Jonathan C. Lewis

background

Training

1999-2001                          Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Davis

1998                                        Ph.D., Geology, University of Connecticut, Storrs

1988                                        M.S., Geology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

1983                                        B.S., Geology, University of Vermont, Burlington

Experience

2004-present                    Assistant Professor, Department of Geoscience, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Geoscience, Indiana, Pennsylvania

2001-2004                         Adjunct Assistant Professor and Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

1999-2001                         Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Department of Geology, University of California, Davis

taught:  Earth Dynamics: Convergent and Collisional Processes, Winter 2001

1993-1998                         Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Connecticut

taught:  Introductory and Structural Geology Laboratories, 1994

1992-1993                         Environmental Consultant, Hewlett-Packard Company, Loveland, Colorado

1990-1992                         Project Geologist, Harding Lawson Associates, Denver, Colorado

1987-1990                         Hydrogeologist, NUS Corporation, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Teaching

Classes

GEOS 101 – Dynamic Earth (two sections of 75 students, Spring 2005; two sections of 200 students, Spring 2006, 2007: two sections of 130 students, Spring 2008)

GEOS 102 – Dynamic Earth Lab (24 students per section: 3 in Fall 2004; 2 in Fall 2006; 1 in Spring 2007, 2 in Fall 2007)

GEOS 121 – Physical Geology (one section; Fall 2005)

GEOS 122 – Physical Geology Laboratory (two sections, Fall 2005)

GEOS 310 – Environmental Geology (two sections of lecture and lab, Spring 2005, 2007)

GEOS 325 – Structural Geology (two sections lecture and lab; Fall 2004, 2006)

GEOS 326 – Field Geology (lecture and lab; Fall 2005, Fall 2007)

GEOS 338 – Geology of the American Southwest (Summer field class; 2005)

GEOS 362 – Plate Tectonics (lecture and lab; Spring 2006: Spring 2008)

GEOS 380 – Research Methods (one section; Fall 2006, 2007)

Scholarly Activity

Funding and Honors

2008                                        IUP Research Institute New Investigator Award, April 16, 2008

2007                                        National Science Foundation Tectonics Program:  Collaborative Research: Reactivation of continental margin fracture zones: Insights from seismicity, strain patterns and numerical modeling of modern and ancient orogens (role: PI on $32,000 portion, lead PI Jean Crespi)

2007                                        IUP USRC Small Grants Program ($1500):  ÒMapping and dating stream terraces in the Pejibaye pull-apart basin: Costa RicaÓ (role: PI)

2007 (not funded)        Petroleum Research Fund of the Americal Chemical Society B-Type Grant Proposal ($65,000):  Quaternary Pull-Apart Basin Formation In A Humid Tropical Climate: Constraints  From An Intra-Arc Depocenter, Central Costa Rica (role: PI)

2007                                        National Science Foundation MRI ($312,184):  Acquisition of Mobile Spatial Data Acquisition and Processing Technologies  (MSDAPT) to Support Cross-Disciplinary Research and Undergraduate and  Graduate Research Training (role: one of 5 co-PIs, lead PI Beverly A. Chiarulli)

2006                                        IUP USRC Small Grants Program ($1500): ÒReconnaissance field study of the Tucurrique-Atirro and Kabebeta fault zones, Costa RicaÓ (role: PI)

2006                                        IUP USRC Small Grants Program ($1347): ÒModeling seismogenic strain at the Costa Rica convergent plate boundary IIÓ (role: PI)

2006                                        IUP Academic Computing Policy Advisory Committee Technological Exploration and Innovation Fund award ($1200):  ÒAcquisition and testing of an Xplore Technologies iX104C2 AllVue GeopadÓ (role: PI)

2005 (not funded)        National Science Foundation MRI ($232,000):  ÒAcquisition of stable isotope analytical equipment at Indiana University of PennsylvaniaÓ (role: one of 3 co-PIs, lead PI Michael A. Poage)

2005                                        IUP USRC Small Grants Program ($900): ÒModeling seismogenic strain at the Costa Rica convergent plate boundaryÓ (role: PI)

2004 (not funded)        U. S. Naval Air Warfare Center, Department of Defense ($144,500): ÒKinematic Inversion of Focal Mechanism Solutions at Active Subduction Zones - IIÓ (role: PI)

2003 (not funded)        National Science Foundation Tectonics Program ($182,000): ÒThe Relation Between Active Non-recoverable Strain and Topographic Relief on the Brittle-viscous Transition: Coso Range, CaliforniaÓ (role: PI)

