Robert Brinkmann. Ph.D.

Professor, Geography

Chair, Department of Environmental Science and Policy

503 Fern Cliff Ave.

Temple Terrace, FL  33617

(813) 984-8937

 
 


University of South Florida

Environmental Science and Policy, SCA 238

Tampa, Florida 33620   

(813) 974-2978

rbrinkmn@chuma1.cas.usf.edu

 

Education:

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Ph.D., Geography, 1989

Dissertation: Lead Pollution in Soils of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

 

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: M.S., Geology, 1986

Thesis: Glacial Geology and Pleistocene History of the Eau Galle Drainage Basin, West-Central Wisconsin

 

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh: B.S., Geology, 1982

 

Publications:

 

Books

 

2001 Brinkmann, R. and Tobin, G., Urban Sediment Removal:  The Science, Policy, and Management of Street Sweeping. Klewer Academic Press.

 

1997  Grolier, M., Brinkmann, R., and Blakely, J.A. (eds), 1996, The Wadi al-Judah Project: Environmental Research in Support of Archaeological Investigations in the Yemen Arab Republic, 1982-1987, American Foundation for the Study of Man: Washington, D.C., 469 p.

 

Book Chapters

 

1997  Brinkmann, R., Sinkholes in Florida, in Oldakowski, R., Molina, L., Purdum, B., eds., Growth Technology, Planning and Geographic Education in Central Florida: Images and Encounters, p. 111 – 116.

 

          Brinkmann, R., Pedological Characteristics of Anthrosols in the al-Jadidah Basin of Wadi al-Jubah, and Native Sediments in Wadi al-Ajwirah, Yemen Arab Republic in Grolier, M.J., Brinkmann, R., and Blakely, J.A., eds., The Wadi al-Jubah Archaeological Project: Volume 5 Environmental Research in Support of Archaeological Investigations in the Yemen Arab Republic, 1982 - 1987, p. 45 – 211.

 

          Brinkmann, R., Thermoluminescence Analysis of Anthrosol from the Wadi al-Jubah Area, Yemen Arab Republic in Grolier, M.J., Brinkmann, R., and Blakely, J.A., eds., The Wadi al-Jubah Archaeological Project: Volume 5 Environmental Research in Support of Archaeological Investigations in the Yemen Arab Republic, 1982 - 1987, p. 213 – 214.

 

          Brinkmann, R. and Ghaleb A.O., Late Pleistocene Mollisol and Cumulic Fluvents near Ibb, Yemen Arab Republic in Grolier, M.J., Brinkmann, R., and Blakely, J.A., eds., The Wadi al-Jubah Archaeological Project: Volume 5 Environmental Research in Support of Archaeological Investigations in the Yemen Arab Republic, 1982 - 1987, p. 251 – 258.

 

          Vitaliano, C. and Brinkmann, R., Bronze-Age remains at Kawlah al-Lajamah, Yemen Arab Republic in Grolier, M.J., Brinkmann, R., and Blakely, J.A., eds., The Wadi al-Jubah Archaeological Project: Volume 5 Environmental Research in Support of Archaeological Investigations in the Yemen Arab Republic, 1982 - 1987 , p. 309 – 329.

 

1992  Blakely, J.A., Brinkmann, R., and Vitaliano, C.J., 1992, Roman mortaria and basins from a sequence at Caesarea: fabrics and sources, in Vann, R.L., Caesarea papers: Straton's Tower, Herod's Harbour, and Roman and Byzantine Caesarea, p. 194-213.

 

1989  Bennett Jr., J.W., Blakely, J.A., Brinkmann, R. and Vitaliano, C.J., 1989, The provenience postulate: Thoughts on the use of physical and chemical data in the study of ceramic materials, in Blakely, J.A. and Bennett Jr., W.J., Analysis and Publication of Ceramics, The Data-base in Archaeology: British Archaeological Reports pp. 31-44.

 

1988  Overstreet, W.C, Eidt, R.C., Brinkmann, R., Detra, D.E., and Chao, T.T., 1988, Orientation survey using phosphate fractionation to distinguish anthrosols from native sediments in the Wadi 'al-Jubah archaeological area, Yemen Arab Republic, in Overstreet, W.C., Grolier, M.J., and Toplyn, M.R., The Wadi 'al-Jubah archaeological project V. 4, Geological and archaeological reconnaissance in the Yemen Arab Republic, 1985, pp. 121-154.

