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JESS F. ADKINS
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California Institute of Technology
MS 100-23
1200 E. California Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91125
Birthdate: February 7, 1968

Tel: (626) 395-8550
Fax: (626) 795-6028
jess@gps.caltech.edu

Citizenship: USA

 

EDUCATION

Massachusetts Institute of Technology/ 
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 
   — Chemical Oceanography, Paleoclimatology, Geochemistry
   — Thesis title: Deep-Sea Corals: A New Oceanographic Archive 

Ph.D. February 1998

Haverford College, Haverford PA
   — Chemistry major 

B.S. May 1990

 

EMPLOYMENT

Smits Family Professor, California Institute of Technology

2016-present

Professor, California Institute of Technology

2010-2016

Associate Professor, California Institute of Technology

2006-2010

Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology 

2000-2006

Post-Doctoral Fellow, U. of Minnesota

Aug. 1998-Dec. 1999

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Jan. 1998-Dec. 1999

Research Assistant, Mass. Institute of Technology

Sept. 1992-Dec. 1997

Lab Technician, U. of California at Santa Barbara

Sept. 1990-June 1992

 

HONORS

Fellow, American Geophysical Union

2018

Fellow, Geochemical Society

2018

EAG Science Innovation Award, Shackleton Medal

2018

Chow Lecture, Scripps Institute of Oceanography

2017

Organic Geochemical Division of the Geochemical Society, Best Paper Award

2009

Ruth and Paul Fye Best Paper Award, MIT/WHOI

2005

Houtermans Medal, European Association of Geochem.

2003

Comer Science and Education Fellowship, Mentor

2002-2008

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Postdoc. Fellowship 

1998-1999

NOAA Postdoc. Fellowship in Climate and Global Change

1998-1999

NASA Global Change Graduate Fellowship

1994-1997 

 

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

— American Geophysical Union
— Geochemical Society
— AAAS

 

SEA GOING EXPERIENCE

R/V Kilo Moana

31 days

Aug. 2017

- Carbonte Dissolution in the North Pacific

R/V Thompson

33 days

Dec. – Jan. 2009

- Chief Scientist.  ROV Jason 2 in the Southern Ocean

 

 

Southern Surveyor

22 days

Jan. 2008

- AUV and mapping in the Southern Ocean

 

 

R/V Atlantis

12 days

Oct. 2005

- Deep-Sea Coral search in Western NE Seamounts.

 

 

R/V Atlantis

21 days

May - June 2003

- Chief Scientist. Deep-Sea coral collection with DSV Alvin.

R/V Atlantis

3 days

Aug. 2001

- Deep-Sea Coral search off Bermuda.

 

 

Marion Dufresne

44 days

May - July 1995

 - coring cruise in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea

R/V Weatherbird

1 day

Aug. 1996

 - mooring recovery off Bermuda

 

 

 

Professional Service

Editor, EPSL            2018

INTCAL focus group, Marine archives and 14C reservoir ages                 2016-present
MIT/WHOI Joint Program Review Committee         2014
NOAA Global Change Post-Doc Committee     2011-2014

NOSAMS Advisory and Policy Board            2007-2010

Associate Editor, Paleoceanography                 2006-2014
PACE, Scor/Images Working Group 123         2005-2007
Geotraces International Planning Committee     2005-2006

 

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