Iowa State University

Iowa State University

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences

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Contact us at 515-294-4477 (geology) or 515-294-4758 (meteorology)
geology@iastate.edu
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Carl Jacobson
Chair
Department of Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
253 Science I
Ames, Iowa 50011

FAX: 515-294-6049

William Gallus
Professor-in-Charge
Meteorology Program
3010 Agronomy Hall
515-294-2270


Publications by Cinzia Cervato


Cervato C. (1990). Tectonically induced hydrothermal dolomitization of Jurassic-Cretaceous limestones in the Central Southern Alps (Italy). Geology, 18, 458-461.

Spencer-Cervato, C. (1991). Dolomitizzazione idrotermale di calcari pelagici giurassico-cretacici nelle Alpi Meridionali (Italia). Boll. Soc. Geol. Ital., 110, 139-154.

Spencer, D.A., Ramsay, J.G., Spencer-Cervato, C., Pognante, U., Ghazanfar, M. and Nawaz Chaudhry, M. (1990). High pressure (eclogite facies) metamorphism in the Indian Plate, NW Himalaya, Pakistan. Bulletin of the University of Peshawar, 23, 87-100.

Spencer-Cervato, C. and Mullis, J. (1992). Chemical study of tectonically controlled hydrothermal dolomitization: an example from the Lessini Mountains, Italy. Geologische Rundschau, 81(2), 347-370.

Spencer-Cervato, C., Lazarus, D., Beckmann, J.P., von Salis Perch-Nielsen, K. and Biolzi, M. (1993). New calibration of Neogene radiolarian events in the North Pacific. Marine Micropaleontology, 21, 261-293.

Spencer-Cervato, C., Thierstein, H.R., Lazarus, D.B. and Beckmann, J.P. (1994). How synchronous are Neogene marine plankton events? Paleoceanography, 9, 739-763.

Lazarus, D.B., Hilbrecht, H., Spencer-Cervato, C. and Thierstein, H.R. (1995). Sympatric speciation and phyletic change in Globorotalia truncatulinoides (planktonic foraminifera). Paleobiology, 21, 28-51.

Lazarus, D., Spencer-Cervato, C., Pika-Biolzi, M., Beckmann, J.P., von Salis, K., Hilbrecht, H. and Thierstein, H. (1995). Revised chronology of Neogene DSDP Holes from the World Ocean. Ocean Drilling Program Technical Note No. 24, pp. 312 (also available at www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/ lazarus.html).

Spencer-Cervato, C. and Thierstein, H.R. (1997). First appearance of Globorotalia truncatulinoides: Cladogenesis and immigration. Marine Micropaleontology, 30, 267-291.

Spencer-Cervato, C. (1998). Changing depth distribution of hiatuses during the Cenozoic. Paleoceanography, 13, 178-182. [Additional data available in the NOAA-WDCA for Paleoclimatology Data Contr. Series #97-030: ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleocean/by_ contributor/spencer-cervato1998/].

Spencer-Cervato, C. (1999). The Cenozoic Deep Sea Microfossil Record: Explorations of the DSDP/ODP Sample Set Using the Neptune Database. Palaeontologia Electronica, vol. 2, issue 2, art. 4: 268pp., 2.4MB. http://palaeo-electronica.org/1999_2/neptune/issue2_99.htm

Spencer-Cervato, C. and Daly, J.F. (2000). Geologic Time: An interactive, team-oriented Introductory Geology laboratory. Teaching Earth Sciences, 25, 19-22.

Cervato, C. (2003). Getting help from the Internet to teach a large-enrollment introductory geology class. Journal of Geoscience Education, 51, 185-193.

Cervato, C. and Burckle, L. (2003). Pattern of first and last appearance in diatoms: Oceanic circulation and the position of the Polar Fronts during the Cenozoic. Paleoceanography, 18(2), 1055, doi:10.1029/2002PA000805.

Gallus, W., Cervato, C., Cruz-Neira, C., Faidley, G. and Heer, Rex (2004). A virtual tornadic thunderstorm enabling students to construct knowledge about storm dynamics through data collection and analysis. Extended abstract, American Meteorological Society Bulletin.

Cervato, C., Bar-Yosef, O. and Ryan, W.B.F., Did abrupt climate changes impact the Neolithic revolution and its aftermath? Submitted to Journal of Archaeological Science.

Jach, J.Y., and Cervato, C., 2004. Attitude toward learning science of students in introductory geology courses. Teaching Earth Sciences, 29 (2), 28-31.

Cervato, C., Goldstein, S., Grossman, E., Lehnert, K., and MacArthur, J.A., 2004. Joint discussion of sedimentary geochemistry data management systems that cross the waterline. EOS, 85, 44, 450-452.

Klump, J., Huber, R., Cervato, C., and Snyder, W.S., 2005. iGEOINFO.org – International Collaboration in GeoInformatics. EOS, 86, 27.

Gallus, W.A., Cervato, C., Cruz-Neira, C., Faidley, G., and Heer, R. (2005). Learning storm dynamics with a virtual thunderstorm. Bull. Amer. Met. Society, Feb 2005, 164-165.

Cervato, C., Snyder, W.S., Fils, D., et al. (2005). The CHRONOS System: geoinformatics for sedimentary geology and paleobiology. IEEE Data Interoperability proceedings volume, 182-186, PDF

Sikora, P., Ogg, J.G., Gary, A., Cervato, C., Gradstein, F., Huber, B.T., Marshall, C., Stein, J.A., and Wardlaw, B. (2006). An Integrated Chronostratigraphic Data System for the 21st Century. Geological Society of America Special Paper 397, 53-61.

Gallus, W.A., Cervato, C., Cruz-Neira, C., and Faidley, G. (2006). A virtual tornadic thunderstorm enabling students to construct knowledge about storm dynamics through data collection and analysis. Advances in Geosciences, 8, 27-32.

Reed, J.A., Cervato, C., and Fils, D. (2006). PSICAT. Geospectrum, 5 (2), 33-34.

Cervato, C., Rudd, J. and Wang, V.Z. (2007). Diagnostic testing of Introductory Geology students. Journal of Geoscience Education, 55 (5), 357-363.

Fils, D., Cervato, C., and Diver, P. (2008). CHRONOS Architecture: Experiences with an Open Source Services Oriented Architecture for Geoinformatics. Computers & Geosciences. In press.