 

1987  Brinkmann, R. with Bennett, M.E., Bennett, F.J., and Blakely, J.A.,1987, Petrologic and heavy mineral analysis of selected amphora fragments, in Horton, F.L. ed., Caesarea Maritima the pottery and dating of vault 1: Horreium, Mithraeum, and later uses, New York, Edwin Mellen Press, pp. 227-248.

 

Refereed Articles

 

2002  Tobin, G.A. and Brinkmann, R, The effectiveness of street sweepers in

removing pollutants from road surfaces in Florida.  Journal of Environmental Science and Health, V. A37, p 1687-1700.

 

2000  Tobin, G.A., Brinkmann, R. and Montz, B.E., Flooding and the Distribution of Selected Metals in Floodplain Sediments in St. Maries, Idaho. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, Vol. 22, pp. 219-232.

 

Brinkmann, R., Montz, B.E. and Tobin, G.A.Lead Pollution in Flooded and Non-Flooded Areas in St. Maries, Idaho.  Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A: Toxic Hazardous Substances and Environmental Engineering, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 407-417.

 

1999  Brinkmann R. and Ryan, J. Trace metal characteristics of street sweeping sediment in Tampa, Florida, University of Binghamton  Department of Geography Occasional Papers, V 23, No. 1, p. 1-16..

 

1998 Reeder, P. and Brinkmann R., Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of an Oligocene-aged island remnant in Florida, USA, Cave and Karst Science, V. 25, p. 7-13.

 

1997  Newsome, T.,  Aranguren, F., and Brinkmann, R.,  Lead contamination adjacent to roadways in Trujillo, Venezuela, Professional Geographer, V. 49, p. 331-341.

                            

1996  Hafen, M. and Brinkmann, R., Analusis of Lead in Soils Adjacent to an Interstate Highway in Tampa, Florida, Journal of Environmental Geochemistry and Health, V. 18, p. 171-179.

 

Reeder, P. , Alt, E., and Brinkmann, R., Karstification on the Northern Vaca Plateau, Belize, The Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, V. 58, p. 121-130.

 

1995  Brinkmann, R. and  Reeder, P., The relationship between surface soils and cave sediments: An example from west central Florida, USA, Cave and Karst Science, V. 22, p. 95-102.

 

          Laura Banker, Philip Reeder, and Robert Brinkmann, A toposequence of soils in the karst of west-central Florida, U.S.A., Journal of the Speleological Society of Korea, V. 42, p. 41-63.


 

1994  Brinkmann, R., and Reeder,  P. , The influence of sea-level change and geologic structure on cave development in west-central Florida, Physical Geography, V. 15, p. 52-61.

 

Brinkmann, R., Lead pollution in soils adjacent to homes in Tampa, Florida, Environmental Geochemistry and Health, V. 16, p. 59-64.

 

Brinkmann, R., Lead pollution in soils in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A Environmental Science and Engineering: V. 29, p. 909-920.

 

Dunlap, S. and Brinkmann, R.,  The Centro Asturiano Cemetery: an immigrant landmark in twentieth century Florida, Gulf Coast Historical Review, V. 9, p. 68-79.

 

1990  Brinkmann, R., and Deller, H., 1990, Alfred Waud's Wisconsin: Images from the gilded age, Wisconsin Academy Review, V. 36, No. 3, p. 3-7.

 

1989  Blakely, J.A., Brinkmann, R., and Vitaliano, C.J., 1989, Pompeian Red Ware: Processing archaeological ceramic data, Geoarchaeology, V. 4 No. 3, p 201-228.

 

Articles in Edited Proceedings

 

2002  Brinkmann, R. and Khator, R. Electronics Waste in the United States-a Review.  In Tobin, G.A. and Montz, B.E. (Eds.) Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conferences, p. 123-128.

 

2000  Tobin, G.A. and Brinkmann, R. Lead Pollution in Soils Adjacent to Bus Stops in Tampa, Florida.  In F.A. Schoolmaster (Ed.)  Papers and Proceedings of Applied Geography Conferences, Vol. 23, pp.

