Marjorie (Marji) J. Johns
Pacific PaleoQuest
P.O. Box 220
Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, V8M 1R3
Canada

Marji’s interests include Pacific Coast Mesozoic and Cenozoic paleontology and geoscience where she undertakes consulting and research through her company Pacific PaleoQuest.  Part of her research involves applications of ichthyoliths for biostratigraphic and basin analyses.  Recent projects have been in northeastern British Columbia (Triassic) and the Tofino Basin (Cenozoic) offshore Vancouver Island, BC.  Projects have been supported by the University of Victoria, Centre for Earth and Ocean Research, LITHOPROBE/SNORCLE Program, Geological Survey of Canada, Coasts Under Stress Project, Royal British Columbia Museum, and University of Alberta.

Marji holds a M.Sc. from the University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, a B.Sc. from the University of British Columbia, and has been awarded the Lieutenant Governor's Silver Medal (1993) for her Master's thesis, the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologist's Award (1993) for a M.Sc. thesis making the most significant contribution to sedimentary and/or petroleum geology in Canada, and the Geological Association of Canada's Remick Poster Award, 3rd place (GeoCanada 2000).  The main part of her thesis is published and illustrates many new Late Triassic ichthyoliths¹.  Marji's other experience and interests include working for over 17 years at the Geological Survey of Canada as a technician and researcher (foraminifers, palynology), being an initial founding member of the Victoria Palaeontology Society, and identification of BC Mesozoic-Cenozoic macrofossils.

¹Johns, M.J., Barnes, C.R., and Orchard, M.J. 1997. Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Middle and Late Triassic elasmobranch ichthyoliths from northeastern British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 502, 235 p., 38 pls., 14 figs.