Dr. Brendan McNulty
Professor of Earth Sciences
CONTACT INFORMATION
Department of Earth Science
California State University, Dominguez Hills
1000 E. Victoria Street
Carson, CA 90747
Office: NSM B312
Tel (310) 243-3412
E-Mail:
bmcnulty@csudh.edu
EDUCATION
Postdoctoral Researcher,
University of California, Santa Cruz, 1995-1997
Ph.D., Earth Science,
University of California, Santa Cruz, 1994
M.S., Geological Sciences, San Diego State University, 1990
B.S., Marine Geology, San Diego State University, 1987
APPOINTMENTS
Professor, CSU Dominguez Hills,
2004-present
Department Chair - Earth
Science, CSUDH, 2002-2006
Associate Professor, CSUDH,
2000-2004
Assistant Professor, CSUDH,
1997-2000
COURSES (first four are
taught in four-semester rotation)
EAR 366 Sedimentology & Stratigraphy
EAR 376 Field Methods of Mapping
EAR 386 Structural Geology
EAR 495 Tectonics
EAR 410 Environmental Geology
SMT 312 Natural Disasters
SMT 416 Earth Science for
Teachers
PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS
During his eleven years at CSUDH, Dr.McNulty has been actively
engaged in research. McNulty’s geological research has been
funded by four National Science Foundation grants, and has
included projects in North America (Sierra Nevada, California),
South America (Cordillera Blanca, Peruvian Andes), and China (Qinling
Mountains). The work - which until recently centered on the
evolution of continental magmatic arcs - was featured in top
geology journals (cover photos below from Geology and GSA
Bulletin), leading McNulty to the CSUDH Award for Outstanding
Research in 2006.
 September
1998  January 2000
During his tenure as Department Chair,
McNulty’s work began to shift more towards environmental problems.
This shift has given CSUDH undergraduates opportunities to work on
projects that are more local in nature, and that provide essential
training for the current job market. Foremost, McNulty initiated a
collaborative project with Dr. Weixing Tong of the
Los Angeles Region
Water Quality Control Board; their project primarily centers
on training students in hydrogeology, with a specific focus
on the contamination of
groundwater by gasoline oxygenates (notably
MTBE: methyl
tertiary-butyl ether). The project - funded by
the National Science Foundation’s OEDG (Opportunities for Enhancing
Diversity in the Geosciences) program - provides Earth
Science students with 1)
financial support while attending college, 2) hands-on
experience with a "real world" environmental problem,
and 3)
training in a field that leads
directly to jobs. McNulty has also been involved in K-12
science teacher education, and has collaborated on several
externally-funded projects (NSF-Urban Systemic Initiative;
NASA-ALERT; Los Angeles Annenberg Math – Science Literacy Project).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (re: magmatic
arc evolution)
McNulty, B. A., and Farber, D. L., 2002, Active detachment faulting
above the Peruvian flat slab, Geology, v. 30, p. 567-570.
McNulty, B.A., Tobisch O.T., Cruden, A.R., and
Gilder, S., 2000, Multi-stage emplacement of the Mt. Givens pluton,
central Sierra Nevada, California, Geological Society of America
Bulletin, v. 112, p. 103-119.
McNulty, B.A., Farber, D.L., Wallace, G.,
Lopez, R., 1998, Role of plate kinematics and plate-slip-vector
partitioning in continental magmatic arcs: Evidence from the
Cordillera Blanca, Peru, Geology, v. 26, p. 827-830.
McNulty, B.A., Tong, W., and Tobisch, O.T.,
1996, Assembly of a dike-fed magma chamber: the Jackass Lakes pluton,
central Sierra Nevada, California, Geological Society of America
Bulletin, 108: 926-940.
McNulty, B.A., 1995, Shear zone development
during magmatic arc construction: the Bench Canyon shear zone,
central Sierra Nevada, California, Geological Society of America
Bulletin, 107: 1094-1107.
McNulty, B.A., 1995, Pseudotachylyte developed in the semi-brittle
and brittle regimes, Bench Canyon shear zone, central Sierra Nevada,
Journal of Structural Geology, 17: 1507- 1521.
Gilder, S. A., and McNulty, B. A., 1999,
Tectonic exhumation and tilting of the Mount Givens pluton, central
Sierra Nevada, California, Geology, v. 27, p. 919-922.
Tobisch, O.T., McNulty, B.A., and Vernon, R.H.,
1997, Microgranitoid enclave swarms in granitic plutons, central
Sierra Nevada, California, Lithos, 40: 321-339.
Tobisch, O.T., Saleeby, J.B., Renne, P.R.,
McNulty, B.A. & Tong, W., 1995, Variations in deformation fields
during development of a large volume magmatic arc, central Sierra
Nevada, California, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 107:
148-166.
Rousse, S., Gilder, S., Farber, D., McNulty,
B., and Torres, V., 2002, Paleomagnetic evidence for rapid
vertical-axis rotation in the Peruvian Cordillera at ca. 8 Ma,
Geology, v. 30, p. 75-78.
Rousse, S., Gilder S., Farber, D., McNulty, B.,
Patriat, P., Torres, V., and Sempere, T., 2003, Paleomagnetic
tracking of mountain building in the Peruvian Andes since 10 Ma,
Tectonics, v. 20, no. 5.
Publications /
Presentations (NSF-OEDG project, student authors in
bold):
Llamas, E., Nugal, K.,
Tong, W., McNulty, B., 2008, MTBE
contamination of groundwater
in the San Diego and Riverside County areas of California,
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 40, No.
1, p. 71.
Llamas, E. Tong, W., McNulty, B., 2008, MTBE contamination of
groundwater in the San Diego and Riverside County areas of
California, Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research
(SCCUR), CSU Pomona, poster presentation, November 22, 2008.
Mack, P., Tong, W., McNulty, B., 2008a, MTBE
contamination of groundwater
in the Lahontan region of California, Geological Society of America
Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 40, No. 1, p. 79.
Nugal, K., Tong, W., McNulty, B., 2006, "Contamination of
Groundwater in California by MTBE: How Do We Constrain the
Problem?", Eos Trans. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meet. Suppl.,
vol. 87(52), p. GC41A-104.
Nugal, K., Tong, W., McNulty, B., 2006, "Characterization and
assessment of MTBE contamination of groundwater in selected regions
of California", Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native
Americans in Science (SACNAS), Annual Meeting (Tampa, Florida), p.
168.
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