Benjamin R. Jordan

Benjamin R. Jordan received his PhD in geological oceanography from the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography after earning his BS in geology, with university honors, from Brigham Young University. His graduate work focused on the correlation and geochemical evolution of volcanic deposits in Central America. He is a first or contributing author of more than a dozen peer-reviewed articles and is the author of three books. He has also served as a reviewer for multiple academic journals. He is currently an associate professor at Brigham Young University–Hawaii and is an active member of the American Geophysical Union, the Geological Society of America, the Tsunami Society, and the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior.