Curriculum Vitae

Scott Michael White

Education                      

2001       Ph.D. Geological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara

Dissertation Title: The Linkage of Volcanic and Tectonic Segmentation on Fast Spreading Mid-Ocean Ridges

Committee: Tanya Atwater, Rachel Haymon, Bruce Luyendyk, Ken Macdonald (chair)

1994       B.S. Geology (Highest Honors), University of California, Davis

Professional Experience

Aug. 2003-present               Assistant Professor

                                                Geological Sciences Dept., Univ. South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Mar. 2001-Aug. 2003       Research Assistant Professor

                                                Geological Sciences Dept., Univ. South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Sep. 1995-Mar. 2001       Graduate Research Assistant

                                                Geological Sciences Dept., Univ. California, Santa Barbara, CA

Sep. 1994-Jun. 1995        Geophysics Intern

                                                U.S.G.S. Hawaiian Volcanoes Observatory, Hawai’i National Park, HI

Peer-Reviewed Publications (reverse chronological order)

1.        White, S. M., R. M. Haymon, and S. M. Carbotte (in review) A New View of Ridge Segmentation and Near-Axis Volcanism at the East Pacific Rise from EM300 multibeam bathymetry, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst, submitted June 2006.

2.        Meyer, J. D. and S. M. White (in review), Lava Morphology Mapping by Expert System Classification of High-Resolution Side-Scan Sonar Imagery from the East Pacific Rise, 9°-10°N, Mar. Geophys. Res., submitted Feb. 2006.

3.        White, S. M., J. A. Crisp, and F. J. Spera (2006), Long-term volumetric eruption rates and magma budgets, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 7, Q03010, doi:10.1029/2005GC001002.

4.        White S. M., S. Umino, H. Kumagai (2006) Transition from seamount chain to intraplate volcanic ridge at the East Pacific Rise, Geology V. 34, pp. 293-296.

5.        White S. M., Seamounts in Pilmer, Selly, and Cocks (eds.) Encyclopedia of Geology, Elsevier, Oxford, Vol. 4, pp. 475-483, 2005.

6.        Haymon, R. M. and S. M. White, Fine-scale segmentation of hydrothermal/volcanic systems along fast-spreading ridge crests, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, V. 226, 367-382, 2004.

7.        White, S. M., R. Trenkamp, J. N. Kellogg, Crustal Deformation in the Northern Andes: Indications of Postseismic Relaxation on the Ecuador-Colombia Subduction Zone from GPS Measurements, Earth and Planetary Science Letters V. 216, 231-242, 2003.

8.        Carbotte, S. M., W. B. F. Ryan, W. Jin, M.-H. Cormier, E. Bergmanis, J. Sinton, S. White, Magmatic Subsidence of the EPR Revealed Through Fault Restoration of Ridge Crest Bathymetry, Geophy. Geochem. Geosys., 10.1029/2002GC000337, 2003.

9.        White, S. M., R. M. Haymon, D. J. Fornari , M. R. Perfit, K. C. Macdonald, Correlation between Volcanic and Tectonic Segmentation of Fast-Spreading Ridges: Evidence from Volcanic Structures and Lava Morphology on the East Pacific Rise, 9º-10º N, Journal of Geophysical Research V.107, 10.1029/2001JB000571, 2002.

10.     White, S. M., K. C. Macdonald, J. M. Sinton, Volcanic Mound Fields and Lava Flow Fields on the East Pacific Rise, 16º -19ºS: Low Effusion Rate Eruptions at Overlapping Spreading Centers for the Last 1 Myr, Journal of Geophysical Research, V.107, 10.1029/2001JB000483, 2002.

11.     Sinton, J., E. Bergmanis, K. Rubin, R. Batiza, T. Gregg, K. Gronvold, K. Macdonald, S. White, Volcanic Eruptions on mid-ocean ridges: New evidence from the superfast-spreading East Pacific Rise, 17º -19ºS, Journal of Geophysical Research V. 107, 10.1029/2000JB000090, 2002.

