{"id":2,"date":"2012-09-04T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:28:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:28:01","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/curtisj\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"size-full alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/curtisj\/files\/Home-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/curtisj\/files\/Home-image.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" class=\"wp-image-141\" style=\"width:300px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/curtisj\/files\/Home-image.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/curtisj\/files\/Home-image-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/curtisj\/files\/Home-image-200x267.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jason Curtis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Senior Associate In Geochemistry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Areas of Interest\/Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Stable Isotope Lab Manager<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>My primary duty is managing the Light Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometry laboratory in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Florida.\u00a0 I maintain the instruments and analyze samples for lab users.\u00a0 I also instruct lab users in all aspects of sample collecting, preparation, instrument usage, and data analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>My research focuses on past climate changes, primarily in the American tropics, over the past 10,000 years.\u00a0 My main archive of paleoclimatic information is shells from lake sediments.\u00a0 One of my specialties is the collection of undisturbed sediment cores from lakes and other bodies of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Currently I have active research projects using materials from a diverse geographic range, including Grenada, Crete, Guatemala, Mexico, Colombia, and Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Ph.D., 1997<br>\nThe University of Florida, Geological Sciences, M.S., 1992<br>\nThe University of Michigan, Geological Sciences, B.S., 1989<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Email:curtisj@ufl.edu<br>\nPhone: (352)\u00a0392-2296<br>\nOffice:\u00a0372\u00a0Williamson Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Office Hours:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Mailing address:<br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/geology.ufl.edu\/\">Department of Geological Sciences<br>\n<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 1.6\">241 WIlliamson Hall<br>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 1.6\">P.O. Box 112120<br>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 1.6\">Gainesville, Fl 32611<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":526,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/curtisj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/curtisj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/curtisj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/curtisj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/curtisj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/curtisj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/curtisj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/curtisj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}