Stephen L. Benoist, Ph.D. received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Geology from the University of Texas at Arlington, and his Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Iowa. His professional experience includes adjunct teaching with Tarrant County Community Colleges and Dallas County Community Colleges, and service as a research associate at Louisiana State University. At present, Dr. Benoist, who is semi-retired, is serving as an adjunct instructor at San Antonio College of the Alamo College District teaching courses in Earth Science and Earth History. His outside interests include bicycling, playing the flute and classical guitar, and transcription of written musical manuscripts into digital format.

Education

1993- 1997 - Graduate, The University of Iowa- Ph.D. in Geology.

1988- 1994 - Graduate, University of Texas at Arlington- M.S. in Geology.

1983- 1988 - Graduate, University of Texas at Arlington- B.S. in Geology.

Experience

9/17- present Adjunct Faculty, San Antonio College, Alamo Colleges District, Natural Sciences Department, 1819 N. Main Ave. San Antonio, TX 78212, Supervisor- Dr. Teanna Staggs (Chair)- ph. 210-486-0840, email- tstaggs@alamo.edu.

9/08- 5/16 Adjunct Faculty, Richland College, Dallas County Community College District, 12800 Abrams Road, Dallas, Texas 75243-2199, supervisor- Dr. Frederick Wittel, ph. 972-761-6835, email: wittel@dcccd.edu.

1/05- 1/07 Adjunct Faculty , Mountain View College, Dallas County Community College District, 4849 West Illinois Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75211, supervisor- Dr. Lynn Millwood, ph. 214-860-3652, email: millwoodrocks@dcccd.edu.

1/05- 12/07 Adjunct Faculty, Tarrant County College Northeast Campus, 828 Harwood Road, Hurst, Texas 76054-3299, supervisor- Dr. Gary Smith, ph. 817-515-6547, email: smith.gary@tccd.edu.

9/99-2/04 Research Associate/Adjunct Faculty Member, Louisiana State University, Geology and Geophysics Department, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, supervisor- Dr. Brooks B. Ellwood, ph. 225-578-3416, email: ellwood@geol.lsu.edu.

Publications

Journals (sole or first author)

Benoist, S. L., 2000, Application of graphic correlation to compare Lower Permian sections of the Glass Mountains West Texas and the western slope of the Ural Mountains, Russia: Episodes, v. 23, no. 4, p. 247-256.

Benoist, S. L. 1997, Graphic correlation applied to Lower Permian stratigraphic sections of the Glass Mountains, West Texas: Permophiles no. 32, p. 24-32.

Journals (coauthor)

Brooks B. Ellwood, Jonathan Tomkin, Barry Richards, Stephen L. Benoist, and Lance L. Lambert, 2007,

MSEC Data Sets Record Glacially Driven Cyclicity: Examples from the Arrow Canyon Mississippian-Pennsylvanian GSSP and Associated Sections: Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 255, p.377- 390.

Ellwood, B. B., Harrold, F. B., Benoist, S. L., Thacker, P., Otte, M., Bonjean, D., Long, G. J., Shahin, A. M., Hermann, R. P., and Grandjean, F., 2004, Magnetic susceptibility applied as an age-depth relative dating technique using sediments from Scladina Cave, a late Pleistocene cave site in Belgium: Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 31, p. 283-293.

Ellwood, B. B., MacDonald, W. D., Wheeler, C., and Benoist, S. L., 2003, The K-T boundary in Oman; identified using magnetic susceptibility field measurements with geochemical confirmation: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 206, p. 529-540.

Harrold, F. B., Ellwood, B. B., Thacker, P. T., and Benoist, S. L., 2003, Magnetic susceptibility analysis of sediments at the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition for two cave sites in northern Spain: in, Zilhao, J. and d' Errico, F. (eds.), The Chronology of the Aurignacian and of the Transitional Technocomplexes, Dating, Stratigraphies, Cultural Implications, Proceedings of Symposium 6.1 of the XIVth Congress of the UISPP, University of Liege, Belgium, September 2-8, 2001, p. 301-310.

Ellwood, B. B., Benoist, S. L., El Hassani, A., Wheeler, C., and Crick, R. E., 2003, Impact ejecta layer from the Mid-Devonian: possible connection to global mass extinction: Science, v. 300, p. 1734-1737.

Ellwood, B. B., Harrold, F. B., Benoist, S. L., Straus, L. G., Gonzales-Morales, M., Petruso, K., Bicho, N. F., Zilhao, J., and Soler, N., 2001, Paleoclimate and intersite correlation from Late Pleistocene/Holocene cave sites: Results from southern Europe: Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, v. 16, no. 4, p. 433-463.

Ellwood, B. B., Villaverde, V., Benoist, S. L., Bernabeu, J., Harrold, F. B., and Thacker, P. T., 2000, A test of the MSEC method for paleoclimate and intersite correlations from Late Pleistocene/Holocene cave sites in southern Europe: Results from Cova de les Cendres, SE Spain: Espacio, Tiempo y Forma, Serie I, Prehistoria y Arqueologia, t. 13, p. 141-159.

Ellwood, B. B., Crick, R. E., El Hassani, A., Benoist, S. L., and Young, R. H., 2000, The magnetosusceptibility event and cyclostratigraphy (MSEC) method applied to marine rocks: detrital input versus carbonate productivity: Geology, v. 28, p. 1134-1138.