Marie Jackson, Flagstaff, AZ
  • Research Professor, Geology & Geophysics
928-853-7967

Professional Service

  • Materials Science & Technology . Role: Co-Convenor. Co-Convenor of Oral and Poster Sessions with Jamie Weaver, Art and Cultural Heritage: Discoveries during the Pandemic Year, MS&T 2022, Pittsburgh, PA. 10/09/2022 - 10/13/2022
  • Geological Society of America. Role: Co-Convenor. GSA Annual Meeting Oral Session: Reading the record of volcanic tephra and tuff in geoarchaeological site studies and drill core records, Portland, OR, with Jayde Hirniak . 10/10/2021 - 10/13/2021
  • European Geophysical Union. Role: Co-Convenor of Poster Session with Paraskevi Nomikou, Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson. Volcanic Islands: Eruptions, Stability, Hazards, Glass, Minerals, and Microbial Life . 05/04/2020 - 05/08/2020
  • European Geophysical Union. Role: Co-Convener of Oral and Poster Sessions with Paraskevi Nomikou, Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson, Steffen Leth Jørgensen . Submarine Volcanic Activity and Associated Hazards: Recent and ancient perspectives https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2019/session/32569. 04/10/2019 - 04/10/2019

Honors & Awards

  • Outstanding Faculty Researcher of the Year, 2022 –2023 . Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, 04/06/2023
  • Science Highlight, Advanced Light Source: Unexpected Transformations Reinforce Roman Architectural Concrete: ALS, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, https://als.lbl.gov/unexpected-transformations-reinforce-roman-architectural-concrete/ Also recognized as a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Science Highlight, 06/01/2022 . Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 07/12/2021
  • Fellow. American Ceramic Society, 03/26/2020
  • Science Brief: Advanced Light Source Phillipsite and Al-tobermorite mineral cements produced through low-temperature water-rock reactions in Roman marine concrete https://als.lbl.gov/ancient-roman-secret-self-healing-concrete/ . Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, 07/24/2017
  • Notable Article: Jackson, M. D., S. R. Chae, S. R. Mulcahy, C. Meral, R. Taylor, P. Li, J. Moon, S. Yoon, A.-H. Emwas, G. Vola, H.-R. Wenk, P. J. M. Monteiro, 2013, Unlocking the secrets of Al-tobermorite in Roman seawater concrete: American Mineralogist, 98, 1669-1687. American Mineralogist, 05/2013. American Mineralogist, 07/24/2017
  • Science Highlight: Advanced Light Source Unlocking the Secrets of Al-tobermorite in Ancient Roman Marine Concrete https://als.lbl.gov/concrete-industry-benefits-from-ancient-romans-and-the-als/ . Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, 10/2013
  • Highlights and Breakthroughs Article: Jackson, M. D., S. R. Chae, S. R. Mulcahy, C. Meral, R. Taylor, P. Li, J. Moon, S. Yoon, A.-H. Emwas, G. Vola, H.-R. Wenk, P. J. M. Monteiro, 2013, Unlocking the secrets of Al-tobermorite in Roman seawater concrete: American Mineralogist, 98, 1669-1687. American Mineralogist, 05/2013
  • Featured article: Jackson, M. D., J. Moon, E. Gotti, R. Taylor, S. R. Chae, M. Kunz, A.-H. Emwas, C. Meral, P. Guttmann, P. Levitz, H.-R. Wenk, P. J. M. Monteiro, 2013, Material and elastic properties of Al-tobermorite in ancient Roman seawater concrete: Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 96[8], 2598-2606. Elsen, J., O. Cozer, R. Snellings, 2013, Lessons from a lost technology: The secrets of Roman concrete, American Mineralogist, 98, 1917-1918. American Ceramic Society, 04/2013
  • Award, 25 best articles in 25 years, Jackson, M. D., D. Deocampo, F. Marra, and B. E. Scheetz, 2010, Mid-Pleistocene volcanic ash in ancient Roman concretes, Geoarchaeology, 25, 36-74. Geoarchaeology Journal, 09/2010
  • Acknowledgement,Open Spaces Commission: Commisioner 2003-2009, Chair 2003 Contributions towards acquisition of $8 million of lands at Picture Canyon, Observatory Mesa, and the Flagstaff Urban Trail System. City of Flagstaff, 03/2009
  • Graduate Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University. ARCS, Washington D. C. Chapter, 06/1980
  • Field Camp Award, University of Wyoming . National Geology Teachers , 09/1975

Community Partnership

  • 2023 Restoration of Nativity Chapel, Flagstaff, Arizona, Collaborates with civil engineers and community leaders to diagnose damage in pumiceous concrete structural elements and initiate repair of the 95-year-old structure. Report: Forensic Analysis: 1929 Pumiceous Concrete, Nativity Chapel, Flagstaff, Arizona, funded through the Montana State University Nanotechnology Facility and the National Science Foundation National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) program. 09/19/2022 - present

Affiliations

  • American Ceramic Society , Art, Archaeology and Conservation Division, 01/01/2013 - present
  • American Concrete Institute , Committee 204 Associate Member, Natural Pozzolans, 01/01/2009 - present
  • Geological Society of America , Continental Scientific Drilling Division, 01/01/1976 - present

Outreach

  • Materialism Podcast, Episode 11. The Ultimate Construction Material: How we are reinventing concrete with inspiration from ancient Rome. 10/29/2019 - present
  • Lecture to Nakama, University of Utah; How Ancient Roman Concrete Still Stands . 03/02/2018 - 03/02/2018
  • Lecture to the Central Utah Branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE); Roman Marine Harbor Concretes: Volcanic Ash, Cementitious Binder, and Material Characteristics . 01/18/2018 - 01/18/2018
  • Lecture to Utah Geological Survey; Volcanic Glass Reactions and Cementitious Mineral Cycling in Roman Marine Concrete . 01/08/2018 - 01/08/2018
  • https://surtsey50years.utah.edu/ Surtsey@50Years is a blogspace dedicated to sharing the logistics of the 2017 SUSTAIN drilling project at Surtsey Volcano, Iceland and the research emanating from those drill cores (and borehole fluids) with the general public. 08/01/2017 - present

In the Media