2001-2002                          U. S. Naval Air Warfare Center, Department of Defense (N68936-01-C-0094, $116,000):  ÒKinematic and Dynamic Studies of the Coso Geothermal and Surrounding AreasÓ (role: PI)

1999-2001                          National Science Foundation Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship (#9901491, $72,000):  ÒKinematic Inversion of Focal Mechanism Solutions at Active Subduction ZonesÓ  (role: PI)

1998                                        Best Student Paper, Tectonophysics Section of the American Geophysical Union, 1998 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting

1993-1995, 1997          Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Connecticut

1994                                        Research Grant, Geological Society of America, Structure and Tectonics Division

1994                                       Grant-in-Aid of Research, Sigma Xi

Selected Publications (student authors underlined)

2008

Lewis, J. C., A. C. Boozer, A. Lopez and W. Montero, Collision versus sliver motion at the Middle America subduction zone: constraints from background seismicity in central Costa Rica, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, v. 9 (7), Q07S06, doi:10.1029/2007GC001711.

2007

Lewis, J. C., Fine-scale partitioning of contemporary strain in the southern Walker Lane:  Implications for accommodating divergent strike-slip motion, Journal of Structural Geology, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2007.02.015.

Lewis, J. C., R. J. Twiss, C. J. Pluhar and F. C. Monastero (in press), Multiple constraints on divergent strike-slip deformation along the eastern margin of the Sierran microplate, SE California, in:  Exhumation Associated with Continental Strike-Slip Systems , eds: Till, A. B., S. M. Roeske, J. C. Sample,  and D. A. Foster, Geological Society of America Special Paper 434.

Lewis, J. C., A. C. Boozer, A. Lopez and W. Montero (in review), Footwall-hangingwall interaction across the Middle America subduction zone: constraints from background seismicity in central Costa Rica.

2006

Pluhar, C. J., R. S. Coe, J. C. Lewis, F. C. Monastero and J. M. G. Glen, Fault block kinematics at a releasing stepover of the Eastern California shear zone: Partitioning of rotation style in and around the Coso geothermal area and nascent metamorphic core complex, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 250, no 1-2, p. 134-163, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.07.034.

2003

Lewis, J. C. and T. B. Byrne, History of metamorphic fluids along outcrop-scale faults in a Paleogene accretionary prism, SW Japan: Implications for prism-scale hydrology, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, v. 4, no. 9, 9007, doi:10.1029/2002GC000359.

Lewis, J. C., J. R. Unruh and R. J. Twiss, Seismogenic strain and motion of the Oregon coast block, Geology, v.31, p. 183-186.  

2002

Lewis, J. C., T. B. Byrne and X. M. Tang, A geologic test of the Kula-Pacific ridge-capture mechanism for the formation of the West Philippine basin, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 114, p. 656-664.

Unruh, J. R., E. Hauksson, F. C. Monastero, R. J. Twiss and J. C. Lewis, Seismotectonics of the Coso Range-Indian Wells Valley region, California: Transtensional deformation along the southeastern margin of the Sierra Nevada microplate, in: Geologic Evolution of the central Mojave Desert and southern Basin and Range, eds: Glazner, A. F., J. D. Walker and J. M. Bartley, GSA Memoir 195, p. 277-294.

2001

Lewis, J. C. and T. B. Byrne, Fault kinematics and past plate motions at a convergent plate boundary:  Tertiary Shimanto belt, southwest Japan, Tectonics, v. 20, p. 548-565. 

2000

Lewis, J. C., T. B. Byrne, J. D. Pasteris, D. London and G. B. Morgan, VI, Early Tertiary fluid flow and pressure-temperature conditions of the Shimanto accretionary complex of southwest Japan:  Constraints from fluid inclusions, Journal of Metamorphic Geology, v. 18, p. 319-333.

1997

Lewis, J. C., T. Byrne and D. J. Prior, Small faults and kink bands in the Nankai accretionary complex:  Textural observations from Site 808 of ODP Leg 131, The Island Arc, v. 6, p. 183-196.

1996

Lewis, J. C. and T. Byrne, Deformation and diagenesis in an ancient mud diapir, southwest Japan, Geology, v. 24, p. 303-306.

Funded Research Expeditions

2007

Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE) Expedition 315; vessel, D/V Chikyu; Chief Scientists, Juichiro Ashi and Siegfreid Lallemant; Duration, 16 November – 13 December, 2007; Sites, C0001 and C0002; Role, Structural Geologist.

