David M. Pearson Professor   Department of Geosciences Idaho State University 921 S 8th Ave Pocatello, ID 83209 pearson at isu.edu http://geology.isu.edu/~peardavi   EDUCATION   Ph.D., Geosciences, University of Arizona, 2012   M.S., Geosciences, University of Arizona, 2007   B.S. (honors), Geol. Sci., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002   RESEARCH INTERESTS   My students, collaborators, and I conduct field-based and laboratory studies from microscopic to continental scales to better understand lithospheric deformation and regional tectonic processes. Current research interests include: ▪             Controls on orogenic structural style in continental fold-thrust belts   ▪             Tectonic evolution of the northern Basin and Range   ▪             Feedbacks among forearc and retroarc thrusting and arc magmatism in Cordilleran orogens   ▪             Constraining the geometry and kinematics of Rodinian rifting in western Laurentia   ▪             Application of low-temperature thermochronometry to constrain the timing of contractional and extensional tectonism   ▪             Investigation of the basement framework of the northern Rockies   PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE   2023 – Present             Idaho State University, Department of Geosciences, Pocatello, ID                                     Professor 2018 – Present             Idaho State University, Department of Geosciences, Pocatello, ID                                     Associate Professor 2012 – 2018                Idaho State University, Department of Geosciences, Pocatello, ID                                     Assistant Professor 2005 – 2012                Univ. of AZ, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ                                     Teaching / Research Assistant 2011                            ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, TX                                     Summer internship involved orogen-scale evaluation of the pre-Cenozoic structural and stratigraphic framework of the southern South American fold and thrust belt and its influence upon hydrocarbon system segmentation. 2003 – 2005                Pacific Soils Engineering, Inc., Tustin, CA                                     Engineering Geologist for a geotechnical engineering consulting firm. 2002 – 2003                Environmental Resolutions, Inc., Lake Forest, CA                                     Staff Geologist for an environmental geology consulting firm.   TEACHING EXPERIENCE   Idaho State University, Department of Geosciences (†anticipated) Lower Division Courses: GEOL 1101, Physical Geology (Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2017) GEOL 1110, Physical Geology for Scientists Laboratory (Fall 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017) GEOL 2205, Solid Earth (Spring 2023) GEOL 2282, Undergraduate Laboratory Experience (Spring 2017, Fall 2017) Upper Division Courses: GEOL 4421/4421L, Structural Geology (Spring 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024†) GEOL 4440/5540, Ore Deposits and Geothermal Systems (F 2022) GEOL 4450, Field Geology (Su 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017*, 2018*, 2019*, 2021, 2022, 2023) (*Field Camp Director) GEOL 4458/5558, Geology of North America (Spring 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024†) GEOL 4482, Independent Problems and Studies in Geology (2017, 2018, 2021) GEOL 4491/5591, Seminar Field Trip (Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2015, Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2023) GEOL 4499/5599, Petroleum Geology (Fall 2015) Graduate Courses: GEOL 6601, Advanced Physical Geology (Fall 2012, 2013, 2019, 2021, Fall 2023) GEOL 6603, Geologic Writing Seminar (Spring 2021) GEOL 6621, Advanced Structural Geology (Fall 2012, 2014, 2017, 2020, 2022) GEOL 6622, Orogenic Belts (Fall 2013, Fall 