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Eric Cheney

Courses Taught

Quarter Dept Course # Credits Enrollment % Responsibility Co-Instructor
Winter 2010 ESS 345 3 9 100
Winter 2010 ESS 445 5 3 100

UW Class Seminars and Lectures

Date(s) Dept/Other Course # Location Type-of-instruction/Title-of-talk
14 Mar 2012 ESS 418 022 JHN judge of student presentations

Awards and Honors

Award Name Date Bestowed Awarding Body Brief Description
T. Lyle Taylor Starter’s [Service] Award, December, 2004, Northwest Mining Association, for outstanding service to the Association.
Lifetime Service Award 10-13-2007 Northwest Geological Society
Licensed Geologist #864, 2002 - present, State of Washington, professional accreditation

Professional Talks and Presentations

Date Organization Event Invited/Contributed(I/C) Type Title
01-30-2010 University of Washington (Tacoma) I Talk Future of hydrocarbons
05-17-2010 Geological Society Nevada (Reno) C Poster ...natural units...postcard-sized geologic map of Washington ...
11-01-2010 Geol. Soc. America Annual Meeting C Talk ..recognition of the Pend Oreille fold and thrust belt ...
09-10-2011 Geol. Soc. America Annual Meeting C Talk Eight Negative public misconceptions about mineral fuel ... resources
09-09-2011 Geol. Soc. America Annual Meeting C Poster (Buddington et al.) Tests Pend Oreille ... fold and thrust belt
05-05- 2011 Geol. Soc. South Africa Annual Meeting C Talk (Hatton et al.)
The Transvaal Supergroup: rime to break up the band?
02-09-2010 Northwest Geological Society (Seattle) I Talk Future of hydrocarbon
02-14-2012 Northwest Geological Society (Seattle) I Talk Ores of the Rare Earth Elements
06-23-2012 Natl. Assn. Geosci. Teachers, {PNW) Spokane)I Talk Laurentian Washington
10-03-2012 Intl. Earth Sci. Colloq.Aegean Region(Turkey) I Talk Departures from the standard model of porphyry ore deposits
10-04-2012 Intl. Earth Sci. Colloq. Aegean Region (Turkey)C Talk Ores of the rare earth elements
01-08-2013 Northwest Geological Society (Seattle) I Talk Geotourism in the West Fjords, IceLand

Public and Community Service

Date Organization/Event Type of Service
Spring 2008 Dept of Geology, Western Washington University Informal Adviser on establishing a program on economic geology (ore deposits)
Autumn 2008 University of Western Ontario Informal Adviser on establishing a program in economic geology (ore deposits)
2008 Brooklyn Mining Company Cheney, E.S., 2008, Mineral potential of Ferry County, Washington: for public release by Brooklyn Mining Company, Curlew, WA, 3 p.
01-24-2011, Aljoya Thornton Place: invited talk, "The future of oil and gas"

Recent Publications and Manuscripts in the Press

Cheney, E.S., 2010, Toward a structural synthesis of the Kootenay Arc in northeastern Washington and adjacent British Columbia: recognition of the Pend Oreille fold and thrust belt from 49.2ºN to 48.1ºN: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs Vol. 42, No. 5, p. 268.

Cheney, E.S., and Hayman, N.W., 2010, The Chiwaukum structural low: Cenozoic shortening of the central Cascade Range, Washington State, USA: Reply Geological Society of America Bulletin,  v. 122, 2103-2108.

Cheney, E.S., 2012, Important geologic concepts, for Rocks, Fire and Ice, to be published by University of Washington Press, in press.

Cheney, E.S., 2012, Overview of the geology of Washington State, for Rocks, Fire and Ice, to be published by  University of Washington Press, in press.

Cheney, E.S., 2012, Overview of the Cenozoic unconformity-bounded sequences of the Pacific Northwest, for Rocks Fire and Ice, to be published by University of Washington Press, in press.

Cheney, E.S., 2013, Fidalgo Island Field Trip, Northwest Geological Society Symposium 2013.

Cheney, E.S., and Buddington, A.M., 2009, Wine, Rocks, and Snow, the Geology Greater Spokane:  Field Trip Guidebook, 115th Annual Meeting of the Northwest Mining Association, 35 p.; available from Northwest Mining Association, Spokane, WA, or from the authors. (invited monograph).

Buddington, A. M., Doughty, P. T., Cheney, E.S., and Balholm, P. , 2011, Tests of the newly recognized Pend Oreille fold and thrust belt in northeastern Washington:  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 43, no. 5, p. 101.

Cheney, E.S., 2011, Eight negative public misconceptions about mineral, fuel, and water resources: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs,  v. 43, no. 5, p. 354.  

Hatton C, Bosch P, Cheney E, de Waal S, Schweitzer J, Twist D , 2011, The Transvaal Supergroup: Time to break up the band? Geosynthesis 2011 (Joint meeting of South African Geophysical Association, Geological Society of South Africa and Geostatistical Association of South Africa), Cape Town, Abstracts pp. 40-41

Cheney, E.S., and Doughty, P.T, 2012, Overview of Laurentian  rocks in the Pacific Northwest, for Rocks, Fire, and Ice, to be published by University of Washington Press, in press.

Cheney, E.S., and Figge, J.T. 2012, Overview of Terranes in Washington, for Rocks Fire and Ice, to be published by University of Washington Press, in press.

Cheney, E.S., and Zieg, G.A., 2012, Regional thrust faults and Proterozoic unconformity-bounded sequences in northeastern Washington and adjacent British Columbia, for Rocks   Fire and Ice, to be published by University of Washington Press, in press.

Doughty, P.T., Buddington, A.M., Cheney, E.S., and Derkey, R. E., 2012, Geology of the Priest River metamorphic complex south of the Spokane River Valley, Washington, for Rocks, Fire and Ice, to be published by the University of Washington Press, in press

Lund, K., and Cheney, E.S., 2012, Unconformity-bounded sequences of the Neoproterozoic Windermere Supergroup in the Pacific Northwest, USA, Rocks, Fire and Ice, to be published by the University of Washington Press, in press.

Current Research Interests

Geology of ore deposits
Geology of the Pacific Northwest
Sequence (synthemal) stratigraphy

Current C.V. URL

http://earthweb.ess.washington.edu/~cheney/CheneyCV.doc

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