Dr Stephen Jones

Senior Lecturer in Earth Systems

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Contact details

Telephone +44 (0)121 41 46155

Fax +44 (0)121 41 44942

Email s.jones.4@bham.ac.uk

University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Biography

2009 - present: Senior Lecturer in Earth Systems, School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham

2003 - 2009: Lecturer, Trinity College, University of Dublin

2001 - 2003: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Bullard Laboratories, University of Cambridge, ‘Spatial and temporal scales of mantle convection’

2000 - 2001: Research Assistant, CASP (Cambridge Arctic Shelf Program), ‘North Atlantic tectonic reconstructions’

1996 - 2000: Ph.D., University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences, ‘Effect of the Iceland Plume on Cenozoic sedimentation patterns’

1993 - 1996: B.Sc., University of London, UK, Royal Holloway College, Geology

1986 - 1993: Bury Grammar School

Teaching

  • Petroleum Geoscience
  • Deep Earth-Climate Links

Postgraduate supervision

See Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences School website for PhD opportunities.

Research

Research cluster / group affiliation

Current / recent research

  • Measuring time-dependence in mantle convection, in particular the evolution of the Icelandic convective system and the effect of background convection on sedimentation patterns at passive continental margins
  • Relationships between the Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum global climate change event, the North Atlantic Large Igneous Province and underlying Icelandic mantle convection system
  • Ridge-Plume interaction, particularly with regard to development of the Reykjanes V-Shaped Ridges and the Iceland Plateau
  • Links between the Icelandic mantle convection system, the Reykjanes V-Shaped Ridges and supply of Northern Component Water to the global ocean
  • Influence of mantle convective support and horizontal plate motions on hydrocarbon system development
  • Development of techniques to estimate oceanic variability and mixing from oil industry multichannel seismic data
  • Thermal and chemical modeling of proto-planetary bodies during the first few millions years of solar system evolution 

Publications

Recent publications

See a complete list of publications (PDF - 130KB)

Robinson MM, Valdes PJ, Haywood AM, Dowsett HJ, Hill DJ, Jones SM, Bathymetric controls on Pliocene North Atlantic and Arctic sea surface temperature and deepwater production, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, (in press 2011) doi: 10.1016/ j.palaeo.2011.01.004.

Jones SM, Sutton C, Hardy RJJ, Hardy D, Seismic imaging of variable water layer sound speed in Rockall Trough, NE Atlantic and implications for seismic surveying in deep water, In: Vining BA, Pickering SC (eds) Petroleum Geology: From Mature Basins to New Frontiers – Proceedings of the 7th Petroleum Geology Conference (2010) 549–558, doi: 10.1144/0070549.

Nisbet, EG, Jones SM, Maclennan J, Eagles G, Moed J, Warwick N, Bekki S, Braesicke P, Pyle JA, Fowler CMR, Kick-starting ancient warming, Nature Geoscience 2 (2009) 156–159

Shorttle O, Maclennan J, Jones SM, Spreading ridge geometry controls the symmetry of plume-ridge interaction, G3 Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 11 (2010) doi:10.1029/2009GC002986.

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