2016, Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2023) GEOL 6648, Research Problems (Fall 2016, Spring 2018) GEOL 5599/6699, Tectonics Seminar (Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023)   2005 – 2010, Teaching Assistant, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ 2010                Natural Sciences: A Geological Perspective 2008                Structural Geology 2007                Physical Geology 2006                Summer Field Geology 2006, 2009      Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology 2005                Introduction to Oceanography   PUBLICATIONS  (*student author)  click here to request a PDF Journal articles   Parker, S.D.*, and Pearson, D.M., 2023, A kinematic model linking the Sevier and Laramide belts of the Idaho-Montana fold-thrust belt, U.S. Cordillera, Geosphere. Click here for a PDF   Finzel, E.S., Rosenblume, J.A.*, and Pearson, D.M., 2023, Timing of transition from Sevier- to Laramide-style tectonism in southwestern Montana based on the provenance of the Frontier Formation, North American Cordillera: Tectonics. Click here for a PDF   Parker, S.D., and Pearson, D.M., 2023, Field guide to carbonate mylonites and reactivated basement faults of the Leadore area: Northwest Geology. Click here for a PDF   Burmester, R.S., Lewis, R.S., Pearson, D.M., and Knudsen, L.D., 2023, Geology of the Belt Supergroup from Iron Lake north to Phelan Mountain, east-central Idaho: Northwest Geology. Click here for a PDF   Brennan, D.T., Link, P.K., Pearson, D.M., Milton, J.*, Sundell, K.E., and Mangum, K.*, 2023, Neoproterozoic and Cambrian strata of the locally mineralized Bayhorse succession on the western side of the Lemhi arch in east-central Idaho: Northwest Geology. Click here for a PDF   Brennan, D.T., Pearson, D.M., Link, P.K., and Milton, J.*, 2023, Neoproterozoic to early Paleozoic tectono-stratigraphic framework for central Idaho: Windermere Supergroup in the northern sector of the U.S. Cordillera, in Whitmeyer, S.J., Williams, M.L., Kellett, D.A., and Tikoff, B., eds., Laurentia: Turning Points in the Evolution of a Continent: GSA Memoir, v. 220, no. 23, p. 457-486, doi:10.1130/2022.1220(23). Click here for a PDF   Parker, S.D.*, Pearson, D.M., and Finzel, E.S., 2022, A thermal profile across the Idaho-Montana fold-thrust belt reveals early burial to late exhumation during progressive growth of an orogenic wedge: Lithosphere. Click here for a PDF   Gardner, C.T.*, Finzel, E.S., Rosenblume, J.A.*, and Pearson, D.M., 2022, Foreland basin response to middle Cretaceous thrust belt evolution, southwestern Montana, USA: Geosphere, doi:10.1130/GES02521.1. Click here for a PDF   Rosenblume, J.*, Finzel, E.S., Pearson, D.M.,and Gardner, C.T.*, 2022, Middle Albian provenance, sediment dispersal and foreland basin dynamics in southwestern Montana, North American Cordillera: Basin Research, v. 34, p. 913– 937, doi:10.1111/bre.12. Click here for a PDF   Kaempfer, J.M*, Guenthner, W.R., and Pearson, D.M., 2021, Proterozoic to Phanerozoic tectonism in southwestern Montana basement ranges constrained by low temperature thermochronometric data: Tectonics, v. 40, doi:10.1029/2021TC006744. Click here for a PDF   Pearson, D.M., Montoya, L.M.*, and Link, P.K, 2021, Field guide to Mesoproterozoic to Ordovician rocks exposed east of Challis near Leaton Gulch, Idaho: Northwest Geology, v. 50, p. 95-106. Click here for a PDF   Pearson, D.M., and Link, P.K, 2021, Post-Belt Supergroup Mesoproterozoic to Cambrian rocks of the Leaton Gulch area, east of Challis, Idaho: Northwest Geology, v. 50, p. 11-21. Click here for a PDF   Parker, S.D.* and Pearson, D.M., 2021, Pre-thrusting stratigraphic control on the transition from a thin- to thick-skinned structural style: an example from the double-decker Idaho-Montana fold-thrust belt: Tectonics, v. 39, doi:10.1029/2020TC006429. Click here for a PDF   Rosenblume, J.