Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

Orogenic Systems and Cordilleran Tectonics; Forearc and Foreland Basin Evolution; Climate-Tectonics Interactions and Stable Isotope Paleoaltimetry; Fluvial, Alluvial, and Deep-Water Depositional Systems; Zircon Geo-, Petro-, and Thermochronology

Education

• University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA — Ph.D., Geoscience (Advisor: Peter G. DeCelles) (2025)
  Dissertation: Cretaceous to Cenozoic Evolution of the Southern Central Andes and Basins Therein
• Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA — M.S., Geology (Advisor: Devon A. Orme) (2021)
  Thesis: Orogens of Big Sky Country: Reconstructing the deep-time tectonothermal histories of the Beartooth and Highland mountains, southwestern Montana
• Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA — B.S., Geology (Highest Honors) (2019)

Appointments

• Assistant Professor — University of Calgary, Dept. of Earth, Energy & Environment, Calgary, AB, Canada (2026–present)
• Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar — Stanford University (Mentor: Stephan A. Graham), Stanford, CA, USA (Summer 2026)
• NSF Earth Science Postdoctoral Fellow — Idaho State University (ISU; Mentor: Kurt E. Sundell), Pocatello, ID, USA (2025–2026)
• Fulbright Research Scholar — IANIGLA-CONICET CCT, Mendoza, Argentina (2024)

Publications

Peer-reviewed Publications

First-Author Journal Articles

8. Ronemus, C.B., C.J. Howlett, P.G. DeCelles, B. Carrapa, A. Echaurren, M. Barrionuevo, J.G. Mosolf, M.L. Foley, and M.N. Ducea (2026). Building the Andean Crust at ~35 °S: Arc Geochemistry Reveals Cretaceous Thinning and Rapid Neogene Thickening. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. in press.
9. Ronemus, C.B., C.J. Howlett, P.G. DeCelles, B. Carrapa, and S.W.M. George (2024). The Manantiales Basin, southern Central Andes (~32 °S), preserves a record of Late Eocene–Miocene episodic growth of an east-vergent orogenic wedge. Tectonics 43.3. DOI: 10.1029/2023TC008100.
10. Ronemus, C.B., D.A. Orme, W.R. Guenthner, S.E. Cox, and C.A.L. Kussmaul (2023). Orogens of Big Sky country: Reconstructing the deep-time tectonothermal history of the Beartooth Mountains, Montana and Wyoming, U.S.A. Tectonics 42.1. DOI: 10.1029/2022TC007541.
11. Ronemus, C.B., D.A. Orme, S. Campbell, S.R. Black, and J. Cook (2021). Mesoproterozoic–Early Cretaceous provenance and paleogeographic evolution of the northern Rocky Mountains: Insights from the detrital zircon record of the Bridger Range, Montana, U.S.A. GSA Bulletin 133.3–4, 777–801. DOI: 10.1130/B35628.1.

Contributing Author Journal Articles

4. George, S.W.M., B. Carrapa, P.G. DeCelles, G. Jepson, H. Nadoya, C. Tabor, C.J. Howlett, C.B. Ronemus, M.T. Clementz, and L. Schoenbohm (2025). Increased moisture availability in the Central Andes during the Miocene Climatic Optimum. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 663, 112732. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112732.
5. Howlett, C.J., C.B. Ronemus, B. Carrapa, and P.G. DeCelles (2025). Miocene construction of the High Andes recorded by exhumation of the Frontal Cordillera, La Ramada Massif of western Argentina (32 °S). Tectonics 44.1, e2024TC008433. DOI: 10.1029/2024TC008433.
6. Romero, M.C., D.A. Orme, K.D. Surpless, C.B. Ronemus, and Z. Morrow (2024). Age and provenance relationships between the basal Great Valley Group and its underlying basement: Implications for initiation of the Great Valley forearc basin, California, U.S.A. Journal of Sedimentary Research 94.5, 641–662. DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2024.004.

Geologic Map Sheet

1. Ronemus, C.B. and D.A. Orme (2023). Geologic map of the eastern half of the Melrose 7.5' quadrangle and the western half of the Wickiup Creek 7.5' quadrangle, southwestern Montana. EDMAP 16.

