Wes Hildreth

Edward Wesley Hildreth III,[3] (usually known as Wes Hildreth) is an American geologist for the United States Geological Survey (USGS).[4][5] He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America,[6] as well as of the American Geophysical Union.[7][8] He has a 1961 B.A. from Harvard University and a 1977 Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley under Ian S. E. Carmichael.[5][9] Hildreth was described as "one of the great volcanologists/petrologists of our time" by the magazine Wired.[10]

Wes Hildreth
Born
Edward Wesley Hildreth III

1938 (age 84–85)
Other namesEdward W. Hildreth[1]
OccupationGeologist
EmployerUnited States Geological Survey
Board member of
Further information: § Memberships and affiliations
SpouseGail Mahood
Awards
Further information: § Awards
Academic background
EducationHarvard University (BA)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)[2]
Academic advisorsIan S.E. Carmichael, Charles M. Gilbert, Herbert R. Shaw
Academic work
InstitutionsCalifornia Volcano Observatory
Websitehttps://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/wes-hildreth

Personal Life

Hildreth was born in 1938 in Newton, Massachusetts.[11] He began working as a Research Geologist in 1977, before which he was a Naturalist for the National Park Service and an Instructor at University of California, Berkeley. He participated in cross country for the Harvard Crimson while he attended Harvard.[12][13][14][15]

Hildreth was interviewed in 2016 by the Grand Canyon Historical Society for their Oral History program.[16]

Gail Mahood

Hildreth is married to Gail Mahood, a geology professor at Stanford University,[17][18] whom he has also published research with.[19]

Work

Much of his work is in the fields of petrology,[20] volcanology,[21] seismology,[22][23] and geologic mapping.[24]

While at University of California, Berkeley, he was the student of the late Garniss Curtis.[25]

Hildreth has worked closely with fellow geologist Dave Tucker on geological research in the North Cascades.[26][27] Hildreth has also worked with other notable geologists, including Suzanne Mahlburg Kay,[28][29] David A. Johnston,[30][31][32] Mark S. Ghiorso;[33][34] Charles R. Bacon;[35] and Penrose Medal winner James Gregory Moore.[36]

Hildreth has published works about geology from many regions around the world, including Redoubt, Alaska;[37][38] Death Valley, California;[39] Muir Woods, California;[40][41][42] Yellowstone, Wyoming;[43] and in the Andes of Chile.[44][45][46]

Hildreth participated in the 2005 GSA Field Forum in the Sierra Nevada and White-Inyo Mountains, California,[47] as well as the 2009 GSA Field Forum in Bishop, California,[48][49] which culminated in a special issue in the journal Lithosphere.[50] Hildreth, along with one of his research partners Judy Fierstein,[51][52] hosted a community interpretive walk at Devils Postpile in July 2016.[53]

Geologic research

Some of Hildreth's most notable research is on the Long Valley caldera and the associated Bishop Tuff, of which he published in-depth research about the order of eruptions causing the geologic phenomena.[54][55] His work developed a scientific working hypothesis on the origins of the formations.[56]

Hildreth also authored a USGS publication covering the 1912 eruption of Novarupta 100 years after the eruption;[57][58] the centennial of which was noted in multiple publications, including Wired,[59] Discover,[60] and The Associated Press.[61]

Awards

Hildreth has received many awards and honors,[5] including:

Scholarly

Other

Memberships and affiliations

Hildreth has been a member of multiple scholarly associations,[5] including:

  • 1991-2001: Editorial Board (Bull. Volcanol.)
  • 1984-86: Associate Editor, Open Magmatic Systems (JGR)
  • 1987-present: Associate Editor (Andean Geology)
  • 1996-2013: Publications Reviewer (USGS)
  • Fellow (GSA)
  • Fellow (AGU)
    • 2008-2012: Fellows Selection Committee (AGU)
  • Member (IAVCEI)[72]
    • 2012-15: Honors and Awards Committee (IAVCEI)

Bibliography

Hildreth has published numerous books and journal contributions with many different publishers over a decades-long career,[73] even being listed on Scopus as having over nine thousand citations.[74][75][76] He is also briefly mentioned in the book A to Z of Earth Scientists.[77]

Mentioned in:

