Dr. James Day
Professor of Geology
Office
FSA Felmley Hall Of Science Annex 441
Office Hours
M 2-5 PM, W afternoons by appointment for the Fall 2017 semester
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- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Current Courses
GEO 202.001 Evolution Of The Earth
GEO 287.002 Independent Study - Geology
GEO 385.001 Invertebrate Paleontology
GEO 385.002 Invertebrate Paleontology
GEO 295.001 Sedimentology
GEO 295.002 Sedimentology
Teaching Interests & Areas
Teaching: Principles of Geology, Evolution of the Earth, Ocean Science, Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, Invertebrate Paleontology.
Research Interests & Areas
Research Interests: Paleoecology, paleobiography and systematic paleontology of Ordovician-Devonian brachiopods, conodonts, and molluscs (gastropods); high-resolution biostratigraphy using integrated brachiopod and conodont sequences for correlation; integrated sequence-event stratigraphy, chemostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy of Devonian cratonic and continental platform deposits of North America; paleogeography of Devonian Luarussia and paleoceanography of the Devonian ocean.
Ph D Paleontology, Stratigraphy & Biostratigraphy
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa
MS Geology
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona
BS Geology
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon
College of Arts and Sciences-Outstanding College Researcher Award
illinois State University-College of Arts and Sciences
2015
Summer Research Fellow
American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund
1998
Undergraduate Student Award
Society of Sedimentary Geology & Paleontological Society (SEPM & PS)
1978
Grants and Contracts
Investigation of Sr Isopte Chemostratigraphy of Devonian and Carboniferous Conodont Skeletal Apatite
James Edgar Day.
United State Geological Survey. March 30 2019 - March 30 2020
United States Geological Survey-investigation of strontium and trace and rare earth element geochemistry of conodont apatites from the Devonian of central and western North America.
James E Day.
United States Geological Survey-Federal Center. October 2015 - October 2016
United States Geological Survey-investigation of strontium and trace and rare earth element geochemistry of conodont apatites from the Devonian of central and western North America.
James E Day.
United States Geological Survey-Federal Center. October 2014 - October 2015
United States Geological Survey-investigation of strontium and trace and rare earth element geochemistry of conodont apatites from the Devonian of central and western North America.
James E Day.
United States Geological Survey-Federal Center. October 2013 - October 2014
United States Geological Survey-investigation of strontium and trace and rare earth element geochemistry of conodont apatites from the Devonian of central and western North America
James Day, Dr. Poul Emsbo.
Federal Center. October 2012 - October 2013
United States Geological Survey-investigation of strontium and trace and rare earth element geochemistry of conodont apatites from the Devonian of central and western North America.
James E Day, Dr. Poul Emsbo.
United States Geological Survey-Federal Center. October 2011 - October 2012
Biostratigraphic dating color alteration index (CAI) analysis of conodonts from of exploration drill cores from EVG drill sites
James Edgar Day.
Contract with Evolving Gold Corporation, Longmont Colorado.. July 2010 - June 2011
United States Geological Survey-investigation of strontium and trace element geochemistry of conodont apatites from the Upper Devonian of the Iowa and Illinois basins
James E Day.
United States Geological Survey-Federal Center. October 2010 - October 2011
EDMAP-Ancillary Mapping Program for support of student research projects on Paleozoic bedrock units in quadrangles previously or presently being mapped by ISGS mapping geologists.
James Edgar Day.
Illinois State Geological Survey. 2005 - 2007
Sate-Map Program, Ancillary Mapping Bedrock Geology Project
James Edgar Day.
Illinois State Geological Survey. 2005 - 2008
Book, Authored
The Devonian- Carboniferous Boundary in the Mississippi River Valley of Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri
Nick Hogencamp, Brittany Stolfus, James Edgar Day.
(2019), Guidebook 30, 1-75, A Revised Conodont Zonation of the Tournaisian (Kinderhookian to Lower Osagean) and Implications for Stratigraphic Correlation in North America., Iowa Geologcial Survey-Guidebook Series
Book, Chapter
Brachiopod Sequence in the Latest Devonian Hangenberg Extinction and Devonian- Carboniferous Boundary Intervals in Southeastern Iowa, Northeastern Missouri, and West-Central Illinois – Central North America
James Edgar Day, Kacey Garber.
(2019), 30, 19-43, The Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary in the Type Area of the Mississippian, Iowa Geological Survey
The Devonian- Carboniferous Boundary in the Mississippi River Valley of Iowa
Bradley Cramer, Brittany Stolfus, James Edgar Day.
(2019), 30, 1-9, The Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary in the Type Area of the Mississippian, Iowa Geological Survey
Upper Devonian Biostratigraphy, Event Stratigraphy, and Late Frasnian Kellwasser Extinction Bioevents in the Iowa Basin: Western Euramerica.
