T.E. Törnqvist, Vita

Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences

PERMANENT POSITION:

· Assistant Professor

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, Illinois 60607

EDUCATION:

· M.S. in Physical Geography, Utrecht University, August 1988 (Major: Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology; Minors: Palynology, Sedimentology)

· Ph.D. in Physical Geography, Utrecht University, December 1993 (Thesis: Fluvial Sedimentary Geology and Chronology of the Holocene Rhine-Meuse Delta, The Netherlands)

POSITIONS HELD:

· Research associate (gratis appointment) at the Institute for Environmental Studies, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, U.S.A. 07-01-94 to 07-01-96

· Parttime lecturer at the Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University (lecture course in Quaternary geology) 02-01-94 to 12-01-94

· Postdoc researcher employed by NWO (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research), based at the Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University (research Mississippi Delta) 09-01-93 to 08-01-96

· Research associate at the Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University (completing Ph.D. thesis) 03-01-93 to 09-01-93

· Research associate at the Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University (Ph.D. project Rhine-Meuse Delta) 01-01-89 to 03-01-93

· Research associate at the Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University (research West Greenland) 10-01-88 to 01-01-89

· Various teaching assistantships at the Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University (predominantly teaching an undergraduate field course) 05-01-84 to 08-01-87

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS/RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

· Geomorphological and geological mapping of late Quaternary fluvial deposits in deltaic settings (Rhine-Meuse Delta, Mississippi Delta)

· Sedimentology (facies architecture) and chronology of deltaic fluvial systems (Rhine-Meuse Delta, Mississippi Delta)

· Late Quaternary fluviodeltaic sequence stratigraphy (Lower Rhine‑Meuse and Mississippi Rivers)

· Application of ¹⁴C dating and interpretation of ¹⁴C ages, primarily in connection to organic deposits in fluvial environments (AMS dating of macrofossils, calibration of individual ¹⁴C ages and ¹⁴C histograms)

· Sea‑level research and neotectonics in submerging coastal environments (Rhine‑Meuse Delta, Mississippi Delta)

· Theoretical aspects and applications of lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, and chronostratigraphy to late Quaternary deposits (predominantly in The Netherlands)

· Paleoecology of Holocene sediments in fluvial, lacustrine, and mire environments in relation to (pre)historic occupation, fluvial and eolian dynamics, and climate change (Rhine-Meuse Delta, Northwest Spain, West Greenland)

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:

· Quarternary geology

· Fluvial and deltaic sedimentology

· Nonmarine sequence stratigraphy

· Sea-level research

· Geochronology

· Paleoclimatology