Academic Appointments

Administrative Appointments

  • Research Associate, University of Southern California (1961 - 1966)
  • Visiting Research Scholar, Tohoku University, Japan (1966 - 1967)
  • Assistant Professor of Geology, Stanford University (1968 - 1971)
  • Associate Professor of Geology, Stanford University (1971 - 1981)
  • Professor of Geology, Stanford University (1981 - 1993)
  • Chairman, Department of Geology, Stanford University (1982 - 1986)
  • W.M. Keck Professor of Earth Sciences, Stanford University (1984 - 2005)
  • Professor of Geological & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University (1993 - 2005)
  • W.M. Keck Professor of Earth Sciences Emeritus, Stanford University (2005 - Present)

Honors & Awards

  • Recipient, W. A. Tarr Award, Sigma Gamma Epsilon (1958)
  • Nominee, 1962 Newcomb Cleveland Prize,, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1962)
  • Fellow, Geological Society of America (1973)
  • Fellow, California Academy of Sciences (1975)
  • Award for Excellence in Teaching, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University (1982)
  • W. H. Keck Professor of Earth Sciences, Stanford University (1984 – 2005)
  • Lewis G. Weeks Lecturer, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1986)
  • Distinguished Lecturer, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (1986)
  • A.I. Levorsen Award, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (1988)
  • Honorary Membership, Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), Pacific Section (1991)
  • Distinguished Lecturer, Joint Oceanographic Institutions (1991)
  • Honorable Mention (paper presentation), National Meeting, Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), San Diego (1996)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

  • Member & Past-Chair, Regional Committee on Pacific Neogene Stratigraphy, International Geological Correlation Project (1976 - 2005)
  • Advisor, U.S.-Japan Marine Geology Panel (1993 - 2005)
  • Associate Editor (Foreign), Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan (1994 - Present)
  • Member, School of Earth Sciences Committee on Ocean Margins Initiative & Faculty Search, Stanford University (1995 - 2001)
  • Editorial Board Member, Geoscience Journal (Geological Society of Korea) (1997 - Present)
  • Member, Branner Earth Sciences Library Committee, Stanford University (1997 - 2005)
  • Member, Oceans Curricular Development Committee, Earth Systems Program, Stanford University (1999 - 2005)
  • Faculty Speaker, Stanford QUEST Program, Stanford University (2000 - 2005)
  • Speaker, V Reunion Internacional Geologia de la Peninsula de Baja California, Loreto, Mexico (2000 - 2000)
  • Earth Science Council, Stanford University (2001 - 2005)

Professional Education

  • Ph.D., University of Southern California, Geology (1966)
  • M.S., University of Southern California, Geology (1962)
  • B.S., University of Southern California, Geology (1959)

Contact

  • Academic
    jim.ingle@stanford.edu
    University - Emeritus faculty Department: Department of Geological Sciences Position: Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council
    • Mitchell Bldg, Rm B01
    • Stanford,  California  94305-2115 
    (650) 725-0979 (fax)

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 2115

Current Research and Scholarly Interests

Current research interests include the Neogene stratigraphy, paleoceanography, and depositional history of marine basins and continental margins of the Pacific Ocean with a focus on the California borderland and Gulf of California. Other interests involve study of marine diatomaceous sediments, the sedimentary record of the oxygen minimum zone, and application of benthic and planktonic foraminifera to questions surrounding the history of the global ocean and climate change.

