher, H. D., 2018, Analysis of Deformation Bands at Slim Buttes, South Dakota; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 50, No. 4 doi: 10.1130/abs/2018NC-312164 https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2018NC/webprogram/Paper312164.html .
• Maher Jr., H. D., 2018, Bringing to light geology in the art and stone of Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha: A service learning project; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 50, No. 4 . doi: 10.1130/abs/2018NC-312163 https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2018NC/webprogram/Paper312163.html .

• Dallmann, W., Hjelle, A., Ohta, Y., Salvigsen, O., Bjornerud, M., Hauser, E. C., Maher,H. D., Jr. & Craddock, C.C., 1990, Geological Map of Svalbard 1:100,000 - Van Keulenfjorden Sheet, Spitsbergen; Norsk Polarinstitutt Temakart # 15, 1 plate, 58 p.
• Dallmann, W., Bergh, S. G., Andresen, A., Maher, H.D., Jr. & Ohta, Y., 1993, Tertiary fold-and-thrust belt of Spitsbergen Svalbard; Norsk Polarinstitutt Meddeleser # 128, 2 sheets, explanatory text 39 p.
• Bergh, S. G., Ohta, Y., Andresen, A., Maher, H.D., Braathen, A., & Dallmann, W. K., 2003, St. Jonsfjorden. Geological map Svalbard 1:100,000 sheet B8G. Norsk Polarinstitutt Temakart # 34, Oslo.

