At the bottom of this page 
is a short biography suitable 
for introductory remarks

JAMES C. KELLEY
jkelley@sfsu.edu



Personal:
Date of Birth: 5 October 1940
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California
Married: Susan Cotner Kelley (m. 1963)
Two Children: Jason Fitzgerrell Kelley (b. 1969)
                     Megan Kelley Lambdin (b. 1972)

Educational Background: 
Institution                                   Field                       Degree 
Pomona College, 1961-63               Geology                      B.A. 
University of Wyoming, 1963-66  Geology                       Ph.D.

Professional Background:
Expedition Leader and Naturalist. Lindblad Expeditions, 1985-present
96 Morton Street, NY, NY 10014
www.expeditions.com
Leading travel expeditions worldwide aboard Lindblad’s 
seven ships, providing scientific lectures, operating Zodiacs

Dean, College of Science and Engineering, San Francisco            1975-2001
State University, San Francisco www.sfsu.edu
Administrator of the College, 300 Faculty, 3000 Students
100 Staff, Budget c. $60M, three remote field stations

Professor of Oceanography, San Francisco State University,      1975-2001
San Francisco

President, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco           1981-1993
www.calacademy.org
President of the Board and representative of the 300 
Life Fellows who are the Corporate Body of the Academy
Responsible for advising the Board and the Executive Director 
on the Scientific Direction of the Institution

Assistant to Associate Professor of Oceanography,                   1966-1975
Biomathematics, and Geological Sciences, University
of Washington, Seattle www.washington.edu

Fulbright Professor, University of Athens and Democritos        1971-1972
Nuclear Research Center, Athens, Greece, 
               http://www.demokritos.gr/index_muk.asp


License:
Master, Steam and Motor Vessels, Not More Than 100 Tons, Authorized to Engage in Commercial AssistanceTowing, 
        Radar Observer (Unlimited)

Research Interests:
Solar Desalination
Climate Change
Coastal Upwelling
Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Limnology and Sierra Nevada Lakes
Environmental Impact Assessment Related to Offshore Drilling
Estuarine Dynamics in San Francisco Bay

Member:   
American Geophysical Union
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
Pacific Science Association
Sigma Xi
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Eastern Pacific Oceanic Conference
The Western Society of Naturalists
The Oceanography Society
California Academy of Sciences
The Explorers Club
Bohemian Club

Community Service:
Rotary Club of Loyalton (2005-present), President (2012-2013)
Sierra County Planning Commission (2020-present) (Chairman: 2022-present)
Sierra County Grand Jury (2022-2023)

Fellow: 
California Academy of Sciences
The Explorers Club

Award:
Fellows Medal, California Academy of Sciences, 2000

Activities:                                                                                                                                                                                                         
2013-present Panel of Experts, United Nations World Ocean Assesment
1997-present Board of Directors, Romberg Tiburon Centers
2002-2008    Board of Trustees, California Ocean Science Trust
1985-2003     Established the San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
1975-2001     Established and Developed the Romberg Tiburon Centers
2001-2006    Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council
1995-2001    Commission on University Strategic Planning, San Francisco State University
1995-2001     Executive Committee, ERIM International Conferences
1992-2001     University Budget Committee, San Francisco State University
1991-2001     Member of the Academy of Creative Endeavors of the USSR
1989-2001    Academic Senate, San Francisco State University (appointed)
1985-2001    Industrial Waste Review Board, Department of Public Works, City and County of San Francisco
1975-2001     Board of Governors, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
1992-1996     Chair, Pacific Basin Study Center Board of Directors (Consortium of University of California, Davis and San 
                     Francisco State University)
1992-1994     Pacifica Land Trust Board
1991-1993     Chair, Moss landing Marine Laboratories Governing Board
1990-1993     Academic Planning Committee, San Francisco State University
1985-1993     President, California Academy of Sciences
1981-1993      Board of Trustees, California Academic of Sciences
1977-1993     Outer Continental Shelf Advisory Board (Pacific Regional Technical Working Group) – Advisory to 
                     Secretary of  Interior through the Minerals Management Service on offshore oil and gas production
1981-1993     Board of Directors, Institute for Sino-American Studies (SFSU)
1986-1990    Chairman, Eastern Pacific Oceanic Conference
1979-1986    Vice Chair, Eastern Pacific Oceanic Conference
1982-1985    Vice President, California Academy of Sciences
1982-1985    San Francisco State University Resource Planning Group
1982-1984    Vice Chair, Board of Directors, The Institute for Innovative and Applied Technology
1980-1982    President’s Cabinet, San Francisco State University
1980             Ad Hoc Scientific Advisory Committee on Radioactive Waste Dumping U.S. House Committee 
                    on Government Operations
1979-1981     University Planning Group (Academic Master Planning), SFSU
1979-1980    Academic Senate, San Francisco State University (appointed)
1976-1978    Director’s Advisory Board on the Outer Continental Shelf, Bureau of Land Management
1976-1978    Member of the JOIDES (Deep Sea Drilling Project) Information Handling Panel
1976-1977    Academic Senate, San Francisco State University (appointed)
1974-1975    Academic Senate, University of Washington (elected)
1972-1975    Member of the Executive Council of the Coastal Upwelling Ecosystems Analysis Program

