Education:

2004 to Present: University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

Ph.D. work currently underway through the (Rubenstein School) and the (Department of Geology).

Dissertation topic: Basin-wide rates of erosion in a variety of tectonic environments; United States and New Zealand.

Advisor: Dr. Paul Robert Bierman.

2002-2004: University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

Masters of Science completed through the (Department of Geology).

Thesis Topic: Late Pleistocene bedrock channel incision along the U.S. Atlantic passive margin: Holtwood Gorge, Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania.

Advisor: Dr. Paul Robert Bierman.

Summer 2001: University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME

Geologic Mapping in Casco Bay: data collection to GIS.

1994-1998: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

Bachelor of Arts, December 1998, majoring in (Geology). Cum Laude with honor in geology.

Work and Research Experience:

2002-2004: Late Pleistocene Bedrock Channel Incision, Holtwood Gorge, PA

Masters Thesis: I modeled the exposure history of bedrock strath-terraces along the lower reaches of the Susquehanna River using measured abundances of cosmogenically produced ¹⁰Be. The flights of bedrock terraces preserved within Holtwood gorge along this passive margin river offer a unique opportunity to investigate quantitatively the history of fluvially sculpted surfaces, prerequisite to understanding when, how, and why rivers incise deep into solid rock.

Summer and Fall 1999: Los Angeles Region Seismic Experiment Phase II (LARSE II), Los Angeles, CA

LARSE II is a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Southern California Earthquake Center designed to obtain images of faults at depth and determine the subsurface shapes of sedimentary basins beneath the Los Angeles region in an attempt to reduce damage to human structures in the next major earthquake. Duties included public outreach and personal relations, surveying and

permitting of shot point and seismometer sites, GPS work, deployment of seismometers, scheduling and supervision of drilling team, explosives loading team, and shot point clean-up crews, and USGS blaster's assistant.

Spring 1998: King Fuels, Saratoga Springs, NY (undergraduate thesis topic)

Research and participation in the remediation of a migrating petroleum spill on the premises of a service station located in Saratoga Springs, NY. Project focused on site history, data analysis of water table elevations and dissolved hydrocarbon contamination, and field-testing of the 'high vacuum extraction' remediation strategy.

Spring 1997: Avian Use of Rainforest Plantations, Atherton Tablelands, Australia

Independent project designed to examine the effectiveness of rainforest plantations in mitigating the effects of habitat fragmentation caused by clearcutting. I conducted crepuscular censusing of avifauna in order to assess the level of complexity of such plantations in comparison to areas of intact rainforest. Experience designing, conducting, and presenting independent research in written and oral form.

Teaching Experience:

Fall, 2003: TA- Process Geomorphology, University of Vermont, VT

Assisting Dr. Paul Bierman with class and laboratory portions of GEOL 151 Process Geomorphology. Duties included co-teaching of laboratories, grading of class and laboratory assignments and tutoring students outside of the classroom.

Spring, 2003: TA- Glacial Geology, University of Vermont, VT

Assisted Dr. Stephen Wright with class and laboratory portions of GEOL 116 Glacial Geology. Duties also included grading of class and laboratory assignments and tutoring students outside of the classroom.

2002-2003: TA- Introductory Geology, University of Vermont, VT

Taught the laboratory section of GEOL 001 Introductory Geology during both the Fall and Spring semesters of 2002 and 2003. Duties included preparation and teaching of field based labs, grading of lab assignments, grading of lecture tests, and tutoring students in both lecture and laboratory material.

Spring 1998: TA- Field Studies in Environmental Science, Skidmore College, NY

Duties included assisting students during labs, conducting lab preparations, grading papers, and tutoring students outside of the classroom.

Invited Presentations:

May 2005: Skidmore College

Bedrock Channel Incision Along the Susquehanna River Measured with ¹⁰Be.

November 2004: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Rapid Late Pleistocene Bedrock Channel Incision Along the U.S. Atlantic Passive Margin Measured with ¹⁰Be.

