Stefanie A. Brachfeld
Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Studies
Montclair State University
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043
Phone: 973-655-5129
Fax: 973-655-4072
e-mail: brachfelds@mail.montclair.edu
RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer sailing through pancake ice
in the Davis Sea during cruise NBP01-01 to the East
Antarctic Margin.
Click here to see highlights from NBP01-01
Education
Ph.D. 1999 Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
MN
M.S. 1992 Earth and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, CA
B.S. 1990 Geology, University of Rochester,
NY,
Magna Cum Laude
Professional Experience
present Assistant Professor, Earth and
Environmental
Studies, Montclair State
University
2002-03 Senior Research Associate, Byrd Polar Research Center,
Ohio
State University
2001 Byrd Postdoctoral Fellow,
Byrd
Polar Research Center, Ohio State University
2000 Instructor, Dept. Geology,
Univ.
Minnesota
2000 Postdoctoral Research
Associate,
Univ. Minnesota Institute
for Rock Magnetism
1992-99 Research Assistant, Univ. Minnesota
1997 Instructor, Science Museum of Minnesota, Youth and
Family
Programs
1996 Instructor, College of
Liberal
Arts Honors Division, Univ. Minnesota
1992-94 Teaching Assistant, Dept. Geology, Univ. Minnesota
1992 Instructor, College of
Extension
and Continuing Education, Univ. Minnesota
1990-92 Research Assistant, California Institute of
Technology
1992 Teaching Assistant, Dept.
Earth
and Planetary Sciences, Caltech
1989 Teaching Assistant, Dept.
Geology,
Univ. Rochester
1989 NASA Planetary
Geology
and Geophysics Undergraduate Research Program
1988 Lamont Doherty Geological
Observatory
Summer Intern Program
Peer-reviewed Publications
Brachfeld, S., Hammer, J., 2006, Rock-magnetic and remanence
properties of synthetic Fe-rich basalts: Implications for Mars crustal
anomalies, Earth and Planetary
Science Letters, in press.
Brachfeld, S., 2006, Relative
Paleointensity in Sediments, In: Gubbins, D., Herrero-Bervera, E,
(eds.), Encyclopedia of
Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism, Springer Kluwer Press, in press.
Cowan, E., Brachfeld, S.,
Powell, R., Schoolfield, S., 2006, Mineral-magnetic properties of
Holocene glacimarine sediment from Southern Coastal Alaska, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences,
in press.
Acton, G., Guyodo, Y., and Brachfeld,
S., 2006, The nature of a cryptochron from a paleomagnetic study
of
chron C4r.2r recorded in sediments off the Antarctic Peninsula, Physics
of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 156, 213-222.
Brachfeld, S., 2006, High-field
magnetic susceptibility(XHF)
as a proxy of biogenic sedimentation along the Antarctic Peninsula,
Physics of the Earth and Planetary
Interiors, 156, 274-282.
Domack, E., Amblas, D., Gilbert, R., Brachfeld,
S., Camerlenghi, A.,
Rebessco, M., Canals, M., 2006, Subglacial morphology and glacial
evolution of the Palmer Deep outlet system, Antarctic Peninsula,
Geomorphology, 75, 125-142.
Kelley, D.W., Brachfeld, S.,
Nater, E.A., and Wright, H.E., 2006, Sensitivity of sediment sources
and magnitudes in the Upper Mississippi River’s Lake Pepin to Holocene
Climate Changes, Journal of
Paleolimnology, 35, 193-206.
Maddison, E.J., Pike, J., Leventer, A., Dunbar, R., Brachfeld, S., Domack, E.W., Manley,
P., and McClennen, C., 2006, Post-glacial seasonal diatom record
of the Mertz Glacier Polynya, East Antarctica, Marine
Micropaleontology, 60, 66-88.
McMullen, K., Domack, E., Leventer, A., Dunbar, R., Brachfeld, S., 2006, Glacial
morphology
and marine stratigraphy of the Mertz Trough, East Antarctica,
Paleoceanography, Palaeoclimatology,
Palaecology, 231, 169-180.
Willmott, V., Domack, E.W., Canals, M., Brachfeld, S., 2006, A high
resolution relative paleointensity record from the Gerlache-Boyd
paleo-ice stream region, northern Antarctic Peninsula, Quaternary
Research, 66, 1-11.
Stickley, C.E., Pike, J., Leventer, A., Dunbar, R., Domack, E.W., Brachfeld, S., Manley, P.,
McClennen, C., 2005, Deglacial ocean and climate sensitivity in
laminated
diatom sediments, Mac.Robertson Shelf, Antarctica, Paleoceanography,
Palaeoclimatology, Palaecology, 227(4), 290-310.
