Prof. John M Jaeger received his B.Sc. from Humboldt State University in 1991 and earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from SUNY Stony Brook University in 1993 and 1998, respectively. He is now a professor and graduate coordinator at the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida. His research is in the field of sedimentary geology with specific interests in continental margin and marine clastic sedimentology and stratigraphy. His research attempts to understand how changes in Earth’s surface processes, oceans, and tectonics are represented in the formation of clastic strata from coastal and estuarine systems to the deep sea. He has focused heavily on deciphering how the cryosphere (ice sheets, streams, and glaciers) creates sediment and the fidelity of strata to record these processes.