Publications:

Johansen, K., Claiborne, L., Falk, E., Hubbard, K., Kohfield, K., Nadin, E., Schmidt, A. (accepted) Increasing Equity in Geoscience with Ungrading.  Journal of Geoscience Education, special volume on The Effects of the COVID-19 Crisis on Geoscience Education.

Cynthia J. Brame, Elizabeth H. Catania, Katherine L. Friedman, Heather J. Johnson, Jessica Watkins, Hemant Badgandi, Lily Claiborne, Katherine A. Clements, Nicole Creanza, Jessica Gilpin, Lars Plate, Adriane E. Seiffert, and Thomas P. Clements. 2022. “Best practices for expanding an undergraduate learning assistant program: observations from a learning community of instructors.” Book Chapter in Faculty Learning Communities: Communities of Practice that Support, Inspire, Engage and Transform Higher Education Classrooms (Rainville, Title, & Desrochers, Information Age Publishers) (Accepted)

Carley, T.L., Bell, E.A, Miller, C.F., Claiborne, L.L., Hunt, A., Kirkpatrick, H.M., Harrison, T.M. (2022) Zircon-modeled melts clarify the formation of Earth’s crust from the Hadean to Archean. Geology.

Lang, N.P., McDowell, S.M., Nypaver, C.A., Gibson, B.M., Li-Vidal, B., Miller, C.F., Claiborne, L.L., Helfrich, A., McCosby, J., Schwat, E., Thompson, I.P. (2019) Unraveling volcanic and related processes using remotely sensed datasets: Perspectives from a Miocene-aged volcanic terrain in northwest Arizona. In Geologic Excursions in Southwestern North America, ed. Philip A. Pearthree.  The Geological Society of America Field Guide 55, Boulder, CO, p. 273-306.

Claiborne, L.L., Miller, C.F., Gualda, G.A.R., Carley, T.L., Covey, A.K., Wooden, J.L., *Fleming, M.A. (2018) Zircon as a Magma Monitor: Robust, Temperature-Dependent Partition Coefficients from Glass and Zircon Surface and Rim Measurements from Natural Systems.  In D. Moser, F. Corfu, J. Darling, S. Reddy, K. Tait (Eds.), Microstructural Geochronology: Planetary Records Down to Atom Scale.  American Geophysical Union-Wiley, 416 p.

Chick, N., Nisselson, R., Claiborne, L., Edmonds, J., Yant, C., Hearn, A. (2016) ‘Clues in Academe’: A Cross-Disciplinary Lesson Study.  Journal of Excellence in College Teaching, 27(1): 23-53.

Claiborne, L.L and  Miller, C.F. (2012) Teaching radioactive decay and radiometric dating: An analog activity based on fluid dynamics, Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 60, p. 114-122. [DOI: 10.5408/11-220.1]

Miller, C.F., Furbish, D.J., Walker, B.A., Claiborne, L.L.,  Koteas, G.C., Bleick, H.A., and Miller, J.S. (2011) Growth of plutons by incremental emplacement of sheets in crystal-rich host: evidence from Miocene intrusions of the Colorado River region, Nevada, USA,  Tectonophysics, 500: 65-77. [DOI:10.1016/j.tecto.2009.07.011]

Gualda, G.A.R., Pamukcu, A.S., Claiborne, L.L., and Rivers, M.L. (2010) Quantitative 3D petrography using x-ray tomography. 3: Documenting accessory phases with differential absorption tomography, Geosphere, 6: 782-792. [DOI:10.1130/GES00568.1]

Claiborne, L. L., Miller, C.F., Flanagan, D.M., Clynne, M.A., Wooden, J.L. (2010) Zircon reveals protracted magma storage and recycling beneath Mount St. Helens, Geology, v. 38, no. 11, p. 1011–1014 [DOI: 10.1130/G31285.1]

Claiborne, L.L., Miller, C.F., Wooden, J.L. (2010) Trace element composition of igneous zircon: a thermal and compositional record of the accumulation and evolution of a large silicic batholith, Spirit Mountain, Nevada.  Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 160, p. 511–531 [DOI: 10.1007/s00410-010-0491-5]

Lang, N.P., B.A. Walker, L.L. Claiborne, C.F. Miller, R.W. Hazlett, M.T. Heizler (2008) The Spirit Mountain batholith and Secret Pass Canyon volcanic center: A cross sectional view of the magmatic architecture of the uppermost crust of an extensional terrain, Colorado River, Nevada-Arizona.  Geological Society of America Field Guide, vol. 11, 29 p.

Walker, B.A., C.F. Miller, L. Lowery Claiborne, J.S. Miller and J.L. Wooden (2007) Batholith construction: New insights concerning timescales and physical processes from the Spirit Mountain Batholith, southern Nevada, Journal of Volcanological and Geothermal Research v. 167, p. 239-262 [DOI:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2006.12.008]

Claiborne, L.L., C.F. Miller, B.A. Walker, J.L. Wooden, F.K. Mazdab and F. Bea (2006) Tracking magmatic processes through Zr/Hf ratios in rocks and Hf and Ti zoning in zircons: An example from the Spirit Mountain batholith, Nevada, Mineralogical Magazine, v. 70, no. 5, p. 517-543 [DOI: 10.1180/0026461067050348]

Online Publications:

Claiborne, L.L., Morell, J., Bandy, J., and Bruff, D. (2011) Teaching Outside the Classroom.  Online Teaching Guide Series.  VU Center for Teaching. http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/teaching-guides/teaching-activities/teaching-outside-the-classroom/

Claiborne, L.L. (2011) Finding the Time to Teach Parts 1-5: (1) Finding balance, (2) Time management, (3) Preparing to Teach, (4) Encourage Active Students, (5) Grade more efficiently (blog) http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/2011/04/finding-the-time-to-teach-part-5-%E2%80%93-grade-more-efficiently/.

Claiborne, L.L. (2011) Ideas for Motivating Students. (blog)  http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/2010/11/ideas-for-motivating-students/