 

1999  Tobin, G.A., Brinkmann, R. and Montz, B.E. The Impacts of Flooding and Land-Use on the Distribution of Lead in Floodplain Sediments.  In F.A. Schoolmaster (Ed.)  Papers and Proceedings of Applied Geography Conferences, Vol. 22, pp. 115-122.

 

          Brinkmann, R. and Tobin, G.A. Geographic Implications of Urban Street Sweeping Protocols: The Need for Further Research. In F.A. Schoolmaster (Ed.)  Papers and Proceedings of Applied Geography Conferences, Vol. 22, pp. 3-10.

 

1997  Brinkmann, R.,  Happel, S.B., Hagge, J., and Lewis, J., Comprehensive Mapping of Lead Poisoning and Lead Contamination in Tampa, Florida, in Aangeenbrug, R.T., Leaverton, P.E., Mason, T.J. and Tobin, G.A., Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Mapping in Epidemiology and Environmental Health, pp. 237-245.

 

 

 

 

Reviewed Reports

 

2000  Brinkmann, R. Tobin, G.A., Ryan, J., Barco, J. and DelMasto, M. 2000, Street Sweeping and Storm Water Runoff. Phase II: Testing the Effectiveness of Different Street Sweeping Strategies.  Technical Report prepared for Florida Department of Transportation District 7. pp.227 + Appendices A - E pp. 350.

 

1999 Brinkmann, R., Tobin, G., and Ryan, J.  1999, Street Sweeping and Storm Water Runoff:  Phase 1:  Determining the Most Effective Street Sweeper, 106 p.

 

          Brinkmann, R., and Ryan, J.,  Chemical and Physical Composition of Street Sediments, FCSHWM, Gainesville, 120 p.

 

1997  Brinkmann, R., and Ryan, J.  Background Concentration of Metals in               Florida Soils, FCSHWM,Gainesville,  51 p.

 

1995  Stewart, M., Lei, D., Aangeenbrug, R., Brinkmann, R. and Dunlap,  S., Time series mapping of geological and hydrological features related to subsidence Pinellas County: Pinellas County, Florida.

 

Brinkmann, R., Lindberg, M., 1995, Analysis of the Florida Future Land Use Map: Center for Urban Transportation Research, 10 p.

 

1994  with Bennett and others, 1994, Geomorphological Landscape Analysis and Cultural Resource Survey, Area 3 Fort Chaffee. Arkansas: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Report, 125 p.

 

1993  with Bennett and others, 1993, Archeological Investigations at Seventeen Euro-American Farmsteads Fort Chaffee, Arkansas: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Report, 237 p.

 

1992  with Bennett and others, 1992, Archeological Investigations in the Lower Lee Creek Valley: City of Fort Smith Project No. 89-07, 273 p.

 

with Bennett and others, 1992, An Intensive Archeological Survey of the Hosselkus Unit. Greenville Ranger District, Plumas National Forest, Plumas County, California: Plumas National Forest Project No. 53-9A13-1-1K-25, 162 p.

 

 

 

with Bennett and others, 1992, An Intensive Archeological Survey of the Boyle and Deanes Compartments, Quincy Ranger District Plumas National Forest, Plumas County, California: Plumas National Forest Project No. 53-9A13-1-1K-25, 188 p.

 

1991  with Flick, G., and Goldstein, L. 1991, Walworth County: Whitewater Effigy Mound Park, in Goldstein, L., The Southeastern Wisconsin Archaeology Program: 1990-1991, UW-M Archaeology Research Laboratory Report of Investigations No. 107, pp. 22-30.

 

1990  with Blakely, J.A., 1990, Heavy mineral analysis of eight Sherds from Site 3PO490: in: Excavations at the Priestly Site (3PO490) an Emergent Mississippian Community in Northeastern Arkansas, Center For Archaeological Research, Southwest Missouri State University, pp. 538-542.

 

Unrefereed Articles

 

1997  Brinkmann, R.,  Ryan, J., and Billus, M., Geochemical characteristics of street sweepings in Tampa, Florida, Fifth Annual Research Symposium Florida Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management, Gainesville, Florida, pp.

 

1996  Brinkmann, R., and Ryan, J., Background concentrations of metals in Florida soils, in anonymous, Fourth Annual Research Symposium, Florida Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management, Gainesville, Florida, pp. 50-57.

