Professional Background
Dr. Fred Bachhuber received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in geology from the University
of Wisconsin, Madison in 1964 and 1966. He continued his studies at the University
of New Mexico, working under Dr. R.Y. Anderson, graduating in 1971. In 1969,
prior to completing his doctoral degree, he accepted a position as assistant
professor at Central Missouri State University and continued in that capacity
for 5 years. In 1974 he moved to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas which,
at that time, was popularily known as "sagebrush university'. Since his
arrival at UNLV, Dr. Bachhuber has witnessed a three-fold increase in student
numbers, buildings, and faculty. During the same time period, the Department
of Geoscience has grown from 6 faculty & 1 staff member to 17 faculty,
3 clerical staff, & 3 instrumentation analysts.
Dr. Bachhuber has served as Department chair (1977-1980, 1997-2001) and
as acting dean (1981 and 2001-2003) of the College of Sciences. He is an
active member of the American Quaternary Association, Candian Quaternary
Association, International Quaternary Association, Geological Society of
America, Arctic Institute of North America, Arizona/Nevada Academy of Acience,
and the National Association of Geoscience Teachers.
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Dr. Bachhuber received the College of Sciences Distinguished Teacher Award
(1994).
Undergraduate:
• GEO 101 Physical Geography
• GEY 433 Glacial and Periglacial Geology
• GEY 434 Quaternary Geology
• GEY 437 Quaternary Paleoecology
Graduate:
• GEY 633 Glacial and Periglacial Geology
• GEY 635 Quaternary Geology
• GEY 701 Graduate Field Seminar
• GEY 707 Quaternary Paleoecology
• GEY 730 Seminar in Quaternary Studies
• GEY 795 Seminar in Geology
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Research interests focus on the development of high resolution paleoecologic
and paleolimnologic records of pluvial lakes which can be used for detailed
paleoclimatic analysis. Dr. Bachhuber is presently conducting research of
this nature in the Great Basin, western Canada, and western Australia.
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Bachhuber, F. W., and Catto, N., 2000, Geologic evidence of rapid and
high magnitude climate change during the last glacial (Wisconsian) of North
America: in McLaren, S., and Kniveton, D., eds., Linking Climate Change
to Land Surface Change: Kluwer Academic Press, p. 143-169.
Catto, N., and Bachhuber, F. W., 2000, Aeolian geomorphic response
to climate change: an example from the Estancia Valley, central New Mexico:
in Mclaren, S., and Kniveton, D., eds., Linking Climate Change to Land
Surface Change: Kluwer Academic Press, p. 171-192.
Bachhuber, F. W., 1994, Pollen yield from olive tree cvs. Manzanillo
and Wilson on Wilson on the University of Nevada campus: Clark County Health
District, Air Pollution Control Division, 27 p., 9 figs. Addendum, 2001,
6p. 1 fig.
Rutter, N., Bachhuber, F. W., and Lyons, G., 1992, The use of seeds
in aminostratigraphy of a Wisconsin paleolimnological record from central
New Mexico, U.S.A., in Robertsson, A., Ringberg, B., Miller. U., and Brunnberg,
L., eds., Quaternary stratigraphy, glacial morphology and environmental
changes: Sveriges Geologiska Undersokning, Ser. Ca 81, pp. 307-312.
Bachhuber, F. W., 1992, A pre-late Wisconsin paleolimnological record
from the Estancia Valley, central New Mexico, in Clark, P.U., and Lea,
P.D., eds., The last interglacial/glacial transition in North America:
Geological Society of America Special Paper 270. p. 289-307.
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• Anthony D. Feig, 1998, Quaternary geology and paleoclimatology of Coal
Valley, Lincoln County, Nevada [MS thesis]: Las Vegas, University of Nevada
• Dawn Arnold, Holocene climate zone shifts as determined by packrat middens,
Spring Mountains, Nevada (work in progress).
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