*, Finzel, E.S., and Pearson, D.M., 2021, Early Cretaceous provenance, sediment dispersal, and foreland basin development in southwestern Montana, North American Cordillera: Tectonics, v. 39, doi:10.1029/2020TC006561. Click here for a PDF   Schusler, K.L.*, Pearson, D.M., McCurry, M., Bartholomay, R.C., and Anders, M.H., 2020, Regionally continuous Miocene rhyolites beneath the eastern Snake River Plain reveal localized flexure at its western margin: Idaho National Laboratory and vicinity: The Mountain Geologist, v. 57, no. 3, p. 247-275, doi:10.31582/rmag.mg.57.3.247. Click here for a PDF   Brennan, D.T.*, Pearson, D.M., Link, P.K., and Chamberlain, K.R., 2020, Neoproterozoic Windermere Supergroup near Bayhorse, Idaho: late-stage Rodinian rifting was deflected west around the Belt basin: Tectonics, v. 39, doi:10.1029/2020TC006145. Click here for a PDF   Garber, K.*, Finzel, E.S., and Pearson, D.M., 2020, Provenance of syn-orogenic foreland basin strata in southwestern Montana requires revision of existing models for Laramide tectonism: North American Cordillera, Tectonics, v. 39, doi:10.1029/2019TC005944. Click here for a PDF   Pearson, D.M., MacLeod, D.R.*, Ducea, M.N., Gehrels, G.E., and Patchett, P.J., 2017, Sediment underthrusting within a continental magmatic arc: Coast Mountains batholith, British Columbia: Tectonics. Click here for a PDF   Link, P.K., Todt, M.K.*, Pearson, D.M., and Thomas, R., 2017, 500 Ma detrital zircons in upper Cambrian Worm Creek and correlative sandstones, ID, MT, and WY: magmatism and tectonism within the passive margin: Lithosphere. Click here for a PDF   Pearson, D.M., and Link, P.K., 2017, Field guide to the Lemhi arch and Mesozoic-early Cenozoic faults and folds in east-central Idaho: Beaverhead Mountains: Northwest Geology, v. 46. p. 101-112. Click here for a PDF   Pearson, D.M., Anderson, N.D.*, and Link, P.K., 2017, Zircon U-Pb and Lu-Hf analysis of basement rocks at Bloody Dick Creek and Maiden Peak, southwestern Montana: a record of Paleoproterozoic and Archean plutonism and metamorphism: Northwest Geology, v. 46, p. 29-36. Click here for a PDF   McCurry, M., McLing, T., Smith, R.P., Hackett, W.R., Goldsby, R.*, Lochridge, W.*, Podgorney, R., Wood, W., Pearson, D., Welhan, J., and Plummer, M., 2016, Geologic setting of the Idaho National Laboratory Geothermal Resource Research Area: Proceedings, 41st Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Feb. 22-24, 2016, SGP-TR-209. Click here for a PDF   McCurry, M., Pearson, D.M., Welhan, J., Natwotniak, S.K., Fisher, M., 2015, Origin and potential geothermal significance of China Hat and other late Pleistocene topaz rhyolite lava domes of the Blackfoot volcanic field, SE Idaho: Geothermal Resource Council Transactions. Click here for a PDF   McGroder, M.F., Lease, R.O., and Pearson, D.M., 2015, Along-strike variation in structural styles and hydrocarbon occurrences, Subandean foldbelt and inner foreland, Colombia to Argentina, in DeCelles, P.G., Ducea, M.N., Carrapa, B., and Kapp, P.A., eds., Geodynamics of a Cordilleran Orogenic System: The Central Andes of Argentina and Northern Chile: GSA Memoir, v. 212. Click here for a PDF   Reiners, P.W., Thomson, S.N., Willett, S.D., Vernon, A., Zattin, M., Einhorn, J., Gehrels, G., DeCelles, P.G., Quade, J., Pearson, D.M., Murray, K., and Cavazza, W., 2015, Low-temperature thermochronologic trends across the central Andes, 21-28° S, in DeCelles, P.G., Ducea, M.N., Carrapa, B., and Kapp, P.A., eds., Geodynamics of a Cordilleran Orogenic System: The Central Andes of Argentina and Northern Chile: GSA Memoir, v. 212. Click here for a PDF   Pearson, D.M., Kapp, P., DeCelles, P.G., Reiners, P.W., Gehrels, G.E., Ducea, M.N., and Pullen, A., 2013, Influence of pre-Andean crustal structure on Cenozoic thrust belt kinematics and shortening magnitude: Northwestern Argentina: Geosphere, v. 9, no. 6. doi:10.1130/GES00923.1. Click here for a PDF   Pearson, D.M., Kapp, P., Reiners, P.W., Gehrels, G.E., Ducea, M.N., Pullen, A., Otamendi, J.E., and