Shelley Judge

Shelley joined the Earth Sciences faculty in 2008. She is a classically trained field geologist primarily interested in the geology of Utah. Specifically, her research interests include the tectonic evolution of the Sevier and Laramide orogenies of the western U.S. and superimposed pre-Basin and Range extension. Because of her participation at Ohio State’s field camp as an instructor each summer, she is also involved in research focused on many sedimentologic and stratigraphic questions in the central Utah region. In recent years, her collaboration with Mark Wilson has led to research on Jurassic units in southwest Utah, and her collaboration with Meagen Pollock resulted in projects within Utah’s Black Rock Desert and on a glaciovolcanic ridge in Iceland. She also has experience contributing to several ocean drilling programs (IODP Expedition 306, CRP3, and ANDRILL). Finally, in addition to her fondness for Utah geology, she also has interests in best practices in science education. She is particularly interested in the concept of belonging in STEM, learner-centered high-impact practices, inclusive pedagogies, and experiential learning techniques in the classroom.

Shelley has taught 20 different courses, three seminars, and 11 tutorials during her time at Wooster. A selection of her courses include:

• ESCI 110: Environmental Geology
• ESCI 120: Geology of the National Parks
• ESCI 199/200: Earth Systems
• ESCI 201: Oceanography
• ESCI 250: Introduction to GIS
• ESCI 299: Introduction to Web GIS
• ESCI 299: Geologic Field Techniques
• ESCI 340: Structural Geology
• ESCI 345: Tectonics and Basin Analysis
• ESCI 401/451/452: Junior and Senior Independent Study (I.S)
• IDPT 101: FYS – Maps: (Geospatial) Storytellers of our World
• IDPT 101: FYS – Playing Fair: Ethical, Gender, and Race Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics
• IDPT 199: Belonging in STEM
• IDPT 398: Teaching Apprenticeship
• PHED 199: Why Sports Matters

Student theses from the last three academic years include:

• Alex Anikeeff (2024): Analysis and statistical correlation of the College of Wooster Fern Valley Field Station, Holmes County, Wooster, Ohio.
• Van Beever (2024): Using seismic stratigraphy to predict the tectonics of the Morant Basin, Jamaica Passage.
• Jimmy Fisher (2024): Soil erosion: The impact of precipitation and deficient drainage tile on soil, Willoughby Grove Farm, Union Township, Licking County, Ohio.
• Ainsley Wiesner (2024): An analysis of stratigraphic, paleoecologic, and geochemical variability in the “Squaw Bay Formation,” Michigan Basin.
• Wylie Greeson (2023): Terra and their many dancers: Using children’s literature to instill Earth system science principles in kindergarten classrooms.
• Grace Braver (2023): Utilizing selective seed breeding to optimize carbon sequestration in winter wheat in Wooster, Ohio.
• Ryan Johnston (2023): The morphology, speleogenesis, and classification of cave turnips in Lehman Caves, Great Basin National Park, Nevada.
• Lauren Kreeger (2023): Uniaxial compression of FOAMGLAS® and bubble deformation.
• Christopher Roche (2023): Mapping natural disasters across Ventura County, California.
• Srushti Chaudhari (2022): Analyzing the effects of climate change on glacier loss in the Himalayan region and the agricultural economies of the Indo-Gangetic Plains using GIS techniques.
• Mazvita Chikomo (2022): Modeling meets Mirror Lake: How highly urbanized areas influence surface water-groundwater interactions at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

Selected publications include:

• Judge, S.A., Elliot, D.H., Wilson, T.J., Foland, K.A. in press for summer 2024. The Wasatch monocline, central Utah: A pre-Basin and Range extensional structure. Geology of Intermountain West.
• Pollock, M., Edwards, B., and Judge, S., Wallace, C., Hiatt, A., Perpalaj, A., Was, E., and Hauksdóttir, S. 2023. The complex construction of a glaciovolcanic ridge with insights from the 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption. Frontiers in Earth Science: Volcanology.
• Judge, S., Werthmann, E., Millan, C., Braunagel, M., Maletic, E. 2023. Utah Geosites: The Salina Canyon unconformity, a classic example of missing time. Geology of Intermountain West.
• Runciman, K.M., Wilson, M.A., Buttler, C.J., Judge, S.A. 2023. Colony repair strategies in large trepostome bryozoans from the Upper Ordovician (Katian) of the Cincinnati region, USA, In Keys, Jr., M.M, Porter, J.S., Wyse Jackson, P.N. (editors), Bryozoan Studies 2022.
• Judge, S., Santella, W., Greeson, W., Culp, J., Craven, C., Chikomo, M., 2022. The impact of a team of undergraduate TAs in a first-year seminar. E-Source for College Transitions Collections: Volume 2: The First-Year Seminar, p 10-11 (reprint of 2021 article in a collections volume).
• Judge, S.A., Chikomo, M., and Berina, J.P., 2022. Academic currency: How tokens took (some) anxiety out of late work. GLCA Consortium for Teaching and Learning: Featured Article. Digital resource: https://glcateachlearn.org/academic-currency-how-tokens-took-some-anxiety-out-of-late-work/
• Wilson, M.A., Cooke, A.M., Judge, S.A., Palmer, T.J., 2021. Ooimmuration: Enhanced fossils preservation by ooids, with examples from the Middle Jurassic of southwestern Utah, USA. Palaios 36:326-329.
• Judge, S., Santella, W., Greeson, W., Culp, J., Craven, C., Chikomo, M., 2021. The impact of a team of undergraduate TAs in a first-year seminar. E-Source for College Transitions 18(3):5-6.
• Judge, S., Pollock, M., Williams, M., Schantz, K., Baxstrom, K., Burden, K., Matesich, C., Randall, E., Patzkowsky, S., Sims, W., Cary, W., Peppers, M., Thompson, A., and Wilch, T., 2019. Young volcanism in Millard County: Ice Springs Volcanic Field. In Milligan, M., Biek, B., Nielsen, P., and Inkenbrandt, P. (editors), Utah Geological Association (UGA) Publication GeoSites 1(1):1-13.
• Field, B., Browne, G., Fielding, C., Florindo, F., Harwood, D., Judge, S., Krissek, L., Levy, R., Passchier, S., and Pekar, S., 2018. A Sedimentological Record of Early Miocene Ice Advance and Retreat, ANDRILL-2A Drillhole, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Geosphere 14(2) 1780-1803, doi:10.1130/GES01592.1.
• Judge, S., 2018. Bat Predation by a Great Basin Gopher Snake, Pituophis catenifer deserticola (Serpentes: Colubridae). Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research Bulletin 8(1):6-7.