Tanya Furman
Professor, Department of Geosciences
Pennsylvania State University
Education
1982 B.S.E. Civil Engineering Princeton University (magna cum laude)
1989 Ph.D. Geochemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution Joint Program
Personal
Married; one daughter born 21 August 1995
Professional Experience
2005- Professor, Pennsylvania State University
2005-2006 Acting Director, Alliance for Earth Science, Education and Development
in Africa, Pennsylvania State University
2004- Associate Director, Alliance for Earth Science, Education and Development
in Africa, Pennsylvania State University
1999-2004 Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Programs, Department
of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University
1998-2005 Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University
1992-1998 Assistant Professor (Academic Faculty), University of Virginia
1989-1993 Founding Director, Virginia Museum of Natural History, UVa Branch
1988-1992 Assistant Professor (General Faculty), University of Virginia
1986-1988 Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1985 Teaching Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Honors and Awards
Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics
and Engineering Mentoring (2005)
Faculty Mentoring Award, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (2003)
George H. Deike, Jr. Research Award, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
(2002)
Project Kaleidoscope, Faculty for the 21st Century (1998-), National Steering
Committee (2003-)
National Science Foundation CAREER Program (1995)
Alumni Association Board of Trustees Distinguished Young Teacher Award
(1994)
Golden Key National Honor Society - Honorary Membership (1997)
Seven Society Recognition for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring (1995)
Lilly Teaching Fellowship, University of Virginia (1992-1993)
National Science Foundation graduate fellowship (1984-1987)
Geological Society of America Penrose Outstanding Mention (1984, 1985)
Ida Green graduate fellowship (1983-1984)
Fulbright Fellowship to Iceland (1982-1983)
W. Taylor Thom Prize in Geological Engineering, Princeton University (1982)
Current Research Interests
Using geochemistry of mafic lavas and phenocrysts to unravel melt generation,
segregation and transport processes in the lithosphere and asthenosphere,
with particular interest in continental rift zone magmatism and the development
and maintenance of mantle reservoirs
Graduate Students Supervised
Wendy Nelson (PhD candidate) Isotopic heterogeneity
in the South African Superplume
Sabrina Innocenti (PhD expected 2006) Petrographic, textural and geochemical
constraints on eruptive behavior of Merapi Volcano, Indonesia
Tyrone Rooney (PhD 2006) Geochemical evidence for progressive continental
rupture in the Main Ethiopian Rift
Roeland Doust (MS 2003) Volcanic hazards of Mount Agung, Bali, Indonesia.
Kelly Knight (MS 2002) Tertiary basalt magmatism in Turkana Kenya, with
implications for evolution of the East African Rift System
Keith Reinhardt (MS 2000) Effects of severe flooding on base cation cycling
in the Staunton River watershed, central Virginia Blue Ridge
Andrea Korsak (MS 1997) Sources of sulfur to Yellow Creek and Coal Run,
Otter Creek Wilderness, West Virginia: a stable isotope approach
Ross Fitzhugh (MS 1995) Controls on longitudinal and seasonal variation
of stream acidity in a headwater catchment on the Appalachian Plateau,
WestVirginia
Leif Riddervold (MS 1995) Sources of nitrogen to the high marsh/upland
transition zone of a Virginia back-barrier system
Susan Ingersoll (MS 1994) Heterogeneous sulfate adsorption in soils derived
from pre-Cambrian granite gneiss in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
(co-supervised with B.J. Cosby)
Scott Robinson (MS 1993) Variations in clay mineralogy and sediment texture
in salt marsh soils of the Eastern Shore of Virginia
Publications
Furman T, 2006, The right advice, Nature, 442, doi:10.1038/nj7098-106b.
Furman T, Geochemistry of East African Rift basalts: an overview. Journal
of African Earth Sciences, in press.
Furman T, Bryce J, Rooney T, Hanan B, Yirgu G & Ayalew D, 2006, Heads
and tails: 30 million years of the Afar plume. Journal of the Geological
Society, London, 259, 97-121.
Furman T, Knight KM & Bryce JG, 2006, Tertiary mafic lavas of Turkana,
N. Kenya: constraints on temporal evolution of the EARS and on the occurrence
of HIMU volcanism in Africa, Journal of Petrology, doi:10.1093/ petrology/egl009..
Rooney T, Furman T, Yirgu G & Ayalew D, 2005, Structure of the Ethiopian
lithosphere: evidence from mantle xenoliths. Geochimica et Cosmochimica
Acta, 69, 3889-3910.
Furman T & Blakey R, Using sedimentary stratigraphy of the Grand Canyon
to encourage quantitative reasoning skills in introductory Physical Geology,
Journal of Geoscience Education, accepted.
Furman T, Rooney T, Bryce J, Yirgu G, Ayalew D & Hanan B, 2004, Continental
rupture in the Main Ethiopian Rift: constraints from magma source compositions.
Proceedings volume, International Conference on the East African Rift
System: Development, Evolution and Resources.
