Jarrett's Bio

Jarrett Cruz, PhD

Jarrett joined Bugware in August 2015. He received his M.Sc and Ph.D in geology at Florida State University. During his M.Sc thesis, he studied biological transport and the ecology of living nannoplankton in northeastern Gulf of Mexico. During his Ph.D. dissertation, he studied turbidite sequences, linking depositional ages with tectonic and climatic forcing events that took place during the evolution of the Himalayas.

His Ph.D. dissertation was based on IODP Expedition 354 samples obtained from drilling in the Bengal Fan where he sailed into the Indian Ocean. The study aided in the exploration of interactions between the development of the Himalayan and Tibetan orogeny, the Indian-Eurasia collision, and the early stages of Himalayan erosion.

During his time in academia, Jarrett has participated in several offshore research expeditions and traveled to many local and international conferences to present his findings. He has also served as the social media officer for the International Nannoplankton Association from 2013 to 2020.

Publications

Cruz. J., Agbali. A., Avery. A., Wise. S.W. 2013. Presence of specific calcareous nannoplankton assemblages along the NE Florida continental margin: a look at loop current shedding and the Desoto Canyon funnel effect. INA14 abstracts volume Journal of Nannoplankton Research. 33:42

Cruz. J., Wise. S.W., Young. J.R. 2014. First observation of Navilithus altivelum in the Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Nannoplankton Research. 34:27-30.

Cruz, J. 2014. Investigation and interpretation of variations in NE Gulf Of Mexico nannoplankton assemblages following the Macando well blowout: Months of August-November (2011-2013). Master Thesis. Florida State University.

Cruz, J., Wise, S., Parker, W., Young, J. R. 2019. Distribution of NE Gulf of Mexico nannoplankton assemblages following the Macondo well blowout: months of August-November 2011-2013. Journal of Nannoplankton Research. Special Issue 4, pp. 39-54.

Blum, M., Rogers, K., Gleason, J., Najman, Y., Cruz, J., Fox, L. 2018. Allogenic and autogenic signals in the stratigraphic record of the deep-sea Bengal fan. Nature.

France-Lanord, C., Spiess, V., Klaus, A., and the Expedition 354 Scientists, 2015. Bengal Fan: Neogene and late Paleogene record of Himalayan orogeny and climate: a transect across the Middle Bengal Fan. International Ocean Discovery Program Preliminary Report, 354. http://dx.doi.org/10.14379/iodp.pr.354.2015

France-Lanord, Christian & Spiess, Volkhard & Schwenk, Tilmann & Klaus, A & Adhikari, Rishi & Adhikari, Swostik & Bahk, Jang & Baxter, Alan & Cruz, J.W. & Das, Supriyo & Dekens, Petra & Duleba, Wania & Fox, Lyndsey & Galy, Albert & Galy, Valier & Ge, J & Gleason, J.D. & Gyawali, Babu & Huyghe, Pascale & Yoshida, K. (2015). Neogene and late Paleogene record of Himalayan orogeny and climate: A transect across the Middle Bengal Fan. Integrated Ocean Drilling Program: Preliminary Reports. 1-46.

Huyghe, P., Bernet, M., Galy, A., Naylor, M., Cruz, J., Gyawali, B. R., ... & Mugnier, J. L. (2020). Rapid exhumation since at least 13 Ma in the Himalaya recorded by detrital apatite fission-track dating of Bengal fan (IODP Expedition 354) and modern Himalayan river sediments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 534, 116078.

Richard W. Jordan, Kenta Abe, Jarrett Cruz, Ruth Eriksen, Catarina Guerreiro, Kyoko Hagino, Mikal Heldal, David U. Hernandez-Becerril, Elisa Malinverno, Shiro Nishida, Shramik M. Patil, Luka Supraha, Helge A. Thomsen, Maria V. Triantaphyllou, Jeremy R. Young. (Publication in review- 2016) Observations on the morphological diversity and distribution of two siliceous nannoplankton genera, Hyalolithus and Petasaria.

Professional Affiliations and Awards

2013 Fall-Present : Social Media Officer. International Nannoplankton Association.

2013 Fall-2014 Spring : Grant from Deep-C Gulf Of Mexico project.

2015 Fall: Grant from International Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 354-Bengal Fan.

2015 October 28: Bios publication from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative : http://gulfresearchinitiative.org/grad-student-cruz-bridges-disciplines-to-track-tiniest-planktons-response-to-oil-spill/