Participant in numerous oceanographic and expedition cruises, including:
M/V National Geographic Endurance, Azores 2022
M/V National Geographic Explorer, Atlantic Islands 2022
M/V National Geographic Explorer, Baltic and Low Countries 2022
M/V National Geographic Sea Lion (Expedition Leader) Baja California 2020
M/V National Geographic Explorer, British Isles, Norway and Svalbard 2019
M/V National Geographic Venture (Expedition Leader) Baja California 2019
M/V National Geographic Explorer, Chilean Fjords 2018
M/V National Geographic Orion, French Polynesia 2018
M/V National Geographic Explorer, Norway and Svalbard 2018
M/V National Geographic Sea Lion and Sea Bird, Baja California (Expedition Leader) 2018
M/V National Geographic Orion, Ocean Crossing, Lisbon to Puerto Natales, Chile (Expedition Leader) 2017
M/V National Geographic Explorer, British Isles and Ireland, Norway, Svalbard 2017
M/V National Geographic Sea Bird, Baja California (Expedition Leader) 2017
M/V National Geographic Explorer, Chilean Fjords 2017
M/V National Geographic Explorer, British Isles and Ireland, Norway, Svalbard 2016
M/V National Geographic Sea Bird, Baja California (Expedition Leader) 2016
M/V National Geographic Explorer, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Easter Island 2015
M/V National Geographic Explorer, Netherlands, Belgium, British Isles and Ireland, Norway, Svalbard 2015
M/V National Geographic Explorer, Azores, Madeira and Spain (Expedition Leader) 2015
M/V National Geographic Sea Bird, Baja California (Expedition Leader) 2015
M/S National Geographic Explorer, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina 2014
M/S National Geographic Explorer, Atlantic Islands (Expedition Leader) 2014
M/S National Geographic Explorer, Holland, Belgium, British Isles, Norway, Svalbard, Greenland 2014
M/V National Geographic Sea Bird, Baja California (Expedition Leader) 2014
M/S National Geographic Explorer, Iceland, Greenland, 2013
S/V Sea Cloud, Aegean, 2013
M/S National Geographic Explorer, West Africa, 2013
M/V National Geographic Sea Bird, Baja California, (Expedition Leader) 2013
M/S National Geographic Explorer, Baltic and Western Europe, 2012 
M/S National Geographic Explorer, Iceland, Greenland 2012 
M/S National Geographic Explorer, North Cape, Norway and Svalbard, 2012
M/S National Geographic Explorer, British Isles, 2012
M/S National Geographic Explorer, West Africa 2012
M/V National Geographic Sea Bird, Baja California (Expedition Leader), 2012
M/S National Geographic Explorer, Baltic Sea and the Western Europe Odyssey, 2011
M/S National Geographic ExplorerBritish Isles and Ireland, 2011
M/S National Geographic Explorer, Atlantic Islands, 2011
M/S National Geographic Explorer, West Africa, 2011
M/S National Geographic Explorer, Atlantic Ridge, 2011
M/V National Geographic Sea bird, Baja California (Expediton Leader), 2011
M/S National Geographic Explorer, British Isles, Faroe Islands and Iceland, 2010
M/V Natinal Geographic Sea Bird, Baja California, 2010
M/S National Geographic Explorer, British Isles, 2009
M/S National Geographic Explorer, Red Sea and Mediterranean, 2009
M/V National Geographic Sea Bird and NG Sea Lion, Baja Califorina, (Expedition Leader), 2009
M/S National Geographich Endeavour, Atlantic Ridge (Expedition Leader), 2008
M/V Sea Bird, Baja California (Expedition Leader), 2008
M/S National Geographic Endeavour, Atlantic Crossing, 2007
S/V Sea Cloud II, Atlanntic Crossing, 2007
M/V Sea Bird, Baja California (Expedition Leader), 2007
S/V  Sea Cloud II, Atlantic Crossing, 2006
M/S National Geographic Endeavour, Easter Island to Fiji, 2006
M/V Sea Bird, Baja California (Expedition Leader), 2006
M/S National Geographic Endeavour, Venice to Puerto Madryn (Argentina), 2005
M/S National Geographic Endeavour, Portsmouth to Copenhagen, 2005
M/S National Geographic Endeavour, Antigua to Portsmouth (Expedition Leader), 2005
