JIM
DEXTER plays lead trombone for the band. Jim
graduated from the Naval School of Music and served in the
389th Army Band in the early 1970’s. He
also played with a soul band called “Salt and Pepper,”
whose lead singer was a back-up vocalist for Dianna Ross. The
group played regularly in New Jersey and also in lower
Manhattan. Although Jim began his college major in
music, his love for rocks overcame him. Thus, he obtained a
master’s degree in geology. Jim studied
Uranium-Lead kinematics in zircon crystals as his Masters
Thesis. Using a sophisticated Mass Spectrometer, he
age-dated granitic rocks of the Idaho batholith he collected
from the Bitteroot Wilderness area in northwestern
Montana. None of his fellow band members know
what this all means, but they respect him for it.
Jim worked on uranium resource evaluations and then became
involved in evaluating subsurface contamination at our major
"bomb factories" out west. He spent extensive
time drilling and sampling and evaluating rocks, dirt, and
groundwater at Kansas City, Los Alamos NM, Sandia National
Lab, and Pantex in the Texas Panhandle from 1983 through 1990. He
currently works as a consultant to help industries
comply with environmental laws, especially focusing on
groundwater contamination issues. He is our in-house
“rock scientist.”