Senior Associate
Contact Information: Website
Office: 372 Williamson Hall
Education: Ph.D. Geology, University of Florida, 1997
Areas of Interest / Research:
- Stable Isotopes
- Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry
- Sediment Coring
- Paleoclimate
Dr. Jason Curtis is the manager of the Light Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometry Laboratory in the Department of Geological Sciences. His lab duties include maintaining the instruments and analyzing samples for lab users. He also instructs lab users in all aspects of sample collecting, preparation, instrument usage, and data analysis. His research focuses on past climate changes, primarily in the American tropics, and primarily over the past 10,000 years. His main archive of paleoclimatic information is shells from lake sediments. One of his specialties is the collection of undisturbed sediment cores from lakes and other bodies of water.
He has done fieldwork in Florida, Alabama, California, Michigan, Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Trinidad, Grenada, Dominican Republic, China, Cambodia, Madagascar, Greece, and on the Great Lakes and the Southern Ocean.
