Jay Quade

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Jay Quade (born December 13, 1955) is an American geochemist and geologist. He is known for pioneering research applying geochemical isotopic methods for investigations of tectonics, global climate change, and the paleontology of Darwinian evolution. [1]

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Jay Quade was born and grew up in Nevada. [2] As a teenager, he set two all-time Nevada State high school track and field records. At the University of New Mexico, he had a track scholarship, for four years. He was twice an NCAA All-American in track and once an NCAA champion in track (relay race). In 1977 he became a geologist employed by the Mineral Exploration Division of Utah International, Inc. In 1978 he graduated with B.S. in geology from the University of New Mexico. In 1982 he graduated with an M.S. in geology from the University of Arizona. From 1982 to 1989 he worked as a geologist in Nevada — from 1982 to 1984 for Noranda Exploration, Inc., from 1984 to 1986 for the Desert Research Institute, and from 1986 to 1989 for Mifflin & Associates (a mining consulting firm founded in 1986 by the geologist Martin David Mifflin). From 1989 to 1990 Quade was a graduate student at the University of Utah, where he received his Ph.D. in 1990. In 1991 he was a postdoc at the Australian National University. At the University of Arizona, he was appointed to an assistant professorship in 1992, an associate professorship in 1998, and a full professorship in 2003. [3]

Quade's research is remarkably varied, including low-temperature geochemistry, radiometric dating using a variety of isotopes, and theoretical reconstructions of paleoenvironments, mostly from the Cenozoic. [4] Some of his projects have involved archaeologists [5] and anthropologists. [6] Quade with Thure E. Cerling and other colleagues did important research on stable isotope composition of soil carbonate in the Great Basin. [1] In 2001, Quade with Nathan B. English, Julio L. Betancourt, and Jeffrey S. Dean published an important paper on the deforestation of Chaco Canyon. [7] [8] As a geological team member, Quade has done fieldwork on stratigraphy and paleohydrologic reconstruction in the western USA, gold deposits in Oregon, Alaska, and Nevada, and paleo-lake hydrology in Mongolia, Tibet, Chile, Argentina, and the western USA. From 1985 to 2015 his fieldwork on low temperature geochemistry has been done all over the world: parts of the US, Asia, Australia, and South America, as well as Greece and Ethiopia. [9]

In 2001 Quade won the Farouk El-Baz Award of the Geological Society of America (GSA). [10] In 2015 he was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of American and also a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). In 2017 he was elected a Fellow of the Geochemical Society. He received in 2016 a Lady Davis Fellowship from the Hebrew University and in 2017 a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship from the University of Tokyo. [3] In 2018 he was awarded the Arthur L. Day Medal. [1]

In Nevada on December 21, 1984, Jay Quade married Barbra A. Valdez. They have three children. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Rech, Jason. "2018 Arthur Day Medal, Presented to Jay Quade". Geological Society of America.
  2. ↑ "The Geology of Just About Everything: Tales of a Field Geologist - Jay Quade". YouTube . August 12, 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 "Jay Quade, CV" (PDF). Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona.
  4. ↑ "Jay Quade (home page)". Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona.
  5. ↑ Semaw, Sileshi; Rogers, Michael J.; Quade, Jay; Renne, Paul R.; Butler, Robert F.; Dominguez-Rodrigo, Manuel; Stout, Dietrich; Hart, William S.; Pickering, Travis; Simpson, Scott W. (2003). "2.6-Million-year-old stone tools and associated bones from OGS-6 and OGS-7, Gona, Afar, Ethiopia". Journal of Human Evolution. 45 (2): 169–177. doi:10.1016/S0047-2484(03)00093-9. PMID   14529651.
  6. ↑ Stiner, Mary C.; Buitenhuis, Hijlke; Duru, Güneş; Kuhn, Steven L.; Mentzer, Susan M.; Munro, Natalie D.; Pöllath, Nadja; Quade, Jay; Tsartsidou, Georgia; Özbaşaran, Mihriban (2014). "A forager–herder trade-off, from broad-spectrum hunting to sheep management at Aşıklı Höyük, Turkey". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111 (23): 8404–8409. Bibcode:2014PNAS..111.8404S. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1322723111 . PMC   4060719 . PMID   24778242.
  7. ↑ English, Nathan B.; Betancourt, Julio L.; Dean, Jeffrey S.; Quade, Jay (2001). "Strontium isotopes reveal distant sources of architectural timber in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 98 (21): 11891–11896. Bibcode:2001PNAS...9811891E. doi: 10.1073/pnas.211305498 . PMC   59738 . PMID   11572943.
  8. ↑ Diamond, Jared (21 March 2013). "Chapter 4. The Ancient Ones: The Anasazi and Their Neighbors". Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive. Penguin UK. ISBN   9780141976969.
  9. ↑ "Invitation for the Special Lecture on A 25,000 year megaflood record from the central Andes by Prof. Jay Quade, Department Geosciences, University of Arizona" (PDF). Geological Society of India. April 3, 2023.
  10. ↑ "Farouk El-Baz Award". Geological Society of America.
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