Publications
Lead Author (*denotes co-first author)
Jones CK, Labonté JM, Haygood LA, Torres ME, Bohrmann G, Lyons TW, and Riedinger N (2025). Impacts on sedimentary microbial communities related to temporal changes in trace element concentrations. Geobiology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.70027
Jones CK*, Leung M*, Ebadirad S, Sneed EL, and Lyons TW (2025). "Evolution of Earth's Atmosphere." In: Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, Third Edition. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-96026-7.00226-5
Jones CK, Leung M, Tu C, Ebadirad S, Marshall N, Tan L, and Lyons TW (In press). “How to Build and Maintain an Inhabited Planet: Lessons Learned from Early Earth.” In: Homann, M, eds. Archean Earth. Elsevier. https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.23344
Jones CK, Riedinger N, Lyons TW, and Torres ME (2021). Data report: Pore water and solid-phase trace element distribution in sediments from IODP Expedition 334 Sites U1378 and U1379. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program. http://dx.doi.org/10.2204/iodp.proc.334.204.2021
Jones CK, Riedinger N, Torres ME, Lyons TW (In preparation). Local controls on marine silicate weathering, alkalinity production, and carbon cycling in surface sediments from the Argentine Basin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Contributing author
Klonicki-Ference E, Waters T, Jones CK, Hung C, Diamond CW, McCormick M, Lyons TW, and Treude T (In preparation). The potential role of marine biogenic methane cycling on the early Earth biosphere: insights from Green Lake in Fayetteville, New York. ISME.
McCanta MC, Leight CJ, Camp M, and the Expedition 398 Scientists including Jones CK (Submitted). Data Report: Visible to shortwave infrared (VSWIR) scanning of selected cores from drill sites U1589 and U1591, IODP Expedition 398, Hellenic Arc Volcanic Field. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 398: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program).
Metcalfe A, Druitt T, Pank K, and the Expedition 398 Scientists including Jones CK (Accepted). Tectonic Modulation of Caldera Volcanism on the South Aegean Island Arc. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Kane SR, Ernst S, Gillmann C, Jones CK, Lyons TW, and Tino C (In press). “Our Solar System Neighborhood: Three Diverging Tales of Planetary Habitability and Windows to Earth’s Past and Future.” In: Homann, M, eds. Archean Earth. Elsevier. https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.01150
Manga M, Wright V, Cadena and the Expedition 398 Scientists including Jones CK (2025). Contrasting Seismic Velocity and Compaction of Marine Calcareous Oozes and Volcaniclastic Deposits on the South Aegean Volcanic Arc. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GC012327
Metcalfe A, Druitt T, Pank Katharina, and the Expedition 398 Scientists including Jones CK (2025). Far-travelled Ash Megaturbidite Fed by Shoreline-crossing Pyroclastic Currents from a Large Explosive Volcanic Eruption. Science Advances. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads9642
Manga M, Tominaga M, Preine J, and the Expedition 398 Scientists including Jones CK (2025). Low heat flow in the Anhydros Basin, Aegean Sea, recorded by deep subsurface temperatures. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115919
Preine J, Crutchley G, Hübscher C, and the Expedition 398 Scientists including Jones CK (2025). Data report: core-seismic integration and time-depth relationships at IODP Expedition 398 Hellenic Arc Volcanic Field sites. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 398: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.398.201.2025
Ronge TA, Kutterolf S, Fernandez-Perez TI, and the Expedition 398 Scientists including Jones CK (2024). “Data report: X-ray fluorescence scanning of Sites U1591 and U1599, IODP Expedition 398, Hellenic Arc Volcanic Field.” Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 398: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). https://doi:10.14379/iodp.proc.398.204.2024
