This document is a resume for Laurence R. Becker that outlines his professional experience and qualifications. It details that he has over 30 years of experience working for the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources and Vermont Geological Survey, including serving as the State Geologist of Vermont from 1995 to 2014. It also lists his expertise in areas like groundwater mapping, surface water, nuclear waste and power, and natural hazards. He has provided expert testimony and briefings to Congress on various environmental issues and has been widely interviewed by media.

1. LAURENCE R. BECKER
Middlesex, VT 05602
(802) 229-0296, (802) 224-6271, becklrb@comcast.net
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Science Advisor, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources,2013 – June 30, 2015
Vermont State Geologist and Director Vermont Geological Survey (VGS),
State of Vermont, 1995 – 2014
Technical Services Chief,Vermont Geological Survey, 1993-95
Radioactive Waste Technical Analyst,VermontGeologicalSurvey,1986-89
Surficial Geology Program Coordinator – Vermont GeologicalSurvey,1989
Hydroelectric ReviewSpecialist, Vermont Dept.of EnvironmentalConservation, 1989-93
Hydrogeologist,Vermont Dept.of EnvironmentalConservation,1981-85
Adjunct Instructor,Johnson State College,WaterResources (3 Credits),1992
AssistantProfessor,Windham College,Geology and Water Resources(9 credits) 1979
PROFESSIONALAFFILIATIONS
GeologicalSociety of America
Association of American State Geologists,Chair Education Committee,2000- 2015
American GeologicalInstitute,Geoscience Policy Advisory and Member Committees
American Institute ofProfessionalGeologists,Member
Northeastern StatesEmergency Consortium (NESEC),Chair NESEC State Geologists
Vermont State Hazard Mitigation Committee,Member
Vermont Centerfor Geographic Information,1995- 2012
Vermont State NuclearAdvisory Panel,Represent VTAgency of NaturalResources
Vermont GeologicalSociety,President1996
Marlboro College Expedition Education Institute,Board Member
CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONYand BRIEFING
Clean Water Act:In the early 1980’s, developed the aquifer mapping methodology for Vermont’s
Aquifer Protection Area Program and later testified before U.S. Senator Robert Stafford on
Vermont’s methods for defining and protecting recharge areas to municipal wells. The concept
became part of the Clean Water Act and is known today as Well Head or Source Water Protection
Areas and is an EPA requirement throughout the United States.
Groundwater Bill: Testified before the U.S Senate Water and Power Subcommittee on March 30,
2006 in support of S. 2054, a Sen. James Jeffords introduced bill to authorize $6,000,000 for a
Vermont groundwater mapping project.
Congressional Briefing, Sept 12, 2014: Water Based Hazards and Risk Mitigation presentations
in the Rayburn House Office Building sponsored by the American Chemical Society Science and
Congress Project. I spoke about Landslide Hazard Mitigation and a Vermont Geological Survey
protocol for the identification of sensitive slopes referenced in the State Hazard Mitigation Plan
linking to planning and preparedness.

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MEDIA INTERVIEWS
Interviewed numerous times for radio and television:
Southern California Public Radio:“Frost Quakes”, 2/13/2014
http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2014/02/13/36029/winter-storm-shakes-up-the-east-coast-with-frost-q/
WCAX TV, Burlington,VT: “Frost Quakes”, 1/2/2014
http://www.wcax.com/story/24357905/sunday-science-frost-quakes
WCAX Evening News: Live6/24/10 to explain why peoplefelt the06/23/10 earthquake and others not.
WCAX The 30 Show: “Thedirt on Vermont's geological history”, 11/3/2011,
http://www.wcax.com/story/15955477/the-dirt-on-vermonts-geological-history
Vermont Public Television (VPT): “LongTrail: a Path through the Wilderness” – Interviewed at Devil’s Gulch
along thetrail which is regularly shown during VPT fund raisers
Vermont Public Radio (VPR):
Vermont Edition:
“Nice Gneiss: The Geology of Vermont” 7/1/2014, http://digital.vpr.net/post/nice-gneiss-geology-vermont
“In The Wake Of Irene, Rivers Cut New Paths Through Vermont”, 9/7/11,
http://www.vpr.net/episode/51981/in-wake-irene-rivers-cut-new-paths-through-vermont/
“TheScience of Groundwater” 10/20/10, http://www.vpr.net/episode/49708/
“Landslides and Regional Geology”, 05/17/2010, http://www.vpr.net/episode/48603/
Switchboard: “Vermont’s Geology” 08/08/06, http://www.vpr.net/episode/25684/
Albany Public Radio (WAMC): “Vermont Legislators Assess Fracking Ban” 01/26/2014,
http://wamc.org/post/vermont-legislators-assess-fracking-ban
SELECTED COMMITTEEDESCRIPTIONS
Earth Science Education Committee Chair: Association of American State Geologists (AASG)
Represents the Association of 50 State Geologists and Puerto Rico on education matters.
