Geology & Planetary Science
413 SRCC
4107 O'Hara Street
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

412-624-8883

bstewart@pitt.edu

Degree

PhD in Geochemistry, 1990
University of California at Los Angeles

Curriculum Vitae

Research Areas

• Radiogenic isotope geochemistry
• Nutrient cycling in soils
• Geochronology and paleoenvironments of paleosols
• Paleohydrology of arid regions
• Environmental impact of coal and its byproducts

Courses Offered

• GEOL 0800 Geology
  Introduction to geology for beginning majors and non-majors. Offered every term (alternate with Professor Jones).
• GEOL 1001 Mineralogy
  Chemistry, physics and petrogenesis of minerals; introduction to the petrographic microscope. For mid-level geology majors. Offered every fall term.
• GEOL 2520 Isotope Geochemistry
  Radiogenic and non-traditional stable isotope systematics. Graduate level. Offered alternate years.
• GEOL 2740 Planetary Geochemistry
  Chemistry and chronology of the solar system and terrestrial planets. Graduate level. Offered occasionally.

Representative Publications

Brubaker, T.M., Stewart, B.W., Capo, R.C., Schroeder, K.T., Chapman, E.C., Spivak-Birndorf, L.J., Vesper, D.J., Cardone, C.R., Rohar, P.C. (2013) Coal fly ash interaction with environmental fluids: Geochemical and strontium isotope results from combined column and batch leaching experiments. Applied Geochemistry 32, 184-194.

Amundson, R., Dietrich, W., Bellugi, D., Ewing, S., Nishiizumi, K., Chong, G., Owen, J., Finkel, R., Heimsath, A., Stewart, B., and Caffee, M. (2012) Geomorphologic evidence for the late Pliocene onset of hyperaridity in the Atacama Desert. Geological Society of America Bulletin 124, 1048-1070.

Chapman, E.C., Capo, R.C., Stewart, B.W., Kirby, C.S., Hammack, R.W., Schroeder, K.T., Edenborn, H.M. (2012) Geochemical and strontium isotope characterization of produced waters from Marcellus Shale natural gas extraction. Environmental Science and Technology 46, 3545-3553.

Hamel, B.L., Stewart, B.W. and Kim, A.G. (2010) Tracing the interaction of acid mine drainage with coal utilization byproducts in a grouted mine: Strontium isotope study of the inactive Omega Coal Mine, West Virginia (USA). Applied Geochemistry 25, 212-223.

Cole, R.B. and Stewart, B.W. (2009) Continental margin volcanism at sites of spreading ridge subduction: Examples from southern Alaska and western California. Tectonophysics 464, 118-136.

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