2023-24 Courses

All Publications

  • Late Quaternary subsidence of Santa Catalina Island, California Continental Borderland, demonstrated by seismic-reflection data and fossil assemblages from submerged marine terraces GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN Castillo, C. M., Klemperer, S. L., Ingle, J. C., Powell, C. L., Legg, M. R., Francis, R. D. 2019; 131 (1-2): 21–42

    View details for DOI 10.1130/B31738.1

    View details for Web of Science ID 000454928000002

  • SHALLOW-WATER BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA OF THE GALAPAGOS ARCHIPELAGO: ECOLOGICALLY SENSITIVE CARBONATE PRODUCERS IN AN ATYPICAL TROPICAL OCEANOGRAPHIC SETTING JOURNAL OF FORAMINIFERAL RESEARCH Humphreys, A. F., Halfar, J., Ingle, J. C., Manzello, D., Reymond, C. E., Westphal, H., Riegl, B. 2019; 49 (1): 48–65

    View details for DOI 10.2113/gsjfr.49.1.48

    View details for Web of Science ID 000457207500005

  • Effect of seawater temperature, pH, and nutrients on the distribution and character of low abundance shallow water benthic foraminifera in the Galapagos PLOS ONE Humphreys, A. F., Halfar, J., Ingle, J. C., Manzello, D., Reymond, C. E., Westphal, H., Riegl, B. 2018; 13 (9): e0202746

    Abstract

    In order to help predict the effects of anthropogenic stressors on shallow water carbonate environments, it is important to focus research on regions containing natural oceanographic gradients, particularly with respect to interactions between oceanography and ecologically sensitive carbonate producers. The Galápagos Archipelago, an island chain in the eastern equatorial Pacific, spans a natural nutrient, pH, and temperature gradient due to the interaction of several major ocean currents. Further, the region is heavily impacted by the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Galápagos exhibited widespread coral bleaching and degradation following the strong ENSO events of 1982-1983 and 1997-1998. These findings are coupled with reports of unusually low abundances of time-averaged benthic foraminiferal assemblages throughout the region. Foraminifera, shelled single-celled protists, are sensitive to environmental change and rapidly respond to alterations to their surrounding environment, making them ideal indicator species for the study of reef water quality and health. Here, statistical models and analyses were used to compare modern shallow water benthic foraminiferal assemblages from 19 samples spanning the Galápagos Archipelago to predominant oceanographic parameters at each collection site. Fisher α diversity indices, Ternary diagrams, Canonical Correspondence Analysis, regression tree analysis and FORAM-Index (FI; a single metric index for evaluating water quality associated with reef development) implied a combined impact from ENSO and upwelling from Equatorial Undercurrent (EUC) waters to primarily impact foraminiferal abundances and drive assemblage patterns throughout the archipelago. For instance, repeated ENSO temperature anomalies might be responsible for low foraminiferal density, while chronically high nutrients and low aragonite saturation and low pH-induced by EUC upwelling and La Niña anomalies-likely inhibited post-ENSO recovery, and caused foraminiferal assemblages to exhibit a heterotrophic dominance in the southern archipelago. What resulted are low FI values in the southern collection sites, indicating environments not conducive to endosymbiont development and/or recovery.

    View details for PubMedID 30208057

  • Truncorotalia crassaformis from its type locality: Comparison with Caribbean plankton and Pliocene relatives MARINE MICROPALEONTOLOGY Scott, G. H., Ingle, J. C., McCane, B., Powell, C. L., Thunell, R. C. 2015; 117: 1-12

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.marmicro.2015.02.001

    View details for Web of Science ID 000356986600001

  • Establishment of the western Pacific warm pool during the Pliocene: Evidence from planktic foraminifera, oxygen isotopes, and Mg/Ca ratios PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY Sato, K., Oda, M., Chiyonobu, S., Kimoto, K., Domitsu, H., Ingle, J. C. 2008; 265 (1-2): 140-147

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.05.003

    View details for Web of Science ID 000258992100013

  • Transtensional fault-termination basins: an important basin type illustrated by the Pliocene San Jose Island basin and related basins in the southern Gulf of California, Mexico BASIN RESEARCH Umhoefer, P. J., Schwennicke, T., Del Margo, M. T., Ruiz-Geraldo, G., Ingle, J. C., McIntosh, W. 2007; 19 (2): 297-322

    View details for DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2007.00323.x

