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VITAE - JAMES E. WRIGHT

PROFESSOR

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY

University of Georgia, Athens GA

PHONE (706) 542-4394; e-mail:

EDUCATION:

B.S., Geology, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina

M.S., Geology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia

Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara (1980)

POSITIONS HELD:

Research Associate, 1977-1979, U.C. Santa Barbara

Assistant Professor, 1980-1983, U.C. Berkeley

Research Associate, 1983-1988, Stanford University

Associate Professor, 1989-1999, Rice University

Professor,1999-2000, Rice University

Professor, 2000-present, University of Georgia

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

Member of National Science Foundation Tectonics and Active Tectonics Panel:1996-1999

1996-Tectonics/Active Tectonics Panel

1997- Tectonics Panel

1998- Tectonics Panel

1999-Tectonics/Active Tectonics Panel

AWARDS

Cox / Blaustein Visiting Scholar Stanford University; Fall Semester 2005

Lothar Tresp Distinguished Honors Professor, UGA 2013

Nominated to present TEDxuga talk (2014)

GRANTS : Noted if CO-PI otherwise PI

$34,718, U.S. Geological Survey, "Tectonics and magmatism in southern Arizona and the Mojave Desert", 3/80-2/81.

$28,624, U.S. Geological Survey, Continuation of previous grant, 3/81-2/82.

$30,000, Lawerence Berkeley Laboratory, "Tectonics and magmatism in the Basin and Range Province", 1/81-9/81.

$58,000, National Science Foundation, "Tectonic significance of a serpentinite matrix melange, Klamath Mountains, northern California", 6/81-5/83.

$34,000, U.S. Geological Survey, "Tectonics and magmatism in southern Arizona and the Mojave Desert", 8/82-9/83.

$116,606, National Science Foundation, "Jurassic magmatism and deformation in the U.S. Cordillera: Constraints from the Klamath Mountains and the Northern Great Basin", 11/83-12/85.

$115,000, National Science Foundation, "Detailed geologic mapping, geochronology, and geothermobarometry as a guide to the development of a crustal cross-section for the eastern Great Basin; Collaboration with Art Snoke, University of Wyoming”. Art Snoke, Principal Investigator. 6/87-5/89.

$131,466, National Science Foundation, "Cretaceous magmatism and orogenesis in the northern Great Basin". Grant to Elizabeth Miller, and J.E. Wright. 6/88-5/90.

$181,700, National Science Foundation, " Request for a multiple-collector thermal ionization mass spectrometer"; matching funds for the purchase of a mass spectrometer. Granted by NSF on Nov. 1, 1989.

$101,339, National Science Foundation, "Interrelation of magmatism, metamorphism and deformation, Kigluaik Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska”, 1992-1994.

$98,052 , National Science Foundation, “Nature, timing and controls of Jurassic orogenesis in the western U.S. Cordillera” 1/93-12/94.

$32,534, National Science Foundation, “Geochronological and geological characteristics of terranes in the central Georgia Piedmont”, 1992-1994.

$77,384, National Science Foundation, "Petrologic, isotopic and structural evolution of low pressure metamorphism in an accretionary complex, eastern Chugach Mountains, Alaska", Co-PI with V.B. Sisson, Rice University, 1991-1993.

$88,000, National Science Foundation, "Basaltic volcanism associated with Basin and Range extension, central Nevada - geochemical variation in space and time", Co-PI with W.P. Leeman, Rice University, 1991-1993.

$105,000, National Science Foundation, "Late Mesozoic history of the western Luning-Fencemaker belt and the Pine Nut fault, west-central Nevada", Co-PI with J.S. Oldow, Rice University, 1992-1994.

$133,040, National Science Foundation, “Tectonic consequences of ridge subduction and plate reorganization; the Chugach metamorphic complex, Alaska”, CO-PI with V.B. Sisson, Rice University, 9/93-8/96. $20,000 seed money, National Institute for Global Environmental Change, “High resolution reconstruction of eastern Pacific climate during the past 1000 years: 234U/230Th, Sr/Ca, and 180/160 ratios in Hermatypic corals”, Co-PI with R. Dunbar, and B. Linsley, Rice University.

$159,719 , National Science Foundation, “Crustal Evolution of the Bering Shelf-Chukchi Sea Region”, 1/94-12/96.

$34,000, National Science Foundation, “Sourcing A-Type granites in ancient rifts”, Collaborative research: 1/94-12/96

$118,584, NIGEC, “Documenting changes in eastern Pacific climate using corals: Base-line data for validation of climate models”, CO-PI with R. B. Dunbar and B. Linsley, Rice University, 6/94-5/95.

$164,996, NSF, “Timing of deformation in the early Mesozoic back-arc basin of the western U.S. Cordillera: Luning-Fencemaker fold and thrust belt”; Co-PI with Wyld, 1/96-12/98.

$137,934, NSF, "Collaborative Research: Cretaceous age crustal discontinuity in the Black Rock Desert region of northwest Nevada: Kinematic link between the Mojave-Snow Lake Fault and the Salmon River-Idaho Suture/"; 1/99-12/01.

*Note remaining funds ($116,700) transferred to UGA.

$3,500,000 NSF, “Collaborative Research: Crust-mantle interactions during continental growth and high-pressure rock exhumation at an oblique arc-continent collision zone: the SE Caribbean margin” 4 year grant ongoing. Multi-university grant. $226,757 UGA share

$219.520, National Science Foundation, "Tracking the late Mesozoic strike-slip system of the western U.S. Cordillera" 1/02-12-04; CO-PI with S. Wyld. ongoing

$800,000, National Science foundation, "Renewal proposal; Collaborative Research: Crust-mantle interactions during continental growth and high-pressure rock exhumation at an oblique arc-continent collision zone: the SE Caribbean margin” funded, May 2006; Multi university grant. $99,000 UGA share

$180,000 National Science Foundation, "Collaborative Research: The Cretaceous Sierra Nevada Batholith in the northwestern Basin and Range: Intrusive history and erosional exhumation ". funded 2008; $57,349 UGA share

$335,498 National Science Foundation, “Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Tectonism, Orogenesis, and Basin Formation in Nevada: An Integrated Test of Models for Growth of the U.S. Cordillera”. Funded 2009; CO-PI with Sandra Wyld (UGA)

PUBLICATIONS:

PAPERS All Refereed

1. Wright, J.E., Sinha, A.K., and Glover, L., 1975, Age of zircons from the Petersburg Granite, Virginia: with comments on belts of plutons in the Piedmont: American Journal of Science, v. 275, p. 848-856.

2 Church, S.E., Tilton,G.R., Wright, J.E., and Lee-Hu, C.N., 1976, Volatile element depletion and 39K/41K fractionation in lunar soils: Seventh Lunar Science Conference, v. 1, p. 423-439.

3. Cloud, P., Wright, J.E., and Glover, L., 1976, Traces of animal life from 620-million-year old rocks in North Carolina: American Scientist, v. 64, no. 4, p. 396-406.

4. Seiders, Victor M., and Wright, J.E., 1977, Geology and U-Pb Geochronology of the Carolina volcanic slate belt in the Asheboro, North Carolina area: Geological Society of America Field Trip Guidebook (Southeastern Section Meeting).

5. Wright, J.E., and Seiders, V.M., 1980, Age of zircon from volcanic rocks of the central North Carolina Piedmont and tectonic implications for the Carolina volcanic slate belt: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 91, p. 287-294.

6. Haxel, G.B., May, D.J., Wright, J.E., and Tosdal, R.M., 1980, Reconnaissance geologic map of the Baboquivari Peak quadrangle, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Misc. Field Studies Map MF-1251, Scale 1:62,500.

7. Haxel, G.B., Wright, J.E., May, D.J., and Tosdal, R.M., 1980, Reconnaissance geology of the Mesozoic and Lower Cenozoic rocks of the southern Papago Indian Reservation, Arizona--A progress report: Arizona Geol. Soc. Digest, v. xii, p. 17-29.

8. Tilton, G.R., Hopson, C.A., and Wright, J.E. , 1981, Uranium-lead isotopic ages of the Semail Ophiolite, Oman, with applications to Tethyan ocean ridge tectonics: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 86, no. B4, p. 2763-2775.

9. Wright, J.E., and Haxel, G.B., 1982, A garnet-two-mica granite, Coyote Mountains southern Arizona: Geologic setting, uranium-lead isotopic systematic of zircons, and the nature of the granite source region: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 93, p. 1176-1188.

10. Wright, J.E., 1982, Permo-Triassic accretionary subduction complex, southwestern Klamath Mountains, northwestern California: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 87, no. B5, p. 3805-3818.

11. Snoke, A.W., Sharp, W.D., Wright, J.E., and Saleeby, J.B., 1982, Significance of mid-Mesozoic peridotitic to dioritic intrusive complexes, Klamath Mountains--western Sierra Nevada, California: Geology, v. 10, p. 160-166.

