FHSU Geosciences - Dr. Jonathan Sumrall

Dr. Jonathan Sumrall

  Associate Professor of Geosciences, Geology

Office: Tomanek Hall 243
Phone:785-628-5348
Email: jbsumrall@fhsu.edu

Curriculum Vitae - contact me for a current vitae

Educational Background

• Ph.D. in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Mississippi State University 2013
  Dissertation: Relating karst development to island dolomite formation using petrography, geochemistry, and geomorphology.
• M.S. in Geology, University of South Florida 2009
  Thesis: Using 34-S as a tracer of dissolved sulfur species from springs to cave sulfate deposits in Cerna Valley, Romania.
• B.S. in Geosciences (Professional Geology), Mississippi State University 2007
  Summa Cum Laude

Courses Taught

• Introduction to Geology
• Mineralogy
• Petrology
• Field Methods
• Karst Geology
• Sedimentary Petrology
• Hydrology and Water Resources
• Oceanography
• Remote Sensing
• Field Students in Geosciences:Field Camp

Research Interests and Specializations

• Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
• Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)
• X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)
• Isotope Ratio Mass Scectrometer (IRMS)
• Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) Emission Spectrometer
• Cathodoluminescence Microscopy (CL)
• Petrographic Thin Sectioning and Microscopy
• Carbonate Petrology
• Geologic Mapping
• Cave Mapping and Cartography
• Biogeography, GIS, and Remote Sensing
• Statistical Analyses

Publications/Abstracts & Presentations (for a complete list view CV)

Refereed Journals

• Hagadorn, J.W., Bottjer, R.J., Holm-Denoma, C.S., Longman, M.W., Gent, V.A., Sumrall, J.B. 2021, The Type Section of the Codell Sandstone. The Mountain Geologist: Vol 58 (3), p. 277-314. 
• Sumrall, J.B., Gauvey, K.L., Sumrall, J.L., Sides, K.E., and Larson, E.B. Paleosol and Cave Mineralogy from Eleuthera, The Bahamas. 2021. The Proceedings of the 2^nd Joint Symposium on the Natural History and Geology of The Bahamas on January 19, 2018. 
• Kelner, G.M. and Sumrall, J.B. 2021, A Karst Feature Predictability Model within Barber County, Kansas. Circular 113 Special Publication of the Oklahoma Geological Survey, Editors: Ken Johnson, Lewis Land, and Dave Decker. 
• Gauvey, K.L. and Sumrall, J.B. 2021, The petrographic controls on gypsum karst speleogenesis in south-central Kansas. Circular 113 Special Publication of the Oklahoma Geological Survey, Editors: Ken Johnson, Lewis Land, and Dave Decker.
• Sumrall, J.B., and Larson, E.B. 2020. Outcrop and Thin Section Scale Descriptions of Silurian Carbonates Within the Hiawatha National Forest, Mackinac County, Upper Peninsula, Michigan, USA. Carbonates and Evaporites, DOI: 10.1007/s13146-020-00640-2. 
• Sumrall, J.B. Petrogenic History of Volcaniclastic Carbonates from Curacao, Netherland Antilles: Carbonates and Evaporites, DOI: 10.1007/s13146-01909951105. 
• Sumrall, J.B., Larson, E.B., and Mylroie, J.E. 2017. Very High Magnesium Calcite Formation and Microbial Communities Found in Porosity of the Seroe Domi Formation of Curacao, Netherland Antilles: Carbonates and Evaporites, DOI: 10.1007/s13146-017-0352-7.
• Sumrall, J.B., Larson, E.B., and Mylroie, J.E. 2016. Caves Within Dolomitized Sections of the Seroe Domi Formation on Curacao, Netherland Antilles: Acta Carsologica 45(1): 19-32.
• Kelley, D.F., Sumrall, J.L., and Sumrall, J.B.. 2015. Student-Designed Mapping Project as Part of a Geology Field Camp: Journal of Geoscience Education, DOI: 10.5408/14-003.1.
• Sumrall, J.B., Sumrall, J.L., and Travis. R.W. 2015. Cave Development Within a Paleosol Breccia in the Dolomitized Seroe Domi Formation, Aurba, Lesser Antilles: Carbonates and Evaporites, DOI: 10.1007/s13146-015-0236-7.
• Mylroie, J. E., Kambesis, P. N., Owen-Nagel, A. M., Sumrall, J. B., Larson, E. B., Mylroie, J. R., and Lace, M. J. 2015. Flank margin cave development at Cala Pi and Cala Figuera, Mallorca Island, Spain, in Glumac, B. and Savarese, M., eds., Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas and other Carbonate Regions, p. 213-221.
• Kambesis, P. N., Mylroie, J. R., Mylroie, J. E., Larson, E. B., Owen-Nagel, A. M., and Sumrall, J. B. 2015. Influence of karst denudation on the northwest coast of Curaçao, in Glumac, B. and Savarese, M., eds., Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas and other Carbonate Regions, p. 200-212.
• Sumrall , J.B., Mylroie, J.E., and Kambesis, P.N. 2014. Microbial mixing zone dolomitization and karst development within Isla de Mona Dolomite, Isla de Mona, Puerto Rico: Carbonates and Evaporites, DOI: 10.1007/s13146-014-0198-1.
• Machel, H.G., Sumrall, J.B., Kambesis, P.N., Mylroie, J.R., Mylroie, J.E., and Lace, M.J. 2014. Episodic fluid flow and dolomitization by methane-bearing pore water of marine parentage in an accretionary prism setting, Barbados, West Indies: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 84, p. 58-71.
• Sumrall , J.B., Machel, H.G., and Mylroie, J.M. 2013. Unusual polygenetic void and cave development in Miocene chalks on Barbados: International Journal of Speleology, v. 42, p. 247-255.

