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Department of Geology Amherst College 11 Barrett Hill Road Amherst, MA 01002 djones@amherst.edu office (413) 542-2714 mobile (718) 506-7045 www.amherst.edu/people/facstaff/djones Professional Experience
2011 – present Assistant Professor, Geology Department, Amherst College
2009 – 2010 Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
2008 – 2009 Visiting Instructor in Geology, Geology Department, Bates College
Education
2009 Ph.D. (Geology & Geochemistry), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Advisor: Paul Hoffman 1998 B.A. (Geology), Carleton College, Northfield, MN. Advisor: David Bice
Peer Reviewed Published Articles
Jones, D. S., and Fike, D. A., 2013. Dynamic sulfur and carbon cycling through the end-Ordovician extinction revealed by paired sulfate-pyrite δ34
S. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.12.015. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 363:144-155.
Finnegan, S., Fike, D. A., Jones, D. S., and Fischer, W. W., 2012. A temperature-dependent positive feedback on the magnitude of carbon isotope excursions. Geoscience Canada, 39:122-131.
Macdonald, F. A. and Jones, D. S., 2011. The Khubsugul Group, Mongolia. In: Arnaud, E., Halverson, G. P., and Shields-Zhou, G. (eds.), The Geological Record of Neoproterozoic Glaciations, Geological Society, London, Geological Society of London Memoirs, 36, p. 339-345.
Jones, D. S., Finnegan, S., Fike, D. A., Fischer, W. W., Schrag, D. P., and McCay, D., 2011. Terminal Ordovician carbon isotope stratigraphy and glacioeustatic sea-level change across Anticosti Island (Québec, Canada). doi:10.1130/B30323.1. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 123:1645-1664. Finnegan, S., Bergmann, K., Fischer, W. W., Jones, D. S., Fike, D. A., Hughes, N. C., Tripati, A., and Eiler, J. M., 2011. The magnitude and duration of Late Ordovician-Early Silurian glaciation. doi: 10.1126/science.1200803. Science, 331:903-906.
Jones, D. S., Maloof, A. C., Rainbird, R., Hurtgen, M. T., and Schrag, D. P., 2010. Regional and global chemostratigraphic correlation of the Early Neoproterozoic Shaler Supergroup, Victoria Island,
Macdonald, F. A., Schmitz, M. D., Crowley, J. C., Roots, C. F., Jones, D. S, Maloof, A. C., Strauss, J. V., Cohen, P. A., Johnston, D. T., and Schrag, D. P, 2010. Calibrating the Cryogenian. doi:
10.1126/science.1183325. Science, 327:1241-1243.
Macdonald, F. A., Jones, D. S., and Schrag, D. P., 2009. Stratigraphic and tectonic implications of a new glacial diamictite – cap carbonate doublet in southwestern Mongolia. doi:10.1130/G24797A.1. Geology, 37:123-126.
Hoffman, P. F., Crowley, J. W., Johnston, D. T., Jones, D. S., and Schrag, D. P, 2008. Snowball prevention questioned. doi:10.1038/nature07655. Nature, 456: E7-E10.
Gattacceca, J., Deino, A., Rizzo, R., Jones, D. S., Henry, B., Beaudoin, B., and Vadeboin, F., 2007. Miocene rotation of Sardinia: New paleomagnetic and geochronological constraints and geodynamic implications. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.02.003. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 258: 359-377.
Manuscripts in Progress
*Amherst College undergraduate co-author
Jones, D. S., *Creel, R. C., *Rios, B., and *Santiago, D., in revision at Geology. Chemostratigraphy of an Ordovician-Silurian carbonate platform: δ13
C records below glacioeustatic exposure surfaces. doi:10.1130/G36236.1
*Creel, R. C. and Jones, D. S., in preparation for Journal of Sedimentary Research. Diagenesis of shelf carbonates deposited during the Ordovician-Silurian icehouse: a case study from western Laurentia.
Conference Abstracts
*Amherst College undergraduate co-author
Jones, D.S., *Creel, R. C., *Rios, B. A., and *Santiago Ramos, D. P., 2014. Late Ordovician and early Silurian glacioeustatic sea level changes and carbon isotope chemostratigraphy. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 46, No. 6, p. 624.
*Otoo, B. K. A., and Jones, D.S., 2014. Investigating paleoenvironmental and diagenetic controls on intrabasinal variability of stable isotope records in ancient limestones. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 46, No. 2, p. 87.
*Pessoa, C. K., Jones, D.S., and Higgins, J.A., 2014. Magnesium isotope records associated with dolomite formation in a modern alkaline lake. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 46, No. 2, p. 87.
Jones, D.S., *Creel, R. C., *Rios, B., and *Santiago, D., 2013. Chemostratigraphy of an Ordovician-Silurian shallow water carbonate platform: implications for the interpretation of δ13C excursions under glacioeustatic exposure surfaces. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 45, No. 7, p. 34.