Druitt, TH, Kutterolf, S, Ronge, TA, and the Expedition 398 Scientists including Jones CK (2024). Hellenic Arc Volcanic Field. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 398: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.398.2024
Priene J, Karstens J, Hübscher C, and the Expedition 398 Scientists including Jones CK (2024). Hazardous explosive eruptions of a rejuvenating multi-cyclic island arc caldera. Nature Geoscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01392-7
Druitt T, Kutterolf S, Ronge T, and the Expedition 398 Scientists including Jones CK (2024). Giant offshore pumice deposit records a shallow marine explosive eruption of ancestral Santorini. Nature Communications Earth and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01171-z
Herbert LC, Zhu Q, Michaud AB, Laufer K, Jones CK, Riedinger N, Stooksbury ZS, Klingensmith I, Aller RC, Jørgensen BB, and Wehrmann LM (2021). Benthic iron flux influenced by climate-sensitive interplay between organic carbon availability and diagenetic mineral formation in Arctic fjords (Spitsbergen, Svalbard). Limnology and Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11885
Steinmann JW, Grammer GM, Brunner B, Jones CK, and Riedinger N (2020). Assessing the application of trace metals as paleoproxies and a chemostratigraphic tool in carbonate systems: A case study from the “Mississippian Limestone” of the Midcontinent, United States. Marine and Petroleum Geology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.104061
Selected Talks, Presentations, and Abstracts (*denotes invited talk; + denotes student)
Lead author
Jones CK, Della Salla S, Polymenakou PN, Kilias S, Fernandez Perez TI, Joshi KB, McCanta MC, Bernard A, Druitt TH, Kutterolf S, Ronge TA, Lyons TW, and Expedition 398 Scientists (2025). Evolving volcano-tectonic and biogeochemical processes controlling hydrothermal iron deposits of the Cristiana-Santorini-Kolumbo Volcanic Field. Internation Geobiology Conference. (Oral)
Jones CK, Della Salla S, Polymenakou PN, Kilias S, Fernandez Perez TI, Joshi KB, McCanta MC, Bernard A, Druitt TH, Kutterolf S, Ronge TA, Lyons TW, and Expedition 398 Scientists (2025). The interplay of evolving volcano-tectonic and biogeochemical processes in hydrothermal iron deposits of the Cristiana-Santorini-Kolumbo Volcanic Field. SoCalGeoBio. (Oral)
Jones CK, Della Salla S, Polymenakou PN, Kilias S, Fernandez Perez TI, Joshi KB, McCanta MC, Bernard A, Druitt TH, Kutterolf S, Ronge TA, Lyons TW, and Expedition 398 Scientists (2024). Hydrothermal iron in the Santorini caldera – insights from iron speciation and implications for ancient banded iron formations. Geological Society of America. Abstract ID: 404723 (Oral)
Jones CK, Riedinger N, Torres ME, Lyons TW (2024). Local controls on marine silicate weathering and alkalinity production in surface sediments from the Argentine Basin. Goldschmidt. Abstract ID: 24190 (Oral) https://doi.org/10.46427/gold2024.24190
*Jones CK (2024). Marine sediments and their carbon cycling, storage, and sequestration capacities. Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists, Rancho Cucamonga, California. (Oral)
Jones CK, IODP Expedition 398 Scientific Party, TW Lyons (2023). Diagenetic cycling of trace elements in mixed volcaniclastics, hemipelagic muds, and organic-rich oozes of the Hellenic Arc Volcanic Field. Astrobiology Graduate Conference. (Poster)
Jones CK, Labonté JM, Thompson MA, Provenza CM, Torres ME, Bohrmann G, Lyons TW, and Riedinger N (2022). Impact on the sedimentary microbial community related to temporal changes in trace element concentrations. Geobiology Gordon Research Conference and Seminar. (Oral – Seminar; Poster - Conference)
