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Ronald I. Dorn

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Professor and MAS in Geographic Education Program Director

COOR 5580
ronald.dorn@asu.edu

Additional
Affiliation(s):

Co-Coordinator, Arizona Geographic Alliance

Education:

1985 - Ph.D. (Geography) University of California, Los Angeles
1982 - M.A. (Geography) University of California, Berkeley
1980 - B.A. (Geography) University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests:

Geomorphology, rock art conservation, petroglyph analysis, quantification and geography of mineral weathering, geographic education, tyranny of the majority in science, rock coatings

Research Activities:

Rock varnish and rock art

Awards and Honors:

 

2012 -  President's Medal of Social Embeddedness for the Teaching Foundations Project [led by Laura B. Turchi, shared with many others]

2010 - Geography Excellence in Media Award from the National Council for Geographic Education. [Hinde, E.R., Jimenez-Silva, M., Ekiss, G.O., Dorn, R.I., Osborn Popp, S.E., Managing Editors, (2009, Version 5.4). GeoLiteracy ELL Adaptations: Integrating Geography, Reading and Writing.  Tempe, AZ: Arizona Geographic Alliance.]

2009 - Distinguished Mentor Award from the National Council for Geographic Education

2009 - College of Liberal Arts and Science's Innovation in Teaching Award, Arizona State University

2005 - Enhancement of Geographic Literacy Cram Award, GeoMath, National Council for Social Studies (with G.B. Ekiss and E. Hinde)

2005 - Professor of the Year Special Recognition, Arizona State University Parents Association

2003 - Enhancement of Geographic Literacy Cram Award, GeoLiteracy, National Council for Social Studies (with G.B. Ekiss and E. Hinde)

1996 - Guggenheim Fellowship

1996 - Fellow of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Sciences

1993 - Wiley Award, Presented for Excellence in Geomorphological Research, British Geomorphological Research Group (with Roger LeB. Hooke)

1992 - Fellow of the Geological Society of America

1992 - Castleton Award, Presented for Excellence in Rock Art Research, American Rock Art Research Association

G.K. Gilbert Award, Presented for Excellence in Geomorphological Research, Geomorphology Specialty

1987 - Presidential Young Investigator Award of the National Science Foundation

1986 - Kirk Bryan Award of the Geological Society of America (with T.M. Oberlander), For Excellence in Geomorphological Research

Selected Publications:

 

Dorn, R.I., Gordon, S., Krinsley, D., and Langworthy, K. 2013. Nanoscale: mineral weathering boundary. In: Shroder, J. (Editor in Chief), Pope, G.A. (Eds), Treatise on Geomorphology. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, vol 4, Weathering and Soils Geomorphology, pp.: 70-97.
 
Dorn, R.I. 2013. Rock Coatings. In: Shroder, J. (Editor in Chief), Pope, G.A. (Ed.), Treatise on Geomorphology. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, vol 4, Weathering and Soils Geomorphology, pp.: 44-69.
 
Dorn, R.I., Gordon, S.J., Allen, C.D., Cerveny, N., Dixon, J.C., Groom, K.M. Hall, K., Harrison, E., Mol, L., Paradise, T.R., Sumner, P., Thompson, T., and Turkington, A.V. 2013. The role of fieldwork in rock decay research: case studies from the fringe. Geomorphology: in press.
 
Moore, M.J., Kraetz, G., and Dorn, R.I. 2012.  Phoenix debris flow hazard assessment: House location matters. Physical Geography 33: 491-513.
 
Dorn, R. I., Dorn, J., Harrison, E., Gutbrod, E., Gibson, S., Larson, P., Cerveny, N. Lopat, N. Groom, K.M., and Allen, C. 2012 Case hardening vignettes from the western USA: Convergence of form as a result of divergent hardening processes. Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Yearbook  74: 1-12.
 
Dorn, R.I., Gordon, M., Pagán, E.O., Bostwick, T.W., King, M. and Ostapuk, P. 2012. Assessing early Spanish explorer routes through authentication of rock inscriptions.  Professional Geographer. 64: 415-429.
 
