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Dr. J. Steven Kite                                                         Teaching Pages (Click Here)

GSA QG&G Ad Hoc Committee on Applied Fluvial Geomorphology Position Statement

Information on the WVU Natural Streams Program: E-Mail Steve.kite@mail.wvu.edu

How to Contact Steve...    MapQuest Map of Downtown Campus
       
E-mail: kite@geo.wvu.edu
     or
jkite@wvu.edu
Office:  222/223 I.C. White Hall

White is #18 on this map

Park in Lot 1

       
Phone: 304-293-5603 ext. 4330
Fax:
304-293-6522
Geology Graduate Program
Geography Graduate Program
WVU G & G Department Home Page
You Are Here: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/welcome.htm

Research Interests: Quaternary Stratigraphy; Fluvial and Glacial Geomorphology; Geoarcheology; Surficial Geology Mapping; Floods; Landslides; Debris Flows; Colluvium; Stream Restoration, Reclamation Geomorphology, Surficial Geology and Geomorphology of the Appalachians and the Ohio River Basin.

Education

Ph.D. Geology & Geography, University of Wisconsin, 1983
M.S. Geological Sciences, University of Maine, 1979
B.S. Geology, James Madison University, 1976

Research(Check Out List of Presentations at the end of this linked page.)

Publications

WVU Theses in Quaternary Geology & Geomorphology

Current Graduate Student Pages
Todd Grote:  http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~tgrote

Matt Finkenbinder: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~mfinkenbinder/

Professional Affiliations
Geological Society of America (GSA)
Quaternary Geology & Geomorphology Division of GSA:
        Secretary 1995-1998; Treasurer 1999; 2nd Vice Chair 2001, 1st Vice Chair 2002, Chair 2003, Past Chair 2004
Southeastern Friends of the Pleistocene:
      Founder & Keeper of the Mailing List
Amercan Quaternary Association
American Geophysical Union
West Virginia Archeological Society

Real-Time Flow Links for Flood Chasers & River Rats (beware some links have "decayed")

2004 Hurricane Ivan Floods & Landslides 

July 2001 Floods in West Virginia

Instructions for Life

Kite Family

Thesis Guidelines

Professional Studies (Option II) Project Guidelines

Job Interview Tips (Under Construction)

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,
but World War IV
will be fought with sticks & stones."  -Albert Einstein



Updated:  23 Jan 2006

Background Photo is the calving margin of Harvard Glacier, Prince William Sound, Alaska.
Note the splash from a small ice berg "calving" off of the 30 m high ice front.
Photo taken by JSK on a 2002 AMQUA Field Trip led by Chris Crossen and Tom Lowell

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