Jill Carlson

Deputy Director / Land-Use Program Manager

Specialties

Historic Coal Mine Subsidence, Engineering Geology, Geologic Hazards, Land Use Review, Landslides, Mudslides, Rockfall, Swelling Soil

Publications

Publications

White, Jonathan L., Karen A. Berry, and J. Carlson. 2013. “Reducing Landslide Risk through Land-Use Planning in Colorado.” In Abstracts with Programs, 45:271. Denver, CO: Geological Society of America.

Barkmann, P. E., M. Dechesne, M. E. Wickham, J. Carlson, and S. Formolo. 2011. “Cross Sections of the Freshwater Bearing Strata of the Denver Basin between Greeley and Colorado Springs, Colorado.” Colorado Geological Survey, Division of Minerals and Geology, Department of Natural Resources.

Education &
Experience

Education & Experience

Experience

Engineering Geologist, Colorado Geological Survey, Golden, CO, 2000-present

Consulting Geologist 1999-2000

Raytheon Engineers and Constructors (formerly Ebasco Services Inc.), Geologist 1987-1999

Wesleyan University Earth and Environmental Sciences Dept., Research Assistant Spring 1987

Wesleyan University, Teaching Assistant (Fall 1986, Spring 1987)

Caltech Planetary Science Dept. and Jet Propulsion Lab, Research Assistant (Summers 1983, 1984, 1985)

Occidental College Oceanography Department, Lab Intern (Spring 1983)

Education

Graduate studies (non-degree), Civil Engineering Department, University of Colorado-Denver, CO, 2001-2003

Groundwater Hydrology Short Course, NWWA, 1990

Graduate studies (non-degree), Environmental Sciences, SUNY Stony Brook, NY, 1988-1989

BA Earth and Environmental Science - Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1987

Professional Registrations

Registered Geologist #6299, California

Certified Engineering Geologist #2213, California

Professional Affiliations

Association of Engineering Geologists