Judith Fierstein
Fierstein in 2019 in the Sierra Nevada
TitleResearch Geologist
Academic background
EducationUniversity of California, Santa Cruz (BS, MS)
Academic work
InstitutionsCalifornia Volcano Observatory
Websitewww.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/judith-fierstein

Judith Ellen Fierstein is a geologist and researcher employed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).[1][2] She is affiliated with the USGS California Volcano Observatory.[3]

Fierstein is a member and fellow of the Geological Society of America (GSA),[4] having been nominated by Charles R. Bacon.[5]

Career

Fierstein is best known for her work in the fields of volcanology and geologic mapping.[6] She is also known for giving engaging presentations to teach communities about her geologic work.[7][8]

Education

Fierstein received a B.S. in 1980 and an M.S. in 1989, both from University of California, Santa Cruz.[9]: 18 

Collaboration

Her main research partner is Wes Hildreth.[1] Their partnership began in 1980, when Hildreth took the newly graduated Fierstein on a trip to the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes in Katmai National Park and Preserve for geologic research.[10] They have since become vital to each other's research, and they have collaborated in the Cascades, Andes, and in Alaska.[11]

While Michelle Coombs, the current Scientist-in-Charge (SIC) at Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) was in college, she was a field assistant to Fierstein.[12] Terry Keith, an earlier SIC at AVO, also worked with Fierstein on research in Alaska.[13]

Research

Chile

Fierstein has worked extensively in the study of tephra stratigraphy.[14][15] Her research was applied to fill in the known eruptive history of the volcano Laguna del Maule.[16] She has also developed strategies for calculating the volume of volcanic tephra from a given eruption.[17][18]

Fierstein's work in South America, including research at Laguna del Maule, led to the first ever tri-national hazards map, which included Chile and Argentina.[19]

Alaska

Fierstein is an expert in the geology of Katmai National Park and Preserve. She has published multiple research papers and USGS publications on the geology of Alaska.[20][21]

She was noted as a "Novarupta-Katmai expert" by the USGS,[22] an "expert on the 1912 eruption [of Novarupta]" by the Alaska Volcano Observatory,[23] and as a "Katmai expert" by the University of Alaska Fairbanks.[7]

She has collaborated with Wes Hildreth on papers about Novarupta,[24][25] a volcano in Katmai National Park, Alaska,[26] and has spoken at Alaskan community events, most notably in 2012 after the centennial of the Novarupta Eruption of 1912.[27][28] She also appeared on Alaska Public Radio to talk about one of her publications on Novarupta.[29]

Her research in Katmai has also uncovered errors in the research done by Robert Griggs,[30] but has since corrected many of them.[31] Fierstein's work has also been applied alongside the research of Bernard R. Hubbard for determining the geologic history of the area around Mount Aniakchak.[32] Copies of a paper by Fierstein were found in the files of Father Hubbard after his passing.[33]

Fierstein has also worked with volcanologist Colin Wilson on Alaskan research.[34]

California

Fierstein has contributed to geologic research in both the Mojave National Preserve and the Mono Basin of California.[35][36] She was an advisor to a USGS postdoctoral fellowship on volcanic hazards at Mono Basin.[37]

The USGS largely used a professional paper by her and Wes Hildreth to create a "geonarrative" on the geology at Mammoth Mountain.[38] She and Hildreth led an interpretive hike at Devils Postpile National Monument in 2016.[39]

Oregon

Fierstein has contributed to geologic research in Oregon, especially with around the Three Sisters.[40] She collaborated with Wes Hildreth and other contributors to create a geologic map of the Sisters' volcanic cluster.[41]

Washington

Hildreth and Fierstein were also the first to research the stratigraphic structures making up Mount Adams and monitor the geologic changes at the mountain.[42] They published a conference paper of their geologic mapping and geothermal assessment of Mount Adams in 1990,[43] and went on to publish the geologic map with USGS in 1995.[44]

Fierstein has also worked with geologist Dave Tucker on research in the North Cascades. Tucker assisted in collecting samples for Hildreth and Fierstein at Mount Baker in the 1990s for a 2003 publication on its eruptive history.[45]

Fierstein's work with Hildreth has been used for documenting the seismic hazards present in Western Washington.[46]

Awards

Along with Wes Hildreth, Fierstein won the Florence Bascom Geologic Mapping Award from the GSA in 2019.[47] They were nominated by Colin Wilson.[48]

Also in collaboration with Hildreth, she won the Outstanding Publication award from the Association of Earth Science Editors.[49]

