Email: Pete.Stelling@wwu.edu
Work: (360) 650-4095
Fax: (360) 650-7302
Office: ES 105
Lab: ES 403
Mailcode: 9080
Address:
Western Washington University
Geology Department
Bellingham, WA
98225-9080
Pete Stelling
Assistant Professor
Member of the WWU Geology faculty since 2006
Education
Ph.D. – University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2003
B.A. – Western State College of Colorado, 1994
Areas of Expertise
Geology of geothermal energy systems, physical volcanology, igneous petrology, igneous geochemistry.
Courses Taught
- Mineralogy
- Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
- General Geology
- Physical Geology
- Earth Science for Future Presidents
- GIS in Geology
- Earth and Its Weather
- Economic Geology
- Geothermal Energy
- Summer Field Camp
Selected Publications
Love, E. and Stelling, P. 2012. Volcanic Experimentation: Using Mentos-and-Soda to Teach Causal Research in a Marketing Research Class. Marketing Education Review, vol. 22, (1) (Spring 2012): 27-31
Gardner, J., Burgisser, A and Stelling, P 2007 Eruption and Deposition of the Fisher Tuff (Alaska): Evidence for the Evolution of Pyroclastic Flows, J. of Geology. vol. 115 p. 417-435
Stelling, P. and Tucker, D., editors, 2007 Floods Faults, and Fire: Geological Field Trips in Washington State and Southwest British Columbia, Field Guide 9, Geo. Soc. of Amer. 255 p.
Stelling, P., Gardner, J. and Beget, J 2004 Eruptive History of Fisher Caldera, Alaska, USA , J. Volc. and Geotherm. Res. vol. 139 (3-4) 163-183
Stelling, P., Kolker, A., and Cumming, W., 2010. Geoscientific Data Types used to Support Geothermal Exploration at Akutan, Alaska: An Analysis of Relative Effectiveness in Thermal Gradient Well Targeting. Presented at 2010 Fall meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 13-17 Dec.
Kolker, A., Stelling, P., Cumming, W. and Rohrs, D., 2012. Exploration and Assessment of the Akutan Geothermal Resource Area. Proceedings, 37th workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, SGP-TR-194. https://pangea.stanford.edu/ERE/pdf/IGAstandard/SGW/2012/Kolker.pdf
Recent M.S. Students
Brett Tobin: Investigation of multiple fluid flow generations at Akutan geothermal area, Alaska, using analyses of fluid inclusions
Randall Conger-Best: TBD