    View details for Web of Science ID 000247112500007

  • Memorial to Hiroshi Ujiie JOURNAL OF FORAMINIFERAL RESEARCH Ingle, J. C., Lipps, J. H. 2006; 36 (4): 394-395

    View details for Web of Science ID 000241715200009

  • A Permian-Triassic boundary section at Quinn River Crossing, northwestern Nevada, and implications for the cause of the Early Triassic chert gap on the western Pangean margin GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN Sperling, E. A., Ingle, J. C. 2006; 118 (5-6): 733-746

    View details for DOI 10.1130/B25803.1

    View details for Web of Science ID 000237310200015

  • Modern non-tropical mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments and environments of the southwestern Gulf of California, Mexico SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY Halfar, J., Ingle, J. C., Godinez-Orta, L. 2004; 165 (1-2): 93-115

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2003.11.005

    View details for Web of Science ID 000220158800005

  • Modern warm-temperate and subtropical shallow-water benthic foraminifera of the southern Gulf of California, Mexico JOURNAL OF FORAMINIFERAL RESEARCH Halfar, J., Ingle, J. C. 2003; 33 (4): 309-329

    View details for Web of Science ID 000187884600004

  • Holocene-late Pleistocene non-tropical carbonate sediments and tectonic history of the western rift basin margin of the southern Gulf of California Fall Meeting of the American-Geophysical-Union Halfar, J., Godinez-Orta, L., Goodfriend, G. A., Mucciarone, D. A., Ingle, J. C., Holden, P. ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV. 2001: 149–78

    View details for Web of Science ID 000171968500008

  • Late miocene to pliocene stratigraphic evolution of northeast Carmen island, Gulf of California: implications for oblique-rifting tectonics Fall Meeting of the American-Geophysical-Union Dorsey, R. J., Umhoefer, P. J., Ingle, J. C., Mayer, L. ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV. 2001: 97–123

    View details for Web of Science ID 000171968500006

  • Geologic and paleontologic features of rock samples in the Cooperative Monterey Organic Geochemistry Study, Naples Beach and Lions Head sections, California The Monterey Formation—from rocks to molecules Isaacs, C. M., Pollastro, R. M., Barron, J. A., Ingle, Jr., J. C., Bukry, D., Dunbar, R. B., Keller, M. A., Tomson, J. H., Lewan , M. D. edited by Isaacs, C. M., Rullkötter, J. Columbia University Press. 2001: 373–392
  • Microfacies analysis of recent carbonate environments in the Southern Gulf of California, Mexico - A model for warm-temperate to subtropical carbonate formation PALAIOS Halfar, J., Godinez-Orta, L., Ingle, J. C. 2000; 15 (4): 323-342

    View details for Web of Science ID 000088629400006

  • A memorial for William V. Sliter JOURNAL OF FORAMINIFERAL RESEARCH Douglas, R. G., Lipps, J. H., Ingle, J. C., Barron, J. 1999; 29 (4): 313-317

    View details for Web of Science ID 000083582400001

  • Deep-sea and global ocean circulation Earth Systems: Processes and Issues Ingle, Jr., J. C. edited by Ernst, W. G. Cambridge Univ. Press. 1999: 169–181
  • Geology and paleontology of southwestern Isla Tiburon, Sonora, Mexico Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas Gastil, G., Neuhaus, J., Cassidy, M., Smith, J., Ingle, J. C., Krummenacher, D. 1999; 16: 1-34
  • Atmosphere-ocean coupling and surface circulation of the ocean Earth Systems: Processes and Issues Ingle, Jr., J. C. edited by Ernst, W. G. Cambridge Univ. Press. 1999: 152–169
  • Strontium isotope ages of the marine Merced Formation, near San Francisco, California QUATERNARY RESEARCH Ingram, B. L., Ingle, J. C. 1998; 50 (2): 194-199

