James A. Jackson

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James Anthony Jackson (born December 12, 1954 in India ) is a British geologist and geophysicist.

Life

Jackson grew up in India and graduated from Cambridge University with a bachelor's degree in science in 1973. He was also a Foundation Scholar. He received his doctorate there in 1980 with Dan McKenzie at Bullard Laboratories, where he had been since 1976. While working on his dissertation, which examined recent processes that shape continents (mountain formation, formation of basins through subsidence, displacements, wrinkling, etc.) with the help of the analysis of earthquakes, he was a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Seismic Discrimination Group). He then did research at Queen's College, Cambridge University, became Assistant Lecturer in 1984, Lecturer in 1988 and Reader in 1996. In 2003 he became professor for geophysics, geodynamics and tectonics. He has been a Fellow of Queen's College since 1979. He is Head of the Faculty of Earth Sciences at Cambridge (2015).

His research focuses on active tectonic processes on continents, which he investigates quantitatively with the help of seismology, remote observation by satellite (radar interferometry, GPS, optical measurements) and field studies. He was deputy director of the UK COMET project (Center for Observation and Modeling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics) and is a staff member there. Local focus of his research were Greece and the Aegean Sea, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia and Tibet.

In 1986 and 1990 he received the Sedgwick Prize of Cambridge University, the Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1997 and its President's Award in 1985 and the Wollaston Medal in 2015 .

In 1995 he gave the Christmas Lecture of the Royal Institution (Planet Earth, an explorer's guide). In 2002 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 2003 a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union . In 2015 he became Commander of the Order of the British Empire .

Fonts (selection)

  • Seismicity, normal faulting, and the geomorphological development of the Gulf of Corinth (Greece): the Corinth earthquakes of February and March 1981. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 57, 1982, pp. 377-397.
  • with D. McKenzie: The relationship between strain rates, crustal thickening, palaeomagnetism, finite strain and fault movements within a deforming zone , Earth & Planetary Science Letters, Volume 65, 1983, pp. 182-202.
  • with D. McKenzie: Active tectonics of the Alpine- Himalayan Belt between western Turkey and Pakistan , Geophysical Journal - Royal Astronomical Society, Volume. 77, 1984, pp. 185-264.
  • with D. McKenzie: The relationship between plate motions and seismic moment tensors, and the rates of active deformation in the Mediterranean and Middle East , Geophysical Journal, Volume 93, 1988, pp. 45-73.
  • with NN Ambraseys: Seismicity and associated strain of central Greece between 1890 and 1988 , Geophysical Journal International, Volume 101, 1990, pp. 663-708.
  • with T. Taymaz, D. McKenzie: Active tectonics of the north and central Aegean Sea , Geophysical Journal International, Volume 106, 1991, pp. 433-490.
  • Active tectonics of the Aegean region , Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Volume 22, 1994, pp. 239-271.
  • with R. Norris, J. Youngson: The structural evolution of active fault and fold systems in central Otago, New Zealand: Evidence revealed by drainage patterns , Journal of Structural Geology, Volume 18, 1996, pp. 217-234.
  • with NN Ambraseys: Faulting associated with historical and recent earthquakes in the Eastern Mediterranean region , Geophysical Journal International, Volume 133, 1998, pp. 390–406.
  • with A. Maggi, D. McKenzie, K. Priestley: Earthquake focal depths, effective elastic thickness, and the strength of the continental lithosphere , Geology, Volume 28, 2000, pp. 495-498.
  • Strength of the continental lithosphere: Time to abandon the jelly sandwich? , GSA Today, Vol. 12, 2002 pp. 4-10.
  • with D. McKenzie, KF Priestley: Thermal structure of oceanic and continental lithosphere , Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 233., 2005, pp. 337-349
  • Mountain roots and the survival of cratons , Astronomy & Geophysics, Volume 46, 2005, pp. 33-36
  • Fatal attraction: living with earthquakes, the growth of villages into megacities, and earthquake vulnerability in the modern world , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A, Volume 364, 2006, pp. 1911-1925
  • with JR Elliott, RJ Walters, PC England, Z. Li, B. Parsons: Extension on the Tibetan plateau: recent normal faulting measured by InSAR and body wave seismology , Geophysical Journal International, Volume 183, 2010, pp. 503-535
  • with Timothy J. Craig, Alex Copley: Thermal and tectonic consequences of India underthrusting Tibet , Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 353-35 2012, pp. 231-239

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Insight: Professor James Jackson, Queens College Alumni Journal Bridge, Summer 2015 , with biography
  2. ↑ Interview by Jackson, Science Watch 2010
  3. ^ Comet Project
personal data
SURNAME Jackson, James A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jackson, James Anthony (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British geologist and geophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH India