Laura J. Crossey

Professor Emerita

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Distinguished Professor

Education: 
Ph.D. University of Wyoming, 1985
Email: 
lcrossey@unm.edu
Phone: 
505-277-5349
Office: 
Northrop Hall Rm. 339

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Research Area/s:

Hydrology,  Geochemistry/Petrology/Mineralogy,  Planetary Sciences,  Sedimentology/Stratigraphy/Paleoclimate/Paleontology

Research and Academic Interests:

Aqueous and Sedimentary Geochemistry. Applications of low-temperature geochemistry to problems in hydrochemistry, diagenesis, geomicrobiology, and geothermal processes. My research approach combines field examination of modern environments (biogeochemistry of water and sediments) with laboratory analysis as well as core and outcrop evaluations applied to evaluate paleohydrology, spring sustainability and reservoir/aquifer characteristics. She is an MSL Science Team Collaborator for the ChemCam Team, Mars Science Laboratory Rover. Other activities include geoscience outreach, K-12 outreach, and science education research as well as programs to increase the participation of under-represented groups in the science disciplines. Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Geological Society of America (GSA), and served as the Birdsall Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer for 2019 (sponsored by the Hydrogeology Division of GSA). To find out more about the variety of research projects, check out Laura J. Crossey Personal Page.

Recent Publications:

Crossey, L.J., Karlstrom, K.E., Curry, B., McGibbon, C., Reed, C., Wilgus, J., Whyte, C.J. and Darrah, T., 2024. Hydrotectonics of Grand Canyon Groundwater. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 52, 521-547, https://doi-org.libproxy.unm.edu/10.1146/annurev-earth-080723-083513.

Curry, B.H., Crossey, L.J. and Karlstrom, K.E., 2023. The Grand Canyon National Park (USA) water corridor: water supply, water quality, and recharge along the Bright Angel Fault. Hydrogeology Journal, pp.1-22.

Gasda, P.J., Comellas, J., Essunfeld, A., Das, D., Bryk, A.B., Dehouck, E., Schwenzer, S.P., Crossey, L., Herkenhoff, K., Johnson, J.R. and Newsom, H., 2022. Overview of the morphology and chemistry of diagenetic features in the clay‐rich Glen Torridon unit of Gale crater, Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 127(12), p.e2021JE007097.

Frus, R. J., Crossey, L. J., Dahm, C. N., Karlstrom, K. E., Crowley, L., 2020,  Influence of Desert Springs on Habitat of Endangered Zuni Bluehead Sucker (Catostomus discobolus yarrowi), Environmental & Engineering Geosciences, Vol. XXVI, No. 2, pp 1-17, https://doi.org/10.2113/EEG-2330

Summers, B.M., Horn, D.J.V., González-Pinzón, R., Bixby, R.J., Grace, M.R., Sherson, L.R., Crossey, L.J., Stone, M.C., Parmenter, R.R., Compton, T.S. and Dahm, C.N., 2020. Long-term data reveal highly-variable metabolism and transitions in trophic status in a montane stream. Freshwater Science, 39(2), pp.241-255.

Karlstrom, K.E., Jacobson, C.A., Sundell, K.E., Eyster, A., Blakey, R., Ingersoll, R.V., Mulder, J.A., Young, R.A., Beard, L.S., Holland, M.E., Shuster, D.L., Winn, C., and Crossey, L., 2020. Evaluating the Shinumo-Sespe drainage connection: Arguments against the “old”(70–17 Ma) Grand Canyon models for Colorado Plateau drainage evolution. Geosphere.

Karlstrom, K.E., Mohr, M.T., Schmitz, M.D., Sundberg, F.A., Rowland, S.M., Blakey, R., Foster, J.R., Crossey, L.J., Dehler, C.M. and Hagadorn, J.W., 2020. Redefining the Tonto Group of Grand Canyon and recalibrating the Cambrian time scale. Geology, 48(5), pp.425-430.

