Dr. Jeffery Stone

Dr. Jeffery Stone
Professor
Earth and Environmental Systems, Department of
Arts and Sciences, College of
159Q Science Building
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Education

  • Ph.D. - Geology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln - 2005
  • M.S. - Geology, New Mexico Institute of Mines and Technology - 1997
  • B.S. - Honors Geology, University of Akron - 1994

Professional Webpage

faculty.indstate.edu/jstone/default.htm

Awards and Honors

  • Theodore Dreiser Distinguished Research / Creativity Award - 2017

Intellectual Contributions

  • Sublacustrine geomorphology and modern sedimentation in a glacial scour basin, June Lake, eastern Sierra Nevada, U.S.A. - Journal of Sedimentary Research - 2019
  • The influence of fetch on the Holocene thermal structure of Hidden Lake, Glacier National Park - Frontiers in Earth Science - 2019
  • Paleoenvironmental context for the Late Pleistocene appearance of Didymosphenia in a North American alpine lake - Aquatic Sciences - 2019
  • Paleoecology Explains Holocene Chemical Changes in Lakes of the Nhecolândia (Pantanal-Brazil) - Hydrobiologia - 2018
  • Subdecadal phytolith and charcoal records from Lake Malawi, East Africa imply minimal effects on human evolution from the ~74 ka Toba supereruption - Journal of Human Evolution - 2018

Presentations

  • A Holocene record of evolution in diatom morphology from Cumbres Bog (Colorado, USA). 25th North American Diatom Symposium, 2019.
  • Invasion of North America by the diatom Discostella asterocostata: morphometric and relative abundance analyses from lakes in Indiana and Arkansas. GSA Annual Meeting, 2018.

My research addresses questions about long-term environmental variation. I am particularly interested in the response of ecosystems and aquatic organisms to climate change. I explore this by integrating stratigraphic lake core studies, modeling, and coupling my research with modern ecological experiments to understand the pattern of lake response to climate in space and time. My research covers a range of time scales, from patterns in millennial to seasonal variability in modern environments to geologic variability ranging back several million years. I specialize in the analysis of fossil diatom assemblages, using paleoecological relationships to reconstruct past lake environments. I often compliment my stratigraphic investigations with studies of modern lake and river systems as an analog for patterns observed in fossil assemblages and conversely reconstruct changes in the natural variability over intermediate time scales to provide a baseline context for changes in modern lake communities that may be impacted by human development or recent climate change.

 

Summer Honors Program: Field Limnology
ENVI-110: Introduction to Environmental Science
ENVI-170/170L: Earth Science
ENVI-389: Introduction to Field Geology
ENVI-454/554: Introduction to Hydrology
ENVI-456/556: Lakes and Wetlands
ENVI-471/571: Quaternary Paleoecology
ENVI-475/575: Stratigraphy and Sedimentation
GEOG-597: Seminar - Freshwater Diatom Taxonomy
GEOL-654: Extreme Aquatic Environments
GEOL-655: Large Lake Systems
GEOL-656: Paleolimnology
GEOL-665: Holocene Paleoecology of the Rocky Mountains
GEOL-668: Quantitative Methods Seminar
GEOL-690: Advanced Topics in Earth and Quaternary Sciences
  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska - Ph.D. in Geology (2005)
  • New Mexico Institute of Mines and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico - M.S. in Geology (1997)
  • University of Akron, Akron, Ohio - B.S. in Geology (1994)

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

  • Beck CC, Allen MM, Feibel CS, Beverly EJ, Stone JR, Wilson CL IV, 2019, Living in a swampy paradise: associations between archaeology and marshes from the African Humid Period, West Turkana, Kenya, African Journal of Earth Science 154:20–34.

  • Stone JR, Saros JE, Spanbauer TL, 2019, The influence of fetch on the Holocene thermal structure of Hidden Lake, Glacier National Park. Frontiers in Earth Science 7, 1–15. doi:10.3389/feart.2019.00028.

