Michael Prentice
Adjunct Faculty
Glacier Climates
Office: na
Phone: 812-856-3117
Email: mlprenti@indiana.edu
Current Additional Academic Positions (non-Departmental)
Research Scientist, Indiana Geological Survey, Indiana University **
Adjunct Faculty Member, Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University
Affiliate Research Professor, Department of Chemical, Earth, Atmospheric, and Physical Sciences and Center for the Environment, Plymouth State University.
Educational Background
- B.A., Geological Sciences with Engineering Certificate, Princeton University, 1978
- M.S., Geological Sciences, University of Maine, 1982
- Ph.D., Geological Sciences, Brown University, 1988
- Postdoctoral, Geological Sciences, University of Maine
Recent Publications
Prentice, M.L., Hope, G.S., Peterson, J.A., Barrows, T.T., 2011, The glaciation of the south-east Asian equatorial region. In: Ehlers, J.J., Gibbard, P.L., and Hughes, P.D. (eds.), Developments in Quaternary Science, 15, Elsevier Amsterdam, pp. 1023-1036.
Barrows, T. T., Hope, G. S., Prentice, M. L., Fifield, L. K., Tims, S. G., 2011, Late Pleistocene glaciation of the Mt Giluwe volcano, Papua New Guinea: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 30, p. 2676-2689.
Prentice, M. L., Ducey, P.W., Rupp, R.F., Karaffa, M.D., Pigott, J.L., 2011, Map showing preliminary surficial geology of the Columbia City, Lorane, and South Whitley East 7.5-minute quadrangles in Whitley County, Indiana, Indiana: Indiana Geological Survey, Open-File Study 11-01, scale 1:63,360.
Ducey, P. W., Prentice, M. L., Rupp, R. F., 2011, Northwest flank of the Erie Lobe in Indiana: Where have all the moraines gone? Northeastern and North-Central Sections of the Geological Society of America, Joint Annual Meeting, Abstract 186436.
Prentice, M. L., Sauer, P. E., Arcone, S. A., Sletten, R. S., Sparrow, A., 2011, Extent of the Ross Sea Ice Sheet in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, at the local Last Glacial Maximum: New constraints on the age and origin of a terminal moraine, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 43, p.66.
Letsinger, S. L., Prentice, M.L., Olyphant, G.A., Riddle, A.D., 2011, Three-dimensional groundwater flow modeling using a geologic framework model of near-surface glacial sequences: northeastern Indiana, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 43, p.560.
Prentice, M.L. and S. Glidden, 2010, Glacier crippling and the rise of the snowline in western New Guinea (Papua Province, Indonesia) from 1972 to 2000. In Haberle, S., Stevenson, J., Prebble, M., (eds.), Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes, Terra Australis, 32, ANU EPress, Canberra, pp. 457-471.
Prentice, M.L., 2010, Preliminary surficial geology of the Bippus, Laud, Arcola, and Churubusco 7.5 minute quadrangles in Huntington and Whitley Counties, Indiana: Indiana Geological Survey, Open-File Study 10-04, scale 1:63,360.
