R. Michael Jones was born in Los Angeles, CA, in 1937. He received the B.S. degree from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1959 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1963 and 1968, all in physics.He has been employed by the U.S. Department of Commerce in Boulder, CO, since 1961, first at the National Bureau of Standards, later at the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, and currently for the NOAA Wave Propagation Laboratory. He has worked on radiowave propagation in the ionosphere, radio groundwave propagation, and acoustic-gravity-wave propagation in the atmosphere and ocean.
Dr. Jones is a member of the Acoustic Society of America, the International Association of Mathematical Physics, the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation, and the Rocky Mountain Peace Center.