Jill S. Schneiderman
Professor of Earth Science
office: Ely Hall 118b
box: 312
phone: 845-437-5542
S.B., Earth Science, Yale University, 1981
M.A., Earth Science, Harvard University, 1985
Ph.D., Earth Science, Harvard University, 1987
Jill Schneiderman's interests include Earth Science and environmental issues, feminism, and history of science. In 2003, Jill was a Fulbright fellow at the Centre for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago where she pursued research on women and water resources on the island. Along with departmental colleagues Yu Zhou and Meg Stewart, Jill is a co-PI on Vassar's first grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Under the auspices of the grant, Jill and her colleagues are assembling a GIS-based environmental inventory of the mid-Hudson valley. Her sedimentologic research focuses on recent sediments in the Yangtze delta. She is also collaborating with colleague Kirsten Menking and others from the Paleontological Research Institute on a study of a sediment core from the Hyde Park mastodon site.
With regard to curriculum, funded by an NSF grant, she developed and taught a first-in-the-nation interdisciplinary course on Earth Science and Environmental Justice. In the course students examined the Earth Science behind environmental problems across the globe and investigated the race, class and gender issues that inform them. She also teaches Earth History, Sedimentology, and Feminism and Environmentalism.
She has been a Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellow and a Congressional Science Fellow in the Senate Minority Leader's office during the 104th Congress. She is editor of The Earth Around Us: Maintaining a Livable Planet (Westview Press, 2003), a collection of essays on the Geology behind environmental issues. The book was named one of the most important and thought-proking science books of the year 2000 by Discover magazine.
Recent publications (last five years)
Book:
- Schneiderman, J.S., ed. The Earth Around Us: Maintaining a Livable Planet. Boulder: Westview Press (2003).
Articles:
- Schneiderman, J.S., Chen, Z., and Eckert, J.O., Jr. “Heavy Minerals and River Channel Migration in the Yangtze Delta Plain, Eastern China.” Journal of Coastal Research 19.2 (2003): 326-335.
- Schneiderman, J.S. "How Far Down Does Dirt Go, Daddy? And Other Questions Kids Ask." Reader's Digest July 2001: 72A-72C.
- Schneiderman, J.S. and Sharpe, V.A., 2001, An NSF-Sponsored Curriculum that Moves Students Towards a Feminist Geology: Women's Studies Quarterly XXIX.1&2: 234-243.
- Stewart, M.E., Schneiderman, J.S., and Andrews, S.B., 2001, A GIS Class Exercise to Study Environmental Risk: Journal of Geoscience Education 49.3: 227-234.
- Schneiderman, J.S. "How Hot is the Sun, Daddy? And Other Simple Questions Your Kid Might Ask." Esquire March 2001: 182-185.
- Schneiderman, J.S., 2000, "Asbestos," Oxford Companion to the Earth, Ed. P.L. Hancock, B.J. Skinner, and D.L. Dineley. New Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 43-44.
- Schneiderman, J.S., 2000, From the Catskills to Canal Street: New York City's Water Supply: in Schneiderman, J.S., ed., The Earth Around Us: Maintaining a Livable Planet, W.H. Freeman, New York, NY, p. 166-180.
- Schneiderman, J.S. and Sharpe, V.A., 2000, Geology and Environmental Justice: in Schneiderman, J.S., ed., The Earth Around Us: Maintaining a Livable Planet, W.H. Freeman, New York, NY, p. 368-385.
- Schneiderman, J.S., 2000, "Rocks: Snapshot of Valley's Time Line." in The Hudson Valley, Our Heritage, Our Future. Ed. M. Downey. Poughkeepsie, NY: The Poughkeepsie Journal, p. 98-99.
- Schneiderman, J.S., 1999, Florence Bascom: in Garraty, John.A. and Mark C. Carnes, ed., American National Biography, (New York: Oxford University Press) v. 2, p. 304-305.
- Schneiderman, J.S., 1999, Rocks serve as snapshot of valley's timeline: massive geologic events form region: Poughkeepsie Journal, Heralding the New Millenium: A Landmark Series, Water Earth and Air, Sunday April 11, p.2.
- Schneiderman, J.S., 1999, "Asbestos Science and Politics." in The Blue Planet. B.J. Skinner, S.C. Porter, and D.B. Botkin. New York: John Wiley & Sons, p.130-131.
Recent Abstracts with Student Collaborators:
- Stewart, M.E., Schneiderman, J.S., Zhou, Y, Archer, M.*, Harris, E.*, Lee, G.* "Building a Comprehensive Environmental Inventory for the Mid-Hudson Valley." GSA Abstracts with Program, in press.
- Menking, K.M., Schneiderman, J.S., Bedient, K.*, Collins, B.*, Feingold, B.*, Allmon, W., and Nester, P.L. “Sedimentological and Pollen Analysis of the Hyde Park Mastodon Site, Dutchess County, NY.” GSA Abstracts with Program 33.6 (2001): 21.
- Nester, P.L., Menking, K.M., Schneiderman, J.S., Feingold, B.*, and Bedient, K.D.* “ Quantitative Analysis of Microscopic Charcoal from Sediments of a Late Pleistocene Lake, Dutchess County, NY.” GSA Abstracts with Program 33.6 (2001): 442.
- Schneiderman, J.S., Bartlett, M.,* Kilmer, E.,* Rogers, E.,* Feingold, B.,* and Lizio-Katzen, R.* “Heavy Minerals as Provenance Indicators for Connecticut Beaches.” GSA Abstracts with Program 33.1 (2001): 14.
- Feingold, B., *Bedient, K.,* Menking, K.M., Schneiderman, J.S, and Allmon, W.D., and Nester, P.L. “Post-Glacial Environmental History of the Hyde Park Mastodon Site, Dutchess County, New York.” GSA Abstracts with Program 33.1 (2001): 63.
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