KATHARINE VENABLE CASHMAN

Date and Place of Birth: July 19, 1954, Providence, R.I.

Address: Department of Geological Sciences

University of Oregon

Eugene OR 97403-1272

(541) 346 4323 (work)

(541) 484 2504

Interests: Volcanology, igneous petrology, crystallization and vesiculation kinetics, lava flow emplacement, geologic hazards

Education: B.A. Honors in Geology/Biology, Middlebury College, VT, 1976

M.Sc. 1st class honors, Victoria University, New Zealand, 1979

Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University, MD, 1986

Honors: 1976 Phi Beta Kappa, Middlebury College

1976 Fulbright Scholarship for study in New Zealand

1976 Charles B. Allen Award for scholarship and athletics

1982 Group Cash Award, Mount St. Helens observation and monitoring

1987 Elected to Sigma Xi

2003 Distinguished Professor, College of Arts and Sciences

2006 AGU VGP Bowen Award

2007 APEX Awards Grand Award for Writing [awarded to an issue of

the Phi Kappa Phi Forum to which I was a contributor]

2007 Elected Philip H. Knight Professor of Natural Sciences

2008 Honorary Doctor of Science, Middlebury College [notified

Aug 2007; to be awarded 2008]

Employment History:

U.S.G.S., Woods Hole, 1979-1981

U.S.G.S., Cascades Volcano Observatory, 1981-1982

summers 1983-1985

Princeton University, Asst. Professor, 1986-1991

Princeton University Geology Field Camp (YBRA), summers 1987-1991

University of Oregon, Assoc. Professor, 1991-1997

Full Professor, 1997

Head of Department, 2007-2010

Membership in Professional Societies

American Geophysical Union

Geological Society of America

IAVCEI (member of Volcanogenic Sediments Working Group, Explosive Volcanism Working Group)