My History

Education

• Ph.D., Geology, Columbia University, 1971
• B.A., Chemistry, Swarthmore College, 1966

Professional Experience

• September 1996-present, Chair, Department of Geology
• 1986-present, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Invertebrate Paleontology, Research Associate
• 1978-1985, University of Delaware, Department of Geology, Associate Professor
• 1972-1978, University of Delaware, Department of Geology, Assistant Professor
• 1974, 1975, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Summer Faculty Fellow

Professional Activities

• Memberships in:
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • American Geophysical Union
  • American Quaternary Association
  • Coastal Education Research Foundation
  • Geochemical Society
  • Geological Society of America

• Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Quaternary Science Reviews, 1991-1996

• Reviewer, Quaternary Research, Geological Society of America, Nature and Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta.

Professional Service

• Co-Convenor, 1982 Geological Society of America Symposium on Amino acid geochemistry and aminostratigraphy, New Orleans.
• Invited Participant in 1985 United Nations - CCOP Workshop on Dating Young Sediments, Beijing.
• Co-Convenor, 1987 Geological Society of America Penrose Conference on Late Pleistocene Sea Levels, Bermuda.
• Invited Participant, 1989 International Geological Congress, Workshop on Biomineralization, Washington, D.C.
• Theme session organizer, 1990 Geological Society of America Meeting, Dallas. 16-paper session on the applications of amino acid racemization in geochronology, stratigraphy, and geochemistry.
• International Geological Correlation Project 274: Coastal Quaternary Evolution:
  • Theme leader for geochronology;
  • Co-editor, U.S. Working Group final report entitled Quaternary Coastal Systems of the U.S. (published by Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, late 1992)

• Center for Advanced Study Fellowship, University of Delaware, 1995-1996.
• Convenor, 1997 Northeastern Section Geological Society of America Workshop on Aminostratigraphy, held at University of Delaware, March 1997.
• Co-Convenor, 1998 Perspectives on Amino Acid and Protetin Geochemistry: Symposium to Honor P. E. Hare, Carnegie Institute of Washington, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., April 1998.
• Co-Convenor, 1999 Assateague Shore and Shelf Workshop, Lewes, DE, April 1999

Major Recent Publications

• O'Neal, M.L., Wehmiller, J.F., and Newell, W.L. (submitted) Amino acid geochronology of Quaternary coastal terraces on the northern margin of Delaware Bay, southern New Jersey, USA. In revew, Perspectives on Amino Acid and Protetin Geochemistry (submitted Dec 1998).
• Wehmiller, J.F., Stecher, H.A., III, York, L.L., and Friedman, I. (submitted). The thermal environment of fossils: effective ground temperatures (1994-1998) at aminostratigraphic sites, U.S. Atlantic coastal plain. In review, Perspectives on Amino Acid and Protetin Geochemistry (submitted Dec. 1998).
• Wehmiller, J.F. and Miller, G.H. (1998). Amino acid racemization in: Sowers, J.M., Noller, J.S., and Lettis, W.R., ed., Dating and Earthquakes: review of Quaternary geochronology and its applications to paleoseismology: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NUREG/CR 5562, pp 2-307-2-359.
• Wehmiller, J.F., York, L.L., and Bart, M.L. (1995). Amino acid racemization geochronology of reworked Quaternary mollusks on US Atlantic coast beaches: implications for chronostratigraphy, taphonomy, and coastal sediment transport. Marine Geology, vol. 124, 303-337.
• Wehmiller, J.F. (1993). Applications of Organic Geochemistry for Quaternary Research: aminostratigraphy and aminochronology, In: Organic Geochemistry, M. Engel and S. Macko, eds., Plenum Pub. Co., pp. 755-783.
• C.H. Fletcher III and J.F. Wehmiller, editors (1992), Quaternary Coasts of the United States: Marine and Lacustrine Systems. Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication No. 48.
• Wehmiller, J.F., L.L. York, D.F. Belknap, and S.W. Snyder (1992). Aminostratigraphic discontinuities in the U.S. Atlantic coastal plain and their relation to preserved Quaternary stratigraphic records. Quaternary Research, vol. 38, 275-291.

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