Abbreviated Vita

JEFFREY G. RYAN

School of Geosciences, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Ave., Tampa, Florida 33620 Phone: (813) 974-1598

Email: ryan@mail.usf.edu

EDUCATION:

  • 1978-1983: B.S. (Summa Cum Laude), Geology, Western Carolina University

  • 1983-1989: M.A., M. Phil., Ph.D, Geological Sciences, Columbia University. Dissertation Title: The Systematics of Lithium, Beryllium, and Boron in Young Volcanic Rocks. Advisor: C.H. Langmuir

  • 1989-1991: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (Advisors: J.D. Morris, F. Tera)

AWARDS:

  • 2017: Fellow, Geological Society of America

  • 2009: Academic and Professional Achievement Award, Western Carolina University

  • 2003: USF President's Award for Faculty Excellence

  • 2000: USF Phi Kappa Phi Artist/Scholar Award

  • 1999: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching/CASE Florida Professor of the Year

  • 1997: USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher Award

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:

  • 2002 - present: Professor, Department of Geology, University of South Florida

  • 2013 - 2015: Founding Chair/Director, USF School of Geosciences

  • 2009 - 2013: Chair, Department of Geology

  • 2003 - 2005: Program Director, Division of Undergraduate Education, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA

  • 1996 - 2002: Associate Professor, Department of Geology, University of South Florida

  • 1991 - 1996: Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, University of South Florida

  • 1989 - 1991: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC.

  • 1983: Student Intern at DOE-Morgantown Energy Tech. Ctr., Morgantown, WV

INTEGRATIVE ACTIVITIES:

  • Council on Undergraduate Research: Geoscience Councilor 2000-present (re-elected, 2012); NCUR Oversight Committee, 2013-present; General Representative, CUR Executive Board, 2018-; Member of the Nominations Vetting Committee, 2014-2017; Facilitator, CUR Proposal Writing, Beginning a Research Program in the Natural Sciences at a PUI, Institutionalizing Undergraduate Research Institutes; Campus Liaison, University of South Florida

  • Summit on the Future of Undergraduate Geoscience Education: Member of the Organizing Committee, co-convener of meetings (Jan 10-12 2014; May 28-29 2015; Jan 8-10, 2016); Member of the Writing Committee for the Vision and Change report (summative document)

  • Summit on Improving Geoscience Graduate Student Preparedness for the Future Workforce: Co-Organizer and co-convener of meetings (October 8-10, 2018; May 11-13, 2019)

  • Federal Demonstration Partnership, USF Faculty representative, 2018-present

  • JRSO Geochemistry/Microbiology Laboratory Working Group, 2018-present

  • SAGE 2YC Program Advisory Committee: 2015-2018

  • Integrated Earth Data Applications (IEDA) Policy Committee: 2011-2016

  • UNAVCO Education and Community Engagement Advisory Committee: 2011-2016. Chair of the committee, 2013-2015.

  • COSEE-Florida Advisory Committee: 2011-2015

  • National Association of Geoscience Teachers: Councilor-at-Large, Member of Executive Committee, 2007-2013

  • NSF-MARGINS Program: Member of the NSF-MARGINS Steering Committee, 2005-2008; Member of the MARGINS Education/Outreach Advisory Committee, 2005-2010

  • Convener and Chair, “Planning the Future of Geo-Cybereducation” Workshop, Arlington, VA, 1/6-1/8, 2010

  • General Chair, 2009 Geological Society of America Southeastern Section Meeting

  • Member of: Council for Undergraduate Research, National Association of Geoscience Teachers, National Science Teachers Association, Geological Society of America, American Geophysical Union, Geochemical Society, Mineralogical Society of America, Meteoritical Society, Sigma Gamma Epsilon, Sigma Xi

  • Profiled in “Collaborating with Students” as part of Early Career Geoscience Faculty: Teaching, Research and Managing Your Career (http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/earlycareer/research/ryan.html)

  • Peer Reviewer for Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Nature, Science, Journal of Petrology, Geology, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical Research Letters, Lithos, Chemical Geology; AGU Monograph 96: Subduction Top to Bottom; Encyclopedia of Geochemistry; MSA Reviews in Mineralogy series

  • Reviewer of Grant Proposals for JOIDES, NERC, ACS, CUNY and varied NSF Ocean Sciences and Earth Science funding programs

  • NSF review Panelist for NSF-Geosciences and Education and Human Resources funding programs: 1999-present (~40 panels; 11 different programs)

COURSES:

  • Introduction to Earth Sciences (ESC 2000)

  • The Solid Earth: Petrology and Geochemistry (GLY 3311C):