James E Day, Brian J Witzke.
(2017), Volume 2, 243-332, https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.sats.2017.08.002, Stratigraphy & Timescales, Volume 2, Elsevier Inc. Academic Press.
Central North American Devonian Brachiopoda
James E Day.
(2016), Book, 38-39, Planet Earth In Deep Time: Paleozoic Series-Devonian & Carboniferous, Schweizerbart Science Publishers,
Pattern and Timing of Late Devonian 4 Biotic Crisis in Western Canada: Insights from Carbon isotopes and Astronomical Calibration of Magnetic Susceptibility Data.
Michael Whalen, David De Vleeschouwer, Payne Joshua, James E. Day, Jeffrey Over, Phillip Claeys.
(2016), 107, 17, New Advances in Devonian Carbonates: Outcrop Analogs, Reservoirs, and Chronostratigraphy., Society for Sedimentary Geology Special Publication
Conference Proceeding
Biostratigraphic calibration of high resolution magnetic susceptibility stratigraphy of the Late Frasnian (Late Devonian) Lime Creek Formation in the subtropical Iowa Basin of western Laurussia
James Edgar Day, M T Whalen, D De Vleeshouwer, P Claeys.
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 44 (7), 83, (2012)
Lower-Middle Devonian (Pragian-Lower Givetian) conodont biostratigraphy, Middle Devonian sea level record and estimated conodont apatite δO18 sea surface temperature changes in the southern Illinois Basin, USA
James Edgar Day, S Gouwy, K MacLeod.
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 44 (7), 124, (2012)
Pragian to Lower Givetian Conodont Biostratigraphy and Conodont Apatite δ 18O
S Gouwy, James Edgar Day, K MacLeod.
4th International Geologica Belgica Meeting, (2012)
Timing of Upper Devonian Marine Flooding Events and Episodes of Organic-Rich Sweetland Creek, Grassy Creek and Saverton Shale deposition in the Iowa and NW Illinois Basin
James Edgar Day, B J Witzke.
GSA Abstracts with Programs, 44 (5), 7, (2012)
Upper Emsian to Lower Givetian Conodont Biostratigraphy and Conodont Apatite δO18 Results from the Grand Tower and St. Laurent Formations: Southern Illinois Basin-Reelfoot Embayment
S Gouwy, James Edgar Day, K MacLoed.
GSA Abstracts with Programs, 44 (5), 2, (2012)
Journal Article
Biogeochemical controls on black shale deposition during the Frasnian-Famennian biotic crisis in the Illinois and Appalachian Basins, USA, inferred from stable isotopes of nitrogen and carbon.
Ben Uveges.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology-Elseveir, 531 (Part A), 15, (2019)
Paleozoic reactivation structures in the Appalachian-Ouachita-Marathon foreland: Far-field deformation across Pangea (Reply to Discussion
David Henry Malone, John P Craddock, Ryan Porter, John Compton, John Luczaj, James Edgar Day, Stephen T Johnson.
Earth Science Reviews/Elsevier, 181, 153-157, (2018), DOI:10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.02.002
Paleozoic reactivation structures in the Appalachian-Ouachita-Marathon foreland: Far-field deformation across Pangea.
Craddock John, David Malone, Porter Ryan, John Compton, John Luczaj, Alex Konstantinou, James Day, Stephen Johnston.
Elsevier-Earth-Science Reviews, 169 (2017) (169 (2017)), 1-34, (2017), doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.04.002
Timing and pacing of the Late Devonian mass extinction event regulated by eccentricity and obliquity.
David De Vleeshouwer, Anne-Christine Da Silva, Matthias Matthias Sinnesael, Daizhao Chen, James E. Day, Michael T Whalen, Zenghui Guo, Philippe Claeys.
Nature Communications, 8 (Article number: 2268 (2017)), 11 pages, (2017), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02407-1
Biostratigraphic calibration of high resolution magnetic susceptibility
James Edgar Day, M T Whalen, D De Vleeshouwer, P Claeys.
Geological Society of America, 44 (7), 83, (2012)
Cyclostratigraphic calibration of the Frasnian
James Edgar Day, D De Vleeschouwer, M T. Whalen, P Claeys.
Geological Society of America Bulletin, (2012)
Lower-Middle Devonian (Pragian-Lower Givetian) conodont biostratigraphy, Middle
James Edgar Day, S Gouwy, K MacLeod.
Geological Society of America, 44 (7), 124, (2012)
Timing of Upper Devonian Marine Flooding Events and Episodes of Organic-Rich Sweetland Creek, Grassy
James Edgar Day, B J Witzke.