*Jones CK (2022). The role of trace elements in controlling microbial ecology in marine sediments. University of California, Riverside NASA Alternative Earths Astrobiology Institute Seminar. (Oral)
Jones CK, Labonté JM, Thompson MA, Provenza CM, Torres ME, Bohrmann G, Lyons TW, and Riedinger N (2021). Impact on the sedimentary microbial community related to temporal changes in trace element concentrations. American Geophysical Union. Abstract ID 950135. (Poster)
Jones CK, +Archer J (presenting), Riedinger N, Melcher AC, Köster M, Volz J, Dohrmann I, Henkel S and Kasten S (2020). Impact of physical properties on biogeochemical trace metal cycling in modern marine surface sediments of the Argentine Basin. Geological Society of America – South Central. (Poster)
Jones CK, Riedinger N, Labonté J, Köster M, Bohrmann G and Torres M (2020). Potential impact on the sedimentary microbial community related to temporal changes in trace metal concentrations. Gordon Geobiology Research Conference. (Poster)
Jones CK, Riedinger N, Melcher AC, Köster M, Volz J, Dohrmann I, Henkel S and Kasten S (2019). Local and temporal variability of biogeochemical trace metal cycling in marine surface sediments. American Geophysical Union. Abstract ID 600403. (Poster)
Jones CK, Smith C, Lee KJ (2019). STEM Inquiry Group developing best practices for working with STEM Writers. South Central Writing Centers Association. (Oral)
Jones CK (2019). Local and temporal variability of biogeochemical trace metal cycling in marine surface sediments. Niblack Research Symposium, OSU. (Oral)
Jones CK (2018). Microbes and Metals: Incorporation or Inhibition. Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, Germany. (Oral)
Contributing author
Swing MR, Gregory DD, Perea DE, Taylor SD, Wirth MG, Bougoure JJ, Figueroa MC, Jones CK, and Lyons TW (2025). Distribution of trace elements in framboidal pyrite at the nanoscopic scale from modern euxinic and seasonally anoxic environments. Geological Association of Canada-Mineralogical Association of Canada.
Della Salla S, Frieling J, Pyle D, Mather T, Druitt TH, Kutterolf S, Ronge TA, and Expedition 398 scientists including Jones CK (2024). Evidence for a Byzantine-era Hydrothermal Event in Santorini’s Caldera from Hg in IODP expedition 398 sediments. Geological Society of America. Abstract ID: 401835 (Oral)
Klonicki-Ference E, Treude T, Waters T, Jones CK, Hung C, Diamond CW, Lyons TW (2024). The potential role of marine biogenic methane cycling on the early Earth biosphere: insights from Green Lake in Fayetteville, New York. EGU General Assembly 2024.
Riedinger N, Haygood L, Shook E, Jones CK, Lichtschlag A, Köster M, Torres ME, and Bohrmann G (2023). Sedimentary accumulation of critical metals nearby hydrothermal vent fields and volcanic islands. Goldschmidt. Abstract ID: 20164
Haygood L, Jones CK, Troxel A, Huck L, Provenza CM, Veresh A, Quan T, Lichtschlag A, Köster M, Torres ME, Bohrmann G, and Riedinger N (2023). Iron oxides as trace metal carriers near hydrothermal vents: a potential indicator for local oceanographic changes. Goldschmidt. Abstract ID: 20457
Provenza, CM, Jones CK, Haygood L, Torres ME, Bohrmann G, and Riedinger N (2022). Sedimentary noble metal signals as tracers for hydrothermal vent input. Goldschmidt. Abstract ID: 13142
Riedinger N, Jones CK, Köster M, Bohrmann G, Colwell FS, and Torres ME (2020). Trace metal cycling in the upper sedimentary redox zones in an ocean desert. Goldschmidt.
Riedinger N, Jones CK, Volz J, Köster M, Melcher AC, Dohrmann I, Henkel S, Schwenk T and Kasten S (2019). The impact of depositional conditions and bathymetric features on trace metal cycling in continental margin sediments. American Geophysical Union. Abstract ID 598464.
Smith C, Jones CK (2019). Promoting undergraduate involvement in the writing center through participating in the interviewing and hiring process: an elastic application of our staff and resources. South Central Writing Centers Association Annual Conference (Oral)