Shanti B. Penprase
Appointments
Guarini Dean's Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Research & Teaching Assistant
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Watershed Monitoring Assistant
Mississippi Watershed Management Organization, Minneapolis, MN
Minnesota GreenCorps Member
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Saint Paul, MN
Keck Geology Research Fellowship
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Education
Ph.D., Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN
B.A., Geology
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Selected Publications
Plow vs. Ice Age: Erosion rate variability from glacial–interglacial climate change is an order of magnitude lower than agricultural erosion in the upper Mississippi River Valley
Penprase, S.B., Wickert, A., Larson, P., Wood, J., Larsen, I., Rittenour, T. — Geology, v. 53, p. 535–539
Late Quaternary glacial maxima in southern Patagonia: insights from the Lago Argentino glacier lobe
Romero, M., Penprase, S.B., et al. — Climate of the Past, 20, 1861–1883
History of late-glacial meltwater routing to the upper Mississippi River basin as recorded in a tributary slackwater sequence
Penprase, S.B., Wilwerding, A., McKenzie, M., Wickert, A., Larson, P., Rittenour, R. — Boreas (in review)
Invited Talks
AGU Fall Meeting — Sedimentary Records of Holocene Climate and Environmental Change (Invited Talk)
Soft Rock Seminar, University of Texas Austin
Ronneberg Lecture, Denison University
AGU Fall Meeting — Earth & Planetary Surface Processes General Contributions (Invited Presenter)
Beyond the Lab Speaker Series, Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory
Carleton College Geology Department Seminar
Minnesota Geological Survey Lunch Speaker Series
American Institute of Professional Geologists, Minnesota Section
Awards
Alvin Anderson Award
Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota — for excellence in research related to water resources and sediment transport
H.E. Wright Footsteps Award
Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota — for outstanding students conducting research in Quaternary studies or related fields
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA)
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
AGeS2 Geochronology Award
National Science Foundation Funded Grant Program — $10,000 to support independently developed geochronology and geochemistry research
Thank a Teacher Award
University of Minnesota — student-nominated award for “educators that make a difference in student education”
Courses Taught
Quaternary Paleoclimatology
Instructor of Record, Dartmouth College
Earth Surface Processes & Landforms
Instructor of Record, Dartmouth College
Paleoclimate & Glacial Processes Field Course
Co-Instructor, Dartmouth College