Justin V. Strauss

|Associate Professor
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Associate Professor of Earth Sciences

I am interested in a variety of geological phenomena, from the evolution of Earth's biosphere to the tectonic development of modern and ancient mountain belts. My primary interest is reconstructing Earth's history, particularily the co-evolution of Earth and life during key periods of tectonic and climatic change. Most of my projects are framed through the lens of field-based sedimentology, stratigraphy, and structural geology; however, I also integrate a wide array of tools, such as stable and radiogenic isotope geochemistry, geochronology, paleontology, and geological mapping to explore outstanding problems in historical geobiology and global tectonics. Almost all of my projects are multidisciplinary and involve collaboration with colleagues of diverse field and analytical expertise.

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Justin.V.Strauss@dartmouth.edu
603-646-6954
Fairchild, Room 222
HB 6105

Education

  • B.A. Colorado College
  • M.S. Harvard University
  • Ph.D. Harvard University

Selected Publications

  • 2024:

    Boag, T.H., Busch, J.F., Gooley, J., Strauss, J.V., and Sperling, E.A., 2024, Deep-water first occurrences of Ediacara biota prior to the Shuram carbon isotope excursion in the Wernecke Mountains, Yukon, Canada: Geobiology, v. 22, n. 3, p. 1–23.

    Cantine, M., Orzechowski, E., Stein, N., Lincoln, T., Hibner, B., Present, T., Thorpe, M., Strauss, J.V., Rumbelsperger, A.M.B., Knoll, A.H., Grotzinger, J., Gomes, M, and Trower, E., 2024, Rapid growth of a carbonate island over the last millennium: Sedimentology, v. xx, p. xxx–xxx.

    Koch, M.M., McClelland, W.C., Gilotti, J.A., Kosminska, K., Strauss, J.V., *Faehnrich, K., Beranek, L.P., and Pease, V., 2024, Early Paleozoic accretion history of the Pearya terrane: new insights from igneous and detrital zircon signatures of the Kulutingwak complex, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada: Geosphere, v. 20 (3), p. 778–798.

    Stockey, R.G., Cole, D.B., Farrell, U.C., Boag, T.H., Brocks, J.J., Canfield, D.E., Cheng, M., Crockford, P.W., Cui, H., Dahl, T.W., Del Mouro, L., Dewing, K., Dornbos, S.Q., Emmings, J.F., Gaines, R.R., Gibson, T.M., Gill, B.C., Gilleaudeau, G.J., Goldberg, K., Guilbaud, R., Halverson, G., Hammarlund, E.U., Hantsoo, K., Henderson, M.A., Hendserson, C.M., Hodgskiss, M.S.W., Jarrett, A.J.M., Johnston, D.T., Kabanov, P., Kimmig, J., Knoll, A.H., Kunzmann, M., LeRoy, M.A., Li, C., Loydell, D.K., Macdonald, F.A., Magnall, J.M., Mills, N.T., Och, L.M., O'Connell, B., Pages, A., Peters, S.E., Porter, S.M., Poulton, S.W. Ritzer, S.R., Rooney, A.D., Schoepefer, S., Smith, E.F., Strauss, J.V., Uhlein, G.J., White, T., Woltz, C.R., Yurchenko, I., Planavsky, N.J., and Sperling, E.A., 2024, Multiple sustained increases in atmospheric oxygen and marine productivity through the Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic eras: Nature Geoscience, v. 17, p. 667–674.

    2023:

    Bazarnik, J., Kósminska, K., McClelland, W.C., Strauss, J.V., Piepjohn, K., Elvevold, S., Zielinski, G., and Majka, J., 2023, Reinterpretation of a major terrane boundary in the northern Svalbard Caledonides based on metamorphic fingerprinting of rocks in northern Spitsbergen: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 60, p. 1188–1205.

    Busch, J.F., Boag, T.H., Sperling, E.A., Rooney, A.D., Feng, X., Moynihan, D.P., and Strauss, J.V., 2023, Integrated litho-, chemo-, and sequence stratigraphy of the Ediacaran Gametrail Formation across a shelf-slope transect in the Wernecke Mountains, Yukon, Canada: American Journal of Science, v. 323 (4), 74874.

    Dumoulin, J.A., Strauss, J.V., and Repetski, J.E., 2023, Ordovician Geology of Alaska, in Percival, I., Harper, D., Lefebvre, B, and Servais, T., eds., Global Synthesis of the Ordovician System II: Geological Society of London Special Papers, v. 533, p. 11–26.

    Faehnrich, K., McClelland, W.C., Webb, L., Kósminska, K., and Strauss, J.V., 2023, Late Ediacaran–early Cambrian rifting along the northern margin of Laurentia: Constraints from the Yelverton Formation of Ellesmere Island, Canada: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 60, no.12, p. 1597–1626.

    McClelland, W.C., Strauss, J.V., Gilotti, J.A., and Colpron, M., 2023, Paleozoic evolution of the northern Laurentian margin: Evaluating links between the Caledonian, Ellesmerian, and Cordilleran orogens, in Whitmeyer, S.J., Williams, M.L., Kellett, D.A., and Tikoff, B., eds., Laurentia: Turning Points in the Evolution of a Continent: Geological Society of America Memoir 220, p. 605–633.

