Susan Karl
Sedimentology, stratigraphy, tectonics, geochemistry, and economic geology of southeast Alaska
Professional Experience
1977 - Present Research Geologist, USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK
1976 Earth Science Associates, Palo Alto, CA
1975 WGM Inc., Brooks Range, AK
1974 Rio Tinto Ltd., Wrangell Mts, AK
Education and Certifications
Ph.D. 1982 Stanford University
Classes 1975-1976 University of Alaska Fairbanks
B.A. 1973 Middlebury College
Affiliations and Memberships*
Fellow: Geological Soc. America
Member: American Geophysical Union, American Assoc. Petrol. Geol., Geological Assoc. Canada, Society of Economic Geologists
Short course committee chair: Alaska Miners Association
Board member, committee chair, past president, officer: Alaska Geological Society
Honors and Awards
Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists: Lifetime service award, May 2016, for contributions to the Alaska geological community
Outstanding Accomplishment award 11-18-2011 for contributions to understanding REE in southeast Alaska
Outstanding Accomplishment award 11-22-2010 for advances in southeast Alaska geology
Outstanding Accomplishment award 9-22-2009 for work with Yukon Territory, British Columbia, and Alaskan geologists to coordinate cross-border geology
USGS: STAR award 1999 for Stikine area geophysical survey follow-up project (Duncan Canal/Zarembo Island area VMS deposits)
Alaska Geol. Soc: Service award, 1995
UNESCO: Grant for IGCP Siliceous Deposits Conference (Yugoslavia), 1986
USGS: Graduate internship scholarship 1981, 1982
UNESCO: Grant for IGCP Siliceous Deposits Conference (Tokyo), 1981
Geol. Soc. America: Grant for thesis research 1981
Sigma Xi: Grant for thesis research, 1980, 1981
USGS Achievement Award 1979
Shell: Grant for Melange Penrose Conference, 1978
Geol. Soc. Amer: Harold Stearns Award and grant for thesis research, 1978
UAF: grant for field camp 1976
Science and Products
Volcanogenic massive sulphide and orogenic gold deposits of northern southeast Alaska
Field guide to the Mesozoic arc and accretionary complex of South-Central Alaska, Indian to Hatcher Pass
GIS-Based Identification of Areas with Mineral Resource Potential for Six Selected Deposit Groups, Bureau of Land Management Central Yukon Planning Area, Alaska
The Early Jurassic Bokan Mountain peralkaline granitic complex (southeastern Alaska): geochemistry, petrogenesis and rare-metal mineralization
Bokan Mountain peralkaline granitic complex, Alexander terrane (southeastern Alaska): evidence for Early Jurassic rifting prior to accretion with North America
ULFEM time series analysis package
Field guide to the accretionary complex and neotectonics of south-central Alaska, Anchorage to Seward
The Cannery Formation: Devonian to Early Permian arc-marginal deposits within the Alexander Terrane, southeastern Alaska
Fossil locations and data for the Taylor Mountains, and parts of the Bethel, Goodnews, and Dillingham quadrangles, southwestern Alaska
Geochemical and sulfur-isotopic signatures of volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits on Prince of Wales Island and vicinity, southeastern Alaska
Detrital zircon geochronology of some neoproterozoic to triassic rocks in interior Alaska
Studies by the U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska, 2005
Science and Products
Volcanogenic massive sulphide and orogenic gold deposits of northern southeast Alaska
Field guide to the Mesozoic arc and accretionary complex of South-Central Alaska, Indian to Hatcher Pass
GIS-Based Identification of Areas with Mineral Resource Potential for Six Selected Deposit Groups, Bureau of Land Management Central Yukon Planning Area, Alaska
The Early Jurassic Bokan Mountain peralkaline granitic complex (southeastern Alaska): geochemistry, petrogenesis and rare-metal mineralization
Bokan Mountain peralkaline granitic complex, Alexander terrane (southeastern Alaska): evidence for Early Jurassic rifting prior to accretion with North America
ULFEM time series analysis package
Field guide to the accretionary complex and neotectonics of south-central Alaska, Anchorage to Seward
The Cannery Formation: Devonian to Early Permian arc-marginal deposits within the Alexander Terrane, southeastern Alaska
Fossil locations and data for the Taylor Mountains, and parts of the Bethel, Goodnews, and Dillingham quadrangles, southwestern Alaska
Geochemical and sulfur-isotopic signatures of volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits on Prince of Wales Island and vicinity, southeastern Alaska
Detrital zircon geochronology of some neoproterozoic to triassic rocks in interior Alaska
Studies by the U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska, 2005
*Disclaimer: Listing outside positions with professional scientific organizations on this Staff Profile are for informational purposes only and do not constitute an endorsement of those professional scientific organizations or their activities by the USGS, Department of the Interior, or U.S. Government