Assistant Professor of Science Education
Geology, Geography, and Environmental Studies

July 1, 2003 – June 30, 2004

Publications:

- Reviewed textbook chapters for the CSI middle school Earth Science text. July 2003
- Reviewed selected chapters for multiple grade levels of CSI science textbooks. March 2004

Professional Presentations:

August 25, 2003
Keynote address for the opening of the school year for Grand Rapids Christian Schools teachers.

March 1, 2004
Fire Up Conference at Grand Valley State University. “How to Use Share Sheets as Both a Teaching Tool and an Instrument for Evaluation”

May 19-20, 2003
Taught sex-ed for Sylvan Christian School

Grants and Contracts

Sept. 2003
Inquiry-based Science: Partnership for Professional Development of Middle School Teachers. Presented by the Michigan Department of Education to the Science Education Group, Calvin College. $184,582

Professional Services
Jamestown Township Zoning Board of Appeals:
- Member 1986 – present
- Secretary 1987 – 1990
- Chair 1990 - present

Jamestown Township Personnel Committee:
- Member 2000 – present
- Freedom Early Learning Center Board of Directors
- Member 2002- present
- Vice president 2002 – present

Conducted inservice training for all Grand Rapids Christian School elementary and Middle school faculty, along with Jim Jadrich, on inquiry based learning in all academic areas and at multiple grade levels. September 2003

Ralph F. Stearley

Professor of Geology and Chairman,
Department of Geology, Geography & Environmental Studies
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
Telephone: (616) 526-6370

Scholarship Activity Report, 2003-2004

PUBLICATIONS & PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS:
2003
“Strata or tabulae? George McCready Price’s critique of biostratigraphy.”
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 35(6):610.

2004
Speth, J., Scott, S. L. Stearley, R.F. “Fish and Fishing at Henderson”. In J. Speth, ed., Life on the Periphery: Change in Late Prehistoric Southeastern New Mexico , Memoirs of the Musuem of Anthropology #37, University of Michigan, pp. 305-319.

In press
Stearley, R. F. “Geology”. Chapter for Fundamental Questions at the Intersection of Christian Faith and Natural Science , edited by D. F. Chappell and E. D. Cook. Zondervan Publishers, Grand Rapids.

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS:
2003 “Strata or tabulae? George McCready Price’s critique of biostratigraphy.” Geological Society of America annual meeting, Seattle, November.
--Note the abstract citation is given above.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Calvin College representative to Michigan Academy of Sciences, Arts, & Letters. Restoration and repair of Ada Bible Church Mastodon.

Deanna van Dijk

Department of Geology, Geography,
and Environmental Studies

Faculty Activities: 1 July 2003 through 30 June 2004

Publications:

van Dijk, D. (2004). “Contemporary geomorphic processes and change on Lake Michigan coastal dunes: an example from Hoffmaster State Park, Michigan.” Michigan Academician, 35(4): 425-453.

Professional Presentations

van Dijk, D. (2003). “Short-term variations in aeolian deposition on a foredune on the east shore of Lake Michigan.” Annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Seattle, WA, 2-5 November 2003.

Benthem, A.J.*, D. van Dijk and R.M. Bierma (2004). “Geomorphology of contemporary coastal dunes in P. J. Hoffmaster State Park , Michigan.” Annual Meeting of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, Grand Rapids, MI, 5 March 2004.

Knapman, M.*, D. Miller*, E. Hansen and D. van Dijk (2004). “Geomorphic history of parabolic and backdunes at P.J. Hoffmaster State Park.” Annual Meeting of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, Grand Rapids, MI, 5 March 2004.

Indicates undergraduate student.

Grants

June-October 2004
Grant from the Ottawa County Parks Commission $4550
Project: Study of an active parabolic dune in North Beach Park, Ottawa County

Professional Services
Councilor, Geosciences Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research. July 2003-2006.

Short, J. W., Kolak, J. J., Payne, J. R., and Van Kooten, G. K., in USGS review 2004. Geochemical Tracking of Hydrocarbon Fate and Transport across the Northern Gulf of Alaska Fluvial-Coastal Interface. in preparation for Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

Van Kooten, G.K., 2004. Chert Dissolution and Secondary Porosity in the Cretaceous Torok and Fortress Mountain Formations, Brooks Range Foothills, Alaska: 2004 Technical Conference, Alaska Geological Society, May 2004, Anchorage, Alaska, p.22.

Short, J. W., Kolak, J. J., Payne, J. R., and Van Kooten, G. K., 2003. Geochemical fate and transport of Yakataga seep oils in the northern Gulf of Alaska: 25th Annual Meeting, Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Austin, Texas, November 9-13, 2003.

Van Kooten, G.K., 2003. Origin of giant gas fields in Cook Inlet, Alaska: Climate cooling, glacial loading, and bacterial gas: Alaska Geology, v. 34, no.1 (abstract), published by the Alaska Geological Society.

Van Kooten, G.K., Short, J.W., and Kolak, J.J., 2002. Low-maturity Kulthieth Formation coal: A possible source of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in benthic sediment of the northern Gulf of Alaska: Environmental Forensics 3, p. 227-241.

(also published in the Proceedings of the 25 th Arctic & Marine Oilspill Seminar, Calgary, 2002)

Van Kooten, G.K., 2000. Oils in Prince William Sound: Where are they from?: Alaska Geological Society Science and Technology Conference Proceedings, p.6