usgs_staff_profile:
meta: status_code: 200 timestamp: '2023-09-30T17:24:01.041243' url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/jay-m-thompson profile: 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.' affiliations: - International Association of Geoanalysts (IAG) - Geological Society of America (GSA) 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" email: jmthompson@usgs.gov expertise_terms: - Laser Ablation ICP-MS - Geochronology - Mineralogy - radiogenic isotope geochemistry 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 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. name: Jay M. Thompson, Ph.D. name_qualifier: null orcid: 0000-0003-3322-0870 organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/gggsc organization_name: Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center 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." 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" title: Physical Scientist