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M’bark Baddouh, Ph.D.

Application Scientist Bruker AXS/

Affiliate Faculty

George Mason University

4400 University Dr.

Fairfax, VA 22030

Email: mbaddouh@gmu.edu

 

Summary

Sedimentology and stratigraphy, especially carbonate and siliciclastic petrology, mineralogy and diagenesis, sedimentary geochemistry, isotope geochemistry, paleoclimatology, geochronology, basin analysis and field geology. Interdisciplinary and dynamic scientist with broad scientific expertise and interests. More than ten years teaching in American education system.

 

Education

2016 Doctor of Philosophy (Geoscience), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geoscience. Dissertation title: Application of Strontium Isotopes in Paleoclimatology, Paleohydrology and Chemostratigraphy: The Eocene Green River Formation, Wyoming. Advisors: Professors Alan R. Carroll and Stephen R. Meyers.

2008 Master of Science (Geoscience), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geoscience. Thesis: Sequence Stratigraphy of the Cambrian St. Lawrence Formation, Wisconsin. Advisor: Professor Charles W. Byers.

2000 Bachelor of Science (Geology), University of Ibn Zohr, Agadir, Morocco.

 

Recent Employment

2023 to present       Applications Scientist, Bruker AXS, Inc. Fitchburg, WI

2019 to present       Affiliate Faculty, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.

2022-2023               Visiting Assistant Professor, Beloit College Department of Geology Beloit, Wisconsin 53511

2019-2023               Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Platteville, College of Engineering, Mathematics, and Science.

2017-2019               Term Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.

2017-2022               Field Camp Coordinator and Instructor, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD.

2019-2020               Associate Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geoscience.

2016-2017               Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.

2009-2016               Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant/Dissertation Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geoscience.

2002-2008               Associate Scientist, Pharmaceutical Product Development, Middleton, WI.

 

Languages

Fluent in reading and writing in 4 languages: Berber, Arabic, French, and English.

 

Grants and Awards

2017            Nominated for “The Career Connection Faculty Award” at George Mason University

2017            Albert & Alice Weeks Outstanding Student Research Paper Award, UW-Madison.

2006            George J. Verville Award in Geology and Geophysics, UW-Madison

 

Teaching Experiences

Courses taught at University of Wisconsin-Platteville and Beloit College:

·       Physical Geology (Fall 2020, 2021 and Fall and Spring 2022 and 2023).

·       Environmental Geology (Spring 2019, 2022, 2023 and Fall 2020, 2021).

·       Geology for Engineers (Fall 2021 and Spring 2022)

·       Historical Geology (Spring 2020).

·       Global Landform (Geography) (Spring 2020).

Courses taught at George Mason University:

·       Sedimentary Geology (Fall 2017, 2018).

·       Marine Geology (Fall 2018).

·       Environmental Geology (Spring 2017).

·       Introductory Geology I (Spring 2017, 2018).

·       Introductory Geology II (Fall 2017, Summer 2018 and Spring 2018).

·       Geology Seminar Series (Spring 2018).

Courses taught at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology:

·       Bullhead City Field Camp, Arizona (Winter 2020, 2021, 2022)

·       Black Hills Natural Sciences Field Station Field Camp (Summer 2017, 2021).

·       Geology /Alpine Tectonics Field Camp, French Alps (Summer 2019)

·       Atlas Mountains Field Camp, Tafraoute, Morocco (Summer 2018, 2019).

Courses taught at the University of Wisconsin Madison:

·       Introductory Geology (Fall 2019)

·       Survey of Oceanography (Spring 2019, TA Spring 2015).

·       TA Environmental Geology (Fall 2014).

·       TA Evolution and Extinction (Spring 2013 and Fall 2014, 2015).

·       TA Geologic Evolution of Earth (Spring 2011).

·       TA Introduction to Geologic Structures (Spring 2010).

 

George Mason University Committee Service

2018 Ph.D. Committee Member: Cynthia A. Kearns (Ph.D. candidate, Department of Environmental Science and Policy: “The Mineralogy and Mineral Chemistry of the Henryton Pegmatite, Patapsco State Park, Carroll County, Maryland”).

2018 Undergraduate Advisor: Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences.

 

 

University of Wisconsin-Madison Committee Service

2012 Vice President of Geoscience Graduate Student Association.

2013 Field trip coordinator and leader for UW-Madison Geoscience recruiting event.

 

Research Experiences

Postdoctoral Research:

Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 at Demerara Rise, Atlantic Ocean: Micron-scale sediment geochemical data collection from finely laminated black shales in Ocean Drilling Program Leg 207 drill cores for paleoceanographic reconstruction.

