Justin V. Strauss

|Associate Professor
Academic Appointments

Associate Professor of Earth Sciences

I am interested in a variety of geological phenomena, from the evolution of Earth's biosphere to the tectonic development of modern and ancient mountain belts. My primary interest is reconstructing Earth's history, particularly the co-evolution of Earth and life during key periods of tectonic and climatic change. Most of my projects are framed through the lens of field-based sedimentology, stratigraphy, and structural geology; however, I also integrate a wide array of tools, such as stable and radiogenic isotope geochemistry, geochronology, paleontology, and geological mapping to explore outstanding problems in historical geobiology and global tectonics. Almost all of my projects are multidisciplinary and involve collaboration with colleagues of diverse field and analytical expertise.

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Contact

Justin.V.Strauss@dartmouth.edu
603-646-6954
Fairchild, Room 222
HB 6105

Department(s)

Earth Sciences

Center(s)

The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding

Education

  • B.A. Colorado College
  • M.S. Harvard University
  • Ph.D. Harvard University

Selected Publications

  • 2025:

    Biasi, J., and Strauss, J.V., 2025, A review of paleomagnetic studies from northern Alaska and Yukon: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 62, n. 4, p. 725–757. 10.1139/cjes-2024-0125

    Cobbett, R.N., Beranek, L.P., Colpron, M., Piercey, S., Crowley, J.L., Strauss, J.V., and Taylor, J.F., 2025, Late Cambrian and Ordovician alkalic magmatism along the Dawson fault, Yukon: Evidence for multiple reactivations of a rift-transfer fault in the northern Canadian Cordillera: Tectonics, v. 44, e2024TC008645. 10.1029/2024TC008645

    Mughal, S., Millikin, A.E.G., Zhang, T., Gibson, T.M., Rooney, A.D., Tosca, N.J., Bergmann, K.D., Strauss, J.V., and Anderson, R.P., 2025, The Svanbergfjellet Formation: eukaryotic life in a Tonian Sea: Journal of the Geological Society of London – Lagerstatten Series, v. 182. 10.1144/jgs2024-0

    2024:

    Boag, T.H., Busch, J.F., Gooley, J., Strauss, J.V., and Sperling, E.A., 2024, Deep-water first occurrences of Ediacara biota prior to the Shuram carbon isotope excursion in the Wernecke Mountains, Yukon, Canada: Geobiology, v. 22, n. 3, p. 1–23. 10.1111/gbi.12597

    Cantine, M., Orzechowski, E., Stein, N., Lincoln, T., Hibner, B., Present, T., Thorpe, M., Strauss, J.V., Rumbelsperger, A.M.B., Knoll, A.H., Grotzinger, J., Gomes, M, and Trower, E., 2024, Rapid growth of a carbonate island over the last millennium: Sedimentology, v. 71, p. 2119–2143. 10.1111/sed.13202

    Koch, M.M., McClelland, W.C., Gilotti, J.A., Kosminska, K., Strauss, J.V., Faehnrich, K., Beranek, L.P., and Pease, V., 2024, Early Paleozoic accretion history of the Pearya terrane: new insights from igneous and detrital zircon signatures of the Kulutingwak complex, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada: Geosphere, v. 20 (3), p. 778–798. 10.1130/GES02723.1

    Stockey, R.G., Cole, D.B., Farrell, U.C., Boag, T.H., Brocks, J.J., Canfield, D.E., Cheng, M., Crockford, P.W., Cui, H., Dahl, T.W., Del Mouro, L., Dewing, K., Dornbos, S.Q., Emmings, J.F., Gaines, R.R., Gibson, T.M., Gill, B.C., Gilleaudeau, G.J., Goldberg, K., Guilbaud, R., Halverson, G., Hammarlund, E.U., Hantsoo, K., Henderson, M.A., Hendserson, C.M., Hodgskiss, M.S.W., Jarrett, A.J.M., Johnston, D.T., Kabanov, P., Kimmig, J., Knoll, A.H., Kunzmann, M., LeRoy, M.A., Li, C., Loydell, D.K., Macdonald, F.A., Magnall, J.M., Mills, N.T., Och, L.M., O'Connell, B., Pages, A., Peters, S.E., Porter, S.M., Poulton, S.W. Ritzer, S.R., Rooney, A.D., Schoepefer, S., Smith, E.F., Strauss, J.V., Uhlein, G.J., White, T., Woltz, C.R., Yurchenko, I., Planavsky, N.J., and Sperling, E.A., 2024, Multiple sustained increases in atmospheric oxygen and marine productivity through the Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic eras: Nature Geoscience, v. 17, p. 667–674. 10.1038/s41561-024-01479-1  

