Beth A. Johnson

Determining slope movement and water contamination of quicklime deposits along Lake Winnebago, High Cliff State Park, Wisconsin part of Undergraduate Research:2014 Workshop:Activities
For nearly 100 years, the site that is now High Cliff State Park near Sherwood, WI was the site of a quicklime kiln. Local Silurian dolomite from the Niagara Escarpment was quarried and baked in large kilns before ...

Report on Unlearning Racism in Geoscience from the 2YC URGE Pod part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2021:Program:Poster Sessions:Wednesday:Poster Session III
The five-month long virtual Unlearning Racism in Geoscience (URGE) program was developed to empower groups, or pods, of geoscience faculty to implement anti-racist strategies and policies within their departments ...

The Use of Geophysical Analysis to Identify the Extent of Slackwater Terrace Materials part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
The Savanna Terrace along the Mississippi River in northwestern Illinois was formed due to drainage of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) during the Wisconsin Episode Deglaciation (Figure 1). Meltwater from the LIS ...

Where Did They Come From? – The Search for the Slackwater Sediments of the Savanna Terrace part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
As geologists, we sometimes travel to exotic locales for research. Sometimes, we work a little closer to home. In my case, I work very close to home. While investigating the materials that make up the Savanna ...