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Department of Earth & Ocean Sciences

University of South Carolina

701 Sumter St. EWS 617

Columbia, SC 29208

USA

803.777.3353

803.777.6610 FAX

boliver (at) geol.sc.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of South Carolina, 2014 (expected)

B.S. Princeton University, 2010

research

In the broadest sense, I am interested in using tectonics to explain first-order phenomena in other earth systems.  My current research focuses on finding clues in the exhumation history of the Antarctic Peninsula that will constrain the origin and history of the West Antarctic ice sheet and help to predict the behavior of the ice under the present global warming regime.

publications & PRESENTATIONS

Sak, P.B., McQuarrie, N., Oliver, B.P., Lavdovsky, N., Jackson, M.S., (in review), Unraveling the central Appalachian fold-thrust belt, Pennsylvania: the power of sequentially restored balanced cross sections for a blind fold-thrust belt, Journal of Structural Geology.

Sak, P.B., McQuarrie, N., and Oliver, B.P., 2009, Sequential development of the central Appalachian fold-thrust belt, Pennsylvania: Insights from a balanced geologic cross section, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 41, p. 459.

laboratory teaching experience

GEOL 201: Observing the Earth

GEOL 335:  Processes of Global Climate Change

GEOL 355:  Mountain Building:  Structure and Tectonics

BIO

Born in Houston TX, I'd lived just about everywhere east of the Mississippi and south of the Hudson before coming to Columbia to mend, with country cooking and a high-humidity environment, the damages inflicted on my soul by its long exile in the cold North.  Though my degree says I'm an engineer, I'm a geologist at heart and I'm excited to get back into the field--especially when "the field" is Antarctica.  When I'm not licking rocks, I enjoy slipping the surly bonds of earth at the conveniently-located Jim Hamilton-L.B. Owens Columbia Downtown Airport, tinkering with the biochemistry of yeast, and being not in my house as much as possible.

news

I have recently been engaged to be married.