Stephen A. Nelson

Professors Emeritus - Earth & Environmental Science

School of Science & Engineering
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty
Region
  • Mesoamerica
Stephen A. Nelson

Additional Info

Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses:

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years:

3

Research

Mexico, Volcanology, Natural Sciences, Volcanology

Degrees

  • B.A., University of California-Berkeley, Geology, 1973
  • M.A., University of California-Berkeley, Geology, 1975
  • Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, Geology, 1979

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Associate Professor, Tulane University, 1987-
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 1979-1987

Distinctions

  • Geological Society of America Penrose Research Grants, 1975, 1976, 1977
  • National Science Foundation Grant, “Pliocene to Recent Basic Magmatism in the East-Central Mexican Volcanic Belt,” 1991-1993
  • Mesoamerican Ecology Institute Grants, Tulane University, 1982-1985

Languages

  • Spanish
  • French

Overseas Experience

  • Mexico

Related Experience

  • Chair, Department of Geology, Tulane University, 1994-2000, 2003-
  • International Editorial Board, Revista del Instituto de Geología de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico
  • Grant Proposal Reviewer, National Science Foundation and National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • LAS Promotions & Tenure Committee, 1999-2000
  • University Senate Committee on Educational Policy, 1991-1994

Selected Publications

  • 2013. “The temporal evolution of Volcan Tepetiltic, Western Mexico: 40Ar/39Ar constraints on the time scale for cone construction and the hiatus before its caldera-forming eruption.” With Frey H.M., et al. Bulletin of Volcanology.
  • 2001. “When Day Turned to Night: Volcanism and the Archaeological Record from the Tuxtla Mountains, Southern Veracruz, Mexico.” With P.J. Arnold et al. In Environmental Disaster and the Archaeology of Human Response. G. Bawden and R. Reycraft, eds. Albuqu
  • 1997. “Field excursion to the Sierra Las Navajas, Hidalgo, Mexico‘€“a Pleistocene peralkaline rhyolite complex with a large debris avalanche deposit.” With A. Lighthart. In Convencion sobre la Evolucion Geologica de Mexico y Recursos Asociados: Guia de la
  • 1995. “Obsidian from the Ucareo and Zinapecauro Area, Michocan, Mexico.” Geological Society of American Abstracts with Programs 60. Co-author.
  • 1995. “Constraints on the Origin of Alkaline and Calc-alkaline Magmas from the Tuxtla Volcanic Field, Veracruz, Mexico.” With E. Gonzalez-Caver and T.K. Kyser. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 122:191-211.