PERSONAL DATA
Name: Gene Joseph Paull
Birthdate: September 16, 1945
Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Address: Physical Sciences
Dept.
University of Texas
at Brownsville
80 Ft. Brown
Brownsville, Texas,
78520
Phone: 956-574-6721 (GIS Lab), 956-574-6693
(Physical Sciences Dept.)
E-mail: paullgj@utb.edu
Homepage: http://blue.utb.edu/paullgj
EDUCATION
University of Arizona
Ph. D., major - archaeology;
minor - geochronology, Dec., 1976
M.A., anthropology, May,
1970
University of California, Santa Cruz
Intensive Spanish; June-August,
1970
Pennsylvania State University
B.A., major - anthropology;
minor - geography; June, 1967
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Texas at Brownsville
Professor of Geosciences,
Chair of Physical Sciences Dept.
Sept., 1992 - present
Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, Texas
Instructor, Physical
Science Dept.
Sept., 1975-August, 1992
Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California
Temporary asst. prof.
of anthropology and geography
Feb., 1972 - January,
1974
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND FIELDWORK
Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas
Regional Ecological Resource Assessment of
the Rio Grande
Riparian Corridor: A Multidisciplinary
Approach to
Understanding Anthropogenic Effects
on Riparian Communities
in Semi-Arid Environments, funded
by Environmental Protection
Agency, principal investigator from
the University of Texas
at Brownsville, January 2000 - present.
Capacity Building for Resource Assessment
and Responsible
Development, Texas-Mexico Border
Region. Project funded b
the Coordinating Board for Higher
Education, State of Texas,
Principal Investigator from the University
of Texas at Brownsville.
January 1998 - August, 1999
Dendrochronology Laboratory, University of
Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark.
1996-present, collaboration with
Dr. David Stahle, fieldwork in
northeastern Mexico, tree-ring collections
and building a master
dendroclimatological chronology for
the Sierra Madre Oriental
Bureau of Economic Geology, University of
Texas
Multiple Attribute G.I.S. Environmental
Baseline,
Lower Rio Grande Valley Research
Project
Principal Investigator from the University
of Texas at Brownsville
January, 1994-1995
City of Brownsville, Texas
Voting member, Brownsville Heritage
Council
1988-present
Texas Southmost College, 1988-1990
President, Texas Southmost College
Faculty Association
City of Pharr, Texas
December, 1978; environmental impact
statement prepared
for city of Pharr; archaeological
clearance for proposed
bridge construction
City of Mercedes, Texas
December, 1978; environmental impact
statement prepared
for city of Mercedes; archaeological
clearance for proposed
park expansion
United States Dept. of the Interior, Fish
and Wildlife Service, Albuquerque, N.M.
June-Sept., 1978; environmental impact
statements for Fish and
Wildlife Service for proposed construction
in wildlife refuge;
Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge, Pharr
Texas - involved archaeological
field survey; Aransas Wildlife Refuge,
Aransas County, Texas -
involved archaeological field survey
and site testing
Ph. D. Dissertation Topic
The Application of Central
Place Theory to the Settlements of the
Pacific Coast of Guatemala
Research and Teaching Interests
Geographic regions: Central America
and Mexico, South America,
Texas border area
Theoretical and topical interest:
Geographic Information Systems as
applied to landuse and
settlement patterns, tropical adaptations,
cultural ecology
Languages
Spanish - fluent
Professional Publications
2002 Land Use Mapping
and Environment in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of
South Texas. Paper to be presented
at The Texas Academy of Sciences
annual meeting, Laredo, Texas, Feb.
28-March 2, 2002. Co-authored
with Andrea Lopez, Danny Govea, and
Maria Isabel Salazar.
2001 Land Use Mapping
of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas and
Northeast Mexico, co-authored with
Andrea Lopez, Danny Govea,
Maria Isabel Salazar, Thomas Tremblay,
Jay Raney, and Bill White.
Proceedings of 50th Annual Meeting,
Geological Society of America,
Southeastern Section, p. A-24.
2000 Regional Ecological
Resource Assessment of the Rio Grande
Riparian Corridor: A Multidisciplinary
Approach to Understanding
Anthropogenic Effects on Riparian
Communities in Semi-Arid
Environments; co-authored with Jay
Raney, Melba Crawford,
Frank Judd, Robert Lonard, Amy Neuenschwander,
Thomas
Tremblay, and William White, Proceedings
2000 STAR Regional
Analysis and Assessment Progress
Review Workshop, p. 21,
National Center for Environmental
Research.
Recent Tree Ring Research in Mexico.
In Dendrocronologia en
America Latina. Co-authored
with David W. Stahle, Jose Villanueva,
Malcolm Cleveland, Matthew Terrell,
Barney Burns, Wilver Salinas,
Humberto Suzan, and Peter Fule.
EDIUNC, Mendoza, Argentina,
pp. 285-306.
Building a GIS Database for the Texas-Mexico
Border Region. Co-
authored with Andrea Lopez, Maria
Isabel Salazar, Thomas Tremblay,
and Jay Raney. 34th Annual
Meeting, South-Central Section of the
Geological Society of America, published
abstracts, Vol. 32, No. 3, p.
A-38.
1999 Digital Geologic
Maps and Environmental Resource Assessment of the
United States-Mexico Border Region.
Co-authored with Jeri Sullivan,
Thomas Tremblay, Andrea Lopez, and
Maria Isabel Salazar. 48th Annual
Meeting Southeastern Section of the
Geological Society of America,
published abstracts, Vol. 31, No.
3, p. A-59.
1994 Geographic Information
Systems (GIS) of the Rio Grande Delta for
Regional Water Management. Co-author
with E. Gerry Wermund and
Thomas Tremblay. Factor Affecting
Water Resources. Proceedings, Texas Section, American
Water Resources Association.
GIS Base Data for Water Management
on the Rio Grande Delta Plain.
Co-author with E. Gerry Wermund and
Thomas Tremblay. GIS/LIS
Proceedings. American Congress
on Surveying and Mapping.
1978 Review of Native Populations
of the Americas in 1492,
William N. Denevan (ed.). Professional
Geographer 39:2:
219-220.
1978 Anthropological Research
Potential of the Lower Rio Grande
Valley of Texas and Tamaulipas, Mexico.
South Texas
Institute of Latin and Mexican-American
Research,
Working Paper No. 1. Brownsville.
(Co-author with
Anthony N. Zavaleta).
1977 Climatic Variations in the
Lower Rio Grande Valley of South
Texas. South Texas Journal
of Research and the
Humanities 1:1:8-29.
Environmental Impact Statements
1984 Cameron County Water District,
statement for proposed
pipeline, Cavazos to Los Fresnos,
Texas.
1982 Farco Mining Company, Laredo,
Texas. Environmental impact
statement prepared for Farco Mining
company, expansion of
mine perimeter.
1978 Archaeological Investigations
at Aransas National Wildlife
Refuge: Site Testing.
Environmental impact statement prepared
for U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Fish
and Wildlife Service (co-worker -
Anthony N. Zavaleta)
Meetings Organized, Papers Presented at Meetings
1979 Latin American Studies Association,
Pittsburgh, Pa., April
5-7, 1979. Organized and chair of
panel S-19a - “Current
Topics of the Borderlands.”
1979 Cibola Anthropological Association,
Brownsville, Texas,
March 22-24, 1979. Organized
and host meeting (with
Anthony N. Zavaleta and Robert Trotter)
at Texas Southmost
College.
1978 Climatic Variations in the
Lower Rio Grande Valley of
South Texas. Presented at Southwestern
Association of
American Geographers, April 13, 1978,
Houston, Texas.