Popular Press Book Chapter

1. Ronemus, C.B. (2025). “Regional geology: A journey through deep time”. In: Kussmaul, C. Backcountry Skiing: Peaks and Couloirs of Southwest Montana. 2nd ed. (1st ed. 2020). PKI Press, pp. 14–18.

Submitted Manuscripts

3. Ronemus, C.B., C.J. Howlett, P.G. DeCelles, B. Carrapa, L.M. Fennell, K. Thirumalai, V.A.P. Muller, and L. Lothari. Miocene surface uplift and moisture-source evolution resolved by stable isotope proxies in the southern Central Andean foreland basin (~32°S). In Review with Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Spring 2026.
4. Muller, V.A.P., B. Carrapa, S. Thomson, P.G. DeCelles, C.B. Ronemus, C.J. Howlett, and S.L. Beck. Late Miocene headwater erosion of the Central Andes drives fold-and-thrust belt exhumation. In Review with Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Spring 2026.
5. Orme, D.A., C.M. Baird, C.B. Ronemus, M.A. Malkowski, A.K. Laskowski, and F. Foster. Investigation of the sedimentary processes, depositional environments, and provenance of the Mesoproterozoic Belt Supergroup rocks in the Whitehall area, southwest Montana. In Review as a book chapter in a GSA Books volume honoring D. Winston.

Invited Presentations

• From the Andean foreland to Canadian frontiers — University of Calgary (2026)
• Building the High Andes: The view from the foreland basin record — Idaho State University (2025)
• Cordilleran evolution in the sedimentary basin record — University of Alaska Fairbanks (2025)
• Mapping as a foundation for understanding orogenic systems — MT Bureau of Mines and Geology (2025)
• Tectonic controls on Cu mineralization in the Central Andes — Teck Resources Structural Geology Team (2025)
• Cenozoic evolution of the southern Central Andean foreland basin — University of Buenos Aires (2024)

Grants & Awards ($354,295 total research funding)

Major Fellowships

• Earth Science Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Award #2518506; $291,976) — US NSF (2025)
• Fulbright Research Scholarship ($10,700 + other support) — US Fulbright Program (2024)

Research Grants and Other Awards

• Undergraduate Student Research Funding Award (PI of record: K. Sundell; $6,000) — Idaho Higher Education Research Council (2025)
• John and Nancy Sumner Scholarship ($1,000) — UArizona Dept. of Geosciences (2025)
• Lewis & Clark Exploration and Field Research Scholarship ($4,900) — Amer. Philosophical Society (2024)
• Research and Project Grant ($1,490) — UArizona Graduate and Professional Student Council (2023)
• Travel Grant ($350) — GSA Cordilleran Section (2023)
• Coney Scholarship ($3,000) — UArizona Dept. of Geosciences (2023)
• Galileo Circle Scholarship ($1,000 each) — UArizona College of Science (2022, 2023)
• Travel Grant ($1,000) — UArizona Graduate and Professional Student Council (2022)
• 1^st place, Best Student Geologic Map Competition — US Geological Survey (2021)
• Sulzer Scholarship ($4,676) — UArizona Dept. of Geosciences (2021)
• StraboSpot Super Tester Award ($1,500) — University of Kansas (2021)
• Open Access Author Fund Award ($2,000) — MSU Library (2020)
• Harrison Scholarship ($500) — Tobacco Roots Geological Society (2020)
• Donald L. Smith Memorial Scholarship ($3,000) — MSU Dept. of Earth Sciences (2020)
• EDMAP Grant (PI of record: D. Orme; $17,428) — US Geological Survey (2020)
• Research Grant ($750) — Montana Academy of Sciences (2019)
• Research Grant ($225) — Tobacco Roots Geological Society (2019)
• Undergraduate Scholars Program Research Grant ($1,800) — MSU (2018)

Teaching

Instructor of Record

• Solid Earth — ISU (Spring 2025)
• Independent Problems and Studies in Geology — ISU (Spring 2025)

