Professional Background

Dr. Rees received her A. A. from Modesto Junior College in 1969 and her B.A. in geology from Sonoma State College, California, in 1972. She continued her education at the University of Kansas where she received an M. S. in geology in 1975. She moved from Kansas to work two years for Union Oil Company of California in Casper, Wyoming as an exploration geologist and then became an instructor of geology at Indian Valley Colleges in Novato, California where she headed the department until 1980. Having continued her stratigraphic and sedimentological research during her time in Wyoming and California, she returned to the University of Kansas to complete a Ph.D. in 1984 on Middle Cambrian rocks of Utah and Nevada. Staying an extra year at Kansas as a post-doctoral fellow, Peg made her first of eight research trips to Antarctica investigating Cambrian rocks in the Transanartic Mountains. She joined the faculty at UNLV in 1985 where she has finished a term as Chair of the Department, was awarded a Full Professorship in Geoscience, 1996, and is an affiliate member of the Women's Studies faculty. From July 2000 - 2003, she served full-time as the UNLV Associate Provost for Academic Budget, Personnel, and Facilities. She was then promoted to Senior Vice Provost (2003 – 2005). Focusing on research administration and founding of the UNLV Public Lands Institute, she transferred to the Office of Research where she served as the Associate Vice President for Research and Outreach until July 2008. Dr. Rees is currently the Executive Director of the UNLV Public Lands Institute, has resumed teaching in the department, and is engaged in scholarly activities related to Cambrian strata and informal education.

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University and Community Service Commitments 2008-2009

•Department of Women's Studies Steering Committee, Member
•Equity Compliance and Education Council, College Representative
•Phi Kappa Phi, UNLV Chapter President
•Great Basin National Park Foundation Board, Member
•Nevada Board of Geographic Names, Member
•Clark County Open Space Advisory Committee, Member
•UNLV Urban Sustainability Initiative Planning Committee, Member
•Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Study Unit, UNLV Representative
•Department of Geoscience, Outreach Committee, Chair
•Executive Director of UNLV Public Lands Institute

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Professional Activities (2006 – present)

Co-chair External Review Committee for Montana State University, Department of Earth Science, Bozeman, Montana, April 2007.

Member of the organizing committee and presenter for the Nevada state- wide American Council on Education (ACE) Conference: Effective Leadership Communication for Women.  Presentation: “Negotiating salaries as female faculty in higher education institutions,” Las Vegas, NV, September, 2007.

Presentation of findings by the Committee of Visitors for Division of Antarctic Sciences to National Science Foundation Polar Program Advisory Board,  Arlington, VA, November, 2007.

National Science Foundation – Office of Polar Programs Committee of Visitors for Division of Antarctic Sciences, Chair and author of final report. Arlington, VA, November 6 - 7, 2006.

National Science Foundation – ADVANCE Program - Institutional Transformation Site Visitor/Evaluator and author of final report, University of Texas, El Paso, October 25 - 27, 2006.

Nevada State Board on Geographic Names, southern Nevada representative, 2006 – present.

Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) State-wide  strategic planning workshop on “The Needs for Geoscience in Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, NV,”  Invited participant, November 13 & 14, 2006.

National Science Foundation – ADVANCE program panel member for review of “Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination” proposals. Arlington, VA, May 23 - 24, 2006.

UNLV representative to the Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Study Unit (CESU), 2005 - present.

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Awards / Honors

•President Phi Kappa Phi, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 2008

•President-elect Phi Kappa Phi, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 2007

•Erasmus S. Haworth Distinguished Alumnus Award, 2001, Department of Geology, University of Kansas.

•Commencement Speaker, 40th Annual Sonoma State University Ceremonies, 2001.

•Mt. Rees located at 780 29’S 1620 29’E Victoria Land, Antarctica, named in 1998.

•Elected Member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, 1998.

•Nominated, 1997, as National Council Member candidate, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

•Distinguished Alumni Award, 1997, Sonoma State University, California.

•Elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America, 1996.

•Sabbatical Leave Award, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, "Global Sea-Level Events Recorded in Middle Cambrian Rocks," July, 1992 to June, 1993.

•U.S. Congressional Polar Medal for Scientific Service in Antarctica, 1985

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Research

Dr. Rees’s research interests include (1) the tectonic and depositional history of Neoproterozoic – Cambrian continental margins, primarily in Antarctica and western United States, (2) carbonate sedimentology and stratigraphy, (3) the integration of feminist critiques of science, feminist pedagogy and geoscience in order to develop a more inclusive geoscience curricula and classroom environment.

Research Grants

Competitive External Awards

National Science Foundation Division of Human Resources. An Innovative Interdisciplinary Social Science of Geology Project for Earth Science Educators, with Maralee Mayberry, July 1996 - 1999, $658,550. 

National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs.  The Ellsworth Mountains Terrane:  Its Origin and Accretion to East Antarctica, June 1993 to Nov. 1998, $339,047.

National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences.  Collaborative Research:  RUI: Potential Cambrian Strato types, Western Hunan, China.  August 1, 1991 to January 31, 1991:  $36,053.

National Science Foundation Polar Earth Science.  "Extent and Termination of the Antarctic Early Cambrian Carbonate Platform."  August 1988 to August 1991: $170,000.

National Science Foundation, Polar Earth Science.  "Origin and Depositional Setting of Pre-Devonian, Coarse-Clastic Sequence in the Transantarctic Mountains: Evidence of One or More Tectonic Events?" August 1986 to August 1988: $174,000.

Internal UNLV Awards

University of Nevada, Presidential Initiative Award. Geology Guide to Red Rocks: Blending Research and Education, with Wanda Taylor, July, 2000 to June, 2002.

National Science Foundation EPSCoR Proposal Development Grant. To write a proposal to NSF Experimental Projects for Women and Girls.  Summer, 1995.

University of Nevada Research Grant.  Global Sea level events recorded in 520- to 500-million-year-old rocks of western United States, July 1992 to July 1993.

University of Nevada, Presidential Initiative Award. Geographical Positioning System (GPS) in Undergraduate Education, with Wanda Taylor and Richard Orndorff, July, 1998 to June, 1999.

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Research Support Award:" A Major Fracture System that formed in Nevada 600 Million Years Ago." July 1987 to June 1988.

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Research Support Award.  "Continental Shelf-to-Slope Transition in the Cambrian of Nevada."  July 1986 to June 1987.

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Barrick Faculty Development Travel Grant for presentation of a paper and participation in a field trip at the 12th International Sedimentological Congress, Canberra, Australia.  August 1986.

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Selected Research Publications

Books

Hansen, Andrew, Johnson, Kimberly, and Rees, Margaret N, 2008, Exploring Planet Earth: The Lab Manual 4th edition: Dubuque, Kendall/Hunt Publishing.

Johnson, Kimberly, Hansen, Andrew D., and Rees, Margaret N., 2007, Exploring Planet Earth: The Lab Manual 3rd edition: Dubuque, Kendall/Hunt Publishing.

Hansen, Andrew and Rees, Margaret N., 2003, Exploring Planet Earth: The Lab Manual 2nd edition: Dubuque, Kendall/Hunt Publishing.

Rees, Margaret N., 1999, Exploring Planet Earth: The Lab Manual: Dubuque, Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 180 pp.

Geological Maps

Goodge, J. and Rees, M.N., 1996, Transantarctic Mountain Sector, Geodynamic Map of Gondwanaland Assembly: IGCP Project 288, Raphael Unrug Project Leader: Published by BRGM, Orleans, France and Council for Geoscience, Information Division, Pretoria.

Selected Journal Articles (peer - reviewed)

Babcock, L. I., Robison, R.A., Rees, Margaret N., Peng, S., 2007, The Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) of the Drumian Stage (Cambrian) in the Drum Mountains, Utah, USA: Episodes, v. 30, no. 2, p.85 – 95.

Howley, Robyn A., Rees, Margret N., Jiang, Ganqing, 2006, Significance of Middle Cambrian mixed carbonate-siliciclastic units for global correlation: southern Nevada, USA: Paleoworld, v. 15, p. 360-366.

Peng, S., Babcock, L. E., Robison, R. A., Lin, H., Rees, M. N., and Saltzman, M. R, 2004, Global Standard Stratotype-section and Point (GSSP) of the Furongian Series and Paibian Stage (Cambrian): Lethia, v. 37, p. 365-379.

Babcock, L. E., Rees, M. N., Robison, R.A., Langenburg, E. S., and Peng, S., 2004, Potential Global Standard Stratotype-scection and Point (GSSP) for a Cambrian stage boundary defined by the first appearance of the trilobite Ptychagnostus atavus, Drum Mountains, Utah, USA: Geobios, v. 37, p. 149-158.

