Research Interests
Field studies in environmental geology
Resource assessments
Public outreach
 
Education

B.S. with Honors in Geology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1969

Ph.D. Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, 1976

 
Professional History

Geologist and manager, Anaconda Minerals Company, Western U.S., 1973–1985

 
Selected Publications

Collins, E. W., and Raney, J. A., 2000, Summary report for the 1999–2000 STATEMAP Project: Geologic mapping to support improved database development and understanding of urban corridors and critical aquifers of Texas: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, 33 p.

Paull, Gene, Lopez, Andrea, Salazar, Isabel, Tremblay, Tom, and Raney, Jay, 2000, Building a GIS database for the Texas-Mexico border region (abs.): Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 3, p. A-38.

Aslan, Andres, Morton, R. A., White, W. A., Raney, J. A., and Guevara, E. H., 1999, Geologic framework of the Holocene Orinoco Delta, Venezuela (abs.), in AAPG Annual Convention official program: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, p. A7–A8.

Collins, E. W., and Raney, J. A., 1999, Geologic map of the West Hueco Bolson, El Paso Region, Texas: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, open-file map prepared for the U.S. Geological Survey under cooperative agreement no. 98HQAG2040, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000.

White, W. A., Raney, J. A., Tremblay, T. A., Crawford, M., and Smith, S., 1998, Remote sensing analysis of land cover and land use, central Belize: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, final report for United Nations Development Programme in cooperation with Land Information Centre and Forestry Department, Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment, Government of Belize, 34 p.

Raney, J. A., 1997, Down to Earth at McKinney Falls State Park, Texas: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, 31 p.

Collins, E. W., and Raney, J. A., 1994, Tertiary and Quaternary tectonics of the Hueco bolson, Trans-Pecos Texas and Chihuahua, Mexico, in Keller, G. R., and Cather, S. M., eds., Basins of the Rio Grande rift: structure, stratigraphy, and tectonic setting: Boulder, Geological Society of America Special Paper No. 291, p. 265–282.

 
Selected Committees

Associate, Association of American State Geologists

Member, Texas Water Policy Issues

 
Contact

Jay A. Raney, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Environmental Research
Bureau of Economic Geology
The University of Texas at Austin
University Station, Box X
Austin, Texas 78713-8924
E-mail:
Telephone: 512-471-5357

 
Professional Summary (Word format)
June 2003