Instructor: BRIAN JONES

BRIAN JONES

Brian K. Jones is a lifelong geologist with degrees from Stanford University (B. S. 1973) and the University of Alaska-Fairbanks (M. S. 1976). He has worked all over North and South America, from the Brooks Range in northern Alaska to the Amazon Jungle in Colombia and Bolivia, and the Atacama Desert of Chile. He also was General Manager of Minera Montoro for two years in Michoacan, Mexico where he became fluent in Spanish. He also made brief trips to China and the Philippines.
Brian also found time to teach skiing at Alta for eighteen years. In the evenings, he taught workshops on the geology of Little Cottonwood Canyon, glaciation of the Wasatch Mountains, climate change in geologic history, the history of mining, the town of Alta in 1875, and the transition to skiing in 1939. In 2020, he was awarded the Best Article of the Year for his paper entitled, "Geology and the Skiing Experience," by the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists.
Brian has published over 40 articles on geology, fly-fishing, and op-eds. With Osher, he has taught classes on Geologic Treasures of Utah and two seasons of All About Volcanoes. This fall he will teach a course he calls The Magic of Little Cottonwood Canyon, one of the most remarkable places in the world.

BRIAN JONES is currently teaching:

Class Title	Semester	Date(s)	Program
The Magic of Little Cottonwood Canyon	Fall	9/19/24 - 10/24/24	Osher Lifelong Learning