Jessica Allen

 

 

 

Post Doc

phone 801.555.5555
faX 801.585.3540

EMAIL
jallen@egi.utah.edu

Languages

  • English

Professional Research Interests and Expertise –

  • Sedimentology
  • Sequence Stratigraphy
  • Depositional Systems
  • Reservoir Description
  • Sandstone Provenance

Regional and Basin Experience–

  • Rocky Mountain Region, US
  • Offshore Angola
  • Republic of Georgia

Education –

  • B.A., 1997-2001 – Environmental Studies/Geology and Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania
  • M.S., 2001-2003 – Geology, University of Georgia
  • Ph.D., 2005-2009 – Geology, University of Utah

Memberships –

  • American Association of Petroleum Geologists –member since 2005
    • 2007-Leadership Conference Attendee
    2007-Rocky Mountain Section Meeting Volunteer Coordinator
    2006-Student Chapter President
    2005- Student Chapter Treasurer
  • SEPM-Society for Sedimentary Geology-member since 2005
  • Association for Women Geologist-member since 2007
    • 2008 – Student Representative
  • Geological Society of America-member since 2001

Honors and Awards –

  • WEST GK-12 Fellowship– 2006-2007
  • Rocky Mountain Section-SEPM Smith Award-2006
  • Geological Society of America Student Research Grant-2002 (MS) and 2006 (PhD)
  • Colorado Scientific Society Ogden Tweto Student Grant-2002
  • University of Georgia Wheeler-Watts Fund -2002
  • University of Utah PhD Graduate Student of the Year 2009
  • Chevron Shallow Marine Siliciclastic Team-Field Trip Leader, April 2008
  • University of Georgia Graduate Student of the Year 2003
  • Member of the 2001 Ivy League Women’s Basketball Champs

 

Publications –

Allen, J.L., and Johnson, C., in review, Sedimentary facies, paleoenvironments, and relative seal level changes in the John Henry Member, Cretaceous Straight Cliffs Formation, Southern Utah, in  Carney, S., (ed.), Geology of South-Central Utah: UGA Guidebook 39.

Allen, J.L. and Johnson, C., in review, Facies control on sandstone composition in the John Henry Member, Straight Cliffs Formation, Southern Utah, USA: Sedimentary Geology.

Allen, J.L. and Johnson, C., in prep, Architecture and formation of transgressive-regressive cycles in marginal marine strata of the Cretaceous Straight Cliffs Formation (John Henry Member, Southern Utah, USA): Journal of Sedimentary Research.

Holland, S.M., and Allen, J., 2008, The Habitat of Primitive Vertebrates: The Need for Sedimentary Geology in Paleontology: The Sedimentary Record, v. 6, n. 4, p. 4-7.

Allulee, J.L. and Holland, S.M., 2005, The Sequence Stratigraphy and Environmental Context of Primitive Vertebrates: Harding Sandstone, Upper Ordovician, Colorado, USA: Palaios, v. 20, p. 518-533.

Meeting Abstracts
Johnson, C., Allen, J., Gallin, W., Gooley, J., and Semple, I., 2009, The Devil is in the Details: Challenges of Regional Correlation in Marine-Nonmarine Facies: AAPG Abstract.

Allen, J.L. and Johnson, C., 2008, Facies Variations within Shore Packages in the John Henry Member of the Upper Cretaceous Straight Cliffs Formation, Southern Utah: AAPG Abstract, p. 4-5.

Allen, J.L. and Johnson, C., 2006, Sequence Stratigraphy and Controls on Fluvial Architecture in the Straight Cliffs Formation, Southeastern Utah: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, n. 7, p. 147.

Allulee, J.A., and Holland, S.M., 2004, The Habitat of Early Pteraspidomorph Agnathans; Upper Ordovician Harding Sandstone, Colorado: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, n. 5, p. 381.