Brian J. Carter
Professor

Academic Areas

Soil 3433, Soil Genesis, Morphology, and Classification
 Soil 4210, Describing and Interpreting Soils (Soil Judging)
 Soil 4363, Environmental Soil Science
 Soil 5353, Advanced Soil Genesis and Classification
 Soil 4360, Soils of Oklahoma and Their Utilization
 Environmental Science 5100 Soils and Environmental Planning
 Environmental Science 1113 Elements of Environmental Science

Grants

* February, 2005 (submitted)-Soil Welding: Surface and Former Surface (Paleosol) “A” Horizon Development as a Dynamic Balance Between Melanization and Cumulization. NRI, CREES, USDA.

* December, 2004 (submitted)-Clovis Bison Hunting Adaptations at the Brink of Mammoth Extinction on the Southern Plains of North America. National Science Foundation.

* October 2004 to October 2007-Whole Soil Evaluation for Accurate On-Site Residential Septic System Design: A Nonpoint Source Education Program for the Grand Lake Watershed. EPA and Okla. Conservation Commission, $225,000.

* August 2004 to September 2007-Sitlington Enriched Graduate Stipened; College of Agricultural and Natural Resources, Oklahoma State University, $15,000.

* January 2005 to December 2005-Soil Geoarcheology Powell Farm, Canadian County, OK. Private Source Funds, $5,000.

* September 2003 to October 2004-Soil Characterization for Oklahoma Soil Survey - MLRA Region 9. NRCS, USDA, 5,000.

September 2002 to September 2003--Soil Characterization for Oklahoma Soil Survey MLRA Region 9. NRCS, USDA, $2,500.

May 2002 to May 2003--Carbon Storage in Oklahoma Soils. NRCS, USDA, and Oklahoma Conservation Commission $12,000.

June to September 2003--Mentor for Soil Morphology and Mapping for Design and Sizing Individual Small Public On-site Sewage Disposal System Project; Nation Science Foundation - Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU). Michael D. Myers Grant Leader, OSU Dept. of Geography.

Journal Publications

* Balakrishnan, M., C.J. Yapp, J.L. Theler, B.J. Carter, and D.G. Wyckoff. 2005. Environmental significance of C13/C14 and C18/O16 ratios of modern land snail shells from the Southern Great Plains of North America. Quaternary Research 63:15-30.

* Bement, L.C. and B.J. Carter. 2005. Late Pleistocene/early Holocene pollen record at Bull Creek, Oklahoma Panhandle. Current Research in the Pleistocene (submitted).

* Carter, B.J. and L.C. Bement. 2004. Late Quaternary soil-sediment stratigraphy and cultural materials along Bull Creek, Oklahoma Panhandle. Current Research in the Pleistocene (accepted).

* Ward III, P.A., and B.J. Carter. 2004. Dispersion of saline and non-saline natric Mollisols and Alfisols. Soil Science 169(8):554-566.

Bement, L.C. and B.J. Carter. 2003. Clovis bison hunting at the Jake Bluff site, NW Oklahoma. Current Research in the Pleistocene 20:20-26.

Carter, B.J. and L.C. Bement. 2003. Geoarcheology of the Cooper site: Multiple Folsom bison kills in northwestern Oklahoma. Geoarcheology 18:115-277.

Lepper, K., B.J. Carter, and S.W.S. McKeever. 2003. An OSL evaluation of the depositional chronology of the Cow Creek soils teaching profile at Oklahoma State University. Current Research in the Pleistocene 20:1-5.

Theler, J.L., D.G. Wyckoff, and B.J. Carter. 2003. The Southern Plains gastropod survey: The distribution of land snail populations in an American grassland environment. American Malacological Bulletin 18(1/2):1-16.

Carter, B.J. and L.C. Bement. 2002. Early Holocence buried soils and Archaic cultural materials from the Southern High Plains of the Oklahoma Panhandle. Current Research in the Pleistocene 19:9-12.

