Background
Tassell, Jay Lee Van was born on October 19, 1952 in Mount Kisco, New York, United States. Son of David Wayne and Ruth Charity (Van Steenburgh) Van Tassell.
Tassell, Jay Lee Van was born on October 19, 1952 in Mount Kisco, New York, United States. Son of David Wayne and Ruth Charity (Van Steenburgh) Van Tassell.
Bachelor, Bowdoin College, 1974; Master of Science, University of Wisconsin, 1975; Doctor of Philosophy, Duke U., 1979.
Visiting assistant professor, Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1979-1987; associate professor, Eastern Oregon State College, LaGrande, since 1988.
Member Geological Society of America, International Association of Sedimentologists, Society of Economics Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married April Diane Krueger, June 29, 1991.