    Palucis, M.C., Morgan, A.M., Strauss, J.V., Rivera-Hernandez, F., Marshall, J., Menio, E., and Miller, R., 2023, Rates and processes controlling periglacial alluvial fan formation: Implications for Martian fans: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 135, no. 3/4, p. 937–954.

    Roest-Ellis, S., Richardson, J.A., Phillips, B.L., Mehra, A., Webb, S.M., Cohen, P.A., Strauss, J.V., and Tosca, N.J., 2023, Tonian carbonates record phosphate-rich shallow seas: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 24 (5), e2023GC010974.

    Stein, N.T., Grotzinger, J.P., Quinn, D.P., Lingappa, U.F., Present, T.M., Trower, E.J., Gomes, M.L., Orzechowski, E., Cantine, M., Metcalfe, K.S., Fischer, W.W., Ehlmann, B.L., Strauss, J.V., and Knoll, A.H., 2023, Geomorphic and environmental controls on microbial mat fabrics on Little Ambergris Cay, Turks and Caicos Islands: Sedimentology, v. 70, p. 1915–1974.

    Strauss, J.V., Faehnrich, K., McClelland, W.C., Koch, M.M., Crowley, J.L., Melchin, M.J., and Beranek, L.P., 2023, Reply to the Discussion by Hadlari on "Age and significance of the Fire Bay Formation: An Ordovician arc fragment within the Clements Markham belt, northwest Ellesmere Island": Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 60, no. 12, p. 1705–1708.

    Zhang, T., Keller, C.B., Hoggard, M.J., Rooney, A.D., Halverson, G.P., Bergmann, K.D., Crowley, J.L., and Strauss, J.V., 2023, A Bayesian framework for subsidence modeling in sedimentary basins: a case study of the Tonian Akademikerbreen Group of Svalbard, Norway: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 620, 118317.

    2022:

    Busch, J.F., Hodgin, E.B., Ahm, A.-S., Husson, J.M., Macdonald, F.A., Bergmann, K.D., Higgins, J.A., and Strauss, J.V., 2022, Global and local drivers of the Ediacaran Shuram carbon isotope excursion: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 579, p. 117368.

    Kinney, S.T., Maclennan, S.A., Szymanowski, D., Keller, C.B., VanTongeren, J.A., Setera, J.B., Jaret, S.J., **Town, C.F., Strauss, J.V., Bradley, D.C., Olsen, P.E., and Schoene, B., 2022., Onset of long-lived silicic and alkaline magmatism in eastern North America precedes CAMP emplacement: Geology, v. 50, p. 1301­–1305.

    Koch, M.M., Faehnrich, K., McClelland, W.C., Crowley, J.L., Melchin, M.J., Beranek, L.P., and Strauss, J.V., 2022, Age and significance of the Fire Bay Formation: An Ordovician arc fragment within the Clements Markham Belt, Northwest Ellesmere Island: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 59, p. 639–659.

    Millikin, A.E.G., Strauss, J.V., Halverson, G.P., Bergmann, K.D., Tosca, N.J., and Rooney, A.D., 2022, Calibrating the Russoya excursion in Svalbard, Norway, and implications for Neoproterozoic chronology: Geology, v. 50, p. 506–510.

    Richardson, J.A., Roest-Ellis, S., Phillips, B., Strauss, J.V., Webb, S.M., and Tosca, N.J., 2022, Characterization and geological implications of Precambrian calcite-hosted phosphate: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 49, e2022GL100328.

    2021:

    Ahm, A-S.C., Bjerrum, C.J., Hoffman, P.F., Macdonald, F.A., Maloof, A.C., Rose, C.V., Strauss, J.V., and Higgins, J.A., 2021, The Ca and Mg isotope record of the Cryogenian Trezona carbon isotope excursion: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 568, p. 117002.

    Busch, J.F., Rooney, A.D., Meyer, E.E., Town, C., Moynihan, D., and Strauss, J.V., 2021, Late Neoproterozoic–early Paleozoic basin evolution in the Coal Creek inlier of Yukon, Canada: Implications for the tectonic evolution of northwestern Laurentia: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 58, p. 355–377.

    Faehnrich, K., McClelland, W.C., Colpron, M., Nutt, C.L., Miller, R.S., Trembath, M., and Strauss, J.V., 2021, Pre-Mississippian stratigraphic architecture of the Porcupine Shear Zone, Yukon and Alaska, and significance in the evolution of northern Laurentia: Lithosphere, p. 7866155.