44 (5), 7, (2012)
Stable isotope (δ13Ccarb and org, δ15Norg) and trace element anomalies during the Late Devonian ‘punctata Event’ in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin
M G Śliwiński, M T Whalen, R J Newberry, J H Payne, James Edgar Day.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 307 (1-4), 245-271, (2011)
Comparison of MS and other geochemical proxies from the Middle-Late Frasnian of the Canadian Rocky Mountains: Implications for interpreting paleoenvironmental change and the mid-Frasnian punctata Event
James Edgar Day, M G Śliwinski, M T Whalen.
Przegl¹d Geologiczny, 58 (1), 10, (2010)
Cross-Basin Variations in Magnetic Susceptibility Influenced by Changing Sea Level, Paleogeography, and Paleoclimate; Upper Devonian, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin
James Edgar Day, M T Whalen.
Journal of Sedimentary Research, 80, 20, (2010)
Trace element variations in the Middle Frasnian punctata Zone (Late Devonian) in the western Canada Sedimentary Basin-changes in oceanic bioproductivity and paleoredox spurred by a pulse of terrestrial afforestation?
M G Śliwinski, M T Whalen, James Edgar Day.
Geologica Belgica, 13 (4), 459-482, (2010)
Devonian climate and reef evolution: Insights from oxygen isotopes in apatite
M M Joachimski, S Breisig, W Buggisch, J A Talent, R Mawson, M Gereke, J R Morrow, James Edgar Day, K Weddige.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 284, 599–609, (2009)
Magnetic Susceptibility and Insights into Devonian Sea Level and Climate Change, Alberta Rocky Mountains, Western Canada
M T Whalen, James Edgar Day, R Missler, D J Over.
Paleontographica Americana, (64), 228-229, (2009)
Middle-Upper Devonian (Middle Givetian-Early Famennian) Record of Relative Sea Level and Climate Change in the Iowa and Western Illinois Basins, Western Laurussia
B J Witkze, James Edgar Day, B Bunker.
Paleontographica Americana, (64), 229-231, (2009)
Other
Geology of the Moscow Quarry, northwest Muscatine County
James Edgar Day, D Quade, R R Anderson.
Geological Society of Iowa Guidebook 89, 31, (2011)
New Developments and Refinements to Lower Cedar Valley Group Conodont Biostratigraphy in Eastern Iowa
James Edgar Day.
Geological Society of Iowa Guidebook 87, 93-104, (2010)
Lime Creek Formation in the vicinity of the Rockford Brick and tile Quarry
James Edgar Day.
Iowa Geological Survey Guidebook 28, Stop 7, 85-95, (2008)
Overview of Middle and Upper Devonian Cedar Valley Group and Lime Creek Formation Carbonate Platform Facies, Faunas, and Event Stratigraphy of Northern Iowa
James Edgar Day, B J Witzke, B Bunker.
Iowa Geological Survey Guidebook 28, 15-39, (2008)
Unusual Facies Relationships Within the Middle Frasnian Shell Rock Formation Recording Reefal Carbonate Bank Aggradation and Progradation & Offbank Facies Onlap
James Edgar Day.
Iowa Geological Survey Guidebook 28, Stop 5, 72-76, (2008)
Upper Devonian (middle Frasnian) Stratigraphy of the Shell Rock Formation in its type area
James Edgar Day, B J Witzke.
Iowa Geological Survey Guidebook 28, Stop 6, 77-84, (2008)
Presentations
High Resolution Inte- grated Conodont and Carbonate Carbonate Carbon Isotope Chemostratigraphy of the Hangenburg Excursion from the H-28 and H-32 Cores, Burlington, Iowa.
Megan Heath.
National Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Phoenix, Arizona, September, 2020
Late Devonian Mass Extinctions (Kellwasser Events) in Subtropical and Equatorial Laurussia (Central and Western North America)
James Edgar Day.
Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Northern Illinois University - Graduate Colloquium - Lecture, DeKalb, Illinois, October 11, 2019
Vertebrate Microfossil and Brachiopod Records of the Late Devonian Mass Extinction
James Edgar Day.
Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois, Glen Elyn, Illinois, October 11, 2019
A Revised Conodont Biozonation for the Kinderhookian (Lower Mississippian)
Brittany Stolfus.
Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Phoenix, Arizona, September, 2019
Integrated conodont, graptolite, and δ13C Bio-chemostratigraphy of the Silurian of the Illinois Basin: a complimentary approach
Neo E.B. McAdams.
3rd International Congress on Stratigraphy (STRATI-2019), Milan, Italy, July 4, 2019
Integrated Stratigraphy of the Middle Devonian Lake Church and Thiensville Formations, Western Michigan Basin, U.S.A.
James Zambito.