Brachfeld, S., Kissel, C., Laj,
C., and Mazaud, A., Viscous behavior of U-channels during acquisition
and demagnetization of remanences: Implications for paleomagnetic and
rock-magnetic investigations, Physics
of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 145, 1-8, 2004.
Brachfeld, S.A., E.W. Domack,
C. Kissel, C. Laj, A. Leventer, S.E. Ishman, R. Gilbert, A.
Camerlenghi, Eglinton, L.B., Holocene History of the Larsen Ice Shelf
Constrained by Geomagnetic Paleointensity Dating, Geology, 31, 749-752, 2003. (PDF)
Acton, G.D., Guyodo, Y., and Brachfeld,
S., Magnetostratigraphy of sediment drifts from the continental
rise of West Antarctica (ODP Leg 178 Sites 1095, 1096, and 1101), In
Barker, P.F., Camerlenghi, A., Acton, G.D., and Ramsay, A.T.S. (Eds.),
Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 178, 1-61, 2002 [Online]. Available from World
Wide Web:
http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/178_SR/VOLUME/CHAPTERS/SR178_37.PDF.
Morris, J.D., Gosse, J., Brachfeld,
S.A., and Tera, F., Cosmogenic 10Be and the solid earth: Studies
in active tectonics, geomagnetism, and subduction zone processes, in:
E.S. Grew (ed.) Beryllium: mineralogy, petrology, and geochemistry, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry,
v. 50, 207-270, 2002.
Brachfeld, S., Banerjee, S.K.,
Guyodo, Y., and Acton, G.D., A 13,200 year history of century to
millennial scale paleoenvironmental change magnetically recorded in the
Palmer Deep, western Antarctic Peninsula, Earth and Planetary Science Letters,
194, 311-326, 2002. (PDF) and Corrigendum
Camerlenghi, A., Domack, E., Rebesco, M., Gilbert, R., Ishman, S.,
Leventer, A., Brachfeld, S.,
Drake, A., Glacial Morphology and post-glacial contourites in northern
Prince Gustav Channel (NW Weddell Sea, Antarctica), Marine Geophysical Researches, 22
no. 5-6, 417-443, 2001.
Brachfeld, S., Guyodo, Y., and
Acton, G.D., The magnetic mineral assemblage of hemipelagic drifts, ODP
Site 1096, In: Barker, P.F., Camerlenghi, A., Acton, G.D., and Ramsay,
A.T.S. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 178 [Online]. Available
from
http://www.odp.tamu.edu/publications/178_SR/VOLUME/CHAPTERS/SR178_14.PDF.
2001.
Guyodo, Y., Acton, G.D., Brachfeld,
S.A., and Channell, J.E.T., A sedimentary paleomagnetic record
of the Matuyama chron from the Western Antarctic Margin (ODP Site
1101), Earth and Planetary Science
Letters, 191, 61-74, 2001.
Domack, E.W., Leventer, A., Gilbert, R., Brachfeld, S., Ishman, S.,
Camerlenghi, A., Gavahan, K., Carlson, D., Barkoukis, A., Seafloor
stratigraphy beneath the former Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica examined
during austral winter cruise of the RVIB N. B. Palmer, Eos, 82:2, 13-17, 2001.
Domack, E.W., Leventer, A., Dunbar, R., Taylor, F., Brachfeld, S., Sjunneskog, C., and
ODP Leg 178 Science Party, Chronology of the Palmer Deep Site,
Antarctic Peninsula: A Holocene Paleoenvironmental Reference for the
Circum-Antarctic, The Holocene,
11, 1-9, 2001.
Brachfeld, S., Acton, G.D.,
Guyodo, Y., and Banerjee, S.K., High-resolution paleomagnetic records
from the Palmer Deep, western Antarctic Peninsula, Earth and Planetary Science Letters,
181, 429-441, 2000. (PDF)
Brachfeld, S. and Banerjee,
S.K., Rock-magnetic carriers of century-scale environmental cycles
along the Antarctic Peninsula, Earth
and Planetary Science Letters, 176, 443-455, 2000. (PDF)
Brachfeld, S. and Banerjee,
S.K., A new high-resolution geomagnetic paleointensity record for the
North American Holocene: A comparison of sedimentary and absolute
intensity data, Journal of
Geophysical Research B, 105, 821-834, 2000. (PDF)
Leventer, A., Domack, E.W., Ishman, S.E., Brachfeld, S.A., McClennen, C., and
Manley, P., 200-300 year productivity cycles in the Antarctic Peninsula
region: Understanding linkages among the Sun, atmosphere, oceans,
sea-ice and biota, GSA Bulletin,
108, 1626-1644, 1996.