PhD Research:

Eocene Green River Formation, Wyoming: Developed a novel high-resolution Sr isotope chemostratigraphy of lacustrine deposits to evaluate lake level fluctuation history, to investigate Milankovitch astronomical forcing of lake Gosiute and as a new approach for high-resolution correlation.

MS Research:

Cambrian St. Lawrence Formation: Outcrop sequence stratigraphy interpretation.

 

Laboratory Experiences

 

2023 to present       Used micro-X-ray fluorescence elemental composition of materials including rock samples, metal alloys, glass, plants, powders, liquids, currencies, batteries, jewelry, PCBs, fossils and concrete. Elemental composition of art including oil and water paintings, ink, paper, coins, stamps, ceramics.

 

2016                        Used X-ray fluorescence (XRF) in MARUM Lab in Bremen University, Germany. Prepared core samples to scan the entire core for 8 elements with 200- micron measurements and photo scanning the core.

 

2011-2013               Preparing core samples, aliquoting, pipetting and extraction of strontium (Sr) and rubidium (Rb) isotopes by ion exchange chromatography and isotope dilution analytical method in Inductively Coupled Plasma and Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry Laboratory (ICP TIMS) in the University of Wisconsin Madison.

 

2010-2014               Experience with rock crushing, gold table, heavy liquid separation of zircons and sanidine grains for U/Pb and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology ages. Experience with petrographic microscope, sandstone point counting, Second Electron Microscope (SEM), X-ray-diffraction (XRD).

 

2002-2008               Experience in sample management, sample preparation, preparation of quality controls and calibration curve samples, aliquoting, extracting and analyzing biological fluids for drug development. Used High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and Liquid Chromatography Mass spectrometer (LM/MS). Meticulous in generation data quality and following step by step methods instructions with precision.

Computing Experiences

·       M4 Software, Esprit Reveal Software experienced with Illustrator, Photoshop, GeoFrameIESX, MDI Data Scan 4, MDI Jade 9

·       Working knowledge of Melts, Isoplot3, Endnote, RefWorks, Matlab, R, KaleidaGraph, and Igor.

 

Workplace Skills

·       Excel at working in team environments.

·       Meticulous laboratory skills.

·       Ability to manage multiple priorities.

·       Extensive experience working in multicultural settings.

·       Created and/or maintained websites using Google Sites and WordPress for personal and professional use.

 

Other Significant Experiences

·       ExxonMobil Short Course: Basin and Play Analysis in the 2015 Rocky Mountain Rendezvous: Sequence stratigraphy and basin assessment for oil and gas exploration.

·   GSA Geochronology Short Course, Vancouver, Canada: participated in multiple lectures about different geochronology techniques.

·   IsoAstro Workshop, University of Wisconsin-Madison: High-precision chronostratigraphy analysis using 40Ar/39Ar and U/Pb and astrochronology, August 2014.

·   AAPG Convention Short Course: Forensic Geochemistry and Source Attribution: fundamentals of forensic isotopic analysis.

·   BP Short Course: Sequence Stratigraphy for Graduate Students: principles, concepts and methods of sequence stratigraphy.

·   Geofuels LLC, Madison, Wisconsin: Coordinated logistics for AAPG field seminar, “Lacustrine Basin Exploration”.

·   Summer Research Intern, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Source-to-sink provenance study of Cretaceous-Tertiary sandstones of Rocky Mountains Region.

 

Invited Speaker

2020 Northwest Missouri State University, Department of Natural Sciences

2016 George Mason University, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences

2015 Kansas State University, Department of Geology

 

Student Mentoring and Training, and Other Professional Service

Undergraduate/Graduate Student Mentoring

·       Michael Hudgins, Undergraduate student at George Mason University now a PhD student at University of Alberta, Canada.

·       Sean Karoly, Earth System Science Master’s student at George Mason University: Literature search, project management, preparation for conference oral presentation, Cretaceous OAE2 geological background.

·       Wei Liu, visiting PhD student from China University of Geosciences (Beijing): American education system, preparation for conference oral presentation, feedback about research data and hypothesis testing.

·       Randy Williams, PhD student UW-Madison: Sr isotope sample preparation, aliquoting, ion exchange chromatography and Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry in the UW-Madison Radiogenic Isotope Lab.

