MATTHEW J. JAMES
Department of Geology Sonoma State University 1801 East Cotati Avenue Rohnert Park, California 94928
office: 707-664-2301 fax: 707-664-3975 collectingevolution.com
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EDUCATION Ph.D., Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, 1987 B.S., Biology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 1977, magna cum laude Worcester College, University of Oxford, summer 1982 University of Arizona, Baja California Field Course, summer 1978 University of Washington, Friday Harbor Laboratories, summer 1976 Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, 1977-1979, graduate courses, no degree ACADEMIC POSITIONS Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor of Geology and Paleontology Sonoma State University (1991-present) Department Chair, Department of Geology, Sonoma State University (2003-present) Lecturer in Geology, San Jose State University, Fall 1985 (sabbatical replacement position) AWARDS AND HONORS 2011 Karl Kortum Award for Maritime History, Friends of the J. Porter Shaw Library at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, San Francisco, California Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, lifetime honor, elected October 2000. George D. Louderback Award, Department of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, for excellence in graduate student leadership, May 1987. Best Student Paper Award, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, June 1984. Summer Scholarship, Oxford/Berkeley Program of the Division of Extended Education at the University of California at Berkeley, to attend 1982 summer course on Charles Darwin and evolution at Worcester College, Oxford University, England Arthur Lyman Dean Prize for Undergraduate Research, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, for top senior honors thesis, June 1977. Kodak Medallion of Excellence in Photography, June 1973
PUBLICATIONS Books James, M.J. (2017 anticipated). Collecting Evolution: The Galápagos Expedition that Vindicated Darwin. Oxford University Press, New York. James, M.J. (Editor) 1991. Galápagos Marine Invertebrates: Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin’s Islands. Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York, xiv + 474 pp. Journal Articles James, M.J. 2010. Collecting Evolution: Vindication of Charles Darwin by the 1905-1906 Galapagos Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series, Vol. 61, Suppl. II, No. 12, pp. 197-210. James, M.J. 2003. Did Galápagos experience and El Niño in 1878? Noticias de Galápagos 62: 30-32. Pitt, W.D., M.J. James, C.S. Hickman, J.H. Lipps and L.J. Pitt. 1986. Late Cenozoic marine mollusks from tuff cones in the Galapagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 44: 1-14. James, M.J. 1984. A new look at evolution in the Galapagos: Evidence from the Late Cenozoic marine molluscan fauna. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 21: 77-95. James, M.J. 1980. Comparative morphology of radular teeth in Conus: Observations with scanning electron microscopy. Journal of Molluscan Studies 46(2): 116-128. Book Chapters James, M.J. 2012. The boat, the bay and the museum: Significance of the 1905-1906 Galápagos expedition of the California Academy of Sciences. In: The Role of Science for Conservation, edited by M. Wolff and M. Gardener, pp. 87-99. London: Routledge, xviii + 299 pp. James, M.J. and J.M. Woram. 2009. Tierra del Fuego. In: Encyclopedia of Islands, edited by R.G. Gillespie & D.A. Clague, pp. 917-917. University of California Press, Berkeley, xxxii + 1074 pp. James, M.J. 1991. Marine invertebrate evolution in the Galápagos Islands. In: Galápagos Marine Invertebrates: Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin’s Islands, edited by M.J. James, pp. 1-5. Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York, xiv + 474 pp. James, M.J. 1991. Charles Darwin’s contributions to the molluscan fauna of the Galápagos Islands: Historical perspective on endemicity and biogeography. In: Galápagos Marine Invertebrates: Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin’s Islands, edited by M.J. James, pp. 327-341. Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York, xiv + 474 pp Reviews James, M.J. 2002. [Review of] Edward J. Larson, Evolution’s Workshop: God and Science on the Galápagos Islands, (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2001). Journal of the Hist. of Biology 35: 179-181. James, M.J. 2000. The Year in Paleontology. Encyclopedia Britannica, Science and the Future, 3 pages. James, M.J. 1996. [Review of] Catalog of the native land and freshwaer molluscs of the Hawaiian Islands. The Veliger 40(1): 1 page.
