Education
Ph.D. 2007, Virginia Tech, Geosciences
M.S. 2003, Virginia Tech, Geological Sciences
B.S. 1998, University of California, Los Angeles, Geology
Professional Geologist No. 8544 (California)
Professional Experience
2024-Present, Hydrologist 4, Hydrology & Surficial Geology, Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys
2023-2024, Hydrologist 3, Public Access Assertion and Defense, Division of Mining, Land and Water
2021-2023, Hydrologist 2, Public Access Assertion and Defense, Division of Mining, Land and Water
2021, Adjunct Instructor, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK
2019-2020, Instructor, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile
2015-2019, Researcher/Adjunct Professor, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
2012-2015, Postdoctoral Fellow, Università di Napoli "Federico II", Naples, Italy
2010-2012, Research Assistant, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany
2007-2010, Earth Scientist, Chevron, Bakersfield, CA
1998-2001, Staff Geologist, Hydrologue, Inc., Pasadena, CA
Selected Publications
- Hernández-Prat, L., Cannatelli, C., Godoy, B., Astudillo Manosalva, D., Morata, D., and Buscher, J.T., 2023, Amphibole recycling and polybaric crystallization in rhyolitic lava domes from melt inclusion geochemistry at Cerro La Torta, Altiplano-Puna Volcanic Complex: Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 130, p. 1-15.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2023.104569
- Aruta, A., Albanese, S., Daniele, L., Cannatelli, C., Buscher, J.T., De Vivo, B., Petrik, A., Cicchella, D., and Lima, A., 2022, A new approach to assess the degree of contamination and determine sources and risks related to PTEs in an urban environment: the case study of Santiago (Chile): Environmental Geochemistry and Health, v. 45, p. 275-297.https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10653-021-01185-6
- Daniele, L., Cannatelli, C., Buscher, J.T., and Bonatici, G., 2019, Chemical composition of Chilean bottled waters: Anomalous values and possible effects on human health: Science of the Total Environment, v. 689, p. 526-533.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.165
- Valente, E., Buscher, J.T., Jourdan, F., Petrosino, P., Reddy, S.M., Tavani, S., Corradetti, A., and Ascione, A., 2019, Constraining mountain front tectonic activity in extensional setting from geomorphology and Quaternary stratigraphy: A case study from the Matese ridge, southern Apennines: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 219, p. 47-67.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.07.001
- Ascione, A., Ciotoli, G., Bigi, S., Buscher, J.T., Mazzoli, S., Ruggiero, L., Sciarra, A., Tartarello, M.C., and Valente, E., 2018, Assessing mantle versus crustal sources for non-volcanic degassing along fault zones in the actively extending southern Apennines mountain belt (Italy): Geological Society of America, Bulletin, v. 130, p. 1697-1722.https://doi.org/10.1130/B31869.1
- Petrik, A., Thiombane, M., Lima, A., Albanese, S., Buscher, J.T., and De Vivo, B., 2018, Soil contamination compositional index: A new approach to quantify contamination demonstrated by assessing compositional source patterns of potentially toxic elements in the Campania Region (Italy): Applied Geochemistry, v. 96, p. 264-276.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2018.07.014
- Buscher, J.T., Ascione, A., and Valente, E., 2017, Decoding the role of tectonics, incision and lithology on drainage divide migration in the Mt. Alpi region, southern Apennines, Italy: Geomorphology, v. 276, p. 37-50.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.10.003
- Valentino, J.D., Spotila, J.A., Owen, L.A., and Buscher, J.T., 2016, Rock uplift at the transition from flat-slab to normal subduction: The Kenai Mountains, Southeast Alaska: Tectonophysics, v. 671, p. 63-75.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2016.01.022
- Mazzoli, S., Ascione, A., Buscher, J.T., Pignalosa, A., Valente, E., and Zattin, M., 2014, Low-angle normal faulting and focused exhumation associated with late Pliocene change in tectonic style in the southern Apennines (Italy): Tectonics, v. 33 (9), p. 1802-1818.https://doi.org/10.1002/2014TC003608
- Niemi, N.A., Buscher, J.T., Spotila, J.A., House, M.A., and Kelley, S.A., 2013, Insights from low-temperature thermochronometry into transpressional deformation and crustal exhumation along the San Andreas fault in the western Transverse Ranges, California: Tectonics, v. 32, 1602-1622.https://doi.org/10.1002/2013TC003377
- Buscher, J.T., Hampel, A., Hetzel, R., Dunkl, I., Glotzbach, C., Struffert, A., Akal, C., and Rätz, M., 2013, Quantifying rates of detachment faulting and erosion in the central Menderes Massif (western Turkey) by thermochronology and cosmogenic 10Be: Journal of the Geological Society, London, v. 170, p. 669-683.https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2012-132
- Berger, A.L., Spotila, J.A., Chapman, J.B., Pavlis, T.L., Enkelmann, E., Ruppert, N.A., and Buscher, J.T., 2008, Architecture, kinematics, and exhumation of a convergent orogenic wedge: A thermochronological investigation of tectonic-climatic interactions within the central St. Elias orogen, Alaska: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 270, p. 13-24.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2008.02.034
- Buscher, J.T., Berger, A.L., and Spotila, J.A., 2008, Exhumation in the Chugach-Kenai Mountain belt above the Aleutian subduction zone, southern Alaska, in Freymueller, J.T., Haeussler, P.J., Wesson, R.L., and Ekström, G., eds., Active Tectonics and Seismic Potential of Alaska: American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph, v. 179, p. 151-166.https://doi.org/10.1029/179GM08
- Spotila, J.A., Niemi, N., Brady, R., House, M., Buscher, J.T., and Oskin, M., 2007, Long-term continental deformation associated with transpressive plate motion: The San Andreas fault: Geology, v. 35, p. 967-970.https://doi.org/10.1130/G23816A.1
- Buscher, J.T., and Spotila, J.A., 2007, Near-field response to transpression along the southern San Andreas fault, based on exhumation of the northern San Gabriel Mountains, southern California: Tectonics, v. 26, TC5004, p. 1-15.https://doi.org/10.1029/2006TC002017
- Spotila, J.A., House, M.A., Niemi, N.A., Brady, R.C., Oskin, M., and Buscher, J.T., 2007, Patterns of bedrock uplift along the San Andreas fault and implications for mechanisms of transpression: Geological Society of America, Special Paper, v. 434, p. 15-33.https://doi.org/10.1130/2007.2434(02)
- Spotila, J.A., Buscher, J.T., Meigs, A.J., and Reiners, P.W., 2004, Long-term glacial erosion of active mountain belts: Example of the Chugach/St. Elias Range, Alaska: Geology, v. 32, p. 501-504.https://doi.org/10.1130/G20343.1
