Thomas J. Quick

Thomas Quick joined the department in 1983. His duties include maintaining the department's analytical equipment and instructing students in the operation of this equipment. He is also involved with the design and fabrication of new equipment. His projects range from building a light weight tripod for taking cores in the Bahamas, to designing electronic recording devices for measuring various environmental parameters. Mr. Quick's first recorder measured temperature in hourly intervals. Other temperature recorders were developed to run continuously over a six month period. Water level recorders were developed to measure tidal fluctuations on selected inland lakes in the Bahamas and groundwater fluctuations in monitoring wells of the Bahamas. Other environmental recorders include barometric pressure and conductivity. The conductivity recorder can log data twice a day over a one year period. Mr Quick holds one patent for a battery powered vacuum unit, a device used for the filtration of water samples out in the field. He has also developed several graphic computer programs for the analysis and interpretation of geochemical data.

Chyi, L.L., Quick, T.J., Yang, T.F., and Chen, C.H., 2003, Soil gas radon spectra and earthquake Prediction: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Gas Geochemistry, p. 31-32.

Kunze, A.W.G. and Quick, T.J., 1994, Tidal water level fluctuations in water wells on San Salvador Island, Bahamas: Bulletin of the Association of Engineering Geologists, v. 31, p. 75-89.

Kunze, A.W.G., Quick, T.J., and Gross, G.D., 1991, Measurements of tidal water table fluctuations in well field north of Cockburn Town, San Salvador, Bahamas: in Bain, R.J., (ed) Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas, Bahamian Field Station, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, p. 151-161.

Teeter, J.W. and Quick T.J., 1990, Magnesium-salinity relation in the saline lake ostracode Cyprideis americana: Geology, v. 18, p. 220-222.

Corbett, R.G., Manner, B.S. and Quick, T.J., 1990, Reaching the best high-school sophomores and juniors with a three-week research-based summer program in geochemistry: Journal of Geological Education, v. 38, p. 207.

Foos, A.M. and Quick T.J., 1988, Preparation of oriented clay mounts with uniform thickness for XRD analysis: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 58, p. 759-760.

Corbett, R.G. and Quick T.J., 1986, Battery-powered field filtration assembly using an inexpensive mini-compressor: Journal of Geological Education, v. 34, p. 196-197.

Foos, A., Shultz, K., and Quick, T., 2005, Groundwater-surface water interactions of two wetlands in Liberty Park, Twinsburg, Ohio, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program, v. 37, no. 7, p. 373. [View Abstract]

Chyi, L.L., Quick, T.J., Yang, T.F., and Chen, C.H., 2003, Soil gas radon spectra and earthquake Prediction: Programs and Abstracts, 7th International Conference on Gas Geochemistry, p. 29.

Chyi, L.L., Quick, J.J., Tang, F.T. and Chen, C.H., 2002, Nature of soil gas radon release and earthquake prediction: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program v. 34, no. 6, p. 262.

Talalas, T., Foos, A.M., and Quick, T.J., 2001, Quantitative mineral analysis of Kauai Island beach sands by x-ray diffraction: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program, v. 33, no. 6, p. A-231.

Brown, J., Chanda, A., Dutta, R., Foos, A., Nandi, A., Quick, T.J., Visocky, S., and Waldo, S., 2000, Hydrogeochemistry of springs in the Sharon Sandstone, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio: Geologycal Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 4, p. A-6.

Friberg, L.M., Armstrong, M.E., and Quick, T.J., 1997, Chemistry of chlorites from the dynamothermal metamorphic terrane of the Black Hills, South Dakota: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, v. 29, p. 9.

Zimmer, M.H., Park, L.E., Quick, T.J., Dix, G.R., and Patterson, T., 1997, Paleoenvironmental analysis of a tropical lacustrine ostracode fauna, Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, North-Central Meeting, Madison, WI, v. 29, n. 4, p.81.

Corbett, R.G., Manner, B.M., and Quick, T.J., 1993, Reconstruction of precursors to Liesegang-banded concretions in the Morrison Formation: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, no. 6, p. A66.

Kunze, A.W.G., and Quick, T.J., 1992, Tidal Water level fluctuations in fifteen wells near San Salvador airport, Bahamas. Abstracts and Program, 6th Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas, p. 24-25.

McConnell, D.A., Quick, T.J., and Dominic, J.B., 1992, Interaction of faulting and folding in clay models of basement-involved folds: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 24, no. 6, p. 51.

Kunze, A.W.G., and Quick, T.J., 1991, Tidal water table fluctuations in Cockburn Town well field, San Salvador, Bahamas: American Geophysical Union Transactions, v. 72, p. 126.

Quick, T.J., Kunze, A.W.G., and Gross, G.D., 1990, Measurements of tidal water table fluctuations in well field north of Cockburn Town, San Salvador, Bahamas: Abstracts and Program for 5th Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas, p. 26.

Quick, T.J., and Teeter, J.W., 1990, An inexpensive interface for input of physical measurements into a computer using data stored on cassette or by direct means: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Program, v. 22, no. 7, p. A152.