M/S National Geographic Endeavour, Valparaiso to Panama, 2005
M/S Sea Lion, Baja California, (Expedition Leader), 2005
M/S Endeavour, Ponta Delgada to Rio de Janeiro, 2005
M/S Endeavour, Azores, (Expedition Leader), 2004
M/S Endeavour, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 2004
M/S Kapitan Dranitsyn, Franz Josef Land, 2004
M/V Sea Bird, Baja California, (Expedition Leader), 2004
M/S Sea Bird, Baja California, (Expedition Leader), 2003
M/S Endeavour, Mid-Atlantic Ridge  2003--2 trips, one northbound, one southbound
M/S Endevour, Atlantic Crossing, 2003
M/S Endeavour, British Isles, 2003
M/S Endeavour, Azores (Expedition Leader), 2003
M/V Sea Bird, Baja California (Expedition Leader), 2002
M/S Endeavour, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 2002
M/S Endeavour, British Isles, 2002
M/V Endeavour, Svalbard, 2002
M/V Sea Bird, Baja California (Expedition Leader), 2001
M/S Endeavour, British Isles, 2001
M/S Endeavour, Morocco, 2001
M/S Endeavour, Mediterranean Sea, 2002
M/V Sea Lion, Baja California, (Expedtion Leader), 2000
M/S Endeavour, British Isles, 2000
M/S Caledonian Star, Antarctica, 1999
M/S Caledonian Star, British Isles, 1998
M/V Sea Lion, Baja California, (Expedition Leader), 1998
M/S Caledonian Star, British Isles and Svalbard (Expedition Leader), 1997
M/S Polaris, British Isles, 1996M/V Sea Lion, Baja California, (Expedition Leader), 1997
M/S Polaris, Transatlantic Passage, (Expedition Leader), 1996
M/V Sea Lion, Baja California, (Expedition Leader), 1996
M/S Polaris, Greenland and the Canadian Arctic, 1995
M/S Polaris, Transatlantic Passage, (Expedition Leader), 1995
M/V Sea Lion, Baja California, (Expedition Leader), 1995
M/V Sea Bird (California Academy of Sciences), Baja California (Expedition Leader), 1994
M/V Polaris (California Academy of Sciences), Spitzbergen, 1993
M/V Sea lion (California Academy of Sciences), Baja California (Expedition Leader), 1993
M/V Polaris (California Academy of Sciences), Costa Rica (Expedition Leader), 1992
M/V Polaris, Atlantic Passage, 1992
M/V Sea Bird (California Academy of Sciences), Baja California, 1992
M/V Sea Lion (California Academy of Sciences), Baja California, 1992
M/V Polaris, North Atlantic (between Norway and Spitzbergen), 1991
M/V Sea Lion (California Academy of Sciences), Baja California, 1991
M/V Polaris (California Academy of Sciences), Atlantic Passage, 1991
M/V Polaris, North Atlantic, Ireland, Faroes, 1990
M/V Sea Lion, Baja California, 1990
M/V Polaris, Equatorial Atlantic, 1989
M/V Polaris, Sargasso Sea, 1989
M/S World Discoverer (California Academy of Sciences), Greenland and the Canadian Arctic, 1989
M/V Polaris, Costa Rica and Baja California (Expedition Leader), 1989
M/V Polaris, North Cape and Spitzbergen, 1988
M/V Polaris, Sargasso Sea, 1988
M/S Spirit of Adventure (California Academy of Sciences), Baja California, 1988
M/V Polaris, Baja California, 1988
M/S Pacific Northwest Explorer (California Academy of Sciences), Baja California, 1984-87
R/V Velero IV (OPUS II), California, 1983
R/V Velero IV (OPUS I), California, 1981
R/V Melville (CUEA), Peru, 1978 (Chief Scientist)
R/V Thomas G. Thompson (PROBES), Alaska (Bering Sea), 1978
R/V Thomas G. Thompson (JOINT II), Peru, 1976 (Chief Scientist, Leg 2)
R/V Atlantis II Cruise #82 (JOINT I), N.W. Africa,1974 (Chief Scientist, Legs 0,2)
R/V Thomas G. Thompson (CUE II), Oregon, 1973 (Chief Scientist)
R/V Thomas G. Thompson (MESCAL II), Mexico, 1973
R/V Thomas G. Thompson (MESCAL I), Mexico, 1973
B/O Cornide de Saavedra (SAHARA II), N.W. Africa, 1971 (invited foreign scientist)
R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruise (PASTOUZO), Greece and West Mediterranean, 1970
R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruise (PISCO), Peru, 1969
R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruise (PANCHO), Mexico, 1968
R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruise #018, Alaska, 1967


Project Director on numerous research projects, including:

Cooperative Education Program (U.S. Department of Education), 1993-1993

Mathematics and Science Intervention Project (California Department of Education), 1993-1995

The Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement Program, 1992-1995

Young Engineers and Scientists (National Science Foundation), 1992-1995

Supercities (U.N. Environmental Program), 1992

Exploring System Earth (Hewlett-Packard Company, U.S. Department of Education (FIPSE), 1995-1991

Young Scientists of Tomorrow (San Francisco Foundation), 1980-1982

Processes and Resources of the Bering Sea Shelf (PROBES) Data Management (NSF/OPP), 1978-1980

Energy 2020 (Department of Education), 1979-1980

Voyages Into Ocean Space (NSF and NOAA), 1976-1977

CUEA Component 24, Interactive Realtime Information System (NSF/IDOE), 1972-1980

Coastal Upwelling Ecosystem Analysis (CUEA), Component 14, Nutrient and Phytoplankton Fields 
(NSF/IDOE), 1973-1978





SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
JAMES C. KELLEY


2002

The Global Appeal of Steinbeck’s Science: The Animal-Human Connections, in Beyond Boudaries: Rereading 
John Steinbeck, S. Shillinglaw and K. Hearle, eds. University of Alabama Press, p. 255-265.

1998

San Francisco Bay: Our Urbanized Estuary, San Francisco Urban Institute, Spring 1998, p. 30-31 (invited paper).

Keeping a Hi-Tech Eye on El Nino, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Remote Sensing 
for Marine and Coastal Environments, (invited plenary paper)

1997

John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts: Understanding Life in the Great Tide Pool, in Steinbeck and the Environment, 
S.F. Beegel, S. Shillinglaw, and W. N. Tiffney, eds., University of Alabama press, p. 27-42 (invited paper).

The Geoecology of Steinbeck Country, The Steinbeck Newsletter, Spring 1996, p.1 ff. (invited paper).

