Professor Jeff Lewis: Curriculum Vitae
Work Address: Houston Community College Southwest, 10141 Cash Road, Stafford, TX 77477
Office Telephone Number: 713–718–7771
College Email Address: jeffrey.lewis@hccs.edu
Education
M.S., Geological Sciences – San Diego State University, 2000
Thesis Title: “Geochemical Characterization and Tectonic Implications of the Early to Middle Jurassic Sailor
Canyon Formation, Northern Sierra Nevada, California”
B.S., Geological Sciences – San Diego State University, 1995
Thesis Title: “Multiple sources determined through geochemical aspects, Lower Paleozoic Shoo Fly complex (SFC),
Sierra Nevada, California”
Teaching Experience
2007-present
Professor of Geology, HCC Southwest, Stafford, Texas
Courses Taught: ENVR 1301; GEOL 1345,1347; GEOL 1401, 1402, 1403, 1404
2005-2006
Adjunct Faculty Geology Instructor, North Harris College, Spring, Texas
Courses Taught: GEOL 1403, 1405
2000-2004
Teaching and Research Assistant, University of New Orleans Department of Geology and
Geophysics, New Orleans, Louisiana
Courses Taught: Physical Geology labs, Structural
Geology, Field Geology in New Mexico and Death Valley, California
1997
Teaching and Research Assistant, San Diego State University, San Diego, California
Courses Taught: basic and advanced geologic field classes in the Anza-Borrego Desert and
northern Sierra Nevada, California
.Sampling of Applied Research
2002-2004 winter: GSA-funded field research for PhD dissertation in eastern California.
2001, summer: Field assistant for NSF-funded study of the Jurassic arc rocks and related structures in the Chugach
Mtns., southern Alaska.
1999, April: Field researcher for BLM archaeological mapping project in the Santa Rosa Mountains, California.
1995 and 1994, August: Field assistant for neotectonics project and paleontological excavations on Santa Rosa
Island, California.
1994, summer: Field and geochemical studies in the Paleozoic Shoo Fly Complex and Jurassic Sailor Canyon
Formation in the northern Sierra Nevada, California. Funded through National Science Foundation grant.
1994, spring: Thin section manufacture and examination to determine provenance of pottery shards from Mayan
sites in the Yucatan and Guatemala for the Huastee Indian Project.
1994, March: Field assistant for gravity survey along lagoon levee at SDG&E Encino Power Plant, Carlsbad,
California.
1994, January: Field assistant for a structural and metamorphic study in Paleozoic rocks in the eastern Sierra San
Pedro Martir, Baja California Norte, Mexico.
1993, summer: Field and geochemical study of the Paleozoic Shoo Fly Complex, northern Sierra Nevada, California.
Funded through Petroleum Research Fund grant.
Publications
Lewis, J., and Pavlis, T., 2004, Examination of the possible reactivation of a Mesozoic thrust fault during Cenozoic
extension in the southwestern Basin and Range province, North America in Plate Tectonics, Plumes and
Planetary Lithospheres, Kevin Burke Conference; J. Casey, ed.
Lewis, J., 2004, Examination of the Resting Springs Formation and the possibility of late Oligocene to early Miocene
deformation in the southwestern Basin and Range: GSA Abstracts with Programs, National Meeting.
Lewis, J.G. and Pavlis, T., 2003, Preliminary work on Mesozoic and Cenozoic deformational features in the Nopah
Range, California: GSA Abstracts with Programs.
Lewis, J.G., and Girty, G.H., 2001, Tectonic implications of a petrographic and geochemical characterization of the
Early to Middle Jurassic Sailor Canyon Formation, northern Sierra Nevada, California, Geology, v.29, no. 7, p.627630.
Lewis, J.G., and Girty, G.H., 2000, Geochemical characterization and tectonic implications of the Early to Middle
Jurassic Sailor Canyon Formation, northern Sierra Nevada, California, GSA 2000 National Meeting Abstracts with
Programs.
Girty, G.H., Lawrence, J.L., Burke, T., Fortin, A., Gallarano, C.S., Wirths, T.A., Lewis, J.G., Peterson, M.M., Ridge, D.L.,
Knaack, C., Johnson, D., 1996, The Shoo Fly Complex: its origin and significance, in Girty, G.H., Hanson, R.E.,
Schweickert, R.A., Harwood, D.S., eds., The Northern Sierra Terrane and associated Mesozoic magmatic units,
Pacific Section SEPM, book 81, p. 1-24.
Lewis, J.G., Ridge, D.L., Al-Riyami, R., Ward, K.L., Yoshinobu, A.S., Girty, G.H., 1994, Multiple sources determined
through geochemical aspects, Lower Paleozoic Shoo Fly complex (SFC), Sierra Nevada, California, GSA 1994
Cordilleran Section meeting Abstracts with Programs.
Other Geological Accomplishments
2002: Recipient of NOGS Graduate Student Scholarship and the Brian Best Memorial Scholarship
from the University of New Orleans Department of Geology and Geophysics.
2000, May: Recipient of “Best Thesis Defense” award from Dept. of Geological Sciences at San
Diego State University.
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