Education
2013 – Ph.D., Geological Sciences, Arizona State University
2007 – M.S., Geological Sciences, Arizona State University
2004 – B.S., Geological Sciences, University of Michigan

Appointments
2014 – present: Research Associate, Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University
2015 – present: New Opportunities, Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium
2013 – 2014: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, Occidental College
2004 – 2013: Graduate research and teaching assistant, and various fellowships (ASU)

Research Interests
– Geologic context of human evolution in Africa
– Extensional tectonics and sedimentary basin development
– Geochronology and tephrostratigraphy of explosive volcanic deposits

Fellowships and Recognition
2013 – ASU Summer Ph.D. Student Research Award
2013 – GeoPRISMS Student Prize Honorable Mention for AGU Oral Presentation
2012 – ASU Graduate College Dissertation Fellowship
2010 – 2012 NASA/ASU Space Grant Fellowship
2010 – GeoPRISMS Implementation Workshop: Outstanding Poster Presentation
2009 – NSF Graduate STEM Fellowship in GK-12 Education
2007 – ASU Faculty Women’s Association Certificate of Distinguished Achievement
2004 – 2006 – ASU Graduate Scholar Fellow
2004 – University of Michigan Camp Davis Field Geologist Award
2002 – NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program at JPL/Caltech
2001 – Research Training Program: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Grants
2016 – Gladys Snyder Junior Faculty Grant, PSU College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
2015 – NASA/Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium Seed Grant
2015 – NSF (BCS – Archaeology) Collaborative Research: Paleoanthropology of the Ledi-Geraru: Filling in a temporal gap in hominin evolution (co-PI)
2011 – Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) Student Research Grant, John Sanders Fund
2011 – Philanthropic Education Organization (P.E.O.) Scholar Award ($15,000 award)
2010 – American Assoc. of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Foundation Arthur A. Meyerhoff Memorial Grant
2009 – Geological Society of America (GSA) Student Research Grant
2009 – ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration Comprehensive Exam Proposal Award
2009 – ASU Graduate and Professional Student Association JumpStart Research Grant
2008 – ASU Graduate and Professional Student Association Travel Grant

Teaching
Water: Science and Society, Penn State World Campus, InTeGrate, Earth 111 (spring 2017)
First Year Seminar, Penn State University, EMS 100 (fall 2016)
Field Geology I, Penn State University, Geosc  472 (summer 2016, 2017)
Mapping in ArcGIS, Penn State University, Geosc  497 (spring 2016, co-taught with R. DiBiase)
Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, Occidental College, Geo 315 (spring 2014)
Introductory Geology and Lab, Occidental College, Geo 105 (fall 2013, spring 2014)
Geology Field Methods, Occidental College, Geo 224 (fall 2013, co-taught with A. Blythe)

Synergistic Activities
– GeoPRISMS Theoretical and Exp. Institute on Rift Initiation and Evolution. Albuquerque, NM (Feb., 2017)
– African Rift Valley Research Consortium (ARVRC) workshop. New York, NY (Oct., 2016)
– NASA Space Grant Consortium Mid Atlantic Meeting. Baltimore, MD (Sept., 2016)
– African Rift Valley Research Consortium (ARVRC) workshop. Cleveland, OH (Sept., 2015)
– Tephra 2014 – Maximizing the potential of tephra for multidisciplinary science. Portland, OR   (Aug., 2014)
– GeoPRISMS Planning Workshop for the East African Rift System. Morristown, NJ (Oct., 2012)
– Magmatic Rifting and Active Volcanism Conference, Afar Rift Consortium. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Jan. 2012)
– GeoPRISMS Implementation Workshop: Rift Initiation and Evolution. Santa Fe, NM (Nov., 2010)
– Short Course: Volcano-magma systems with emphasis on explosive processes and deposits. University of Potsdam, Germany. Instructor: Dr. Hans-Ulrich Schmincke (Sept., 2010)
– NSF GK-12 National Meeting in Washington, DC (March, 2010)
– Rupturing Continental Lithosphere: Synthesis and New Perspectives (MARGINS). Charleston, SC (May 2009)
– Scientific Drilling for Human Origins: Exploring the Application of Drill Core Records to Understanding Hominin Evolution workshop. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Nov., 2008)
– IAVCEI General Assembly Meeting in Reykavík, Iceland (Aug., 2008)
– Int’l Workshop on East African Geodynamics, Climate, Lakes and Evolution. Potsdam, Germany (Oct., 2008)
– Optical Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) short course. Utah State University, Utah (June 2008)
– Microstratigraphy and Taphonomy Field Course in Olorgesailie, Kenya (Summer 2005)

