James (Jim) R.
Garrison, Jr., Ph.D.
Research Associate
Department of Physical and
Environmental Sciences
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
6300 Ocean Drive, NRC 3101
Corpus Christi, Texas 78412
Telephone: (361) 825-2254 (office) (361) 877-7597 (cell)
Fax: (361) 825-3345
Email:
james.garrison@tamucc.edu
Fall 2008 Teaching
Schedule Spring 2008 Teaching Schedule
Dr.
Garrison received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from the
University of Texas at Austin. He has spent his career as a field
geologist, educator, and research scientist in both academic
institutions and in the energy industry. His primary research focus is
the sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, ecology, and ichnology of
modern and ancient coastal depositional systems. Dr. Garrison has
published 41 technical papers and has made 32 technical presentations
at professional society meetings. He is a member of the American
Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), the Society for
Sedimentary
Geology (SEPM), and the Corpus Christi Geological Society (CCGS).
Dr. Garrison is currently serving on the Research
Committee of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and as
Chairman of the Corpus Christi Geological Society Field Trip
Committee.
Dr. Garrison is an avid outdoor enthusiast, a surfer, an
accomplished horseman and equine behaviorist, and a licensed Utah
whitewater river guide, trained in wilderness medicine.
Dr. Garrison teaches Physical Geology, Mineralogy, Igneous and
Metamorphic Petrology, Structural Geology, Geophysics, Introduction to
Geological Field Methods, Field Seminar, Field Geology,
Modern Coastal Sedimentology, Sequence Stratigraphy, Sedimentation and
Stratigraphy, and Petroleum
Geology.
Recent
Awards
Second Place Recipient of the 2007 Gordon
Atwater Best Poster Award, for poster "The Nueces Incised Valley
Revisited: A Reinterpretation of the Sedimentology and Depositional
Sequence Stratigraphy of Preserved Pleistocene and Holocene Valley-fill
Sediments" presented at the 2007 Annual GCAGS/GCSSEPM Convention
Recent
Publications
Garrison,
James R., Jr. and Sara Smelley (2007) Recovery of infaunal
crustacean colonies following a period of rapid sedimentation and
defaunation: a neoichnological examination following beach rejuvenation
on the south side of Packery Channel, North Padre Island, Texas: Gulf
Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, 57,
305-317. (
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Garrison, James R., Jr. and
Bobby McCoy (2007) The Nueces Incised Valley revisted: a
reinterpretation of the sedimentology and depositional sequence
stratigraphy of preserved Pleistocene and Holocene valley-fill
sediments: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions,
57, 291-304. (
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Garrison, James R., Jr., Bo
Henk, and Rachael Creel (2007) Neoichnology of the micro-tidal Gulf
Coast of Texas: implications for paleoecological and paleoenvironmental
interpretations of ancient micro-tidal shoreline systems: Gulf Coast
Association of Geological Societies Transactions, 57, 319-330. (
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Weber. Egon
T., Richard Hay, and James R.
Garrison, Jr. (2007) Magnetotelluric
investigation of the Pleistocene Nueces Incised Valley, Mustang Island,
Texas: Gulf
Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, 57, 775-782.
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Garrison, James R., Jr., Bo
Henk, and Rachael Creel (2007) Neoichnology of the micro-tidal Gulf
Coast of Texas: implications for paleoecological and paleoenvironmental
interpretations of the clastic rocks of the Cretaceous Western Interior
Basin, U.S.A.: 2007 SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) Research
Conferrence: Ichnological Applications to Sedimentological and Sequence
Stratigraphic Problems, Price, Utah, May 21-25, 6 p. (
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Garrison, James R., Jr., Donald
Brinkman, Douglas Nichols, Paul Layer, Don Burge, and Denise Thayn
(2007) A multidisciplinary study of the Lower Cedar Mountain Formation,
Mussentuchit Wash, Utah - a determination of the paleoenvironment and
paleoecology of the
Eolambia
caroljonesa Dinosauria Quarry: Cretaceous Research, 28, 461-494.
(
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Garrison, James R., Jr. and
T.C.V. van den Bergh (2006) Effects of sedimentation rate, rate of
relative rise in sea level and sea-level cycle duration on the filling
of incised valleys: examples of "filled" and "over-filled" incised
valleys from the Upper Ferron Sandstone Last Chance Delta, East-central
Utah,
in Dalrymple et al.
