Project Director and Laboratory Supervisor
shelby.jones@dca.nm.gov
Shelby A. Jones (PhD, Earth Science, University of California San Diego, 2022) is a Project Director and the Laboratory Supervisor for the Office of Archaeological Studies (OAS), as well as the Lead Educator and Volunteer Coordinator.
Shelby manages the ongoing projects and research aims within the laboratories at OAS, including the Archaeomagnetic Lab, the Low Energy Plasma Radiocarbon Sampling Lab, and the Analytic Labs (Supercritical Fluid, Raman Spectroscopy, and pXRF). She earned her PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD with her dissertation Archaeomagnetism and its applications in the Broader American Southwest. The data and samples that contributed to her PhD are housed in the Archaeomagnetic Lab at OAS and represent nearly a complete repository for North American archaeodirectional samples from 1964 to present. One of her responsibilities as Laboratory Manager at OAS is to organize, digitize, and conduct ongoing research using the nearly 51,000 archaeomagnetic samples and their associated magnetic data archived in the facility.
When she is isn’t at OAS, Shelby spends her time in her garden and rehabilitating street cats for adoption.