"The heights by great men reached and kept, were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Benjamin R. Jordan, Ph.D.
Volcanologist/Oceanographer
Department of Geology
ROM 234
Brigham Young University - Idaho
Rexburg, ID 83460-0510
Phone: (208) 496-7678
Fax: (208) 496-7503
Email: jordanb (at) byui.edu
Ph.D. in Oceanography, 2004
University of Rhode Island , Graduate School of Oceanography , Narragansett, Rhode Island
- Dissertation: Geochemical Correlation, Variation, and Petrogenesis of Ignimbrites in Central America and Associated Caribbean Sea Tephra Layers
B.S. in Geology with University Honors, Physics Minor, 1999
Brigham Young University , Department of Geology , Provo, Utah
- Honors Thesis: The Nature and Formation of Carbonate Nodules at Blue Lake Warm Spring, Tooele County, Utah
Additional Education
- "Recent Developments in Explosive Volcanism," a short course given by the IAVCEI Commission on Explosive Volcanism, August 2008
- “Sea Survival for Scientists,” a Massachusetts Maritime Academy continuing education course, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution , June 2003
- Field expedition to the active lava flows of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, August 1998 (images)
- Lived and studied language and history in St. Petersburg, Russia, January 1996 – April 1996 (images)
- 26 hours of undergraduate credit, Utah State University , Logan, Utah 1989 – 1991
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