Edmap Review Committee (2003-05), Nationalpanel reviewing geologic mapping proposals from
colleges and universities.
National Geologic and Geophysical Data Preservation Program, 2014-2016, National panel
reviewing data preservation grant proposals from state geological surveys.
American GeoScience Institute (AGI):Member, Geoscience Policy Advisory and Earth Science
Education Outreach Advisory Committees (1999-2014) - a nonprofit federation of 37
geoscientific and professional associations representing more than 100,000 geologists,
geophysicists, and other earth scientists including AASG
Act 144 Groundwater Study Committee (2006-08) – State Geologist is named with legislators and
others representing interests in groundwater law, regulation, and mapping.
Vermont State NuclearAdvisory Panel (1995 to 2013), Represented the Secretary of the Agency
of Natural Resources on a panel that reviews nuclear power plant operation and nuclear waste
issues. Examples: Vermont Yankee Power Uprate,Dry Cask Storage,and Tritium Leak.
Vermont State Hazard Mitigation Committee and Plan Update – Vermont Emergency
Management Committee member to direct the State Hazard Mitigation Plan development and
review Hazard Mitigation proposals.
Vermont Agency of Natural Resources Groundwater Coordinating Committee, State Geologist
represents science of groundwater from a geologic perspective.
Vermont Well Drillers Advisory Committee,State Geologist is a member by statute.
Vermont Monitoring Cooperative – Strategic Planning Sub-Committee, Forest Health and Air
Monitoring consortium between University of Vermont, State of Vermont, the FederalGov’t
TEACHING – TRAVELING SCHOOL
Audubon Expedition Institute - Provided geology instruction to traveling school in the
Southwestern United States. Led severalsummer trips in early 1970’s to the Southwest and New
England for the precursor organization Trailside Country School.
Summer/Fall 2015 Field Trips: “Soil Genesis in Addison County – the soil profile in context”;
“Geology of the Champlain Islands and Fossil Reef”; Towns of Middlesex and Waterford

3. LAURENCE R. BECKER
Middlesex, VT 05602
(802) 229-0296, (802) 224-6271, becklrb@comcast.net
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STATE GEOLOGIST’S VGS LEADERSHIP/PROJECT WORK
Groundwater
Directed the development of groundwater resource maps and reports with conceptual design of
Town planning maps and also overseeing a geology and health program with studies related to
radionuclides, arsenic, nitrates and other constituents of concern. During my tenure numerous
groundwater maps for towns were developed and a bill passed the Vermont legislature that
mandated an education campaign through well drillers and real estate agents to educate citizens as
to the importance of water well testing for naturally-occurring drinking water health hazards.
A significant use of groundwater resource maps helped to develop a first in Vermont Class II to
define potential future supplies relying on VGS mapping and recognized in a legislative
resolution Brandon. The VGS has been integrating data developed though a $330,000 State
appropriation for “Groundwater Mapping” bringing together state geologic and water well data
through statistical analyses, groundwater use data,and a well interference study. Maps and
reports can be found at http://www.anr.state.vt.us/dec/geo/grndwaterinx.htm
Surface Water
Facilitated a group of VT Department of Environmental Conservation scientists and engineers to
develop a new approach to stormwater management in Vermont. As a result, studies of the
influence of increasing impervious area on watersheds/stream geomorphology and the
development of a new stormwater manual were managed and completed. For a group of
stakeholders from the Canadian and US Side of Missisquoi Bay facilitated the science to address
the removal of a causeway. As a result, a hydrodynamic model and calibration study were
managed and completed. The first drafts of a fluvial geomorphology mapping protocols were
funded and tested. Developed groundwater models and found funds to inform technical issues
related to groundwater and surface water interaction.
