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Professor GONTZ, ALLEN (Boston)
Assistant Professor, Environmental, Earth, and Ocean Sciences

Phone: (617) 287-4416
Email: allen.gontz@umb.edu

Teaching the following courses:

Geological Oceanography

**Disclaimer: Condensed CVs for the School of Marine Sciences. For a full CV, please contact the professor.**

Research Interests:
Deep - Water Coral Habitat with the National Undersea Research Center and NOAA Ocean Explore program, geophysicist responsible for seafloor mapping, processing and interpretation of various geophysical data types
Essential Lobster Habitat with University of Maine and Bigelow Lab for Ocean Sciences, geophysicist/geologist responsible for acquisition and interpretation of geophysical seafloor imagery
Gas - Charged Sediments in Mid - Coast Maine Estuaries with University of Maine, dissertation research, responsible for seafloor mapping, sediment sample collection and analysis
Marine Archeology of New England Shipwrecks with National Undersea Research Center, geophysicist responsible for geological and geophysical site assessment
Sediment Dynamics of Wells and Saco Embayments, Maine with the University of Maine, assisted with geophysical, geological data acquisition and interpretation.
Deglaciation of the Amundsen Sea with the National Science Foundation and University of Maine responsible for multibeam and seismic mapping of the Antarctic shelf.

Education:
PhD, Earth Sciences, University of Maine, May 2005
MS, Geological Sciences, University of Maine, May 2002
BS, Applied Geology, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, May 1999
BS, Environmental Biology/Ecology, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, May 1999

Professional History:
Geophysical Equipment and Research Technician, University of Maine, Aug 1999 Jun 2005
Instructor, Coastal and Marine Geology, Shoals Marine Lab, Appledore Island, ME: Aug 2002
Scientific and Engineering Intern, PA Dept. of Environmental Protection, May 1999 Aug 1999
Scientific and Engineering Intern, PA Dept. Conservation and Natural Resources, May 1998 - Aug 1998
Technical Engineering Specialist (51T), US Army, Jun 1992 Jun 1996

Current Research Support:
Young Investigator Program - Office of Naval Research, in prep, Tracing sediment transport through geophysical observations, geochemical provenance and modeling in the coastal zone requested $400,000
Small Grant for Exploratory Research, Marine Geology and Geophysics Division, National Science Foundation, in prep., Assessment of the acoustical impact of seafloor mapping technologies requested $63,000
University Software Grant Program, Seismic Micro Technologies, Inc., Jul 2005, software and support packages for Kingdom Suite geophysical processing package - $428,000

Selected Publications:
Gontz, AM, Scheirer, D and Watling L, in prep, Wave - cut features on the Corner Rise Seamount Complex
Gontz, AM, Belknap, DF, and Kelley, JT, in prep, Activity and associations observed within the Penobscot Bay pockmark fields, Maine
Gontz, AM, Belknap, DF, Johnson, BJ, and Kelley, JT, in prep, Paleo - environments of shallow, gas - charged estuarine sediments in mid - coast Maine
Gontz, AM and Belknap, DF, in prep, Revision and calibration of the coastal Maine relative sea - level curve
Kelley, AR, Kelley, JT, Belknap, DF, and Gontz AM, under review, Isostatically forced Holocene drainage divide shifts, Penobscot and Kennebec Rivers, Maine: Geology
Rogers, JN, Kelley, JT, Belknap, DF, Gontz, AM and Barnhardt, WA, in press, Shallow - water pockmark formation in temperate estuaries: a consideration of origins in the western Gulf of Maine with special focus on Belfast Bay: Marine Geology
Belknap, DF, Gontz, AM and Kelley, JT, 2005, Paleodeltas and preservation potential on a paraglacial coast evolution of eastern Penobscot Bay, Maine: in DM FitzGerald and J Knight, eds., High Resolution Morphodynamics and Sedimentary Evolution of Estuaries
Fenster, MS, FitzGerald, DM, Belknap, DF, Knisley, BA, Gontz, AM and Buynevich, IV 2005, Controls on Estuarine Sediment Dynamics in Merrymeeting Bay, Kennebec River Estuary, Maine, U.S.A.: in DM FitzGerald and J Knight, eds., High Resolution Morphodynamics and Sedimentary Evolution of Estuaries
Gontz, AM, Belknap, DF and Kelley, JT, 2002, Seafloor Features and Characteristics of the Black Ledges Area, Penobscot Bay, Maine, USA: Journal of Coastal Research Special Issue 36, pp. 333 - 339.
Belknap, DF, Kelley, JT and Gontz, AM 2002, Evolution of the Glaciated Shelf and Coastline of the Northern Gulf of Maine, USA: Journal of Coastal Research Special Issue 36, pp. 37 - 55.
FitzGerald, DM, Buynevich, IV, Belknap, DF, Kelley, JT, Cleary, WJ, Barnhardt, WA, Daly, JF, Gontz, AM, Knisel, JM, and Kelley, AK, 2002, A picture essay of the Ireland coast, Journal of Coastal Research, v. 18, n. 4, p. 810 - 832.