Conference Presentations (student co-authors underlined; *undergraduates)

• Kelner, G.M. and Sumrall, J.B. 2019. A Karst Feature Predictability Model within Barber County, Kansas. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona.
• Gauvey, K.L. and Sumrall, J.B. 2019. The petrographic controls on Gypsum Karst Speleogenesis in Southcentral Kansas. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona.
• Camelo, J.M., Sumrall, J.B., Kambesis, P.N., and Collins, J.D. 2019. Statistical Analysis of Sediment from Russell Cave, Northeast Alabama. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. 
• Camelo, J.M., Sumrall, J.B., and Kambesis, P.N. 2019. Flood Bank Analysis of Sediment from Russell and Montague Caves in Northeastern Alabama. Geological Society of America South-Central Section Joint Meeting.
• Barnett, R.M.* and Sumrall, J.B. 2019. Analysis of Tufaceous Speleothems from Barbados. Geological Society of America South-Central Section Joint Meeting.
• Gauvey, K.L. and Sumrall, J.B. 2018. Gypsum Karst Reconnaissance in Barber County, Kansas of the Permian Blaine Formation. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana. 
• Mills, K.L.*, Sumrall, J.B., Sumrall, J.L., Mylroie, J.E., and Mylroie, J.R. 2018. Petrographic Analysis of the Limestone of the Primeval Forest National Park on New Providence, The Bahamas. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana. 
• Leesburg, J.N.*, Sumrall, J.B., and Larson, E.B. Stratigraphic Examination of the McKay Bay Member of the Bush Bay Formation, Engadine Group, Hiawatha National Forest, Upper Peninsula, MI, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana. 
• Boyd, R.*, Larson, E.B., and Sumrall, J.B. Timing of Expression of Progradational Collapse Blue Holes in The Bahamas: Examples from Eleuthera. Geological Society of America Southeastern Section Meeting. 
• Sumrall, J.B. and Larson, E.B., 2018, Geomorphic constraints using Flank Margin Caves and remnant voids from the Caribbean, Geological Society of America South-Central Section Meeting. 
• Gauvey, K.L., Sumrall, J.B., and Larson, E.B., 2018, Cave and paleosol mineralogy from Eleuthera, The Bahamas, Geological Society of America South-Central Section Meeting. 
• Flaming, P.L.* and Sumrall, J.B., 2017, Petrographic Analysis of Highly Cemented, Partially Dolomitized Chalks from Barbados, West Indies, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 19, no.1.
• Morris, R.E.* and Sumrall, J.B., 2017, Comparison of the Petrographic Characteristics of Neogene and Pleistocene Volcaniclastic-rich carbonates from Curacao, Netherland Antilles, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 19, no.1.
• Gauvey, K.L.* and Sumrall, J.B., 2017, Petrophic Analysis of Silicified Coral from the Manistique Group of the Michigan Basin, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 19, no.1.
• Moore, K.D.* and Sumrall, J.B., 2017, Petrographic Analysis of Chert Within the Manistique Group of the Michigan Basin, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 19, no.1.
• Jordan, M.M.* and Sumrall, J.B., 2017, Petrographic Analysis of Vegemorphs from Eleuthera, The Bahamas, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 19, no.1.
• Sumrall, J.B. and Larson, E.B., 2016, Surficial Geologic Reconnaissance of the St. Ignace District of the Hiawatha National Forest, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 48, No. 7.
• Sides, K.E.* and Sumrall, J.B., 2016, Paleosols from Eleuthera, The Bahamas: Petrographic Analysis, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 48, No. 7.
• Burton, I.M. *, Sumrall, J.B., and Larson, E.B., 2016, Grike (Kluftkarren) Development in the Hiawatha National Forest, Upper Peninsula, Michigan, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 48, No. 7.
• Gauvey, K.L.* and Sumrall, J.B., 2016, Paleosols from Eleuthera, The Bahamas: Geochemistry and Mineralogy, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 48, No. 7.
• Sumrall, J.B. and Larson, E.B., 2015, The Status of Island Karst Processes on Island Cenozoic Dolostones, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 47, no. 7.
• Sumrall, J.L. and Sumrall, J.B., 2015. Karst-Based Learning: Using Island Karst as a Platform for Undergraduate Project-Based Learning, Geological Socitey of America Abstracts with Programs v. 47, no. 7

Honors & Awards Received

• 2022 Nominated FHSU Outstanding Faculty Advisor
• 2020 and 2021 FHSU Pilot Award Nominee
• Spring 2021 FHSU Werth College of STM Outstanding Research Award
• Spring 2021 FHSU Outstanding Scholarship Faculty Award
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Distinguished Lecturer: Isotope Hydrology Workshop, Kingston, Jamaica, Fall 2013
• Francis Leo Lynch Graduate Student Award, Mississippi State University 2013
• Young Scientist Award for KWI Carbonate Geochemistry Conference, Billings, MT, USA 2011

Professional Memberships

• Geological Society of America
• American Association of Geographers
• Association of Engineering and Environmental Geologists
• National Speleological Society
• American Association of Petroleum Geologists
• Sigma Gamma Epsilon

Current Research

My current research branches between multiple aspects of geosciences including: Karst , Petrology, and Geographic Analyses. I have expanded my research to include various regions of the US and the Caribbean as well as subjects including dendrochronology, water resources, and resource management/planning. Additionally, I have graduate students that have worked on or are currently working on projects in the areas of wildfire geography, paleoclimatology, carbonate petrology, and petroleum geology.

Personal Interests

Blacksmithing, Hiking, Biking, Outdoors, Fishing, Leatherworking, Woodworking, Carpentry, Tattoos

Additional Resources & Links

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