Research Areas: Geosciences
Unconventional Oil & Gas
Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering
Education Background: • BA, Geology and Geography, Macalester College
• MS, Geology, University of Wyoming
• PhD, Geology, University of Wyoming
About:
Hajek is an associate professor of geosciences at Penn State. She holds a B.A. in geology and geography from Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wyoming. Hajek is a Society for Sedimentary Geology Research councilor and the 11th International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology Technical Program committee chair. She is a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant recipient and a Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Wilson Award for Teaching Excellence recipient.
Professional:
SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) Research Councilor
11th International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology Technical Program Committee Chair
Honors & Awards:
• NSF CAREER grant recipient
• 2016 EMS Wilson Award for Teaching Excellence
Teaching:
• GEOSC 040: The Sea Around Us
• GEOSC 310: Earth History
• GEOSC 5xx: Petroleum Geosystems
• GEOSC 5xx: Petroleum Exploration
• GEOSC 572: Field Stratigraphy
Barefoot, E. A., J. A. Nittrouer, B. Z. Foreman, E. Hajek, G. R. Dickens, T. Baisden, and L. Toms, (2022). Evidence for enhanced fluvial channel mobility and fine sediment export due to precipitation seasonality during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum, Geology, v. 50(1), pp. 116-120, https://doi.org/10.1130/G49149.1.
Edmonds, D. A., H. K. Martin, J. M. Valenza, R. Henson, G. S. Weissmann, K. Miltenberger, W. Mans, J. R. Moore, R. L. Slingerland, M. R. Gibling, A. B. Bryk, and E. Hajek, (2022). Rivers in reverse: Upstream-migrating dechannelization and flooding cause avulsions on fluvial fans, Geology, v. 50(1), pp. 37-41, https://doi.org/10.1130/G49318.1.
Lyster, S. J., A. C. Whittaker, E. Hajek, and V. Ganti, (2022). Field evidence for disequilibrium dynamics in preserved fluvial cross-strata: A record of discharge variability or morphodynamic hierarchy?, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 579, [117355], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117355.
Duncan, C. J., M. A. Chan, E. Hajek, D. Kamola, N. M. Roberts, B. Tikoff, and J. D. Walker, (2021). Bringing sedimentology and stratigraphy into the StraboSpot data management system, Geosphere, v. 17(6), pp. 1914-1927, https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02364.1.
Greenberg, E., V. Ganti, and E. Hajek, (2021). Quantifying bankfull flow width using preserved bar clinoforms from fluvial strata, Geology, v. 49(9), pp. 1038-1043, https://doi.org/10.1130/G48729.1.
Lyster, S. J., A. C. Whittaker, G. J. Hampson, E. Hajek, P. A. Allison, and B. A. Lathrop, (2021). Reconstructing the morphologies and hydrodynamics of ancient rivers from source to sink: Cretaceous Western Interior Basin, Utah, USA, Sedimentology, v. 68(6), pp. 2854-2886, https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12877.
Wysocki, N. and E. Hajek, (2021). Mud in sandy riverbed deposits as a proxy for ancient fine-sediment supply, Geology, v. 49(8), pp. 931-935, https://doi.org/10.1130/G48251.1.
Ganti, V., E. Hajek, K. Leary, K. M. Straub, and C. Paola, (2020). Morphodynamic Hierarchy and the Fabric of the Sedimentary Record, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 47(14), [e2020GL087921], https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087921.
Straub, K. M., R. A. Duller, B. Z. Foreman, and E. Hajek, (2020). Buffered, Incomplete, and Shredded: The Challenges of Reading an Imperfect Stratigraphic Record, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, v. 125(3), [e2019JF005079], https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JF005079.
Chamberlin, E. P. and E. Hajek, (2019). Using bar preservation to constrain reworking in channel-dominated fluvial stratigraphy, Geology, v. 47(6), pp. 531-534, https://doi.org/10.1130/G46046.1.