 

Brinkmann, R., and Archer, K., Picturesque West Virginia: A post Civil War geography revisited, in  anonymous, Eighth Biennial Conference on Appalachian Geography, Concord, West Virginia, pp. 21-31.

 

1995  with M. Stewart and J.B. Terry, Time Series Mapping of Geological and Hydrological Features Related to Subsidence, Pinellas County, Florida, in anonymous, ed., Proceedings of the GIS/LIS Conference.


 

1988  with C. Hauser, The effect of Quarrying activities in Berlin Wisconsin on the local community, in anonymous, ed., Wisconsin and Its Region: LaCrosse, LaCrosse, Wisconsin: pp. 234-253.

 

1982  with Tellock, P.A., Geology of the Berlin Rhyolite, p 21-28 in 14th Annual University of Wisconsin Undergraduate Geology Field Conference Fieldbook: Oshkosh Wisconsin, UW-Oshkosh, p. 54.

 

Editor

 

1991  Urban Wetlands of the Tampa Bay Region: A Fieldtrip Guidebook: Tampa, Florida, University of South Florida Department of Geography, unpaginated.

 

 

Papers Presented:

 

National Meetings

 

2002 “Variations in Street Sweeping Management and Implications for

StormWater Quality in the United States.”  Presented at the Association of American Geography Meeting in Los Angeles, CA in March 2002 with Tobin, G.

 

          “Electronics Waste in the United States:  A Review.”  Presented at the

Annual Meeting of the Applied Geography Conferences, in Binghamton,

NY in October, 2002 with Renu Khator.

 

2001  “Seasonal Variability of trace Metals in Street Sweeping.”  Presented at the Association of American Geography Meeting in New York, New York in March 2001 with Tobin, G.

 

2000  Lead Hazard: Pollution in Soils Adjacent to  Bus Stops in Tampa, Florida”.  Presented at the Twenty-Third Annual Applied Geography Conferences, Tampa, Florida in November 2000, with Tobin, G.

 

“Testing Street Sweeper Effectiveness in Reducing Storm Water Pollution in Florida”, presented at the Association of American Geographers Meeting in March 2000, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with Tobin, G.

 

 

1999  “Chemical and physical composition of street sweeping in Tampa, Florida”, presented at the Association of American Geographers Meeting in March, 1999.

 

“Impacts of Flooding and Land-Use on Lead Levels in Floodplain Sediments”, with Tobin, G., and Montz, B., presented at the Applied Geographers Meeting in Charlotte, NC in October, 1999.

 

1998    “Street sweeping as an environmental management tool” with Graham Tobin presented at the Applied Geographers Meeting in October, 1998.

 

“Environmental impacts of flooding:  An examination of soil contamination in a small town” with Graham Tobin and Burrell Montz presented at the Association of American Geographers Meeting in March, 1998.

 

 

 

1997  “Problems with wetland soil classification in Florida” with Jason Winoker presented at the Applied Geographers Meeting in October, 1997.

 

"Geoarchaeological investigations of soils at Aztalan State Park, Wisconsin" with Lynne Goldstein presented at the Association of American Geographers Meeting in March, 1997.

 

1996  "Background concentrations of metals in Florida's wetland soils" with Jeffrey Ryan presented at the Applied Geographers Meeting in October, 1996.

 

"A soil toposequence in west-central Florida" with Joe Garcia presented at the Association of American Geographers Meeting in March, 1996.

 

1995  "Lead pollution in Venezuela: data sources and preliminary research" with Tracy Newsome and Freddy Aranguren presented at the URISA conference in July, 1995.

 

"The influence of human burials on soil formation" with Lynne Goldstein presented at the Association of American Geographers meeting in March, 1995.

 

"Comprehensive Lead Mapping in Tampa, Floridan with Jordan Lewis and Joe Hagge presented at the International Symposium on Computer Mapping in Epidemiology and Environmental Health in February, 1995.

 

1994  "Geoarchaeological Techniques and an Historic Russian Cemetery at Fort Ross State Park, Sonoma County, California" with Lynne Goldstein presented at the national meeting of the A.A.G., April, 1994.

 

"Socio-Economic Status and Quality of Living Environment in Tampa, Florida" with Shelly B. Happel presented at the national meeting of the A.A.G., April, 1994.


