STEPHEN T. JACKSON
  email: jackson@uwyo.edu

EDUCATION

1983  Ph.D. Indiana University, Bloomington
   Major: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
   Minor: Plant Sciences

1978  M.S.  Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
   Major: Botany

1977  B.A.  Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
      Major: Botany
      Minor: Geology

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2001-              Professor of Botany, University of Wyoming
1997-2001     Associate Professor of Botany, University of Wyoming
1997-              Affiliate, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado
1995-1997     Assistant Professor of Botany, University of Wyoming
1995               Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University
1990-1995     Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University
1988-1990     Research Associate in Geological Sciences, Brown University
1986-1988     National Science Foundation Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Biology (in residence at Brown University)
1985-1988     Adjunct Faculty in Biological Sciences, Idaho State University
1984-1985     Visiting Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Idaho State University
1983-1984     Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington
 

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Booth, R.K., S.T. Jackson, and T.A. Thompson.  2001.  Paleoecology of a northern Michigan lake and the relationship among vegetation, climate, and Great lakes water levels.  Quaternary Research (in press).

Lyford, M.E., J.L. Betancourt, and S.T. Jackson.  2001.  Holocene vegetation and climate history of the northern Big Horn Basin, Montana.  Quaternary Research (in press).

Jackson, S.T.  2001.  Integrating ecological dynamics across timescales: real-time, Q-time, and deep-time.  PALAIOS 16:1-2.

Jackson, S.T.  2000.  Ecosystem reorganization into the icehouse: a Quaternary perspective on Late Cenozoic terrestrial paleoecology.  Pages 287-308 in Phanerozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems (R.A. Gastaldo & W.A. DiMichele, editors).  Paleontological Society Papers 6.

Jackson, S.T. and J.T. Overpeck.  2000.  Responses of plant populations and communities to  environmental changes of the Late Quaternary.  Paleobiology 26 (Supplement):194-220.

Weng, C., and S.T. Jackson.  2000.  Species differentiation of North American spruce (Picea) based on morphological and anatomical characteristics of needles.  Canadian Journal of Botany 78:1367-1383.

Jackson, S.T., R.S. Webb, K.H. Anderson, J.T. Overpeck, T. Webb III, J.W. Williams, & B.C.S. Hansen.  2000.  Vegetation and environment in eastern North America during the last glacial maximum.  Quaternary Science Reviews 19:489-508.

Jackson, S.T., E.C. Grimm, & R.S. Thompson.  2000.  Database resources in Quaternary paleobotany.  SIDA Botanical Miscellany 18:113-120.

Jackson, S.T., & C. Weng.  1999.  Late Quaternary extinction of a tree species in eastern North America.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96:13847-13852.

Jackson, S.T.  1999.  Techniques for analysing unconsolidated lake sediments.  Pages 274-278 in  Fossil Plants and Spores:  Modern Techniques (T. Jones & N. Rowe, editors).  Geological Society of London.

Jackson, S.T., & M.E. Lyford.  1999.  Pollen dispersal models in Quaternary plant ecology: assumptions, parameters, and prescriptions.  Botanical Review 65:39-75.

Weng, C., & S.T. Jackson.  1999.  Late-glacial and Holocene vegetation and climate history of the Kaibab Plateau, northern Arizona.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 153:179-201.

Clark, J.S., C.L. Fastie, G. Hurtt, S.T, Jackson, W.C. Johnson, G.A. King, M. Lewis, J. Lynch, S. Pacala, I.C. Prentice, G. Schupp, T. Webb III, & P. Wyckoff. 1998.  Dispersal theory offers solutions to Reid's paradox of rapid plant migration.  BioScience 48:13-24.

Jackson, S.T., and J.B. Kearsley.  1998.  Quantitative representation of local forest composition in forest-floor pollen assemblages.  Journal of Ecology 86:474-490.

Jackson, S.T.  1997.  Documenting natural and human-caused plant invasions using paleoecological methods.  Pages 37-55 in Assessment and Management of Plant Invasions (J.O. Luken & J.W. Thieret, editors).  Springer-Verlag.

Jackson, S.T., J.T. Overpeck, T. Webb III, S.E. Keattch, and K.H. Anderson.  1997.  Mapped plant macrofossil and pollen records of Late Quaternary vegetation change in eastern North America.  Quaternary Science Reviews 16:1-70.

Jackson, S.T. & D.K. Singer.  1997.  Climate change and the development of Coastal Plain disjunctions in the central Great Lakes region.  Rhodora 99:101-117.

Kearsley, J.B., and S.T. Jackson.  1997.  History of a Pinus strobus-dominated stand in northern New York.  Journal of Vegetation Science 8:425-436.

Singer, D.K., S.T. Jackson, B.J. Madsen, and D.A. Wilcox.  1996.  Differentiating climatic and successional influences on long-term development of a marsh.  Ecology 77:1765-1778.

Jackson, S.T., T. Webb III, I.C. Prentice, and J.E. Hansen.  1995.  Exploration and calibration of pollen/vegetation relationships: a PC program for the extended R-value models.  Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 84:365-374.

Jackson, S.T., and A. Wong.  1994.  Using forest patchiness to determine pollen source areas of closed-canopy pollen assemblages.  Journal of Ecology 82:89-99.

Jackson, S.T., and C.R. Givens.  1994.  Late Wisconsinan vegetation and environment of the Tunica Hills region, Louisiana/Mississippi.  Quaternary Research 41:316-325.

Jackson, S.T.  1994.  Pollen and spores in Quaternary lake sediments as sensors of vegetation composition:  theoretical models and empirical evidence.  Pages 253-286 in Sedimentation of Organic Particles (A. Traverse, editor).  Cambridge University Press.