BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF DAVID H. EGGLER

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PERSONAL DATA

Date/Place of Birth:  1940 - Ashland, Wisconsin

Address: 403 Deike Building, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802

FAX (814) 863-7823

e-mail eggler@geosc.psu.edu

EDUCATION

1962 A.B. in Geology, Oberlin College

1967 Ph.D. in Geology, University of Colorado

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1963 Field Assistant, U.S. Geological Survey (Summer)

1967-1970 Research Associate in Geochemistry, The Pennsylvania State University

1970-1972 Assistant Professor of Geology, Texas A & M University

1972-1977 Staff Member, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington

1977-1985 Associate Professor of Petrology, The Pennsylvania State University

1985-2004  Professor of Petrology, The Pennsylvania State University

 2004--    Emeritus Professor of Petrology, The Pennsylvania State University

1983-1988 Coordinator, Geosciences Graduate Programs, The Pennsylvania State University

1988-1994 Associate Head for Graduate Program and Research, Geosciences Department, The Pennsylvania State University

Professional Societies:

American Geophysical Union

Geological Society of America (Fellow)

Geological Society of Washington

Geochemical Society

Mineralogical Society of America (Fellow)

Honors & Awards

•National Merit Scholar, 1958-1962

•National Science Foundation Fellowships, 1962-1967

•Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists Award, 1967

•L. R. Wager Prize in Volcanology, from the International Association for Volcanology and Geochemistry of the Earth's Interior and the Subcommittee on Volcanology of the Royal Society, 1979

Ph.D. STUDENTS SINCE 1990:

Francis O. Dudas, 1990; Stephen Shank, 1993; João Batista G. Teixeira, 1994; Mark Moats, expected

Ph.D. ADVISOR: William A. Braddock, University of Colorado

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research interests are experimental mineralogy and petrology of the Earth’s upper mantle, in particular the effects of volatiles on production of magmas, redox problems, and magmatism in island arcs. My high-pressure experiments, over a period dating from 1968, have included solubility of CO 2 and CO in silicate melts, the effect of CO 2 on peridotite phase relations, the solubility of silicate materials in high-pressure H 2O and CO 2 fluids, and mantle decarbonation and decarbonation melting. I am currently working with Jim Kasting of Penn State on carbon buffering of mantle redox and the evolution of the presently-oxidized atmosphere-crust-mantle system, and with Peter Deines on high-pressure experimental determination of carbon isotope partitioning between calcite and graphite.