William Newman

6 Pinewood Road
Needham, MA 02192
781-444-3597
hillfort@comcast.net

Education

Ph.D, Geology, Syracuse University, 1971
M. A., and A.B., Geology, Boston University 1959 and 1957 respectively.

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 1968-78.
Associate Professor, Department of Geology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 1978-86.
Visiting Professor and University Fellow, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1983.
Professor, Department of Geology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 1986-2000.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Geology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 2000.
Geochemistry Short Course. A ten-week short course designed for and taught to members of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, Fall 1991, 1992. With Malcolm Hill.
Steering Committee, Environmental History Seminar Series, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2000-2006.

Fellowships, Memberships and Grants

National Research Council of Canada Grant for dissertation research, 1966, 1967.
Society of the Sigma Xi (Elected Member 1971).
Tenure, July 1971.
Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Academic Fellowship, 1983.
Weeks Fund Grant, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1983.
Provost Grant, Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 1985.
Massachusetts Historical Society (Elected Fellow 2004).

Selected Reviews

Groundwater as a Geomorphic Agent, R. G. LaFleur (ed.), Binghamton Sym. Geomorphology: Int. Ser., vol. 13, Allen and Unwin, Boston, Massachusetts, xvi + 390p., 1984, Eos. Transactions, American Geophysical Union, vol. 66, no. 5, p. 44.
Bloom, Arthur L.., Geomorphology, A systematic analysis of late Cenozoic Landforms, 2d ed., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
Smith, G. W., Genes, A. N., and Nance, R..D., Pleistocene Geology of Mount Olympus, High Pieria region, Greece: National Geographic Research proposal, 1993.

Public Service Activities

Member, Massachusetts Hazardous Waste Facility Site Safety Council (Appointed by Governor Michael Dukakis, 1984-1988).
• Chairman of the Geographical Information System Subcommittee.
• Member, Legislation & Regulation Committee.
• Member, Site Selection Subcommittee.
• Member, Socio-Economic Appendix Subcommittee

Selected Publications

Geology of the Squantum “Tillite”, p. 92-106 in Cameron, B. ed., Geology of Southern New England, 68th Annual Meeting, New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference,1976, Science Press, Princeton, N.J., With R. H. Bailey and A. N. Genes.

Origin and significance of cylindrical sedimentary structures from the Boston Bay Group, Massachusetts: Amer. Jour. Sci., v. 278, p. 703-714, 1978. With R. H. Bailey.

Wisconsinan glaciation of northern Aroostook County, Maine, in Roy, D., and Naylor, R. eds., The geology of northeastern Maine and neighboring New Brunswick: New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference Guidebook, 1980, Boston College Press, Boston, Mass., p. 179-188. With A. N. Genes.
Wisconsinan glaciation of eastern Aroostook county, Maine, in Roy, D., and Naylor, R. eds., The geology of northeastern Maine and neighboring New Brunswick: New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference Guidebook, 1980, Boston College Press, Boston, Massachusetts, p. 253-262. With A. N. Genes and T. Brewer.

Late Wisconsinan glaciation models of northern Maine and adjacent Canada: Quat. Res., v. 16 , p. 48-65, 1981. With A. N. Genes and T. Brewer.
Pleistocene geology of northeastern Maine, in Borns, H.W., Jr., LaSalle, P., and Thompson,W.B., eds., Late Pleistocene History of northeastern New England and adjacent Quebec: Geol. Soc. Amer., Special Paper 197, p. 59-70, 1985. With A. N. Genes and T. Brewer.
Compiler for segments of Aroostook, Penobscot and Piscataquis Counties, Surficial Geological Map of Maine, ed. W. B. Thompson and H. W. Borns, Jr., 1985. (Full color, 42″ x 53″, 1:500,000).
Genesis of Boston Harbor drumlins, Massachusetts: Sed. Geol. v. 91, p. 333-343, 1994. With D. M. Mickelson.
Pleistocene stratigraphy of the Boston Harbor drumlins, Massachusetts: Quat. Res., v. 34 , p. 148-159, 1990. With R. C. Berg, P. S. Rosen, and H. D. Glass.

