Biosketch
Jay Quade received a B.S. in Geology at the University of New Mexico in 1978, and went on to obtain his M.S. (1981) and Ph.D. (1990) in Geology at the Universities of Arizona and Utah, respectively. Quade joined the faculty in the Department of Geosciences at Arizona in 1992, and has been a Full Professor there since 2003. His interests are in low-temperature geochemistry and paleoenvironmental reconstruction. He has worked all over the world documenting the evolution of climate and landscapes over the past 60 million years, including the context of early hominids in Africa. Quade is has participated in >160 scientific papers, 45 of them as a first author, since 1986. He has received many awards including the Farouk El Baz Award, GSA (2001); GSA Fellow (2015), AGU Fellow (2015), Ben Tor Award from Hebrew University (2014), Geochemical Society Fellow (2017); Arthur L. Day Medal (GSA) (2018), and U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2024).
Research Interests
Geochemical aspects of soils as ecologic and paleoecologic indicators; weathering; radiocarbon dating; stable isotopic and trace element geochemistry of soils and natural waters; fossil springs and paleolakes; geoarcheology and the geology of early humans.
Membership Type
Member
Election Year
2024
Primary Section
Section 15: Geology