1995

Ed Ricketts, Ecologist, On Cannery Row: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, The Steinbeck Newsletter, Fall 1995 
(invited paper).

1992

Supercities and Their Urbanized Estuaries, Proc. Workshop on Supercities, Pacific Basin Study Center

Oil and Gas Development and Associated Environmental Impact on the West Coast of North America, Oceanic 
and Anthropogenic Controls of Life in the Pacific Ocean, V. I. Illyichev and V. V. Anikiev, eds., Kluwer 
Academic Publishers, August 1992.

1991

Minerals and Energy from the Sea, The Encyclopedia of the Earth: Oceans and Islands, Weldon Owen Publishing, 1991.

The Sargasso Sea, The Encyclopedia of the Earth; Oceans and Islands, Weldon Owen Publishing, 1991.

1989

A Report on the Second Symposium on Marine Sciences: The Rational Use of National Resources of the
 Ocean, GeoJournal, January 1969.

1988

Environmental Impact Assessment prior to Offshore Oil and Gas Development on the West Coast of 
North America, The Second Symposium on Marine Sciences, Nakhodka, USSR, August 1988 (invited paper).

1987

The Minerals Management Service pacific Environmental Studies Program – A Short History and 
Assessment, EOS, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, December 1987 (invited paper).

AI goes to School (with E. Duckworth and S. Wilson), Academic Computing, November 1987, pp. 6-10; 
38-43; 62-63.

1985

Scientific Goals and Educational Challenges for the California Academy of Sciences 1985-2000, 
California Academy of Science, special pub.

1983

Statistics of Underway Sampling, (Abs.) Proceedings of the Division of Analytical Chemistry, American 
Chemical Society, March 1983.

Persistent Centers of Coastal Upwelling, (Abs.) Proceedings of the XVth Pacific Science Congress, 
February 1983.

1981

Hydrography and Underway Mapping (with T. Whitledge and M. Friebertshauser), CUEA Data Report 65.

Hydrography and Underway Mapping (with T. Whitledge and M. Friebertshauser), CUEA Data Report 64.

1980

Coastal Upwelling Ecosystem Analysis: Social Implications, in Coastal Upwelling, F. A. Richards, ed., 
American Geophysical Union, pp. 9-12.

1979

Portable Real-Time Minicomputer Systems Acquires and Displays Dynamic Ocean Data, Sea Technology, 
February 1979, pp. 20-23, 27.

1978

Ecological Significance of Time-Space Heterogenetics and Marine Phytoplankton Fields, Proceedings 
of the Siam Institute for Mathematics and Statistics, Conference on “Time Series and Ecological Processes”.  
Proceedings Volume, pp. 34-50.

Not All Sea Monsters Come from the Deep or Are 32-Bitters Really the Answer? (with W. A. Petersen), 
Proceedings of the Second Working Conference on Oceanographic Data Systems, September 26-28, 1978, 
pp. 145-151.

1977

Effectos a Meso-Escala de la Variacion del Viento Sobre la Distribucion de los Parametros Fisicos y 
Quimicos en una Region del Afloramiento: Baja California, Primavera, 1973, Proceedings of the Vth 
National Congress of Oceanography, Sonora, Mexico, October 1973, pp. 326-341.

Interrelationships of Chemical and Biological Phenomena in the Baja California Upwelling Ecosystem 
(with T. Whitledge), Proceedings of the Vth National Congress of Oceanography, Sonora, Mexico, October 
1974, pp. 705-724.

The Interactive Real-Time Information System (IRIS), Proceedings of IEEE Committee on Oceanic 
Engineering and Technology, Oceanic Data Base Information Exchange Workshop, February 1977, 
San Diego, p. 108.

Scales and Properties of Oceanic Fronts Determined from Biological and Chemical Variables, presented at 
the AGU Chapman Conference on Oceanic Fronts, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 1977.  Abstract in EOS, 
v. 58(9), p. 889. 

1976

Sampling the Sea, Chapter 14 in Ecology of the Sea, D. H. Cushing and J. J. Walsh, ed., 
W. B. Saunders Co., pp. 361-387.

