Christopher Jackson (geologist)

Christopher Aiden-Lee Jackson (born 1977) is a professor of geology at Imperial College London. He is known for his work in geoscience, especially in the use of 3D seismic data to understand dynamic processes in sedimentary basins.

Christopher Jackson
Born1977
Alma materBSc University of Manchester 1998 PhD University of Manchester 2002
Scientific career
InstitutionsNorsk Hydro
Imperial College London
ThesisStructural and stratigraphic evolution of rift basins : the Hammam Faraun area, Suez rift, Egypt (2002)

Education

Christopher Jackson was born in the East Midlands in an area called the Widmerpool Gulf, a sedimentary basin [1] He attended Wilmorton Primary School and Noel Baker Community school. Jackson completed a BSc in Geology at the University of Manchester in 1998.[2] He stayed on at University of Manchester to undertake a PhD in the tectono-stratigraphic evolution of sedimentary basins with Rob Gawthorpe, completing in 2002.[3]

Research and career

Jackson's research focuses on geodynamic, structural, and stratigraphic evolution of sedimentary basins. He has been described by the Geological Society of London as the "leading and most productive interpreter of three-dimensional seismic reflection data of his generation".[4] After completing his PhD in 2002, he was an exploration research geologist in the Norsk Hydro research centre, Bergen.[1]

In 2004, Jackson joined Imperial College London as a lecturer in Basin Analysis in the Department of Earth Science and Engineering, where he was appointed Statoil Professor of Basin Analysis in 2015.[1] In 2014, he joined the Applied Geodynamics Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin as a Visiting Scientist.[5] Between 2015 - 2016 he was a Visiting Lecturer in Petroleum Science at the University of Namibia.[5] He was promoted to Equinor Professor of Basin Analysis at Imperial College in 2018. In 2019, he was the H. Burr Steinbach Visiting Scholar at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

In a 2017 interview with the Guardian newspaper, Jackson stated that he knew of "no other black, full-time, Earth science academic in the UK - or in fact, Europe or the US".[6] Jackson is on the editorial board of the Journal of Petroleum Geology.[7] He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London.[5] Jackson delivered the closing of the 2015 Geological Society of London lecture series, "Terra Infirma: What has salt tectonics ever done for us?".[8][9][10]

Open access

Part of the open access movement within academia, Jackson founded EarthArxiv, a free preprint service for the earth sciences.[11][12][13]

Broadcasting

Expedition Volcano

In 2017 Jackson joined a team of scientists and adventurers, including Xand Van Tulleken, to take part in an extraordinary expedition to volcanoes.[14] The two-part BBC documentary "Expedition Volcano" involved the scientists studying Nyiragongo and Nyamulagira, two of the world's most dangerous volcanoes located deep within the African Congo.[15][16]

Awards

References
  1. "Christopher A-L. Jackson - AAPG 2012-13 Distinguished Lecturer". archives.aapg.org. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
  2. "Home - Professor Christopher Jackson". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
  3. "Dr Christopher Jackson | Carbonate Research". www.carbonateresearch.com. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
  4. "The Geological Society of London - 2013 Awards Citations replies". www.geolsoc.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
  5. "Honours and Memberships - Professor Christopher Jackson". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
  6. Panciroli, Elsa (2017-08-16). "Does Palaeontology have an image problem? | Elsa Panciroli". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
  7. "Journal of Petroleum Geology - Editorial Board - Wiley Online Library". Journal of Petroleum Geology. doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1747-5457.
  8. "Terra Infirma: What has salt tectonics ever done for us?". Geological Society of London blog. 2015-02-06. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
  9. GeologicalSociety (2014-02-05), LUSI: the Geology and Engineering of a Mud Volcano Disaster in Java, retrieved 2017-12-15
  10. "The Geological Society of London - Terra Infirma; What Has Salt Tectonics Ever Done For Us". www.geolsoc.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
  11. "FORCE2017 - Invited speakers". www.force2017.org. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
  12. "The Center for Open Science and EarthArXiv Launch Branded Preprint Service". Center for Open Science (COS). Retrieved 2017-12-15.
  13. "EarthArXiv wants your preprints". Agile. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
  14. "Expedition Volcano - BBC Two". BBC. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
  15. Expedition Volcano - Series 1: Episode 1, retrieved 2017-12-15
  16. "Episode 2, Series 1, Expedition Volcano - BBC Two". BBC. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
  17. "SEPM - Best Journal Paper Award (2004 - present)". www.sepm.org. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  18. "Exceptional Reviewers - 2019". www.geosociety.org. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  19. "Carlos Walter M. Campos Memorial Award (Best International Student Paper)". www.aapg.org. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  20. Inc., Advanced Solutions International. "GSA International". www.geosociety.org. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
  21. "AAPG Paper Awards". www.aapg.org. Archived from the original on 2015-07-11. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
  22. "British Sedimentological Research Group 51st Annual General Meeting" (PDF). BSRG. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
  23. "Chris Jackson | Bureau of Economic Geology". www.beg.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
  24. "AAPG Datapages/Archives" (PDF). archives.datapages.com. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
  25. "Editorial board - Basin Research". br.eage.org. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
  26. "BSRG - Awards recognising a body of Sedimentological Research". www.bsrg.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
  27. "D.I.C.K. - The Dulwich International Conker Knockout Tournament". www.dulwichconkers.org. Archived from the original on 2017-10-13. Retrieved 2017-12-17.
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