    View details for Web of Science ID 000076398300008

  • The Sisquoc/Foxen boundary in the Santa Maria Basin, California: sedimentary response to a new tectonic regime U. S. Geol. Survey, Bull. Behl, R., Ingle, Jr., J. C. 1998; 5: 1-16
  • Measurement of tectonic surface uplift rate in a young collisional mountain belt NATURE Abbott, L. D., Silver, E. A., Anderson, R. S., Smith, R., Ingle, J. C., KLING, S. A., Haig, D., Small, E., Galewsky, J., Sliter, W. 1997; 385 (6616): 501-507

    View details for Web of Science ID A1997WG23500037

  • Stable isotope record of late Holocene salinity and river discharge in San Francisco Bay, California EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS Ingram, B. L., Ingle, J. C., Conrad, M. E. 1996; 141 (1-4): 237-247

    View details for Web of Science ID A1996UW51300019

  • A 2000 yr record of Sacramento San Joaquin river inflow to San Francisco Bay estuary, California GEOLOGY Ingram, B. L., Ingle, J. C., Conrad, M. E. 1996; 24 (4): 331-334

    View details for Web of Science ID A1996UE64600011

  • Stable isotope and salinity systematics in estuarine waters and carbonates: San Francisco Bay GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA Ingram, B. L., Conrad, M. E., Ingle, J. C. 1996; 60 (3): 455-467

    View details for Web of Science ID A1996TV45700007

  • FORAMS '94 - Selected papers from the Fifth International Symposium of Foraminifera, held July 5-9, 1994 at the Clark Kerr Campus of the University of California at Berkeley - Preface MARINE MICROPALEONTOLOGY Langer, M. R., Lipps, J. H., Ingle, J. C., Sliter, W. V. 1995; 26 (1-4): 1-2

    View details for Web of Science ID A1995TQ75700001

  • SUBSIDENCE AND UPLIFT OF THE LATE CRETACEOUS CENOZOIC MARGIN OF CALIFORNIA - NEW EVIDENCE FROM THE GUALALA AND POINT ARENA BASINS GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN LOOMIS, K. B., Ingle, J. C. 1994; 106 (7): 915-931

    View details for Web of Science ID A1994NU82100006

  • FORE-ARC RESPONSE TO SUBDUCTION OF THE COCOS RIDGE, PANAMA COSTA-RICA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN Corrigan, J., Mann, P., Ingle, J. C. 1990; 102 (5): 628-652

    View details for Web of Science ID A1990DD74700006

  • MEMORIAL TO ASANO,KIYOSHI JOURNAL OF FORAMINIFERAL RESEARCH Ingle, J. C. 1990; 20 (2): 93-94

    View details for Web of Science ID A1990DB34600001

  • NEOGENE STRATIGRAPHY, FORAMINIFERA, DIATOMS, AND DEPOSITIONAL HISTORY OF MARIA-MADRE ISLAND, MEXICO - EVIDENCE OF EARLY NEOGENE MARINE CONDITIONS IN THE SOUTHERN GULF OF CALIFORNIA MARINE MICROPALEONTOLOGY McCloy, C., Ingle, J. C., Barron, J. A. 1988; 13 (3): 193-212

    View details for Web of Science ID A1988Q646300001

  • RIO DELL FORMATION - PLIO-PLEISTOCENE BASIN SLOPE DEPOSIT IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SEDIMENTOLOGY Piper, D. J., Normark, W. R., Ingle, J. C. 1976; 23 (3): 309-328

    View details for Web of Science ID A1976BT67500002

  • ORIGIN OF WEST PHILIPPINE BASIN NATURE Karig, D., Ingle, J. C., Bouma, A. H., Ellis, H., Haile, N., Koizumi, I., MACGREGO, I. D., Moore, C., Ujiie, H., Watanabe, T., White, S. M., Yasui, M., Ling, H. Y. 1973; 246 (5434): 458-461

    View details for Web of Science ID A1973R586800023