Rees, M. N., Amy, P., Jacobson, E., and Weistrop, D. E., 2000, Successful program for women faculty and graduate students in natural sciences, mathematics and engineering at University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, v. 6., p. 313-330.

Mayberry, Maralee; Welling, Leigh; Phillips, Jaime; Radeloff, Cheryl; and Rees, Margaret N., 1999, Science and feminism, feminist education, and science education: An interdisciplinary knowledge project: Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, v.5, p. 1 -16.

Duebendorfer, E. M., and Rees, M. N., 1998, Evidence for Cambrian deformation in the Ellsworth-Whitmore Mountains Terrane, Antarctica: stratigraphic and tectonic implications: Geology, v. 26, p. 55-58.

Mayberry, M. and Rees, M.N., 1997, Feminist pedagogy, interdisciplinary praxis, and science education: National Women's Studies Journal, v. 9, p. 57-75.

Evans, K.R., Rowell, A.J., and Rees, M.N., 1995, Sea-level changes and stratigraphy of the Nelson Limestone (Middle Cambrian), Neptune Range, Antarctica: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, V. B65, No. 1, p. 32-43.

Rowell, A.J., Rees, M.N., Duebendorfer, E.M., Wallin, E.T., Van Schmus, W.R., and Smith, E.I., 1993, An Active Neoproterozoic Margin: Evidence from the Skelton Glacier Area, Transantarctic Mountains: Journal of Geological Society of London, V. 150, p. 677-682.

• Twelve others pre-1992

Field Trip Guidebooks

Rees, M.N., and Robison, R.A., 1989, Cambrian stratigraphy and paleontology of the central House Range and Drum Mountains, Utah: in M.E. Taylor, ed., Cambrian and Early Ordovician Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Basin and Range Province, Western United States: 28th International Geological Congress Field Trip Guidebook T125, p. T125:59 - T125:73.

• Two others pre-1989

International Reports on Antarctic Research

Rees, M.N., Smith, E.I., Keenan, D.L., and Duebendorfer, E.M.,1999, Cambrian magmatic rocks of the Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica: Antarctic Journal of the United States, 1997, Review Issue, p. 3-5.

Dubendorfer, E.M, and Rees, M.N., 1998, Re-evaluation of the structure and stratigraphy of the Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains: Antarctic Journal of the United States, 1996, Review Issue, p. 46-48.

Rees, M.N., Duebendorfer, E.M., and Thorstenson, D.J., 1997, The Ellsworth Mountains: Terrane: Its Origin and Accretion to East Antarctica: Antarctic Journal of the United States, 1995, Review Issue, p. 65-67.

Rees, M.N., Duebendorfer, E.M., and Thorstenson, D.J., 1996, Stratigraphic and structural investigations in the northern Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains: Evidence for the Ross Orogeny? Antarctic Journal of the United States, 1994 Review Issue, p. 2-4.

• Eight others pre-1996

Other Publications

Rees, Margaret N., 1997, "Margaret N. Rees, Geologist, University of Nevada, Las Vegas" in Ambrose, S. A., Dunkle, K.L., Lazarus, B. B., Nair, I., and Harkus, D. A., No Universal Constants: Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering, Temple University Press.

Abstracts Published and Papers Presented at Professional Meetings
*presenter or co-presenter of paper, workshop, or panel; "s" = student

sAhn, Soo-Yeun, Babcock, Loren E., Rees, Margaret N., Hollingsworth, J. Stewart, 2008, Body and trace fossils from the Deep Spring Formation (Ediacarian) western Nevada: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 40, no. 6, pp. 143.

sHowley, Robyn A., Jiang, Ganging, Rees, Margaret N., 2005, Significance of Middle Cambrian mixed carbonate-silicilastic units for global stratigraphic correlation: southern Nevada, U.S.A.: Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica, v. 22 (Supplement), p. 63-64.

sHowley, R. A., Shapiro, R. S., and Rees, M. N., 2002, Carbonate depositional history refined by gamma radiation analysis; middle to lower Upper Cambrian Highland Peak Formation, eastern Nevada: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 34, no. 4, pp. 51.

sHowley, R. A. and Rees, M. N., 2001, Sea level signatures and regional correlations elucidated by carbonate cycle architecture: Middle Cambrian Highland Peak Formation, Eastern Nevada: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 33, no. 6, pp. 77.

sHowley, R. A., *Rees, M. N., Jacobson, E. A., 2001, Re-assessing reliability of meter-scale cyclic carbonates as recorders of orbital events: Middle Cambrian Highland Peak Formation, Southern, NV: Cordilleran Section Geological Society of America and Pacific Section American Association of Petroleum Geologists Abstracts with Programs v. 33, no. 3, p. 68.

