Elizabeth Knapp Director of the Johnson Program in Leadership and Integrity / Professor of Earth and Environmental Geoscience

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2014- Professor of Geology, Washington and Lee University

2013- Director of the Johnson Program in Leadership and Integrity, Washington and Lee University

2016-2017 Associate Provost, Washington and Lee University

2013-2016 Senior Assistant to the President, Washington and Lee University

2011-2013 Associate Provost, Washington and Lee University

2006-2010 Associate Dean of the College, Washington and Lee University

2004-2005 Acting Head, Department of Geology, Washington and Lee University

2003-2014 Associate Professor, Department of Geology; Core faculty member in the Environmental Studies Program, Washington and Lee University

1997-2003 Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, Washington and Lee University

1992-1997 Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia

1990-1992 Associate Geologist, ENVIRON Corporation, Arlington, Virginia.

1990-1990 Geologist (USGS/NAGT Summer Field Training Program internship) USGS Atlantic Branch of Marine Geology, Woods Hole, Massachusetts

Education

Ph.D. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1997 (Department of Environmental Sciences; Specialization: Geochemistry / Hydrogeology)

B.S. Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, 1990 (Honors in Geology)

Research

Low-temperature aqueous geochemistry, water quality and contaminant transport, rock weathering processes, geochemical evolution and paleoclimate, and iron geochemistry

Teaching

General Geology with Field Emphasis (GEOL 100); General Geology (GEOL 101); Chemistry of the Earth (CHEM 110); Field Methods (GEOL 160); Computer Applications (GEOL 185); Earth Materials I: Rocks and Minerals (GEOL 211) (Previously GEOL 210: Mineralogy); Earth Materials II: Geochemistry (GEOL 311) (Previously GEO 310: Petrology); Hydrology (GEOL 340); Geology of the Pyrenees (GEO 397); Coastal Geology (GEO 397); Geology of Hawaii (GEO 397); Global Environmental Cycling (GEO 397)

Selected Publications

Dere, Ashlee, Timothy S. White, Rich H. April, Brian Reynolds, Thomas E. Miller, Elizabeth P. Knapp, Larry D. McKay and Susan L. Brantley. 2013. Climate dependence of feldspar weathering in shale soils along a latitudinal gradient. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 122, p. 101-126.

Knapp, E.P., D.O. Terry, and D.J. Harbor. 2004/2007 (revised second edition). Reading Virginia's paleoclimate from the geochemistry and sedimentology of clastic cave sediments. In Sasowsky, I.D. and J. Mylroie eds., Studies of Cave Sediments: Physical and Chemical Records of Paleoclimate. Klewer Academic / Plenum Publishing, p. 95-106.

Knapp, Elizabeth P., Lisa Greer, Christopher D. Connors, and David Harbor, 2006. Field-based instruction as part of a balanced geoscience curriculum at Washington and Lee University, Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 54, March 2006, p. 103-108.

Knapp, E.P., D.J. Harbor, and Z.F. Ginwalla. 2003. Testing the waters: Can you involve community action in your college curriculum? Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 51, n.3, May 2003, p. 294-298.

Knapp, E.P., D.J. Harbor, and Z.F. Ginwalla. Defining basin water quality: Land use, tributary input, and downstream dynamics, submitted to Journal of Environmental Quality (in revision for publication).

Knapp, E.P., S.G. Dejardins, and M.A. Pleva. 2003. An interdisciplinary approach to teaching chemistry to geology students. Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 51, n. 5, November, 2003, p. 481-483.

Knapp, E.P., J.S. Herman, A.L. Mills, and G.M. Hornberger. 2002. Changes in the sorption capacity of Coastal Plain sediments due to redox alteration of mineral surfaces. Applied Geochemistry, 17(4) 387-398.

Knapp, E.P., J.S. Herman, G.M. Hornberger, and A.L. Mills, 1998. The effect of distribution of iron-oxyhydroxide grain coatings on the transport of bacterial cells in porous media. Environmental Geology, 33(4)243-249.

University Service

Current Committees and Task Force service: Automatic Rule and Reinstatement Committee, Community Engagement and Service Learning Advisory (chair), Environmental Studies Program Advisory, Healthy Campus Culture Committee, History of African Americans Working Group (chair), International Education Committee, STEM Pedagogy Working Group, University Committee on Inclusiveness and Campus Climate (co-chair), University Sustainability Committee (chair).

Previous Services: CAIR (Confidential and Impartial Resolution) Resource, Capital Projects Advisory Committee, Celebrating Student Success Committee, Childcare Task Force (chair), College Strategic Planning (working group leader), Colonnade Renovation Committee, Decade Award Committee (chair), Designated Officer (former campus grievance process), Emergency Management Executive Team, Faculty Advisor for Chi Omega, Faculty Executive Committee, Faculty Governance Committee, Historic Preservation and Archaeological Conservation Advisory, Registration and Class Schedules Committee, Residential Life Task Force, Science Society and the Arts Committee, Search Committees for the Chief Technology Officer, Director of Athletics, Executive Director of Alumni Affairs and Assistant Provost for Institutional Effectiveness (chair), Student Faculty Hearing Board, Teaching Spaces Task Force (chair), University Athletics Committee, University Lectures Committee (chair), University Safety Committee

Professional Service

VMI Research Labs Board of Directors, Co-chair of the Geological Society of America annual Women Academic Leaders session; Reviewer for Water Resources Research, Environmental Science and Technology, Journal of Geoscience Education, Studies in Cave Sediments, and NSF Environmental Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry; External reviewer for multiple tenure and promotions files; Former member of the Virginia Water Resources Steering Committee and the Rockbridge County Groundwater Steering Committee; Former Keck Geology Representative; Co-founder of the Maury River Alliance