Nuclear Waste and Nuclear Power
Since 1995 and before, significant technical involvement with the Entergy Vermont Yankee
facility and the search for both High and Low Level radioactive waste disposal options. On the
technical policy aspect,served for multiple Secretaries of the Vermont Agency of Natural
Resources on the Vermont State Nuclear Advisory Panelfrom 1995 to 2013. In the early1980’s,
reviewed the Department of Energy’s proposal for a High level Radioactive Waste Repository in
Vermont focusing on the difficulties of isolating spent fuel from groundwater in Vermont
fractured crystalline bedrock. In the mid- 1980’s, made first contact with the State of Texas to
establish a low-level radioactive waste compact and testified before a Texas energy sub-
committee in Austin. I was present in Congress providing advice to Congressman Bernard
Sanders when the Compact was debated and passed in 1993. The Texas Compact Facility opened
in 2011 and is now accepting Vermont Low-level radioactive waste. In 2006, provided advice to
the State on seismic issues associated with the siting of a spent fuel dry cask storage pad at
Vermont Yankee and worked with an earthquake engineering expert on testimony as to
amplification and liquefaction questions related to Pad design. Provided technical guidance on
the seismic concerns associated with Power Uprate. In the 2010, reviewed Entergy Vermont
Yankees tritium leak hydrogeology studies and wrote a post-Fukushima letter of concern
associated with Seismic issues at the plant directed at a Central New Hampshire historic event not
fully considered and amplification possibilities for a condensate storage tank at the facility.

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Hazards
Since 1998, a natural hazard partnership with Vermont Department of Emergency Management
and Homeland Security brought focus to landslides, earthquakes, river erosion/fluvial
geomorphology and groundwater as a safeguard against drought. In a 1999 meeting with
Governor Howard Dean,the direction for landslide mapping in Vermont was established. In
2012, the VGS developed a landslide mapping protocol through a nationally competitive grant
now an addendum to the State Hazard Mitigation Plan. As State Geologist provided expert advice
for numerous landslides in Vermont in the towns of Jeffersonville, Hardwick, Barre City,
Windsor, Georgia, Highgate including post Tropical Storm Irene analysis. Rockfalls and debris
flows have been mapped in Smugglers Notch with funding from Vermont Forest and Parks and
the Agency of Transportation. Through the Earthquake hazard state assistance program developed
seismic hazard maps for the Burlington and Colchester quadrangles and the Town of Williston.
Directed the use of HAZUS-Multi-Hazard, a computer program that predicts the risk from
seismic, flood, and wind events and negotiated with the USGS establishing a memorandum of
agreement to deliver earthquake event information to the Northeastern State Emergency
Consortium and Northeastern State Geologists. Funded a study and part of design to develop the
fluvial geomorphology protocols for mapping stream erosion hazards and worked with the State
Climatologist to bring groundwater information to drought awareness web sites. Held two
symposiums on natural hazards for the Northeastern Geologic Society of America meetings in
March 2009 and 2012 meetings and nominated for the Frye Award for special paper on surficial
geology and earthquake risk.
Award
National Award (2004) National Earthquake Conference Award for Multi-Jurisdictional Planning
to the Vermont Geological Survey
Geologic Mapping
Responsible for supporting through STATEMAP grants and delivering multiple bedrock and
surficial geologic mapping projects culminating in over 35 new maps. Set the vision for
simultaneous mapping of both bedrock and surficial geology in quadrangles and towns and the
use of such framework geologic information for applied purposes primarily for the understanding
of groundwater resources. Provided the resources for Vermont’s responsibilities through a
partnership with the USGS and facilitated the solving of technical disputes from 1995 to the
culmination of the publication of the 2011 Bedrock Geologic Map of Vermont, 50 years from the
last map in 1961 and 150 years from the first geology map in 1861. In 2012 organized the roll
out of the map in the Vermont State House with the Governor in attendance. The Vermont
Legislature also passed a resolution recognizing the contributors and the citizens that supported
the map.
Energy
Through a $161,000 grant from the US Department to Environmental Conservation developed
information for the National Geothermal Data System. All relevant reports, files and maps were
scanned and delivered to the NGDS. Field studies included geothermal data collection of
temperature in deep water wells, geochemistry and the thermal conductivity of a range of bedrock
types in Vermont. The intent is to model for thermal anomalies. Information was also developed
on Shallow geo-exchange systems. A carbon sequestration analysis for Vermont rocks was
completed. Statehouse testimony on natural gas and papers presented to Canadian meetings about
the shale in Vermont.