    2023:

    Bazarnik, J., Kósminska, K., McClelland, W.C., Strauss, J.V., Piepjohn, K., Elvevold, S., Zielinski, G., and Majka, J., 2023, Reinterpretation of a major terrane boundary in the northern Svalbard Caledonides based on metamorphic fingerprinting of rocks in northern Spitsbergen: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 60, p. 1188–1205. 0.1139/cjes-2022-000

    Busch, J.F., Boag, T.H., Sperling, E.A., Rooney, A.D., Feng, X., Moynihan, D.P., and Strauss, J.V., 2023, Integrated litho-, chemo-, and sequence stratigraphy of the Ediacaran Gametrail Formation across a shelf-slope transect in the Wernecke Mountains, Yukon, Canada: American Journal of Science, v. 323 (4), 74874. 10.2475/001c.74874

    Dumoulin, J.A., Strauss, J.V., and Repetski, J.E., 2023, Ordovician Geology of Alaska, in Percival, I., Harper, D., Lefebvre, B, and Servais, T., eds., Global Synthesis of the Ordovician System II: Geological Society of London Special Papers, v. 533, p. 11–26. 10.1144/SP533-2022-39

    Faehnrich, K., McClelland, W.C., Webb, L., Kósminska, K., and Strauss, J.V., 2023, Late Ediacaran–early Cambrian rifting along the northern margin of Laurentia: Constraints from the Yelverton Formation of Ellesmere Island, Canada: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 60, no.12, p. 1597–1626. 10.1139/cjes-2023-0020

    McClelland, W.C., Strauss, J.V., Gilotti, J.A., and Colpron, M., 2023, Paleozoic evolution of the northern Laurentian margin: Evaluating links between the Caledonian, Ellesmerian, and Cordilleran orogens, in Whitmeyer, S.J., Williams, M.L., Kellett, D.A., and Tikoff, B., eds., Laurentia: Turning Points in the Evolution of a Continent: Geological Society of America Memoir 220, p. 605–633. 10.1130/2022.1220(30)

    Palucis, M.C., Morgan, A.M., Strauss, J.V., Rivera-Hernandez, F., Marshall, J., Menio, E., and Miller, R., 2023, Rates and processes controlling periglacial alluvial fan formation: Implications for Martian fans: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 135, no. 3/4, p. 937–954. 10.1130/B36459.1

    Roest-Ellis, S., Richardson, J.A., Phillips, B.L., Mehra, A., Webb, S.M., Cohen, P.A., Strauss, J.V., and Tosca, N.J., 2023, Tonian carbonates record phosphate-rich shallow seas: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 24 (5), e2023GC010974. 10.1029/2023GC010974

    Stein, N.T., Grotzinger, J.P., Quinn, D.P., Lingappa, U.F., Present, T.M., Trower, E.J., Gomes, M.L., Orzechowski, E., Cantine, M., Metcalfe, K.S., Fischer, W.W., Ehlmann, B.L., Strauss, J.V., and Knoll, A.H., 2023, Geomorphic and environmental controls on microbial mat fabrics on Little Ambergris Cay, Turks and Caicos Islands: Sedimentology, v. 70, p. 1915–1974. 10.1111/sed.13100

    Strauss, J.V., Faehnrich, K., McClelland, W.C., Koch, M.M., Crowley, J.L., Melchin, M.J., and Beranek, L.P., 2023, Reply to the Discussion by Hadlari on "Age and significance of the Fire Bay Formation: An Ordovician arc fragment within the Clements Markham belt, northwest Ellesmere Island": Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 60, no. 12, p. 1705–1708. 10.1139/cjes-2023-0039

    Zhang, T., Keller, C.B., Hoggard, M.J., Rooney, A.D., Halverson, G.P., Bergmann, K.D., Crowley, J.L., and Strauss, J.V., 2023, A Bayesian framework for subsidence modeling in sedimentary basins: a case study of the Tonian Akademikerbreen Group of Svalbard, Norway: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 620, 118317. 10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118317

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