Bulletin Publications

* Bement, L.C. and B.J. Carter. 2005. Buffalo chips in the mammoth patch: Jake Bluff and Clovis Bison Hunting technology. Report submitted to: Committee for Research and Exploration, National Geographic Society. Grant #75-97-04. Oklahoma Archeological Survey, Norman, OK.

* Bement, L.C. and B.J. Carter. 2004. The Jake Bluff Site: Clovis Bison Hunting Adaptations at the Brink of Mammoth Extinctions on the Southern Plains of North America. In Guidebook for Field Trips 18th Biennial Meeting of the American Quaternary Association. ed., R.D. Mandel, 445-452. Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, KS.

* Wyckoff, D.G. and B.J. Carter. 2004. Dating the Burnham Site. In The Burnham Site in Northwestern Oklahoma: Glimpses Beyond Clovis? ed., D.G. Wyckoff, J.L. Theler, and B.J. Carter, pp. 249-263. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and The Oklahoma Anthropological Society, Memoir 9., Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman.

* Wyckoff, D.G., B.J. Carter, and J.L. Theler. 2004. Looking Back on an Odyssey: Summarizing the Findings at the Burnham Site. In The Burnham Site in Northwestern Oklahoma: Glimpses Beyond Clovis? ed., D.G. Wyckoff, J.L. Theler, and B.J. Carter, pp. 263-308. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and The Oklahoma Anthropological Society, Memoir 9., Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman.

* Carter, B.J. 2004. Burnham Site Pedology: A 1991 Perspective. In The Burnham Site in Northwestern Oklahoma: Glimpses Beyond Clovis? ed., D.G. Wyckoff, J.L. Theler, and B.J. Carter, pp. 65-92. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and The Oklahoma Anthropological Society, Memoir 9., Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman.

* Carter, B.J. 2004. The Environment of Deposition, Authigenic Features, and the Age of the Burnham Site: A Post-1991 Perspective. In The Burnham Site in Northwestern Oklahoma: Glimpses Beyond Clovis? ed., D.G. Wyckoff, J.L. Theler, and B.J.Carter, pp. 99-126. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and The Oklahoma Anthropological Society, Memoir 9., Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman.

Bement, L.C. and B.J. Carter. 2003. The Jake Bluff site: Clovis Bison Hunting adaptations at the Brink of Mammoth Extinction on the Southern Plains of North America. Report submitted to: Committee for Research and Exploration, National Geographic Society. Grant #7283-02. Oklahoma Archeological Survey Norman, OK.

Carter, B.J. 2002. Identifying Key Soil Characteristics for Design and Sizing of Individual and Small Public Onsite Sewage Disposal Systems. Dept. of Plant and Soil Science Special Report: Soil Classification Manual.

Carter, B.J. and M.S. Gregory. 2002. General soil map of Oklahoma. In Geology and Earth Resources of Oklahoma ed. K.S. Johnson et.al. Educational Publication No. 1. Oklahoma Geological Survey, Norman. OK.

Bement, L.C., Green, D.K., and B.J. Carter. 2002. Pedestrian Survey of Canyons in the Cimarron River Drainage Harper County, Oklahoma. Archeological Resource Survey Report No. 45. Oklahoma Archeological Survey, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.

Thesis Advisor

* M.S. - J. Phillip Kelley. (Environmental Science - in progress).

* Ph.D. - J. Byron Sudbury. (Soil Science - in progress).

M.S. - Assessing soil organic carbon levels in Oklahoma using the USDA/NRCS soil characterization database. J.L. Seiger. (Agronomy - July, 2003).

M.S. - Applying hydrologic models and soil characteristics to assess size and design for septic systems. A.M. Seiger. (Agronomy - July, 2003).

Ph.D. - Studies on the genesis of selected soils of Oklahoma. Phillip Amos Ward III (Soil Science - July, 2003).

Thesis Committee Member

* M.S. - Mellisa Gentry. Natural and Applied Science. (In progress).