Research Support
Aquisition of a Scanning Electron Microscope at Montclair State
University, with co-P.I.s A. de Picciotta, J. Farnum, M. Gorring, and
S. Passchier, NSF-MRI/EAR, in review.
Aquisition of a Vibrating Sample Magnetometer at Montclair State
University, $197,649, with co-P.I.s M. Gorring, Z. Feng, G. Pope, and
M. West, a NSF-MRI/EAR, 9/1/05-8/30/06.
Integrated mineralogic and rock-magnetic study of synthetic Martian
basalt: Implications for understanding crustal magnetic anomalies, with
J. Hammer lead PI, $33,621, 8/01/05-7/30/08.
CAREER: Tracing Antarctic Sediment Transport Pathways and Antarctic
Ice
Sheet Stability Using Iron-titanium Oxide Magnetic and Chemical
fingerprints, $400,301,
NSF-OPP, 6/04 - 5/09.
Collaborative Research, Paleohistory of the Larsen Ice Shelf: Phase
II,
with E. Domack, A. Leventer, S. Ishman, and L. Padman, $140,274,
NSF-OPP, 4/04-3/07.
An igneous origin for Martian magnetic anomalies? J. Hammer, lead P.I.,
with collaborators S. Brachfeld, B. Moskowitz, M. Rutherford, Institute
for Rock Magnetism Visiting Fellowship, 10/02.
Establishing the stratigraphy of glacigenic bedforms on the Chukchi
Borderland, Arctic Ocean, to reconstruct the history of Pleistocene
Arctic ice shelves, with L. Polyak, D. Darby and J. Bischof, $132,076
of $252,000, (3/02-2/04), NSF-OPP.
Towards the Development of Magnetic Provenance Tracers in Antarctic
Glacial-Marine Sediment: A Pilot Study in the Antarctic Peninsula,
$70,190, (7/02-6/04), NSF-OPP.
US-France Collaborative Research: High-resolution u-channel magnetic
study of Late Quaternary sediment cores from the East Antarctic Margin,
$17,600, (11/01-10/03) NSF-INT Western Europe Division.
High Resolution Quaternary Glacial History and Paleoenvironments of the
East Antarctic Margin, with A. Leventer, R. Dunbar, P. Manley, and C.
McClennen, $60,000 of $376,000 (7/00-6/02), NSF-OPP.
Supplemental Request: High Resolution Quaternary Glacial History and
Paleoenvironments of the East Antarctic Margin, $11,063, (6/02-5/03)
NSF-OPP.
High-field magnetic susceptibility: A tracer of diamagnetic (biogenic)
content in sediments? Institute for Rock Magnetism, University of
Minnesota, Visiting Fellowship, 9/01.
Holocene paleoenvironmental change along the Antarctic Peninsula: A
test of the solar/bi-polar signal, with S.K. Banerjee, E. Domack, R.
Dunbar, R. Gilbert, S. Ishman, A. Leventer, and P. Manley, $50,894 of
$212,000 (7/97-6/00), NSF-OPP.
Rock-magnetic and paleomagnetic techniques for the examination,
correlation, and dating of Holocene paleoclimatic and geomagnetic
signals in Antarctic glacial-marine sediments, (4/98-12/99), $22,000,
JOI/USSAC.
Paleoclimate and geomagnetic paleointensity variability from a
high-latitude southern site: Rock-magnetic and isotope
investigations from the west-Antarctic Peninsula, with S.K. Banerjee,
$20,727, (6/98-2/00), JOI/USSSP.
Holocene paleoproductivity signal of the Antarctic coastal ocean:
linkages among the sun, atmosphere, ocean, sea ice and biota, with E.
Domack, A. Leventer, R. Murray, T. Janecek, S. Ishman, J. Kennett, Site
Selection for Ocean Drilling Program Leg 178.
Teaching Experience
Fall 2005 Montclair State
Univ. Advanced Marine Geology GEOS 560
Fall 2005 Montclair State Univ.
Introduction to Marine Sciences PHMS210
Spring 2005 Montclair State Univ. Earth Systems
Science ENVR770
Fall 2004 Montclair State
Univ. Introduction to Marine Sciences PHMS210
Fall 2004 Montclair State Univ.
Physical Geology, GEOS112
Fall 2004 Montclair State Univ.