  • Moons Planets and Meteors: An Introduction to Planetary Science (GLY 4045)

  • Tracer Geochemistry (GLY 6255)

  • Analytical Techniques (GLY 6285C)

  • Field Camp/Blue Ridge Microanalysis (GLY 4947L; GLY 4946L)

  • Subduction (GLY 6739)

  • History of Modern Geoscience (GLY 6739*)

  • Doctoral Dissertation Preparation (GEO 7021)

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH:

Abstracts, publications or successful grant requests were generated by the following undergraduate students in individual research projects under my supervision (see publication list below) (*REU Site Program Participant):

Chad Gunter, David Hernandez, Patrick Mattie, Ron Bek, Suzy Norrell, Amy Welty, Keith Willse, Tom Slusser*, Kyla Simons*, Suzette Morman*, Deborah Cochrane*, Gene Foster, Rory McIlmoil*, Judy Harden*, Steve Guggino, Rachel Soraruf*, Ted Fuller, Ray Johnston, Edward Mui, Christopher Grose, Rachelle Wagner, Meghan Lindsey, Ryan Klute, Bob Dueben, Nathan Collins, Jessica Donovan, Michael Joseph, Keir Sanatan, Daniel Wood, Zachary Gude, Gabriel Ahrendt, Jesse Scholpp, Bradford Mack, Stephen Hill

REU Undergraduate Research Program Participants (supervised group research projects in Summers of 1997, 1998, 2000, and 2001):

  • 1997: Bonnie Frey, Jim Palmer, Tom Slusser, Sam Manooch, Kim Stonesifer, Phyllis Gaskin, Kyla Simons, John Collins, Alex Becker, Trista Thornberry, Julie O'Leary, Scott Lucas

  • 1998: Deborah Cochrane, Suzette Morman, Tim Pauley, Mary Lindenberg, Kerry Kates, Mike Olesky, Chris Thomas, Aletha Lee, Annie McCoy, Sam Meyers, Jeff Rahl, Ted Lizee

  • 2000: Lauren Bierly, Robert Dean, Ryan Csontos, Brandy Dearmond, Megan Gerseny, Mike Lemerieses, John Meyer, Meagan Pollock, Jennifer Natoli, Jacinda Nettik, Walter Sullivan, Matthew Tibbits

  • 2001: Judy Harden, John Newby, Annie Scherer, Susan Akers, Brian Allison, David Doughty, Rachel Sorauf, Rachel Shannon, Skylar Primm, Christina Bruinsma, Clayton Loehn, Rory McIlmoil

GRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISED:

CURRENT STUDENTS:

  • Antonio Luna (Ph.D.: petrology)

  • Ray Johnston (Ph.D.: petrology)

  • Christie Bebeau (Ph.D.: geoscience education)

  • Alex Maruszczak (Ph.D.: petrology)

ANALYTICAL SKILLS:

  • Plasma Emission Spectrometry (as a tool for developing high precision trace element measurement techniques, as well as for routine chemical analysis)

  • Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (for the measurement of 106 atom/g levels of 10Be)

  • Ion Microprobe (Li, Be, and B abundance work)

  • Electron Microprobe/SEM (Co-PI on SUS microprobe/SEM facility)

  • Quadrupole and High Resolution ICP-MS (ultra-trace element concentrations; REE abundance work)

  • Multicollector High Resolution ICP-MS (B and Li isotope ratio determinations)

  • Portable energy dispersive XRF (quantitative elemental abundances (K, Ca, Ti, Fe, Mn, Cr, V, Sr, Rb, Zr) on IODP recovered drillcore)

RESEARCH INTERESTS - GEOSCIENCES:

  • --The petrogenesis of igneous and metamorphic rocks at convergent plate margins.

  • --The role of plate convergence in global geochemical cycles of the solid Earth, and the chemical evolution of the mantle

  • --Petrologic and tectonic studies of orogenic belts (targets include the southern Appalachians, the southern Carpathians of Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria)

  • --Meteorite and meteor impact studies

RESEARCH INTERESTS: GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION

  • --Educational effectiveness of using research instrumentation in undergraduate classrooms

  • --Identifying and documenting best practices in undergraduate research

  • --Identifying and testing effective approaches to integrating geoinformatics ('big geo-data') resources into formal and informal geoscience education

FEDERAL GRANTS RECEIVED: (active in Bold)

  • US Science Support Program (LDEO) Shipboard Scientist, IODP Expedition 393. $65201

  • National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Universal skills for Geoscience Graduate Student Success in the Workforce. $25,645

  • National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Geoscience Animation: Construction, Evaluation, and Modification of Plate Tectonic Concepts for Geosciences Education. $69987

  • US Science Support Program (LDEO): Participation of Antonio Luna on IODP Expedition 367. $15272.

