Landscape Evolution of Continental-Scale River Systems - A Case Study of North America's Pre-Pleistocene Bell River Basin

James W. Sears is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Montana, where he taught structural geology, tectonics, and planetary geology from 1982 to 2021, prior to which he taught at Auburn University from 1978 to 1982. Dr Sears has over 300 research publications, including research papers, geologic maps, field guides, and abstracts, has co-edited two Geological Society of America Special Papers and has contributed to several others. Dr Sears currently does geologic mapping with the State Map Program at the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology. He actively publishes research, with papers in Geological Association of Canada and Geological Society of America journals.