• Title: Geologic Investigation of Piedmont Rocks Along the Savannah River, South Carolina and Georgia (Fellowship).
  • Funding Agency: University of Nebraska Committee on Research.
  • Duration: Summer of 1984.
  • Amount: $5500.00.
• Title: Collaborative Research: An Investigation of the Kiokee Belt and Its Boundaries Along the Savannah River - The Evolution of an Alleghanian Orogeny (in collaboration with Don Secor at the University of South Carolina).
  • Funding Agency: National Science Foundation, Earth Science Division.
  • Duration: Summer of 1985 to Summer of 1987.
  • Amount: $93,501.40 total, $26,738.40 of which resided at University of Nebraska at Omaha.
• Title: Proposal for Working Conference On U.S. Geologic Research Interests in Svalbard and the Possible Establishment of a Joint Research Camp in Svalbard (in collaboration with Dr. John Shroder, Jr., also at the University of Nebraska - Omaha).
  • Funding Agency: University of Nebraska Committee on Research.
  • Duration: January, 1986 to May, 1986.
  • Amount: $5,468.00.
• Title: Post-doc proposal - Investigation of the Tertiary, West Spitsbergen Fold-and-thrust belt.
  • Funding Agency: Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - NTNF.
  • Duration: All of 1988. Residence: Norsk Polarinstitutt, Oslo, Norway.
  • Amount: 123,000 Norwegian Kroner (roughly $20,000)
• Title: Collaborative Research: Alleghanian tectonism in the eastern Piedmont: A deformed metamorphic core complex and localization of crustal detachment zones in the hinterland (in collaboration with Don Secor at the University of South Carolina).
  • Funding Agency: National Science Foundation, Earth Science Division.
  • Duration: August, 1988 to December 1990.
  • Amount: $103,000.00 total, $30,103.18 of which resides at University of Nebraska at Omaha.
• Title: Geologic mapping of Tertiary structure, St. Jonsfjorden area, Spitsbergen, Norway
  • Funding agencies: University of Committee on Research - University of Nebraska at Omaha and Norsk Polarinstitutt, Oslo
  • Duration: mid-July through August, 1989
  • Amount: $2130 from U. N. O. and 20,000 NOK (about $3000) from Norsk Polarinstitutt.
• Title: Collaborative Research: Geochronological and Geological Characterization of Terranes in the Central Georgia Piedmont (Drs. Secor, Univ. of S. Carolina, & Wright, Rice Univ., co-PIs)
  • Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
  • Duration: January 1 1992 to June 30, 1994
  • Amount: $35,397 at U.N.O.
• Title: Environmental Geology Laboratory Undergraduate Teaching/Research Assistants (with Dr. Shuster of University f Nebraska at Omaha)
  • Funding Agency: University Committe for the Advancement of Teaching, University of Nebraska at Omaha
  • Duration: February to May, 1993
  • Amount: $1152
• Title: Collaborative analysis of Tertiary tectonism on Svalbard, evolution of partitioning on a transpressive margin. (co-PI Dr. Steffen Bergh (University of Tromsø)
  • Funding Agency: NAVF (Norges forskningsråd - Norwegian)
  • Duration: June 94 - Dec. 94
  • Amount: 72,000 Norwegian kroner = circa $10,000.
• Title: Kinematic evolution of Tertiary structures in a dextral transpressional plate setting, western Barents Shelf, Spitsbergen, Norway.
  • Funding Agency: Petroleum Research Fund
  • Duration: June 1994 -> August 1996
  • Amount: $19,700
• Title: Integration of Computer Technology and Interactive Learning in an Undergraduate Environmental Science curriculum co PIs, Dr. Bishop, Peterson, Peake
  • Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
  • Duration: July 1994 - December 1995
  • Amount: $25,298
• Title: Pilot Study - Delineation and mapping of gravesites at the Mormon Pioneer Cemetary in Omaha, Nebraska using electromagnetic conductivity techniques co PI John Nealon
  • Funding Agency: Religious Studies Center Brigham Young University
  • Duration: November 1996 - April 1997
  • Amount: $2,000
• Title: Request for Digital Camera, Dr. Robert Shuster co-P.I.
  • Funding Agency: Center for Faculty Development, Instructional Technology Materials and Small Equipment Grant (from Peter Kiewet and AT&T Educational Funds)
  • Duration: 1997
  • Amount: $1175
• Title: Relational database of faults on and near the Loppa High and analysis of their movement history.
  • Funding Agency: Saga Petroleum of Norway
  • Duration: Nov. 1997 - January 1999
  • Amount: $43,000
• Title: Preliminary investigation of the High Arctic large Igneous Province in Svalbard, Dr. Robert Shuster co-P.I.
  • Funding Agency: University of Nebraska University Committee on Research.
  • Duration 2/1/01 to 10/1/01.
  • Amount: $6330
• Title: Sedimentologic and geochemical signature of the High Arctic Large Igneous Province in Svalbard, Norway
  • Funding Agency: Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society. ACS-PRF 36814-B8.
  • Duration : 4/01/01 to 8/31/03.
  • Amount: $29,925
• Title: Iron Ooid horizons, storm beds, glendonites and sand body architecture in the Carolinefjellet Fm., Adventdalen, Spitsbergen, Dr. Robert Shuster co-P.I.
  • Funding Agency: University of Nebraska University Committee on Research.
  • Duration: 4/1/03 to 12/1/03.
  • Amount: $5,030.
• Title: Early Undergraduate Research Opportunity - Mapping in the badlands of Toadstool Geologic Park, northwest Nebraska.
  • Funding Agency: internal UNO grant from NSF STEP grant to Jack Heidel, Hesham Ali, and Dana Richter-Egger.
  • Duration: 6/04 to 8/04
  • Amount: $6000
• Title: STEP Proposal for summer of 2007: Undergraduate investigation of vein-crack patterns in the White River Group of Nebraska and South Dakota.
  • Funding Agency: internal UNO grant from NSF STEP grant to Jack Heidel, Hesham Ali, and Dana Richter-Egger
  • Duration: 6/07to 8/07
  • Amount: $6,000
  • Supported 4 undergraduate students.
• Title: Structural setting delineation and outcrop scale breccia characterization of breccias in the Billefjorden Basin.            
  • Funding Agency: University of Bergen, Norway            
  • Duration: 6/08 to 1/09            
  • Amount: $11,000            
  • Supported an undergraduate major to conduct field work, and a student worker to further develop GIS map.
• Title: Technology Assistance with Implementation and Operation of Transportable Array  (as coP.I., Robert Shuster P.I.)                                               
  • Element of USArray and EarthScope Funding Agency:  Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
  • Duration:  5/1/08-9/30/08
  • Amount:  $60,200           
  • Supports four students to locate suitable seismic station sites.   
• Title: Shallow fracture formation and fluid mobilization during diagenetically driven deformation: the Tertiary Badlands chalcedony vein and clastic dike systems of South Dakota and Nebraska. ( Robert Shuster co P.I.)
  • Funding Agent: Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society
  • Duration: 6/1/09 to 12/31/12
  • Amount: $65,000
  • Will support 9 students in participating in undergraduate student projects
• Title: Investigation of a possible Devonian metamorphic core complex in Svalbard, Norway.
  • Funding Agent: University of Nebraska at Omaha, University Committee on Research and Creative Activity
  • Duration: Nov. 15th 2010 to Dec. 1 2011
  • Amount: $4500
  • Partial support of travel and boat expenses for research expedition.
• Title: Does a Devonian Metamorphic Core Complex Exist in Svalbard, Norway?
  • Funding Agent: American Scandinavian Foundation
  • Duration: 2011
  • Amount: $5000
  • Partial support of travel and boat expenses for research expedition.
• Title: Investigating shallow structural diagenesis in the Niobrara Chalk and Pierre Shale of the Central Great Plains.
  • Funding Agent: GDL Foundation
  • Duration: 2013
  • Amount: $5,500
  • Supports undergraduate research projects.
• Title: Reconstructing Triassic of the Northern Barents Shelf - University of Nebraska, Objective 6
  • Funding agency: University of Oslo
  • Duration 2014-2017
  • Amount: $23,000
  • Travel support to engage in field research investigating the interplay between diagenesis and Triassic growth basin development. Larger project this a sub-contract of is described at http://www.mn.uio.no/geo/english/research/projects/triasnorth/index.html.

