Tim White 
EESI Associate
Tim White, M.S., Ph.D., P.G.
Senior Research Associate, EMS Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
Contact Information:
EMS Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
The Pennsylvania State University
2217 Earth-Engineering Sciences Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-2213
Fax: (814) 865-3191
email: tswhite@essc.psu.edu
Current Research Interests:
Field-based sedimentary geology
Paleoclimatology
Paleopedology
Chemostratigraphy
Organic petrology
Hydrogeology
Current Projects:
1) American Chemical Society/Petroleum Research Fund project entitled "Paleosols, parasequences and pollen: Differentiating the roles of relative sea-level variation and climate in foreland basin strata"
2) National Science Foundation/Division of Atmospheric Sciences project entitled "Evaluation of Mid-Cretaceous cool tropics paradox using isotopic global climate models and foraminiferal and paleosol siderite d18O datasets"
3) U.S. Geological Survey sponsored project entitled "Tertiary slab window in Alaska", a field-based sequence stratigraphic and paleoclimatological characterization of Paleogene strata mostly in south coastal Alaska
4) U.S. Geological Survey sponsored project entitled "Oil and gas prospects in Alaska", a field-based, coal-measure stratigraphic and coal petrographic study of Paleogene coals in southern and central Alaska
Recent Publications:
White, T., and Arthur, M., 2006, Organic carbon production and preservation in response to sea level changes in the Turonian Carlile Fm. U.S. Western Interior, Palaeogeog. Palaeoclim. Palaeoec., 235(1-3), 223-244.
Dumoulin, J. A., and White, T., 2005, Micromorphologic evidence for paleosol development in the Endicott Group, Siksikpuk Formation, Kingak(?)Shale, and Ipewik Formation, western Brooks Range, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1709-E [available on the World Wide Web at http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1709e].
White, T.S., Witzke, B., Ludvigson, G., and Brenner, R., 2005, Distinguishing base-level change and climate signals in a Cretaceous alluvial sequence, Geology, v. 33, n. 1.
White, T.S., 2004, A chemostratigraphic and geochemical facies analysis of the Eocene Australo-Antarctic Seaway: Evidence for glacioeustasy?, AGU Geophys. Monograph Series 151, The Cenozoic Ocean: Tectonics, Sedimentation, and Climate Change Between Australia and Antarctica, p. 153-172
White, T., Furlong, K., and Arthur, M., 2002, Tectonic Forebulge Migration in the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway of the Central United States, Basin Research, v. 13, p. 1-18.
White, T.S., Gonzalez, L., Ludvigson, G.A., and Poulsen, C., 2001, The mid-Cretaceous Greenhouse Hydrologic Cycle of North America, Geology, v. 29, no. 4, p. 363-366.
Exon, N.F., White, T.S., Malone, M.J., Kennett, J.P., and Hill, P.J., 2001, Petroleum potential of deepwater basins around Tasmania: insights from Ocean Drilling Program Leg 189, in Hill, K.C. & Bernecker, T. (eds), Proc. Eastern Australasian Basins Symposium, Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Spec. Pub., p. 49-60.
White, T.S., Witzke, B., and Ludvigson, G., 2000, Evidence for an Albian Hudson Arm of the North American Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway, GSA Bulletin, v. 112, n. 9, p. 1342-1355.
Coniglio, M., Myrow, P., White, T., 2000, Stable carbon and oxygen isotopic evidence of Cretaceous sea-level fluctuations recorded in septarian concretions from Pueblo, Colorado, Jour. Sed. Res., v. 70, n. 3, p. 700-714.