Education
Current – Ph.D. Candidate, University of Oregon – Expected December 2025
2019 – M.S, Earth Sciences, University of Oregon [Link to Thesis]
2016 – B.A., Geology, Whitman College
Selected Publications
- Gardner, K. and Dorsey, R.J., 2025. Planform geometric classification of fluvial and tidal channels via machine learning. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
- Gardner, K. and Dorsey, R.J. (2021), Mixed carbonate–siliciclastic sedimentation at the margin of a late Miocene tidal strait, lower Colorado River Valley, south‐western USA. Sedimentology.
- Dorsey, R.J., Braga, J.C., Gardner, K., McDougall, K. and O’Connell, B. (2021). Early Pliocene marine transgression into the lower Colorado River valley, southwestern USA, by re-flooding of a former tidal strait. Geological Society, London, Special Publications
- Dorsey, R.J., O’Connell, B., Gardner, K., Homan, M.B., Bennett, S.E., Thacker, J.O. and Darin, M.H. (2021). Tectonostratigraphic record of late Miocene–early Pliocene transtensional faulting in the Eastern California shear zone, southwestern USA. Geosphere
Teaching Experience
University of Oregon
ERTH 406: Field Camp – Summer 2018, 2022, 2024
ERTH 334: Sedimentology and Stratigraphy – Spring 2018, 2019, 2022-2024, 2025 (Instructor-of-Record)
ERTH 316: Introduction to Hydrogeology – Fall 2020
ERTH 318: Introduction to Field Methods – Fall 2018, 2021
ERTH 101: Earth’s Dynamic Interior – Fall 2017
Other
Mentor for Baja Basins Program IRES – Winter/Summer 2022 – UMKC
Appointments
2017 – Present Graduate Employee, University of Oregon Dept. of Earth Sciences
Grants and Awards
2022 – Early Career Researcher Award, 10th International Congress of Tidal Sedimentology
2019 – Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Oregon
2018 – Graduate Student Research Grant, Geological Society of America
2016 – Dr. Albert R. Leeds Memorial Prize for Excellence in Geology, Whitman College
Kevin Gardner 