Courses taught:

• Environmental Geology - GEOL1010.
• Earth System Science - GEOL1100 (both on-campus and on-line versions).*
• Earth System Science lab - GEOL 1101 (copies of course materials available on request). *
• Introduction to Physical Geology - GEOL 1170.
• Natural Science, on Earth System Science - NSCI 2010.
• Environmental Geology Lab - GEOL 2014.
• Geoscience Data Analysis and Modeling - GEOL 2300. *
• Geology Field Trip Courses to: Alaska, Arches National Monument in Utah, Black Canyon on the Colorado River, Buffalo River in NW Arkansas. Colorado, Death Valley, Grand Canyon, Iceland, Ireland, Lake Superior, Nebraska, White Cliffs section of Missouri River in Montana, Rio Grande Rift, Wyoming - GEOL 2500. *
• Seminars on History of Geology, Geology of Mars, Urban Geology, Global Climate Change, Boyd County Low Level Radioactive Waste Site, Undergraduate research on breccia porosity, Peak Oil, Anthropocene, Geohazard Risk Assessment- GEOL 2500. *
• Plate Tectonics - GEOL 3700.
• Structural Geology and Structural Geology Field Methods - GEOL 3300 & 3310.
• Geophysics - GEOL 4400
• Field Methods in Geography and Geology - GEOL 4610.
• Graduate seminar on Appalachian tectonics at University of Tromsø *
• Undergraduate honors symposium on origins (cotaught with 7 other faculty). *
• Graduate seminar on sustainability issues in Omaha (cotaught with 5 other faculty) - PA 4890/8896. *

* New courses developed. Links to course material for most of these.

