Dave Westerman, Program Director

Director of Student Research (2002-present); Faculty Development Committee, Chair (2001-present); President’s Advisory Committee on Long-Range Planning (2003-2004); Program Director Geology (1990-present); Program Director Environmental Science (1993-present); Faculty Senator at-large (1993-1996); Organizer of NU BOUND outdoor orientation program (1992-2003); Christie Prize for Earth Stewardship Selection Committee, Chair (1998-2003).

Evolution of magmatic systems
Tuscan Magmatic Province, Italy
Bays-of-Maine Igneous Complex, eastern Maine
Vermont intrusives, northcentral Vermont

Appalachian tectonics
Vermont geology, development of the Richardson Memorial Contact
Maine geology, significance of the Penobscot lineament 

Geological Society of America, GSA Tectonics and Structure Division, The Society of Sigma Xi, Vermont Geological Society, Geological Society of Maine, Council on Undergraduate Research 

X-ray Diffraction, Inductively Coupled Argon Plasma (ICAP) Spectrometry, X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry, Magnetic, Electromagmetic, Gravity, and Seismic Surveying 

Westerman, D.S., Dini, A., Innocenti, F. and Rocchi, S., submitted, Carta geologica dell’area di Capo d’Enfola (Isola d’Elba centrale): scale 1:10,000.

Dini, A., Westerman, D.S., Innocenti, F. and Rocchi, S., submitted, Carta geologica dell’area di Marciana Marina (Isola d’Elba occidentale): scale 1:10,000.

Dini, A., Innocenti, F., Rocchi, S. and Westerman, D.S., submitted, Cartografia di unita sub-volcaiche: le “rocce porfiiche” dell’Isola d”Elba:

Dini, A., Innocenti, F., Rocchi, S. and Westerman, D.S., in review, The late Miocene Christmas-tree laccolith complex of Elba Island: in Pasquare, G. (Ed.), Mapping Geology in Italy: prototype maps.

Dini, A., Innocenti, F., Rocchi, S. and Westerman, D. S., 2004, Reaction microtextures of REE-Y-Th-U accessory minerals in Mt. Capanne pluton (Elba Island Italy): a possible indicator of hybridization processes? Lithos, 78, 101-118.

Dini, A., Innocenti, F., Rocchi, S. and Westerman, D. S., 2004, Geological map of central and western Elba magmatic rocks: A historical perspective and new data: in Morini, D. and Bruni, P. (Eds.), The “Regione Toscana” Project of Geological Mapping: case histories and data acquisition, 59-64.

Westerman, D.S., Dini, A., Innocenti, F. and Rocchi, S., 2004, Rise and fall of a nested Christmas-tree laccolith complex at Elba Island, Italy: in N. Petford and C. Breitkreuz, (Eds.), Physical Geology of High-Level Magmatic Systems: Geological Society, London, Special Publication 234, 195-213.

Westerman, D.S., Dini, A., Innocenti, F. and Rocchi, S., 2003, When and where did hybridization occur? The case of the Monte Capanne pluton, Italy. Atlantic Geology, 39, 2, 147-162.

Westerman, D.S., Eliassen, T., Finucane, R. and Wright, S.F., 2003, Highway Geology Symposium Field Trip Guide for Central Vermont: 54^th Highway Geology Symposium, Burlington, VT, 19 p.

Rocchi, S., Dini, A., Innocenti, Tonarini, S. and Westerman, D.S., 2003, Elba Island: intrusive magmatism: in Poli, G., Perugini, D., Rocchi, S. and Dini, A. (Eds.), Miocene to Recent Plutonism and Volcanism in the Tuscan Magmatic Province (central Italy): Periodico di Mineralogia, 72, 73-104.

Rocchi, S., Westerman, D. S. and Innocenti, F., 2003, Montecristo Island: intrusive magmatism: in Poli, G., Perugini, D., Rocchi, S. and Dini, A. (Eds.), Miocene to Recent Plutonism and Volcanism in the Tuscan Magmatic Province (central Italy): Periodico di Mineralogia, 72, 105-118.

Westerman, D. S., Innocenti, F. and Rocchi, S., 2003, Giglio Island: intrusive magmatism: in Poli, G., Perugini, D., Rocchi, S. and Dini, A. (Eds.), Miocene to Recent Plutonism and Volcanism in the Tuscan Magmatic Province (Italy): Periodico di Mineralogia, 72, 119-126.