 

1993  "Lead Pollution in the Sunbelt" presented at the Mapping Lead Exposure Workshop at the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association Annual Meeting, July, 1993.

 

"Soil Erosion and the Archaeological Record in the Plumas National Forest, Californian with W.J. Bennett Jr. presented at the national meeting of the A.A.G., April 1993.

 

1992  "Lead Pollution in Soils Adjacent to Homes in Tampa, Florida” presented at the national meeting of the A.A.G., April, 1992.

 

1991  "The Human Factor in Soils Systems Analysis" presented at the national meeting of the A.A.G., April, 1991.

 

1990  "Salinity in Ancient Agricultural Anthrosols of South Arabia" presented at the national meeting of the A.A.G., April 1990.

 

1989  "Anthrosols of Wadi 'al-Jubah, Yemen Arab Republic" presented at the National Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, November, 1989

 

          "Lead Pollution in Soils of Milwaukee County" presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers at Baltimore. March, 1989.

 

1985  "Lead Pollution in Northern Milwaukee County Urban Soils" given at the American Society of Agronomy meetings at Kansas State University. March, 1985.

 

          "Lead Pollution Within the Soils of Northern Milwaukee County" given at the National Council of Geographic Education at Breckenridge, Colorado. July, 1985.

 

Regional Meetings

                                   

2001  “The Eastern Mound Group at Aztalan:  Rethinking Barrett’s Interpretation.”  Presented at the Midwest Archaeological Society Annual Meeting in LaCrosse in October 2001 with Goldstein, L.

 

“A Mississippiean “Sculptuary”:  Processing Pits and Sculpted Surfaces South of the Northwest Pyramidal Mound.”  Presented at the Midwest Archaeological Society Annual Meeting in LaCrosse in October 2001 with Goldstein, L.

 

1997  "Cave Sediments and Environmental History" with Phil Reeder presented at the annual meeting of the Florida Society of Geographers

 

1996  "Background concentrations of metals in Florida soils" with Jeffrey Ryan presented at the Fourth Annual Research Symposium sponsored by the Florida Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management.

 

"Picturesque West Virginia: A Post Civil War Geography Revisited" with Kevin Archer presented at the Eighth Biennial Conference on Appalachian Geography.

 

1995    "Defining the bog region of the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia” with Mary Ingham presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers

         

1994  "Sedimentation and Environmental History in Peace Sign Cave, West-Central Florida”

given at the annual meeting of the Florida Society of Geographers, 1994

 

1993  "Caves and Cave Formation in a Portion of the Withlacoochee State Forest, Florida”

given at the annual meeting of the Florida Society of Geographers, 1993


 

1992  "Systems Science, Globalism, and the Environmental Paradigm" given at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association-South, 1992

 

1992  "A Soil Toposequence in the Withlacoochee State Forest, West-central Florida” given at the annual meeting of the Florida Society of Geographers, 1992.

 

1989  "Lead Pollution in soils Around Urban Homes" given at the AAG West Lakes Division and the Wisconsin Geographical Society Joint Annual Meeting. October, 1989.

 

          "The Distribution of Lead in Soil" given at the UW-M Sigma XI Mini-symposium on Science. May, 1989.

 

          "Environmental Contamination as a Social Issue: The Example of Lead Pollution"

given at the Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies. April, 1989.

 

1988  "Distribution of Lead Contamination: an Example from Southeastern Wisconsin" given at the Wisconsin Council for Geographic Education at the University of Wisconsin at Parkside. October, 1988.

 

1988  "The Effect of Quarrying Activities in Berlin Wisconsin on the Local Community" given at the Wisconsin and Its Region Conference at LaCrosse. October, 1988.

 


Guest Lectures

 

1999  Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council, October 29, 1999, USF and FDOT Sponsored Research, with Graham Tobin.

