BIO

I am broadly trained geomorphologist, glacial geologist, and environmental scientist. My interests and research range from glacial erosion and provenance to fluvial to sediment transfer to geoscience education to microplastics. I have experience in a variety of broad areas: traditional field geology, microplastic analysis, glacial flow modeling, detrital zircon separation, discipline-based education research and river monitoring. I’ve worked in a variety of locations: Alaska, the Cascades, the Alps, the Midwest, and Idaho. My teaching is focused around using evidence-based practice to give students an understanding of Earth and environmental sciences, particularly incorporating research and data-rich experiences.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, 2011

B.S., Physics, University of Maryland – College Park, 2003

SCHOLARSHIP & RESEARCH

Orlofske, J. M, *Wilson, B. R., *Tesar, T. E., Tyrell, C. D., and Headley, R. (2024), Fluvial habitat associations of riverine dragonflies (Odonata, Gomphidae) in the Huron Mountains (Michigan, USA), River Research and Applications, 1–13, doi: 10.1002/rra.4339

Headley, R. M. (2022), An intervention to address math anxiety in the geosciences, Journal of Geoscience Education, doi: 10.1080/10899995.2022.2065826

Headley, R. M. (2017), Climate Change: River Redirected, Nature Geoscience, 10, 327-328, doi:10.1038/ngeo2946.

Enkelmann, E., P. O. Koons, T. L. Pavlis, B. Hallet, A. Barker, J. Elliott, J. I. Garver, S. P. S. Gulick, R. M. Headley, G. L. Pavlis, K. D. Ridgway, N. Ruppert, H. J. A. Van Avendonk (2015), Geophysical Research Letters, Cooperation among tectonic and surface processes in the St. Elias Range, Earth’s highest coastal mountains, 42(14), 5838-5846, doi: 10.1002/2015GL064727

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Headley, R. M., Owens, B., and Patterson, E., Microplastics Along the Boise River in Urban Idaho. (2023) Geol. Soc. Abst. w/ Programs.55(6), doi: 10.1130/abs/2023AM-395363

Headley, R. M., Megerian, C. E., and Morgan, D., (2023), Spatial Variation in Glacial Erosion and Moraine Deposition of the Muldrow Glacier Through Holocene Warming, Geol. Soc. Abst. w/ Programs. 55(5), doi: 10.1130/abs/2023RM-388034

Patterson, E., Owens, B., and Headley, R., (2023) Suspended Microplastics in an Idaho Mountain Stream. Geol. Soc. Abst. w/ Programs.55(6), doi: 10.1130/abs/2023AM-395328.

Fiedler, S., Johnston, A., Wilson, B., Orlofske, J., Tyrell, C., Headley, R. (2022), Linking Fluvial and Sedimentation Characteristics to Larval Dragonfly Habitat, American Water Resources Association – Wisconsin Section 45th Annual Meeting.

Headley, R. M., *Megerian, C. E., *Miller, E., *Wang, S., and Morgan, D., (2021), Variation in Glacial Till Provenance Among Recessional Moraines of a Laurentide Ice Sheet Lobe, Abstract C32A-07 presented at 2021 Fall Meeting, AGU, New Orleans, LA, 13-17 Dec.