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)

• 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.
• Zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology reveals pre-Great Unconformity paleotopography in the Grand Canyon region, USA: COMMENT GSA Geology 50 (2022), Karl Karlstrom, William Guenthner, Olivia Thurston, Matthew Heizler, Jason Ricketts, Michael Timmons.
• Zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology of Grand Canyon resolves 1250 Ma unroofing at the Great Unconformity and <20 Ma canyon carving Geology (2021), Olivia Thurston, William Guenthner, Karl Karlstrom , Jason Ricketts, Matt Heizler, J. Michael Timmons.
• Tectonic origin of the Great Unconformities of the Rocky Mountain region: the power of combined zircon (U-Th)/He and K-feldspar 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology Geology 49 (2021), Jason Ricketts, Jacoup Roiz, Karl Karlstrom , Matt Heizler, William Guenthner, J. Michael Timmons.

• What is Geology? (2022), Jason Ricketts.
• Combined ZHe and Ar-Ar MDD thermochronometers for understanding the deep-time (>1 Ga) thermal history of the Grand Canyon (2022), Volume Denver, CO, Olivia Thurston, William Guenthner, Karl Karlstrom, Matthew Heizler, Jason Ricketts.
• Kinematic and geochronologic analysis of late Cenozoic fault surfaces from the southern segment of the Rio Grande rift in the Big Bend region of western Texas and northern Chihuahua (2022), Volume Denver, CO, Jessica Kelsch, Jason Ricketts.
• Reconstructing the transition from Laramide contraction to Rio Grande rift extension in the southern Indio Mountains, western Texas (2022), Volume Denver, CO, Jason Ricketts, Aaron Conley, Richard P. Langford, Terry L. Pavlis, Matthew Heizler.
• Zircon (U-Th)/He constraints on the exhumation of the Pelona-Orocopia-Rand schists and implications for the late Cretaceous to Neogene tectonic development of SW North America (2022), Volume Denver, CO, Alan Chapman, Jason Ricketts.

• Development of techniques for 3D mapping at macroscopic scales