Mayberry, M, and Rees, M.N., 2000, Feminism In/On Science: Imagination, Innovation, Implementation. A Keynote Address. Science, Gender, and Community Curriculum Reform Institute, University of Wisconsin System, Oshkosh.

Mayberry, M. and Rees, M.N., 2000, Feminism In/On Science Continued: Borderwork Across Natures and Cultures. Caucus Session. Science, Gender, and Community Curriculum Reform Institute, University of Wisconsin System, Oshkosh.

*Rees, Margaret N., Smith, E.I., Duebendorfer, E.M., and sKeenan, D.L., 1998, Cambrian marginal basin rifting and subduction recorded in the Ellworth-Whitmore Mountains Terrane, West Antarctica: Journal of African Earth Sciences, v. 27, n. 1A, p.151-152.

Rees, Margaret N., 1997, Science and feminism, feminist education, and science education: An interdisciplinary knowledge project: (En)Genderisms Rationalities Conference sponsored by Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon.

*Rees, M.N., and Duebendorfer, E.M., 1997, Pan-African and Gondwanide Deformations in the Ellsworth-Whitmore-Mountains Terrane, Antarctica: Stratigraphic and Regional Implications: Terrane Dynamics - 97 International Conference of Terrane Geology, Christchurch, New Zealand, p. 144-147.

*Welling, L., Rees, M.N., and Mayberry, M., 1997, Water awareness: resources, politics, and society: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 1997 Fall Meeting, v. 78, p. F20.

*Rees, M.N., *Mayberry, M., Welling, L., sPhillips, J., and sRadeloff, C., 1997, A feminist approach to earth science education: transforming form, content and use: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program, v. 29, p. 302.

*Smith, E. I, Rees, M.N., and Duebendorfer, E.M., 1997, Cambrian magmatic rocks of the Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica: Implications for Gondwana reconstructions: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program, v. 29, p. 89.

• Thirty others pre-1997

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Teaching at UNLV

Undergraduate:
• GEY 101 Physical Geology
• GEY 102 Historical Geology
• GEY/WOM/SOC 310 Earth Systems - A Feminist Approach
• GEY 462 Principals of Stratigraphy and Sedimentation
• GEY 491 Geoscience Seminar
• GEY 493 Independent Study

Graduate:
• GEY 701 Research Methods
• GEY 781 Carbonate Depositional Systems
• GEY 783 Carbonate Petrology
• GEY 793 Independent Study
• GEY 795 Seminar in Geology

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Students

• Robyn A. Howley, 2002, Analysis of cyclic shallow-water carbonates: Cambrian Highland Peak Formation, eastern Nevada [MS thesis]: Las Vegas, University of Nevada

• Shannon M. Parsons, 1996, Sequence stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the lower member of the Deep Spring Formation: Implications for the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian boundary in the Basin and Range province, western United States [MS thesis]: Las Vegas, University of Nevada, 181 p.

• Julie Ann Reese, 1989, Initial deposition in the Sevier Foreland Basin of southern Nevada: Conglomerates of the Cretaceous Willow Tank Formation, Clark County, Nevada [MS thesis]: Las Vegas, University of Nevada, 145 p.

• Jack Edward Deibert, 1989, Sedimentological constraints on middle Miocene extensional tectonism of the southern Las Vegas Range, Southern Nevada [MS thesis]: Las Vegas, University of Nevada, 83 p.

• Susan Kay Panttaja, 1988, Provenance and tectonic significance of the lower Paleozoic Douglas Conglomerate, northern Churchill Mountains, Antarctica [MS thesis]: Las Vegas, University of Nevada, 82 p.

• Edward J. Thomas, 1987, Characteristics of shelf deposition controlled by carbonate platform margin configuration : Devonian Tor Limestone, central Nevada [MS thesis]: Las Vegas, University of Nevada, 73 p. (Outstanding Thesis Award at UNLV)

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