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James, M.J. 1985. Two little-known Italian papers on Galapagos intertidal zonation and mollusks. The Veliger 28(2): 217. James, M.J. 1989. International symposium on the biogeography and evolution of the molluscan fauna of the Galapagos Islands. Noticias de Galápagos 47: 17-19. Poster Session at Scientific Meeting Finger, K.L., Hickman, C.S., James, M.J., Lipps, J.H., Peterson, D.E., Pitt, L.J., and Pitt, W.D. 2007. Pleistocene marine paleoenvironments on the Galapagos Islands. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs 39(6): 399. Published Abstracts from Oral Presentations at Scientific Meetings James, M. J. 2016. Teaching geology students the hard, cold facts: An excursion on the Athabasca Glacier. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division 35(1): 144. James, M.J. 2015. Collecting Evolution: The 1905-06 Galápagos Expedition from the California Academy of Sciences. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of AAAS. 34(1): 90. Anderson, T.B and M.J. James. 2013. Active learning undergraduate field trip to the Burgess Shale, British Columbia, Canada. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 45(7): 872. James, M.J. 2009. Uplift or subsidence?: Volcanic geology on the 1905-06 Galapagos expedition of the California Academy of Sciences. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 41(7): 504. Anderson, T.B. and M.J. James. 2005. Fossils and Glaciers: A Field Trip to the Burgess Shale by the Department of Geology, Sonoma State University, California. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs 37(7): 192. James, M.J. 1999. Rollo Beck: A glimpse into the life of an endangered species. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division 18(1): 60. James, M.J. 1999. Galápagos marine molluscan paleontology: What Darwin never saw. Cenozoic Paleobiology Symposium, University of Florida, Tallahassee James, M.J. 1989. Geological setting and Cenozoic molluscan paleontology of the Galapagos Islands. Annual Report of the Western Society of Malacologists 21: 5. James, M.J. 1989. Charles Darwin’s contribution to the molluscan fauna of the Galapagos Islands: Historical perspective on enedemicity and biogeography. Annual Report of the Western Society of Malacologists 21: 14-15. James, M.J. 1989. Concluding remarks [Symposium on molluscan fauna of the Galápagos Islands]. Annual Report of the Western Society of Malacologists 21: 15. James, M.J. 1989. A Pleistocene shallow water molluscan faunule from Kaena Point, Oahu, Hawaii. Annual Report of the Western Society of Malacologists 21: 22-23. James, M.J. 1989. International symposium on the biogeography and evolution of the molluscan fauna of the Galapagos Islands. Noticias de Galápagos 47: 17-19. Matthew J. James Page 3 of 8
James, M.J. and W.D. Pitt. 1988. Biogeographic affinities of Pleistocene and Recent Galapagos marine mollusks. Annual Report of the Western Society of Malacologists 20: 28. James, M.J. 1987. Charles Darwin’s use of Lyellian uniformitarianism in interpreting the geology of the Galapagos Islands. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs 19(7): 715. James, M.J. 1985. Taxonomy and biogeography of Dominican Republic Neogene Turridae (Neogastropoda). American Malacological Bulletin 3(1): 98. James, M.J. 1985. Charles Darwin’s contributions to the geology of the Galapagos Islands. XVIIth International Congress of History of Science, Abstracts of Papers Presented in Scientific Sessions, Acts, Volume 1, p. Bi. James, M.J. 1985. Charles Darwin and coral reefs: An historical perspective. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 17(7): 618. James, M.J. 1984. A proposed generalized molluscan shell growth model: Gastropod morphology and constructional patterns. American Malacological Bulletin 2: 80-81. James, M.J. 1984. Taxonomy, biogeography, and evolution of Cenozoic Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Dominican Republic. Proceeding of the Pacific Division, American Association for the Advancement of Science 3(1): 49-50. James, M.J. 1984. Dominican Republic Neogene molluscan evolution: Examples from the neogastropod family Turridae. Geol. Soc. of America Abstracts with Programs 16(6): 550. James, M.J. and P.F. Fields. 1984. Galapagos Islands marine invertebrate evolution: A new pattern emerges. American Malacological Bulletin 2: 85. Pitt, W.D. and M.J. James. 1983. Late Cenozoic marine invertebrate paleontology of the Galapagos Islands. Annual Report of the Western Society of Malacologists 15: 14-15. James, M.J. 1982. Analysis of morphometric variation in Conus nux: Biogeographic patterns in the eastern pacific. Annual Report of the Western Society of Malacologists 14: 12-13. James, M.J. 1979. The comparative morphology of Conus radulae: Observations with scanning electron microscopy. Annual Report of the Western Society of Malacologists 11: 13. James, M.J. 1978. The comparative morphology of Conus radulae: Observations with scanning electron microscopy. Pacific Science 23(1): 98. James, M.J. and T.G. Nolen. 1978. Escape responses of Haliotis kamschatkana to three predatory asteroids. American Zoologist 18(3): 675. James, M.J. 1977. The comparative morphology of Conus radulae: Observations with scanning electron microscopy. American Zoologist 17(4): 970. Research Grants and Awards California Math and Science Project (CaMSP), Co-principal investigator and content cadre member, 2007-2009, Learning Activities through Kelseyville’s Exemplary (LAKE) Science Collaborative. $500,000. Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Program (RSCAP) Mini-Grant Award, Sonoma State University; Project title: “History of the 1905-06 Galápagos Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences” ($1,000 received March 2001) Matthew J. James Page 4 of 8