Affiliations

Fierstein is an Associate Editor of the Bulletin of Volcanology.[50] She has also served as a manuscript reviewer for the journal Geology.[51]

References

  1. 1 2 "2019 GSA Florence Bascom Geologic Mapping Award". The Geological Society of America. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Judith E Fierstein [Person]". ScienceBase-Directory. U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Climate Group Research". Department of Geology. University at Buffalo. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Fellowship: All Active and Current GSA Fellows". The Geological Society of America.
  5. ↑ "2007 GSA Fellows Elected by Council" (PDF). GSA Today. 17 (7): 13–16. July 2007. doi:10.1130/1052-5173(2007)17[13:GFEBC]2.0.CO;2.
  6. ↑ Calvert, Andrew Todd. "Women in Science, Geologist". U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
  7. 1 2 Grimes, Marmian; Seibert, Stevie (April 13, 2012). "Lecture explores century of study of Novarupta eruption". University of Alaska Fairbanks. Retrieved April 8, 2023.
  8. ↑ "Baranov Museum welcomes volcano talk tonight". Kodiak Daily Mirror. April 26, 2012. Retrieved April 8, 2023.
  9. ↑ "Alumni Notes" (PDF). Earth and Planetary Sciences at UC Santa Cruz (Newsletter): 14–30. 2011.
  10. ↑ Hults, Chad P.; Fierstein, Judy (2016). Katmai National Park and Preserve and Alagnak Wild River: Geologic Resources Inventory (PDF) (Report). In Natural Resource Reports
  11. ↑ Hildreth, Wes (2005). "Thorarinsson Medal Acceptance" (PDF). IAVCEI News. International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior. 2005 (1): 7–8.
  12. ↑ Klemetti, Erik (March 29, 2023). "A Long Way Still to Go to Create Representative Volcanology". Discover Magazine. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
  13. ↑ Klemetti, Erik (March 27, 2023). "The Changing Face of Volcanology". Discover Magazine. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
  14. ↑ Fierstein, Judy (2007). "Explosive eruptive record in the Katmai region, Alaska Peninsula: an overview". Bulletin of Volcanology. 69 (5): 469–509. Bibcode:2007BVol...69..469F. doi:10.1007/s00445-006-0097-y. ISSN 1432-0819. S2CID 128983665.
  15. ↑ Fierstein, J.; Hildreth, W. (2004). Kaguyak to Katmai: Post-Glacial Tephras in Katmai National Park, Alaska. AGU Fall Meeting. Bibcode:2004AGUFM.V23A0622F. ResearchGate:252244326.
  16. ↑ Fierstein, Judy (2018). Postglacial Eruptive History Established by Mapping and Tephra Stratigraphy Provides Perspectives on Magmatic System beneath Laguna del Maule, Chile. Chapman Conference. AGU.
  17. ↑ Nathenson, Manuel; Fierstein, Judy (2015). "Spread sheet to calculate tephra volume for exponential thinning" – via Ghub.
  18. ↑ Communications and Publishing (May 26, 2016). "Forecasting Ashfall Impacts from a Yellowstone Supereruption". U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
  19. ↑ "The Volcano Disaster Assistance Program in 2021". U.S. Geological Survey. March 18, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
  20. ↑ "Park Archives: Katmai National Park and Preserve". NPSHistory.com. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  21. ↑ "Search Bibliography – Results". Alaska Volcano Observatory. University of Alaska System. Search criteria: Last name: Fierstein. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  22. ↑ "PubTalk: Exploring The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes". U.S. Geological Survey. June 6, 2012. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
  23. ↑ "April 25 -- The Novarupta - Katmai 1912 eruption: a free lecture in Fairbanks by Judy Fierstein". Alaska Volcano Observatory. University of Alaska System. April 6, 2012. Retrieved April 8, 2023.
  24. ↑ Rozell, Ned (June 1, 2012). "Alaska's Novarupta volcanic eruption remembered 100 years later". Anchorage Daily News. Retrieved March 13, 2023.
  25. ↑ Fierstein, Judy. "Katmai National Park Volcanoes". National Park Service. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
  26. ↑ Katmai National Park & Preserve. "Volcanoes". National Park Service. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
  27. ↑ "100th anniversary of Novarupta-Katmai eruption lecture April 25". University of Alaska Fairbanks. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  28. ↑ Wilcox, Barbara (May 16, 2012). "Exploring The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes". Belmont, CA Patch. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  29. ↑ Spack, Kristin (June 7, 2012). "Novarupta – Katmai Eruption of 1912, Largest Eruption of the 20th Century". Alaska Public Media. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  30. ↑ Fierstein, Judy. "The Great Eruption of 1912" (PDF). Alaska Park Science. Anchorage, Alaska: National Park Service. 11 (1): 7–13 – via ARLIS.