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  2. "Annual Report 2005 - 2006" (PDF). Department of Earth & Planetary Science. University of California, Berkeley.
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  11. "Oral History Project". Grand Canyon Historical Society. Wes Hildreth, Nancy Brown and Jack Fulton.
  12. Sigal, William C. (October 20, 1956). "Cross Country Team Overpowers Penn, Lions Despite Wrong Turn". The Harvard Crimson.
  13. "Harriers to Meet UMass Today; Fitzgerald May Miss Encounter". The Harvard Crimson. October 20, 1969.
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  16. Grand Canyon Historical Society (July 31, 2016). "In the spring of 1968, Wes Hildreth (left) and his good friend Jack Fulton, both in their mid twenties, hiked from Topacopa Hilltop to Supai. Wes kept going, out onto the Esplanade past Mt Sinyala while Jack and Wes's wife Nancy hiked back to the VW bus at Topacopa. Nancy drove off to Berkeley while Jack walked the Deer Trail out across the Great Thumb and went down the Tahuta Point Route. Wes showed up a day later, and the two then hiked east. They resupplied at the Apache Point Route, and hiked on to Royal Arch and South Bass. At Phantom, they hiked to the rim and spent a night there, with a resupply. Feeling strong, the two then hiked on east to Tanner, their last resupply. The Tanner cache included air mattresses they hoped to use to get their gear across the Colorado River with. The idea was to hike out of the Canyon at Nankoweap. An attempt to cross the river failed, so they hiked up the Little Colorado and out the Hopi Salt Trail. At the rim, they started hiking east, and in ten miles or so were picked up by some locals (Yay Confluence Families!!) and given a ride out to Highway 89. They hitched to Flagstaff and spent the night in a snowstorm camped in the forest, before hitchhiking back to Berkeley and the end of their six week trek. We did a three hour oral interview yesterday afternoon with Wes, Jack and Nancy, including looking at color pics and some 16mm film that Jack took of the journey. What an honor to hang out with these wonderful people with an incredible story". Facebook.
  17. "Gail Mahood's Personal Page". Gail Mahood's Research Group. Stanford University.
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  22. Hill, David; Segall, Paul (2004-06-01). "Interdisciplinary Discussion of Volcanic Processes Beneath the Long Valley Caldera-Mono Craters Area". EOS Transactions. 85 (23): 228–230. Bibcode:2004EOSTr..85..228H. doi:10.1029/2004EO230005.
  23. Singer, Brad S.; Andersen, Nathan L.; Le Mével, Hélène; Feigl, Kurt L.; DeMets, Charles; Tikoff, Basil; Thurber, Clifford H.; Jicha, Brian R.; Cardona, Carlos; Córdova, Loreto; Gil, Fernando; Unsworth, Martyn J.; Williams-Jones, Glyn; Miller, Craig; Fierstein, Judy (2014). "Dynamics of a large, restless, rhyolitic magma system at Laguna del Maule, southern Andes, Chile" (PDF). GSA Today. 24 (12): 4–10. doi:10.1130/GSATG216A.1.
  24. Visit Mammoth (July 14, 2016). "Photo by: @lilac_ink" – via Facebook. Join Senior Scientist Wes Hildreth from the U.S. Geological Survey, as he guides us through millions of years of geologic drama on the Middle Fork of the San Joaquin landscape. He will link the landscape with the colorful layers of history on the newly published USGS map of the Eruptive History of Mammoth Mountain and its Mafic Periphery authored by Wes Hildreth and Judy Fierstein. Meet at the Devils Postpile Ranger Station at 11am
  25. Yoon, Jennie (March 7, 2013). "UC Berkeley geology professor emeritus Garniss Curtis dies at 93". The Daily Californian.
  26. "Mount Baker Eruption History and Hazards". Burlington, WA.
  27. Martin, Kate (January 13, 2013). "In the shadow of an active volcano". goskagit.com.
  28. "2019 Distinguished Geologic Career Award (MGPV Division)". Geological Society of America.
  29. "2019 MGPV Division Distinguished Geological Career Award: Acceptance by Suzanne Mahlburg Kay" (PDF). Newsletter of the GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division. 11 (1). February 2020.
  30. Hildreth, Wes (1980). "David Alexander Johnston". Geological Survey Circular 838. Johnston, David A.; Donnelly-Nolan, Julie M. (1981). "Guides to some volcanic terranes in Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and Northern California". U.S. Geological Survey Circular 838. doi:10.3133/cir838. Publication at the NPS History eLibrary.
  31. Hunter, Dana (May 30, 2012). "Dedication: The Geologists Who Died at Mount St. Helens". Scientific American.
  32. Holmes, Melanie (2019). A Hero on Mount St. Helens: The Life and Legacy of David A. Johnston. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-05134-0.
  33. Ghiorso, Mark S. (2004). "Presentation of the Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2015 to Marc Hirschmann". American Mineralogist. 100 (5–6): 1315–1315. doi:10.2138/am-2015-ap1005-612. ISSN 0003-004X. S2CID 99933766.
  34. "AGU Sections and Focus Groups Announce 2014 Awardees" (PDF). Earth & Space Science News (Eos). AGU. 96 (9). May 15, 2015.
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  36. "2020 Penrose Medal". Geological Society of America.
  37. "Redoubt reported activity: Katmai 1912/6". Alaska Volcano Observatory. University of Alaska System.
  38. Fierstein, Judy; Hildreth, Wes (2008). "Kaguyak dome field and its Holocene caldera, Alaska Peninsula". Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 177 (2): 340–366. Bibcode:2008JVGR..177..340F. doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2008.05.016.
  39. Carmichael, I. S. E.; Hildreth, Wes; Peterson, Donald W.; Fisher, Richard; Schmincke, Hans-Ulrich (1986). "1985 VGP Awards". Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 67 (7): 74. Bibcode:1986EOSTr..67...74C. doi:10.1029/EO067i007p00074-03. ISSN 0096-3941.
  40. Miller, Char (2001). Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism. Island Press. (Pioneers of Conservation). doi:10.2307/4144776. ISBN 9781559638227. JSTOR 4144776. Wes Hildreth, compiler, Historical Chronology of Muir Woods and Vicinity (Muir Woods National Monument, 1966); February 13, 1938, memorandum; December 7, 1945, memorandum between the custodian of Muir Woods and the director of the National Park Service, Muir Woods National Monument archives. I owe a great debt to Mia Monroe of the Muir Woods National Monument for sharing these documents with me; Mia Monroe to Char Miller, May 7, 2001, e-mail correspondence.
  41. Lewis, Corey (2005). "Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism by Char Miller (review)". Western American Literature. 40 (1): 108–109. doi:10.1353/wal.2005.0024. ISSN 1948-7142. S2CID 166149875.

    Pritchard, James A. (2002). "Review of Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism". Oregon Historical Quarterly. 103 (3): 387–389. ISSN 0030-4727. JSTOR 20615256.

    Milner, Cedric (2003). "Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism". Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research. 76 (3): 367. doi:10.1093/forestry/76.3.367. ISSN 0015-752X.
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    Muffler, Patrick; Calvert, Andy; Hurwitz, Shaul (October 6, 2022). "Yellowstone National Park loses the granddaddy of American volcano scientists". Explore Big Sky. Daily Montanan.
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