Mineralogy & Petrology
Grant

2022 – Ran He, The University of Pennsylvania, State College, PA, USA. – “Towards an Understanding of Siderite Clumped Isotopic Behavior during Burial and Late-stage Meteoric Diagenesis”

2022 – Hoss Hostettler, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX USA. – “Calcium Isotopes as Fluid Tracers during Rodingtization.”

2021 – Eva Baransky, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA – “Investigating Ni isotope fractionation during interaction with birnessite and implications for the marine Ni budget.”

2021 – Juliet Ryan-Davis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA – “Developing fs-LA-MC-ICPMS protocol for in situ Sr isotope analyses in clinopyroxene: Quantifying mantle-derived inputs across the Sierra Nevada batholith.”

2020 – Behnaz Hosseini, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA – “Reentrants: Reliable recorders of magma decompression rates?”

2020 – Hannah Tompkins, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA – “Understanding Zr stable isotope fractionation in magmatic environments: Insights from experimental systems.”

2019 – Clementine Hamelin, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA – “Putting QuiG to the test: A high-resolution, micro-scale investigation of the Quartz-in-Garnet barometer in a progressive metamorphic sequence.”

2019 – Marie Takach, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA – “Documenting magma mixing processes and timescales in tephra fall deposits: El Misti Volcano, Peru.”

2018 – Shelby Nicole Johnston, University of Houston, Houston TX, USA – “The effects of alpha damage on He diffusion and closure temperatures in zircons.”

2018 – Amy Catherine Moser, University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA, USA – “Directly dating high-temperature deformation: U-Pb resetting and dynamic recrystallization of titanite.”

2017 – Allan Lerner, University of Oregon, Eugene OR, USA – “Developing a Volcanic Degassing Model for Mount St. Helens Volcano.”

2017 – Jessica Hamilton, Monash University, Melbourne VIC, Australia – “Enhancing mineralogical trapping of CO2 within ultramafic mine tailings material.”

2016 – Niklas Martin Stausberg, Aarhus University, Denmark – “Determination of Fe isotope fractionation factors between immiscible silicate melts under controlled laboratory conditions.”

2016 – Margo Regier, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ, USA – “Quantifying the crust to atmosphere nitrogen flux through melt inclusions.”

2015 – Huan Cui, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA – “Linking authigenic carbonate mineralization in marine sediments to the largest carbon isotope excursion in Earth history.”

2015 – Emily Hernandez Goldstein, University of Texas, Austin TX, USA – “Trace element systematics of serpentinization.”

2014 – Enrica Balboni, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN, USA – “Uranyl peroxide nanocluster formation from uranyl minerals”

2014 – Anthony Giuffre, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA – “Deciphering the influence of polysaccharide chemistry and ionic strength on the kinetics of calcium carbonate nucleation.”

2014 – Stacy Elizabeth Phillips, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John’s, NL, Canada – “High-spatial-resolution Sm-Nd and U-Pb isotope geochemistry of monazite in the Sweetwater Wash, Painted Rock, and North Piute plutons, Mojave Desert, California”

2014 – Michael Zanetti, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA – “Impact-induced Decomposition of Zircon and its Significance for Planetary Geology”

2013 – John G. Warden, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA – “Microbial calcification in modern thrombolites”

2013 – Christopher James Spencer, University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom – “Generation and Preservation of Continental Crust in the Grenville Orogeny: Constrained by U-Pb, Hf and O isotopes of zircon”

2012 – Jessica A Matthews, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA – “Testing the usefulness of oxygen isotope signatures from zircon grown in migmatites: Mt Stafford, central Australia”

2012 – Johnbull Otah Dickson, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA – “Characterization of Pertechnetate Aluminosilicate Mineral Phases and the Stability of Tc-99 to Ion Exchange in the presence of Competing Ions”

2011 – Kirsten F Hodge, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada – “Linking a magma’s microstructure to a macroscopic description of its rheology”

2011 – Fan Wang, Purdue University, Purdue, IN, USA – “Salt mineralogy of the Atacama Desert, Chile: A terrestrial analog for aqueous derived mineral formation on Mars”

2010 – Neil Robert Bennett, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada – “The Metal-Silicate Partitioning Behaviour of Re and Pt: Implications for Terrestrial Accretion and Core Formation”

2010 – Jessica Lynn Till, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA – “Rutherford backscattering spectrometry studies of Fe chemical diffusion in plagioclase”

2009 – Christopher M. Fisher, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns, NL, Canada – “Testing the use of synthetic minerals as isotopic reference materials: an example using hafnium in zircon”