*Creel, R. C. and Jones, D. S., 2013. Meteoric diagenesis of sequence boundaries in late Ordovician-early Silurian dolomites of the Great Basin, Nevada. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 45, No. 1, p. 77.
*Rios, B. and Jones, D. S., 2013. Testing the development of δ13
C gradients across a proximal to distal transect of an Ordovician-Silurian carbonate shelf in central Nevada. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 45, No. 1, p. 78.
*Santiago Ramos, D. and Jones, D. S., 2013. Assessing the potential effects of dolomitization on the sulfur isotopic composition of late Ordovician-early Silurian dolomites from the Basin and Range Province, Nevada. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 45, No. 1, p. 77. Fike, D.A. and Jones, D.S., 2012. Micron-scale analysis of carbonate-associated sulfate by secondary ionization mass spectrometry: insights into spatial variability in δ34
SCAS. Abstract B24E-05 presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 3-7 Dec.
*Rothacker, C. A. and Jones, D. S., 2012. Chemostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of northern Mongolia’s Khubsugul Basin: links between geochemistry and evolution in the Ediacaran and Early Cambrian. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 44, No. 2.
Fike, D. A., Jones, D. S., and Fischer, W. W., 2011. Spatial heterogeneity in sulfur isotopes: implications for modern environments and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Abstract B43H-07 presented at 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 5-9 Dec.
Jones, D.S., Fike, D.A., and Fischer, W.W., 2011. Basin-scale variability of sulfur isotope records from a mixed carbonate-siliciclastic succession (Ordovician-Silurian strata of Anticosti Island, Québec). Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 43, No. 5, p. 611.
Smith, E.F., Macdonald, F.A., Jones, D.S., Creveling, J.C., and Bold, U., 2011. The Ediacaran to early Cambrian in Mongolia: Stratigraphy, geochemistry, and paleontology of a tectonically reactivated basin. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 43, No. 5., p. 269.
Fike, D.A., Jones, D.S., and Fischer, W.W., 2011. The geographic and stratigraphic record of
Ordovician δ13Ccarb in outcrops and the subsurface of Anticosti Island, Canada. Mineralogical Magazine, Vol. 75 (3), p. 845.
Jones, D. S., Finnegan, S., Fike, D. A., Fischer, W. W., and Schrag, D. P., 2010. On the geographic and stratigraphic variability of the Hirnantian carbon isotope excursion across Anticosti Island, Canada. Abstract B51G-0426 presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 13-17 Dec.
Rohrssen, M., Love, G. D., Fike, D. A., Finnegan, S., Fischer, W. W., and Jones, D. S., 2010. A lipid biomarker stratigraphic record through the Late Ordovician mass extinction. Abstract B51G-0427 presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 13-17 Dec.
Finnegan, S., Bergmann, K. D., Eiler, J. M., Jones, D. S., Fike, D. A., Eisenman, I. L., Hughes, N. C., Tripati, A., Fischer, W. W., 2010. Constraints on the duration and magnitude of Late Ordovician-Early Silurian glaciation and its relationship to the Late Ordovician mass extinction from carbonate “clumped”
isotope paleothermometry. Abstract B54B-04 presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 13-17 Dec.
Finnegan, S., Bergmann, K. D., Eiler, J. M., Jones, D. S., Fike, D. A., Tripati, A., Hughes, N. C., Eisenman, I., and Fischer, W. W., 2010. New constraints on the duration and magnitude of Late
Ordovician-Early Silurian glaciation from carbonate “clumped” isotope paleothermometry. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 42, No. 5, p. 513.
Macdonald, F. A, Schmitz, M. D., Crowley, J. L., Roots, C., Maloof, A. C., Jones, D. S., and Strauss, J., 2009. The low-latitude Rapitan glaciation. Eos Trans. AGU, 90(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract U13A-0046.
Jones, D. S., Macdonald, F., Bold, U., Amgalan, B., and Schrag, D., 2007. Neoproterozoic and Early Cambrian stratigraphy and δ13C record of Lake Khubsugul region, northern Mongolia. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 39, No. 6, p. 144.
Jones, D. S., Hoffman, P., and Schrag, D., 2006. A high-resolution Late Ordovician-Early Silurian composite carbon isotope profile from western Laurentia. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 38, No. 7, p. 493.
Swanson-Hysell, N., Maloof, A., Weiss, B., and Jones, D. S. 2006. Reevaluating Keweenawan reversal asymmetry: new paleomagnetic data from Mamainse Point. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 38, No. 7, p. 398.
Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
• Trustee Faculty Fellowship, Amherst College, 2014-2015
• Project in Innovative Curriculum and Teaching Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Time (with Andrew Poe), Amherst College, Summer 2016 (approved Fall 2013)
• Project in Innovative Curriculum and Teaching “Flipped Classroom” pilot project, Amherst College, Spring 2014
• Keck Geology Consortium Research Grant, “A geobiological approach to understanding dolomite formation at Deep Springs Lake, CA.” Co-Director with Jason Tor (Hampshire College), 2013-2014
• Dayton Environmental Science Fund, Amherst College, 2011-12 • Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 2007
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2005-2008
• Henry Breck Fund Research Grant, Harvard University Center for the Environment, 2005-2006 • James Mills Peirce Fellowship, Harvard University, 2004-2007
Invited Talks
• Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, “Stable isotopes and the Ordovician-Silurian glaciation: climate, environment, and diagenesis,” November 2014.
• Class of 1960 Lecturer in Geosciences, Williams College, “Glaciation, extinction, and microbes: sulfur isotopes from the Ordovician-Silurian boundary,” February 2013.
• Five College Geology Faculty Symposium, Smith College, “The marine sulfur isotope record of the end Ordovician glaciation and extinction,” November 2012.
• Pew Midstates Consortium for Math and Science Speaker Series, Luther College, “The
Ordovician Mass Extinction and Glaciation: Insights from the Stratigraphy and Geochemistry of Anticosti Island, Quebec,” November 2010.
• Western Carolina University Geosciences & Natural Resources Department, “End Ordovician Glaciation and Sea Level Change: New Insights from Stable Isotope Stratigraphy,” March 2010 • Amherst College Geology Department, “An Ice Age in the Tropics: Seds and Sea Level, Isotopes
and Extinction,” February 2010
• Washington University EPS Brown Bag Seminar, “An Ice Age in the Tropics: Linking Sedimentary Dynamics, Glaciation and Mass Extinction: a stable isotope approach to understanding End Ordovician Earth history,” February 2010
• Bates College GeoLunch, “Stable Isotopes, Earth History, and Mongolian Tectonics,” Sept. 2008 • Mongolian University of Science and Technology, “Neoproterozoic Carbonates, Glacial Tillites,
and Phosphorites of Northern Mongolia,” September 2006
Field and Laboratory Training Courses
• Secondary Ionization Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) Workshop, Arizona State University, Jan. 2010 • International GeoBiology Course, Agouron Institute-University of Southern California, including
field trips to the Bahamas and Owens Valley, CA, Summer 2005
• Geology and Geobiology of Western Australia field trip, California Institute of Technology, August 2004
• Field Geology Semester in Italy, Carleton College, 10 weeks, Fall 1997
Service, Outreach, and Professional Development Institutional Service and Involvement at Amherst College
• Amherst College delegate to Liberal Arts Consortium for Online Learning (LACOL) conference, Pomona College, June 2014
• Reunion Faculty Lecture Series, Amherst College, “Mass extinction, catastrophe, and deep time,” May 2014
• Frost Library Discussion Series, Amherst College, “Mass extinctions and other catastrophes in Earth history,” December 2013
• First Year Seminar Direct Assessment Pilot Project, Fall 2013 • Teagle Seminar for First Year Seminar Instructors, Fall 2013
• Copeland Colloquium, 2013-2014
• DeMott Lecture Reading Group Facilitator, August 2013 • First Year Seminar Workshop, May 2013
• Housing Committee, 2013-2014
• Alumni and Parent lab tour, Amherst Today, Spring 2013 • First Year Orientation Advising, Fall 2012, Fall 2013 • Swift Moore Committee, Spring 2012, Spring 2013
• Science and Humanities discussion group, Summer 2012 – 2013 • Flipped Classroom discussion group, Spring 2013 – Spring 2014 Professional Service in the Geoscience Community
• Peer reviewer of research manuscripts for Geological Society of America Bulletin; Geology; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Nature Communications; American Journal of Science; Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology; Geoscience Canada
• Peer reviewer of research proposals for American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (PRF); NSF Sedimentary Geology & Paleobiology Program; NSF CAREER Program; National Geographic Society
Professional Development in Education
• Workshop for Early Career Geoscience Faculty, SERC On The Cutting Edge Workshop, Washington, DC, July 28 – August 2, 2013
• Teaching About Complex Systems Using the STELLA Modeling Software, SERC On The Cutting Edge Workshop, San Francisco, CA, December 12, 2010
• Earth and the Environment in Italy, Associated Colleges of the Midwest/Faculty Career Enhancement (Mellon Foundation) Workshop, Coldigioco, Italy, June 24-29, 2010 • National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) Northeastern Section Conference,
Manchester, CT, Fall 2007
• Astronomy 302: Scientists Teaching Science, Phil Sadler (Harvard), Spring 2007 • Derek Bok Center Spring Teaching Conference, Harvard University, January 2006 Outreach and Education
