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Professors Caltech Office of Sponsored Research (Institute Access Only) |
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Jess F. Adkins | |
| Associate Professor
of Geochemistry and Global Environmental Science Ph.D., MIT (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 1998 Geochemical investigations of past climates using corals, sediments and their interstitial waters; rate of deep ocean circulation and its relation to mechanisms of rapid climate changes; metals as tracers of environmental processes; radiocarbon and U-series chronology; chemical oceanography. E-mail: jess@gps.caltech.edu |
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Oded Aharonson | |
| Assistant
Professor of Planetary Science |
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Jean-Paul Ampuero | |
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Assistant Professor of Seismology Arriving April 2008
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Paul D. Asimow | |
| Associate Professor
of Geology and Geochemistry Ph.D., Caltech, 1997 Computational, experimental, and observational igneous petrology; thermodynamic models of mantle melting; properties of minerals and silicate liquids at high pressure and temperature; mid-ocean ridge magmatism. E-mail: asimow@gps.caltech.edu |
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Jean-Philippe Avouac | |
Professor of
Geology |
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Geoffrey A. Blake | |
| Professor of
Cosmochemistry and Planetary Science and Professor of Chemistry Ph.D., Caltech, 1986 Observational analyses of stellar and planetary genesis; in situ characterization of the Earth's atmosphere and biogeochemical cycles; laser spectroscopic and ab initio characterization of weakly bonded clusters and reactive intermediates. E-mail: gab@gps.caltech.edu |
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Michael E. Brown | |
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Professor of Planetary Astronomy |
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Robert W. Clayton | |
| Professor of
Geophysics Ph.D., Stanford, 1981 Crustal and mantle geophysics and wave propagation. E-mail: clay@gps.caltech.edu |
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John Eiler | |
| Professor
of Geochemistry Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1994 Experimental and applied study of the isotope geochemistry of light elements (H, C, N, and O), including the following fields: Petrogenesis of basaltic lavas; geochemistry of mantle rocks; geothermometry and geospeedometry; aqueous alteration of meteorites; experimental study of natural volatiles in the H-C-N-O system at low temperatures; development of micro-analytical techniques; atmospheric and environmental chemistry; paleoclimate research. E-mail: eiler@gps.caltech.edu |
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Charles Elachi | |
| Professor of Electrical Engineering
and Planetary Science and Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Ph.D., Caltech, 1971 Experience and interest in the use of spaceborne active microwave instruments and remote sensing of planetary surfaces, spheres, and subsurfaces. Analysis and interpretation of radar imagery of planetary surfaces (including Earth). E-mail: Charles.Elachi@jpl.nasa.gov |
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Kenneth A. Farley | |
| W.M. Keck Foundation
Professor of Geochemistry and Chairman of the Division Ph.D., University of California, San Diego (Scripps Institute of Oceanography), 1991 Rare gas composition of terrestrial materials; chemical evolution of the Earth's mantle and atmosphere; petrogenesis of oceanic lavas; low temperature thermochronometry; geologic record of interplanetary dust flux. E-mail: farley@gps.caltech.edu |
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