2009 – Dongbo Wang, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA – “Investigating a new pathway to carbonate mineralization and implications for Mg:Ca paleoenvironmental signatures”

2008 – Olaf Jakub Borkiewicz, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA – “Formation of precursor calcium phosphate phases during crystal growth of apatite and their role on the uptake of heavy metals and radionuclide”

2008 – Jennifer Bernadette Wright, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, USA – “Measurement of metamorphic kinetics through combined high resolution X-ray computed tomography (HRXCT), electron microanalysis (EMPA), and Sm-Nd isotopic dating”

2007 – Emily Catherine Pope, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA – “Fluid stable isotope signatures in hydrous alteration minerals”

2007 – Philip Skemer, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA – “Rheology and microstructural evolution of experimentally deformed orthoenstatite”

2006 – Angelo Antignano, Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA – “Rutile, Apatite, and Zircon Solubility in Silicate-bearing Fluids: Implications for HFSE and REE Mobility in Subduction Zones”

2006 – Gregory Dumond, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA – “What are we dating?: Linking zircon growth to metamorphic reactions in high-pressure mafic granulite”

2005 – Saumyaditya Bose, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA – “Combining studies in mineral-microbe interaction and nanomineralogy: Measuring and understanding the bio-reduction kinetics of Mn oxyhydroxides driven by Shewanella oneidensis”

2005 – Elizabeth R. Goeke, University of Iowa, Iowa city, IA, USA – “Quantitative textural modeling along a strong decompression path: Example from the Adula Nappe, Central Alps”

2004 – Kurt James Steffen, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA – “Modeling the interaction of metamorphism and deformation using numercial techniques”

2004 – Jennifer Mae Jackson, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA – “Sound velocities of aluminous MgSiO3 perovskite under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions using Brillouin spectroscopy and laser heating”

2003 – Andrew Madden, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA, USA – “Nanoscale Observations of Redox Reactions at Mineral Surfaces with Enzyme-Activated Atomic Force Microscopy”

2003 – Abigail Spieler, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA – “Mineralogic control on trace-element mobility in basalt aquifers”

2002 – Kevin James Davis, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA – “Resolving the Intertwined Roles of Temperature, Growth Rate and Growth Mechanism in Determining Mg-Calcite Compositions: Towards a Physical Baseline for the Mg/Ca Paleothermometer”

2002 – Robert Lester King, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA – “B systematics during progressive Si metasomatism of the mantle wedge”

2001 – Carlotta B. Chernoff, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA – “Distribution of trace metal contents in black shales and their metamorphic equivalents”

2001 – Kaye Sawyer Savage, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA – “Efflorescent uptake of trace oxyanions: effect on crystal structure and distribution”

2000 – Julia Ann Baldwin, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA – “Monazite paragenesis in granulite facies rocks of the Striding-Athabasca mylonite zone, northern Saskatchewan, Canada”

2000 – Cin-Ty Aelous Lee, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA – “The evolution of the continental lithosphere in tectonized regions: Re-Os isotopic mapping of the lithospheric mantle beneath southwestern North America”.

1999 – Wim van Westrenen, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom – “Melt Partitioning of highly siderophile elements measured by laser ablation microprobe”

1998 – R. Lee Penn, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA – “Growth mechanisms and morphological evolution of nanocrystalline anatase”

1997 – Alkiviathes Meldrum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA – “Actinide and rare-earth diffusion properties in monazite and zircon”

1995 – Jed Leigh Mosenfelder, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA – “Kinetics of the coesite-quartz transformation”

1993 – Cambria Denison, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA – “Nucleation and growth in metamorphic rocks based on X-ray tomography and automated petrographic image analysis”

1991 – John C. Ayers, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA – “Solubility and partitioning of elements among accessory minerals in aqueous fluids”

1989 – Jillian F. Banfield, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA – “Effect of exsolution, oxidation, atomic ordering, and defect formation on the magnetic properties of Fe-Ti oxide minerals”

1989 – Nancy E. Brown, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA – “Order-disorder and enthalpies of mixing in hematite-ilmenite solid solution”

1987 – R. Chris Tacker, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA – “Calibration of the apatite volatile fugacity sensor”

1985 – Carol Russ Nabelek, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA – “Amphibole geothermometry”

1983 – Tracy N. Tingle, University of California, Davis, CA, USA – “The solubility and diffusivity of carbon in olivine”

1981 – William D. Carlson, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA – “Experimental Investigation of subsolidus equilibria in feldspathic peridotite and gabbro”