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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, particularily 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.
Earth Sciences
The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding
2022
Busch, J.F., Hodgin, E.B., Ahm, A.-S., Husson, J.M., Macdonald, F.A., Bergmann, K.D., Higgins, J.A., and Strauss, J.V., 2022, Global and local drivers of the Ediacaran Shuram carbon isotope excursion: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 579, p. 117368.
Dumoulin, J.A., Strauss, J.V., and Repetski, J.E., in press, Ordovician 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. xxx, p. xxx–xxx.
Kinney, S.T., Maclennan, S.A., Szymanowski, D., Keller, C.B., VanTongeren, J.A., Setera, J.B., Jaret, S.J., Town, C.F., Strauss, J.V., Bradley, D.C., Olsen, P.E., and Schoene, B., in press, Onset of long-lived silicic and alkaline magmatism in eastern North America precedes CAMP emplacement: Geology, v. xx, p. xxx–xxx.
Koch, M.M., Faehnrich, K., McClelland, W.C., Crowley, J.L., Melchin, M.J., Beranek, L.P., and Strauss, J.V., in press, 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. xx, p. xxx–xxx.
McClelland, W.C., Strauss, J.V., Gilotti, J.A., and Colpron, M., in press, Paleozoic evolution of the northern Laurentian margin: Evaluating links between Caledonian, Ellesmerian, and Cordilleran orogenesis, in Whitmeyer, S.J., Williams, M.L., Kellet, D.A., and Tikoff, B., Laurentia: Turning Points in the Evolution of a Continent, eds., Geological Society of America Special Paper.
Millikin, A.E.G., Strauss, J.V., Halverson, G.P., Bergmann, K.D., Tosca, N.J., and Rooney, A.D., 2022, Calibrating the Russoya excursion in Svalbard, Norway, and implications for Neoproterozoic chronology: Geology, v. 50, p. 506–510.
Palucis, M.C., Morgan, A.M., Strauss, J.V., Rivera-Hernandez, F., Marshall, J., Menio, E., and Miller, R., in press, Rates and processes controlling periglacial alluvial fan formation: Implications for Martian fans: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. xx, p. xxx–xxx.
2021
Ahm, A-S.C., Bjerrum, C.J., Hoffman, P.F., Macdonald, F.A., Maloof, A.C., Rose, C.V., Strauss, J.V., and Higgins, J.A., 2021, The Ca and Mg isotope record of the Cryogenian Trezona carbon isotope excursion: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 568, p. 117002.
Busch, J.F., Rooney, A.D., Meyer, E.E., Town, C., Moynihan, D., and Strauss, J.V., 2021, Late Neoproterozoic–early Paleozoic basin evolution in the Coal Creek inlier of Yukon, Canada: Implications for the tectonic evolution of northwestern Laurentia: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 58, p. 355–377.
Faehnrich, K., McClelland, W.C., Colpron, M., Nutt, C.L., Miller, R.S., Trembath, M., and Strauss, J.V., 2021, Pre-Mississippian stratigraphic architecture of the Porcupine Shear Zone, Yukon and Alaska, and significance in the evolution of northern Laurentia: Lithosphere, p. 7866155.
Farrell, U.C., Samawi, R., Anjanappa, S., Klykov, R., Adeboye, O., Agic, H., Ahm, A.-S.C., Boag, T.H., Bowyer, F.T., Brocks, J.J., Brunoir, T.N., Canfield, D.E., Chen, X., Cheng, M., Clarkson, M.O., Cordie, D., Crockford, P.W., Cui, H., Dahl, T.W., Del Mouro, L., Dewing, K., Dornbos, S., Drabon, N., Dumoulin, J.A., Emmings, J.F., Endriga, C., Fraser, T., Gaines, R.R., Gaschnig, R., Gibson, T., Gilleaudeau, G.J., Goldberg, K., Guilbaud, R., Halverson, G.P., Hammarlund, E.U., Hantsoo, K.G., Henderson, M., Hodgskiss, M.S.W., Horner, T.J., Husson, J., Johnson, B.W., Kabanov, P., Keller, C.B., Kimmig, J., Kipp, M.A., Knoll, A.H., Kreitsmann, T., Kunzmann, M., Kurzweil, F., LeRoy, M.A., Li, C., Lipp, A.G., Loydell, D.K., Lu, X., Macdonald, F.A., Magnall, J.M., Mänd, K., Mehra, A., Melchin, M.J., Miller, A.J., Mills, N.T., Mwinde, C., O'Connell, B., Och, L.M., Ossa Ossa, F., Pagès, A., Paiste, K., Partin, C.A., Peters, S.E., Playter, T., Plaza-Torres, S., Porter, S., Poulton, S.W., Pruss, S.B., Richoz, S., Ritzer, S.R., Rooney, A.D., Sahoo, S., Schoepfer, S.D., Sclafani, J.A., Shen, Y., Shorttle, O., Slotznick, S., Smith, E., Spinks, S.C., Stockey, R.G., Strauss, J.V.,Stüeken, E.E., Tecklenburg, S., Thomson, D., Tosca, N.J., Uhlein, Vizcaíno, M.N., G.J., Wang, H., White, T., Wilby, P., Woltz, C., Wood, R.A., Yurchenko, I., Zhang, T., Planavsky, N.J., Lau, K.V., Johnston, D.T., and Sperling, E.A., 2021, The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project: Geobiology, v. xx, p. 1–12.
