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Bob Lillie - Natural and Cultural History Interpretation

Specialty

Geophysics; Tectonics; Public Interpretation, Geology of National Parks.

Research Interests

Structure and evolution of collisional mountain ranges; Presenting geology to the public in parks, museums, and other free-choice learning environments.

Education

• BS Geology 1975, University of Louisiana - Lafayette
• MS Geophysics 1977, Oregon State University
• PhD Geophysics 1984, Cornell University

Courses

• GEO 307 - National Park Geology and Preservation
• GEO 464/564 - Geoscience Interpretation

Graduate Students

• Kelly, Wendy, MS, 2011, Cycles of Life and Landscape: Interpreting the Geological Foundation of Shenandoah National Park, 307 pp.
• Kenworthy, Jason, MS, 2010, Changing Landscape, Climate, and Life During the Age of Mammals: Interpreting Paleontology, Evolving Ecosystems, and Climate Change in the Cenozoic Fossil Parks, 222 pp.
• Dunham, Sarah, MS, 2008, Interpreting geology in Yosemite National Park, California: A monument to strong granite, powerful glaciers, and the perseverance of life, 174 pp.
• Truitt, Kimberly, MS, 2006, Interpreting a Weird and Scenic Landscape to Park Visitors: Tectonic and Volcanic Processes of Craters of the Moon National Monumant and Preserve, Idaho, 105 pp.
• Natoli, Jenifer, MS, 2004, Shake, Rattle, and Roll: Awaking the Visiting Public's Curiosity of Geology via Interpreta-tion at Redwood National and State Parks, 141 pp.
• Ashton, Rebecca, MS, 2003, A Dynamic Landscape Formed by the Power of Volcanoes: Geology Training Manual for Interpreters at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, 131 pp.
• Wagner, Stacy, MS, 2002, Grand Canyon National Park Geology Training Manual, 184 pp.
• Williams, Jonathan, MS, 2000, Reconstructing Northern Alaska: Crustal-Scale Evolution of the central Brooks Range, 92 pp.
• Green, Robyn, MAIS, 1998, Mount Mazama and Crater Lake: A Study of the Botanical and Human Responses to a Geologic Event, 124 pp.
• Powers, Peter, MS, 1997, Structure and Shortening of the Kangra and Dehra Dun Reentrants, Sub-Himalaya, India, 66 pp.
• Enos, Robert, MS, 1992, Changes in Gravity Anomalies During Erosion and Isostatic Rebound of Collisional Mountain Ranges, 161 pp.
• Khurshid, Akbar, MS, 1991, Crustal Structure of the Sulaiman Range, Pakistan, from Gravity Data, 56 pp.
• Jaswal, Tariq, MS, 1990, Structure and Evolution of the Dhurnal Oilfield, North Potwar Deformed Zone, Pakistan, 62 pp.
• Humayon, Mansoor, MS, 1990, Structural Interpretation of the Eastern Sulaiman Foldbelt and Foredeep, Pakistan, 63 pp.
• Pennock, Edward, MS, 1988, Structural Interpretation of Seismic Reflection Data from the Eastern Salt Range and Potwar Plateau, Pakistan, 78 pp.
• Leathers, Michael, MS, 1987, Balanced Structural Cross Section of the Western Salt Range and Potwar Plateau, Pakistan: Deformation near the Strike-Slip Terminus of an Overthrust Sheet, 270 pp.
• Baker, Dan, MS, 1987, Evolution, Shortening, and Deformation Style of the Central Salt Range and Potwar Plateau, Pakistan, 120 pp.
• Duroy, Yannick, MS, 1986, Subsurface Densities and Lithospheric Flexure of the Himalayan Foreland in Pakistan, Interpreted from Gravity Data, 76 pp.
• Jaume, Steven, MS, 1986, The Mechanics of the Salt Range-Potwar Plateau, Pakistan: Qualitative and Quantitative Aspects of a Fold-and-Thrust Belt Underlain by Evaporites, 58 pp.

Geology Interpretive Manuals Developed for National Parks

• Grand Canyon National Park (Stacy Wagner Timmons, 2002)
• Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve (Kim Truitt, 2006)
• Olympic National Park (2000)
• Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument (1999)
• Gulf Islands National Seashore (1999)
• Blue Ridge Parkway (1999)

Publications

• Lillie, R. J., A. Mathis, and R. Riolo, Geology: A Living Stage of Our Past, Present, and Future, Legacy, National Association for Interpretation, p. 8-11, January/February, 2011.
• Dunham, S. E., and R. J. Lillie, Interpreting Geology in Yosemite National Park: A Monument to Strong Granite, Powerful Glaciers, and the Perseverance of Life, 58 pp., 2009.
• Lillie, R.J., J. Kenworthy, S. de Silva, E. Bishop, J. Roddey, N. Hunter and S. Burns, 2009, Oregon: 150 Years of Statehood: 150 Million Years in the Making, Oregon Historical Society: Exhibits at Oregon State Capitol Building.
• Truitt, K., and R. J. Lillie, Interpreting a Weird and Scenic Landscape to Park Visitors: Tectonic and Volcanic Processes of Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, Idaho, 38 pp., 2007.
• Natoli, J. A., and R. J. Lillie, Shake, Rattle and Roll – Awaking the Public’s Curiosity of Geology via Interpretation: A Geology Training Manual for Redwood National and State Parks, California, 64 pp., 2006.
• Lillie, R.J., 2005, Parks and Plates: The Geology of Our National Parks, Monuments, and Seashores, New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 298 pp.
• Sperner, B., I. Dumitru, and R. J. Lillie, 2004, Slab behavior and its surface expression: New insights from gravity modelling in the southeast Carpathians, Tectonophysics, v. 383, p. 51-84.
• Lillie, R. J., Fun with Food! Plate tectonics and our national parks, The Oregon Science Teacher, v. 47, p. 6-10, 2005.
• Lillie, R. J., Fun with food! Volcanoes in our national parks, The Oregon Science Teacher, v. 46, No. 2, p. 3-7, 2004.
• Lillie, R.J., 1999, Whole Earth Geophysics: An Introductory Textbook for Geologists and Geophysicists, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall, Inc., 361 pp.