* Ph.D. - Doug Stevenson. Environmental Science. (In progress).

* Ph.D. - Dale Spliter. Environmental Science. (In progress).

* Ph.D. - Marissa Raglin. Environmental Science. (In progress).

* Ph.D. - Kenneth S. Brown. Entomology. (In progress).

M.S. - Andrew Swindle. Water Chemistry of Selected Springs, Boone Aquifer, Delaware County, Okla. Geology. May 2003.

M.S. - Mike Keester. Arsenic in the Central Oklahoma Aquifer. Geology. December, 2002.

Ph.D. - Jamie J. Patton. I. Changes in soil physical properties resulting from swine effluent amendments to a calcareous silt loam and II. A mixed methods evaluation of the computer applet soil temperature changes with depth and time as an undergraduate teaching tool. Soil Science. July, 2003.

Courses Taught and Teaching Activities

* Environmental Science 1113 (3 semesters), Elements of Environmental Science (Fall 2002, 2003, 2004).

* Soil 3433 (3 semesters), Soil Genesis, Morphology, and Classification (Fall 2002, 2003, 2004).

* Soil 4210 (5 semesters), Describing and Interpreting Soils (Soil Judging) (Spring 2002, Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Fall 2004).

Soil 5020 (1 semester), Graduate Soil Science Seminar (Spring 2004).

Soil 5353 (1semesters), Advanced Soil Genesis and Classification (Fall 2003).

* Undergraduate Advisor in Plant and Soil Sciences (2002, 2003 and 2004).

* Undergraduate Advisor in Environmental Science (2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005).

Coordinating Adviser for the Undergraduate Environmental Science Program in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (2002).

Service to Professional Organizations

* Reviewed manuscript for Soil Science (2002, 2003, and 2004).

* Reviewed manuscript for Geomorphology (2004 and 2005).

* Reviewed manuscripts for Soil Science Society of America Journal (2002, 2003, and 2004).

* Reviewed manuscripts for Geoarchaeology (2004).

Professional Development

* Research and Development Consultant; Oklahoma Department of Transportation, Oklahoma City, OK; Treatment and Identification of Sodic Soils and Clay Mineralogy. October 1995 to present.

* Research and Development Consultant; Phillips Petroleum Company, Bartlesville, OK; Reclamation of Severely Damaged (Saline-Sodic and Oil Waste) Soils. (October 1992 to 2003).

Cooperative Extension Activities

* Cooperation with the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality by: Providing Expertise and Training in Soils for Design and Sizing of Individual and Small Public Onsite Sewage Disposal Systems (2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005).

* Cooperation with the Natural Resources Conservation Service by: assisting in field reviews of county soil maps, soil characterization, and organization of laboratory data, (2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005).

* Cooperation with Oklahoma Archeological Survey by: assisting in field research projects and educational seminars (2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005).

* Cooperation with Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History by: providing geomorphic and pedologic expertise for museum exhibits and research projects (2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005).

Regional and National Meetings

* 2004 - 62nd Plains Anthropological Conference, Billings, MT.; 50th Midwest and 61st Southeastern Combined Archaeological Conference, St. Louis, MO.; 18th Biennial Meeting of the American Quaternary Association, Lawrence, KS.

2003 - Professional Soil Scientist Association of Oklahoma, Woodward, OK.

2002 - 60th Plains Anthropological Conference, Oklahoma City, OK.

Service to the Plant and Soil Sciences Department and University

* Member of Plant and Soil Sciences Dept. Promotion and Tenure Committee (2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005).

* Member of Environmental Science Faculty in Division of Agricultural Science and Natural Resources (2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005).

* Member of Environmental Sciences Graduate Program Committee (2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005).

Education

1983 Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, Soil Genesis and Morphology
1979 M.S., The Pennsylvania State University, Soil Genesis and Morphology
1976 B.S., Rutgers University - Soils Option with Environmental Science Curriculum