 

University of Nebraska, Omaha, Department of Geology and Geography Lecture Series, “Street Sweeping Issues in Environmental Science”

 

1997  University of South Florida Environmental Science and Policy 

         Colloquium “Geochemical Characteristics of Street Sweepings in Florida”

 

1996  Valdosta State University "A Toposequence in West-Central Florida” 1995 USF Institute on Black Life, "Lead Contamination and Socio-Economic Class"

 

1994  University of South Florida "The Yemen" presented at the Teach-In on Yemen, University of South Florida. Sponsored by the Committee for Middle Eastern Studies

 

1993  Valdosta State University "Unfolding the Mysteries of Ancient South Arabia”

 

1992  University of California Berkeley, Archaeology Field School, "Soils and Geomorphology of the Northern California Coastline" University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Archaeology Field School, "Soils and Archaeology"

 

1991  University of California Berkeley, Archaeology Field School, "Geomorphology of Western Sonoma County, California"

 

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Archaeology Field School, "Soils of Fort Ross, California"

 

1990  University of South Florida, Department of Geography, "Lead Pollution in Soils of Milwaukee County"

 

1989  Geomorphology Field Trip Club Brown Bag Lecture Series, "Geoarchaeology in Arkansas"

 

Geomorphology Field Trip Club Brown Bag Lecture Series, "Man and Soil: Interactions and Interpretation"

 

English as a Second Language Class, UW-Milwaukee, "Urban Soils"

 

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Department of Geography Colloquium, "Lead Pollution in Soils of Milwaukee County"

 

University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, Teachers in Training Program, "Environmental Contamination"

 

Kettle Moraine correctional Facility, "Lead in the Urban Landscape"

 

1988  Sana'a University, Yemen Arab Republic, "Recent Advances in South Arabian Archaeology" with James Sauer, Jusef Abdullah, and Abdu Ghaleb. Translated into the Arabic by Abdu Ghaleb Wisconsin Archaeological Society, "Geoarchaeology Along the Ancient Incense Route of Ancient South Arabian

 

Yemen-America Language Institute, Sana'a, Yemen Arab Republic, "Soil, Science and Archaeology" American Institute for Yemeni Studies, Sana'a, Yemen Arab Republic, "Geoarchaeology of Wadi 'al-Jubah, Yemen Arab Republic"

 

1987  Geomorphology Field Trip Club Brown Bag Lecture Series, "Anthrosols of Wadi 'al-Jubah, Yemen Arab Republic" Geomorphology Field Trip Club Brown Bag Lecture Series, "Lead in the Urban Landscape"

 

1986  Wisconsin Geological Society, "Glacial History of West Central Wisconsin"

 

Teaching Experience

 

2002  Professor, GEO 4210 Geomorphology, GEO4128 Soil Genesis and

Classification.

 

2001  Associate Professor, GEO 3013, Introduction to Physical Geography; EVR 4921, Environmental Science and Policy Senior Seminar.

 

2000  Associate Professor. GEO 3013, Introduction to Physical Geography; EVR 4921, Environmental Science and Policy Senior Seminar.

 

1999  Associate Professor. GEO 2000, Global Geography; GEO 4900, Senior Seminar; GEO 3013, Introduction to Physical Geography; GEO 6209, Seminar on Soils.

 

1998  Associate Professor. GEO 4210, Geomorphology; GEO 3005, World Regional Geography; GEO 4900, Senior Seminar; GEO 1930, Geography of Current Events; GEO 3013, Introduction to Physical Geography; GEO 6210, Advanced Geomorphology.

 

1997  Associate Professor. GEO 2371, Earth Systems Science; GEO 4210, Geomorphology; GEO 3005, World Regional Geography; GEO 4900, Senior Seminar; GEO 6209, Physical Geography Seminar on Soils.

 

1996  Associate Professor. GEO 4200, Soils; GEO 4900, Senior Seminar; GEO 1930, Geography of Current Events; GEO 6209, Physical Geography Seminar on Soils; GEO 2371, Earth Systems Science; GEO 4210, Geomorphology.

 

1995  Associate Professor. GEO 4200, Soils; GEO 4900, Senior Seminar; GEO 1930, Geography of Current Events; GEO 6209, Physical Geography Seminar on Soils.

 

1995  Assistant Professor. GEO 4210, Geomorphology; GEO 2371, Earth Systems Science.

 

1994  Assistant Professor. GEO 6209, Seminar in Physical Geography; GEO 4210, Geomorphology; GEO 3013, Introductory Physical Geography.

 

1993  Assistant Professor. GEO 4114, Field Methods; GEO 3014, Systematic Geography II; GEO 6119, Advanced Techniques and Methodology; GEO 4372, Global Conservation.