Gibson, T.M., Faehnrich, K., Busch, J.F., McClelland, W.C., Schmitz, M.D., and Strauss, J.V., 2021a, A detrital zircon test of large-scale terrane displacement along the Arctic margin of North America: Geology, v. 49, p. 545-550.
Gibson, T.M., Millikin, A.E.G., Anderson, R.P., Myrow, P.M., Rooney, A.D., and Strauss, J.V., 2021b, Tonian deltaic sedimentation on the edge of Laurentia: The Veteranen Group of northeastern Spitsbergen, Svalbard: Sedimentary Geology, v. 426, p. 106011.
Mehra, A., Keller, C.B., Zhang, T., Tosca, N.J., McLennan, S., SGP Team, and Strauss, J.V., 2021, Curation and analysis of global sedimentary geochemical data to inform Earth history: GSA Today, v. 31, p. 4–9.
McClelland, W.C., Strauss, J.V., Colpron, M., Gilotti, J.A., Faehnrich, K., Malone, S.J., Gehrels, G.E., Macdonald, F.A., Oldow, J.S., 2021, "Taters" versus "Sliders": Evidence for a long-lived history of strike-slip displacement along the Canadian Arctic Transform System (CATS): GSA Today, v. 31, p. 4–11.
Roest-Ellis, S., Strauss, J.V., and Tosca, N.J., 2021, Experimental constraints on non-skeletal CaCO3 precipitation from mid-Neoproterozoic seawater: Geology, v. 49, p. 561–565.
Sperling, E.A., Melchin M.J., Fraser, T., Stockey, R.G., Farrell, U.C., Bhajan, L., Browne, T.N., Cole, D.B., Gill, B.C., Lenz, A., Loydell, D.K., Malinowski, J. Miller, A.J., Plaza-Torres, S., Rodewald, B., Rooney, A.D., Tecklenburg, S.A., Vogel, J.M., Planavsky, N.J., and Strauss, J.V., 2021, An exceptional record of early to middle Paleozoic redox change: Science Advances, v. 7, p. eabf4382.
Trower, E.J., Strauss, J.V., Sperling, E.A., and Fischer, W.W., 2021, Isotopic analyses of Ordovician–Silurian siliceous skeletons indicate silica-depleted Paleozoic oceans: Geobiology, v. xx, p. xxx.
Wala, V.T., Ziemniak, G., Majka, J., Faehnrich, K., McClelland, W.C., Meyer, E.E., Manecki, M., Bazarnik, J., and Strauss J.V., 2021, Neoproterozoic stratigraphy of the Southwestern Basement Province, Svalbard: Constraints on the Proterozoic–Paleozoic evolution of the North Atlantic-Arctic Caledonides: Precambrian Research, v. 358, p. 106138.
2020:
Faehnrich, K., Majka, J., Schneider, D., Mazur, S., Manecki, M., Ziemniak, G., Wala, V.T., and Strauss, J.V., 2020, Geochronological constraints on Caledonian strike-slip displacement in Svalbard, with implications for the evolution of the Arctic: Terra Nova, v. 32, p. 290–299.
Laakso, T.A., Strauss, J.V., and Peterson, K.J., 2020, Herbivory and its effect on Phanerozoic oxygen concentrations: Geology, v. 48, p. 410–414.
Rooney, A.D., Cantine, M.D., Bergmann, K.D., Gómez-Pérez, I., Baloushi, B., Boag, T.H., Busch, J.F., Sperling, E.A., and Strauss, J.V., 2020, Calibrating the co-evolution of Ediacaran life and environment: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 117, p. 16824–16830.
Strauss, J.V. and Tosca, N.J., 2020, Mineralogical constraints on Neoproterozoic pCO2 and marine carbonate chemistry: Geology, v. 48, p. 599–603.
Strauss, J.V., Fraser, T., Melchin, M.J., Allen, T.J., Malinowski, J., Feng, X., Taylor, J.F., Day, J., Gill, B.C., and Sperling, E.A., 2020, The Road River Group of northern Yukon, Canada: Early Paleozoic deep-water sedimentation within the Great American Carbonate Bank: Canadian Journal of Earth Science, v. 57(10), p. 1193–1219.