Education

• University of Oregon
  • Ph.D.: Geological Sciences, 2018.
    • Dissertation: "Geodynamic Origin of the Columbia River Flood Basalts"
  • Advanced Certificate of Completion: Graduate Teaching Initiative, 2018.
• Lewis & Clark College
  • B.A.: Physics with honors, 2011.
    • Honors Thesis: "Gravitational Charge Separation in Low-Altitude Volcanic Plumes".
  • Minor: Computer Science

Experience

• Senior Systems Software Engineer, NVIDIA, 2021–present.
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Earth and Planetary Sciences, UC Davis. 2020–2021.
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Geology Department, Western Washington University. 2019–2020.
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oregon. 2019.
• Graduate Employee, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oregon. 2012–2018.
• Student Assistant, National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. 2009–2012.
• REU Undergraduate Researcher, Department of Mathematics, Lewis & Clark College. Summer 2008.
• Software Development
  • Contributor, Advanced Solver for Problems in Earth's ConvecTion (ASPECT) project.
  • Original author, Interface to Berkeley Lab's spin-polarized low energy electron microscope (SPLEEM).
  • Contributor, ParaView scientific visualization tool.

Teaching

Instructor

• Introduction to Geophysics (GEOL 352) Winter, 2020; Spring, 2020 (online).
• Earth Materials (GEOL 311) Winter, 2020.
• Earthquakes (GEOL 308) Fall, 2019.

Teaching Assistant

• Field Camp: Diverse mapping projects in stratified and non-stratified rocks, Montana (GEOL 406). Summer, 2017.
• Fluid Dynamics (GEOL 410/510). Spring, 2017.
• Earth Physics (GEOL 315). Winter, 2017.
• Field Methods (GEOL 318). Fall, 2016.
• Field Camp: Green Mountain, Newberry Volcano, Wallowa Mountains, and Grand Ronde river rafting (GEOL 406). Summer, 2016.
• Evolving Earth (GEOL 103) (Science Literacy Program fellow). Spring, 2016.
• People, Rocks, Fire (GEOL 110) (Science Literacy Program fellow). Winter, 2016.
• Geocommunication (GEOL 420/520). Fall, 2015.
• Field Camp: Frying Pan & Block Mountain, Montana (GEOL 406). Summer, 2015.
• Earthquakes (Clark Honors College). Spring, 2015.
• Western U.S. Tectonics (GEOL 410/510). Spring, 2015.
• Field Camp: Block Mountain, Montana (GEOL 406). Summer, 2014.
• Mechanical Earth (GEOL 455/555). Winter, 2014.

Graduate Teaching Initiative

• Workshops
  • "Floods of Change: the Vanport Floods, Stereotype Threat, and 2YC-4YC Transfer"
  • "Establishing and Sustaining an Undergraduate Research Program"
  • "Allies in the Classroom: Gender-Inclusive Teaching"
  • "Engaging student resistance"
  • "Teaching for the first time as the sole instructor"
  • "Getting to know your students"
• Courses on College Teaching
  • "Teaching Science"

Science Literacy Program

• Participant, SLP Journal Club, 2013–2018
• Graduate Fellow, Science Literacy Program Graduate Fellowship Program, GEOL 103, GEOL 110.

Publications

• J. Perry-Houts and E. Humphreys "Simplified equations for lower crustal flow driven by lateral pressure gradients" Geophysical Journal International (2021). 10.1093/gji/ggab125 [preprint]
• J. Castellanos, J. Perry-Houts, R. Clayton, Y. Kim, A. C. Stanciu, W. Niday, E. Humphreys "Seismic Anisotropy Reveals Crustal Flow Driven by Mantle Vertical Loading in the Pacific NW" Science Advances (2020). 10.1126/sciadv.abb0476 [PDF]
• J. Perry-Houts and L. Karlstrom "Anisotropic viscosity and time-evolving lithospheric instabilities due to aligned igneous intrusions" Geophysical Journal International 216.2 (2019). doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggy466 [preprint] [supplement]
• J. Perry-Houts and E. Humphreys "Eclogite-driven subsidence of the Columbia Basin (Washington State, USA) caused by deposition of Columbia River Basalt." Geology 46.7 (2018). doi.org/10.1130/G40328.1
• E. Humphreys, B. Schmandt, M. Bezada, J. Perry-Houts "Recent craton growth by slab stacking beneath Wyoming." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 429 (2015): 170–180. doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.07.066
• (Author acknowledgement) Gong Chen, and Andreas K. Schmid. "Imaging and Tailoring the Chirality of Domain Walls in Magnetic Films." Advanced Materials 27.38 (2015): 5738–5743. doi.org/10.1002/adma.201500160
• J. Mache, S.W. Bock, J. Elwell, D.P. Gosnell, T. Mandel, and J. Perry-Houts "Sensor Network Security: Elliptic Curve Cryptography on SunSPOTs." Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Networks (2008): 687–692. [PDF]