 

1992  Assistant Professor. GEO 6209, Seminar in Physical Geography; GEO 4114, Field Methods; GEO 4210, Geomorphology; GEO 3014, Systematic Geography II.

 

1991  Assistant Professor. GEO 6195, Seminar in Advanced Regional Geography; GEO 4210, Physiography; and GEO 3013, Systematic Geography I and GEO 3014, Systematic Geography II; GEO 4274, Hydrology.

 

1990  Assistant Professor. GEO 4279, Hydrology; GEO 6209, Seminar in Physical Geography.

 

Awards

 

1995  Tenure and promotion to Associate Professor, University of South Florida.

 

1994  University of South Florida Undergraduate Teaching Incentive Award.

 

1993  Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of South Florida.

 


Past and Present Associations:

 

Association of American Geographers

Geological Society of America

Soil Science Society of America

International Soil Science Society

Sigma XI

Florida Society of Geographers

The Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health

 

Offices Held:

 

2002-present        Past-Chair, Water Resources Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers

 

2000 – 2002         Chair, Water Resources Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers

 

1998 – 2000         Secretary Treasurer, Water Resources Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers

 

1991 – 1993         Board Member, Florida Geographical Society

 

1988 – 1990         Wisconsin Geographical Society, Vice President

 

 

Committee and Council Memberships:

 

2002

 

2001

 

2000 

·        University of South Florida Task Force on Environmental Studies and Applications (Co-Chair)

·        University of South Florida, College of Arts and Sciences Diversity

 

1999 

·        University of South Florida Task Force on Environmental Studies and Applications (Co-Chair)

·        University of South Florida, College of Arts and Sciences Diversity Committee (Chair) through spring 99, member in Fall

 

1998     

·        University of South Florida Task Force on Environmental Studies and Applications (Co-Chair)

·        University of South Florida, College of Arts and Sciences Diversity Committee (Chair)

 

1997 

·        University of South Florida, College of Arts and Sciences Diversity Committee (Chair)


 

 1996

·        University of South Florida, College of Arts and Sciences Diversity Committee

 

1995 

·        University of South Florida, College of Arts and Sciences Diversity Committee

 

1994 

·        University of South Florida, College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Incentive Program Review Committee (Chair)

 

1993 

·        University of South Florida, Department of Geography Search Committee

 

1992 

·        University of South Florida, Department of Geography Curriculum Committee

 

1991 

·        University of South Florida, Department of Geography Curriculum Committee

 

1990

 

 

Miscellaneous University Service

 

2002-          Chair, Department of Environmental Science and Policy

present

 

2001           Interim Chair, Department of Environmental Science and Policy

 

2000           Interim Director, Environmental Science and Policy Program

                   Graduate Director, Environmental Science and Policy Program

 

1998              Workshop participant:  Developing Departmental Graduate                      Teaching Workshops

 

1995           Workshop participant: Improving Graduate Assistant Teaching  Workshop; Developing Teaching Portfolios

 

1993           Workshop participant: Active Learning Workshop

Workshop facilitator: "The Environmental Perspective in General Education" at the General Education Workshop.


 

 1992          Workshop facilitator: "The Environmental Perspective in General Education" at the General Education Workshop.

Workshop presenter: General Education Workshop.

 

Grants Pending

 

2002  “Housing Policy and Spatial Disparities in Lead Exposure” submitted to

the National Institutes of Health as part of a proposal to create a Center for Population and Health Disparities Research at USF.  The Center Proposal was lead by Dr. Elizabeth Barnett.  Within the center proposal, distinct proposals, including the one lead by myself and Dr. Susan Greenbaum of Anthropology, were included. $1,505,646

 

 

 

Grants Received

 

2000  Pichler, T and Brinkmann, R. “Arsenic and Golf Courses in Tampa, Florida”  Community Initiative Grant, University of South Florida. $18,000

 

1999    Brinkmann, R. and Tobin, G.A., “Lead Pollution Adjacent to Bus Stops in Tampa, Florida”  Faculty Development Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Florida. $1,500.

 

1998-2001  Brinkmann, R., Tobin, G.A. and Ryan, J., “Testing Street Sweeping

          Protocols”, Florida Department of Transportation,  $368,000.