Sundberg, F.A., Karlstrom, K.E., Geyer, G., Foster, J.R., Hagadorn, J.W., Mohr, M.T., Schmitz, M.D., Dehler, C.M. and Crossey, L.J., 2020. Asynchronous trilobite extinctions at the early to middle Cambrian transition. Geology, 48(5), pp.441-445.

Abotalib, A.Z., Sultan, M., Jimenez, G., Crossey, L., Karlstrom, K., Forman, S., Krishnamurthy, R.V., Elkadiri, R. and Polyak, V., 2019. Complexity of Saharan paleoclimate reconstruction and implications for modern human migration. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 508, pp.74-84.

Keppel, M.N., Karlstrom, K., Crossey, L., Love, A.J. and Priestley, S., 2019. Evidence for intra-plate seismicity from spring-carbonate mound springs in the Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre region, South Australia: implications for groundwater discharge from the Great Artesian Basin. Hydrogeology Journal, pp.1-15.

Priestley, S.C., Karlstrom, K.E., Love, A.J., Crossey, L.J., Polyak, V., Asmerom, Y., Meredith, K., Crow, R., Keppel, M., Habermehl, M.A., 2019, Reply to Comment on “Uranium series dating of Great Artesian Basin travertine deposits: Implications for palaeohydrogeology and palaeoclimate” by Uysal et al.: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109421 

Priestley, S.C., Shand, P., Love, A.J., Crossey, L.J., Karlstrom, K.E., Keppel, M.N., Wohling, D.L. and Rousseau-Gueutin, P., 2019. Hydrochemical variations of groundwater and spring discharge of the western Great Artesian Basin, Australia: implications for regional groundwater flow. Hydrogeology Journal, pp.1-16.

Karlstrom, K.E., and Crossey, L.J., 2019, Classic Rock Tours 3. Grand Canyon Geology, One hundred and Fifty Years after John Wesley Powell: A geology guide for visiting the south Rim of Grand Canyon National Park: Geoscience Canada, v. 46, https://doi.org/10.12789/geocanj.2019.46.153, p. 163–193.

Karlstrom, K., Crossey, L., Huntoon, P., Billingsley, G., Timmons, M., Crow, R., 2019, One Hundred and Sixty Years of Grand Canyon Geological Mapping: Journal of Arizona History, v. 60, n. 4, p. 655-674.

Karlstrom, K.E., Crossey, L.J., Humphreys, E., Shuster, D., Whipple, K., and Crow, R. 2019, Age and Carving of Grand Canyon: Toward a Resolution of 150 Years of Debate: GSA Today, v. 30, n. 2.

Blomgren, V.J., Crossey, L.J., Karlstrom, K.E., Fischer, T.P. and Darrah, T.H., 2019. Hot spring hydrochemistry of the Rio Grande rift in northern New Mexico reveals a distal geochemical connection between Valles Caldera and Ojo Caliente. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 387, p.106663.

Klemperer, S.L., Zhao, P., Shi, D., Crossey, L.J., Karlstrom, K.E., Winn, C.L., Liu, T., Xiong, Z., Guo, X., Zeng, D. and Wang, S., 2019. Detection of a widespread mantle component of 3He in thermal springs of Lhasa Block and Tethyan Himalaya, eastern Tibet: evidence for roll-back of the Indian-Asian mantle suture south of the Yarlung suture zone, and asthenospheric upwelling beneath the Lhasa block. Acta Geologica Sinica‐English Edition, 93, pp.56-57.

Priestley, S.C., Karlstrom, K.E., Love, A.J., Crossey, L.J., Polyak, V.J., and Asmerom, Y., 2018. Uranium series dating of Great Artesian Basin travertine deposits: Implications for palaeohydrogeology and palaeoclimatology: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 490, 163-177.

Crow, R.S., Karlstrom, K.E., Crossey, L.J., Polyak, V.J., Asmerom, Y. and McIntosh, W.C., 2018. Carving Grand Canyon’s inner gorge: A test of steady incision versus rapid knickzone migration. Geosphere, v. 14, DOI 10.1130/GES01562.1.