Dini, A., Innocenti, F., Rocchi, S., Tonarini, S. and Westerman, D.S., 2002, The magmatic evolution of the laccolith-pluton-dyke complex of Elba Island, Italy: Geological Magazine,  139, 257-279.

Rocchi, S., Westerman, D.S., Dini, A., Innocenti, F. and Tonarini, S., 2002, Two-stage growth of laccoliths at Elba Island, Italy: Geology, 30, 983-986.

Westerman, D. S. and Rocchi, S., 2002, Montecristo Island: in Poli, G., Perugini, D., Rocchi, S. and Dini, A. (Eds.), Miocene to Recent Plutonism and Volcanism in the Tuscan Magmatic Province (Italy): Field Meeting Guide, Eurogranite 2002, Univ. of Perugia Press, Stop n. 12, 305-306.

Faggioni, O., Westerman, D., Innocenti, F., Beverini, N., Carmisciano, C., Cavallini, R. and Dini, A., 1998, The intrusive complex of the island of Giglio:  geomagnetic characteristics of plutonic facies with low susceptibility contrast: Annali di Geofisica, 41, 409-425.

Innocenti, F., Westerman, D.S., Rocchi, S. and Tonarini, S., 1997, The Montecristo monzogranite (Northern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy): a collisional pluton in an extensional setting:  Geological Journal, 32, 131-151.

      (a DSW photo of Montecristo Island used as cover photo for the journal)

Westerman, D.S., 1996, Digital bedrock geologic map of the Northfield 7.5-minute Quadrangle, Vermont: (prototype): Vermont Geological Survey, Open-file report, 2 color plates.

Westerman, D.S., Innocenti, F., Tonarini, S. and Ferrara, G., 1993, The Pliocene intrusions of the Island of Giglio: Mem. Soc. Geol. It., 49, 345-363.

Westerman, D.S., 1991, Mafic and ultramafic rocks of the Pocomoonshine Gabbro-diorite in southeastern Maine:  in Ludman, A. (Ed.), New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference Guidebook for Fieldtrips in Southeastern Maine, Queens College Press, 265-284.

Westerman, D.S., 1990, Progress report on mapping during 1989 in the northwestern quarter of the Northfield 7.5-minute Quadrangle, Vermont:  Vermont Geol. Survey Open-file report and map, Waterbury, VT, 35 p. and map.

Westerman, D.S., 1989, Report to Rock of Ages Corporation on granite press roll repair:  Norwich Studies and Analysis Institute Document, 31 p.

Westerman, D.S., 1989, Progress report on mapping during 1988 in the southwestern quarter of the Northfield 7.5-minute Quadrangle, VT:  Vermont Geological Survey Open-file report and map, Waterbury, VT, 12 p. and map.

Westerman, D.S., 1988, Structural character of the "pre-Silurian" and "Silurian" Rocks and the nature of the boundary between them in central Vermont:  Vermont Geology, Guidebook 2, 5, I 1-9.

Westerman, D.S., 1988, 1987 Progress report on geologic studies in the Northfield and Barre West 7.5-minute Quadrangles:  Vermont Geological Survey Open-file report and map, Waterbury, VT, 18 p. and map.

Westerman, D.S. and Ratté 1988, Comment on "Geology of the western Vermont mineral belt":  Green Mountain Geologist, 15, 19-22.

Westerman, D.S., Ed., 1987, New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference Guidebook for Field Trips in Vermont, Volume 2, 504 p.

Westerman, D.S., 1987, Forward: Fifteen years of progress in understanding the geology of Vermont:  in Westerman, D.S. (Ed.), NEIGC Guidebook for Field Trips in Vermont, Volume 2, iii-xiii.

Westerman, D.S., 1987, Structures in the Dog River fault zone between Northfield and Montpelier, Vermont:  in Westerman, D.S. (Ed.), NEIGC Guidebook for Field Trips in Vermont, Volume 2, 109-132.

Westerman, D.S., 1985, Report on bedrock mapping in the Northfield 7.5-minute Quadrangle, Vermont - 1984 Field season:  Vermont Geological Survey Open-file report and map, Waterbury, VT, 12 p. and map.