    Farrell, U.C., Samawi, R., Anjanappa, S., Klykov, R., Adeboye, O., Agic, H., Ahm, A.-S.C., Boag, T.H., Bowyer, F.T., Brocks, J.J., Brunoir, T.N., Canfield, D.E., Chen, X., Cheng, M., Clarkson, M.O., Cordie, D., Crockford, P.W., Cui, H., Dahl, T.W., Mouro, L., Dewing, K., Dornbos, S., Drabon, N., Dumoulin, J.A., Emmings, J.F., Endriga, C., Fraser, T., Gaines, R.R., Gaschnig, R., Gibson, T., Gilleaudeau, G.J., Goldberg, K., Guilbaud, R., Halverson, G.P., Hammarlund, E.U., Hantsoo, K.G., Henderson, M., Hodgskiss, M.S.W., Horner, T.J., Husson, J., Johnson, B.W., Kabanov, P., Keller, C.B., Kimmig, J., Kipp, M.A., Knoll, A.H., Kreitsmann, T., Kunzmann, M., Kurzweil, F., LeRoy, M.A., Li, C., Lipp, A.G., Loydell, D.K., Lu, X., Macdonald, F.A., Magnall, J.M., Mänd, K., Mehra, A., Melchin, M.J., Miller, A.J., Mills, N.T., Mwinde, C., O'Connell, B., Och, L.M., Ossa Ossa, F., Pagès, A., Paiste, K., Partin, C.A., Peters, S.E., Playter, T., Plaza-Torres, S., Porter, S., Poulton, S.W., Pruss, S.B., Richoz, S., Ritzer, S.R., Rooney, A.D., Sahoo, S., Schoepfer, S.D., Sclafani, J.A., Shen, Y., Shorttle, O., Slotznick, S., Smith, E., Spinks, S.C., Stockey, R.G., Strauss, J.V., Stüeken, E.E., Tecklenburg, S., Thomson, D., Tosca, N.J., Uhlein, G.J., Vizcaíno, M.N., Wang, H., White, T., Wilby, P., Woltz, C., Wood, R.A., Yurchenko, I., Zhang, T., Planavsky, N.J., Lau, K.V., Johnston, D.T., and Sperling, E.A., 2021, The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project: Geobiology, v. 19, p. 545–556.

    Gibson, T.M., Faehnrich, K., Busch, J.F., McClelland, W.C., Schmitz, M.D., and Strauss, J.V., 2021, A detrital zircon test of large-scale terrane displacement along the Arctic margin of North America: Geology, v. 49, p. 545-550.

    Gibson, T.M., Millikin, A.E.G., Anderson, R.P., Myrow, P.M., Rooney, A.D., and Strauss, J.V., 2021, Tonian deltaic sedimentation on the edge of Laurentia: The Veteranen Group of northeastern Spitsbergen, Svalbard: Sedimentary Geology, v. 426, p. 106011.

    Mehra, A., Keller, C.B., Zhang, T., Tosca, N.J., McLennan, S., Sperling, E.A., Farrell, U., Brocks, J., Canfield, D., Cole, D., Crockford, P., Cui, H., Dahl, T.W., Dewing, K., Emmings, J.F., Gaines, R.R., Gibson, T., Gilleaudeau, G.J., Guillbaud, R., Hodgskiss, M., Jarrett, A., Kabanov, P., Kunzmann, M., Loydell, D.K., Lu, X., Miller, A., Mills, N.T., Mouro, L.D., O'Connell, B., Peters, S.E., Poulton, S., Ritzer, S.R., Smith, E., Wilby, P., Woltz, C., and Strauss, J.V., 2021, Curation and analysis of global sedimentary geochemical data to inform Earth history: GSA Today, v. 31, p. 4–9.

    McClelland, W.C., Strauss, J.V., Colpron, M., Gilotti, J.A., Faehnrich, K., Malone, S.J., Gehrels, G.E., Macdonald, F.A., Oldow, J.S., 2021, "Taters" versus "Sliders": Evidence for a long-lived history of strike-slip displacement along the Canadian Arctic Transform System (CATS): GSA Today, v. 31, p. 4–11.

    Roest-Ellis, S., Strauss, J.V., and Tosca, N.J., 2021, Experimental constraints on non-skeletal CaCO3 precipitation from mid-Neoproterozoic seawater: Geology, v. 49, p. 561–565.

    Sperling, E.A., Melchin M.J., Fraser, T., Stockey, R.G., Farrell, U.C., Bhajan, L., Browne, T.N., Cole, D.B., Gill, B.C., Lenz, A., Loydell, D.K., Malinowski, J. Miller, A.J., Plaza-Torres, S., Rodewald, B., Rooney, A.D., Tecklenburg, S.A., Vogel, J.M., Planavsky, N.J., and Strauss, J.V., 2021, An exceptional record of early to middle Paleozoic redox change: Science Advances, v. 7, p. eabf4382.

    Trower, E.J., Strauss, J.V., Sperling, E.A., and Fischer, W.W., 2021, Isotopic analyses of Ordovician–Silurian siliceous skeletons indicate silica-depleted Paleozoic oceans: Geobiology, v. 19, p. 460–472.

    Wala, V.T., Ziemniak, G., Majka, J., Faehnrich, K., McClelland, W.C., Meyer, E.E., Manecki, M., Bazarnik, J., and Strauss J.V., 2021, Neoproterozoic stratigraphy of the Southwestern Basement Province, Svalbard: Constraints on the Proterozoic–Paleozoic evolution of the North Atlantic-Arctic Caledonides: Precambrian Research, v. 358, p. 106138.

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