Geology and Ecosystems
Contributed to an early Agency of NaturalResources pilot study on defining biodiversity on a test
wildlife management area showing how geologic information is the base for the physical and

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chemical system that supports the biota. Interacted with the Nature Conservancy as a biodiversity
gap analysis was developed. Recent studies of till chemistry illuminate the contribution of rock
source calcium for forest health in cooperation with the University of Vermont Rubenstein
School, the Green Mountain National Forest, and the . Preparing talk for Vermont Monitoring
Cooperative meeting on forest health showing bedrock and till relative to acid rain lakes and
forest health issues.
Earth Resources
Multiple reviews of quarry applications for compliance with criteria 9 D and E of the Vermont’s
Land Use and Development Law. A study of the magnesium in asbestos tailings at the Vermont
Asbestos group mine and distribution of information concerning historic information at the
Elizabeth mine in Vermont was managed.
Geological Survey Funding and Issues
Obtaining grants USGS Statemap for geologic mapping, for the Emergency Manamgment
Program Grant EMPG, EHRSAP,Geothermal, DWSRF,Towns, other?
AASG education survey and workforce issues;
Survey personnel led a number of field trips to and developed gudies for the New England
Intercollegiate Geologic Conference.
Oversaw web site development Web Site
EDUCATION
University ofVermont, M.S., Geology, 1979, Thesis, “A Survey of a Sandy Beach and Bay,Appletree Bay,
Lake Champlain, Vermont”. (Served asLab Teaching Assistant, 4 credits total)
State University ofNewYork atBuffalo, B.A.Geology, 1971
Contaminant Hydrogeology, Short Course, 1982, Instructor John Cherry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo,
Ontario Canada
Water Well Hydraulics Short Course, 1983, Instructor Fletcher G. Driscoll, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
Wisc
The Construction and Protection of Public Groundwater Supplies, Short Course, 1981, Technical support
division USEPA,Cincinnati,Ohio
Field Techniques for Characterization of Groundwater Hydrogeologic Environments, two day short course,
1982, US EPA, Lexington,Massachusetts.
Chemistry for Environmental Professionals: Fundamentals and Applied, EPA Office of Solid Waste April
14-15, 2009
Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response 40 hour Training – last refresherAugust26,2014
PUBLICATIONS,REPORTS, and PRESENTATIONS
GEO-SCIENCE AND PUBLICPOLICY/EDUCATION
Becker,L. R., Gale, M. , Kim, J., Thompson, P. J.,Springston, G., Eliassen, T., and Walsh, G. J.,
2010, Vermont Applied Projects As A Guide For Use Of The New State Bedrock Map,
Abstracts with Program, Geological Society of America Northeastern and Southeastern
Section Joint Meeting, Baltimore MD
Becker,L.R.,Kim, J.,King, S., Thompson, P.J.,Gale, M.H.,Springston, G. E., Desimone, D.J.,
2007, Vermont Geological Survey: Base Science for Health, Safety,and Welfare,
Abstract with Program, Geological Society of America Northeastern Section – 42nd
Annual Meeting, March 12-14, Durham, N.H..

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Becker,L., 2014, Strengthening the Role of Science at the Agency of NaturalResources,working
session, Vermont Monitoring Cooperative and Mt. Mansfield Science and Stewardship
Conference,Science to Policy: Benefitting from Actionable Science. Burlington, VT
Dec11, 2104
Becker,L. and Gale, M.H.,2014, Geology and Ecology: Building Studies from the Base Map,
Vermont Monitoring Cooperative and Mt. Mansfield Science and Stewardship
Conference,Science to Policy: Benefitting from Actionable Science. Burlington, VT,
Dec 11, 2014
Becker,L. and D. Wunsch, 2009, Glacial Geology, chapter in Where the Great River Rises,
Dartmouth College Press
Becker,L., 2006, Overview of Groundwater Science, VT Source Water Protection Workshop,
Montpelier, VT,Sponsored by EPA,Vermont Rural Water,and DEC,November 30,
2006.
Becker,L and Gale, M., 2006, An Overview of the Vermont Mineral Industry, Green Mountain
Geologist, Volume 33, No.1, Winter 2006.
Becker,L., 2005, Geologic Mapping at the Vermont Geological Survey – Framework Geology
for Applied Purposes,presented at the N.H. Geological Survey 4th
Annual Geological
Mapping Workshop, Concord, N.H.,June 9, 2005.
Becker L.,2003, Geology of Vermont, 54th
Annual Highway Geology Symposium – Burlington,
VT, Meeting of Engineering Geologists and Geotechnical Engineers from 50 State and
Federal Agencies, Colleges and Universities.
