Dr. Jamieson is the Canada Research Chair in Marine Geology. His research advances our understanding of seafloor hydrothermal systems (black smokers) and the processes that form deep-sea mineral deposits. His research is multi-disciplinary, integrating ocean exploration, mineralogy and petrography, geochemistry, geochronology, stable isotopes, and cutting-edge seafloor mapping technologies. He earned a B.Sc. in Geology from the University of Alberta (2002), an M.Sc. in Geochemistry from the University of Maryland (2005), and a Ph.D. in Marine Geology from the University of Ottawa (2013).
Select publications
- Jamieson, J.W., Gini, C., Brown, C. and Robert, K, 2025. Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Sonar: A New Tool for Seafloor Characterization. Oceanography, 38 (1), pp.86-88.
- Moriarty, S.N., Bertran, E., Dottin III, J.W., Farquhar, J., Johnston, D.T., Piercey, S.J., Sánchez-Mora, D., Babechuk, M.G., Sylvan, J.B. and Jamieson, J.W., 2025. Effects of microbial alteration of oceanic crust on sulfur cycling in hydrothermal systems. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 393, pp.107-121.
- Gini, C., Jamieson, J.W., Reeves, E.P., Gartman, A., Barreyre, T., Babechuk, M.G., Jørgensen, S.L. and Robert, K., 2024. Iron oxyhydroxide‐rich hydrothermal deposits at the high‐temperature Fåvne vent field, Mohns Ridge. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25(6), p.e2024GC011481.
- Jamieson, J.W., Galley, C., McNeil, N, Sánchez-Mora, D., 2023, Evaluating episodicity of high-temperature venting within seafloor hydrothermal vent fields, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 606, p. 118051
- Galley, C.G., Jamieson, J.W., Lelievre, P.G., Farquharson, C.G., and Parianos, J., 2020, Magnetic imaging of seafloor hydrothermal fluid pathways with implications for ore genesis, Science Advances, v. 6, n. 44