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2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2019 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2010 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Alan G. Jones is affiliated with the Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies in Ireland. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Engineering. The subfields covered include Geophysics, Mechanical Engineering, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Ocean Engineering, and Building and Construction.

Their research topics encompass a variety of geophysical and engineering methods, with attention to Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods, Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, Geophysical Methods and Applications, Seismic Waves and Analysis, Extraction and Separation Processes, earthquake and tectonic studies, and Geological and Geochemical Analysis.

Recent publications by Alan G. Jones include:

  • Shaping the Surface Deformation of Central and South Tibetan Plateau: Insights From Magnetotelluric Array Data, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Probing the Southern African Lithosphere With Magnetotellurics-Part I: Model Construction, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Refrigeration system development with limited charge of flammable Refrigerant, R-290, 2022, Thermal Science and Engineering Progress
  • A Reduced Order Approach for Probabilistic Inversions of 3D Magnetotelluric Data II: Joint Inversion of MT and Surface-Wave Data, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Mining for net zero: The impossible task, 2023, The Leading Edge

Frequent co-authors in their work include Bilal Bashir, Paul Downie, Natalie Forrester, Anthony S. Wierzbicki, and Charlotte Dawson.

Key venues for their publications are:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • The Leading Edge
  • UNC Libraries
  • Thermal Science and Engineering Progress
  • Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology

Alan G. Jones has been recognized with awards including becoming a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2019 and election as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Partially Molten Middle Crust Beneath Southern Tibet: Synthesis of Project INDEPTH Results

    K. D. Nelson;Wenjin Zhao;L. D. Brown;J. Kuo

  • The magnetotelluric method : theory and practice

    Alan D. Chave;Alan G. Jones

  • Detection of widespread fluids in the Tibetan crust by magnetotelluric studies.

    Wenbo Wei;Martyn Unsworth;Alan Jones;John Booker

  • Crustal rheology of the Himalaya and Southern Tibet inferred from magnetotelluric data

    M. J. Unsworth;A. G. Jones;W. Wei;G. Marquis

  • Multisite, multifrequency tensor decomposition of magnetotelluric data

    Gary W. McNeice;Alan G. Jones

  • Static shift of magnetotelluric data and its removal in a sedimentary basin environment

    Alan G. Jones

  • The elusive lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary (LAB) beneath cratons

    David W. Eaton;Fiona Darbyshire;Rob L. Evans;Herman Grütter

  • A comparison of techniques for magnetotelluric response function estimation

    Alan G. Jones;Alan D. Chave;Gary D. Egbert;Don Auld

  • Electrical conductivity of the continental lower crust

    A. G. Jones

  • Electrically Conductive Crust in Southern Tibet from INDEPTH Magnetotelluric Surveying

    Leshou Chen;John R. Booker;Alan G. Jones;Nong Wu

  • Partial melt or aqueous fluid in the mid-crust of Southern Tibet? Constraints from INDEPTH magnetotelluric data

    Shenghui Li;Martyn J. Unsworth;John R. Booker;Wenbo Wei

  • Crustal structure and rheology of the Longmenshan and Wenchuan Mw 7.9 earthquake epicentral area from magnetotelluric data

    Guoze Zhao;Martyn J. Unsworth;Yan Zhan;Lifeng Wang

  • Imaging the continental upper mantle using electromagnetic methods

    Alan G Jones

  • Resistivity cross section through the Juan de Fuca Subduction System and its tectonic implications

    Philip E. Wannamaker;John R. Booker;Alan G. Jones;Alan D. Chave

  • Crustal and upper mantle structure of northern Tibet imaged with magnetotelluric data

    Martyn Unsworth;Wei Wenbo;Alan G. Jones;Shenghui Li

  • MT and reflection: an essential combination

    Alan G. Jones

  • 3-D multiobservable probabilistic inversion for the compositional and thermal structure of the lithosphere and upper mantle. I: a priori petrological information and geophysical observables

    J. C. Afonso;J. Fullea;J. Fullea;W. L. Griffin;Y. Yang

  • On the Equivalence of the "Niblett" and "Bostick" Transformations in the Magnetotelluric Method

    Alan G. Jones

  • The problem of current channelling: A critical review

    Alan G. Jones

  • The electrical structure of the Slave craton

    Alan G. Jones;Pamela Lezaeta;Ian J. Ferguson;Alan D. Chave

  • Electric lithosphere of the Slave craton

    Alan G. Jones;Ian J. Ferguson;Alan D. Chave;Rob L. Evans

Frequent Co-Authors

Rob L. Evans
Rob L. Evans Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Juanjo Ledo
Juanjo Ledo Complutense University of Madrid
Martyn Unsworth
Martyn Unsworth University of Alberta
Alan D. Chave
Alan D. Chave Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Kaley A. Walker
Kaley A. Walker University of Toronto
David W. Eaton
David W. Eaton University of Calgary
Yingjie Yang
Yingjie Yang Southern University of Science and Technology
Bernd Funke
Bernd Funke Spanish National Research Council
Lucien Froidevaux
Lucien Froidevaux California Institute of Technology
Michaela I. Hegglin
Michaela I. Hegglin University of Reading

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