Teaching Assistant

• Physical Geology (Lab Instructor) — UArizona (Fall 2021, Fall 2023)
• Paleontology — UArizona (Spring 2023)
• Dinosaurs — UArizona (Fall 2022)
• Geochronology and Thermochronology (Guest Lecturer) — MSU (Spring 2021)
• Introduction to GIS and Cartography (Lab Instructor) — MSU (Spring 2020, Spring 2021)
• Sedimentation and Stratigraphy (Lab Instructor) — MSU (Fall 2019)
• Geology Field Camp (Assistant Instructor) — Indiana University/MSU (Summer 2019)
• Geologic Field Methods — MSU (Fall 2018)
• Freshman Seminar — MSU (Fall 2016)

Student Mentorship and Training

Mentored as postdoctoral fellow

• William Crater (NSF EAR-PF project; Zircon U-Pb analysis) — ISU, exp. B.S. 2029 (2025–2026)
• Tiana Hursh (NSF EAR-PF project; Chile field research) — ISU, exp. B.S. 2027 (2025–2026)
• Amarissa Cramer (NSF EAR-PF project; Zircon U-Pb analysis) — ISU, exp. B.S. 2027 (2025–2026)
• Parker Hazelbush (NSF EAR-PF project; Chile field research) — ISU, B.S. 2026 (2025–2026)

Co-mentored as M.S. and Ph.D. student

• Faisal Sabor (TANGO project; first-author GSA presentation) — UArizona, B.S. 2023 (2023)
• Katleho Ramotso (TANGO project; provenance analysis) — UArizona, B.S. 2025 (2023)
• Ash Abbate (TANGO project; provenance analysis) — UArizona, exp. B.S. 2026 (2023)
• MSU Sedimentary Undergraduate Research program (6 students) — MSU (2021)
• Sophie Black (Montana provenance analysis; coauthor GSA Bulletin) — MSU, B.S. 2021 (2019–2021)
• Saré Campbell (Montana provenance analysis; coauthor GSA Bulletin) — MSU, B.S. 2021 (2019–2021)
• John Cook (Montana provenance analysis; coauthor GSA Bulletin) — MSU, B.S. 2024 (2019)

Field Research (Total fieldwork: > 19 months)

• Coastal Chile Mesozoic forearc basin (6 weeks) — Postdoctoral Research (2025–2026)
• Southern Central Andes, Argentina & Chile (> 9 months) — Ph.D. Research (2022–2025)
• Great Valley forearc basin, CA (6 weeks) — Research Mentor, Research Assistant (2019–2021)
• Southwest Montana (> 7 months) — Field Camp Instructor, M.S. Research (2018–2021)

Service & Outreach

Conference Organization

• Lead Convener, GSA Pardee Symposium — Bottoms Up: Reconciling “bottom-up” and “top-down” approaches to tectonic reconstructions (exp. 2026)
• Lead Convener, GSA Topical Session — Pre-Neogene Tectonic evolution of South America (exp. 2026)
• Instructor, GSA Short Course — Quantitative analysis, visualization, and modelling of detrital geochronology data (exp. 2026)
• Co-convener, GSA Topical Session — Convergent Margin Systems (T160) (2023)
• Assistant Instructor, GSA Short Course — Detrital Zircon Analytical Methods (SC 512) (2023)
• Organizing Committee, GeoDaze Research Conference — UArizona (2022)
• Organizing Committee, Seminar Series & Student Colloquium — MSU (2019–2021)

Peer Review & Editorial Service

• Ad Hoc Reviewer — US NSF EAR Structure and Physics of the Solid Earth Program (2026)
• Peer Reviewer — Tectonics, Terra Nova, Geosphere, GSA Bulletin (n = 12 reviews) (2022–present)
• Grant Reviewer — US–Argentina Fulbright Commission (2025)
• Grant Reviewer — Graduate and Professional Student Council, UArizona (2025)

University & Departmental Service

• Workshop Presenter — Ready–to–Rock GSA Prep Series, ISU (2026)
• Panel Member — Careers and Graduate School in Geoscience, ISU (2025)
• Graduate Student Representative — Department of Geosciences, UArizona (2022–2023)
• Founding Member — Decolonize Geosciences, MSU (2021)
• Panel Member — Tips for Applying to Graduate School, MSU (2020)

Public Outreach & Science Communication

• Contributor — Science YouTube Channel (@CadenHowlett) (2022–present)
• Science Fair Judge — Sunrise Drive Elementary School, Tucson, AZ (2025)
• Outreach Presenter — Legacy Traditional Schools, Tucson, AZ (2022)
• Adaptive Skiing Volunteer — Eagle Mount Therapeutic Recreation, Bozeman, MT (2016–2021)