Media and Outreach
2015 to present – Visited middle and high school science classrooms in PA to promote undergraduate earth science opportunities
2010 to present – Created and maintain an education outreach project (SciNews). Provides lessons on current events to K-12 educators around the world: SciNews website.
2015 – Interviewed on KVMR 89.5 FM on the hominin jaw discovery
2015 – Skype interview for the evening news on TV Blobo in Brazil on the geology of the hominin site.
2003 – 2012 – Arizona Ambassador in the JPL/NASA Solar System Ambassador Program
2010 – 2011 – NSF GK-12 Fellow: Assisted teaching in 7th grade science classroom two days per week for one year, created inquiry-based lessons.
2004 – 2012 – Geoscience Education Outreach in K-12 Classrooms

Student Advising
Gina Sarkawi (PSU Geosciences; BS expected 2018)

Professional Affiliations
American Geophysical Union, Geological Society of America

Publications
[7] DiMaggio, E.N., Arrowsmith, J R., Campisano, C.J., Johnson, R., Deino, A.L., Warren, M., Fisseha, S., Cohen, A.S., Tephrostratigraphy and depositional environments of young (<2.94 Ma) Hadar Formation deposits at Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia, Journal of African Earth Sciences (2015), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2015.09.018 [link]

[6] DiMaggio, E. N., Campisano, C. J., Rowan, J., Dupont-Nivet, G., Deino, A. L., Bibi, F., Lewis, M. E., Souron, A., Werdelin, L., Reed, K. E., and Arrowsmith, J R., 2015, Late Pliocene fossiliferous sedimentary record and the environmental context of early Homo from Afar, Ethiopia: Science. Published online 4 March 2015 [DOI:10.1126/science.aaa1415] [View Abstract | View Full Text | Download Reprint]

[5] Villmoare, B., Kimbel, W.H., Seyoum, C., Campisano, C.J., DiMaggio, E., Rowan, J., Braun, D.R., Arrowsmith, J.R., Reed, K.E., 2015. Early Homo at 2.8 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia. Science. Published online 4 March 2015 [DOI:10.1126/science.aaa1314] [link]

[4] DiMaggio, E.N., Campisano, C.J., Arrowsmith, J R., Reed, K.E., Swisher, C.C., III, and Lockwood, C.A., 2008, Correlation and stratigraphy of the BKT-2 volcanic complex in west-central Afar, Ethiopia, in Quade, J., and Wynn, J.G., eds., The Geology of Early Humans in the Horn of Africa: Geological Society of America Special Paper 446, doi: 10.1130/2008.2446(07). [link]

[3] Roman, D.C., Campisano, C.J., Quade, J., DiMaggio, E.N., Arrowsmith, J R., and Feibel, C., 2008, Composite tephrostratigraphy of the Dikika, Gona, Hadar, and Ledi-Geraru project areas, northern Awash, Ethiopia, in Quade, J., and Wynn, J.G., eds., The Geology of Early Humans in the Horn of Africa: Geological Society of America Special Paper 446, doi: 10.1130/2008.2446(05). [link]

[2] Dupont-Nivet, G., Sier, M., Campisano, C.J., Arrowsmith, J R., DiMaggio, E., Reed, K., Lockwood, C., Franke, C., and Hüsing, S., 2008, Magnetostratigraphy of the eastern Hadar Basin (Ledi-Geraru research area, Ethiopia) and implications for hominin paleoenvironments, in Quade, J., and Wynn, J.G., eds., The Geology of Early Humans in the Horn of Africa: Geological Society of America Special Paper 446, doi: 10.1130/2008.2446(03). [link]

[1] Golombek, M.P., Haldemann, A.F.C., Forsberg-Taylor, N.K., DiMaggio, E.N., Schroeder, R.D., Jakosky, B.M., Mellon, M.T., and Matijevic, J.R.., 2003, Rock size-frequency distributions on Mars and implications for Mars Exploration Rover landing safety and operations: Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets., 108(E12), 8086 doi:10.1029/2002JE002035. [link]

Other Publications
Villmoare, B., Kimbel, W.H., Seyoum, C., Campisano, C.J., DiMaggio, E., Rowan, J., Braun, D.R., Arrowsmith, J R., Reed, K.E., 2015. Response to Comment on “Early Homo at 2.8 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia”. Science 348, 1326.

DiMaggio, E.N., 2013, The geologic history of central and eastern Ledi-Geraru, Afar Depression, Ethiopia [Ph.D. dissertation]: Arizona State University, 555 p. [link]

DiMaggio, E.N., 2007, Volcanic and stratigraphic characterization of Pliocene tephra from the Ledi-Geraru region of Afar, Ethiopia [MS. thesis]: Arizona State University, 120 p.

Conference Abstracts
DiMaggio, E.N., Arrowsmith, J R., Campisano, C., Garello, D., 2016, Trace element investigation of tephras from the Ledi-Geraru paleontological site in Afar, Ethiopia, Abstract T51C-2919 presented at the 2016 Fall Meeting, AGU,  San Francisco, Calif., 12-16 Dec.

DiMaggio, E.N., Campisano, C.J., Rowan J., Dupont-Nivet, G., Deino, A., Garello, D., Reed, K., Arrowsmith, R J., 2015, Late Pliocene fossiliferous sedimentary record and the environmental context of early Homo from Afar, Ethiopia. Abstract 102-7 presented at 2015 Annual Meeting, GSA, Baltimore, Maryland, 1-4 November. Oral presentation.

