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Benjamin Jones Title: Research Geographer Address: 4210 University Dr., Anchorage, AK 99508-4626 Phone: (907) 786-7033 Fax: (907) 786-7150 Email: bjones@usgs.gov

Education and/or Training

PhD	Student	University of Alaska Fairbanks	Interdisciplinary Studies: Geoscience
M.A.	2006	University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH	Geography
B.S.	2003	University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH	Environmental Studies

Areas of Specialization and/or Research Interests

Remote sensing and GIS techniques to assess landscape change, integrating Traditional Native Knowledge into landscape scale studies, and permafrost environments

Professional Experience

2009 - Present	SCEP Research Geographer, USGS, Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, Alaska
2007 - 2009	Research Geographer, USGS, Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, Alaska
2005 - 2007	SAIC contractor for the U.S. Geological Survey at the Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, Alaska
2003 - 2005	Research Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
2001 - 2003	Undergraduate Research Assistant, Environmental Studies Department and Department of Geography, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

Professional Activities and/or Memberships

American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Association of American Geographers (AAG)
U.S. Permafrost Association (USPA)

Significant Recent Publications

Arp, C.D., Jones, B.M., Whitman, M., Larsen, A., Urban, F.E. In Review. Lake temperature and ice cover regimes in the Alaskan Subarctic and Arctic: Integrated monitoring, remote sensing, and modeling. Journal of the American Water Resources Association.

Jones, B.M., Arp, C.D., Beck, R.A., Grosse, G., Webster, J., and Urban, F.E. 2009. Erosional history of Cape Halkett and contemporary monitoring of bluff retreat, Beaufort Sea coast, Alaska. Polar Geography, 32, 129-142.

Grosse, G., Jones, B.M., Plug, L.J., Walter-Anthony, K.M. In Review. Application of airborne LIDAR for mapping permafrost-related land surface features and processes in an Arctic lowland, NW Alaska. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes.

Arp, C.D., Jones, B.M., Urban, F.E., Schmutz, J.A. In Review. Reconstructing geomorphic and hydrologic changes of thermokarst lakes from 1974 to 2008 on the Central Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska, USA.

Jones, B.M., Kolden, C.A., Jandt, R., Abatzoglou, J., Urban, F., and Arp, C.D. 2009. Fire behavior, weather, and burn severity of the 2007 Anaktuvuk River tundra fire, North Slope, Alaska. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 41 (3), 309-316, doi: 10.1657/1938-4246-41.3.309.

Eisner, W.R., Cuomo, C.J., Hinkel, K.M., Jones, B.M., Brower, R.H. 2009. Advancing landscape change research through the incorporation of Inupiaq Knowledge. Arctic, 62 (4), 429-442.

Jones, B. M., C. D. Arp, M. T. Jorgenson, K. M. Hinkel, J. A. Schmutz, and P. L. Flint (2009), Increase in the rate and uniformity of coastline erosion in Arctic Alaska, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L03503, doi:10.1029/2008GL036205.

Jones, B.M., Arp, C.D., Hinkel, K.M., Beck, R.A., Schmutz, J.A., and Winston, B. 2009. Arctic lake physical processes and regimes and implications on winter water availability and management in the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska. Environmental Management, 43 (6), 1071-1084, DOI 10.1007/s00267-008-92410-0.

Arp, C.D., and Jones, B.M., 2008, Geography of Alaska Lake Districts: Identification, description, and analysis of lake-rich regions of a diverse and dynamic state: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5215.

Jones, B.M. 2008. Land-cover change on the southern Kenai Peninsula Lowlands, Alaska using USGS Land Cover Trends methodology. Journal of Geography and Regional Planning 1(4), 68-71.

Jones, B.M., Hinkel, K.M., Arp, C.D., and Eisner, W.R. 2008. Modern erosion rates and loss of coastal features and sites, Beaufort Sea coast, Alaska. Arctic 61 (4), 361-372.

Jones, B.M., Rykhus, R., Lu, Z., Arp, C.D., and Selkowitz, D.J. 2008. Radar imaging of winter seismic survey activity in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Polar Record 44 (3).

Eisner, W.R., Hinkel, K.M., Jones, B.M., Cuomo, C.J. 2008. Using Indigenous Knowledge to assess environmental impacts of overland travel routes, Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska. Ninth International Conference on Permafrost Proceedings.

Jorgenson, M.T., Yoshikawa, K., Kanevskiy, M., Shur, Y., Romanovsky, V., Marchenko, S., Grosse, G., Brown, J., and Jones, B.M. 2008. Permafrost characteristics of Alaska. Ninth International Conference on Permafrost Proceedings.

Jones, B.M., 2008, The face of Alaska--A look at land cover and the potential drivers of change: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1161, 39 p.

Hinkel, K.M., Jones, B.M., Eisner, W.R., Cuomo, C.J., Beck, R.A., Frohn, R.C. 2007. Methods to assess natural and anthropogenic thaw lake drainage on the Western Arctic Coastal Plain of northern Alaska, J. Geophys. Res., 112, F02S16, doi:10.1029/2006JF000584.

Munroe, J.S., Doolittle, J.A., Kanevskiy, M.Z., Hinkel, K.M., Jones, B.M., Shur, Y., Nelson, F.E., and Kimble, J.M. 2007. Application of Ground-Penetrating Radar Imagery for the Three-Dimensional Visualization of Near-Surface Structures in Ice-Rich Permafrost, Barrow, Alaska. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 18 (4), 309-321.

Jones, B.M. 2006. Spatiotemporal Analysis of Thaw Lakes and Basins, Barrow Peninsula, Arctic Coastal Plain of Northern Alaska. M.A. Thesis, University of Cincinnati, Department of Geography. p. 105.

Eisner, W.R., Bockheim, J.G., Hinkel, K.M., Brown, T.A., Nelson, F.E., Peterson, K.M., and Jones, B.M. 2005. Paleoenvironmental analyses of an organic deposit from an erosional landscape remnant, Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 217, 187-204.