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usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   status_code: 200
   timestamp: '2023-09-30T16:57:18.118722'
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/kevin-kincare
 profile:
   abstracts: []
   affiliations: []
   education: []
   email: kkincare@usgs.gov
   expertise_terms:
   - erosion
   - sedimentation
   - unconsolidated deposits
   - stratigraphy
   - glacial chronology
   honors: []
   intro_statements:
   - I am currently mapping the glacial geology of the Manistee National Forest and
     Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in northwest lower Michigan as well as
     ongoing work in the St. Joseph River basin of southwest Michigan and northern
     Indiana. I am also working with the Great Lakes Geologic Mapping Coalition which
     includes all 8 states that have Great Lakes coastline.
   name: Kevin Kincare, Ph.D.
   name_qualifier: null
   orcid: 0000-0002-1050-3627
   organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/florence-bascom-geoscience-center
   organization_name: Florence Bascom Geoscience Center
   personal_statement: 'My research goals are to: 1) develop local/regional Quaternary
     stratigraphic frameworks in each map area, 2) improve our ability to predict
     the 3-D stratigraphy and distribution of material units (gravel, sand, silt-clay,
     till) in glacial systems, 3) better assess how stratigraphic features affect
     flow of ground water through the system, and 4) assure that the most consistent
     geologic models are used in collaborative studies.The existing literature does
     not deal with one of the basic facts of drainage basins developed in glacial
     landscapes.  Where glaciers were unconstrained by bedrock uplands (e.g. much
     of the upper Midwest), drainage basins are often sequentially constructed from
     their distal to proximal areas rather than the classical evolution by headward
     erosion of streams and springs over long periods of time.  Glacial retreat adds
     sections to the basin in step-wise fashion as the glacier margin moves basinward.  The
     pattern, common in the literature, of regional slope and stream-network development
     corresponding to a pre-existing structural or stratigraphic pattern does not
     apply to these drainages.  Rivers draining today into the Lake Michigan basin
     were constructed in discrete parts during retreat of the Lake Michigan lobe
     and, in the case of the St. Joseph and Manistee Rivers, further imprinted by
     a buried Saginaw lobe terrain as well as the addition of outwash from the proximal
     edge by the Huron/Erie lobe.  Each discrete part has a distinct depositional
     history that may not match that of the previously or subsequently added segments.   One
     of the major outcomes of our research is that a realistic model of post-glacial
     drainage basin development must reflect abrupt contrasts of sediment properties
     and slope gradients related to each successive ice-marginal position.'
   professional_experience: []
   title: Research Geologist