12. Haxel, G., Tosdal, R.M., May, D.J., and Wright, J.E., 1984, Latest Cretaceous and early Tertiary orogenesis in south-central Arizona: thrust faulting, regional metamorphism , and granitic plutonism. Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol. 95, p.631-653.

13. Harper, G.D., and Wright, J.E., 1984, Middle to Late Jurassic tectonic evolution of the Klamath Mountains, California--Oregon: Tectonics, v. 3, no. 7, p. 759-772.

14. Stewart, J.H., Anderson, T.H., Haxel, G.B., Silver, L.T., and Wright, J.E.,1986, Late Triassic paleogeography of the southern Cordillera: The problem of a source for voluminous volcanic detritus in the Chinle Formation of the Colorado Plateau region: Geology,v. 14, p. 567-570.

15. Dallmeyer, R.D., Wright, J.E., Secor, D.T., and Snoke, A.W., 1986, Character of the Alleghanian Orogeny in the southern Appalachians: Part II. Geochronological constraints on the tectonothermal evolution of the eastern Piedmont in South Carolina: Geological Society America Bulletin, v. 97, p. 1329-1344.

16. Wright, J.E., and Wyld, S.J., 1986, Significance of xenocrystic Precambrian zircon contained within the southern continuation of the Josephine ophiolite: Devils Elbow ophiolite remnant, Klamath Mountains, northern California: Geology, v. 14, p. 671-674 .

17. Miller, M.M., and Wright, J.E., 1987, Geologic constraints on the Permian distribution of Tethyan fauna, from the Klamath Mountains, California: Implications for Permian paleogeography: Geology, v. 15, p. 266-269.

18. Miller, E.L., Gans, P.B., Wright, J.E., and Sutter, J.F., 1988, Metamorphic history of the east-central Basin and Range province: Tectonic setting and relationship to magmatism, in Ernst, W. G., ed., Metamorphism and crustal evolution, western coterminous United States, Rubey Vol. 7: Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, p. 649-682.

19. Wyld, S.J., and Wright, J.E., 1988, The Devils Elbow ophiolite remnant and overlying Galice Formation: New constraints on the Middle to Late Jurassic evolution of the Klamath Mountains, California: Geological Society America Bulletin, v. 100, p. 29-44.

20. Wright, J.E., and Fahan, M.R.,1988, An expanded view of Jurassic orogenesis in the western U.S. Cordillera: Middle Jurassic (pre-Nevadan) regional metamorphism and thrust faulting within an active arc environment, Klamath Mountains, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 100, p. 859-876.

21. Lush, A., McGrew, A., Snoke, A.W., and Wright, J. E., 1988, Allochthonous Archaen basement in the northern East Humboldt Range, Nevada: Geology, V. 16, p. 349-353.

22. Dilles, J.H., and Wright, J.E., 1988, The chronology of early Mesozoic arc magmatism in the Yerington District of west-central Nevada, and its regional implications: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 100, p. 644-652.

23. Tosdal, R. M., Haxel, G. B., and Wright, J. E., 1989, Jurassic geology of the Sonoran Desert region, southern Arizona, southeast California, and northernmost Sonora, in Jenney, J.P., and Reynolds, S. J., eds., Geologic evolution of Arizona: Tucson, Arizona Geological Society Digest, v. 178, p. 397-434.

24. Miller, C.F., Wooden J.L., Bennett, Victoria, Wright, James E., Solomon, G. Cleve, and Hurst, Richard, 1990, Petrogenesis of the composite peraluminous-metaluminous Old Woman-Piute batholith, Southeastern California: Isotopic Constraints: in Anderson, J. L., ed., The Nature and Origin of Cordilleran Magmatism, Geological Society of America Memoir 174, p. 99-109.

25. Tosdal, R.M., Haxel, G.B., Anderson, T.H., Connors, C.D., May, D.J., and Wright, J.E., 1990, Highlights of Jurassic, Late Cretaceous to Early Tertiary, and Middle Tertiary Tectonics, South-Central Arizona and North-Central Sonora, in Gehrels, George, ed., Fieldtrip guidebook for 1990 Geological Society of American Cordilleran Section Meeting: Arizona Geological Survey Special Paper.

