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James Garrison, Jr., Ph.D.
Research Associate,
Adjunct Professor of Geology
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Education
- B.S. and Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin
Background
He has spent his career as a field geologist, educator, and research scientist in both academic institutions and in the energy industry. His primary research focus is the sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, ecology, and ichnology of modern and ancient coastal depositional systems. Dr. Garrison has published 40 technical papers and has made 31 technical presentations at professional society meetings. He is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM). Dr. Garrison is currently serving on the Research Committee of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Dr. Garrison is an avid outdoor enthusiast, a surfer, an accomplished horseman and equine behaviorist, and a licensed Utah whitewater river guide, trained in wilderness medicine.
Recent Publications
Garrison, James R., Jr. and Sara Smelley (2007) Recovery of infaunal crustacean colonies following a period of rapid sedimentation and defaunation: a neoichnological examination following beach rejuvenation on the south side of Packery Channel, North Padre Island, Texas: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions (in press). (
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Garrison, James R., Jr. and Bobby McCoy (2007) The Nueces Incised Valley revisted: a reinterpretation of the sedimentology and depositional sequence stratigraphy of preserved Pleistocene and Holocene valley-fill sediments: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions (in press). (
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Garrison, James R., Jr., Bo Henk, and Rachael Creel (2007) Neoichnology of the micro-tidal Gulf Coast of Texas: implications for paleoecological and paleoenvironmental interpretations of ancient micro-tidal shoreline systems: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions (in press). (
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Garrison, James R., Jr., Bo Henk, and Rachael Creel (2007) Neoichnology of the micro-tidal Gulf Coast of Texas: implications for paleoecological and paleoenvironmental interpretations of the clastic rocks of the Cretaceous Western Interior Basin, U.S.A.: 2007 SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) Research Conferrence: Ichnological Applications to Sedimentological and Sequence Stratigraphic Problems, Price, Utah, May 21-25, 6 p. (
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Garrison, James R., Jr., Donald Brinkman, Douglas Nichols, Paul Layer, Don Burge, and Denise Thayn (2007) A multidisciplinary study of the Lower Cedar Mountain Formation, Mussentuchit Wash, Utah - a determination of the paleoenvironment and paleoecology of the
Eolambia caroljonesa Dinosauria Quarry: Cretaceous Research, 28, 461-494. (
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Garrison, James R., Jr. and T.C.V. van den Bergh (2006) Effects of sedimentation rate, rate of relative rise in sea level and sea-level cycle duration on the filling of incised valleys: examples of "filled" and "over-filled" incised valleys from the Upper Ferron Sandstone Last Chance Delta, East-central Utah, in Dalymple et al. (eds.) Incised Valleys in Time and Space: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) Special Publication 85, 239-279. (
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Garrison, James R., Jr. and Gary Endsley, 2005, Field-based geoscience education - a valid experience in outdoor learning: The Texas Science Teacher.
Garrison, James R., Jr. and T.C.V. van den Bergh (2004) The high-resolution depositional sequence stratigraphy of the Upper Ferron Sandstone Last Chance Delta: an application of coal zone stratigraphy, in Chidsey, et al. (eds) The fluvial-deltaic Ferron Sandstone; regional to wellbore scale outcrop analogy studies and applications to reservoir modelling: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Studies in Geology 50, 125-192. (
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van den Bergh, T.C.V. and James R.Garrison, Jr. (2004) The effects of changes in sedimentation rate and relative sea level on the geometry, architecture, and sedimentology of fluvial and deltaic sandstones within the Upper Ferron Sandstone Last Chance Delta, in Chidsey, et al. (eds) The fluvial-deltaic Ferron Sandstone; regional to wellbore scale outcrop analogy studies and applications to reservoir modelling: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Studies in Geology 50, 451-498. (
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