Project Assistant

Biographical Sketch: Richard K. Dunn, Associate Professor, Department of Geology & Environmental Science

Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont, 05663, 802-***-****, *****@*******.***

Education

Ph.D. 1998 Geology, University of Delaware

M.S. 1990 Geology, Wichita State University

B.A. 1987 Anthropology, University of Minnesota Duluth

B.S. 1987 Geology, University of Minnesota - Duluth

Appointments post-graduate

Associate Professor, Chair 2008- Norwich University, Geology & Environmental Science

Associate Professor, Interim Chair 2006-2007, Norwich University, Geology & Environmental Science

Assistant Professor 2000-2006, Norwich University, Geology & Environmental Science

Visiting Assistant Professor 1998-2000, Macalester College, Department of Geology

Geoarchaeology Research Fellow 1996-1998, American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece

Geologist and Consultant variety of research and state mapping programs (see below)

Research and Consulting

Geologist 2007-present. Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project (SHARP); Kalamianos, Greece

Geologist 2004-present. Kenchreai Cemetery Archaeological Project; Kenchreai, Greece

Geologist 2004-2005. Geological Mapping of Surficial Deposits of the Thatcher Brook Watershed, Vermont

Geological Survey, STATEMAP Program

Geologist 2003-2004. Geologic Mapping of Surficial Deposits of the Watershed of the East Middlebury River,

Vermont Geological Survey, STATEMAP Program

Geologist 2002-2003. Research expedition on Phoenician archaeological sites, Portugal.

Geologist 2002-2003. Geologic Mapping of the Surficial Deposits of the Watershed of the Mad River,

Vermont Geological Survey, STATEMAP Program

Geologist 2001-2002. Geologic Mapping of the Surficial Deposits of the Watershed of the Third Branch of the

White River, Vermont Geological Survey, STATEMAP Program

Princ. Invest. 1999-2000. Quaternary geology, Big Badlands National Park, SD

Geologist 1999-2000. Omrit Site, Israel. Macalester College Excavations at Omrit

Geologist 1997-1999. Torone Site, Greece

Geoarch Fellow 1996-1998. Wiener Laboratory; American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Geologist 1996. Paphos Harbor Project, Paphos, western Cyprus

Geologist 1993. Nikopolis Expedition, Epirus Region, western Greece

Geologist 1987-1990. Belize Society Geology of Belizean reefs, Modern Carbonates Research Group

Geol. Assist. 1988. United States Geological Survey at Fisher Island, Florida

Geologist 1987. Excavation of Shea Site (32CS101), Cass County, North Dakota

Peer reviewed papers

Tartaron, T., Pullen, D., Dunn, R., Dill, A., in press, The Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project (SHARP):

Investigations at Mycenaean Kalamianos, 2007 2009: Hesperia, The American School of Classical Studies at

Athens.

Beness, Lea, Dunn, Richard K., Hillard, Tom, in press, The coastal topography of ancient Torone, Halkidiki, Greece:

Mediterranean Archaeology, The University of Sydney Press.

Dunn, Richard, Beness, J. Lea and Hillard, Tom, 2009, The harbour of Torone and its disappearance: Australian

Archaeological Fieldwork Abroad I, a Special Issue of Ancient History: Resources for Teachers, v. 37, no. 1 (backdated

2007), p. 84-93.

Wachsmann, S., Dunn, R. K., Hale, J. R., Hohlfelder, R. L., Conyers, L. B., Ernenwein, E. G., Sheets, P. and Blot, M.

L. P., Castro, F., Davis, D., 2009, The palaeo-environmental contexts of three possible Phoenician anchorages in

Portugal: The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, v. 38, no. 2., pp. 221-253.

Rife, J. L., Morison, M. M., Barbet, A., Dunn, R. K., Ubelaker, D. H. and Monier, F., 2007, Life and death at a port in

Roman Greece: The Kenchreai Cemetery Project 2002-2006: Hesperia, The American School of Classical Studies

at Athens, v. 76, no. 1, p. 143-181.

Sarris, A., Dunn, R. K., Rife, J. L., Papadopoulos, N., Kokkinou, El, and Mundigler, C., 2007, Geological and

geophysical investigations in the Roman cemetery at Kenchreai (Korinthia), Greece: Archaeological Prospection, v.

14, p. 1-23.

O Neal, M. L. and Dunn, R. K., 2003, Ground penetrating radar (GPR) investigation of multiple stage-5 sea-level

fluctuations on a siliciclastic estuarine shoreline; Delaware Bay, southern New Jersey, USA: in, Bristow, C. S. and

Jol, H. M. (eds.), Ground Penetrating Radar: Applications in Sedimentology. Geol. Soc., London, Special Pub. 211,

p. 63-73.

Belknap, D. F., Kraft, J.C. and Dunn, R. K., 1994, Valley-fill lithosomes: Delaware and Maine, in Dalrymple, R.W.,

Boyd, R. and Zaitlin, B.A. (eds.), Incised-Valley Systems: Origin and Sedimentary Sequences, SEPM Special

Publication 51, p. 303-320.

Dunn, R. K. and Mazzullo, S. J., 1993, Holocene paleocoastal reconstruction and relationship to Marco Gonzalez

(Maya) archaeological site, Ambergris Cay, Belize: Journal of Field Archaeology, v. 20, no. 2, p. 121-131.

Burke, C. D., Mazzullo, S.J., Bischoff, W. D. and Dunn, R. K., 1992, Environmental setting of Holocene Sabellariid

worm reefs, northern Belize: PALAIOS, v. 7, p. 118-124.

Blakeslee, D. J. and Dunn, R. K., 1988, Identification of Subsoil Inclusions in Pomona Ceramics, in, Olsen, S.L. (ed.),

Scanning Electron Microscopy in Archaeology: B.A.R. International Series 452, Oxford, p. 79-100.

Reports of Investigation (not peer reviewed)

Springston, George E. and Dunn, Richard K., 2006, Surficial geologic map of the Southern Worcester Mountains,

Middlesex and Stow: Vermont Geological Survey Open File Report VG2006-3, 7.5 minute quadrangles, Vermont,

1 color plate, 1:24,000.

Dunn, Richard, K., 2004, Surficial geology of parts of the East Middlebury and Cornwall 7.5-minute quadrangles,

western Vermont: partial coverage of the Middlebury River Basin: Vermont Geol. Survey Open File Report, 15 p.

Donahue, Nathan P., Dunn, Richard K., and Springston, George E., 2004, Surficial geology of the Middlebury River

watershed, west-central Vermont: Vermont Geol. Survey, Waterbury, VT, Open File Map, 1:24,000.

Dunn, Richard, K., 2003, Surficial geology of the Mad River watershed, Central Vermont, including parts of the

Waitsfield, Warren and Lincoln 7.5-minute quadrangles: Vermont Geol. Survey Open File Report, 22 p.

Springston, George E., Dunn, Richard K., and Donahue, Nathan, 2003, Surficial geologic map, Mad River watershed,

central Vermont: Vermont Geol. Survey, Waterbury, VT, Open File Map, 1:40,000.

Larsen, Frederick D., Dunn, Richard K. and Donahue, Nathan, 2003, Preliminary surficial geologic map of the

Randolph Quadrangle, central Vermont: Vermont Geol. Survey, Waterbury, Vermont, Open File Map, 1:24,000.

Dunn, Richard, K., 2002, Surficial geology of the watershed of the Third Branch of the White River including parts

of the Roxbury and Randolph 7.5-minute quadrangles: Vermont Geol. Survey Open File Report, 25 p.

Dunn, R. K., 1999, Geologic report & geologic map of the Macalester College 1999 excavation at Omrit, Israel,

unpub. report of the Omrit Excavations,10 p.

Leonard, J. R., Dunn, R. K. and Hohlfelder, R. L., 1998, Geoarchaeological investigations in Paphos Harbour, 1996:

Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus 1998, Nicosia, p. 141-159.

Dunn, R. K., 1996, Geologic coring and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the ancient harbor at Paphos, western

Cyprus: ASOR-CAARI Report of Investigations, Fall, 1996, p. 1-4.

Other

Larsen, Frederick, D., Wright, Stephen F., Springston, George E. and Dunn, Richard K., 2003, Glacial, Late-glacial

and post-glacial history of central Vermont: Guidebook for the 66th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Friends of

the Pleistocene, Montpelier, Vermont, 62 p.

Dunn, R. K., 1997, Sedimentological principles, textural analyses, and interpretation of depositional units and erosion

surfaces: Laboratory and Field Manual of The Wiener Laboratory. Amer. School of Classic. Studies - Athens, 44 p.

Conference presentations

17 papers presented at conference meetings related to Geoarchaeology

21 papers presented at conference meetings related to Quaternary landscape evolution

Professional and Scholarly Awards (since 2000), Honors

Co-Principle Investigator, Vermont Streams Project, EPSCoR (NSF), 2009 - current

Faculty-Student Summer Research Grant, 2007, Norwich University

Faculty-Student Summer Research Grant, 2005, Norwich University

Charles A. Dana Summer Fellowship, Geoarchaeological research in Korinthia, Greece, 2004

American Institute of Archaeology, Grant Co-Recipient, radiocarbon analyses, $10,450 2003

Charles A. Dana Summer Fellowship, Quaternary geology, coastal New Jersey 2001

Mellon Technical Grant, Macalester College; web-based pedagogical tools 2000

Over $48,000 in small grants obtained for undergraduate student research since 2000

Category I Dana Professor 2010-1011, Norwich University

President, Sigma Xi, Vermont Chapter 2009 present

Vice President, Sigma Xi, Vermont Chapter 2007- 2009

President, Vermont Geological Society, 2004-2006

Vermont Geological Society, Visiting Lecturer, 2004-2005

Category I Dana Professor 2003-2004, Norwich University

Geoarchaeology Fellow 1996-1998, American School of Classical Studies in Athens

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