Elizabeth L. Ambos
Curriculum Vitae
Education
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A.B., Geology, magna cum laude, Smith
College, June 1977
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M.S., Geology and Geophysics, University
of Hawaii at Manoa, June 1980
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Ph.D., Geology and Geophysics, University
of Hawaii at Manoa, December 1984
Dissertation Topic: "Studies of Active Plate Margins Using OBS Refraction
and Earthquake Data"
Employment History
The following list presents only employment after completion of my Ph.D.
degree.
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1984-1985 National Research
Council Post-Doctoral Research Associate, U.S.
Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California
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1985-1986 Research Associate, Center
for Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles,
California
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1986-1988 Associate Research Scientist, Center
for Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles,
California
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1987-1989 Geophysicist/Geohydrologist, GeoResearch, Long
Beach, California
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1989-1993 Assistant Professor, California
State University at Long Beach
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1991 (summer)
Association of Western Universities, DOE-EMCORE Fellowship, Battelle
Northwest Laboratories, Richland, Washington
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1992-1993 Associate Program Director, Ocean
Drilling Program, National Science Foundation
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1993- Associate Professor, California
State University at Long Beach
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1994-1995, 1997 (summer) NASA-ASEE
Summer Faculty Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
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1993-1998 Associate Professor, California
State University at Long Beach
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1998- Professor, California
State University at Long Beach
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1998- Acting Associate Dean, College
of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, California
State University at Long Beach
Publications
Ambos is a primary author or coauthor for over twenty
publications in professional journals, and over forty abstracts presented
at professional meetings. The following list presents only peer-reviewed
articles published during the last ten years.
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1997
Arnold, J. E., Ambos, E. L., and Larson, D. O., Geophysical surveys of
stratigraphically complex Island California sites, new implications for
household archaeology, Antiquity,
v. 71, p. 157-168.
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1996
Ambos, E. L., Larson, D. O., Kvamme, K., Conway, M., and Cibbarelli, S.,
Remote Sensing Surveys of Navan Fort, Emania, v. 15, p. 15-32.
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1996
Larson, D. O., and Ambos, E. L., The Goals of the Navan Project, Emania,
v. 15, p. 11-14.
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1996
Larson, D. O., Neff, H., Graybill, D. A., Michaelsen, J., and Ambos, E.,
Risk, Climatic Variability, and the Study of Southwestern Prehistory: An
Evolutionary Perspective, American Antiquity, v. 61(2), p. 217-242.
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1995
Ambos, E. L., Mooney, W. D., and Fuis, G.S., Seismic refraction measurements
within the Peninsular Terrane, south central Alaska, Journal of Geophysical
Research, v. 100, pp. 4079-4095.
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1994
Ambos, E. L., Rigsby, C. A., Larson, D. O., and Grannell, R. B., Integrating
Geosciences into Instructionally-Based Archaeological Research on the Anasazi
in Southern Utah, Journal of Geological Education, v. 42, #5, p.
424-431.
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1991
Fuis, G. S., Ambos, E.L., Mooney, W. D., Christensen, N. I., and E. Geist,
Crustal structure of accreted terranes in southern Alaska, Chugach Mountains,
and Copper River Basin, from seismic refraction results, Journal of
Geophysical Research, v. 96, p. 4187-4227.
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1989
Flueh, E., Mooney, W. D., Fuis, G. S., and Ambos, E. L., Waveform modelling
of seismic refraction data from the Chugach Mountains, southern Alaska,
Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 94, p. 16,023-16,036.
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1989
Goodwin, E. B., Fuis, G. S., Nokleberg, W., and Ambos, E. L., Crustal structure
of Wrangellia, southern Alaska, Journal of Geophysical Research,
v. 94, p. 16,037-16,049.
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1989
Goodman, E. D., Malin, P. E., Ambos, E. L., and Crowell, J. C., The southern
San Joaquin valley as an example of Cenozoic basin evolution in California,
in: Origin and Evolution of Sedimentary Basins and Their Energy and
Mineral Resources, R. A. Price, (ed.), American Geophysical Union,
Monograph Series, vol. 20, p. 87-107.
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1987
Fuis, G. S., Ambos, E. L., Mooney, W. D., Page, R. A., Fisher, M. A., Brocher,
T. M., and Taber, J. T., Crustal structure beneath exposed accreted terranes
of southern Alaska, Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society,
v. 89, p. 73-78.
Professional Associations
(Post-Graduate Only)
I am a member of several scientific societies, including:
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Written by E. Ambos, 8/3/97. Last modified
by E. Ambos, 9/19/98.