 

          Tobin, G.A., Montz, B. and Brinkmann, R., “Environmental Impact and Flooding: Relationships Between Land Use and Soil Contamination, National Hazards Institute, $2,990 (continuation of funding).

 

1997  Tobin, G.A., Montz, B. and Brinkmann, R., “Environmental Impact and Flooding: Relationships Between Land Use and Soil Contamination, National Hazards Institute, $2,990.

 

Brinkmann, R. and Ryan, J. "Characteristics of Street Sweepings in Florida", Florida Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management, $20,000.

 

Tobin, G.A and Brinkmann, R. "Environmental Impacts and Flooding: A Preliminary Investigation for Modeling Rural Flooding and Soil Contamination", Internal Research and Creative Scholarship Grant Programs, $7,350.

 

1996  Brinkmann, R. and Ryan, J., "Background Concentrations of Metals in Florida Soils", Florida Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management, $20,000.

 

1994  Brinkmann, R. and Lindberg, M.B., "Statewide Analysis of Local Government Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Elements", Center for Urban Transportation Research, $7,000.

 

1993  Aangeenbrug, R.T., Stewart, M.T. and Brinkmann, R., "Time-Series Mapping of Geologic and Hydrologic Features Related to Subsidence-Induced Foundation Failures; Pinellas County, Florida" Coastal Management Division, Pinellas County, Florida, $51,934

 

1991  Aangeenbrug, R.T., Brinkmann, R, Lindberg, M. and Benenson, J., "An Atlas of Coastal Sediment Contamination in Florida $22,000

 

1991  Brinkmann, R., "Analysis of Lead Pollution Data in Soils of Tampa, Florida" Association of American Geographers Grant, $500

 

1990  Brinkmann, R., "Analysis of Lead Pollution in soils of Tampa, Florida" University of South Florida Internal Research and Creative Scholarship Grant Programs, $5,834.53

 

Brinkmann, R., "Workshop on Geoarchaeology" with the Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Council, $500

 


Master's Theses Supervised

 

2002  Matthew Moore, “Street Sweeping and Waste Management” 

 

2001  Monica Palaseanu, “Metal Contamination of Baia Mare Soils, Northern Romania”

 

          John Barco, “Soil Geomorphology of a Portion of the Brooksville Ridge, Florida”

 

1999  Mark Billus, “Investigation into the Application of Street Sweeping Waste as a Soil Amendment”

 

Melanie Harris, “Biomass Change Analysis of Florida’s Big Bend Coastal Marsh Using a 20-year Landsat Digital Imagery Series”

 

Dean Cox, “Delineation and Description of Tidal Flooding and Soil Wetness Effects on Normalized Difference Vegetation Index Values in a South Carolina Estuarine Marsh”

 

1998  Gitfah Niles, “Hillsborough County:  Changes in agricultural land use and the implications for maintaining soil sustainability and future agricultural productivity”

 

Dean Cox, “Delineation and description of tidal flooding and soil wetness effects on normalized difference vegetation index values in a South Carolina estuarine marsh”

 

Mark Billus, “Investigation into the application of street sweeping waste as a soil amendment”

 

Donald DePra, “The temporal and spatial relationship of gopher tortoise burrows with soil canopy cover and microtopography”

 

Carol Kilbourne, “Lead pollution adjacent to schools in Trujillo, Venezuela”

 

Phyllis Lewis, “The distribution of lead in a portion of Port Tampa City”

 

Keiko Verrier, “Wetlands in an urban landscape:  Changes of wetlands in the Brooker Creek Area, Florida”

 

1997  Greg Ferrara, "The economic value of urban forests in Tampa, Florida"

 

1996  Freddy Aranguren, "Lead pollution in roadside soils in Trujillo, Venezuela"

 

Mary Ingham, "The bog region of the Allegheny Highland in West Virginia."

 

Sylvia Powell, "Down the Hatchee: An historical geography of southwest Florida."

 

1995  Shelly Happel, "Lead contamination in three different socio-economic

         census tracts in Tampa, Florida."

 

1994  Erica Morin, "Evapotranspiration and the Efficacy of Xeriscape

          Development on the University of South Florida Campus"

 

1992  Mark Hafen, "Analysis of Lead in Soils Adjacent to Interstate 275 in

          Tampa, Florida”