Ron Counts

Dr. Counts was appointed Associate Director of the MMRI on October 1st, 2018. Before coming to the MMRI, he spent 4 years as a Research Geologist with the Eastern Geology and Paleoclimate Science Center at the USGS, and 12 years as a field geologist and geologic mapper with the Kentucky Geological Survey at the University of Kentucky.

Experience

University of Mississippi, Associate Professor, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, 2022-present

University of Mississippi, Associate Director, Mississippi Mineral Resources Institute, 2018-present

University of Mississippi, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, 2018-2021

U.S. Geological Survey Eastern Geology and Paleoclimate Science Center, Research Geologist 2013-2017

University of Kentucky-Kentucky Geological Survey, Geologist, 2002-2012

Education

USGS Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow, Reston, VA, 2013-2014

University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, PhD. Geology, 2013

Utah State University, Logan, Utah- MS. Geology, 2005

University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, Indiana, BS. Geology 1999