Department of Environmental Studies

& Department of Geological Sciences

University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Email: keller@geol.ucsb.edu

Project:               Joint UCSB-MMS Pacific OCS Student Internship and Trainee Program

                               

Education:          B.S.                      Mathematics, California State University, Fresno                                                 1965

                             B.A.                     Geology, California State University, Fresno                                                        1968

                             M.S.                     Geology, University of California                                                                          1969

                             Ph.D.                   Geology, Purdue University                                                                                 1973

 

Positions:           1993-Present      Chair of the Environmental Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara

                             1976-Present      Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara

                             1973-76              Asst. Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, University of North Carolina

 

Selected Peer-reviewed Publications: 

Keller, E.A. 2002. Introduction to Environmental Geology, second edition, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.

Keller, E.A., and N. Pinter. 2002. Active Tectonics, 2nd edition, Upper Saddle River. New Jersey, Prentice Hall.

Keller, E.A. 2001. Environmental Geology, 8th Edition, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Prentice Hall.

Keller, E.A., Johnson, D.L., Laduzinsky, D.L., Seaver, D.B., and T.L. Ku. 2000. Tectonic Geomorphology of Active Folding Over Buried Reverse Faults: San Emigdio Mountain Front, Southern San Joaquin Valley, California, Geological Society of America Bulletin 112: 86-97.

Botkin, D.B. and E.A. Keller. 1999. Environmental Science, 3rd Edition, New York, John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

Keller, E.A., Gurrola, L., and T.E. Tierney. 1999. Geomorphic criteria to determine direction of lateral propagation of reverse faulting and folding.  Geology 27: 515-518.

Botkin, D.B. and E.A. Keller. 1998. Environmental Science.  New York, John Wiley and Sons.  649 p.

Keller, E.A., Zepeda, R.L., Rockwell, T.K., Ku, T.L., et al. 1998. Active tectonics at Wheeler Ridge, Southern San Joaquin Valley, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin 110: 298-310.

Pinter, N., Lueddecke, S.B., Keller, E.A., and K.R. Simmons. 1998. Late Quaternary slip on the Santa Cruz Island fault, California.  Geological Society of America Bulletin 110: 711-722.

Trecker, M.A., Gurrola, L.D., and E.A. Keller. 1998. Oxygen - isotope correlation of marine terraces and uplift of the Mesa hills, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. In: Stewart I.S. &Vita-Finzi, C.(eds) Coastal Tectonics. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 146:57-69 (invited contribution).

Keller, E.A., Valentine, D.W., and D.R. Gibbs. 1997. Hydrological response of small watersheds following the Southern California Painted Cave Fire of June 1990. Hydrological Processes 11: 40-414.

Keller, E.A. and N. Pinter. 1996. Active Tectonics.  Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice Hall Inc.  338 p. 

Keller, E.A. and H.A. Loaiciga. 1993. Fluid-pressure induced seismicity at regional scales.  Geophysical Research Letters 20(16): 1683-1686. 

Keller, E.A. and J.L. Florsheim. 1993. Velocity-reversal hypothesis:  A model approach.  Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 18: 733-748. 

Keller, E.A. and M.H. Capelli. 1993. Reply to discussion Ventura River flood of February 1992:  A lesson ignored?  Water Resources Bulletin 29: 873.

Pinter, N. and E.A. Keller. 1993. Quaternary tectonic and topographic evolution of the northern Owens Valley.  In the history of water: eastern Sierra Nevada, Owens Valley, White-Inno Mountains.  White Mountain Research Station Symposium 4: 32-39. 

Keller, E.A. 1992. Environmental Geology, 6th ed.  Macmillan Publishing Co., New York.  521 p. 

Keller, E.A. and M.H. Capelli. 1992. Ventura River flood of February 1992:  A lesson ignored?  Water Resources Bulletin 28: 813-832. 

Florsheim, J.L., Keller, E.A., and D.W. Best. 1991. Fluvial sediment transport in response to moderate storm flows following chaparral wildfire, Ventura County, southern California.  The Geological Society of America Bulletin 103: 504-511. 

Keller, E.A., ed. 1991. Active Folding and Reverse Faulting in the western Transverse Ranges, southern California.  Geol. Soc. Amer. Guidebook.  Guidebook. 

Keller, E.A., Yeats, R.S., Rockwell, T.K., and D.L. Johnson. 1991. Overview of active tectonics.  In: E.A. Keller, ed., Active Folding and Reverse Faulting in the Western Transverse Ranges, Southern California.  Geol. Soc. Amer. Guidebook, 1991. Annual Meeting.  pp. 1-12.

Kondolf, E.M. and E.A. Keller. 1991. Management of urbanizing watersheds.  In: J.J. De Vrier, ed., California Watersheds at the Urban Interface: Proceedings of the Third Biennial Watershed Conference.  California Water Resources Center: 27-39. 

Pinter, N. and E.A. Keller. 1991. Comment on surface uplift, uplift of rocks and exhumation of rocks.  Geology 19(10): 1053. 

Springer, D.S., Keller, E.A., Everett, L.G., and A.E. Lawrence. 1991. Laboratory demonstration of hydrocarbon migration in the Vadose Zone: effectiveness of the U-tube design for underground storage tank leak detection monitoring.  Ground Water Monitoring Review 11(4): 133-138. 

Zepeda, R.L., Keller, E.A., and T.K. Rockwell. 1991. Tectonic geomorphology of Wheeler Ridge.  In: E.A. Keller, ed., Active Folding and Reverse Faulting in the Western Transverse Ranges, Southern California.  Geol. Soc. Amer. Guidebook, 1991 Annual Meeting.  pp. 37-45. 

Zhao, E., Keller, E.A., and D.L. Johnson. 1991. Tectonic geomorphology of the Frazier Mountain area.  In: E.A. Keller, ed., Active Folding and Reverse Faulting in the Western Transverse Ranges, Southern California.  Geol. Soc. Amer. Guidebook, 1991 Annual Meeting.  pp. 50-60. 

Johnson, D.L., Keller, E.A., and T.K. Rockwell. 1990. Dynamic pedogenesis:  New views on some key soil concepts and a model for interpreting quaternary soils.  Quaternary Research 33: 306-319. 

Keller, E.A. and G.M. Kondolf. 1990. Groundwater and fluvial processes:  Selected observations with case studies by D.J. Hagerty and G.M. Kondolf.  In: C.G. Higgins and D.R. Coates, eds., Groundwater Geomorphology: The role of Subsurface Water in Earth-surface Process and Landforms.  Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 252. 

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