State Geologist of Ohio, Mark Jones

On November 1^st, Dalton (“Mark”) Oxner-Jones became the 15^th State Geologist Of Ohio. Mark is the first African American State Geologist. He interned with the Ohio survey in 1996, at their former Lake Erie office in Sandusky, while completing his B.S. at Cleveland State and his M.S. at Kent State University. He then worked in the private sector before returning to ODNR in 2008 as the Lake Erie geologist. He became the supervisor of the Division’s H.R. Collins core laboratory at Alum Creek State Park in 2013. Additionally, Mark managed the Lake Erie program, OhioSeis seismic grid network, and underground salt mining leases for beneath Lake Erie. Welcome, Mark!