People | Randy
Richardson
Geodynamics/Science Education
Education
- B.A., 1972, Mathematics and Earth Sciences, University of California
at San Diego
- Ph.D. 1978, Geophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis Title: Intraplate Stress and the Driving Mechanism
for Plate Tectonics
Thesis Advisor: Sean C. Solomon
Professional Experience
- 1/2004-7/2004. Visiting Scholar, Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Cambridge
- 8/2003-present, Professor of Geosciences, University of Arizona
- 2002-8/2003, Vice President for Undergraduate Education, University
of Arizona
- 1998-2002, Assistant, Associate, then Interim VP for Undergraduate
Education, University of Arizona
- 1996-present, Professor of Geosciences, University of Arizona
- 1995-1998, Associate Dean, College of Science, University of Arizona
- 1984-1996, Associate Professor of Geosciences, University of Arizona
- 1985-1986, Visiting Professor, with Fulbright support, University
of Paris, France (10/85-5/86)
- 1983-1986, Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research
- 1982-1986, Visiting Staff Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Los Alamos, New Mexico
- 1978-1984, Assistant Professor of Geosciences, University of Arizona
Representative Publications
- Richardson, R.M. and W. G. McCallum, The third R in literacy,
in Quantitative Literacy: Why Numeracy Matters for Schools
and Colleges, Bernard L. Madison and Lynn Arthur Steen (eds),
NCED, Princeton, New Jersey, 2003.
- Richardson, R. M., "Stripes on the Sea Floor", "The
Wave", "Geologic Time (Clothes) Line", and "Significant
Figures", J. Geol. Ed., 48, 575-576, 584,
597, 2000.
- Pacanovsky, K. M., D. M. Davis, R. M. Richardson, and D. D. Coblentz,
Intraplate stresses and plate-driving forces in the Philippine Sea
Plate, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 1095-1110, 1999.
- Coblentz, D. D., S. Zhou, R. R. Hillis, R. M. Richardson, and M.
Sandiford, Topography, boundary forces, and the Indo-Australian intraplate
stress field, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 919-931,
1998.
- M.L. Zoback and R.M. Richardson, Stress perturbation associated
with the Amazonas and other ancient continental rifts, J. Geophys.
Res., 101, 5459-5475, 1996.
- D.D. Coblentz, R.M. Richardson, and M. Sandiford, On the gravitational
potential energy of the Earth's lithosphere, Tectonics, 13,
929-945, 1994.
- D.D. Coblentz and R.M. Richardson, Statistical trends in the intraplate
stress field, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 20,245-20,255,
1995.
- R.M. Richardson and D.D. Coblentz, Stress modeling in the Andes:
Constraints on the South American intraplate stress magnitudes, J.
Geophys. Res., 99, 22,015-22,025, 1994.
- D.D. Coblentz and R.M. Richardson, Analysis of the South American
intraplate stress field, J. Geophys. Res., 101,
8643-8657, 1996.
- R.M. Richardson, Ridge forces, absolute plate motion, and the intraplate
stress field, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 11,739-11,748,
1992.
Complete Publications List
Professional Associations
- Project Kaleidoscope (Science Education reform)
- American Geophysical Union, including term as Chair of the Education
and Human Resources Committee
- Member of Working Group I of the International Commission on the
Lithosphere
- Member of International Association of Geodesists study group on
plate dynamics
University of Arizona Service and Educational Activities
From 1995-2003 I worked in University administration, including service
as associate dean of the College of Science, assistant and associate
vice president for Undergraduate Education, and as vice president for
Undergraduate Education. Primary responsibilities were in the areas
of curriculum, general education, transfer articulation, honors program,
financial aid, registrar, and admissions.
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- I am now deeply involved in science education,
especially science for non-science majors, including curricular
reform at the university level and service at the national level
through, for example, Project Kaleidoscope and the Education and
Human Resources committee of the American Geophysical Union. P.I.
or co-P.I. on three NSF-funded science education grants, including
P.I. on the University of Arizona’s
Recognition Award for the Integration of Research and Education (RAIRE).
Collaborators, Advisors, and Students
- Recent Collaborators: Mary Lou Zoback, U.S.G.S., Menlo Park,
CA; Mike Sandiford, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia;
Gregory Cole, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM; Mark
Zoback, Stanford University; David Coblentz, Los Alamos National
Laboratories, NM
- Graduate Advisor: PhD: Sean C. Solomon, then at MIT
- Former Graduate Advisees: David Coblentz (Ph.D.) and Andrew
Freed (Ph.D) (last eight years)
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