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Alan G. Jones Senior Professor, Head of Geophysics School of Cosmic Physics Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 5 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, Ireland Director Irish Geoscience Graduate Programme E-mail: alan-at-cp.dias.ie Direct : +353 1 653-5147 x224 Geophysics secretary : +353 1 662-5147 x200 School Reception : +353 1 662-1333 Fax : +353 1 443-0575

Honorary Professor School of Geosciences University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Visiting Professor Department of Geology Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland Adjunct Professor Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Honorary Professor Department of Geology University of Leicester, England Visiting Scientist Seismology & Electromagnetism Section Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Honours: 2010: Elected to Royal Irish Academy 2009: Elected to Academia Europaea 2009: Apointed an International Member of the Geo-Electromagnetism Committee, Chinese Geophysical Society 2006: Awarded Tuzo Wilson Medal of the Canadian Geophysical Union Citation and response Current Professional Activities: Member, Geosciences Committee, Royal Irish Academy Member, Geological Survey of Ireland Consultative Committee Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth Overseas Editor, Earth, Planets and Space Webmaster, MTNet Curriculum Vitae: See Full CV (February, 2011)

Research interests:-

Research activities:-

Data processing.....

• Time Series Analysis
• Decomposition

LITHOPROBE.....

• Trans-Hudson Orogen Transect (THOT)
• Slave-Northern Cordillera Transect (SNORCLE)
• Slave craton activities:
  • Slave-Northern Cordillera Transect (SNORCLE)
  • Winter Road Experiment
  • Slave Lakes Experiment
  • Slave-to-Bear Project (Western Slave Study project of CS Lord)
• Lithoprobe East (LE)
• Southern Cordillera (SC)

International .....

• Tibet: INDEPTH MT
• North Dakotas (NoD)
• Southern Appalachians (SoAp)
• SAMTEX: Southern Africa Magnetotelluric Experiment
• EuroArray: 4-D Europe, Assembly of a Continent
• PICASSO
• AfricaArray

Other research activities .....

• North American Central Plains conductivity anomaly (NACP)
• Western Churchill NATMAP
• Diamond exploration-related EM activities
• Mining exploration-related EM activities
  • EXTECH-III: GSC's Third EXploration Science and TECHnology [EXTECH] program
• POLARIS Portable Observatories for Lithospheric Analysis and Research Investigating Seismicity
• Central Baffin 4-D Experiment

Fellowships and Studentships

• No vacancies at present, but proposals are in review for funding so if you have an interest in coming to DIAS at the pre-Doctoral or post-Doctoral level please contact me.

Professional Activities

Published papers

Presented papers

Presentations....

• Thoughts of an MT mind,
  Precambrian High, GSC, December 18th 1998.
• 3D induction: fact or fiction?,
  Paper presented at the 3D-EM II workshop, Salt Lake City, 27-29 October, 1999.
• The electric Slave craton,
  Paper presented at SNORCLE transect meeting, Calgary, 25-27 February, 2000.
• Imaging kimberlites using AMT
• POLARIS: Present knowledge and future plans,
  Paper presented at the Yellowknife Geoscience Forum, Yellowknife, 22-24 November, 2000.
• Advances in the application of audiomagnetotellurics (AMT) for mineral exploration,
  Paper presented at the EGS meeting, Nice, France, 27-30 March, 2001.
• Field studies of conductivity anomalies in the lithospheric mantle that may be related to carbon,
  Invited review paper presented at the Carbon Workshop, New York City, 20-21 April, 2001.
• Electrical parameter maps of Canada,
  Paper presented at the EUG-EGS-AGU Joint Meeting, Nice, France, 7-11 April, 2003.

Source codes downloadable

• Strike: multi-site, multi-frequency MT tensor decomposition code
  • List of official strike users
• MT time series processing source codes
• mtmap: --- Reads a list of J-format files and composes input files for plotting responses with Paul Wessel's freeware GMT (Generic Mapping Tools) package:
  • for more information on GMT, go to http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/
• j2edi: Reads in a J-format file and writes out an EDI format file for input into e.g. Geotools or WinGLink
• edi2j: Reads in an EDI file and writes out a J-format format file for input into various codes.

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