Selected Conference Proceedings (23 total since 2019; ^†Student mentee author)

11. Cramer†, A., W. Crater†, P. Hazelbush†, T. Hursh†, and C.B. Ronemus (2026). No Allochthons Allowed: Detrital zircon provenance contradicts Post-Triassic Terrane Accretion in Central Chile. Idaho State University Research and Creative Works Symposium. Pocatello, ID.
12. Hursh†, T., P. Hazelbush†, A. Cramer†, W. Crater†, and C.B. Ronemus (2026). Basin Development Along the Pre-Andean Margin: Facies architecture of Triassic–Jurassic deposits in Coastal Chile (~32°S). Idaho State University Research and Creative Works Symposium. Pocatello, ID.
13. Howlett, C.J., C.B. Ronemus, B. Carrapa, and P.G. DeCelles (2025). Cordilleran orogenic wedge evolution in a transitional segment of the South-Central Andes (34.5°S), Chile and Argentina. GSA Connects. San Antonio, TX.
14. Muller, V.A., B. Carrapa, S.N. Thomson, P.G. DeCelles, C.J. Howlett, C.B. Ronemus, and S.L. Beck (2025). Exhumation of the Eastern Cordillera, NW Argentina: a record of competing river incision and fold-and-thrust belt propagation. GSA Connects. San Antonio, TX.
15. Ronemus, C.B., C.J. Howlett, B. Carrapa, A. Echaurren, M. Barrionuevo, J.G. Mosolf, and M.L. Foley (2025). Crustal thickness evolution of the southern Central Andes (~35°S): Insights from igneous paleomohometry and zircon petrochronology. GSA Connects. San Antonio, TX.
16. Ronemus, C.B., C.J. Howlett, V.A.P. Muller, P.G. DeCelles, B. Carrapa, L. Fennell, J. Suriano, and L. Lothari (2025). Foreland basin evolution in the Andes (~32°S). Along Strike Variations in Central Andean Subduction and Mountain Building (NSF Funded Workshop). Tucson, AZ.
17. Lothari, L.D., J. Suriano, J.F. Mescua, M. del Llano, A. Echaurren, L.B. Giambiagi, J. Cottle, and C.B. Ronemus (2024). El registro sedimentario Paleógeno del retroarco Andino (33–32°S): Extensión hacia el sureste del evento compresivo del Eoceno Temprano. XXII Congreso Geológico Argentino. San Luis, Argentina.
18. Ronemus, C.B., J. Suriano, C.J. Howlett, and V.A. Muller (2024). La naturaleza de las discontinuidades en la cuenca del antepaís andino: Datos de un nuevo registro sedimentario del Eoceno-Mioceno a ~31.75°S. XIX Reunión de Tectónica. San Juan, Argentina.
19. Sabor†, F., C.B. Ronemus, and C.J. Howlett (2023). Sedimentologic insights into Late Cretaceous to Early Miocene foreland basin development in the southern Central Andes (~36°S). GSA Connects. Pittsburgh, PA.
20. Ronemus, C.B. and D.A. Orme (2021). Geologic map of the eastern half of the Melrose 7.5’ quadrangle and the western half of the Wickiup Creek 7.5’ quadrangle, southwestern Montana. GSA Connects (USGS Best Student Map Competition, 1^st place). Portland, OR.
21. Ronemus, C.B., D.A. Orme, W.R. Guenthner, and S.E. Cox (2021). Orogens of Big Sky country: Reconstructing the deep-time tectonothermal history of the Beartooth Mountains, Montana and Wyoming. 17th Annual Conference on Thermochronology. Santa Fe, NM.

Industry Experience

• Petroleum Geology Intern — Matador Resources, Dallas, TX (Summer 2021)
• Exploration Geologist — Childs Geoscience Inc., Bozeman, MT (part-time 2018–2020)
• Mining Geology Intern — Sibanye-Stillwater, Nye, MT (Summer 2018)
• GIS Analyst — Bioresource Consultants, Ojai, CA; MSU Extension, Bozeman, MT (part-time 2017–2018)

Languages

English (native); Spanish (working proficiency)