Jonathan
C. Lewis
background
Education
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
1985-1986 Teaching
Assistant, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Tennessee
taught: Introductory Geology and Sedimentology
Laboratories
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)
Mentoring
Aaron
Bowser (Senior Research, 2008-09)
Michael Jarvis (Senior Research,
2007-08)
Kalin McDannell (McNair Scholar &
Senior Research, 2007-08)
Jeremy
McCombie (Senior Research, 2007)
Adam Boozer (see
Funding and
Honors below)
Garrett Schmidt (Senior Research, 2005)
Professional Development
National Science Foundation Cutting
Edge Workshop: Early
Career Geoscience Faculty Workshop, Summer 2005, College of William and
Mary, Williamsburg, VA.
National Science Foundation Cutting
Edge Workshop: Teaching
Structural Geology in the 21st Century, Summer 2004, Smith
College, Northampton, MA.
Scholarly Activity
Funding
and Honors
2008 IUP
Research Institute New Investigator Award, April 16, 2008
2008 National
Science Foundation Tectonics Program ($31987): ÒCollaborative Research: Reactivation of continental margin
fracture zones: Insights from seismicity, strain patterns and numerical
modeling of modern and ancient orogensÓ (role: PI; collaborators Jean Crespi
and Tim Byrne, University of Connecticut)
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 American Chemical Society B-Type Grant Proposal
($65000): ÒQuaternary Pull-Apart
Basin Formation In A Humid Tropical Climate: Constraints From An Intra-Arc Depocenter, Central
Costa RicaÓ (role: PI)
2007 National
Science Foundation MRI ($297684):
ÒAcquisition 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, IUP)
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 and
Dynamic Studies of the Coso Geothermal and Surrounding Areas - 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
1984 Research
Grant, Carlos C. Campbell Memorial Research Fund, Great Smoky Mountains
Conservation Association
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, v. 29, p.
1201-1215, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2007.02.015.
Lewis, J. C.,
R. J. Twiss, C. J. Pluhar and F. C. Monastero, 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.
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, 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 (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.
1991
Woodward, N. B.,
J. B. Connelly, R. R. Walters and J. C. Lewis, Tectonic evolution of the Great
Smoky Mountains, in S. A. Kisch (ed.), Studies of Precambrian and Paleozoic
Stratigraphy in the Western Blue Ridge:
Carolina Geological Society Field Trip Guidebook, p. 57-68.
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.
Abstracts
and Invited Presentations
2008
Lewis,
J. C., invited talk, Earthquakes 101: Active and ancient subduction in the
circum-Pacific, Department of Geography and Regional Planning, Indiana
University of Pennsylvania.
2006
Lewis, J. C., invited
talk, Where Plates Converge: Subduction and Collision 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.
2001
Lewis, J. C. and T. B. Byrne,
Snapshots from a Tertiary subduction factory: metamorphic fluids from fault
zones of the low-grade Shimanto accretionary prism of southwest Japan, Eos,
Transactions, AGU, v. 82, no. 47, p. F-1274.
Lewis, J. C., J. R. Unruh
and R. J. Twiss, invited
talk, Partitioning of seismogenic strain along the Sierran-North
America boundary in the vicinity of the Coso Range, California, Geothermal
Program Office Technical Meeting, Lawrence, Kansas.
2000
Lewis, J. C., J. R. Unruh
and R. J. Twiss, Seismogenic strain at the Cascadia convergent margin,
Washington and Oregon, Eos, Transactions, AGU, v. 81, no. 48, p. F-877.
Lewis, J. C., R. J. Twiss
and J. R. Unruh, Fine-scale partitioning of microseismogenic strain along the
southeastern margin of the Sierran microplate, Indian Wells Valley, California,
GSA Abstracts
with Programs, v. 32, no. 7, p. A-166.
1999
Lewis, J. C., T. Byrne and
X. M. Tang, Eocene plate kinematics and geometries in the western Pacific
basin: Constraints from the SW Japan Margin, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, no.
6, p. A-74.
1998
Lewis, J. C. and T. Byrne,
Tertiary plate configuration and kinematics in the west central Pacific basin:
Constraints from the rock record, Eos, Transactions, AGU, v. 79, no. 24, p.
W-110.
1994
Lewis, J. C. and T. Byrne,
Sandstone block dilation during emplacement of a mud-matrix diapir in an
accretionary prism, SW Japan, EOS, v. 75, no. 44, p. 587.
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.
Professional
Society Membership
American
Geophysical Union
Geological
Society of America
Sigma Xi
Academic Service
IUP committee
work
Sigma Xi, IUP Chapter Secretary & Treasurer
(2006-2007), Vice President (2007-08), President (2008-present)
member of the IUP
Academic Computing Policy Advisory Committee (2005-2007)
member of the
IUP Judicial Review Board (2004-present)
member of IUP
Safe Zone (2004-present)
member of the
IUP College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Technology Committee
(2005-present, chair 2007-present)
member of
exploratory committee examining the viability of a Computation Curriculum in
the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (2004)
substitute
member of the College of Natural Science and Mathematics Student Recruitment
Committee (2004-present)
Geoscience
Department Sedimentary
Geology faculty search committee co-chair (2006)
Geoscience
Department outside speaker coordinator (2004-present)
Geoscience
Department Sigma Gamma Epsilon liaison (2005-present)
Geoscience
Department Experiential Education coordinator (2004-present)
Geoscience
Department faculty co-advisor for the student Geoscience Club (2004-present)
manuscript
review
2007-2008
Geological Society of America Books
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
2006-2007
Nature
Geological
Society of America Bulletin
2005-2006
Geological
Society of America Bulletin
Journal of
Metamorphic Geology
2004-2005
Geological
Society of America Bulletin
Tectonophysics
Gondwana
Research
1998-2003
Journal of
Geophysical Research
Geology
Geological
Society of America Bulletin
Tectonics
Journal of
Structural Geology
American
Geophysical Union, Monograph
Journal of
Metamorphic Geology
Geological
Society of America, Special Paper
Journal of the Geological Society
(London)
Tectonophysics
Ocean Drilling
Program
The Island Arc
proposal
review
National
Science Foundation, Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI)
Program Phase I Panel (July 2006)
Petroleum
Research Fund of the American Chemical Society reviewer (2006)
National
Science Foundation, Tectonics Program mail reviewer (2005-present)
Israel Science
Foundation, mail reviewer (2008)