Jerry Burgess

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Provenance: Jerry Burgess, Johns Hopkins University
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Director, Environmental Science and Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences

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About Me

I am from deep Appalachia and am the product of five generations of coal miners and also the first in my family to graduate from 10th grade. My career began as a geologist doing a lot of field work on the east coast and Canada eventually working with the Smithsonian and after graduate school I worked as an environmental geologist with the military before entering academia.

Focus of current FEW-Nexus-based education work

As someone who oversees our environmental science program, we really want to integrate FEW systems because human beings and their societies require all three all the time, and because each of the three depends on the others. From an educational perspective we want graduates of our program to be able to respond to the challenges of meeting the needs for food, energy, and water simultaneously from both anthropomorphic and a scientific basis.

FEW-Nexus-based education experience, expertise and interests

Academically, I have graduate degrees in geology, ecology and education and feel that I have pedagogical expertise as well as a broad science background to bear on these issues. Also as someone working in the greater environmental field for a couple of decades now, I have interacted and taught courses that deal with energy and agroecosystems but this would be an opportunity to truly integrate the FEW discipline into our curriculum. My background is interdisciplinary by nature and hopefully skills and knowledge that I have accumulated over time would be helpful in this effort. That being said, I am new to the FEW discussion and am really looking forward to learning from others.

Publications, presentations, and other references

• Burgess, J. L. Forest carbon sequestration along a mafic-ultramafic lithosequence. Annual Meeting Geological Association of Canada, Mineralogical Association of Canada, Sudbury Ontario (2023).
• Burgess, J.L., George, F.R., Piccoli P., and Viete D.R. New approaches to discern the potentially polymetamorphic history of the Gassetts Schist, Vermont. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia. (2022).
• Guice, G., Ackerson, M., Holder, R., George, F., Browning-Hanson, J., Burgess, J., Foustoukos, D., Becker, N., Nelson, W., and Viete, D. Suprasubduction zone ophiolite fragments in the central Appalachian orogen: Evidence for mantle and Moho in the the Baltimore Mafic-Ultramafic Complex (Maryland, USA) (2021). Geosphere
• Guice, G., Acherson, M.R., Holder, R.M., George, F.R., Browning-Hanson, J.J., Burgess, J.L., Foustoukos, D.I., Becker, N., and Viete D.R. The Baltimore Mafic Complex, Maryland: ophiolite fragments in the southern Appalachian Orogen? Geological Society of America Annual Meeting (2020).
• Burgess, J.L., Becker, N.A, Holder R,M., Piccoli P., and Viete D.R. Geochemical and Themobarometric constraints on the Perry Hall and tectonically associated gneisses from the Baltimore Area Piedmont, Maryland. Northeast-Southeast Sectional Meeting Geological Society of America (2020).
• Burgess, J.L., Hilgartner, W.B. and Rajakaruna, N. Forest expansion on serpentine grassland communities: the impact of atmospheric N and land use. European Convention on Conservation Biology, Finland (2018).
• Burgess, J.L. Serpentine Vegetation Dynamics and Mesophication in the Mid-Atlantic Area. Northeastern Natural History Conference Burlington, VT (2018).
• Burgess, J.L. and Hilgartner, W.B. Serpentine Vegetation Dynamics and Conifer Encroachment in Conjunction with Anthropogenic Disturbance. Society for Conservation Biology's International Congress for Conservation Biology Cartegena, Columbia (2017).
• Burgess, J. L., K. Szlavecz, N. Rajakaruna, S. Lev, and C. M. Swan. Vegetation dynamics and mesophication in response to conifer encroachment within an ultramafic system. In Australian Journal of Botany. Volume 63 (4) 292-307 (2015).