Rate My Professor Julie Bartley

Julie Bartley serves as a professor in the Geology program within the Department of Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences at Gustavus Adolphus College, where she also holds the position of Department Chair. In 2020, she received the Gustavus Faculty Service Award, the highest accolade presented annually at Founder's Day to recognize distinguished service activities by a faculty member. Her leadership fosters interdisciplinary studies encompassing environmental studies, geography, geology, climate change, sustainable resource use, urban planning, justice, equity, mapping, and spatial analysis.

Bartley's research addresses sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology, and applications to planetary science, including molar-tooth structures in Precambrian carbonates, experimental taphonomy for interpreting microfossils, discrimination of volcanic versus sedimentary origins using rover-analogous methods, landslide inventories in glaciated landscapes, and protocols for identifying potential biosignatures on Mars. She has produced 69 publications with 2,035 citations, including 'Factors influencing landslide occurrence in low-relief formerly glaciated landscapes: landslide inventory and susceptibility analysis in Minnesota, USA' (2025), 'Testing Rover Science Protocols to Identify Possible Biosignatures on Mars: Achieving Sampling Goals Under a Highly Constrained Time Line' (2022), 'Molar-Tooth Structure as a Window into the Deposition and Diagenesis of Precambrian Carbonate' (2022), 'Using Rover-analogous Methodology to Discriminate between Volcanic and Sedimentary Origins in Successions Dominated by Igneous Composition' (2022), 'Experimental Taphonomy as a Tool for Deciphering Biological Affinities of Microfossils' (2014), and contributions to carbonate fabric diversity in the late Mesoproterozoic Era (2021). In geoscience education, she has contributed activities such as 'The Proterozoic Fossil Record' and materials for Sedimentology/Stratigraphy and Paleontology courses to the Science Education Resource Center (SERC), participated in 25 workshops, reviewed 26 On the Cutting Edge activities, and presented on reformed teaching, climate science integration, and unlearning racism in geoscience.