Becker,L., 2002, Association of American State Geologists (AASG), Basic Information Source
For States: Abstract with Program, Coalition For Earth Science Education - Seventh
Annual Meeting, Jan. 10-13, Goddard Space Flight Center,Greenbelt, MD.
Becker,L. 2004, Earth Resources and the Geology of Vermont, the Vermont History Expo,
Tunbridge, Vermont, June 2004.
Marvinney, R., Becker,L.,Chormann, F., and Kim, J., Getting The Work Done: State Geological
Surveys; Partnering and Progress,session at Northeastern Section Geological Society of
America - 48th Annual Meeting (18–20 March 2013), Bretton Woods, NH.
Walsh, G. J.,Ratcliffe, N. M., Masonic, L., Gale, M. H., Thompson, P.J.,and Becker,L., 2010,
Creation of the bedrock Geologic Map of Vermont- an evolution from analog to digital
mapping techniques: Geological Society of America 2010 Abstracts with Program,
Northeastern Section (45th
annual) and Southeastern Section (59th
annual) Joint Meeting,
p. 56.
GROUNDWATER
Becker,L., Kim, J., DeSimone, D., Gale, M., and Springston, G. E., 2008, Groundwater
Resources in the Town Of Williston, Northwest Vermont, Abstract with Program,
Geological Society of America Northeastern Section – 43nd
Annual Meeting, March 27-
29, Buffalo, N.Y.

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Becker,L. R., DeSimone, D.J.,Thompson, P.J.,and Gale, M., 2007, Groundwater Resources of
Woodstock, Vermont, Abstract with Program, Geological Society of America
Northeastern Section – 42nd
Annual Meeting, March 12-14, Durham, N.H..
Becker,L., 2006, Testimony before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Water and Power in favor
of S.2054-Vermont Water Resources Study, Washington, DC, March 30, 2006.
Becker,L. and Kim, 2006, Nitrate Contamination of a Vermont Drinking Water Supply,
presentation to EPA Region I Managers, Boston, Massachusetts,July 12, 2006.
Becker,L. and DeSimone, D., 2005, Arlington/Battenkill Groundwater Resources and Protection
– Surface and Groundwater Interaction, presented to the Battenkill Watershed Alliance,
August 2, 2005, Shushan, New York.
Becker,L., 1983, Defining Aquifer Protection Areas for Existing Municipal Wells and Springs in
the State of Vermont: Proceedings of the National Water Well Association – Eastern
Regional Conference on Ground Water Management,November 1, Orlando, FL.
Butterfield, D., Smith, M., and Becker,L., 1986, Vermont Well Protection Zone Program:
Proceedings of the Association of State and Interstate Pollution Control Administrators –
State Conference on Ground Water Management, Nov 12-14, San Diego, CA.
Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, 1983, Vermont Aquifer Protection Area
Reference Document:Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, Montpelier,
VT.
Gale, M. H., Springston, G., Van Hoesen,J., and Becker,L., 2014, A Gis-Based Approach to
Characterizing Vermont’s Groundwater Resources,Abstract with Program, Geological
Society of America Northeastern Section – 49th
annual meeting, March 23-25, Lancaster,
PA.
Kim, J., Springston, G., Gale, M.H.,Dunn, R., and Becker,L.,2006, Geologic Framework for
Evaluating Groundwater Resources in the Southern Worcester Mountains, Central
Vermont: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs,v. 38 #2, p. 87.
Kim J. and Becker,L. 2004, Elevated Naturally-Occurring Radioactivity in Groundwater from 3
Fractured Bedrock Settings in Vermont, National Groundwater Association Fractured
Bedrock Conference,Portland, Maine.
Kim, J. and Becker,L., 2001, Geologic Context of Elevated Radionuclide Occurrences in NW
Vermont: Abstract with Program, Geological Society of America Northeastern Section -
36th
Annual Meeting, March 12-14, Burlington, VT.
De Simone, D., and Becker,L.R., 2007, Deglaciation and overburden groundwater resources of
Brandon, VT: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs,Northeastern
Section (42nd
annual meeting), V 39.

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Springston, G., Gale, M., Kim, J., Wright, S., Becker,L., Clark, A.,and Smith, T., 2010,
Geologic framework for evaluating groundwater resources,Charlotte, Vermont: America
2010 Abstracts with Program, Northeastern Section (45th annual) and Southeastern
Section (59th annual) Joint Meeting.