Further Transition States of the California Upwelling Ecosystem (with J. J. Walsh, T. E. Whitledge, 
M. Stevenson, D. Pillsbury, T. J. Smayda, J. J. Goering, R. T. Barber, M. Blackburn, and R. T. Thorne).

1975

Results of Sea Surface Mapping Techniques in the Peru Upwelling System (with T. E. Whitledge and 
R. C. Dugdale), Limnol. And Ocean, v. 20, p. 784.

Atlas of Sea Surface Maps of Temperature Nutrients and Chlorophyll from Peru, March-April 1969, 
CUEA Technical Report #9, February 1975, p. 125.

Continuous Measurement of Nutrient Concentrations and Phytoplankton Density in the Surface Water of 
the Western Mediterranean, Winter 1970, Rapports et Proc’s-Verbaux Des Reunions, 22(8):119-120 
(with A. Cruzado).

Time-Varying Distribution of Biologically Significant Variables in the Ocean, Deep-Sea Research, v. 22, p. 679.
1974

An Automated Contouring System for the Interactive Real-Time Information System (IRIS) (with J. Rix), 
Coastal Upwelling Ecosystem Analysis Technical Report #4, January 1974.

A Shipboard Data Acquisition System for Ecosystem Analysis (with T. E. Whitledge and R. C. Dugdale), 
Coastal Upwelling Ecosystem Analysis Technical Report #6.

Description of a Coastal Upwelling Event, Oregon, 1973: Part I. Physical System (with D. Halpern).  Abstract in 
EOS, December 1974, p. 1132.

Description of a Coastal Upwelling Event, Oregon, 1973: Part II. Response of Non-Conservative Properties 
(with D. Halpern).  Abstract in EOS, December 1974, p. 1132.

1973

TUPS - A New Look at Underway Sampling Systems (with P. Becker, R. vanHaagen, and T. Whitledge), 
presented at the IEEE Meeting, September 25, 1973.

Effects of Internal Waves on Vertical Distribution of Non-Conservative Properties in an Upwelling Area, EOS, November 1973, p. 1117.

Review of “Computer Programs in Oceanography,” Math. Geol.

Spatial Characteristics of Nutrient Phytoplankton Fields in Upwelling Areas, Proceedings of Analysis of 
Upwelling Systems, Second Conference, Marseilles, France, May-June 1973.

Spin-Up of the Baja California Upwelling Ecosystem (with J. J. Walsh, R. C. Dugdale, T. E. Whitledge and 
S. Huntsman), Limnol. And Ocean, 19: 553-572, July 1974.

Effects of Effluent Discharge on Concentrations of Nutrients in the Saronikos Gulf (with R. C. Dugdale and T. Beacacos-Kontos), Mar. Poll. And Sea Life, 166-169.

1972

Selection of a Shipboard Computer System, CUEA Technical Report #1, June 1972.

Factor Analysis in Real-Time, Inves. Pesq., 36(1):179-182.

A Strategy for Multivariate Spectral Analysis of Oceanographic Data, Inves. Pesq., 36(1):175-178.

Pattern Recognition Studies in Plant Ecology (with K. Mitrakos and E. Oikomomidou), Proc. Acad. Of Greece.

Environmental Prediction: A Scientific Imperative (invited paper at the Lecture Series on Man and His 
Environment), Hellenic-American Union, Athens, Greece.

Oceanographic Sampling: A Probalistic Approach to Underway Navigation, EOS.

1971

Gross Biological Features of the Peruvian Upwelling System (with R. C. Dugdale, J. J. Walsh and B. T. Frost), 
Inves. Pesq., 35:35-42.

Sampling Considerations in Upwelling Studies, Inves. Pesq., 35:25-42.

Multivatiate Oceanographic Sampling, J. Internat. Assoc. Math. Geol., 3:43-49.

Mathematical Analysis of Point Count Data, Chapter 17, Proc. Sed. Pet., R. E. Carver, ed., pp. 409-425.

1970

Computer Simulation Models in Oceanographic Education, Proc. Conf. On Applic. Of Compuers in Undergrad. Curric.

