Craig Jones

 

Full Name: Craig Jones

Position: Data Administrator

Contact details

Email: C.Jones
Phone: +64-4-570 4858

Qualifications

1985: BSc, Geology; 1995: MSc (With distinction), Geology; 1998: Postgraduate unit in Micropaleontology, Calcareous Nannofossils

Areas of expertise

Clerical: Data administration
Geology: 3D modelling
Geology: CO2 sequestration
Geology: Cenozoic stratigraphy
Geology: Data management
Geology: Database Design
Geology: GIS Specialist
Geology: Micropaleontology
Geology: Paleontology
Geology: Petroleum Exploration
Geology: Stratigraphy
Information Technology: Application support
Information Technology: Database development
Information Technology: GIS and other geotechnical software
Information Technology: Geophysical Application
Information Technology: Workflow design & development
Technical: Collection and data management
Technical: Excavation of Vertebrate fossils
Technical: Field Work
Technical: Seismic Data Management
Technical: Technical Computer Applications

Professional activities

Geological Society of New Zealand: Member
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology: Member

Major publications

Tennyson, A.J.D.; Worthy, T.H.; Jones, C.M.; Scofield, R.P.; Hand, S.J. 2010 Moa's ark : Miocene fossils reveal the great antiquity of Moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) in Zealandia. Records of the Australian Museum, 62: 105-114

Herzer, R.H.; Davy, B.W.; Mortimer, N.; Quilty, P.G.; Chaproniere, G.C.H.; Jones, C.M.; Crawford, A.J.; Hollis, C.J. 2009 Seismic stratigraphy and structure of the Northland Plateau and the development of the Vening Meinesz transform margin, SW Pacific Ocean. Marine geophysical researches, 30(1): 21-60; doi: 10.1007/s11001-009-9065-1

Worthy, T.H.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Jones, C.M.; McNamara, J.A.; Douglas, B.J. 2007 Miocene waterfowl and other birds from central Otago, New Zealand. Journal of systematic palaeontology, 5(1): 1-39; doi:10.1017/S1477201906001957

Cooper, R.A.; Maxwell, P.A.; Crampton, J.S.; Beu, A.G.; Jones, C.M.; Marshall, B.A. 2006 Completeness of the fossil record: Estimating losses due to small body size. Geology, 34(4): 241-244

Crampton, J.S.; Foote, M.; Beu, A.G.; Cooper, R.A. ; Matcham, I.; Jones, C.M.; Maxwell, P.A.; Marshall, B.A. 2006 Second-order sequence stratigraphic controls on the quality of the fossil record at an active margin : New Zealand Eocene to Recent shelf molluscs. Palaios, 21(1): 86-105

Crampton, J.S.; Foote, M.; Beu, A.G.; Maxwell, P.A.; Cooper, R.A.; Matcham, I.; Marshall, B.A.; Jones, C.M. 2006 The ark was full : constant to declining Cenozoic shallow marine biodiversity on an isolated midlatitude continent. Paleobiology, 32(4): 509-532

Slack, K.E.; Jones, C.M.; Ando, T.; Harrison, G.L.; Fordyce, R.E.; Arnason, U.; Penny, D. 2006 Early penguin fossils, plus mitochondrial genomes, calibrate Avian evolution. Molecular biology and evolution, 23(6): 1144-1155; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj124

Worthy, T.H.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Archer, M.; Musser, A.M.; Hand, S.J.; Jones, C.M.; Douglas, B.J.; McNamara, J.A.; Beck, R.M.D. 2006 Miocene mammal reveals a Mesozoic ghost lineage on insular New Zealand, southwest Pacific. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 103(51): 19419-19423; doi:10.1073/pnas.0605684103

Hiller, N.; Mannering, A.A.; Jones, C.M.; Cruickshank, A.R.I. 2005 The nature of Mauisaurus haasti Hector, 1874 (Reptilia: Plesiosauria). Journal of vertebrate paleontology, 25(3): 588-601

Hollis, C.J.; Dickens, G.R.; Field, B.D.; Jones, C.M.; Strong, C.P. 2005 The Paleocene-Eocene transition at Mead Stream, New Zealand : a southern Pacific record of early Cenozoic global change. Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 215(3/4): 313-343

Wilson, G.J.; Schioler, P.; Hiller, N.; Jones, C.M. 2005 Age and provenance of Cretaceous marine reptiles from the South Island and Chatham Islands, New Zealand. New Zealand journal of geology and geophysics, 48(2): 377-387

Morgans, H.E.G.; Beu, A.G.; Cooper, R.A.; Crouch, E.M.; Hollis, C.J.; Jones, C.M.; Raine, J.I.; Strong, C.P.; Wilson, G.J.; Wilson, G.S. 2004 Paleogene (Dannevirke, Arnold and Landon Series). p. 124-163 IN: Cooper, R.A. (ed.) The New Zealand Geological Timescale. Lower Hutt: Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences Limited. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences monograph 22.

Crampton, J.S.; Beu, A.G.; Cooper, R.A.; Jones, C.M.; Marshall, B.; Maxwell, P.A. 2003 Estimating the rock volume bias in paleobiodiversity studies. Science, 301(5631): 358-360

Jones, C.M. 2000 The first record of a fossil bird from East Antarctica. p. 359-364 IN: Stilwell, J.D.; Feldmann, R.M. (eds) Paleobiology and paleoenvironments of Eocene rocks, McMurdo Sound, East Antarctica. American Geophysical Union: Washington, DC. Antarctic research series 76.

Fordyce, R.E.; Jones, C.M. 1990 Penguin history and new fossil material from New Zealand. p. 419-446 IN: Davis, L.S.; Darby, J.T. (eds) Penguin biology. San Diego: Academic Press

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