Dr. Ethan Grossman

Research Interests

• Earth system history
• Stable isotope geochemistry
• Biogeochemistry and geomicrobiology of aquifer systems

Experience

• 6/2008-8/2008 Acting Deputy Director of Science Services, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP)-US Implementing Organization (USIO)
• 8/2007-8/2008 Acting Executive Associate Dean, Acting Associate Dean for Research, College of Geosciences
• 2002-present Mollie B. and Richard A. Williford Professor, Texas A&M University, Department of Geology & Geophysics
• 1994-2002 Professor, Texas A&M University, Department of Geology & Geophysics
• Fall, 2001 Visiting Professor, Pennsylvania State University, Dept. of Geosciences and the Environment Institute
• 1988-94 Associate Professor, Texas A&M University, Department of Geology
• 1982-88 Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, Department of Geology
• 1981-82 Instructor (part-time), California State University at Northridge, Department of Geosciences
• 1977-78 Teaching Assistant, Petrology and Oceanography, University of Southern California
• 1976-77, 1979-82 Research Assistant, Supervisor of Stable Isotope Laboratory, University of Southern California
• Summer, 1976 Field assistant in Newfoundland drilling ophiolites with Norm Watkins (URI) and graduate student

Recent Publications

RECENT ABSTRACTS (2007+) (*student author)

• DiMarco, S.F., May, N., A. S. Quigg, A.S., Fisher, M., Denton, W., Grossman, E., Strauss*, J.,  Bianchi, T.S., Mullins, R., 2009. 24-year climatology of coastal Texas water quality: stratification, nutrients, and hypoxia. Nutrient Criteria Research Framework Workshop, Gulf of Mexico Alliance, New Orleans.
• Noret* J.R., Grossman, E.L., Yancey, T.E., and Chuvashov, B.I., 2009.  Global climatic and ecological correlations during the Early Permian (Cisuralian). South-Central GSA Abstracts with Programs (in press).
• Woodard*, S.C., Thomas, D.J., Grossman, E., Miller, B.V., Olszewski, T.D., Yancey, T.E., Barley*, B., Raymond, A., and Hensley*, M., 2008. Nd isotopes from North American epicontinental seas: A link to Carboniferous ocean chemistry and inter-basinal circulation. GSA Abstracts with Programs 40.
• Tao*, K.., and Grossman, E.L.,, 2008. Pliocene marine temperatures and nutrient sources on the Florida Platform: Evidence from molluskan stable isotopes and trace element signatures. GSA Abstracts with Programs 40.
• Grossman, E.L., Yancey, T.E., Jones*, T.E., Chuvashov, B.I., and Mazzullo, S.J., 2007, The oxygen isotopic record of Late Pennsylvanian to Mid-Permian climate change in North America and the Russian Platform. GSA Abstracts with Programs 39:356.
• Grossman, E.L., Wang, H-Y., and Yancey, T.E., 2007. Annual growth bands in the Carboniferous brachiopod Gigantoproductus: A high-resolution stable isotope and sclerochronology study. 1st Int'l.Sclerochronology Conference, St. Petersburg, FL. p. 39.
• Tao*, K.., and Grossman, E.L.,, 2007. Mid-Pliocene environments in the eastern U.S. Gulf Coast: A study of stable isotopes and growth increments in the gastropod Conus adversarius. 1st Int'l. Sclerochronology Conference, St. Petersburg, FL. p. 100.
• Grossman, E.L., Yancey, T.E., Jones*, T.E., Bruckschen, P., Chuvashov, B., Mazzullo, S.J., Mii, Horng-sheng, 2007. Glaciation and aridification in the Permo-Carboniferous: The oxygen isotopic record from low latitudes. 16th Intl. Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian, Nanjing, China, p. 4 .

PAPERS (*student author) (reprints available upon request)

• Grossman, E. L., Oxygen isotope stratigraphy. In A Geologic Time Scale 2010, F. Gradstein et al., eds., Cambridge Press (submitted).
• Ruebush, L.E., Grossman, E.L., Miller, S.A., North, S.W., Schielack, J.F., and Simanek, E.E., 2009. Scientists’ perspective on introducing authentic inquiry to high school teachers during an intensive three-week summer professional development experience. School Science and Mathematics (in press).
• Grossman, E.L., Yancey, T.E., Jones*, T.E., Chuvashov, B., Mazzullo, S.J., and Mii, H-S., 2008. Glaciation, aridification, and carbon sequestration in the Permo-Carboniferous: The isotopic record for low latitudes. Palaeogeog., Palaeoclim., Palaeoecol., doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.03.053.
• Gentry*, D.K., Sosdian*, S., Grossman, E.L., Rosenthal, Y., Hicks, D.W., Lear, C., 2008. Seasonal isotope and trace-metal profiles of serially-sampled Conus gastropods: Proxies for paleoenvironmental change. Palaios, v., 23, p. 195–209.
• Mazzullo, S.J., Boardman, D.R., Grossman, E.L., Dimmick-Wells, K., 2007. Oxygen-carbon isotope stratigraphy of Upper Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian marine deposits in Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma: implications for seawater isotopic composition, glaciation, and depositional cyclicity. Carbonates and Evaporites, v. 22, p. 55-72.
• Sosdian*, S., Gentry*, D.K., Lear, C., Grossman, E.L., Hicks, D., Rosenthal, Y., 2006. Strontium to calcium ratios in the marine gastropod Conus ermineus: Growth rate effects and temperature calibration, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G^3) v. 7, Q11023, doi:10.1029/2005GC001233.
• Grossman, E.L., Crowley, T.J., Pollard, D., and Scotese, C.R., 2006. Siberian glaciation as a constraint on Permo-Carboniferous CO2 levels. Geology, v. 34, p. 421-424.

Awards

• Elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America (2007)
• Dean's Distinguished Achievement Award for Faculty Research, College of Geosciences (2005)
• Awarded Mollie B. and Richard A. Williford Professorship (4/02 to present)
• Advisor to recipient of a university-wide Association of Former Students Distinguished Graduate Student Research Award (W. Cory Beck, M.S., 2005)
• Advisor to recipient of a university-wide Association of Former Students Distinguished Graduate Student Research Award (Takuro Kobashi, M.S., 2001)
• New York State Regents Scholarship (1972-76)
• New York State Earth Science Teachers Award (for academic excellence in high school earth science, 1972)