12.     Wright, D. J., R. M. Haymon, K. C. Macdonald, S. M. White, Crustal fissuring on the crest of the southern East Pacific Rise, Journal of Geophysical Research, V. 107, 10.1029/2001JB000544, 2002.

13.     White, S. M., K.C. Macdonald, R.M. Haymon, Basaltic Lava Domes, Lava Lakes, and Volcanic Segmentation on the Southern East Pacific Rise, Journal of Geophysical Research, V. 105, 23,519-23,536, 2000.

14.     White, S. M., K.C. Macdonald, D.S. Scheirer, M-H. Cormier, The Distribution of Isolated Volcanoes on the Flanks of the Southern East Pacific Rise, 15.3°-20°S, Journal of Geophysical Research, V.103, 30371-30384, 1998.

Recent Published Abstracts

G. Voulgaris, S. White, M. Kulp, The impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Caminada-Moreau Headland, Eos, Trans. AGU 87(18), Abstract OS16H-04, 2006.

E. Carter and S. White, Resistivity surveys of seasonal groundwater salinity variations along forest-marsh transects at North Inlet, South Carolina, Eos, Trans. AGU 86(18), Abstract H13C-03, 2005.

S. White, G. Voulgaris, C. Amer, Side-scan Sonar Characterization of Sediments in Winyah Bay estuary, South Carolina, Southeast Coastal Ocean Sciences Conference, Charleston, SC, 2003.

Field Research Experience

2006     R/V Thompson       EM300 multibeam, DSL120A side-scan sonar, and towed camera surveys of the Galapagos Spreading Center

2005     R/V Thompson       EM300 multibeam mapping and rock dredging of the western Aleutian Arc

2004     R/V Yokosuka        Shinkai 6500 submersible diving on East Pacific Rise seamounts

2003     R/V Revelle             EM120/Gravity/Magnetics/Seismic survey of South San Clemente Basin, California Continental Borderland

2002     NOAAS Ferrel        SeaScan sonar survey of Winyah Bay, South Carolina

2002    R/V Suncoaster       EM3000 multibeam sonar mapping, NE Gulf of Mexico

2000    R/V Melville            SeaBeam, DSL120 side-scan, and ArgoII video surveys of the East Pacific Rise and Galapagos Spreading Center

1999     U.S.G.S. Hawaiian Volcanoes Observatory: Gravity surveys of small volcanic cones and lava flow kinematics

1999     R/V Atlantis            Alvin and DSL120 side-scan survey of the East Pacific Rise

1996     R/V Melville           DSL120 side-scan sonar and ArgoII video surveys of the East Pacific Rise

1996     R/V Melville           SeaBeam/Gravity/Magnetics survey of the Southern East Pacific Rise

Courses Taught

Intro to Earth (GEOL 101), Environmental Geology (GEOL 103), Earth Surface and Near-Surface Processes (GEOL 315), Field Studies in Geology (GEOL 318), Environmental Geophysics (GEOL 548), Geological Oceanography (GEOL 545)

Graduate Students

Current: John O’Brien M.Sc. candidate (USC)

2006        Erin Carter, M.Sc. Geological Sciences (USC)

2006        Jason Meyer, M.Sc. Geological Sciences (USC)

Awards, Committees

2005-present        Faculty Senator, Geological Sciences, Univ. S. Carolina

2003-present        RIDGE 2000 Education and Outreach Committee

2002-present        Faculty Advisor, Geoclub, Univ. S. Carolina

1998       Glicken Memorial Award, for graduate student research in volcanology

1997-99 Field Trips Committee (Chair 1999), Royal Geological Society of Goleta, U.C. Santa Barbara

1995       Graduate Research Fellowship, Dept. of Geological Sciences, U.C. Santa Barbara

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