I am a structural geologist interested in tectonic processes during lithospheric deformation. My research combines field work with structural analysis, geochronology, and thermochronology to investigate Earth history.

• Ph D in Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico (2014)
• MS in Geological Sciences, San Diego State University (2010)
• BS in Geological Sciences, San Diego State University (2008)

• Geologic map of the central Indio Mountains, Hudspeth County, Texas USGS Edmap (2024), David West, Itzel Noriega, Jason Ricketts, Richard Langford.
• Oligocene-Miocene exhumation of the Pinaleño metamorphic core complex, southeastern Arizona: Support for magmatism and plate margin reorganization as controls on regional exhumation trends Tectonics (2024), James B. Chapman, Shane Scoggin, Gilby Jepson, Jason Ricketts, Allen Schaen, Adam Trzinski.
• Deep-time thermal history of the Great Unconformity in the Grand Canyon, USA: Combined zircon (U-Th)/He and K-feldspar 40Ar/39Ar thermochronometers Geological Society of America Bulletin (2024), Olivia Thurston, William Guenthner, Karl Karlstrom, Matthew Heizler, Jason Ricketts, Kalin McDannell.
• Reconstructing the erosional and tectonic record of Laramide contraction to Rio Grande rift extension, southern Indio Mountains, western Texas, USA Geosphere 19 3 (2023), Aaron Conley, Samantha E. Ramirez, Jason Ricketts, Richard P. Langford, Terry L. Pavlis, Matthew T. Heizler.
• The Geology of El Paso The University of Texas at El Paso (2023), William C. Cornell, Diane I. Doser, Richard P. Langford, Joshua Villalobos, Jason Ricketts.

• An exploration of faults and tectonic systems across geologic time and a growing need for community engagement (2024), Volume Albuquerque, NM, Jason Ricketts.
• Kinematic and geochronologic evidence documenting rotation of crustal extension direction and narrowing of rift faulting in the Sunken Block graben of the southern Rio Grande rift, Trans-Pecos Texas (2024), Volume Anaheim, California, Jason Ricketts, Jesse Kelsch, Lin Ma, Georgina Rodriguez Gonzalez.
• Unearthing controls on Critical Zone processes from big data in the Anthropocene (2024), Pamela Sullivan, Sidney Bush, Grace Goldrich-Middaugh, Annalise Guthrie, Keira Johnson, Aaron Koop, Bonan Li, Khalid Rudick, Hoori Ajami, Sharon Billings, Joanna Carey, Alejandro Flores, Daniel Hirmas, Kathi Jankowski, Li Li, Lin Ma, Matthias Sprenger, Jason Ricketts.
• Uranium-series isotopes in the critical zone: new developments of a watershed tracer for climate, lithology, and land use (2024), Lin Ma, Nuria Moreu, Grace Goldrich-Middaugh, Jennifer Hererra, Jason Ricketts, Pamela Sullivan.
• Zircon and apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology requires two-stage (Early Cretaceous and Miocene) uplift of the Klamath Mountains Province (southern Oregon-northern California) (2023), R. DiCarlo, K. Taylor, Alan Chapman, Jason Ricketts.

• Geologic map of parts of the Eagle Mountains SE and Lobo SW quadrangles: Complex Laramide deformation in the Indio Mountains, western Texas
• Development of techniques for 3D mapping at macroscopic scales