  31. ↑ teofilo (June 6, 2012). "Ten Thousand Smokes, One Hundred Years". Gambler's House. Wordpress.
  32. ↑ Browne, Brandon L.; Neal, Christina; Bacon, Charles R. (2022). "The ~400 yr B.P. eruption of Half Cone, a post-caldera composite cone within Aniakchak caldera, Alaska Peninsula" (PDF). Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Professional Report 126. doi:10.14509/30839. S2CID 248174850. DGGS 30839.
  33. ↑ "Hubbard (Bernard R., S.J.) Papers". Online Archive of California. Retrieved April 6, 2023. ArchivesSpace
  34. ↑ "Team Profile: Colin Wilson". Geothermal Next Generation. GNS Science. July 9, 2020. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  35. ↑ Schweich, Tom. "Bibliography: Eastern Mojave Vegetation". Tom Schweich. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  36. ↑ Hildreth, Wes; Fierstein, Judy; Ryan-Davis, Juliet (2021). "No ring fracture in Mono Basin, California" (PDF). GSA Bulletin. 133 (9–10): 2210–2225. Bibcode:2021GSAB..133.2210H. doi:10.1130/B35747.1. ISSN 0016-7606. S2CID 233933590. ResearchGate:349575993. USGS
  37. ↑ Mendenhall Research Fellowship Program. "Mendenhall Program: Volcano-related opportunities". U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved April 8, 2023.
  38. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. "Mammoth Mountain Flows, Long Valley Caldera, and Bishop Tuff". Retrieved April 7, 2023 – via ArcGIS.
  39. ↑ Communications and Publishing (July 13, 2016). "Young and Old Volcanoes East of the Sierra Nevada: New Map, Report and Public Events". U.S. Geological Survey.
  40. ↑ Fierstein, Judith E. "NGDB rock sample C188044". U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  41. ↑ Hildreth, Wes; Fierstein, Judy; Calvert, Andrew T. (2012). "Geologic Map of Three Sisters Volcanic Cluster, Cascade Range, Oregon". U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3186. Scientific Investigations Map. doi:10.3133/SIM3186. S2CID 127698991. [Database doi:10.5066/P9IYBCRI].
  42. ↑ Norris, R. D. (1991). "The Cascade volcanoes; monitoring history and current land management". U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-31. doi:10.3133/ofr9131. ISBN 978-1288836444. Catkey:2716407.Crater Lake Institute
  43. ↑ Hildreth, Wes; Fierstein, Judy (1998). "Geologic map and geothermal assessment of the Mount Adams volcanic field, Cascade Range of southern Washington" (PDF). Geothermal Resources Council TRANSACTIONS. 14 (2): 1455–1456. USGS
  44. ↑ Hildreth, Wes; Fierstein, Judy (1995). "Geologic map of the Mount Adams volcanic field, Cascade Range of southern Washington". U.S. Geological Survey IMAP 2460. doi:10.3133/i2460. Catalog
  45. ↑ Hildreth, Wes; Fierstein, Judy; Lanphere, Marvin (2003). "Eruptive history and geochronology of the Mount Baker volcanic field, Washington". GSA Bulletin. 115 (6): 729–764. Bibcode:2003GSAB..115..729H. doi:10.1130/0016-7606(2003)115<0729:EHAGOT>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0016-7606.
  46. ↑ Manson, Connie J. (1988). "Seismic hazards of Western Washington and selected adjacent areas: Bibliography and Index, 1855–June 1988" (PDF). Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources Open File Report 88-4. In Washington Geologic Survey Publications Catalog
  47. ↑ "Honors & Awards: 2019 GSA Award & Medal Recipients". The Geological Society of America. Retrieved April 8, 2023.
  48. ↑ "Geological Society of America Award Winners for 2019" (Press release). Boulder: The Geological Society of America. July 2, 2019. GSA News Release No. 19-25
  49. ↑ Schwartz, Larry. "Association of Earth Science Editors Outstanding Publication Award". Minnesota State University Moorhead. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  50. ↑ "Bulletin of Volcanology: Editors". Springer. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  51. ↑ Nguyen, Chinh T.; Gonnermann, Helge M.; Houghton, Bruce F. (2014). "Explosive to effusive transition during the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century (Novarupta 1912, Alaska)" (PDF). Geology. 42 (8): 703–706. Bibcode:2014Geo....42..703N. doi:10.1130/G35593.1. ISSN 1943-2682.
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