Contemporary Issues I, Science Issues, GNED 201
Spring 2004 Montclair State Univ. Introduction to
Marine Sciences PHMS210
Spring 2004 Montclair State Univ. Physical Geology,
GEOS112
Fall 2003 Montclair
State Univ. Introduction to Marine Sciences PHMS210
Fall 2003 Montclair
State
Univ. Physical Geology GEOS112
Fall 2000 Univ.
Minnesota,
Oceanography 1006/5006
Summer 1997 Science Museum MN, Journey to Mars
Summer 1997 Science Museum MN Earthquakes,
Tornadoes,
Tidal Waves and Volcanoes
Spring 1996 Univ. Minnesota
Geology
Gone Wrong HCOL1010
Summer 1992 Univ. Minnesota Physical Geology
Independent
Study
Summer 1992 Univ. Minnesota Historical Geology
Independent
Study <>
Field Experience
2006 RVIB Nathaniel B.
Palmer, Paleohistory of the Larsen Ice Shelf
2005 USCGC Healy,
HOTRAX Leg 1, Chuchki Sea
2005 RV Laurence M.
Gould, Paleohistory of the Larsen Ice-shelf, shorebased
scientist
2004 RV Laurence M. Gould,
Paleohistory of the Larsen Ice-shelf, Part II
2003 RV Marion
Dufresne,
IMAGES PICASSO, North Atlantic Deep Water Variability
2001 RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer, History of the
East
Antarctic Margin
2000 RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer, Paleohistory
of the
Larsen Ice-shelf
1999 RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer, Antarctic
Peninsula, Holocene paleoclimate
1998 R.V. JOIDES Resolution, Ocean Drilling Program Leg 178
1997 Lake Pepin coring, MN, Holocene paleosecular
variation
1995 Lake Pepin coring, MN, Human impact on the Upper
Mississippi River Watershed
1991 Neo-tectonics of Mono Basin, California
1990 Princeton University Geology Field Methods Camp,
Yellowstone
Bighorn Research Association, Red Lodge, Montana
Community Service and
Outreach
2006 Northeast NJ Science
Olympiad event designer
2004 American Chemical Society
SEED co-mentor
2001-03 Career day events and school group tours, Columbus
Ohio
1997 Instructor, "Girls at the
Center,"
Science Museum of Minnesota
1995 Head geology Instructor, Bell
Science
Museum "Science is for Girls!"
1995 Head geology instructor,
Women
in Science and Engineering "Opportunities Day" for Girl Scouts
1992-97 Advisory Board Member, Student Emergency Loan Fund,
Univ.
Minnesota
1992 Tutor, Dept. Geology, Univ.
Minnesota
1990-92 Guest instructor, Hillsborough Middle School, Bell
Meade,
New Jersey
1989 Tutor, Dept. Geology, Univ.
Rochester
Professional Activities
2003 Invited speaker, 34th INQUA Congress,
Reno, NV
2002 Visiting Fellow, Institute for Rock Magnetism,
Univ. Minnesota
2002 Invited keynote speaker, Fundamental Rock
Magnetism and Environmental Applications, June 26-30, Erice, Italy
2002 ANDRILL US Science Workshop, April 19-21,
Lincoln, NE
2002 Antarctic Peninsula Climate Variability
Workshop: An Historical and Paleoenvironmental Perspective, April 3-5,
Hamilton College, N.Y.
2002 Antarctic Marine Geology and Geophysics Planning
Workshop, March 23-24, Washington, D.C.
2001 Visiting Fellow, Institute for Rock Magnetism,
Univ. Minnesota
2000 Lacustrine Diatom Analysis and Taxonomy
Workshop, Univ. Minnesota
1997, 98, 00, 02, 04 Visiting Fellow, Laboratoire des
Sciences du Climat et de l’Environment, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
1997 Antarctic Ice-Margin Evolution (ANTIME)
Workshop, Hobart, Tasmania
1997 Palmer Long-term Ecological Research (LTER)
Workshop, Univ. California, Santa Barbara.
1996 Co-chair, Fall 1996 AGU Special Session,
“Geomagnetic Paleointensity Records”
1996 Time Series Analysis Workshop, Univ. Minnesota
1996 Third Conference on Rock Magnetism and
Environmental Magnetism, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1995 Co-chair, December 1995 AGU Special Session,
"Perspectives of Past Climate Changes From Worldwide Sediment Magnetic
Studies."
1995 Sedimentary Bio-geo-magnetism Workshop, Univ.
Minnesota
1995 Project WET, Water Education for Teachers,
Duluth, Minnesota
1994 Second Conference on Rock Magnetism and
Environmental Magnetism, Santa Fe, New Mexic
1994-2004 Primary author or co-author on >50
abstracts presented at professional meetings.