Genesis of Boston Harbor drumlins, Inter. Union for Quaternary Res. 13th Internat. Congress, Internat. Quat. Assoc., Beijing, China, Aug 2-9th, 1991, p. 253. With D. M. Mickelson.
Structure and formation of the Fourth Cliff drumlin, Scituate, Massachusetts, USA, Fourth International Drumlin Symposium and International Quaternary Association Commission on formation and properties of glacial deposits, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, 1992. With D. M. Mickelson.
Pleistocene Geology of the Boston Basin and its Adjacent Surroundings, in Cheney J. T. and Hepburn, J.C. eds., Field Trip Guidebook for the Northeastern United States; 1993 Boston GSA, Contribution No. 67, Department of Geology and Geography, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, p. U-1-U-24. With D.M. Mickelson, R.C. Berg, R.D. Rendigs, R.N. Oldale, and R.H. Bailey.

New information on the age of glacial sediments exposed in the Boston Harbor Drumlins, Massachusetts. Northeastern University Res. and Scholarship Poster Session, 1999, v. 2, p. 3. With P. M. Colgan.
Amino-acid evidence for the age of the lower till in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. Geol. Soc. Amer. Abs., v. 31(2), p. 10. 1999. With P. M. Colgan and D. S. Kaufman.
Urban Geology of Back Bay and Beacon Hill & Vicinity, in Guidebook for Geological Field Trips in New England,, p. K1-K11, David P. West, Jr. & Richard H. Bailey, Editors, 2001 Annual Meeting of The Geological Society of America, Boston, MA. With J. W. Skehan and W. E. Holton.

Books

Boston’s Back Bay: The Story of American’s Greatest Nineteenth-Century Landfill Project, Northeastern University Press, Boston, Pub. University Press of New England, Hanover, c2006, 228p., with Wilfred Holton. (Selected by Choice Magazine for its Annual Outstanding Academic Title List of 2006, Jan. 2007)

Selected Abstracts

Cirques as parameters of upland surface reduction during the Pleistocene: Geol. Soc. Amer. Abs., v. 7, no. 1, p.63, 1975. With A. N. Genes.
Late Wisconsinan glaciation Aroostook County, Maine: Geol. Soc. Amer. Abs. v. 11, no. 1, p. 14, 1979. With A. N. Genes.
The mode of late Wisconsinan till emplacement in Aroostook County, Maine:
Geol. Soc. Amer. Abs. v. 12, no. 12, p. 37-38, 1980. With A. N. Genes and T. Brewer.
Glacial landscapes in east central Maine: Geol. Soc. Amer. Abs. v. 12, no. 2,
p. 72, 1980. With C. L. Matsch, T, Brewer, and A. N. Genes.
Late Wisconsinan deglaciation of northern Maine: Geol. Soc. Amer. Abs., v. 13, no. 3, p. 135, 1981. With A. N. Genes and T. Brewer.
The evidence for pre-late Wisconsinan till in the St. John River Valley, northern Maine: Geol. Soc. Amer. Abs., v. 15, no. 3, p. 124., 1983. With T. Brewer and A.N. Genes.
Till drumlins in the Boston Basin formed by subglacial erosion: Geol. Soc. Amer. Abs., v.19, no. 7, p. 771-772, 1987. With D. M. Mickelson.
Formation mechanics of the Boston Harbor drumlins. Symposium on the control
of glacial dynamics and subglacial conditions in glacial landforms: International Quaternary Association, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI., July 4, 1989. With D. M. Mickelson.
Pleistocene stratigraphy of the Boston Harbor drumlins, Boston, MA: Geol. Soc. Amer. Abs., v. 19, no 1. p. 32, 1987. With R. C. Berg, P. S. Rosen, and H. D. Glass.
Genesis of Boston Harbor drumlins, Inter. Union for Quaternary Res. 13th Internat. Congress, Internat. Quat. Assoc., Beijing, China, Aug 2-9th, 1991., p. 253. With D. M. Mickelson.
Structure and formation of the Fourth Cliff drumlin, Scituate, Massachusetts, USA, Fourth International Drumlin Symposium and International Quaternary Association Commission on formation and properties of glacial deposits, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, 1992. With D. M. Mickelson.
Genesis of Boston Bay drumlins, Fourth International Drumlin Symposium and International Quaternary Association Commission on formation and properties of glacial deposits, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, 1992.
Paleomagnetism of Boston Harbor Drumlin Till, Northeastern University Research Symposium Abs., v. 1, 1998. With P. M. Colgan.
New information on the age of glacial sediments exposed in the Boston Harbor Drumlins, Massachusetts. Northeastern University Res. and Scholarship Poster Session, 1999, v. 2, p. 3. With P. M. Colgan.
Amino-acid evidence for the age of the lower till in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. Geol. Soc. Amer. Abs., v. 31(2), p. 10. 1999. With P. M. Colgan and D. S. Kaufman.