Senior theses or internships advised at University of Nebraska-Omaha

• Tom Zink, 1985, Microstructure Development with Increasing Strain within a Mylonitic Gneiss, 31 p.
• John Hartley, 1986, Structural Patterns in Clay Modeling of Plate Interactions at Various Angles, 66p.
• Michael L. Archibald, 1986, A Fortran Program for Creating Orthogonal Cross Sections of Parallel Folds, 65 p.
• Scott McIntyre, 1988, Structural Analysis of Metamorphic Rocks, Gundy Creek, Edgefield County, South Carolina, 44 p.
• Dan Inman, 1989, The Triple Junction Geometry of Continental Rifts in Africa, 34 p.
• Marie Smith, 1989, Petrographic Analysis of Granitic and Orthogneiss (Metagranite) Bodies in the Kiokee Belt of the Piedmont Province of South Carolina and Georgia, 51 p.
• John Pray, 1990, Examination of the Polyphase Deformational History of St. Jonsfjorden, Spitsbergen Using Microstructural Analysis and Preferred Orientations of Tuttle Lamallae in Quartzites and Quartz Arenites; 65 p.
• Donna Erickson, 1990, Investigation of the nature of Alleghanian Metamorphism in the Modoc Zone, Edgefield County, South Carolina, 35 p.
• Gregory Caron, 1991, Structural Analysis of the Rockville Orthogneiss Quadrangle, Georgia,U.S.A., 36 p.Schoemann, M, 1993, Strain analysis of a metaconglomerate and carbonates from Svartfjella and Eidembukta, West Svalbard, Norway:
• Swearingen, Jann, 1993, Environmental Studies Internship, The Private Management of Government Agency Records for use with Phase I ESA's
• Brueggemann, M., 1993, Geochemistry of the Carolina terrane and Adjacent Modoc Ductile Shear Zone in central Georgia: Evidence Implying Bark-Arc Rifting. 40 p.
• Teresa Castelhano, 1996, Kinematic Evolution of the Tertiary Fold-Thrust Belt of Brøggerhalvøya, Spitsbergen, Norway From Slip-linear Plots
• Dawn Randall, 1996, Analysis of FIP in oriented quartzite samples from Nordenskiold Land, Spitsbergen.
• Mike Turco, 1997, Locating Omaha Pioneer Gravesites Using Geophysical Means.
• Alder, Tina, 1998, Loess Fracture analysis of the Omaha-Council Bluffs Region.
• Daver Berger, 1999, Conditions and timing of deformation of diabase sills in the SED lineament, W Svalbard
• Kirk Heim, 2000, Tectonic Development of the Asterias Fault Complex, Loppa High, Barents Shelf
• Justin Covey, 2000, The Structure and Association of the Swaen Graben within the Loppa High on the Barents Shelf
• Amber Nightengale, 2000, Geochemical signatures of plume related volcanism with time
• Troy Hays, 2002, Sedimentologic record of the High Arctic Large Igneous Province in the Cretaceous Strata of midterhuken, Svalbard, Norway
• Jessica Brock and Lee Todd, 2003, Multiple glacial tills in an exposure along the lower Elkhorn River, Nebraska
• Jeff Salazar, 2003, Three-dimensional mapping of geochemical data density distribution from the Columbia River Flood Basalt Province
• Amanda Hassler, 2003, Nitrate contamination in the ground water of the Republican River valley in Red Willow and Hitchcock counties from 1992-2001
• George Joyce, 2003, Multiple Glacial Till Correlation Based on Clast Type in the Omaha Area
• Leo Justin Tegels, 2003, Physical Analysis of Chalcedony Faults and Veins at Toadstool Geologic Park, Nebraska, U.S.A.
• Jeane Miller, 2003, Ground Source Heat-pumps: An underused alternative in the Omaha Metropolitan Area (for UNL program)
• Jeremy Mutrux, 2005, Ironstones within and Nd analysis of Cretaceous rocks, Svalbard, Norway
• William Moak, 2005, Faults in White River Group strata of Toadstool Geologic Park, Northwest Nebraska
• Korey Brunken, 2005, Effects of applied strain on fine-grained sediment: A model for polygonal fracture development in passive margins
• Amanda Beerman, 2005, Extensional features of Harlan County Reservoir
• Colleen Steele, 2006, Riprap Sedimentology of Little Papillion Creek, Omaha, NE
• Mike Riggle, 2006, Thin section investigation of deformation features in chalcedony veins in Nebraska and South Dakota
• Philip Schiele, 2007, Glacial Till Deposits of the Greater Omaha Area
• Jon Firkins, 2007 GIS investigation of Mesozoic iron ooid occurrences
• Sarah Pistillo, 2007 Compaction deformation of muscovite in Cretaceous sandstones from Spitsbergen
• Aleece Nanfito, 2008, Primary, secondary and deformation features in Carboniferous evaporates from the Billefjorden basin of Spitsbergen
• Jami Shuler, 2009, Clay and silica mineralogy of chalcedony stratiform horizons in the White River Group
• Rebecca Moshman, 2010, Investigation of possible biosignatures associated with Cretaceous iron ooids of Spitsbergen
• Bart Cubrich, 2011, Using the multinomial function to assess the degree of fracture organization
• Jeffrey Carritt, 2011, Analysis of Strata-Bound Vein Arrays in the Oligocene Brule Formation, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska
• Rachael Hines, 2011,Comparison of clastic dike versus host sediment at Sheep Mountain, Badlands National Park, South Dakota
• Drew Williams, 2012, Joint, Fault, and Vein Analysis of the Lewis and Clark Reservoir, NE
• Chris Sautter, 2012, Fracture Orientation Analysis: Eastern Nebrasak and Western Iowa
• Ben Bates, 2013, Anistropic Influence on Mud Cracks - A Statistical Study Examining the INfluence of Introduced Anisotropies on Crack Orientation in Mud
• Ryan Korth, 2013, Spatial Analysis of Seismic Activity in the Central Great Plains
• Theresa Halligan, 2013, Analysis of Smectite/Illilte Clays Within the White River Group
• Jace Cochran, 2014, Discharge versus Bed Scour Relationships of the Missouri River at Sioux City from 1984 to 2011
• Mousa Guirra, 2014, Geochemistry of smectite/illites in the White River Group at Toadstool, Nebraska. Coadvised w Dr. Engelmann
• Laura Pickett, 2014, Mineralogic Analysis of Veins/Dikes within the White River Group, NW Nebraska. Coadvised w Dr. Shuster
• Drew Schwab, 2014, Structural Analysis of Dyke Swarms in teh South Sinai Peninsula as a Part of the Arabian-Nubian Shield
• Elizabeth Olree, 2015, White River Group stratigraphy in half grabens of the Slim Buttes area, South Dakota
• Alex Babb, 2016, Weighted cluster analysis and animation of Central Great Plains earthquake activity.
• Jon Kinkade, 2016, Breccia characterization using photogrammetry in the Billefjorden basin, Svalbard, Norway
• Kelly Helmar, 2017, Deformation bands in Brule Formation sandstones of Slim Buttes, S.D.
• Ryan Brown, 2017, Investigating the paleo-geography of the Brule Formation, southern Slim Buttes, S. D.
• Joseph Darraugh, 2017, Petrologic analysis of ultramafites of the South Carolina and Georgia Piedmont.
• Delph Ngoma, 2018, Miocene paleocurrent analysis in the Arikaree Group, northwest South Dakota

