Associate Professor
Education:
- B.S., University of Vermont—Geology
- M.S., University of Tennessee—Geology
- Ph.D., University of Connecticut—Geology
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California at Davis—Neotectonics
Courses Taught:
GEOS 101/102 Dynamic Earth
GEOS 310 Environmental Geology
GEOS 302 Structural Geology
GEOS 303 Field Geology
GEOS 362 Plate Tectonics
GEOS 470 Research Methods in the Geosciences
Professional Interests:
Structural geology, earthquake geology, plate boundary deformation, neotectonics
Professional Development:
Featured in Article on Dual Career Couples, Preparing for an Academic Career
Current Projects:
- Costa Rica—contemporary crustal deformation constrained by tectonic geomorphology, geochronology and earthquake modeling
- SW Japan—controls on Great Earthquakes: Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NantroSEIZE) (IUP Magazine Article)
- Taiwan—the neotectonics of arc-continent collision constrained by modeling outcrop-scale faults and earthquakes
- Eastern California—the growth of continental strike-slip fault systems
Selected Publication: (Full CV in PDF format)
(*indicates students)
2009
Timothy B. Byrne, W. Lin, A. Tsutsumi, Y. Yamamoto, J. C. Lewis, K. Kanagawa, Y. Kitamura, A. Yamaguchi and G. Kimura, Anelastic Strain Recovery Reveals Extension across SW Japan Subduction Zone, Geophysical Research Letters v. 36, L23310
2008
Lewis, J.C., A.C. Boozer*, A. López and W. Montero, Collision Versus Sliver Transport in the Hanging Wall at the Middle America Subduction Zone: Constraints from Background Seismicity in Central Costa Rica, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 9. Q07S06
2007
Lewis, J. C., Fine-Scale Partitioning of Contemporary Strain in the Southern Walker Lane: Implications for Accommodating Divergent Strike-Slip Motion, Journal of Structural Geology, v. 29, p. 1201-1215
Lewis, J. C., R. J. Twiss, C. J. Pluhar and F. C. Monastero, Multiple Constraints on Divergent Strike-Slip Deformation along the Eastern Margin of the Sierran Microplate, SE California, in: Exhumation Associated with Continental Strike-Slip Systems, eds: Till, A. B., S. M. Roeske, J. C. Sample, and D. A. Foster, Geological Society of America Special Paper 434, p. 107-128.
2006
Pluhar, C. J., R. S. Coe, J. C. Lewis, F. C. Monastero and J. M. G. Glen, Fault Block Kinematics at a Releasing Stepover of the Eastern California Shear Zone: Partitioning of Rotation Style in and around the Coso Geothermal Area and Nascent Metamorphic Core Complex, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 250, p. 134-163
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