
Mr Chris Jones
Head of Department, Core Research Laboratories
Division: CRL HoD and Admin
Qualifications
- BSc Hons, Oxford Brookes University (formerly Oxford Polytechnic), United Kingdom
Degrees
Employment history
- Head of Department, Natural History Museum, Core Research Laboratories, United Kingdom, 2012 - ongoing
Academic
Non-academic
Applications scientist - electron optics, Hitachi, High Technologies, 2004 - 2011
Grants
Automated Mineral Analyser - Automated mineralogical analysis to underpin earth sciences
Role: Principal investigatorHerrington RJ
Role: Co-investigator
Funding: NERC
Total value £300,000 (to Museum £300,000)
Dates: 2019 - 2020
Publications
Smith CL, Martin D, Gill S-J, Manick K, Miller CG, Jones C, Rumsey MS, Duvet E (2019) THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY EXPLORATION SAMPLE ANALOGUE COLLECTION (ESA(2)C) AND CURATION FACILITY - UPDATE.. METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE 54 :
Strekopytov S, Brownscombe W, Lapinee C, Sykes D, Spratt J, Jeffries TE, Jones CG (2017) Arsenic and mercury in bird feathers: Identification and quantification of inorganic pesticide residues in natural history collections using multiple analytical and imaging techniques. Microchemical Journal, 130 : 301 - 309. doi: 10.1016/j.microc.2016.10.009
De Groote I, Flink LG, Abbas R, Bello SM, Burgio L, Buck LT, Dean C, Freyne A, Higham T, Jones CG, Kruszynski R, Lister A, Parfitt SA, Skinner MM, Shindler K, Stringer CB (2016) Correction to ‘New genetic and morphological evidence suggests a single hoaxer created ‘Piltdown Man’’. Royal Society Open Science, 3 (10) : 160679 - 160679. doi: 10.1098/rsos.160679
Salge T, Ball AD, Broad GR, Jones CG, Ma X, Smith CL, Kearsley AT, Wozniakiewicz PJ, Rades S, Hodoroaba VD, Musat N, Stryhanyuk H, Falke M, Hansen B, Terborg R (2015) SEM/EDS analysis examples below the micrometre scale using an annular SDD: Applications in nano, life, cultural heritage, Earth and planetary sciences. EMAS 2015 - 14th European Workshop on MODERN DEVELOPMENTS AND APPLICATIONS IN MICROBEAM ANALYSIS, 05/2015 :
Salge T, Terborg R, Ball AD, Broad GR, Kearsley AT, Jones CG, Smith C, Rades S, Hodoroaba VD (2014) Advanced SEM/EDS analysis using an annular silicon drift detector (SDD): Applications in nano, life, earth and planetary sciences below micrometer scale. International Microscopy Congress 18,
JONES CG (2012) Chapter 1 - Scanning Electron Microscopy: Preparation and Imaging for SEM, In: Methods In Molecular Biology 915 - Springer Protocols. Forensic Microscopy for Skeletal Tissues: Methods and Protocols., Bell LS (Eds). Humana Press : 1 - 20.
Wighton AHJ, Jones CG, Bell LS (2012) Plastic Embedding and Polishing of Bone for Reflected Light and Electron Microscopy. null, 21 - 36. doi: 10.1007/978-1-61779-977-8_2
Wighton AHJ, JONES CG, Bell LS (2012) Chapter 2 – Plastic embedding and polishing of bone for reflected light and electron microscopy, In: Methods In Molecular Biology 915 - Springer Protocols. Forensic Microscopy for Skeletal Tissues: Methods and Protocols, BELL LS (Eds). Humana Press : 21 - 36.
Jones CG, Cartwright C, Gasson P, Dias Leme CL (2010) Using stereo imaging in a scanning electron microscope study of the anatomical changes to Mimosa wood from traditional kilns in Pernambuco, north-east Brazil. Presented at Historical technology, materials and conservation - SEM and Microanalysis.
Bell LS, Kayser M, Jones C (2008) The mineralized osteocyte: A living fossil. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 137 (4) : 449 - 456. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.20886
Jones C (null) Microscopy and the Genetics of Deafness. Hitachi EM News. : 19 - 21.
Miller CG, Cornish L, Jones C, Jones CG, Henderson AS (null) A new laser method for cleaning micropalaeontological specimens. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 23 (2) : 165 - 169. doi: 10.1144/jm.23.2.165
JONES C, BALL A (2004) Close Up. The Natural History Museum :
Burnstock AR, JONES CJ, CRESSEY G (2003) Characterisation of artists' chromium-based yellow pigments. Zeitschrift für Kunsttechnologie and Konservierung, 17 : 74 - 84.
Jones CG (null) Impact damage to space hardware: identifying the culprits. Microscopy and Analysis. :
Bell LS, Jones C, Ali SY, Andrews PA (2000) The morphology and survival of the mineralised osteocyte remnant.. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 105 - 105.
Jones CG (null) Skeletal ultrastructure in some Cyclostome Bryozoans using field emission SEM. SEMT, 612 12 - 6 12 12
Jones C (null) Use of the environmental chamber in uncoated SEM of recent and fossil Bryozoans. Microscopy and Analysis. : 27 - 29.
Taylor PD, Weedon MJ, Jones CG (1995) Skeletal Ultrastructure in some Cyclostome Bryozoans of the Family Lichenoporidae. Acta Zoologica, 76 (3) : 205 - 216. doi: 10.1111/j.1463-6395.1995.tb00994.x
Jones CG, Taylor PD (1995) Skeletal Untrastructure in some Cyclostome Bryozoans of the Family Lichenoporidae. Elsevier Science Ltd : 205 - 216.
Jones CG, Taylor PD, Weedon MJ (1995) Skeletal Ultrastructure in some Cyclostome Bryozoans of the Family Lichenoporidae. Acta Zoologica. Vol.76 (3) : Wiley : Stockholm. 205 - 216.
Taylor PD, Jones CG (1993) Skeletal Ultrastructure in the Cyclostome BryozoanHornera. Acta Zoologica, 74 (2) : 135 - 143. doi: 10.1111/j.1463-6395.1993.tb01230.x
Jones CG (null) Skeletal Ultrastructure in the Cyclostome Bryozoan Hornera. Pergamon Press Ltd : 135 - 143.
De Groote I, Flink LG, Abbas R, Bello SM, Burgia L, Buck LT, Dean C, Freyne A, Higham T, Jones CG, Kruszynski R, Lister A, Parfitt SA, Skinner MM, Shindler K, Stringer CB (2016) New genetic and morphological evidence suggests a single hoaxer created ‘Piltdown man’. Royal Society Open Science, 3 (8) : 160328 - 160328. doi: 10.1098/rsos.160328
Courses taught
Short course: Electron Probe Microanalysis EDX / WDX
2/2017 - 3/2017.
Supervision
Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Self A
Co supervisor(s): Jones VJ
Chironomid-inferred temperature reconstructions for the late Holocene in arctic Russia
University College London
Funding: NERC
3/10/2005 - 1/10/2009.