Westerman, D.S., 1984, Report on bedrock mapping in the Northfield 7.5-minute Quadrangle, Vermont - 1983 Field season:  Vermont Geological Survey Open-file report and map, Waterbury, VT, 17 p. and map.

Westerman, D.S., 1983, Post-Acadian brittle fracture in the Norumbega fault zone, Brooks Quadrangle, Maine:  Maine Geology Bull. No. 3, 67-71.

Westerman, D.S., 1983, The Northwest Boundary Fault of the Boundary Mountain Anticlinorium: in Caldwell, D. and Hanson, L. (Eds.), NEIGC Guidebook for Field Trips in the Greenville-Millinocket Regions, North-central Maine, 87-101.

Westerman, D.S., 1983, Structural analysis of the Guilford, Dover-Foxcroft and Boyd Lake 15-minute Quadrangles, south-central Maine:  New England Seismotectonic Studies Activities During fiscal Year 1982, 97-119.

Ludman, A. and Westerman, D.S. 1983, The geology of the inland rocks of the Calais-Wesley area, Maine: Maine Geology Bull. No. 3, 8-12.

Hussey, A.M. and Westerman, D.S., Eds., 1983, Shorter Contributions to the Geology of Maine: Maine Geology Bull. No. 3, 129 p.

Hussey, A.M. and Westerman, D.S. 1982, Shorter Contributions to the Geology of Maine: Maine Geology Bull. No. 2, 79 p. 

Westerman, D.S., 2005, Forensic geology at Norwich University: a new course with new challenges: Green Mountain Geologist, 32, 1, 6-7.

Dini, A., Corretti, A., Innocenti, F., Rocchi, S. and Westerman, D.S., 2004, Sooty sweat stains or tourmaline spots? When Jason and the Argonauts hung around the Island of Elba: 32nd Int. Geological Congress, Abs. Vol., pt. 2, abs. 183-23, p. 845.

Westerman, D.S., 2004, Tectonic dismemberment of the Elba Igneous Complex, Italy: Green Mtn. Geologist, 31, 3-4.

Westerman, D.S.,Dini, A., Innocenti, F. and Rocchi, S., 2003, Competing processes of hybridization and fractionation in the Monte Capanne magmatic system, Elba Island, Italy: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 35(3), 60.

Rocchi S., Westerman D.S., Dini A., Innocenti F. (2002) : Rise and fall of a nested Christmas-tree laccolith complex, Elba Island, Italy. 1^st International Workshop “Physical Geology of Subvolcanic Systems ? Laccoliths, Sills and Dykes (LASI)”, Freiberg (Germany), 12-14 October 2002, 49-50, ISSN 1433-1284.

Dini, A., Innocenti, F., Rocchi, S., Tonarini, S. and Westerman, D.S., 2002, Reaction microtextures of REE-Y-Th-U accessory minerals in Mt. Capanne pluton (Elba Island, Italy): a potential indicator of hybridization processes? in Poli, G., Peccerillo, A. and Perugini, D. (Eds), Interaction Between Mafic and Felsic Melts in Orogenic Suites: Dynamics of Processes, Nature of End-Members, Effects: Eurogranites 2002 Abstract Volume, 19-20.

Rocchi, S., Dini, A., Innocenti, F., Tonarini, S. and Westerman, D.S., 2002, Trace element and isotopic zoning of K-feldspar megacrysts from Late Miocene Tuscan granites: a potential indicator of hybridization processes?, in Poli, G., Peccerillo, A. and Perugini, D. (Eds), Interaction Between Mafic and Felsic Melts in Orogenic Suites: Dynamics of Processes, Nature of End-Members, Effects: Eurogranites 2002 Abstract Volume, 52-53.

Rocchi, S., Westerman, D.S., Dini, A. and Innocenti, F., 2002, Rise and fall of a nested Christmas-tree laccolith complex at Elba Island (Italy): in Breitkreuz, C., Mock, A. and Petford, N.: Physical Geology of Subvolcanic Systems: Laccoliths, Sills and Dikes (LASI), Conf. Proceedings with Abstracts.

Westerman, D.S., Dini, A., Innocenti, F., Rocchi, S. and Tonarini, S., 2001, The magmatic evolution of the western and central Elba intrusive complex, Italy: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 33(6).