Alonso, R.N., 2012, Major Miocene exhumation by fault-propagation folding within a metamorphosed, early Paleozoic thrust belt: Northwestern Argentina: Tectonics, v. 31, no. 4, p. TC4023, doi: 10.1029/2011TC003043. Click here for a PDF   Cristofolini, E.A., Otamendi, J.E., Ducea, M.N., Pearson, D.M., Tibaldi, A.M., and Baliani, I., 2012, Detrital zircon U-Pb ages of metasedimentary rocks from Sierra de Valle Fértil: Entrapment of Middle and Late Cambrian marine successions in the deep roots of the Early Ordovician Famatinian arc: Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 37, no. C, p. 77–94, doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2012.02.001. Click here for a PDF   Girardi, J.D., Patchett, P.J., Ducea, M.N., Gehrels, G.E., Cecil, M.R., Rusmore, M.E., Woodsworth, G.J., Pearson, D.M., Manthei, C., and Wetmore, P., 2012, Elemental and Isotopic Evidence for Granitoid Genesis From Deep-Seated Sources in the Coast Mountains Batholith, British Columbia: Journal of Petrology, v. 53, p. 1505–1536, doi: 10.1093/petrology/egs024. Click here for a PDF   Gehrels, G., Rusmore, M., Woodsworth, G., Crawford, M., Andronicos, C., Hollister, L., Patchett, J., Ducea, M., Butler, R., Klepeis, K., Davidson, C., Mahoney, B., Friedman, R., Haggart, J., Crawford, W., Pearson, D., and Girardi, J., 2009, U-Th-Pb geochronology of the Coast Mountains batholith in north-coastal British Columbia: Constraints on age and tectonic evolution: GSA Bulletin, v. 121, p. 1341-1361. Click here for a PDF   Geologic maps   Parker, S.*, and Pearson, D.M., 2020, Geologic map of the northern part of the Leadore Quadrangle, Lemhi County, Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey Technical Report #T-20-03, 1:24,000-scale. Click here for a PDF   Krohe, N.*, Brennan, D.T.*, Link, P.K., Pearson, D.M., and Armstrong, T., 2020, Geologic map of the southern portion of the Clayton quadrangle, Custer County, Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey Technical Report #T-20-02, 1:24,000-scale. Click here for a PDF   Brennan, D.T.*, Pearson, D.M., and Link, P.K., 2020, Geologic map of the Bayhorse anticline, Custer County, Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey Technical Report #T-20-01, 1:24,000-scale. Click here for a PDF   Lonn, J.D., Elliott, C.G., Stewart, D.E., Mosolf, J.G., Burmester, R.F., Lewis, R.S., and Pearson, D.M., 2019, Geologic map of the Bannock Pass 7.5' quadrangle, Beaverhead County, Montana, and Lemhi County, Idaho: Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Geologic Map 76, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000. Click here for a PDF   Crawford, B.*, and Pearson, D.M., 2018, Geologic map of the Ashbough Canyon 7.5' Quadrangle, Beaverhead County, Montana: Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Edmap Report 12, 1:24,000-scale. Click here for a PDF   Hansen, C.M.*, and Pearson, D.M., 2016, Geologic map of the Poison Creek thrust fault and vicinity near Poison Peak and Twin Peaks, Lemhi County, Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey Technical Report, no.T-16-1, 1:24,000-scale. Click here for a PDF   Meyers, J.L., Link, P.K., Pearson, D.M., and Mertzman, S.A., 2014, Geologic Map of the Little Wood River Reservoir 7.5' Quadrangle, Blaine County, Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey, 1:24,000-scale. Click here for a PDF ABSTRACTS   Parker, S., Pearson, D.M., and Finzel, E., 2022, A thermal record of growth and destruction across the thin- to thick-skinned Idaho-Montana fold-thrust belt: GSA Abstracts with Programs. (Author; Oral Presentation).   Mangum, K.R.*, Sundell, K.E., Pearson, D.M., Anderson, R.B., Link, P.K., and Lever, J.P.*, 2022, Detrital zircon data supports a Neoproterozoic phase of tilting within the Lemhi arch in east-central Idaho: GSA Abstracts with Programs. (Author; Poster).   Lever, J.P.