Ongoing senior theses:

• Sarah Ferguson, Architecture of polygonal faults in the Niobrara Chalk
• Daniel Bior, Weathering profile changes in Niobrara marls of Francis Case Lake, South Dakota

• conducted annual reports on faculty and staff.
• coordinated promotion and tenure activities within department.
• managed departmental operating budget.
• facilitated development of GIS graduate certificate.
• represented department on A&S Dean's Committee.

• helped faculty and staff in their search and application for external funding.
• coordinated development and presentation of federal appropriations requests to state senators and congressmen.
• served as UNO representative to the NU system federal relations team.
• served on the Peter Kiewet Institute advisory committee.
• served as UNO representative to state EPSCoR committee.
• coordinated call for and selection of, and then presented yearly UNO proposals to the University of Nebraska Foundation.
• oversight of the UNO University of Committee on Research and Creative activity.
• development of responsible conduct of research training policy.
• developed, and coordinated the first and second Annual Celebration of Student Research and Creative Activity.
• oversight of the 5 person Office of Sponsored Projects.
• member of Dean's Forum.

University committees served on:

• Chair of Search Committee for the Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Creative Activity position
• Arts and Science Educational Policy Committee (Chair)
• Arts and Science Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee
• Faculty Senate (2)
• General Education Task Force
• Graduate Council (2)
• Math/Science Learning Center Committee
• Outstanding Teaching Award Committee for NU system
• University Committe on Research (2)
• Sustainability Task Force
• Professional Conduct Committee

Education Member of the Nebraska Board of Geologists since 2012:

• appointed by governor.
• review applicants for licensure.
• help organize field trip associated with 2012 ASBOG meeting in Omaha.
• represented NEBOG at annual 2015 ASBOG meeting.
• served as subject matter expert at 2016 ASBOG meeting.

Member of external and internal geoscience program review commitees.

Service learning projects with Lady Of Lourdes and Joslyn Art Museum:

• The first project in 2014 combined the efforts of 7th graders from Lady of Lourdes School in Omaha, staff of the Joslyn Art Museum, staff from UNO's Service Learning Academy, 4 UNO undergraduate students and myself to create an interactive game for patrons viewing a special exhibit on Thomas Moran chromolithographs from an early expedition to Yellowstone. The effort helped the 7th graders learn earth science basics, and the game educated the public about the geology within Moran's prints (played >250 times).
• A second project in 2015 involved the same parties, but the activity developed for interested patrons focused on the incredible diversity of building stone within the museum that comes from around the world, and the geologic stories associated with those stones. The activity was named by the 7th graders Lord of the Rocks, and has been used by > 400 visitors..
• A third project in 2016 looked at the geology explicit or implicit in paintings of the permanent collection, and developed an activity that engages museum visitors exploring the art through the lense of intertwined rock and water cycles, and the sometimes obvious and sometimes subtle role that geology plays in the art.
• A fourth project in 2018 revisited the effort in 2016, but with the new European exhibit at the museum.
• Helped provide an workshop on the this service project at the Engaged Scholarship Consortium at UNO Oct. 11-16th.

Licensed geologist in State of Nebraska since 1999.

Awards and/or honors:

• Reusch's medal for the paper: Braathen, A., Bergh, S. & Maher, H. D., Jr., 1995, Structural outline of a Tertiary basement-uplift/inversion structure in western Spitbergen: kinematics and controlling factors; Tectonics, 14, 95-119. from the Geological Society of Norway.
• Elected Fellow of Geological Society of America, 2003.
• Elected Fellow of Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska, 2005.
• Recipient of 2005 Alumni Outstanding Teaching Award for the College of Arts and Sciences.
• Recipient of 2007 University of Nebraska STEP UP Award (along with two other colleagues).