Selected Maps and Reports

The possibility of Pleistocene-Holocene movement along the Oak Bay Fault on the Maine-New Brunswick border: Annual report and maps for brittle fracture and crustal warping studies in the State of Maine during fiscal year 1979, Open File No. 79-20, Maine Geological Survey, p. 23-31, 1979.
Reconnaissance surficial geology of the Sherman, Maine Quadrangle: Open file No. 80-17, Maine Geological Survey, 1:62,500, 1980.
State of Maine sand and gravel aquifer map 62: Open file No. 81-83 Maine Geological Survey, 1:50,000, 1980. With C. Steigerwald.
State of Maine sand and gravel aquifer map 76: Maine Geological Survey, 1:50,000, 1980. With G. C. Prescott and C. Steigerwald.
Reconnaissance surficial geology of Island Falls, Maine Quadrangle: Open file No. 81-38, Maine Geological Survey, 1:62,500, 1981.
Reconnaissance surficial geology of Katahdin, Maine Quadrangle: Open file No. 81-39, Maine Geological Survey, 1:62,500, 1981. With D. W. Caldwell
Reconnaissance surficial geology of Shin Pond, Maine Quadrangle: Open file No. 81-40, Maine Geological Survey, 1:62,500, 1981.
Reconnaissance surficial geology of Stacyville, Maine Quadrangle: Open file No. 81-41, Maine Geological Survey, 1:62,500, 1981. With A. N. Genes.
Reconnaissance surficial geology of Traveler Mountain, Maine Quadrangle: Open file No. 81-42, Maine Geological Survey, 1:62,500, 1981.
Reconnaissance surficial geology of Mattawamkeag, Maine Quadrangle: Open file No. 81-43, Maine Geological Survey, 1:62,500, 1981. With W. R. Holland.
Reconnaissance surficial geology of Wytopitlock, Maine Quadrangle: Open file No. 81-44, Maine Geological Survey, 1:62,500, 1981. With W.R. Holland.
Reconnaissance surficial geology of Norcross, Maine Quadrangle: Open file No. 82-7, Maine Geological Survey, 1:62,500, 1982. With D.W. Caldwell, L.S. Hanson, and T.V. Lowell.
Reconnaissance surficial geology of Grand Lake Seboeis, Maine Quadrangle: Open file No. 82-10, Maine Geological Survey, 1:62,500, 1982. With A. N. Genes.
Reconnaissance surficial geology of Oxbow, Maine Quadrangle: Open file No. 82-12, Maine Geological Survey, 1:62,500, 1982. With A. N. Genes.
State of Maine sand and gravel aquifer map 61: Open file No. 81-82, Maine Geological Survey, 1:50,000, 1983. With C. Steigerwald.
Reconnaissance surficial geology of Howe Brook Maine, Quadrangle: Open file No. 86-53, Maine Geological Survey, 1:62,500, 1986. With A. N. Genes and T. Brewer.
Reconnaissance surficial geology of Smyrna Mills, Maine Quadrangle: Open file No. 86-57, Maine Geological Survey, 1:62,500, 1986. With T. Brewer.
Reconnaissance surficial geology of Millinocket, Maine Quadrangle: Open file No. 86-60, Maine Geological Survey, 1:62,500, 1986. With A. N. Genes.

Presentations

“Late Wisconsinan Glaciation of northern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada”, Department of Geology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y.: 1972.
“Pleistocene Geology of northeastern Maine”, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI: 1983.
“Structure and morphology of glacial deposits”, Haley and Aldrich, Inc., Cambridge, MA: 1983.
“The Drumlin problem”, National Association of Geology Teachers Annual Meeting, Wellesley, MA: 1984
“Stratigraphy and origin of the Boston Harbor drumlins”, New England Section, Association of Engineering Geologists: 1988
“Pleistocene stratigraphy of the Boston Harbor drumlins”, New England Section , Association of Engineering Geologists Symposium :1989.
“Glacial Geology of the Boston Basin”, New England Section , Association of Engineering Geologists Symposium: 2001.