Education: | Institution | Dates | Degree |
University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado |
June 1971 | B.A. | |
Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts |
March 1975 | A.M. | |
Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts |
March 1976 | Ph.D. |
Thesis: "Structural Characterization of Natural Calcic Plagioclases" |
Field Assistant - Mapping igneous and metamorphic rocks in N.W. Colorado, United States Geological Survey, June - Sept. 1969.
Exploration Geologist - Mapping and sampling of prospects for molybdenum in S.W. Colorado, Phelps Dodge Corporation, June - Sept. 1971.
Teaching Assistant - Introductory petrology-mineralogy and crystal symmetry and x-ray diffraction courses, Harvard Univ., Sept. 1973 - Jan. 1974 and Sept. 1974 - Jan. 1975.
Research Assistant - Engaged in experimental petrology of lunar samples with A. E. Bence and D. H. Lindsley, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Sept. 1975 - Sept. 1979.
Visiting Professor - Division of Geological Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Jan.- April 1979.
Assistant Professor - Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 1979 - June 1984.
Associate Professor - Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 1984 - June 1991.
Professor - Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 1991 - present.
Visiting Scientist - Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, November 1993 - June 1994.
Research Scientist - Department of Physics, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, April 1997 - March 2001.
Gastdozent (Visiting Professor) - Department of Earth Sciences ETH, Zürich - February 2002 - August 2002.
Guest professor - University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland - February 2010 - June 2010.
Associate Head of Department - Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 2010 -
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Geology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 2013 -
Professional Memberships:
American Geophysical Union Sigma Xi Geological Society of America Geochemical Society Mineralogical Society of America |
Warren O. Thompson Scholarship (1970 - 1971) Univ. of Colorado Phi Beta Kappa Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists Pick Award (1971) Mineralogical Society of America - Fellow Bowen Award (1993) VGP Section of the American Geophysical Union American Geophysical Union Fellow (2001) Original Member, Highly Cited Researchers, ISI/Thomson Scientific (2002) Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008) Geochemical Society Fellow (2012) V. M. Goldschmidt Award, Geochemical Society (2014) Member, National Academy of Sciences (2014) |
Associate Editor, Geophysical Research Letters, 1979 - 1982
MSA representative to Joint Technical Program Committee for Geol. Soc. Amer. national meeting 1982 - 1984
Co-convener and Associate Editor: Conference on Open Magmatic Systems, Taos, New Mexico, 1984
Member, Departmental Advisory Board, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 1985 - 1990
Member, NASA, SSPEX working group, 1985 - 1986
Member, editorial board of Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 1985 - 1990
Member, NASA Lunar and Planetary Geology Review Panel, 1986 - 1988
Member, NASA Planetary Materials and Geochemistry Program, Program Management Working Group, 1987 - 1988
Member, NSERC Earth Sciences Major Instrumentation Review Panel, 1987 - 1988
Secretary of the Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology section, American Geophysical Union, 1988 - 1990
Member, U.S. Subcommittee for the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI), 1988 - 1991
Executive editor: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 1990 - present
Member, RIDGE (Ridge Interdisciplinary Global Experiments) Steering Committee, 1990 - 1993
Mineralogical Society of America, Member of Roebling Award Committee, 1992
Mineralogical Society of America, Member of MSA Award Committee, 1993
Member, National Science Foundation, Earth Sciences Review Panel for Instrumentation and Facilities, 1991 - 1994
Mineralogical Society of America, Councilor, 1994 - 1997
President-elect of the Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology section, American Geophysical Union, 1996 - 1998
President of the Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology section, American Geophysical Union, 1998 - 2000
Chair of the Meetings Committee of the American Geophysical Union, 2000 - 2004
Member, NASA Cosmochemistry Review Panel, 2000 - 2001
Member, National Science Foundation, Geochemistry and Petrology Review Panel, 2005 - 2006
President-elect of the American Geophysical Union, 2006 - 2008
President of the American Geophysical Union, 2008 - 2010
Member, American Institute of Physics, Governing Board, 2006 - 2010
Past President of the American Geophysical Union, 2010 - 2012
Member, NASA Cosmochemistry Review Panel, 2012 -
Member, NASA Curation and Analysis Planning Team for Extraterrestrial Materials, CAPTEM, 2012 -
Graduate student thesis supervision:
David C. Gerlach Rosamond J. Kinzler Linda T. Elkins Michael B. Baker Daniel R. Tormey Tanya H. Furman Allen K. Kennedy Karen S. Bartels Thomas W. Sisson Rosamond J. Kinzler Matthew J. Cordery Deborah A. Zervas Thomas Wagner Glenn A. Gaetani Ken Koga James A. Van Orman Stephen W. Parman Rebecca Saltzer Linda Elkins Tanton Marc Hesse Steven Singletary Anna Monders Jay Barr Michael Krawczynski Christy Till |
Ph.D. June 1985, co-supervised with F. Frey M.S. June 1985 M.S. June 1987 Ph.D. Jan. 1988 Ph.D. Feb. 1989, co-supervised with F. Frey Ph.D. Sept. 1989, co-supervised with F. Frey Ph.D. Sept. 1989, co-supervised with S. Hart Ph.D. Oct. 1990 Ph.D. Feb. 1991 Ph.D. May 1991 Ph.D. May 1991 M.S. Sept. 1991 Ph.D. May 1995 Ph.D. May 1996 Sept. 1999, co-supervised with N. Shimizu Ph.D. Sept. 2000 Ph.D. Jan. 2001 Ph.D. Feb. 2002, co-supervised with R. van der Hilst Ph.D. July 2002 M.S. August 2002 Ph.D. Jan. 2004 M.S. June 2006 Ph.D. July 2010 Ph.D. July 2011 Ph.D. July 2011 |
Jonathon D. Blundy Eva Ebert |
Sept. 1985 - Sept. 1987, Kennedy Memorial Trust visiting scholar March 2003 - Nov. 2003 |
Karin Ehlers Jesse Dann Astrid Holzheid Othmar Muentener Steve Parman Etienne Médard Anne Pommier Bernard Charlier |
Sept. 1989 - Aug. 1990 Sept. 1996 - Aug. 2000 Feb. 1997 - Aug. 1999 Mar. 1998 - Mar.1999 Jan. 2001 - Aug. 2005 Sept. 2004 - Sept. 2007 Sept. 2010 - Jul. 2011 Sept. 2010 - Sept. 2012 |