(eds.) Incised Valleys in Time and Space: SEPM (Society for
Sedimentary Geology) Special Publication 85, 239-279. (
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Garrison, James R., Jr. and
Gary Endsley, 2005, Field-based geoscience education - a valid
experience in outdoor learning: The Texas Science Teacher. (
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pdf)
Garrison, James R., Jr. and
T.C.V. van den Bergh (2004) The high-resolution depositional sequence
stratigraphy of the Upper Ferron Sandstone Last Chance Delta: an
application of coal zone stratigraphy,
in Chidsey, et al. (eds) The
fluvial-deltaic Ferron Sandstone; regional to wellbore scale outcrop
analogy studies and applications to reservoir modelling: American
Association of Petroleum Geologists Studies in Geology 50, 125-192. (
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van den Bergh, T.C.V. and
James
R.Garrison, Jr. (2004) The effects of changes in sedimentation
rate and relative sea level on the geometry, architecture, and
sedimentology of fluvial and deltaic sandstones within the Upper Ferron
Sandstone Last Chance Delta,
in
Chidsey, et al. (eds) The
fluvial-deltaic Ferron Sandstone; regional to wellbore scale outcrop
analogy studies and applications to reservoir modelling: American
Association of Petroleum Geologists Studies in Geology 50, 451-498. (
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pdf)
Recent
Professional
Service
CO-LEADER, Field Trip of the
Sequence and Coal Stratigraphy of the Ferron Sandstone, Utah,
Annual
Meeting of Geological Society of America, November 23-25, 1997.
COMMITTEE
MEMBER,
Member of the Research Committee of the American Association of
Petroleum
Geologists. Term 2004-2007.
LEADER, Invited Field Trip of
the Sequence Stratigraphy of the Ferron Sandstone, Utah, Annual
Meeting of
American Association of Petroleum Geologists, May, 2003.
INVITED
SPEAKER,
Utah Friends of Paleontology Monthly Meeting, Topic: A
Multi-disciplinary
Study of the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Mussentuchit
Wash, Utah
– A Determination of the Paleoenvironment and Paleoecology of the Eolambia caroljonesa Dinosauria Quarry,
January 13, 2004.
FIELD TRIP
LEADER,
Emery County School District Earth Systems Geology Field Trip: The
Geology
of Emery County – Earth
Science Week, October 14, 2004.
FIELD TRIP
CO-LEADER,
Groundwater Conference, Center for Water Supply Studies, Texas A&M
University – Corpus Christi, Topic: Groundwater Resources and Geology
of the
Corpus Christi Area, February 2006..
INVITED
SPEAKER,
Del Mar College Science Seminar, Corpus Christi, Texas., September 29,
2006.
Topic: The Neoichnology of the Micro-tidal Gulf Coast of Texas.
INVITED
SPEAKER,
Del Mar College Science Seminar, Corpus Christi, Texas., March 23,
2007. Topic:
The Paleoecology and Paleoenvironment of the Eolambia
caroljonesa Dinosaur Quarry, Cretaceous Cedar Mountain
Formation, Mussentuchit Wash, East-central Utah.
FIELD TRIP
CO-LEADER,
SEPM Research Conference, Price, Utah, May 20-26, 2007 Topic: Ichnological Applications to
Sedimentological and Sequence Stratigraphic Problems.
FIELD TRIP
CHAIRMAN,
GCAGS 2007 Annual Meeting, Corpus Christi, Texas, October 21-23, 2007,
hosted
by the Corpus Christi Geological Society.
CHAIRMAN, Modern and Ancient
Depositional Processes Session, GCAGS 2007 Annual Meeting, Corpus
Christi,
Texas,
October 21-23, 2007, hosted by the Corpus Christi Geological Society.
FIELD
TRIP CO-LEADER, GCAGS 2007 Annual Meeting Field Trip, Corpus
Christi, Texas, October 24-25, 2007 Topic: Sedimentology, Neoichnology, and
Preservation Potential of Modern Clastic Shoreline Depositional Facies,
Mustang and Padre Islands and Nueces Incised-Valley Estuary.
CHAIRMAN, Field Trip Committee, Corpus
Christi Geological Society, 2008-2009.
Last Update: 2/24/08