*, Sundell, K.E., Pearson, D.M., and Link, P.K., 2022, Testing provenance and regional correlations of newly recognized Mesoproterozoic strata in east-central Idaho: GSA Abstracts with Programs. (Author; Poster).   Pearson, D.M., Parker, S.*, Finzel, E., Rosenblume, J.*, Porter, E.C.*, Guenthner, W.R., Kaempfer, J.M.*, and Gardner, C.T.*, 2022, Kinematics, timing, and magnitude of shortening within the Cretaceous Sevier-Laramide fold-thrust belt of Idaho and Montana: GSA Cordillera – Rocky Mountain Joint Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, doi:10.1130/abs/2022CD-374168. (Presenter & Author; Oral Presentation).   Pearson, D.M., Brennan, D.T.*, and Link, P.K., 2022, Neoproterozoic to Cambrian rifting in the northern Rocky Mountains of Idaho and Montana: a tectonic model: GSA Cordillera – Rocky Mountain Joint Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, doi:10.1130/abs/2022CD-374051. (Presenter & Author; Oral Presentation).   Kaempfer, J.M.*, Guenthner, W.R., and Pearson, D.M., 2022, Proterozoic tectonism in southwestern Montana: deep-time low-temperature thermochronology of basement rocks: GSA Cordillera – Rocky Mountain Joint Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, doi:10.1130/abs/2022CD-373587. (Presenter & Author; Oral Presentation).   Pearson, D.M., Montoya, L.*, Parker, S.*, and Brennan, D.*, 2021, Regional-scale structural geology of the Idaho-Montana fold-thrust belt (3 posters): Belt Supergroup field conference, Salmon, Idaho. (Presenter & Author; Poster).   Pearson, D.M., and Link, P.K., 2021, Post-belt Supergroup Mesoproterozoic to Cambrian rocks of the Leaton Gulch area, east of Challis, Idaho: Tobacco Root Geological Society field conference. (Presenter & Author; Oral Presentation).   Lever, J.*, Sundell, K., Pearson, D.M., and Link, P.K., 2021, Tightening the Belt: New age and provenance constraints on Proterozoic strata in east-central Idaho: GSA Abstracts with Programs.   Parker, S.D.*, and Pearson, D.M., 2021, The progression from thin- to thick-skinned thrusting in the Idaho-Montana fold-thrust belt resulted from step-down of the basal décollement into basement rocks toward the continental interior: GSA Abstracts with Programs.   Rosenblume, J.*, Finzel, E., Gardner, C.T.*, and Pearson, D.M., 2021, Middle Albian Provenance, Sediment Dispersal, and Foreland Basin Dynamics in Southwestern Montana, North American Cordillera: GSA Abstracts with Programs.   Finzel, E., Pearson, D.M., Rosenblume, J.*, Gardner, C.*, and Garber, K.*, 2021, Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology of Cretaceous strata in the southwestern Montana foreland basin provides new temporal control for the onset of Laramide deformation: GSA Abstracts with Programs.   Kaempfer, J.M.*, Guenthner, W.R., Pearson, D.M., Orme, D., and Parker, S.D.*, 2021, Application of multiple low-T thermochronometers in developing a regional, long-term thermal history: the Idaho-Montana fold thrust belt and foreland: Thermo 2021 International Conference on Thermochronology.   Parker, S.D*, and Pearson, D.M., 2020, A stratigraphically controlled, double-decker model linking thin- and thick-skinned thrust domains of the North American Cordillera: AGU Fall Meeting 2020.   Rosenblume, J.*, Finzel, E., and Pearson, D.M., 2020, Provenance of the Lower Cretaceous Kootenai Formation in southwestern Montana: Implications for regional thrusting, foreland basin development and paleogeographic reconstructions: AGU Fall Meeting 2020.   Kaempfer, J.M.*, Guenthner, W.R., and Pearson, D.M., 2020, Recurrent Proterozoic to Phanerozoic Tectonism in Southwestern Montana Basement Ranges Constrained by Low Temperature Thermochronometric Data: AGU Fall Meeting 2020.   Parker, S.D.*, and Pearson, D.M., 2020, A stratigraphically controlled, double-decker model linking thin- and thick-skinned thrust domains of the North American Cordillera: GSA Abstracts with Programs. (Author; Oral Presentation).   Parker, S.D.