Westerman, D.S., 2001, The rock spiral: the original world wide web: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 33(1), A-61.

Dini, A. Innocenti, F., Rocchi, S. and Westerman, D.S., 2000, Dissolution textures of REE-Th-U accessory minerals in Mt. Capanne pluton (Elba Island, Italy): a possible indicator of hybridization processes: SIMP.

Westerman, D.S., Dini, A., Innocenti, F., Rocchi, S. and Tonarini, S., 2000, The nested Christmas-tree laccolith complex of Elba Island, Italy: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 32(7), A-148.

Westerman, D.S., Dini, A., Innocenti, F. and Rocchi, S., 2000, Christmas trees in the shallow crust: the nested laccolith complex from Elba Island, Italy: The Geological Society, Geoscience 2000, Abstracts, p. 11.

Dini, A., Innocenti, F., Rocchi, S., Tonarini, S. and Westerman D. ,1999, The geologic history of multiple shallow level laccolith intrusions, Elba Island, Italy: Abstract of "Geoitalia 1999" 2nd Forum Italiano di Scienze della Terra. Bellaria, 20-23 settembre 1999.

Westerman, D.S., Innocenti, F., Rocchi, S.and Tonarini, S., 1998, Petrology and geochemistry of intrusive rocks on Montecristo Island and their relation to the Tuscan Magmatic Province, Plinius, 20, 211-213.

Westerman, D.S., Innocenti, F., Rocchi, S.and Tonarini, S., 1997, Petrogenesis of the Montecristo Monzogranite (Tuscany, Italy): an example of collisional plutonism in an extensional setting: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 29, A-456.

Dini, A., Tonarini, S., Innocenti, F., Rocchi, S. and Westerman, D.S., 1996, Le "rocce porfiriche" dell'Isola d'Elba:  geologia, geocronologia e geochimica: Plinius, 16, 11-12.

Faggioni, O., Westerman, D.S., Innocenti, F., Beverini, N., Carmisciano, C., Cavallini, R. and Dini, A., 1996, Il complesso pliocenio dell’Isola del Giglio: caratteri geomagnetici di facies plutoniche a basso contrasto di suscettivita: GeoElettroMagnetismo VI Workshop, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica, Riassunti, Genova, 18-20 Sept., p. 63.

Faggioni O., Westerman D.S., Innocenti F., Beverini N., Carmisciano C., Dini A., Marchisio M., 1996b, Rilevamento geomagnetico navale in alta definizione del Complesso intrusivo pliocenico dell'isola del Giglio. XV, National Meeting Gruppo Naz. Geof. Terra Solida, Rome 11-13 Nov. 1996.

Westerman, D., Innocenti, F., Tonarini, S., and Rocchi, S., 1995, The geology of Montecristo Island:  collisional magmatism in an extensional back-arc setting: Vermont Technology Council Abstracts with Program.

Westerman, D.S.,1993, A model for northern Vermont’s Acadian magmatism with insight from Italy’s Tuscan Magmatic Province:  Geol. Soc. America Abst. with Prog.,.25, A-89.

Westerman, David S., 1993, The Pliocene intrusions of the Island of Giglio, Italy:  Geol. Soc. Amer. Abst. with Progs., 25, A-42.

Westerman, D.S. and Bothner, W.,1992, The Connecticut Valley Trough in eastern Vermont:  a review:  Green Mountain Geologist, 18, 10.

Westerman, D.S., 1991, The Stowe and Moretown Formations:  transformation of a single sedimentary unit into two mappable units:  Green Mountain Geologist, 17, 12-13.

______________ 1987, The structural history of rocks east and west of the Central Vermont Fault Zone (RMC) in the Montpelier - Northfield area:  Green Mountain Geologist, 13, 13.

______________ 1985, Faults along the western margin of the Connecticut Valley-Gaspé Synclinorium in Central Vermont: Geol. Soc. America Abst. with Prog., 17, 69.

______________ 1984, The nature of the Taconian Line in the Northfield 7.5-Minute Quadrangle:  Green Mountain Geologist, 10, 11.

______________ 1982, Relationships of major and minor brittle fracture systems and recent seismicity in south-central Maine: Geol. Soc. America Abst. with Prog., 14, 95.