Wednesday, February 15th, 2012, 11:30am - 1:00pm

Jason Hicks - Research Associate in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Global Warming - Ancient Record, Modern Reality and Political Spin

Jason Hicks is a geologist and currently a Research Associate in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, where he has worked since 1998.  He attended Oxford University in England where he obtained an undergraduate degree in geology, and worked as a student intern on the gold mines of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. After graduating from Oxford he came over to the United States to attend graduate school, earning a M.Sc. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, followed by a spell in gold exploration in Alaska, which circuitously led to a Ph.D. in geology from Yale University in 1993.  As a postdoc student he worked for the Smithsonian Institution in the Department of Paleobiology, and then as a Research Associate at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California.  As an Associate Professor he has lectured at his alma mater, Yale University, and also at the University of New Haven, University of Denver and Colorado College. 
His primary research focus is in the field sedimentology, reconstructing the age and paleoenvironment of the earth in the time period from 83 to 2 million years before present. His academic research was centered around the Elk Basin oil field in Montana and Wyoming. He has participated in geology expeditions that have ranged across the globe, including Patagonia, Mongolia, the Canadian Arctic, Pakistan, the Russian Far East and Australia. Working with Scripps Institution of Oceanography, he has also been on a long research cruise in the South Pacific, conducting deep-sea tows that collected geophysical data and rock samples from the ocean floor of the East Pacific Rise.
He has wide ranging interests. He learned to fly in Alaska in the late 1980’s, and is an avid taildragger pilot and owner of a 1949 Cessna. He holds technical scuba diving ratings and a ham radio ham license. He is a competitive pistol and rifle shooter, and has entirely too many motorcycles. He now has a 10 month old son which has severely impacted activities in all of the above.

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DAPL February 2012 Luncheon

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