* and Pearson, D.M., 2020, Geologic mapping and structural analysis north of Leadore in east-central Idaho reveals stacked thin- and thick-skinned fold-thrust belts: GSA Abstracts with Programs.   Rosenblume, J.*, Finzel, E., and Pearson, D.M., 2020, Provenance of the Lower Cretaceous Kootenai Formation in southwestern Montana: Implications for foreland basin development and regional tectonic models: GSA Abstracts with Programs.   Link, P.K., Brennan, D.T. *, Pearson, D.M., Milton, J. *, and Gates, R.*, 2020, Geologic mapping of Neoproterozoic to Ordovician strata in the Lost River and Lemhi ranges and Salmon River Mountains, central Idaho: GSA Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting, Abstracts with Programs.   Pearson, D.M., Parker, S.*, Montoya, L.M.*, and Brennan, D.T.*, 2019, No flat-slab needed: the transition from thin- to thick-skinned thrusting in the Idaho-Montana fold-thrust belt was controlled by the pre-orogenic stratigraphy: GSA Abstracts with Programs.   Parker, S.*, and Pearson, D.M., 2019, Crosscutting thin- and thick-skinned thrusts within the Idaho-Montana fold-thrust belt: A detachment control on structural style: GSA Abstracts with Programs.   Kaempfer, J.M.*, Guenthner, W.R., and Pearson, D.M., 2019, Constraining the timing of deformation in southwestern Montana basement-cored ranges using low-temperature thermochronology: GSA Abstracts with Programs.   Brennan, D.T.*, Pearson, D.M., Link, P.K., and Chamberlain, K.R., 2019, Geologic map of the Bayhorse Anticline, Custer County, Idaho: Windermere Supergroup west of the Lemhi arch: GSA Abstracts with Programs.   Kaempfer, J.M.*, Guenthner, W.R., and Pearson, D.M., 2019, Developing zircon (U-Th)/He, deep-time thermal histories of southwest Montana basement uplifts: Gordon Research Conference in Geochronology.   Brennan, D.*, Pearson, D.M., and Link, P.K., and Krohe, N.*, 2018, A newly identified Neoproterozoic and Cambrian rift-related sedimentary succession in the Bayhorse region of central Idaho: Lateral and transverse variations in the Laurentian margin: GSA Rocky Mountain/Cordilleran Regional Meeting, Abstracts with Programs.   Brennan, D.*, Link, P.K., and Pearson, D.M., 2018, Neoproterozoic and Cambrian sandstones and intrusive rocks in central Idaho: Cordilleran Tectonics Workshop, Whitehorse, Canada.   MacLeod, D.R.*, Pearson, D.M., 2018, Zircon U-Pb geochronological constraints on the ages and obscured boundaries of terranes in the western North American Cordillera: Central Gneiss Complex, British Columbia: GSA Northeastern Section Meeting, Abstracts with Programs.   Brennan, D.*, Pearson, D.M., and Link, P.K., 2017, Rodinia, Rifting, and the Ramshorn Slate: Geologic mapping of the Bayhose area, central Idaho reassigns the age of poorly understood stratigraphy from Ordovician to Neoproterozoic, GSA Abstracts with Programs.   Schusler, K.*, Pearson, D.M., and McCurry, M., 2017, Whose fault is it? A kinematic analysis of high angle normal faults in the southern Lost River Range, Arco, ID, GSA Abstracts with Programs.   Shields, A.*, Delparte, D., and Pearson, D.M., 2017, Fault detection using multiscale remote sensing techniques near Challis, Idaho, GSA Abstracts with Programs.   Pearson, D.M., Becker, T.P., and Guenthner, W.R., 2016, Building mountains in old continental crust: Examples from Argentina and Idaho-Montana, GSA Abstracts with Programs.   Mahoney, J.B., Link, P.K., and Pearson, D.M., 2016, The influence of rift geometry on continental sediment dispersal patterns, GSA Abstracts with Programs.   Pearson, D.M., Link, P.K., Todt, M.K.*, Hansen, C.M.*, Krohe, N.J.*, and Mahoney, J.B., 2016, The Lemhi Arch of east-central Idaho: a stranded fault block within the western Laurentian rift margin, GSA Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting, Abstracts with Programs.   Krohe, N.*, Link, P.K., and Pearson, D.M., 2016, Structural framework and detrital zircon provenance of Clayton, Idaho: Defining the western Laurentian rift margin north of the Snake River Plain, GSA Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting, Abstracts with Programs.   Mahoney, J.B., Link, P.K., and Pearson, D.M., 2015, Segmentation of the western Laurentian continental margin: Evidence for active tectonism in the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian 'miogeocline', GSA Abstracts with Programs.   Pearson, D.M., and Becker, T. P., 2015, Proterozoic rift systems and their influence on the formation of the Late Cretaceous-early Cenozoic Wyoming salient, GSA Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting, Abstracts with Programs.   Hansen, C., Pearson, D.M., and Link, P.K., 2015, The role of pre-existing structures on the geometry of the Late Cretaceous Poison Creek thrust fault of east-central Idaho, GSA Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting, Abstracts with Programs.   McCurry, M., Pearson, D.M., Welhan, J., Kobs-Nawotniak, S., and Fisher, M., 2015, Regional interactions among crustal tectonics, structures and magma transfer associated with the Quaternary Blackfoot Volcanic Field, SE Idaho, GSA Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting, Abstracts with Programs.   MacLeod, D.R., and Pearson, D.M., 2014, Protolith age and deformation history of high grade metamorphic rocks from the roots of a continental magmatic arc: the Central Gneiss Complex, British Columbia, Canada: Eos Transactions, AGU, Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract V33B-4848.   McCurry, M., Pearson, D.M., Welhan, J., Kobs-Nawotniak, S., and Fisher, M., 2014, Origin and potential geothermal significance of China Hat and other late Pleistocene topaz rhyolite lava domes of the Blackfoot Volcanic Field, SE Idaho: Eos Transactions, AGU, Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract V33A-4830.   Pearson, D.M., Ducea, M.N., Gehrels, G.E., MacLeod, D.R., 2014, Cretaceous protoliths of Central Gneiss Complex rocks, British Columbia, Canada: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, no. 5, p.5, Paper No. 3-2.   Todt, M.K., Link, P.K., Beal, L.K., Pearson, D.M., McCurry, M., 2014, Sedimentary provenance of the Upper Cambrian Worm Creek Quartzite, Idaho, using U-Pb and Lu-Hf isotopic analysis of zircon grains: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, no. 5, p.80, Paper No. 28-6.   Meyers, J.L.*, Link, P.K., Pearson, D.M., Lewis, R.S., 2014, Eocene magmatic evolution and extensional faulting, Little Wood River Reservoir quadrangle, Blaine County, Idaho: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, no. 5, p.92, Paper No. 34-11.   McGroder, M.F., Lease, R.O., Pearson, D.M., 2013, Controls on Hydrocarbon Distribution in the Subandean Foldbelt, Colombia to Argentina: Iternational Petroleum Techonology Conference, Extended Abstract IPTC 17020-MS.   Pearson, D.M., Kapp, P., Reiners, P.W., and Gehrels, G.E., 2012, Control of pre-Cenozoic heterogeneities on the kinematics of Cenozoic shortening: Northwestern Argentina: Eos Transactions, AGU, Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract T51A-2549.   Metcalf, K., Pearson, D., Kapp, P., McGroder, M., and Kendall, J., 2011, Along-strike variations in crustal seismicity in the central Andes and geodynamic implications: Eos Transactions, AGU, Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract T11B-2324.   Pearson, D.M., Kapp, P.A., DeCelles, P.G., and Reiners, P.W., 2010, Missing shortening in the thick-skinned retroarc thrust belt of the central Andes, northwestern Argentina, ~25°S: Eos Transactions, AGU, Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract T11A-2052.   Reiners, P.W., Vernon, A., Zattin, M., Gehrels, G., DeCelles, P., Thomson, S.N., Quade, J., Pearson, D., Murray, K., and Cavazza, W., 2010, Detrital thermochronology and growth of the central Andes: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 42, no. 5, p. 53.   