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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, philosophy concentration 

B.S. May 1990

 

EMPLOYMENT

Professor, California Institute of Technology

2010-present

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

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

 

SEA GOING EXPERIENCE

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

NOSAMS Advisory and Policy Board            2007-present

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

 

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