Curriculum Vitae JAMES E. QUICK Associate Vice President for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies Southern Methodist University P.O. Box 750240 Dallas TX 75275-0240 (214) 768-1115 (office) [email protected] Education Ph.D., Geology, 1980, California Institute of Technology M.Sc., Petrology, 1974, University of Minnesota B.Sc., Geology, 1972, University of California, Los Angeles Management Training Federal Executive Institute 2/3-3/1/02 Charlottesville, VA Communicating Science in a Virtual World 4/16-18/02 National Center Human Resources Policies and Practices 3/22-26/99 National Center Management Skills for Team Leaders 2/3-7/97 Denver, CO Dealing with Employees with Attitude Problems 8/15/97 Alexandria, VA Conduct verses Performance 12/2/96 National Center Seminar for New Managers 11/12/96 National Center Labor Management Relations Training 11/25/96 National Center Career Experience 8/07-present Associate Vice President for Research, Dean of Graduate Studies; Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas The Vice President for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies reports to the Provost and leads SMU’s Office of Research and Graduate Studies, which includes Directors for Sponsored Projects, Compliance, and Graduate Studies, and their staffs, participates in the governance of the University as a member of the Council of Deans, as a member of the Provost’s Forum, which comprises the Provost and Associate Provosts, and as a member of the Committee on Academic Affairs of the Board of Trustees, and serves as a representative of the University to local, state, and federal government entities, and other universities. Responsibilities: Chief university officer responsible for research and graduate studies. Responsibilities include: • Strategic planning to expand research and improve doctoral programs. • Oversight of grant proposal process and research contract negotiation. • Oversight of intellectual property and Tech Transfer. • Oversight of research compliance, including IRB, IACUC, Biosafety, and NAGPRA. • Oversight of Washington lobbying efforts in support of research. • Administration of SMU’s internal University Research Grant Program. • Administration of SMU’s PhD and Dissertation Fellowship Programs. • Oversight of recruiting, admission and progress monitoring of graduate students. • Oversight of SMU’s Undergraduate Engaged Learning Program and Undergraduate Research Association. 1 Noteworthy Accomplishments: • Research grants and expenditures more than doubled. • Annual PhDs awarded increased 50%. • SMU’s Carnegie classification elevated from DRU (Doctoral Research University) to RU/H (Research University/High Research Activity.) • Led establishment of high-performance computing as a strategic focus at SMU, securing $7.6 million in grants and equipment to create a world-class, >10,000-core, high-performance computing cluster, which are housed in a new $14 million data center. • Assisted in establishment of cyber security as a strategic development opportunity for SMU, ultimately leading to a $7.5 million endowment of an institute. • Joint PhD program in BioStatistics with UT Southwestern Medical School. • Design and implementation of SMU’s Engaged Learning Program to provide experiential learning opportunities for undergraduates across the disciplines. • SMU’s University PhD Fellowship Program to increase SMU competitiveness for the best graduate students. • Leadership role in creation of the North Central Texas Strategic Economic Development Strategy. • MOU with the Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping. 8/07-present Professor of Geology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas Noteworthy Accomplishments: • $0.5 million in grants for geothermal exploration and seismic monitoring in the Northern Mariana Islands. • Discovery of a fossil supervolcano in the Sesia Valley of the Italy revealing the “magmatic plumbing of a Yellowstone-type volcano” to an unprecedented depth of 25 km. • Creation of a UNESCO Geopark in the Sesia Valley based on the supervolcano discovery. 8/07-present Special Assistant to the Governor, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Adviser to three consecutive Governors on scientific issues confronting the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). Noteworthy Accomplishments: • Coordination of the construction of the Northern Mariana Seismo-Acoustic Volcano Monitoring Network, 2009-2013. • Geothermal assessment of Pagan and Saipan Islands. 