David and Lucille Packard Foundation, for preliminary organization of multi-authored book for Stanford University Press titled, “The Challenge of Conservation in the Galápagos Archipelago” ($3000 received, June 1996). Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Program (RSCAP) Mini-Grant Award, Sonoma State University; Project title: “Research for Evolution in the Hawaiian Islands - A scholarly reference book” ($3,000 received February 1993) Conchologists of America, Grant-in-Aid of Research; Project title: “Taxonomic revision of Galápagos Pleistocene marine mollusks” ($750 received August 1992). Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Program (RSCAP) Mini-Grant Award, Sonoma State University; Project title: “Evolution of Mollusks in the Galápagos Islands” ($5,000 received April 1990) Sonoma State Enterprises Special Projects Funding; Project title: “Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Wilson Grove Formation in Sonoma County” ($1,061 received ) Jessup Fund of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for Ph.D. dissertation research in the Department of Malacology at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Research conducted in residence in Philadelphia, February 1984 ($930 received) Smithsonian Institution Short-Term Visitor Program for Ph.D. dissertation research in the Division of Mollusks at the National Museum of Natural History. Research conducted in residence in Washington, D.C., March 1984 ($250 received) Academic Senate, University of California at Berkeley, Committee on Research, Intercampus Research Fund, for travel to U.C. San Diego and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, June 1981 ($173 award) Academic Senate, University of California at Berkeley, Committee on Research, Intercampus Research Fund, for travel to UCLA, December 1980 ($159 award) Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fund of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Grant in Support of Research for work on the marine snail genus Conus in the eastern Pacific Ocean, May 1979. Research done in residence in New York City at the American Museum ($700 received) Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research, for support of research on the marine snail genus Conus in the eastern Pacific Ocean, January 1979 ($200 received) PRESENTATIONS Invited lectures Darwin Day Sacramento, 19th annual event, La Sierra Community Center, Carmichael, California, February 13, 2016, Stanford University, Department of Anthropology, Guest lecturer, Anthropology 178/278, Professor William H. Durham, November 4, 2014 Bay Area Biosystematists, University of California, Berkeley, February 12, 2013 Friends of the tall ship FALLS OF CLYDE, Honolulu Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 25, 2012 2012 Peter Leveque Natural History Lecture, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, California Oakmont Sunday Symposium, Oakmont, California, February 19, 2012 Klebingat Lecture Series, J. Porter Shaw Library, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, San Francisco, California, June 4, 2011 Matthew J. James Page 5 of 8
Volunteer Docents, California Academy of Sciences, April 13, 2011 Department of Geology, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, September 2, 2009 Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, September 8, 2009 Charles Darwin Foundation, Galapagos Islands, July 2009 Science Buzz Café, Sebastopol, California, May 21, 2009 San Quentin State Prison, New Leaf on Life Program through Dr. Elaine Leeder, March 27, 2009 St. Francis Yacht Club, Wednesday lunchtime lecture series, December 5, 2008 California Maritime Academy, December 3, 2008 College of Marin, Biology and Geology Departments, November 19, 2008 Santa Rosa Junior College, Geology Club, October 15, 2008 San Francisco Maritime Museum Library, October 11, 2008 California State University at Chico, Anthropology Forum, September 18, 2008 Sonoma State University, Biology Colloquium, September 2, 2008 California Academy of Sciences, May 16, 2008 University of California at Santa Barbara, Department of Geological Sciences, March 14, 2008 University of California at Davis, McLaughlin Reserve, Lake County, January 19, 2008 College of Marin, Geology Department, November 1, 2007 Sonoma State University, Geology Colloquium, October 25, 2007 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Santa Rosa, November 1, 2006 Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, Pacific Grove, California, April 22, 2006 Fossil Coffee, University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, March 7, 2006 Pacific Union College, Angwin, California, October 26, 2004 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES President for 2017, American Association for the Advancement of Science – Pacific Division, annual meeting at Hawaii Pacific Academy, Kamuela, Hawaii, June 19-23, 2017. 