Larson, P.H. and Dorn, R.I. 2012. Painting Yosemite Valley: A Case study of rock coatings encountered at Half Dome. Physical Geography. 33: 165-182.
 
 
Dorn, R.I., Krinsley, D.H., and Ditto, J. 2012. Alexander von Humboldt's initiation of rock coating research.  Journal of Geology, 120: 1-12.
 
Dorn, R.I. 2012. Formation of silica glaze rock coatings through water vapor interactions. Physical Geography. 33 (1): 21-31. 

 

Krinsley, D.H., Dorn, R.I., DiGregorio, B.E., Langworthy, K.A., and Ditto, J. 2012. Rock varnish in New York: An accelerated snapshot of accretionary processes.  Geomorphology, 138: 339-351.

Dorn, R.I. 2011. Revisiting dirt cracking as a physical weathering process in warm deserts.  Geomorphology, 135: 129-142.

Ekiss, G.O., Dorn, R.I., Hinde, E.R., Douglass, J., and Trapido-Lurie, B. 2011.  Mathematics learning and geography education, in Geographic Literacy in the United States: Challenges and Opportunities in the NCLB Era, eds. G.S. Elbow, D.J. Rutherford, and C. Shearer, pp. 57-62.

Hinde, E.R. Osborn Popp, S.E., Ekiss, G.O., and Dorn, R.I. 2011. Literacy Learning and Geography Education, in Geographic Literacy in the United States: Challenges and Opportunities in the NCLB Era, eds. G.S. Elbow, D.J. Rutherford, and C. Shearer, pp. 51-56.

Langworthy, K.A., Krinsley, D.H., and Dorn, R.I. 2011. Investigation of Tibetan Plateau varnish: New findings at the nanoscale using focused ion beam and transmission electron microscopy techniques. Scanning, 33: 78-81.

Dorn, R.I. and Krinsley, D.H. 2011. Spatial, temporal and geographic considerations of the problem of rock varnish diagenesis.  Geomorphology, 130: 91-99.

Hinde, E.R., Popp, S.E., Jimenez-Silva, M. and Dorn, R.I. 2011. Linking Geography to Reading and English Language Learners’ Achievement in U.S. Elementary and Middle School Classrooms. International Research in Geographical & Environmental Education, 20: 47-63.

Langworthy, K., Krinsley, D.H., and Dorn, R.I. 2010.  High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy evaluation of silica glaze reveals new textures. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 35: 1615–1620.

Larson, P.H., Dorn, R.I., Douglass, J., Gootee, B.F., and Arrowsmith, R. 2010. Stewart Mountain Terrace: A new Salt River terrace with implications for landscape evolution of the lower Salt River Valley, Arizona.  Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Sciences, 42 (1): 26-36.

Dorn, R.I. 2010. Debris flows from small catchments of the Ma Ha Tuak Range, metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. Geomorphology, 120: 339-352.

Courses Taught:

My course profile varies considerably, depending student needs. Most recently, I have taught in the CLAS learning communities, GPH 111 (Introduction to Physical Geography), GPH 211 (Landform Processes), GPH 418 (Western U.S. Landforms), GPH 491 (Field Methods), GCU 414 (Teaching Geography Standards), GCU 496 (Research Methods), Courses in the Master of Advanced Study in Geographic Education program, and graduate geomorphology seminars on desert geomorphology and weathering.

Outreach and Service:

I am director of the Master of Advanced Study in Geographic Education (MAS-GE) program, and co-coordinator of the Arizona Geographic Alliance (AzGA).

The purpose of the Arizona Geographic Alliance (AzGA) is to strengthen geography education in Arizona. We are funded through grants from the National Geographic Society. We also receive money from the Arizona's Department of Education. In addition, we receive support from Arizona State University's School of Geographical Sciences where the AzGA office is located.

AzGA is proud to partner with these agencies as well as the Arizona Council on Economic Education, Arizona Foundation on Legal Services and Education, and the Arizona Council for the Social Studies, as well as other national and state groups. AzGA was founded in 1992 as part of a national network of state geography alliances sponsored by the National Geographic Society. AzGA currently has over 3,000 members and more than 175 teachers in its Teacher Consultant leadership cadre.