Jeff Wynn

Research Geophysicist
ALASKA REGION
The U.S. Geological Survey
United States Virgin Islands

Biography

EDUCATION: A.B. 1968 University of California, Berkeley (Physics, Math) M.S. 1970 University of Illinois (Solid-State Physics) PhD 1974 University of Arizona (Geoscience, Electrical Engineering)               EMPLOYMENT:                 1971-72: AMAX Exploration, Tucson, AZ (Geophysicist) 1972-75: Zonge Engineering, Tucson, AZ (Co-Founder, Vice President for Research & Development) 1975-Present: U.S. Geological Survey (Research Geophysicist: Denver, Reston, Vancouver):    1987-95: International mission chief: Venezuela, Saudi Arabia    2002-07: Chief Scientist, Volcano Hazards, Vancouver, WA

Research Intrest

applied geophysics mineral resource exploration marine ecosystems marine geology marine geophysics

List of Publications
Wynn, Jeffrey C., and Shoemaker, Eugene M., 1998, The Day the Sands Caught Fire: Scientific American, 279, no. 5, pp. 36-45
Wynn, Jeffrey C., and Cox, Dennis P., 1991, A geologic and tectonic map of the Venezuelan Guayana Shield (1: 1,000,000 scale) with a revised stratigraphic column for the Venezuelan Guayana Shield: USGS Administrative Report; compilation with 43 contributors, two plates, and a stratigraphic interpretive description: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2062.
Wynn, J. C., and Sherwood, S. I., 1984, The self-potential (SP) method: an inexpensive reconnaissance archaeological mapping tool: Journal of Field Archaeology, 11, no. 2, p. 195-204.