Current Research Interests

My research themes include, tectonic geomorphology, interactions between landscapes, climate and tectonics, stable isotope paleoaltimetry and understanding mountain belt evolution through the sedimentary record.

Current Projects:

• Climate, transient basin fill and faulting in a thin-skinned thrust belt, San Juan Province, Argentina (with M. R. Strecker (U. Potsdam, Germany; R. W. Allmendinger, Cornell U.).
• Rock deformation events, range elevation change and sedimentary basin filling in the Andes Mountains between 30°S and 34°S latitude (with C. N. Garzione, U. Rochester; L. B. Giambiagi, IANIGLA, Argentina).
• Paleoaltimerty of the SE Margin of the Tibetan Plateau (with C.N. Garzione, U. Rochester).
• Isotope-elevation transect from monthly precipitation samples along the Aconcagua and Mendoza Rivers, Chile and Argentina (with D. Sachse, U. Potsdam, Germany; J. Aranibar IANIGLA, Argentina; E. M. Gayo, U. Católica, Chile, K. Huntington, U. Washington)

 

Courses

• Earth System Science (EAR 203)
• Geomorphology (EAR 342)
• Dynamic Earth (EAR 101)

 

 

Nathan Graber (MS expected 2011)
Alina Walcek (MS expected 2011)

 

 

Facilities

Optical instruments:
Leica S8 120x binocular microscope with 1.3 MP camera attached to a Macintosh computer
Leitz student-grade petrographic microscope

Computing:
Trimble Recon X ruggedized field computers with bluetooth GPS and ArcPad software
2 dual quad-core workstations for GIS and image processing applications Network enabled data storage unit
Matlab ENVI

Field equipment:
2 Brunton Geotransits
1 Jacob's staff

 

 

Selected Publications

Hoke, G.D., Garzione, C.N., Araneo, D.C., Latorre, C., Strecker, M.R. and Williams, K.J.; in press, Can Quaternary pedogenic carbonates be used to estimate modern elevations?: Geology

Garzione, C. N., Hoke, G. D., Labarkin, J. C., Withers, S., MacFadden, B. J., Ghosh, P., and Mulch, A., 2008, Rise of the Andes: Science, v. 320, p. 1304-1307.

Hoke, G. D., and Garzione, C. N., 2008, Paleosurfaces, paleoelevation, and the mechanisms for the latest Miocene topographic development of the Altiplano Plateau: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 271, no. 1-4, p. 192-201.

Hoke, G. D., Isacks, B. L., Jordan T.E., Tomlinson, A.J., Blanco Pavez, N., and Razmezani, J., 2007, Geomorphic evidence for post-10 Ma uplift of the western flank of the central Andes 18°30'-22°S: Tectonics 26 doi:/10.1029/2006TC002082

Loveless, J. P., Hoke, G. D., Allmendinger, R. W., Gonzalez, G., Isacks, B. L., and Carrizo, D. A., 2005, Pervasive cracking of the northern Chilean Coastal Cordillera: New evidence for forearc extension: Geology, v. 33, no. 12, p. 973-976.

Allmendinger, R. W., Gonzalez, G, Yu, J, Hoke, G. and Isacks, B., 2005, Trench Parallel Shortening in the Northern Chilean Forearc: Tectonic and Climatic Implications: Geological Society of America Bulletin 116(1-2).

Hoke, G. D., Isacks B. L, Jordan T. E. and Yu, J. S., 2004, A groundwater origin for the giant quebradas of northern Chile: Geology 32 (7), p. 605-608. doi: 10.1130/G20601.1

Hoke, G. D. and Turcotte D. L., 2004, Weathering of Stones due to dissolution: Environmental Geology 46(3-4), p. 305-310. doi: 10.1007/s00254-004-1033-0

Hoke, G. D., and Turcotte, D. L., 2002, Weathering and damage: Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, v. 107, no. B10, p. -.

Recent Abstracts:
Hoke, G. D. and Garzione C.N., 2008 (Invited presentation), Stable isotopic records from Cenozoic basins in the SE Margin of the Tibetan Plateau, Yunnan Province, China: implications for regional paleoelevation, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T32A-07

Hoke, G.D., Williams, K. J., Garzione, C. N., Araneo, D., and Strecker M.R., 2008, Isotopic composition of river waters and early stage carbonates crusts along an elevation transect at 33°S, southern Central AndesEos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T53A-1909

Hoke, G. D. and Garzione C. N., 2006, (invited presentation), Near synchronous Plateau-Wide Surface Uplift in the Central Andes Deduced From Paleoaltimetry and Geomorphology: Implications for Processes at Depth, EOS Trans AGU, 87, Abstract H13G-02

Hoke, G. D., Isacks, B. L. and Jordan T. E., 2006, Long-term erosion rates derived from reconstruction of a 10 Ma depositional surface, northern Chile, 2006 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Philidelphia, PA

Hoke, G. D. and Garzione, C. N., 2006, Late Miocene plateau wide surface uplift in the Central Andes: an integration of stable isotope paleoaltimetry and geomorphology (oral presentation), Backbone of the Americas (Geological Society or America), Mendoza Argentina (April 2006)

Nester, P. L., Jordan, T. E., Tomlinson, A. J. and Hoke, G. D., 2006, Evidence for late Miocene uplift by long-wavelength rotation of the western flank of the cenral Andes 20°30’ – 21°30’ S, Chile (poster presentation), Backbone of the Americas (Geological Society or America), Mendoza Argentina (April 2006)

Jordan T. E., Mpodozis, C., Blanco, N., Hoke, G. D. and Nester, P., 2006, Surface uplift of the western slope of the Puna segment of the central Andean plateau (oral presentation), Backbone of the Americas (Geological Society or America), Mendoza Argentina (April 2006)

 

 

Present Position
Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY, USA 01.2009-present

Postdoctoral Experience
Alexander von Humboldt fellow, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany 2008
NSF International Research Fellowship Program fellow, Mendoza, Argentina 11.2006 – 10.2007
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 11.2005 – 10.2006

Education
PhD. in Geological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2006
B.S. in Geology and Geological Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 1998
Secondary School Diploma, George Stevens Academy, Blue Hill, ME, 1994