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Paul Bauer

Associate Director for Government Outreach,
Senior Geologist
New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources
New Mexico Tech
801 Leroy Place
Socorro, NM 87801-4796
(575) 835-5106

Paul Bauer is a Senior Geologist and Associate Director of the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (the State Geological Survey) in Socorro as well as an Adjunct Faculty member of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Dept. at New Mexico Tech. He arrived in New Mexico in 1979 after receiving a B.S. in geology from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and received a Ph.D. in geology from New Mexico Tech in 1988. His dissertation was centered around geologic mapping in the Proterozoic terrain of the Picuris Mountains of north-central New Mexico. He and his wife (Peggy Johnson) live on a small farm along the Rio Grande.

Education

Specialties and Interests

Current Projects

Recent Publications:

(see Vita for full publication list)

  1. Bauer, P.W. and Johnson, P.S., 2007, Hydrogeology of the Arroyo Hondo area, Taos County, New Mexico: Final Technical Contract Report.
  2. Kelson, K.I. and Bauer, P.W., 2006, Geologic map of the Arroyo Hondo 7.5-minute quadrangle, Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Open-file geologic map OF-GM 116, scale 1:24,000.
  3. Bauer, P.W., 2005, The geology and landscape of the Taos region: New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Mining in New Mexico, New Mexico Decision-Makers Field Guide No. 4, p. 7-11.
  4. Bauer, P.W. Helper, M.A., and Aby, S., 2005, Revised preliminary geologic map of the Trampas 7.5 minute quadrangle, Rio Arriba and Taos Counties, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Open-file Geologic Map OF-GM 104, scale 1:24,000.
  5. Bauer, P.W., Kelson, K.I. and Aby, S.B., 2005, Geologic map of the Penasco 7.5-minute quadrangle, Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Open-file geologic map OF-GM 62, scale 1:24,000.
  6. Johnson, P.S., Bauer, P.W., Timmons, S., and Felix, B., 2005, Hydrogeology and water resource assessment of the Pueblo of Picuris, Taos County, New Mexico: Final technical report for the Pueblo of Picuris Environment Department, 22 p. plus maps, cross sections, and appendices., NMBGMR unpublished contract report.
  7. Bauer, P.W. and Kelson, K.I., 2004, Fault geometry and Cenozoic kinematic history of the southeastern San Luis Basin near Taos, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources, Bulletin 160, p. 70-95.
  8. Bauer, P.W., 2004, Proterozoic rocks of the Pilar cliffs, Picuris Mountains, New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 55, p. 193-205.
  9. Bauer, P.W., 2004, Erosional retreat of a river-damming debris flow on the Rio Grande, Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 55, p. 282-288.
  10. Bauer, P.W. and Kelson, K.I., 2004, Rift extension and fault slip rates in the southern San Luis Basin, New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 55, p. 172-180.
  11. Bauer, P.W. and Kelson, K.I., 2004, Cenozoic structural development of the Taos area, New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 55, p. 129-146.
  12. Aby, S.B., Bauer, P.W., and Kelson, K.I., 2004, The Picuris Formation: A late Eocene to Miocene sedimentary sequence in northern New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 55, p. 335-350.
  13. Brister, B.S., Bauer, P.W., Read, A.S., and Lueth, V.W., eds., 2004, Geology of the Taos Region, New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 55, 448 p.
  14. Grauch, V.J.S., Bauer, P.W., and Kelson, K.I., 2004, Preliminary interpretation of high-resolution aeromagnetic data collected near Taos, New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 55, p. 244-256.
  15. Karlstrom, K.E., Amato, J.M., Williams, M.L., Heizler, M. Shaw, C., Read, A.S., and Bauer, P.W., 2004, Proterozoic tectonic evolution of the New Mexico region: A synthesis; in G.H. Mack and K.A., Giles, eds., The geology of New Mexico, A geologic history: New Mexico Geological Society, Special Publication 11, p. 1-34.
  16. Kelson, K.I., Bauer, P.W., Unruh, J.R., and Bott, J.D.J., 2004, Late Quaternary characteristics of the northern Embudo fault, Taos County, New Mexico: : New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 55, p 147-157.
  17. Kelson, K.I., Bauer, P.W., Connell, S.D., Love, D.W., Rawling, G.C., and Mansell, M., 2004, Initial paleoseismic and hydrogeologic assessment of the southern Sangre de Cristo fault at the Taos Pueblo site, Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 55, p. 289-299.
  18. Bauer, P.W., Lozinsky, R.P., Condie, C., and Price, L.G. 2003, Albuquerque’s Geology and Culture: A Guide to the Geologic and Cultural Histories of the Albuquerque Area: New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Scenic Trips to the Geologic Past, No. 9, 182 p.

Recent Abstracts:

  1. Osburn, G.R., Kelly, S.A., Kempter, K.A., Bauer, P.W., Timmons, M. and Linden, M.A., 2005, Geologic research in the Santa Fe National Forest, Jemez Mountains, New Mexico: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program, v. 37, no. 7, p.
  2. Grauch, V.J.S. and Bauer, P.W., 2004, Revealing the structural and volcanic framework for understanding ground water resources in the northern Rio Grande rift: preliminary results of a high-resolution aeromagnetic survey over Taos, New Mexico: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program, v. 36, no. 5, p. 173.
  3. Bauer, P.W. and Read, A.S., 2003, Geologic mapping in the Espanola basin by the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources: in Geologic and Hydrogeologic Framework of the Espanola Basin – Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Espanola Basin Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 4-5, 2003, M.R. Hudson, ed., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-369, p. 2.
  4. Bauer, P.W. and Read, A.S., 2002, Providing Free Digital Geologic Maps on the Web: Association of Engineering Geologists Journal.
  5. Baer, S.H., Karlstrom, K.E., and Bauer, P., 2002, New mapping from the Manzano Peak Quadrangle, central New Mexico [poster]: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Rocky Mountain Section, v.  no.
  6. Melis, E. A., Goodwin, L. B., Heizler, M. T., and Bauer, P. W, 2001, Metamorphism and deformation of Proterozoic rocks in the 7.5 minute Rosilla Peak quadrangle, southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, northern New Mexico: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program, v. 33.
  7. Dickerson, P.W., Muehlberger, W.R., Bauer, P.W., 2000, Astronaut training in field geophysical methods: Presented by Bauer at Space 2000, The 7th International Conference and Exposition on Engineering, Construction, Operations, and Business in Space, co-located with Robotics 2000, The 4th International Conference and Exposition/Demonstration on Robotics for Challenging Situations and Environments, February 27 to March 2, 2000 at the Albuquerque Hilton Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

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