Reiners, P.W., Vernon, A., Zattin, M., Thomson, S.N., Pearson, D., and Cavazza, W., 2010, Orogen-scale thermochronologic trends of the central Andes: Goldschmidt Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee.   Pearson, D.M., Kapp, P.A., DeCelles, P.G., Reiners, P.W., and Gehrels, G.E., 2009, Kinematic history of the retroarc thrust belt in the central Andes of Argentina at 24-25°S: significant Andean shortening and sporadic foreland-ward deformation propagation: Eos Transactions, AGU, Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract T32B-06.   Girardi, J.D., Patchett, P.J., Ducea, M.N., Gehrels, G.E., Manthei, C.D., Pearson, D.M., Rusmore, M.E., Woodsworth, G.J., Fan, J., Kerrich, R.W., Thole, J.T., and Wirth, K.R., 2008, Elemental and isotopic evidence for positive and negative feedback mechanisms governing magmatic flux in the Coast Mountains batholith, British Columbia: Eos Transactions, AGU, v. 89, no. 53, Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract V33A-2204.   Pearson, D., Ducea, M., and Rusmore, M., 2007, P-T-t paths of metapelites between Prince Rupert and Bella Coola, British Columbia: Implications for the Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary tectonic evolution of the Coast Mountains Batholith: GEODAZE, student-run symposium at the University of Arizona.   Pearson, D.M., and Ducea, M.N., 2006, How do you build the largest batholith of the Phanerozoic?  Evidence for three magmatic flare-ups in the Coast Plutonic Complex of British Columbia, Canada: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Specialty Meeting No. 2.   HONORS, AWARDS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS   2011        Peter J. Coney Fellowship Award, Department of Geosciences, Univ. of AZ 2011        Galileo Circle Scholarship (PhD scholar), College of Science, Univ. of AZ 2010        ChevronTexaco Geology Fellowship 2009        Outstanding Student Paper Award, AGU Fall Meeting 2008        ChevronTexaco Geology Fellowship 2008        Harold T. Stearns Fellowship Award, GSA 2007        ExxonMobil Summer Research Fellowship 2007        Galileo Circle Scholarship (MS scholar), College of Science, Univ. of AZ 2006        ChevronTexaco Geology Fellowship 2002        Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, Dept. of Geol. Sci., Univ. of CA, Santa Barbara   EXTRACURRICULAR FIELD EXPERIENCE   2013 – Present; Idaho and Montana 2006, 2013, 2014; British Columbia, Canada 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012; Salta and Jujuy Provinces, Argentina 2009; Billings, Montana to Salt Lake City, Utah 2003, 2004, 2005; Riverside County, CA 2002; San Felipe, Baja California, México   LABORATORY EXPERIENCE   ▪             Built a mineral separation and picking laboratory at ISU consisting of: a Braun Chipmunk jaw crusher and disc mill, Wilfley shaking table, Frantz isodynamic magnetic separator, high-density liquids, stereographic polarizing microscope with a rotating stage and imaging and analysis software. ▪             Mineral separation, preparation, and analysis for (U-Th)/He zircon and apatite thermochronology. ▪             Mineral separation, preparation, and analysis for U/Pb zircon geochronology by Laser Ablation, Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICPMS). ▪             Mineral separation, dissolution, and column chemistry for Sm/Nd garnet-whole rock geo- and thermochronology. Analyses conducted by ICPMS and Isotope-Dilution Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry (ID-TIMS). ▪             Cathodoluminescence (CL) imaging and garnet inclusion characterization using scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM) and Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS). ▪             Quantitative elemental analysis of metamorphic phases in thin section using an electron microprobe to obtain geothermobarometric conditions of equilibration in high-grade metasedimentary rocks.