Paul Bierman
Professor, Rubenstein School
Gund Fellow
Director of UVM/NSF Community Cosmogenic Laboratory
PRONOUNS he/him
180 Colchester Avenue
307 Delahanty Hall, Trinity Campus
Burlington, VT 05401
United States
- Ph.D., 1993, Geology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- M.S., 1990, Geology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- B.A., 1985, Geology and Environmental Studies, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
BIO
Paul Bierman is a geologist, professor, and Gund Fellow. His research and teaching expertise focus on the interaction of people and Earth’s dynamic surface. Bierman's wide-ranging interests include climate, geochemistry, erosion, writing, science communication, and the diversification of science as a profession. He is particularly interested in working at the interface between active research, education, and science literacy at all levels. Bierman currently works is in both the tropics (Cuba) and the arctic (Greenland) as well as Vermont.
Bierman has been at the University of Vermont since 1993. His research has taken him around the globe. He has studied erosion in Australia, South America, and several countries in Africa and the Middle East. In Greenland, Bierman and his graduate students are tracing the history of the Greenland Ice sheet over the last million years, an adventure that repeatedly takes them helicoptering over the ice. In Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York, Bierman and his students created the first record of storminess and erosion that extended back over the last 10,000 years.
Bierman works extensively in communicating science to the public. He teaches summer science programs for highly motivated high school students; has been co-author since 2005 of Pipkin et al., an introductory Environmental Geology textbook; and is the lead author of NSF-funded textbook, Key Concepts in Geomorphology, which uses extensive visuals and photographs to teach about the workings of Earth’s surface.
Publications
Area(s) of expertise
Instructional programs: Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources
Research: Geology, geohydrology, erosion and human-landscape interaction, climate change, science education and communication, geochemistry, geologic dating, landscape history
Bio
Paul Bierman is a geologist, professor, and Gund Fellow. His research and teaching expertise focus on the interaction of people and Earth’s dynamic surface. Bierman's wide-ranging interests include climate, geochemistry, erosion, writing, science communication, and the diversification of science as a profession. He is particularly interested in working at the interface between active research, education, and science literacy at all levels. Bierman currently works is in both the tropics (Cuba) and the arctic (Greenland) as well as Vermont.
Bierman has been at the University of Vermont since 1993. His research has taken him around the globe. He has studied erosion in Australia, South America, and several countries in Africa and the Middle East. In Greenland, Bierman and his graduate students are tracing the history of the Greenland Ice sheet over the last million years, an adventure that repeatedly takes them helicoptering over the ice. In Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York, Bierman and his students created the first record of storminess and erosion that extended back over the last 10,000 years.
Bierman works extensively in communicating science to the public. He teaches summer science programs for highly motivated high school students; has been co-author since 2005 of Pipkin et al., an introductory Environmental Geology textbook; and is the lead author of NSF-funded textbook, Key Concepts in Geomorphology, which uses extensive visuals and photographs to teach about the workings of Earth’s surface.
Publications
Areas of Expertise
Instructional programs: Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources
Research: Geology, geohydrology, erosion and human-landscape interaction, climate change, science education and communication, geochemistry, geologic dating, landscape history