Contact Information
Global Undersea Research Unit209B O'Neill
P.O. Box 757220
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7220
Phone: (907) 474-5871
Fax: (907) 474-5804
jrreynolds@alaska.edu
Jennifer Reynolds Associate Professor
Affiliations
- Associate Director, West Coast & Polar Regions Undersea Research Center (NOAA/NURP)
Specialties
- Application of geology and seafloor mapping to benthic habitat studies
- Submarine volcanism
- Igneous petrology and geochemistry of mid-ocean ridges and seamounts
Education
- B.A. 1985 Dartmouth College (Earth Science)
- M.A. 1990 Columbia University (Geological Science)
- Ph.D. 1995 Columbia University (Geological Science)
Current Research Projects
- Kachemak Bay mapping, application to habitat and resource management (with Ph.D. student Melissa Meiner-Johnson and NOAA scientist Kris Holderied)
- Benthic habitat mapping and analysis on the outer continental shelf around Kodiak, Alaska (with M.S. student Sean Rooney, geologist Gary Greene, UAF fisheries oceanographer Brenda Norcross, and Jon Heifetz at NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center)
- Bogoslof Volcano: resurfacing by volcanic eruptions as a natural experiment in seafloor invertebrate colonization (with Mark Zimmermann at NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center)
- Aleutian forearc structural fabric revealed in seafloor maps: strain accomodation and its relationship to plate convergence (with M.S. student Lena Krutikov)
- Application of mapping and seafloor geology to studies of deep coral habitat in the central Aleutians (with geologist Gary Greene, Jon Heifetz and Bob Stone at NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Doug Woodby at Alaska Dept Fish & Game)
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Fellowships
- 1997–1999 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
- 1995–1997 NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, host institution: U.S. Geological Survey, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Selected Publications
Reynolds, J.R. and H.G. Greene, eds. (2008): Marine Habitat Mapping Technology for Alaska. Alaska Sea Grant College Program, University of Alaska Fairbanks (Fairbanks, Alaska), 282 pp. (available here)
Reynolds, J.R., H.G. Greene, J. Kurland, D. Woodby, and B. Allee (2008): Overview: Marine habitat mapping technology for Alaska. In J.R. Reynolds and H.G. Greene (eds.), Marine Habitat Mapping Technology for Alaska. Alaska Sea Grant College Program, University of Alaska Fairbanks (Fairbanks, Alaska), pp. 1-11. Download PDF (177 KB)
Johnson, K.T.M., J.R. Reynolds, D.K. Smith, L.S.L. Kong, and D. Vonderhaar (2002): Petrological systematics of submarine lavas from the Puna Ridge, Hawai`i: Implications for rift zone plumbing and magmatic processes. In Takahashi, E., et al., eds., Hawaiian Volcanoes: Deep Underwater Perspectives. AGU Geophysical Monograph 128, 143-159.
Reynolds, J. R., R.C. Highsmith, B. Konar, C.G. Wheat, and D. Doudna (2001): Fisheries and fisheries habitat investigations using undersea technology. Proceedings of Oceans 2001, MTS/IEEE Conference, Marine Technology Society, Columbia, Maryland 2:812-820. Download PDF (283 MB)
Clague, D.A., J.R. Reynolds, and A.S. Davis (2000): Near-ridge seamount chains in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean. J. Geophys. Res. 105, 16,541-16,562. Download PDF (2.91 MB)
Clague, D.A., J.G. Moore, and J.R. Reynolds, (2000): Formation of submarine truncated volcanic cones in Hawaii. Bull. Volcanol. 62, no. 3, 214-233. Download PDF (1.2 MB)
Reynolds, J.R. and C.H. Langmuir (2000): Identification and implications of off-axis lava flows around the East Pacific Rise. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 1, Paper # 1999GC000033. Download PDF (1.2 MB)
Spiegelman, M. and J.R. Reynolds, (1999): Combined dynamic and geochemical evidence for convergent melt flow beneath the East Pacific Rise. Nature 402, 282-285. Download PDF (305 KB)
Reynolds, J.R. and C.H. Langmuir (1997): Petrological systematics of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge south of Kane: Implications for ocean crust formation. J. Geophys. Res. 102, 14,915-14,946. Download PDF (4.14 MB)
McNutt, M.K., D.W. Caress, J.R. Reynolds, K.A.Jordahl, and R.A. Duncan (1997): Failure of plume theory to explain midplate volcanism in the southern Austral islands. Nature 389, 479-482. Download PDF (465KB)
Reynolds, J.R., C.H. Langmuir, J.F. Bender, K.A. Kastens, W.B.F. Ryan (1992): Spatial and temporal variability in the geochemistry of basalts from the East Pacific Rise. Nature 359, 493-499. (available here)