Publications, Field Guides and Abstracts:

Reusser, L, Bierman, P., Pavich, M., Larsen, J., and Finkel, R., (in review), Late Pleistocene bedrock channel incision along the U.S. Atlantic passive margin, Holtwood Gorge, Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania: American Journal of Science.

Reusser, L., Bierman, P., Pavich, M., Zen, E., Larsen, J. and Finkel, R., 2004, Rapid Late Pleistocene Incision of Atlantic Passive-Margin River Gorges: Science Magazine, v. 305, no. 5683, p. 499-502.

Bierman, P, Zen, E., Pavich, M. and Reusser, L. 2004, The incision history of a passive margin river, the Potomac near Great Falls, in Geology of the National Capital Region-Field Trip Guidebook, United States Geological Survey Circular 1264, p. 191-223.

Reusser, L., Bierman, P., Pavich, M., Zen, E., Larsen, J., and Finkel, R., 2004, Climate-Driven Bedrock Channel Incision of The Susquehanna River, Holtwood Gorge, Pennsylvania: Regional Similarities: GSA Northeastern-Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, p. 37-6.

Bierman, P., Reusser, L., Pavich, M., Zen, E., Larsen, J., and Finkel, R., 2004, Great Falls Is 30,000 Years Old-Episodic Incision Along The Potomac River Revealed Using Field Mapping and 10-Be Analysis: GSA Northeastern-Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, p. 37-5.

Reusser, L., Bierman, P., Pavich, M., Butler, E., Larsen, J., and Finkel, R., 2003, Late Pleistocene Bedrock Channel Incision of the Lower Susquehanna River: Holtwood Gorge, PA in Mettitts, D., Walter, R., and de Wet, A.: Channeling Through Time: Landscape Evolution, Land Use Change, and Stream Restoration in the Lower Susquehanna Basin, SE Friends of the Pleistocene Guidebook, p. 41-45.

Bierman, P., Reusser, L., Pavich, M., Zen, E., Finkel, R., Larsen, J., and Butler, E., 2002, Major, Climate-Correlative Incision of the Potomac River Gorge at Great Falls About 30 ka: GSA-Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, p. 58-9.

Fuis, G.S., Murphy, J.M., Okaya, D.A., Clayton, R.W., Davis, P.M., Thygesen, K., Baher, S.A., Ryberg, T., Benthien, M.L., Simila, G.W., Perron, J.T., Yong, A.K., Reusser, L., Lutter, W.J., Kaip, G., Fort, M.D., Asudeh, I., Sell, R., Vanschaack, J.R., Criley, E.E., Kaderabek, R., Kohler, W.M., and Magnuski, N.H., 2001, Report for borehole explosion data acquired in the 1999 Los Angeles region seismic experiment (LARSE II), Southern California; Part I, Description of the survey: Open-File Report - U.S. Geological Survey.

Awards and Honors:

1999: Awarded the LARSE Appreciation Award for service above and beyond the call of duty by the

U.S. Geological Survey and the Western Earthquake Hazards Team.

1998: Awarded the Roy T. Abbott III Memorial Prize in Geology by the Skidmore College Geology Department.

1997: Awarded Most Outstanding Geologist for summer of 1997 by Lehigh University.

1997-1998: Member of Periclean Honors Society, Skidmore College academic honors society.

Certifications and Skills:

OSHA 40 hr. HAWOPER Training.

Proficient using Optical Total Stations and beacon corrected (Trimble ProXR) and differential (Trimble 4400) GPS units.

Computer Skills: Proficient using Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe GoLive, Adobe Acrobat. Experience using SPSS, HECRAS, and ArcMap.

Experience with laboratory techniques used for the purification of quartz and the chemical isolation of ¹⁰Be and ²⁶Al.

Experience operating an ICP.

Experience operating the Accelerator Mass Spectrometer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California.