·       Chao Ma, PhD student UW-Madison: Graduate mentor, guiding student in development of research prospectus and exam preparation.

·       Elliot Jagniecki, PhD student at Binghamton University, NY, now a geologist at Utah Geological Survey: Sr isotope sample preparation, aliquoting, ion exchange chromatography and Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Radiogenic Isotope Laboratory.

·       Yihang Fang, UW-Madison geoscience undergraduate student: field assistant, measurement of stratigraphic sections, and collection of carbonate samples in the Green River Formation, WY.

·       Thiruchelvi Reddy, UW-Madison geoscience undergraduate student: preparation of thin sections for sandstone and carbonate petrographic analysis, Green River Formation.

 

Publications

Jagniecki, E.A., Lowenstein, T.K., Demicco, R.V., Baddouh, M., Carroll, A.R., Beard, B.L. and Johnson, C.M. (2021), Spring origin of Eocene carbonate mounds in the Green River Formation, Northern Bridger Basin, Wyoming, USA. Sedimentology. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12852

Baddouh, M., Carroll, A.R., Jagniecki, E.A., Beard, B.L., Lowenstein, T.K., and Johnson, C.M., Groundwater mixing in an alkaline paleolake: Eocene Green River Formation, Wyoming, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 561, 2021, 110038, ISSN 0031 0182, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110038

Liu, W., Wu, H., Hinnov, L.A., Baddouh, M., Wang, P., Gao, Y., Zhang, S., Yang, T., Li, H., and Wang, C. (2020), An 11 million-year-long record of astronomically forced fluvialalluvial deposition and paleoclimate change in the Early Cretaceous Songliao synrift basin, China, Special Issue: Cyclostratigraphy and Astrochronology: Case Studies from China, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 541, 109555, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109555

Baddouh, M., Carroll, A.R., Meyers, S.R., Beard, B.L., and Johnson, C. M., 2017, Chronostratigraphic Correlation of Lacustrine Deposits Using 87Sr/86Sr Ratios, Eocene GreenRiver Formation, WY. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 87(4), p. 406-423. Highlighted on journal cover. https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2017.27

Baddouh, M., Meyers, S.R., Carroll, A.R., Beard, B.L., and Johnson, C.M., 2016, Lacustrine 87Sr/86Sr as a tracer to reconstruct Milankovitch forcing of the Eocene hydrologic cycle: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 448, p. 62-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.05.007

 

Near submission

Baddouh, M., and Hinnov, L.A., Chemical Composition Variations and Biogeochemical Cycling in Organic-Rich Marine Black Shales at the Inception of Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event2, Cenomanian-Turonian transition, Demerara Rise, Equatorial Atlantic Ocean. To be submitted to Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.

 

In progress

Baddouh, M., Hinnov, L.A., Fischer, A.G., and Grippo, A., Astronomical Controls on Paleohydrology of the Eocene Lacustrine Green River Formation, Bridger Basin, Wyoming. To be submitted to Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.

Baddouh, M. and Byers, C.W., Sequence Stratigraphy of the Cambrian St. Lawrence Formation in Southwestern Wisconsin. To be submitted to Sedimentary Geology.

Doebbert, C. Amalia, Lamaskin, A. Todd, Carroll, R. Alan, Baddouh, M., and Williams, E., A New Confidence Envelope Method for Evaluating Detrital Zircon Age Distributions: TestingSediment Sources for the Eocene Wilcox Sandstone. To Be submitted to Journal of Sedimentary Research.

Karoly, S., Hinnov, L.A., and Baddouh, M., Global Milankovitch cycle framework for Cretaceous OAE2 based on ODP Leg 207 Site 1260. To be submitted to Cretaceous Research.

Hinnov, L.A., Gnanadesikan, A., and Baddouh, M., Modeling the Cretaceous Ocean Anoxic Event 2 paleoclimate system. To be submitted to Earth-Science Reviews.

 

Meeting Abstracts and Presentations

Oral Presentations

1. Hinnov, L.A., Fischer, A.G., Grippo, A., Teerman C. S., and Baddouh, M., Eocene

cyclostratigraphy and astrochronology: the Green River Formation (Bridger Basin,

Wyoming). GSA Annual Conference, Phoenix AZ, USA, September 2019.

2. Gavillot Y. G, Beraaouz E., and Baddouh M., The Tafraoute region in the western Anti-Atlas (Morocco) as a geopark concept for sustainable development and geotourism. GSA Annual Conference, Phoenix AZ, USA, September 2019.

3. Baddouh, M., Karoly S. E., and Hinnov, L.A., Marine Black Shale at Demerara Rise, Equatorial Atlantic Ocean, at the Inception of Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2: A Record of Disturbance in Terrestrial Sediment Influx, Marine Productivity, Nutrient Cycling, Oceanic Anoxia and Circulation, Oral presentation at GSA Annual Conference, Seattle, USA, October 2017.

4. Baddouh, M., and Hinnov, L.A., Chemical Composition of Laminated Marine Sediments during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2, Demerara Rise, Equatorial Atlantic Ocean, Oral presentation at GSA Northeastern and North-Central Section Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2017.

5. Baddouh, M., and Byers, C.W., Sequence Stratigraphy Interpretation of Lower and Upper Boundaries of the Cambrian St. Lawrence Formation in Southwestern Wisconsin. Oral presentation at GSA North-Central Section Meeting, Madison, WI, March 2015.

6. Baddouh, M., Meyers, S.R., Carroll, A.R., Beard, B.L., and Clark M. Johnson, C.M., Astronomically forced Lake Expansion and Contraction Cycles: Sr Isotopic Evidence from the Eocene Green River Formation, Western USA. Oral presentation at 2014 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2014.

7. Baddouh, M., Beard, B.L., Carroll, A.R., and Johnson, C.M., High Resolution Sr– Isotope Chemostratigraphy of Eocene Lake Deposits, Green River Formation, Wyoming. GSA Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada, October 2014.

8. Baddouh, M., Beard, B.L., Carroll, A.R., and Johnson, C.M., High Resolution Sr–Isotope Chemostratigraphy of Eocene Lake Deposits, Green River Formation, Wyoming. 2014 University of Wisconsin, Geoscience Department Graduate Symposium, April 2014.

9. Baddouh, M., and Winsor, K., 2011, An Introduction to Geology: What do geoscientists do? PEOPLE Program seminar, teaching the role of geoscience in society to middle and high school students, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, July 2011.

 

Poster presentations

1. Hudgins M., Baddouh M., and Sharaf E., Stable isotope analysis of the Bighorn Basin dolomites and interpretation of dolomitization. GSA Annual Conference, Phoenix AZ, USA, September 2019.

2. Baddouh M., Gavillot Y. G., Beraaouz E., and Anders H. M., Re-Interpretation of Neoproterozoic Sediments of the Moroccan Anti-Atlas Mountains: Implication for the Snowball Earth Model. AGU Annual Conference, Washington DC, USA, December 2018.

3. Baddouh M., Gavillot Y. G., Beraaouz E., and Anders H. M., Anti-Atlas Field Camp,

Tafraoute Morocco. AGU Annual Conference, Washington DC, USA, December 2018.

4. Baddouh, M., Carroll, A.R., Beard, B.L., and Johnson, C.M., Lake-Margin carbonate

δ18O, δ13C, and 87Sr/86Sr, Northern Bridger Basin Eocene Green River Formation, Wyoming. GSA Annual Conference, Denver, CO, September 2016.

5. Baddouh, M., Hinnov, L.A., Fischer, A.G., and Grippo, A., Astronomical Controls on

Paleohydrology of the Eocene Lacustrine Green River Formation, Bridger Basin,

Wyoming. GSAAnnual Conference, Denver, CO, September 2016.

6. Baddouh, M., Beard, B.L., Carroll, A.R., and Johnson, C.M., Geochemistry of Lacustrine

Microbialite of the Eocene Green River Formation, 2013 AAPG-RMS meeting, Salt Lake

City, UT, September 2013.

7. Baddouh, M., Beard, B.L., Carroll, A.R., and Johnson, C.M., Geochemistry of Lacustrine Microbialite of the Eocene Green River Formation, University of Wisconsin, Geoscience Department Graduate Symposium, April 2013.

8. Baddouh, M., and Carroll, A.R., Provenance of Paleogene and upper Cretaceous

sandstone, U-Pb dating of detrital zircons, University of Wisconsin Source to Sink

Symposium, April 2012.

 

Professional Memberships

• American Association of Petroleum Geologists

• Geological Society of America

• American Geophysical Union

 

Social Interests

• Played competitive volleyball in high school and for college teams in Morocco.

• Officiated volleyball leagues and tournaments in Madison, WI.

• Coached extramural high school volleyball team in Madison, WI.