Benjamin R. Jordan

Ben Jordan's academic background includes a B.S. in geology, with university honors, and a minor in physics from Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah) and a Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography (Narragansett, Rhode Island). While an undergraduate he was awarded a Link Foundation internship to Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution and served as president of the BYU Astronomical Society. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the Geological Society of America, and the Tsunami Society.

He us the first or contributing author of several peer-reviewed articles and the author of two books. He has served as a reviewer for multiple academic journals and as a field trip co-leader for field excursions to Oman and Hawaii. He has field and research experience in thirteen countries and seventeen U.S. states, including work in the South Pacific mapping and sampling underwater volcanoes and collecting and analyzing field and volcanic rock data in Nicaragua and Honduras.

He is an avid scuba diver with 100+ dives and 40+ hours of bottom time. He also enjoys the outdoors, classical music, classic and alternative rock music, history, archaeology, art and architecture, new cultural experiences, and books of all kinds.