Dr. Dayton Jones photo
Radio Telescope Arrays and 21-cm Cosmology
Space Science Institute

Space Science Institute
4750 Walnut St, Suite 205
Boulder, CO 80301

Dayton Jones grew up in Philadelphia and attended Carleton College (BS in Astronomy, 1974), UC Santa Barbara (MS in Scientific Instrumentation, 1976) and Cornell University (MS in Astronomy, 1979, and PhD in Astronomy, 1981). Following graduate school he was a postdoc with the VLBI group at Caltech, then an NRC postdoc at JPL. He joined the JPL staff in 1986 and worked there until retiring as a Principal Scientist in 2015 and moving to the Space ScienceÌýInstitute, Boulder, where he is currently a Senior Research Scientist. His research interests center on high resolution radio imaging and astrometry using interferometry, and concepts for space-based and lunar-based radio arrays. ÌýHe was PI of the Astronomical Low Frequency Array MIDEX proposal to NASA, and has led multiple studies at JPL of low frequency arrays in space. ÌýHis other interests include amateur radio, hiking, and skiing.