Revised December 17, 2023

Please Note: The Jahns Lecturer for 2023-24 is Cynthia Palomares

General information about the Richard H. Jahns Lectures

• Information about the Jahns Lectureship, from its co-sponsors
  • Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists (AEG): www.aegweb.org/jahns-lecturer
  • Geological Society of America, Environmental and Engineering Geology Division (GSA-EEGD): community.geosociety.org/eegdivision/awards/jahns
• Information about Dick Jahns
  • Brown, G.E., Jr., and Ewing, R.C., 1986, Memorial of Richard Henry Jahns, March 10, 1915 - December 31, 1983: American Mineralogist, v. 71, p. 652-654, accessed 8/16/2022 via http://www.minsocam.org/ammin/AM71/AM71_652.pdf
  • Brown, G.E., Krauskopf, K.B., Mahood, G.A., and Remson, I., 1984, Memorial - Richard H. Jahns (1915-1983): AAPG Bulletin, v. 68, no. 7, p. 919-920.
  • Johnson, A.M., Burnham, C.W., Allen, C.R.E., and Muehlberger, W., 1990, Richard H., Jahns Memorial Volume: New York, Elsevier, 594 p.
  • Medley, E., A note about Prof. Richard H. Jahns: accessed 8/15/2022 via https://edmedley.com/jahns-lectures/about-professor-richard-h-jahns/.
  • Meehan, R., and Hamilton, D., 1984, Memorial - Richard H. Jahns (1915-1984): Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 74, no. 5, p. 2057-2058.
  • Press, H., 1980, Interviews with Richard H. Jahns: Stanford Historical Society, Stanford University, accessed 8/15/2022 via https://historicalsociety.stanford.edu/publications/jahns-richard-h
  • Proctor, R.J., and Vonder Linden, K., 1985, Memorial to Richard Henry Jahns (1915-1983): Bulletin of the Association of Engineering Geologists, v. 22, no. 1, p. 123-126.
  • Proctor, R.J., and Vonder Linden, K., 1990, How we remember him — A biography of Richard H. Jahns, 1915-1983: Bulletin of the Association of Engineering Geologists, v. 27, no. 2, p. 129-234, accessed 8/15/2022 via https://bimrocks.geoengineer.org/files/BiographyJahns-Proctor-Vonder-Linden-1990.pdf
  • Wright, L.A., 1984, Memorial to Richard H. Jahns (1915-1983): Geological Society of America Memorials, p. 1-10, accessed 8/15/2022 via https://www.geosociety.org/documents/gsa/memorials/v15/Jahns-RH.pdf

About the Jahns Lecturer for 2022-23: Vince Cronin

Vince Cronin engages in a broad range of geoscience work. He has served in various capacities in GSA's Environmental and Engineering Geology Division, and is a GSA Fellow. He is also a long-time AEG member. Vince worked for the first Jahns Lecturer, Dr. Jim Slosson, as an engineering geologist and consultant on projects involving landslides, active faulting, flooding, coastal/stream erosion, and resource evaluation in the western US.
Vince is an emeritus professor of geoscience at Baylor University. There and at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, he taught a variety of graduate courses about structural geology, tectonics, and engineering geology, and the core undergraduate courses in physical geology and structural geology. Along with his graduate and undergraduate students, he has used earthquake data, lidar-based geomorphic analysis, GPS geodesy, and field work to locate the ground-surface trace of seismogenic faults.
Vince is the editor of the 11th through 13th editions of the AGI/NAGT Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology (Pearson) and is writing a quantitative primer on plate kinematics. He has contributed to the development of geoethics for about 30 years and currently serves on the executive board of the International Association for Promoting Geoethics (IAPG) as its North American coordinator. He was chosen by AIPG as the recipient of the Ben H. Parker Memorial Distinguished Service Medal for 2023.

Credentials Publications Some past student research associates Brief autobiography

List of Jahns Lecture Series Presentations for 2022-23

• How can an engineering geologist find an active fault?

Read more at https://croninprojects.org/Jahns/FindingActiveFaults/

• The search for the Dog Valley fault

  Read more at https://croninprojects.org/Jahns/DogValleyFault/

• Geoethics is at the heart of engineering geoscience

Read more at https://croninprojects.org/Jahns/EngGeolGeoethics/

• A path from "rocks for jocks" to a career in engineering geology

Read more at https://croninprojects.org/Jahns/EngGeolCareerPath/

• How can engineering geology help society meet the challenge of a changing climate?

Read more at https://croninprojects.org/Jahns/EngGeolClimateChange/

• Moving experiences with landslides

Read more at https://croninprojects.org/Jahns/EngGeolLandslides/

Schedule of Jahns Lectures

AEG Regions & Chapters

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