26. Saleeby, Jason B., Busby-Spera, Cathy, Oldow, J.S., Dunne, G.C., Wright, J.E., Cowan, D.S., Walker, N.W., and Allmendinger, R.W., 1991, Early Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the western U.S. Cordillera, in Burchfiel, B.C., Lipman, P.W., and Zoback, M.L., eds., The Cordilleran Orogen; Coterminous United States: Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, v. G3, p. 107-168.

27. Wright, J.E., and Wooden, J.L., 1991, New Sr, Nd, and Pb isotopic data from plutons in the northern Great Basin, U.S.A.: Implications for crustal structure and granite petrogenesis in the hinterland of the Sevier thrust belt: Geology, v. 19, p. 457-460.

28. Romer, R.L., and Wright, J.E.,1992, U-Pb dating of columbite: A geochronologic tool to date magmatism and ore deposits: Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 56, p. 2137-2142.

29. Miller, E.L., Miller, M.M., Stevens, C.H., Wright, J.E., and Madrid, R., 1992, Late Paleozoic paleogeographic and tectonic evolution of the western U.S. Cordillera, in Burchfiel, B.C., Lipman, P.W., and Zoback, M.L., eds., The Cordilleran Orogen; Coterminous United States: Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, v. G3, pp. 57-106.

30. Wright, J.E., and Snoke, A.W., 1993, Tertiary magmatism and mylonitization in the Ruby-East Humboldt metamorphic core complex, northeastern Nevada: U-Pb geochronology and Sr, Nd, Pb isotope geochemistry: Geological Society of America Bulletin,v. 105, p. 935-952.

31. Romer, R.L., and Wright, J.E., 1993, Lead mobilization during tectonic reactivation of the western Baltic Shield: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 57, p. 2555-2570.

32. Wyld, S.J., and Wright, J.E., 1993, Mesozoic stratigraphy and structural history of the Pine Nut Range, west-central Nevada: in Dunne, G., and McDougall, K., eds, Mesozoic Paleogeography of the Western United States-II, Pacific Section SEPM, Book 71, p. 289-306.

33. Smith, David L., Wyld, Sandra J., Miller, E.L., and Wright, James E., 1993, Progression and timing of Mesozoic crustal shortening in the northern Great Basin, western U.S.A.: in Dunne, G., and McDougall, K., eds, Mesozoic Paleogeography of the Western United States-II, Pacific Section SEPM, Book 71, p. 389-406

34. Wright, James, E., and Wyld, S.J.,1994, The Rattlesnake Creek Terrane, Klamath Mountains, California: An early Mesozoic arc constructed on a basement of tectonically disrupted oceanic crust: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.106, p. 1033-1056.

35. Amato, Jeffrey, M., Wright, James. E., Gans, P.B., and Miller, E.L., 1995, Mafic to silicic synkinematic magmatism on Seward Peninsula: Implications for gneiss dome genesis and the Cretaceous history of northern Alaska: Tectonics, v. 13, p. 515-527.

36. Dennis, Allen J., and Wright, James E., 1995, Mississippian (ca 326-326 Ma) U-Pb crystallization ages for two granitoids in Spartanburg and Union Counties, South Carolina: South Carolina Geology, v. 38, p. 23-28.

37. Harris, N.R., Sisson, V.B., Wright, J.E. and Pavlis, T.L. , 1996, Evidence for Eocene mafic underplating during forearc intrusive activity, eastern Chugach mountains, Alaska: Geology, v. 24, p. 263-266.

38. Wyld, S.J., Quinn, M.J., and Wright, J. E., 1996, Anomalous(?) Early Jurassic deformation in the western U.S. Cordillera: Geology, v. 24, p. 1037-1040.

39. Quinn, Michael J., Wright, James E., and Wyld, Sandra J., 1997, The Happy Creek Igneous Complex and tectonic evolution of the early Mesozoic arc in theJackson Mountains, northwest Nevada: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 109, p.461-482.

40. Amato, Jeffrey, and Wright, J.E., 1997, Potassic mafic magmatism in the Kigluaik gneiss dome, northern Alaska: A geochemical study of arc magmatism in an extensional tectonic setting: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 102, No. B4, p. 8065-8084.

41. MacCready, Tyler, Snoke, Arthur W., Wright, James E., and Howard, Keith, 1997, Mid-crustal flow during Tertiary extension in the Ruby Mountains core complex, Nevada: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 109, p. 1576-1594.

42. Dennis, Allen J., and Wright, James E. , 1997, The Carolina Terrane in northwestern South Carolina, USA: Late Precambrian-Cambrian deformation and metamorphism in a peri-Gondwanan oceanic arc: Tectonics, v. 16, p. 460-473.