Recent Abstracts and Invited Presentations

2006

Lewis, J. C., invited talk, Earthquakes 101: Active and ancient subduction in the circum-Pacific, Department of Geology and Geography, University of West Virginia.

2005

Lewis, J. C., invited talk, Convergent plate boundaries:  Natural laboratories for understanding great earthquakes, Sigma Xi Fall Semester Distinguished Lecture, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Kodama, K., T. Koyano, T. Byrne, J. C. Lewis, and J. Hibbard, Emplacement of a Layered Mafic Intrusion in the Shimanto Accretionary Complex of Southwest Japan: Evidence From Paleomagnetic and Magnetic Fabric Analysis, Eos, Transactions, AGU, v. 86, no. 52, T11B-0374.

2004

Lewis, J. C. and V. S. Cronin, The case for teaching earthquake focal mechanism solutions in structural geology, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no. 5, p. 348.

Lewis, J. C., invited talk, The big picture as seen in small strains at the boundaries of small plates, Department of Geology and Planetary Science, University of Pittsburgh.

Lewis, J. C., invited talk, Tectonic bulldozing, past and present: Deformation at two plate boundaries, Geoscience Department, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

2003

Lewis, J. C. and C. Pluhar, invited talk, What can we Learn From Small Non-Recoverable Strains at Plate Boundaries?, Eos, Transactions, AGU, v. 84, no. 46, p. F-1433.

Lewis, J. C., Using seismicity to constrain the geometry of exhumation in a young strike-slip fault zone: Indian Wells Valley to the Coso Range, California, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, no. 6.

Lewis, J. C., C. Pluhar and R. J. Twiss, invited talk, Neotectonics and active tectonics of Sierran-North American transtension at Wild Horse Mesa, Geothermal Program Office Technical Meeting, Davis, California.

Pluhar, C. J., R. S. Coe, S. Nomade, J. M. G. Glen and J. C. Lewis, Kinematics of the Coso Range Block Rotation from Paleomagnetism, XRF Geochemistry and Ar/Ar Geochronology of Pliocene Lavas Geothermal Program Office Technical Meeting, Davis, California.

2002

Lewis, J. C., Partitioning of seismogenic strain in the offshore Costa Rica forearc, Eos, Transactions, AGU, v. 83, no. 47, p. F-1289.

Lewis, J. C., Neotectonics and active tectonics of Sierran-North America transtension, Coso Range, California, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no 6, p. 488. 

Lewis, J. C., invited talk, Instantaneous vs. geologic records of deformation: opportunities for discovery at the Cascadia and SW Japan plate boundaries, Department of Geological Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing.

Lewis, J. C., R. J. Twiss and J. R. Unruh, Partitioning of seismogenic strain over varying spatial scales at the Sierran-North America plate boundary, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no. 1, p. A-74.

Focused Meetings and Workshops (student authors underlined)

NSF-MARGINS Workshop The Next Decade of the Seismogenic Zone Experiment, September 22-26, 2008, Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood, Oregon.

MARGINS Workshop to Integrate Subduction Factory and Seismogenic Zone Studies in Central America, poster presentation with IUP undergraduate student coauthor A. C. Boozer, and A. Lopez and W. Montero: Footwall-hangingwall plate interaction constrained by background seismicity: central Costa Rica, June 2007, Heredia, Costa Rica.

Geological Society of America Penrose Conference, Lessons in Tectonics, Climate and Eustacy from the Stratigraphic Record in Arc Collision Zones, poster presentation with IUP undergraduate student coauthor A. C. Boozer: Strain Above Subducting Topography:  What Do Earthquakes In Costa Rica Tell Us?, October 2005, Price, Utah.

MARGINS Theoretical and Experimental Institute, The Seismogenic Zone Revisited, March 2003, Snowbird, Utah.

JOI/USSSP-sponsored Workshop, An Investigation of the Middle America Convergent Margin Seismogenic Zone, November 2002, Menlo Park, California.

NSF Workshop, Setting Priorities in Solid Earth Sciences, October 2002, Denver, Colorado.

NanTroSEIZE Workshop, Sampling and Instrumenting the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone, July 2002, Boulder, Colorado.

MARGINS Education and Planning Workshop, Rupturing of the Continental Lithosphere in the Gulf of California/Salton Trough, October 2000, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico.

MARGINS Theoretical and Experimental Institute, Rheology and Deformation of the Lithosphere at Continental Margins, January 2000, Snowbird, Utah.

American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference, The History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions, poster presentation: The relation between plate motions and the rock record:  The view from a subduction complex accreted at a coupled plate boundary, June 1997, Marshall, California.