Contact Information
4028 Natural History Building
Research Areas
Research Specialist
Research Interests
- Economic Geology and Mineral Exploration
- Isotope Geochemistry
- Magmatic and Hydrothermal Geochemistry
Education
- Indiana University, Bloomington, Geological Sciences, Ph.D., 2019
- University of Nevada, Reno, Geology, M.S., 2014
- Eastern Illinois University, Geology, B.S., 2012
Courses Taught
- EAS 131 Oceans and Our Global Environment (IU, Associate Instructor)
- EAS 225 Earth Materials (IU, Associate Instructor)
- GEOL 188 Advanced Geologic Mapping (Sacramento State, TA)
- GEO 1300G Introduction to Earth Sciences (EIU, TA)
- GEO 2440 Mineralogy (EIU, TA)
- GEO 3405 Petrology (EIU, TA)
Recent Publications
- Crowley, B.E., Simpson, E.M.B., Hammer, S.J., Smith, J.M., and Johnson, T.M. (2023) Comparison of powdered enamel sample pretreatment methods for strontium isotope analysis: Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry, doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvc.2023.1114807
- Smith, J.M., Ripley, E.M., Li, C., Shirey, S.B., and Benson, E.K. (2022) Magmatic origin for the massive sulfide ores in the sedimentary country rocks of mafic–ultramafic intrusions in the Midcontinent Rift System: Mineralium Deposita, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-022-01095-2
- Smith, J.M., Ripley, E.M., Li, C., and Wasylenki, L.E. (2021) Cu and Ni Isotope Variations of Country Rock-Hosted Massive Sulfides Located Near Midcontinent Rift Intrusions: Economic Geology, doi: https://doi.org/10.5382/econgeo.4872