Presentations and Abstracts

• J. Perry-Houts, P. Schoettle-Greene, E. Humphreys, N. Klema, D. O'Hara, A. Colón "The Columbia River Basalt as a record of Miocene topography and the deformation that followed" AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2020.
• J. Perry-Houts, E. Humphreys, A. Duvall, N. Mitchell, P. Schoettle-Greene, S. Williams, B. Yanites "Yellowstone’s tectonic parabola and lower-crustal flow: Application of the waterbed model for ductile lower crust" AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019.
• E. Humphreys, J. Perry-Houts, K. Nicolaysen. "Origin of the Culumbia River Flood Basalts." GSA Cordilleran Section Meeting, 2019.
• J. Perry-Houts, and E. Humphreys. "Lower-crustal metamorphism caused subsidence in Pasco Basin, Washington State." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. Vol. 1. 2017.
• K. Harvey, J. Perry-Houts, J. Domino, M. Muth, S. Carruthers, A. J. Kotowski, K. DeGrandpre, U. Faul, A. Kent, G. Abers, M. Krawczynski, G. Gaetani. "The ins and outs of mélange diapirs: a multidisciplinary approach to formation, ascent, and observation." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017.
• J. Perry-Houts, and L. Karlstrom. "Modeling Geodynamic Mobility of Anisotropic Lithosphere." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. Vol. 1. 2016.
• J. Perry-Houts, and E. Humphreys. "Melt-Enabled Lithospheric Delamination in the Western US." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. Vol. 1. 2014.
• J. Perry-Houts, M. Calo, C. L. Eddy, Mattia Guerri, A. Holt, E. Hopper, Andrea Tesoniero, B. A. Romanowicz, T. W. Becker, and L. S. Wagner. "Deep vs. shallow expressions of continental cratons: Can cratonic roots be destroyed by subduction?." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. Vol. 1. 2013.
• (Invited) J. Perry-Houts, B. Barton, A. K. Schmid, N. Andresen, and C. Kisielowski. "Novel Long-Lived Electrostatic Work Function Phase Plates for TEM." Microscopy and Microanalysis 18, no. S2 (2012): 476–477.

Outreach, Volunteer, Community Service

• Judge: Outstanding Student Presentation Awards, AGU Fall Meeting, 2019.
• Graduate Student Representative University of Oregon Department of Earth Sciences, 2017–2018.
• Volunteer presenter at the University of Oregon Science Open House, 2016.
• Science panelist for the Academy of Arts and Academics high school, Springfield, OR, 2016.
• Union Steward Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation, 2013–2017.

Awards & Grants

• AWS Educate Program, Computing resources for education, 2020.
• Collaborative Research: An integrated mantle to surface study of the causes and consequences of high topography in the Northern US Cordillera. NSF EAR-1727046/1727139/1727451, 2017.
• Outstanding TA Award, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oregon, 2017.
• Departmental Honors, Department of Physics, Lewis & Clark College, 2011.
• Feynman Prize, Department of Physics, Lewis & Clark College, 2009.

Affiliations

• Member, National Association of Geoscience Teachers, 2018–present.
• Member, Union of Concerned Scientists, 2017–present.
• Member, Free Software Foundation, 2013–present.
• Member, American Geophysical Union, 2012–present.
• Member, Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honors Society, 2009–2011.

Certifications

• Wilderness First Responder, Wilderness Medicine Institute, NOLS, 2010—2016. Last modified December 18th, 2021