8/03-8/07 Program Coordinator, Volcano Hazards Program, USGS, Reston, VA. With an annual budget of approximately $26 million in 2007, and a USGS staff of about 150 located at three regional centers and five volcano observatories, the Volcano Hazards Program (VHP) performed fundamental research on volcanic processes and was charged with monitoring active volcanoes in the United States to provide early warning of eruptions The VHP utilized strong partnerships with Stanford University and the Universities of Alaska, Utah, Washington and Hawaii, as well as the National Park Service and local civil defense agencies. Partnerships with NOAA, the FAA and the Air Force Weather Agency were an important aspect of the Program as a consequence of the threat to jet aircraft posed by airborne volcanic ash. The VHP was a member of the WInSAR consortium, a coalition of academic and federal partners utilizing Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar for scientific research. The Program provided volcano disaster assistance internationally via the Volcano Disaster Assistance Program (VDAP), which was a partnership with the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance. Responsibilities: • Establishment of the annual, 5- year, and 10-year scientific plan of the Program. I worked with the Program’s academic partners, and utilized a council of USGS scientific advisors to establish annual and long-term goals. • Development of funding for the VHP, working with my Bureau, the Department of Interior, and the Office of Budget and Management to draft annual budget proposals to Congress. 2 • Throughout the year, I interacted with Congressional delegations to provide information on volcanic hazards and their mitigation. These meetings, which were frequently in partnership with academic colleagues or representatives of local government, were crucial to the maintenance of VHP base funding and to the development of supplemental congressional funding. • Development of new scientific initiatives. I launched and led major efforts to create marketing plans for expanded funding for monitoring and science. • Establishment of the annual, 5- year, and 10-year scientific plan of the Program. I worked with the Program’s academic partners, and utilize a council of USGS scientific advisors to establish annual and long-term goals. • Distribution of funds to observatories, projects, and external grants. Each year following Congressional appropriation, I assigned funding to research and monitoring activities, including more than $2.5 million in external grants to the University of Alaska, the University of Hawaii, the University of Washington and the University of Utah. • Participation on bureau-level committees to evaluate and improve bureau business practices. Noteworthy Accomplishments: • Initiated planning and implementation of a volcano-monitoring network for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), where nine active volcanoes inhibit resettlement and development of islands north of Saipan and pose a threat to aircraft in the western Pacific. • Initiated strategic planning for an enhanced monitoring network for the nation’s most dangerous volcanoes. Termed the “National Volcano Early Warning System (NVEWS),” the enhanced network will greatly extend the period detection of unrest in advance of eruption and thereby allow tracking of eruptive cycles from “beginning to end and from bottom (of the crust) to top.” • VHP request in the President’s budget increased by 17 percent. Accomplished in my first 18 months as Program Coordinator, this increase follows years of flat funding requests in the President’s budget, and translates into a doubling of discretionary funds for the program. 3/99-8/03 Chief Scientist, Eastern Region Earth Surface Processes Team (EESPT), USGS, Reston, VA. The EESPT was created in 1999 by the merger of the Climate History Team and the Eastern Regional Geologic Mapping Team, which had been under my leadership (see next job entry.) The EESPT thus formed consisted of about 130 employees, contractors and volunteers working on 18 projects with an annual budget of $11 to $12 million. Added to the project portfolio of the former Geologic Mapping Team (see next job entry) were projects from the former Climate History Team on paleoclimate, application of remote sensing to volcano hazards, and geologic studies in support of the Departments of State and Defense. Responsibilities: • Supervision of all personnel, budgetary management, and development of new projects and funding. • Negotiation of funding from 5 USGS Programs (Geologic Mapping, Climate History, Ecosystem Studies, Coastal and Marine, and Volcano Hazards). • Development of funding from outside the USGS; sources include the Army Corps of Engineers, the South Florida Water Management District, and Moroccan, Algerian, and UN agencies, and the World Bank. • Membership on science councils that set priorities for and guided USGS research on sensitive ecosystems and ecosystem restoration and coordinated geologic activities of the USGS in the Region east of the Mississippi River • Participation on bureau-level committees