Quantitative Methods of Identification of Marine Benthic Communities (with U. Lie), J. Fish, Res. Bd. Can., 27:
621-651.

Hierarchical Analysis of Variance of Shelf Sediment Texture (with D. A. McManus), J. Sed. Pet., 40:1335-1339.

1969

Surface Representation: Information Considerations (with C. Stephen Smyth), Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 50(11).

Reduction and Presentation of Acoustic Reflection Data with the Aid of a Shipboard Computer (with C. Stephen
Smyth), Mar. Tech. Soc. Tech. Symp., “Applications of Sea-Going Computers,” La Jolla, California, Proc. Vol.

Optimizing Sediment Sampling Plans (with D. A. McManus, Mar. Geol., 7:465-469.

Characteristics of Columbia River Sediment and Sediment Transport (with J. T. Shetten and L. G. Hanson), 
J. Sed. Pet., 39(3):1149-1166.

Quantitative Statistical Analysis of Columbia River Sediment Samples (with J. T. Whetten), J. Sed. Pet., 39(3)
1167-1173.

Continental Shelf Sedimentation in an Arctic Environment (with D. A. McManus and J. S. Creager), Geol. Soc. Amer. 
Bull., 80:1961-1984.

1968

Evaluation of Granulometric Parameters for the Recognition of Sediment Variability (with D. A. McManus), Trans. 
Amer. Geophys. Union, 49:222, Abstract.

Columbia River Sediment Sources (with J. T. Whetten, L. G. Hanson), Program Meeting of the Cordileran Section, 
Geol. Soc. Amer., p. 127.

Lease Squares Analysis of Tectonite Fabric Data, Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., 79:223-240.

Clay  Minerals of the Columbia River: A Qualitative, Quantitative and Statistical Evaluation (with H. J. Knebel, 
J. T. Whetten), J. Sed. Pet., 38-600-611.

Dead Reckoning Navigation with the Aid of a Shipboard Compuer (with M. Ratner), Mar. Sci. Instr., 4:617-626.

1967

Multivariate Analyses of Columbia River Sediment (with J. T. Whetten), Proc. Annual Mtg., Geol Soc. Amer., New Orleans, Louisiana, November, Abstract.

A FORTRAN IV Program for the Determination of Rotation Axes from Fabric Data, Contri. Geol., 5(1)39-44.

Iron Content of Fossil Bones of Tertiary Age in Wyoming Correlated with Climatic Change (with R. S. Houston and 
H. Toots), Contri. Geol., 5(2):1-18.

1965

Least Squares Analysis of Fabric Data: I. Theoretical Considerations (with R. B. Parker and D. S. Hodge), Prog. 
Rocky Mountain Section, Geol. Soc. Amer., May, p. 38, Abstract.

Least Squares Analysis of Fabric Data: II. Geological Examples (with R. B. Parker), Rocky Mountain Section, Geol. 
Soc. Amer., May, p. 46, Abstract.

An Example of the Quantitative Study of Echinoid Morphology, Contri. Geol., 4:15-20.




Dr. James C. Kelley
Short Biography


Dr. James C. Kelley is an oceanographer with 50 years of research experience on the oceans of the world.  
He is primarily interested in the coastal regions of the oceans and coastal upwelling, a phenomenon which is responsible 
for one-half of the world’s fish catch.  Because El Nino interrupts coastal upwelling and changes the world weather, 
he has also studied that phenomenon extensively.  Jim is also interested in multiple uses of the coastal oceans, for example for 
fishing, petroleum production and shipping. Jim is also intersted in and has lectured extensively on the future of the fresh 
water supply, globally and in the American West.

Jim was Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at San Francisco State University from 1975 
until 2001. He was for nine years President of the California Academy of Sciences, was Chairman of the Board 
of the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Chairman of the East Pacific Oceanic Conference and a member of 
the U.S. Department of Interior’s Advisory Board on the Outer Continental Shelf which advises the Secretary on offshore drilling.  
He has served as Chief Scientist and Expedition Leader on many cruises around the world.