Andrea Stevens Goddard, Assistant Professor

goddarda@rowan.edu
856-256-5279
209N Westby Hall
 
Dr. Stevens Goddard directs and manages the Rowan University Fission Track (RUFT) Lab. For information on collaborations or generating apatite and/or zircon fission track thermochronology data please email her at goddarda@rowan.edu.
 
Courses taught:
GEOL 01101 Physical Geology
GEOL 01320 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
GEOL 01321 Basin Analysis
 
Research keywords: sedimentology, basin analysis, thermochronology, tectonics
 
Research
Dr. Stevens Goddard combines fieldwork with analytical techniques such as thermochronology and geochronology to understand the timing and rates of Earth processes over geologic time. As a sedimentologist, she investigates these questions from a sedimentary basin’s perspective, using information preserved in eroded material to interpret the geologic evolution of source areas. Her recent work has focused on understanding the roles and potential feedbacks between climate and tectonics on erosion, sediment routing, and landscape evolution. She has focused specifically on orogenic systems in Alaska, the western USA, and the Central and Southern Andes. She is also interested in the formation of intracratonic basins and their relationship with plate boundary processes and has active, funded projects in the US midcontinent.
 
Education
2017 Ph.D. Geosciences, University of Arizona
2011 B.S. Geology & Geophysics, Purdue University
2011 B.S. Economics, Purdue University
 
More information
Personal website
Digital Works
Google Scholar
ResearchGate