HAZARDS
Becker,L. Presiding, 2009, Natural Hazards: Supporting Mitigation to Avoid Future Costs,
organizer and presider for session at Geological Society of America Northeastern Section
– 44nd
Annual Meeting, March 22-24, Portland, Maine
Becker,L.R.,Patriarco, S.P.,Marvinney, R.G., Thomas, M.A.,Mabee, S.B.,and Fratto, E.S.,
2012, Improving seismic hazard assessment in New England through the use of surficial
geologic maps and expert analysis, in Cox, R.T.,Tuttle, M.P.,Boyd, O.S., and Locat,J.,
eds., Recent Advances in North American Paleoseismology and Neotectonics East of the
Rockies: Geological Society of America Special Paper 493, p. 221-242,
doi:10.1130/2012.2493(11). Developed as Co-principal Investigator with NESEC on
USGS/NEHRP Grant in Progress:“Utilizing the Surficial Geology of Northeast United
States to Improve NEHRP Site Effect Classification in HAZUS-MH”
Becker,L. R., Springston, G. E., Dewoolkar, M.M., Kim, J. J.,and DeSimone, D.J.,2009, The
Vermont NaturalHazard Experience and the NESEC State Geologists, Abstract with
Program, Geological Society of America Northeastern Section – 44nd
Annual Meeting,
March 22-24, Portland, Maine
Becker,L., and Kim, J., 2003, HAZUS in Vermont: Earthquake Mitigation, New England Flood
Insurance and Mitigation Workshop 2003 - Newport,Rhode Island, FEMA.
Becker,L. and Kim, J., 2001, Vermont – Fluvial Geomorphology, Slope Instability, and Surface
Geology Studies in Support of Hazard Mapping and Stormwater Management: Abstract
with Program, Association of State Floodplain Managers - 25th
Annual Conference,June
3-8 Charlotte, NC.
Becker,L. and Hunt, A., 1977, Shoreline Erosion of a Beach Environment, Lake Champlain,
Vermont: Proceedings of Lake Champlain Basin Environmental Conference – Institute
for Man and the Environment, SUNY Plattsburgh, August 9, Plattsburgh, NY.
Becker,L., and Kim, J., 2003, HAZUS in Vermont: Earthquake Mitigation, New England Flood
Insurance and Mitigation Workshop 2003 - Newport,Rhode Island, FEMA.
Clift, A. E., Springston, G. E., and Becker,L, 2013, Use of Lidar in a Landslide Inventory
Protocol in Vermont, Abstract with Program, Northeastern Section - 48th Annual
Meeting (18–20 March 2013), Bretton Woods, NH
Springston G., Eliassen, T., and Becker,L., 2007, Rockfall hazard assessment of highways in
Vermont: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs,Northeastern Section
(42nd
annual meeting), V 39.
ENERGY
Becker,L., Gale, M. and Kim, J.,2009, Northern Vermont and Southern Quebec NaturalGas
Prospects:Stratigraphic and Structural Relations including Utica Shale Equivalents,

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presented at the 1st
annual meeting of the Quebec Oil and Gas Association in Montreal,
Quebec
Becker,L., Gale, M., and Kim, 2006, Natural Gas Potential in Vermont: Stratigraphic and
Structural Relations Compared with the Noyan Prospect,Quebec:Geological Association
of Canada/ Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Meeting Abstracts,p. 12.,
Montreal, Canada. Talk also given to the Eastern Region American Association of
Petroleum Geologists, Buffalo, N.Y.,October, 2006.
Nuclear Energy
Ratte,C. and Becker L. R., April 1986, Review of the High Level Radioactive Waste Draft Area
Recommendations Report-January 1986, U.S. Department of Energy, 53 pages, Vermont
Geological Survey, Waterbury, VT.
TECTONICS
Jacobi, R.D.,Agle, P.,Loewenstein, S., Mitchell, C., Smith, G., Kim, J.,Gale, M., and Becker,
L., 2008, What the Craton can tell us about Appalachian tectonics from Iapetan opening
through the Taconic Orogeny: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs,
Northeastern Section (43nd
annual meeting), V 40.
Jacobi, R.D.,Kim, J., Agle, P.,Gale, M.H.,Cross, G., Becker,L., Mitchell, C.,and Smith, G.,
2006, Generation of lower Paleozoic Carbonate Reservoirs in the Appalachian Basin of
NYS: the Plate Tectonic Connection, 2006 Eastern Section, American Association of
Petroleum Geologists Abstracts with Programs, p. 22.