3rd International Congress on Stratigraphy (STRATI-2019), Milan, Italy, July 3, 2019
Upper Devonian (Upper Frasnian-Lower Famennian) Biostratigraphy and Kellwasser Extinction Signatures in 4 the Iowa Basin-Central North America (Western Subtropical Euramerica)
James Edgar Day.
11th North American Paleontological Convention, Riverside, California, June, 2019
Evidence for the potential influence of chemocline fluctuations on the Frasnian-Famennian Biotic Crisis in the Illinois and Appalachian Basins
Ben Uveges, Chris Junium, Diana Boyer, Peter Cohen, Jed Day.
National Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, Louisiana, December, 2017
ASTRONOMICAL CALIBRATION OF THE FAMENNIAN (UPPER DEVONIAN) TIME SCALE
Damien Pas, Linda Hinnov, Jed Day, Ken Kodama, Matthias Sinnesael, Wei Liu.
National Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Seattle, Washington, October, 2017
REVISED CONODONT BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE KINDERHOOKIAN (LOWER TOURNAISIAN) STRATA IN SOUTHEAST IOWA
Brittany Stolfus, Stephany Tassier-Surine, Ryan Clark, Jed Day, Brian Witzke, Bradley Cramer.
National Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Seattle, Washington, October, 2017
REVISITING THE DEVONIAN-CARBONIFEROUS BOUNDARY INTERVAL IN THE U.S. MIDCONTINENT: TYPE KINDERHOOKIAN AREA OF ILLINOIS, MISSOURI, AND IOWA.
Ryan Clark, Britanny Stolfus, Bradley Cramer, Jed Day, Brian Witzke, Stephany Tassier-Surine.
National Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Seattle, Washington, October, 2017
HIGH FRASNIAN CONODONTS FROM THE CANASERAGA SANDSTONE, JAVA GROUP, UPPER DEVONIAN, WESTERN NEW YORK
Ezekiel MCGINN, Jeff Over, Mary KOSLOSKI, Jed Day.
Northeastern-North Central Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, April, 2017
THE DEVONIAN SUCCESSION IN WISCONSIN: INSIGHTS FROM CONODONT BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND CARBONATE CARBON ISOTOPE CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY
James Zambito, Patrick MCLAUGHLIN, Jed Day.
Northeastern-North Central Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, April, 2017
USING LANDMARK ANALYSIS TO DETERMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPINOCYRTIA SHELL MORPHOLOGY AND EUSTATIC SEA-LEVEL VARIATION IN THE DEVONIAN
Alex Laynge, James Day, Kate TIERNEY CRAMER.
Northeastern-North Central Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, April, 2017
Detrital Zircon Geochronology of the Devonian Dutch Creek Sandstone in the southern Illinois Basin
Lexi Wallenberg, David Malone, James Day, Joe Devera.
National Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado, September, 2016
Latest Frasnian (Upper Devonian) Lower Kellwasser Extinction (LKE) Subtropical Carbonate Platform Survivor-Recovery Fauna-Central north America
Kelly Sanks, James Day, Brian Witzke.
National Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado, September, 2016
The Ireviken and Mulde (Silurian, Wenlock) Positive Carbon Isotope Excursions in the southern Illinois Basin.
Neo McAdams, Brad Cramer, Alyssa Bancroft, T. Bandy, James Day, Joe Devera.
National Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado, September, 2016
A global cyclostratigraphic framework constrains the timing and pacing of environmental changes over the Late Devonian mass extinction (Frasnian–Famennian)
David De Vleeschouwer, Anne-Christine DeSilva, James Day, Mike Whalen, Phillip Claeys.
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2016, Vienna, Austria, June, 2016
Astrochronological Calibration of Late Frasnian Sea Level and Bioevents: Iowa Basin, USA
James Day, David De Vleeschouwer, Brian Witzke, Mike Whalen, Phillip Claeys.
North-Central Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Champaign, Illinois, April, 2016
Record of Middle Devonian (Eifelian-Early Givetian) Climate and Paleoceanographic Change and Asronomical Forcing: Southern Illinois Basin-Central North America
James Day, Sofie Gouwy, David De Vleeschouwer, Ken McLeod.
North-Central Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Champaign, Illinois, April, 2016
Integrated Stratigraphy and the Search for a new Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary in the western Illinois Basin: Central North America
James Day.
Department of Geology Seminar Series, Carbondale, Illinois, January, 2016
Depositional History of Upper Devonian-Early Carboniferous New Albany Group-Western Illinois Basin.
James Edgar Day.
Department of Geological Sciences-Shale Research Group and Indiana Geological Survey, Online, September, 2012
Evolution and Extinction of Middle-Upper Devonian Western Laurussian Tropical Carbonate Platform Brachiopod Faunas
James Edgar Day.
Department of Geoscience Colloquium, Iowa City, Iowa, August 31, 2012