  • US Science Support Program (LDEO): Participation of Jeff Ryan and Raymond Johnston on IODP Expedition 366. $94950 (including Post Expedition funds)

    • National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Subduction Initiation and development of the nascent Izu-Bonin-Mariana arc: A petrologic and geochemical investigation of IODP Expedtion 352 whole rocks and glasses. $104,196

    • Consortium for Ocean Leadership: Cruise Participation on IODP Expedition 352: $62,792 {+ $12000 PEA funds}

  • National Science Foundation: COLLABORATIVE: Expanding the Use of Online Remote Electron Microscopy in the Classroom to Transform Undergraduate Geoscience Education. $161,648.

  • National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Google Earth for Onsite and Distance Education (GEODE). $45,116 (Subaward, Old Dominion Univ.).

  • National Science Foundation: COLLABORATIVE: Faculty Development to Support High Impact Activities That Transform Undergraduate Geoscience Education. $137,263.

  • National Science Foundation: Coastal Areas Climate Change Education (CACCE) Partnership. $974,408+$146,000+3750 (supplements).

  • National Science Foundation: USF Robert Noyce Scholarship Program. $1,200,000, 7/1/10-6/30/14

  • National Science Foundation: A Workshop to Design a Geoscience Digital Portal. $146,500, 4/15/09-3/31/10

  • National Science Foundation: Acquisition of a Reaction Cell/Quadrupole ICP-MS System. $260,000, 3/1/07-2/28/10

  • National Science Foundation: Preparing Undergraduates for Research: Examining the use of Remote Instrumentation in Earth and Planetary Science Classrooms. $115,985, 12/1/06-11/30/09

  • National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Using MARGINS Research Data Resources in the Classroom: Developing and Testing Multidisciplinary Mini-Lessons. [Subaward on Columbia University proposal: $17,100] 12/1/06-11/30/09

  • **National Science Foundation: IPA Agreement, Division of Undergraduate Education. $275,000, 2003-2005.(approximate, not including IR/D research support)

  • National Science Foundation: The role of the Slab and the Mantle in Volcanic Arc Petrogenesis: A B-Be-Li and Li Isotope Study of Off-Axis Arc Centers in Mexico and Central America. $147,567, 2003-2008 (Included REU targeted research program)

  • Texas A&M Research Foundation (JOI-USSSP): The Role of the Forearc in Subduction Zone Chemical Cycles: Fluid-Mobile Element and B-Li isotope signatures of serpentinites from S. Chamorro Seamount, ODP Leg 195. $28,275

  • National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: REU: An integrated field-laboratory experience for undergraduates: constraints on the evolution of Southern Blue Ridge mafic-ultramafic massifs. $83,585 (USF portion (co-PI Sarah Kruse: collaborative with V. Peterson, S. Yurkovich, and J. Burr, Western Carolina Univ.) 1/10/00-3/31/02

  • National Science Foundation: The Search for Subducted Components in the Mantle: a Boron and Lithium isotope, and Fluid-Mobile Element study of Mount Erebus. $39,640 1/1/00-6/30/01

  • National Science Foundation: The role of the Forearc in Subduction Zone Chemical Cycling: Elemental and Isotopic Signatures of Forearc Serpentinites, ODP Leg 125 $95,163. 8/15/99. REU Supplement: $4925 4/1/00

  • National Science Foundation: Acquisition of an Electron Probe Microanalyzer - A Regional Facility. (Co PI with Gautam Sen, FIU, James Natland, RSMAS, Vincent Salters, FSU, and Mike Perfit, UF) $568,000. 8/15/99-8/1/00

  • National Science Foundation: "REU: A combined field-laboratory experience for undergraduates: constraints on the tectonic evolution of ultramafic massifs in the southern Blue Ridge. (Collaborative with Dr. Virginia Peterson, Western Carolina University). $98,560 (USF portion).4/1/97-3/31/99

  • National Science Foundation: "Chemical Recycling in Subduction Zones: Implications from B-Be-Li and Be Isotope Studies of Forearc Rocks: REU Supplement" 1994, $9500

  • National Science Foundation: "Acquisition of a Direct Current Plasma Emission Spectrometer" 1993, $49350

  • National Science Foundation: "Chemical Recycling in Subduction Zones: Implications from B-Be-Li and Be Isotope Studies of Forearc Rocks" 1992, $95000 (6/15/92-5/31/95)