  • Brindle MD, Mohan J, Beck C, Stone JR, 2018, Three novel species of Bacillariophyta (Diatoms) in the genera Surirella and Thalassiosira from Pleistocene Paleolake Lorenyang (~2 - 1.6 Ma) Turkana Basin, Kenya, PHYTOTAXA.
  • Mohan J, Stone JR, Nicholsen K, Neumann K, Dowling C, Sharma S, 2018, Lindavia biswashanti, a new Bacillariophyta (diatom) from the highest lakes in the world, Himalayan Range, Nepal, PHYTOTAXA.
  • Santos CB dos, Weschenfelder J, Corrêa ICS, Stone JR, Bortolin E, Baitelli R, & Dehnhardt BA, 2018, A drowned lagunar channel in the southern Brazilian coast in response to the 8.2 ka event: diatom and seismic stratigraphy, Estuaries and Coasts. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-018-0373-z
  • Yost CL, Jackson LJ, Stone JR, Cohen AS, 2018, Subdecadal phytolith and charcoal records from Lake Malawi, East Africa imply minimal effects on human evolution from the ~74 ka Toba supereruption, Journal of Human Evolution 116:75–94.
  • Guerreiro RL, McGlue MM, Stone JR, Bergier I, Parolin M, Caminha SS, Warren LV, Assine ML, 2018, Paleoecology Explains Holocene Chemical Changes in Lakes of the Nhecolândia (Pantanal-Brazil), Hydrobiologia 815:1–19. Cover Article.
  • Lu Y, Stone JR, Fritz SC, 2017, Major climatic influences on Yellowstone-region lake ecosystems suggested by synchronous transitions in Late-Glacial and early-Holocene diatom assemblages, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 485: 178–188.
  • Lu Y, Fritz SC, Stone JR, Krause T, Whitlock C, Brown ET, Benes J, 2017, Trends in catchment processes and lake evolution during the late-glacial and early- to mid-Holocene inferred from high-resolution XRF data in the Yellowstone region, Journal of Paleolimnology 58: 551–569.
  • Slemmons KEH, Rodgers ML, Stone JR, Saros JE, 2017, Nitrogen subsidies in glacial meltwaters have altered planktonic diatom communities in lakes of the US Rocky Mountains for at least a century, Hydrobiologia 800:129–144.
  • Campisano CJ, Cohen AS, Arrowsmith JR, Asrat A, Behrensmeyer AK, Brown ET, Deino AL, Deocampo DM,  Feibel CS, Kingston JD,  Lamb HF, Lowenstein TK, Noren A, Olago DO, Owen RB, Pelletier JD, Potts R, Reed KE, Renaut RW, Russell JM, Russell JL, Schäbitz F, Stone JR, Trauth MH, and Wynn JG, 2017, The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: Acquiring High-Resolution Paleoclimate Records from the East African Rift System and Their Implications for Understanding the Environmental Context of Hominin Evolution, PaleoAnthropology 2017:1-43.
  • Slemmons, KEH, Medford A, Hall B, Stone JR, McGowan S, Saros JE, 2016, Changes in glacial meltwater alter algal communities in lakes of Scoresby Sund, Renland, East Greenland throughout the Holocene: Abrupt reorganizations began 1000 years before present, The Holocene 27(7): 929–940.
  • Mohan J, Stone JR, Campisano CJ, 2016, Three novel species of Bacillariophyta (diatoms) belonging to Aulacoseira and Lindavia from the Pliocene Hadar Formation, Afar Depression of Ethiopia, PHYTOTAXA 272 (4): 235–247.
  • Spanbauer TL, Allen CR, Angeler DG, Eason T, Fritz SC, Garmestani AS, Nash KL, Stone JR, Stow C, Sundstrom S, 2016, Body size distributions signal a regime shift in a lake ecosystem, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283: 20160249.
  • Stone JR, Saros JE, & Pederson GT, 2016, Coherent late Holocene climate-driven shifts in the structure of three Rocky Mountain lakes, The Holocene.
  • Santos CB dos, Corrêa ICS, Weschenfelder J,  Torgan LC, Stone JR, 2016, Paleoenvironmental insights into the Quaternary evolution of the Southern Brazilian coast based on fossil and modern diatom assemblages, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 446:108–124.
  • Jackson LJ, Stone JR, Cohen AS, Yost CL, 2015, High-resolution paleoecological records from Lake Malawi show no significant cooling associated with the Mount Toba super-eruption circa ~75 ka, Geology 43:823–826.
  • Slemmons KEH, Saros JE, Stone JR, McGowan S, Hess C, & Cahl D, 2015, Effects of glacier meltwater on the algal sedimentary record of an alpine lake in the central U.S. Rocky Mountains throughout the late Holocene, Journal of Paleolimnology 53:385–399.
  • Spanbauer TL, Allen CR, Angeler DG, Eason T, Fritz SC, Garmestani AS, Nash KL, &  Stone JR, 2014, Prolonged instability prior to a regime shift, PLoS ONE 9(10): e108936.
  • Wigdahl CR, Saros JE, Fritz SC, Stone JR, & Engstrom DR, 2014, The influence of basin morphometry on the regional coherence of patterns of diatom-inferred salinity in lakes of the northern Great Plains (USA), The Holocene 24:603–613.
  • Johnson BG, Jiménez-Moreno G, Eppes MC, Diemer J, & Stone JR, 2013, Evidence of increasing Holocene climate variability related to ENSO strength from a post-glacial sub-alpine bog core in the southeastern San Juan Mountains of Colorado, The Holocene 23:1028–1038.
  • Saros JE, Stone JR, Pederson GT, Slemmons KEH, Spanbauer TL, Schliep A, Cahl D, Williamson CE, & Engstrom DR, 2012, Climate-induced changes in lake ecosystem structure inferred from coupled neo- and paleo-ecological approaches, Ecology 93: 2155–2164 (cover article).
  • Whitlock C, Dean WE, Fritz SC, Stevens LR, Stone JR, Power MJ, Rosenbaum JR, Pierce KL, & Bracht-Flyr BB, 2012, Holocene seasonal variability inferred from multiple proxy records from Crevice Lake, Yellowstone National Park, USA, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volumes 331–332, p. 90–103.
  • Fischer J, Olson M, Williamson CE, Everhart J, Hogan P, Mack J, Rose KC, Saros JE, Stone JR, & Vinebrooke R, 2011, Implications of climate change for Daphnia in alpine lakes: predictions from long-term dynamics, spatial distribution, and a short-term experiment, Hydrobiologia, Volume 676, p. 263–277.
  • Hobbs WO, Fritz SC, Stone JR, Donovan JJ, Grimm EC, & Almendinger JE, 2011, Environmental history of a closed-basin lake in the US Great Plains: diatom response to variations in groundwater flow regimes over the last 8500 cal yrs BP, Volume 21, p.  1203–1216.
  • Stone JR, Westover KS, & Cohen AS, 2011, Late Pleistocene diatom paleoecology of central Lake Malawi, Africa, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology Volume 303, p. 51–70.
  • Saros JE, Rose KC, Clow DW, Stephens VC, Nurse AB, Arnett HA, Stone JR, Williamson CE, & Wolfe AP, 2010, Melting alpine glaciers enrich high-elevation lakes with reactive nitrogen, Environmental Science & Technology, Volume 44, p. 4891–4896.
  • Shuman B, Henderson A, Colman SM, Stone JR, Fritz SC, Stevens LR, Power MJ, & Whitlock C, 2009, Holocene lake-Level trends in the Rocky Mountains, U.S.A., Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 28, p. 1861–1879.
  • Bracht BB, Stone JR, & Fritz SC, 2008, A diatom record of late Holocene climate variation in the Northern Range of Yellowstone National Park, USA, Quaternary International, Volume 188, p. 149–155.
  • Cohen AS, Stone JR, Beuning KRM, Park LE, Reinthal PN, Dettman D, Scholz CA, Johnson TC, King JW, Talbot MR, Brown ET, & Ivory SJ, 2007, Ecological consequences of early Late-Pleistocene megadroughts in tropical Africa, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 104, p. 16422-16427.
  • Stone JR & Fritz SC, 2006, Multi-decadal drought and Holocene climate instability in the Rocky Mountains, Geology Volume 34, p. 409-412.
  • Stevens LR, Stone JR, Campbell J, & Fritz SC, 2006, A 2200-yr record of hydrologic variability from Foy Lake, MT inferred from diatom and geochemical data, Quaternary Research, Volume 65, p. 264-274.
  • Stone JR & Fritz SC, 2004, Three-dimensional modeling of lacustrine diatom habitat areas: improving paleolimnological interpretation of planktic:benthic ratios, Limnology & Oceanography, Volume 49, p. 1540-1548.

BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Stone JR & Fritz SC, 2013, Chapter 11.6 - Lake level studies: North America, Encyclopedia of Quaternary Sciences (2nd Edition).
  • Wolin JA & Stone JR, 2010, Diatoms as indicators of water-level change in freshwater lakes, in E. F. Stoermer and J. P. Smol (Eds.), The Diatoms: Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, p. 174–185.
  • Stone JR, 2007, Using diatoms as ecological and paleoecological indicators in riverine environments, in S. Starratt (Ed.), Pond Scum to Carbon Sink: Geological and Environmental Applications of the Diatoms, Paleontological Society Short Course, October 27, 2007. Paleontological Society Papers, Volume 13, p. 24-33.
  • Brewster-Wingard GL, Stone JR, & Holmes CW, 2001, Chapter 10: Molluscan Faunal Distribution in Florida Bay, past and present: An integration of down-core and modern data: Bulletins of American Paleontology Number 361: Paleoecological Studies of South Florida, p. 199-231.

I have existing research in ancient lakes in East Africa, including Lake Malawi, Paleo-lake Turkana, Paleo-lake Hadar, Paleo-lake Mababe, and the Baringo Basin. This research focuses on climate change and diatom paleoecology/evolution that spans from the Pliocene to the Holocene. I also have multiple research initiatives in the Rocky Mountains (US), including drought history, reconstructing lake stratification, and diatom population dynamics. Many of my recent projects involve reconstruction lake records from Indiana and the surrounding regions, primarily focused on the impact of anthropogenic development and land use on water quality. I have plans for new research initiatives in Lake Tanganyika, New Zealand, and South America.