Vita

James V. Jones III
Geology Discipline
University of Minnesota Morris
600 East 4th Street
Morris, MN 56267

Phone: (320) 589-6338
Fax: (320) 589-6371

EDUCATION

PhD 2005, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Thesis title: Proterozoic tectonic evolution of southern Laurentia: New constraints from field studies and geochronology in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, U.S.A.

MS 1999, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
Thesis title: Deformational, magmatic, and metamorphic history of the central Ruby Mountains, Elko county, Nevada

BS cum laude 1997, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Assistant Professor	Aug 2005 - present	Geology Discipline University of Minnesota Morris
Part-time Faculty	Jan 2005 - May 2005	Geosciences Department Trinity University
Associate Instructor	June 2004 - July 2004	Geological Sciences Department University of Texas at Austin
Graduate Teaching/ Research Assistant	Aug 2000 - May 2005	Geological Sciences Department University of Texas at Austin
Graduate Teaching/ Research Assistant	Aug 1997 - Dec 1999	Geology and Geophysics Dept. University of Wyoming

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

Summer Professional Geologist

Sept 1998 - Dec 1998

ARCO Alaska, Inc. Anchorage, AK

HONORS AND AWARDS

• R.L. Folk/E.F. McBride Graduate Petrography Award (UT Austin) - 2002
• Graduate Student Service Award (UT Austin) - 2002
• Allen Farmer Award for Forestry and Geology (U of the South) - 1997
• Departmental Honors, Forestry and Geology (U of the South) - 1997
• Dean's List (U of the South) - Spring 1996, Fall 1996
• Order of Gownsmen (U of the South) - 1995-1997

GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

• American Federation of Mineralogical Societies Scholarship - 2003
• Thomas R. Banks Memorial Fellowship (UT Dept. of Geological Sciences) - 2002, 2000
• Ronald K. DeFord Field Scholarship (UT Dept. of Geological Sciences) - 2002
• Walter Benona Sharp Memorial Scholarship (UT Dept. of Geological Sciences) - 2002
• George W. Marshall, Jr., Memorial Endowed Presidential Scholarship (UT Dept. of Geological Sciences) - 2001
• Geological Society of America Research Grant - 1999

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Geological Society of America, American Geophysical Union, Mineralogical Society of America

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Structural geology and tectonics combined with elements of geochronology, thermochronology, igneous and metamorphic petrology; mid-crustal tectonic processes and the Precambrian evolution of the southwestern U. S.; evolution and exhumation of mid- to high-grade metamorphic terranes; origin and emplacement of granitic rocks in collisional orogens.

PUBLICATIONS

see research pages for a current listing