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usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/jay-m-thompson
   timestamp: '2024-01-30T21:42:58.375018'
   status_code: 200
 profile:
   name: Jay M. Thompson, Ph.D.
   name_qualifier: null
   titles:
   - Physical Scientist
   organizations:
   - !!python/tuple
     - Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center
     - https://www.usgs.gov/centers/gggsc
   email: jmthompson@usgs.gov
   orcid: 0000-0003-3322-0870
   intro_statements:
   - I am the laboratory manager for the USGS-LTRACE laboratory that specializes
     in laser ablation ICP-MS chemistry and geochronology of solid materials including
     minerals, glasses, powdered rocks, shells, and fossils. This laboratory houses
     several excimer lasers and an Agilent 8900 ICP-MS/MS for routine chemical analysis
     and method development.
   expertise_terms:
   - Laser Ablation ICP-MS
   - Geochronology
   - Mineralogy
   - radiogenic isotope geochemistry
   professional_experience:
   - "2021 \u2013 Present: Physical Scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey in the\
     \ Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center managing a LA-ICP-MS\
     \ laboratory"
   - "2019 \u2013 2020: Laser ablation-MC-ICP-MS Isotope Geochemist \u2013 Jacobs\
     \ / JETS \u2013 Johnson Space Center NASA"
   - '2019: Deputy Leader of CODES Analytical Laboratories at the University of Tasmania'
   - '2011-2018:  Laboratory Manger in CODES Analytical Laboratories at the University
     of Tasmania'
   - "2009 \u2013 2011: Laboratory Manager \u2013 University of Iowa \u2013 Earth\
     \ Science Department"
   education:
   - "PhD 2021 \u2013 University of Tasmania: Understanding the Specifics of H2O-free\
     \ Aerosol Behavior in the Inductively-Coupled Plasma in Geochemical LA-ICPMS\
     \ Applications"
   - "M.S. 2009 \u2013 University of Iowa: Petrogenesis of the Ice Springs Flow,\
     \ Utah: A Melt Inclusion Record of Crustal Assimilation"
   - "B.S. with honors 2006 \u2013 University of Iowa, Geoscience"
   affiliations:
   - International Association of Geoanalysts (IAG)
   - Geological Society of America (GSA)
   honors:
   - 2016 Winter Plasma Conference award for outstanding poster for session
   - 2015 University of Tasmania School of Science Engineering and Technology award
     for outstanding professional staff member
   abstracts:
   - 'Thompson, Jay, Emsbo, Poul, and Souders, Kate, 2022, High spatial resolution
     Re-Os dating of molybdenite and black shales using LA-ICP-"triple quad" MS:
     Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol 54, No. 5, doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-380344.'
   - 'Thompson, Jay, Marsh, Erin E., Pillers, Renee M., and Chapman, Rob, 2022, Fingerprinting
     Placer Gold Alloy from the Yukon-Tanana Uplands of Eastern Alaska: Integrating
     Trace Element and Pb Isotopic Chemistry of Gold (Invited): 2022 Goldschmidt
     Conference, 10-15 July, Honolulu, HI, https://doi.org/10.46427/gold2022.11353.'
   personal_statement: "My research includes analytical method development for laser\
     \ ablation ICP-MS for: 1) quantitative trace element analyses in minerals to\
     \ investigate potential matrix effects by developing new mineral reference materials\
     \ and 2) develop beta-decay geochronometers (e.g., 176Lu-176Hf, 187Re-187Os)\
     \ with direct applications to ore deposit research in the Mineral Resources\
     \ Program.I have a background in igneous petrology with a Master\u2019s degree\
     \ (2009) from the University of Iowa where I studied causes of chemical and\
     \ isotopic variations within a small volume, monogenetic basalt flow (the Ice\
     \ Springs flow) in central Utah. After my thesis I worked as a laboratory manager\
     \ at the University of Iowa in a Clean Lab for Sr, Nd, Hf, Pb, Ra, Th and U\
     \ separation for isotopic analysis and ran an ICP-MS and laser ablation instrumentation.\
     \ In 2011 I moved to Australia to work at the CODES Laboratories at the University\
     \ of Tasmania. There, I managed an LA-ICP-MS lab, oversaw a method development\
     \ program, and produced many reports on U-Pb geochronology on a wide range of\
     \ minerals and ore deposit types. I started a part-time PhD in 2015 on LA-ICP-MS\
     \ method development while working full time, with a completion in 2021. The\
     \ two directions of my PhD research were to better understand the ionizing plasma\
     \ in ICP-MS instrumentation when coupled with laser ablation, and to improve\
     \ zircon and apatite U-Pb geochronological analyses by LA-ICP-MS. I In 2019,\
     \ I joined the ARES group at the Johnson Space Center where I developed methods\
     \ for trace element and isotopic analysis of astromaterials and their terrestrial\
     \ analogs. I started at the USGS in January of 2021, wherein I have managed\
     \ laboratories and collaborated with multiple groups in the USGS, by providing\
     \ cutting edge methods for mineral chemistry and geochronology for advancing\
     \ research in ore deposit research."