 Karlstrom, K., Hagadorn, J., Gehrels, G., Matthews, W., Schmitz, M., Madronich, L., Mulder, J., Pecha, M., Giesler, D. and Crossey, L., 2018. Cambrian Sauk transgression in the Grand Canyon region redefined by detrital zircons. Nature Geoscience, v. 11, p. 438-443.

McGibbon, C., Crossey, L.J., Karlstrom, K.E. and Grulke, T., 2018. Carbonic springs as distal manifestations of geothermal systems, highlighting the importance of fault pathways and hydrochemical mixing: Example from the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico. Applied Geochemistry, v. 98, p. 48-57.

Continental smokers couple mantle degassing and unique microbiology within continents, 2016, Crossey, L.J., Karlstrom, K.E., Schmandt, B., Crow, R., Colman*, D., Cron*, B., Takacs-Vesbach, T.D., Dahm, C., Northup, D.E., Hilton, D.R., Ricketts*, J.R., Lowry, A.R., Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 435, p. 22-30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.11.039.

The importance of groundwater in propagating downward integration of the 6-5 Ma Colorado River System: Geochemistry of springs, travertines and lacustrine carbonates of the Grand Canyon region over the past 12 million years, 2015, Crossey, L.C., Karlstrom, K.E., Dorsey, R., Pearce*, J., Wan, E., Beard, L.S., Asmerom, Y., Polyak, V., Crow, R.S, Cohen, A., Bright*, J., Huth, Geosphere, v. 11; no. 3; p. 660–682; doi:10.1130/GES01073.1.

An analysis of geothermal and carbonic springs in the western United States sustained by deep fluid inputs, 2014, Colman*, D., Garcia, J., Crossey, L.J., Karlstrom, K., Jackson-Weaver, O., Takacs-Vesbach, Geobiology,v. 12, p. 83-98.

The La Madera travertines, Rio Ojo Caliente, northern New Mexico: investigating the linked system of CO2-rich springs and travertines as neotectonic and paleoclimate indicators, 2011, Crossey, L.J., Karlstrom, K.E., Newell, D.L., *Kooser, A., and *Tafoya, A., in Koning, D.J., Karlstrom K.E., Kelley, S.A., Lueth, V.W., and Aby, S. B., eds., “Geology of the Tusas Mountains and Ojo Caliente Area”, New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 62, p. 301-316.

 

Experimental analysis of arsenic precipitation during microbial sulfate and iron reduction in model aquifer sediment reactors, 2010, *Kirk, M.F., Roden, E.E., Crossey, L.J., Brearley, A.J., Spilde, M., Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 74, p. 2538-2555.

Studies of informal geologic time learning at the ‘Trail of Time’ in Grand Canyon National Park, 2009, Semken, S., Dodick, J., *Frus, R., Wells, M., Perry, D., Bryan, J., Williams, M., *Crow, R., Crossey, and Karlstrom, K.,The Informal Learning Review, 99, p. 1-5.

Effect of saline groundwater upwelling on iron and manganese cycling in the Rio Grande floodplain aquifer, 2009, *Kirk, M.F., Crossey, L.J., Takacs-Vesbach, C., Newell, D.L., Bowman, R.S., Applied Geochemistry, v. 24, p. 426-437.

Degassing of mantle-derived CO2 and 3He from springs in the southern Colorado Plateau region— neotectonic connections and implications for groundwater systems, 2009, Crossey, L.J., Karlstrom, K.E., Springer, A., Newell*, D., Hilton, D., and Fischer, T., Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 121, p. 1034-1053.

Informal geoscience education on a grand scale: the Trail of Time exhibition at Grand Canyon, 2008, Karlstrom, K., Semken, S., Crossey, L., Perry, D., Gyllenhaal, E. D., Dodick, J., Williams, M., Hellmich-Bryan, J., Crow*, R., Bueno Watts*, N., & Ault, C., Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 56, p. 354-361.

Model for tectonically driven incision of the less than 6 Ma Grand Canyon, 2008, Karlstrom, K.E., Crow*, R, Crossey, L.J., Coblentz, D., and van Wijk, J., Geology, v. 36, p. 835-838.