2012-2019 Governing Member, Charles Darwin Foundation, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Organizer of three-day symposium: “Galápagos 2015: Science, Conservation, and History in the 180 Years Since Darwin,” 100th Anniversary Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science - Pacific Division (AAAS-PD), San Francisco, California, June 14-17, 2015 Board of Directors, Friends of the San Francisco Maritime Museum Library, elected October 2014 to present 2014 Chair, Board of Heads and Chairs of the American Geophysical Union. Member, Executive Committee, Pacific Division, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS-PD), July 2010 to present. Organizer of two-day symposium: “Galápagos: Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation in Darwin’s Islands,” 80th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science - Pacific Division, San Francisco, California, June 22-23, 1999 Chair, Pacific Coast Section, Paleontological Society, 1991. Organized Symposium on Paleobiology of Oceanic Islands. Board of Directors, California Malacozoological Society, Inc. (publishers of the molluscan journal The Veliger) 1999-2004. President, Western Society of Malacologists, 1988 (Organized International Symposium on Biogeography and Evolution of the Molluscan Fauna of the Galápagos Islands). Matthew J. James Page 6 of 8
Organizer, Bay Area Malacologists annual research gathering, 1984-2002. Co-Editor and Senior Editor, paleontology journal PaleoBios 1982-1984, Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley ACADEMIC SERVICE School of Science and Technology and University Service Fall 2014, elected to three-year term as At-Large Senator, SSU Academic Senate Spring 2012 Search Committee, Dean of the School of Science and Technology, hired Dr. Lynn Stauffer Spring 2013, External reviewer for 5-year review for Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, California State University, East Bay 2000 to present, School of Science and Technology Retention, Tenure, and Promotion Committee member 1999 to present, School of Science and Technology Professional Development Committee 2004-2006 Darwin Hall Remodel Committee member 1991-1993 Academic Senate, School of Natural Sciences representative, full three-year term. 1995-1998 Member of Faculty Standards and Affairs Committee, full three-year term. Spring 1998 Chair, Faculty Standards and Affairs Committee 1991 Search Committee for Vice President of Administration and Finance 1999 and 2000 Selection Committee, Distinguished Alumni Awards, Sonoma State University Alumni Association. 2005-2006 School of Science and Technology Strategic Planning Committee 2008 Lower Division Transfer Protocol committee member Departmental Service 2003 to present, Geology Department Chair (five 3-year terms), 2-3 hours work per day 2014 Faculty Search Committee Chair, tenure track “Sedimentary Geology” hired Dr. Owen Anfinson 2014-15 Chair, Geology 5-year program review committee 2006 to present, Department Advisor for ca. 90 majors 2013 Staff Search Committee Chair, Department Technician, hired Phil Mooney 2006 Faculty Search Committee Chair, tenure track “Sedimentary Petrology” hired Dr. Mike Smith 2005 Faculty Search Committee Chair, tenure track “Structural Geology” hired Dr. Matty Mookerjee 2003 Faculty Search Committee member, tenure track “Geochronology and Paleoclimatology” hired Dr. Dan Karner 2006 Faculty Advisor to Geology Club 2008 Chair, Geology Program Review Committee 2008 Association of Women Geoscientists, SSU campus representative, annual award for outstanding female graduate in geology 2007–2008 Chair Geology Curriculum Review Committee, revised BS Geology, created BA Earth Science COURSES TAUGHT Geology 102: Our Dynamic Earth lecture (large lecture course) Geology 102: Our Dynamic Earth laboratory Geology 105: The Age of Dinosaurs (large lecture course) Geology 301: Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands (large lecture course) Geology 303: Advanced Principles of Geology laboratory Geology 304: Geologic Mapping and Report Writing (since 2008 every semester) Matthew J. James Page 7 of 8
Geology 310: Marine Geology Geology 313: Paleontology Geology 314: Paleontology Field Course Geology 321: Burgess Shale Paleontology (international field course) Geology 495: Special Studies – Arizona Paleontology Course Geology 495: Darwin and Galapagos Biology 115: An Introduction to Biology laboratory Biology 312: Biological Oceanography Updated: July 11, 2016 for posting online at: researchgate.net and academia.edu
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