DiMaggio, E.N., Arrowsmith, J R., Campisano, C., Johnson, R., Deino, A., Warren, M., Fisseha, S., Cohen, A., 2014, Investigations of young (<2.94 Ma) Hadar Formation deposits and their implication for basin development in southern Afar, Ethiopia, Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T53B-4681.

DiMaggio, E., Arrowsmith, J R., Campisano, C.J., Deino, A.L., Garello, D., 2014, Tephrochronology of rare Plio-Pleistocene fossiliferous strata in south-central Afar, Ethiopia. Presented at: Tephra 2014 – Maximizing the potential of tephra for multidisciplinary science, Portland, Oregon, 3-7 August.

DiMaggio, E.N., Arrowsmith, J.R., Campisano, C.J., and Deino, A., 2013, Tephrochronology of rare Plio-Pleistocene fossiferous strata in south-central Afar, Ethiopia., Abstract T13G-03 presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 9-13 Dec.

DiMaggio, E.N., Arrowsmith, J.R., Campisano, C.J., Reed, K., and Deino, A., 2012, Late Pliocene – Early Pleistocene geologic history of Eastern Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia: implications for the evolution of the southern Afar Depression and hominin paleoenvironments, Abstract T52B-02 presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 3-7 Dec. (invited)

DiMaggio, E.N., 2011, SciNews: Incorporating Science Current Events in 21st Century Classrooms, Abstract ED51A-0743 presented at 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 5-9 Dec.

DiMaggio, E.N., Campisano, C.J., Arrowsmith, J R., Reed, K., and Deino, A., 2011, Ar Radiometric Ages of Rare Plio-Pleistocene strata for Interpreting Basin Evolution and Hominin Paleoenvironments in Southern Afar: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 42, no. 5, p. 336.

DiMaggio, E.N., 2010, Incorporating Science News Into Middle School Curricula: Current Events in the 21st Century Classroom: EOS Trans. AGU Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract ED21C-0692.

DiMaggio, E.N., Arrowsmith, J R., Reed, K., Campisano, C.J., 2009, Filling the temporal gap in Plio-Pleistocene sedimentological records from the southern Afar Depression, Ethiopia: EOS Trans. AGU, 90 (52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract EP53A-0622.

DiMaggio, E.N., Campisano, C.J., Arrowsmith, J R., Dupont-Nivet, G., Johnson, R.A., Warren, M.B., 2008, Sedimentary Basin Structure of the Hadar Formation’s Lacustrine-Dominated Depocenter (Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia) and its Relevance for Investigating Hominin Paleoenvironments, Eos Trans. AGU 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP13E-07.

Campisano, C.J., DiMaggio, E.N., Arrowsmith, J R., Kimbel, W.H., Reed, K.E., Robinson, S.E., Schoville, B.J., 2008, Merging Disparate Data Sources Into a Paleoanthropological Geodatabase for Research, Education, and Conservation in the Greater Hadar Region (Afar, Ethiopia), Eos Trans. AGU 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract IN32A-05.

DiMaggio, E.N., Campisano, C.J., Arrowsmith, J R., Clarke, A.B., 2007, Depositional environments and volcanic characterization of the BKT-2 Volcanic Complex in Afar, Ethiopia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, no. 6, p. 173.

DiMaggio, E. N., La Roca, N., Arrowsmith, J R., Diez-Castillo, A., Bernabeu, J., Barton, C.M., 2007, Field investigations of landscape development in southeast Spain for use in modeling Holocene (8,000 – 1,5000 yr) agropastoral landuse and landscape interactions: EOS Trans. AGU, 88 (52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract GC13A-0946.

DiMaggio, E. N., Campisano, C. J., Arrowsmith, J R., Reed, K. and Lockwood, C. A., 2006, Geochemistry and Tephrochronology of the BKT-2 and Kada Hadar Tephras in the Middle Ledi Geraru Region of Afar, Ethiopia: EOS Trans. AGU, 87 (52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V53C-1765.

DiMaggio, E. N., Arrowsmith, J. R., Barton, C. M, Sarjoughian, H S, Fall, P., Falconer, S. E and Ullah, I.I., 2006, Geomorphic Mapping and Paleoterrain Generation for use in Modeling Holocene (8,000 – 1,500 yr) Agropastoral Landuse and Landscape Interactions in Southeast Spain: EOS Trans. AGU, 87 (52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract GC51A-0453.

DiMaggio E.N., Schroeder R.D., Golombek M.P., Haldemann A.F.C., and Castle N, 2003, Characterization of Martian rock shape for MER airbag drop tests. Lunar and Planetary Science XXXIV Abst #1589.

Rougvie, J.R., DiMaggio, E.N., Sorensen, S.S., 2001, Polymetasomatic history of ashflow tuff and geochemical evolution during contact metamorphism, Mammoth Crest, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, no. 6, p. 18.