Furman T, J Bryce, J Karson & A Iotti, 2004, Geochemistry of Quaternary
mafic lavas from Turkana, Kenya: evidence for a common asthenospheric
source beneath the East African Rift System. Journal of Petrology, 45,
1069-1088.
Ebinger CJ & T Furman, 2003, Geodynamical setting of the Virunga volcanic
province, East Africa, Acta Vulcanologica, 15, 9-16.
Furman T, 2003, Earth Inquiry: Monitoring and mitigating volcanic hazards.
WH Freeman publisher (peer-reviewed educational activity for Physical
Geology; available nationally).
Furman T & H Gittings 2003, Eocene basalt volcanism in central Virginia:
implications for Cenozoic tectonism, Southeastern Geology, 42, 111-122.
Maguire PH, Ebinger CJ, Stuart GW, Mackenzie GD, Whaler KA, Kendall J-M,
Khan MA, Fowler CMR, Klemperer SL, Keller GR, Harder S, Furman T, Mickus
K, Asfaw L, Ayele A & Abebe, B 2003, Geophysical project in Ethiopia
studies continental breakup. EOS 84, 337-343.
Bartels KS & T Furman 2002, Effect of sonic and ultrasonic frequencies
on crystallization of basalt. American Mineralogist, 87, 217-226.
Fitzhugh RD, T Furman & AK Korsak 2001, Sources of stream sulfate
in headwater catchments in Otter Creek Wilderness, West Virginia, USA.
Hydrological Processes, 15, 541-556.
Furman T & E Merritt 2000, A data-intensive approach to studying climate
and climate change in Africa. Journal of Geoscience Education, 48, 464-468.
Furman T & D Graham 1999, Erosion of lithospheric mantle beneath the
East African Rift system: evidence from the Kivu volcanic province. Lithos,
48, 237-262.
Fitzhugh RD, T Furman & BJ Cosby 1999, Longitudinal and seasonal patterns
of stream acidity in a headwater catchment on the Appalachian Plateau,
West Virginia. Biogeochemistry, 47, 39-62.
Furman T, P Thompson & B Hatchl 1998, Primary mineral weathering in
the central Appalachians: a mass balance approach. Geochimica et Cosmochimica
Acta, 62, 2889-2904.
Furman T 1995, Melting of metasomatized subcontinental lithosphere: undersaturated
mafic lavas from Rungwe, Tanzania. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology,
122, 97-115.
Furman T, FA Frey & K-H Park 1995, The scale of source heterogeneity
beneath Iceland's eastern neovolcanic zone. Journal of the Geological
Society of London, 152, 997-1002.
Furman T, FA Frey & PS Meyer 1992, Petrogenesis of evolved basalts
and rhyolites at Austurhorn, SE Iceland: the role of fractional crystallization.
Journal of Petrology, 33, 1405-1445.
Furman T, PS Meyer & FA Frey 1992, Evolution of Icelandic central
volcanoes: evidence from the Austurhorn intrusion, SE Iceland. Bulletin
of Volcanology, 55, 45-62.
Furman T, FA Frey & K-H Park 1991, Geochemical constraints on petrogenesis
of mildly alkaline lavas from Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland: the Eldfell (1973)
and Surtsey (1963-1967) eruptions. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology,
109, 19-37.
Furman T & Spera FJ 1985, Co-mingling of acid and basic magma with
implications for the origin of mafic I-type xenoliths: field and petrochemical
relations of an unusual dike complex at Eagle Lake, Sequoia National Park,
California, USA. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 24, 151-178.
Publications in Preparation
Doust R, Furman T & Voight B, Hazard assessment of Mt. Agung, Indonesia
[submission pending, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research]
Innocenti S, Furman T, Voight B & Andreastuti S, Textural and mineral
chemical constraints on eruptive behavior of Merapi volcano [submission
pending, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research]
Kurkcuoglu B, Furman T & Hanan B, Melting model, trace element and
isotopic constraints on post-collisional mafic lavas from the North Anatolian
Fault Zone, Armutlu Peninsula, NW Turkey [submission pending, Lithos]
Postdoctoral Research Associates Supervised
Karen Bartels (PhD MIT 1991) Establish 1-atmosphere experimental laboratory
and conduct experimental studies of elemental partitioning in mafic alkalic
lavas (1 atm to 20 kbar)
Dongmei Yu (PhD Geneva 1990) Oxygen isotopic analysis of precipitation
and stream water from Staunton River, Virginia: determining the effects
of the 1995 flooding on water storage
Biltan Kurkcuoglu (PhD Ankara 2002; TUBITAK international postdoctoral
fellowship) Geochemical evolution of post-collisional basalts in northern
Anatolia, Turkey
Supriyati Andreastuti (PhD University of Aukland 1999) Textural constraints
on explosive volcanism at Merapi and Montserrat volcanoes (supervised
with Barry Voight)
Dissertation Supervisors
F.A. Frey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
P.S. Meyer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Professional Memberships
American Geophysical Union
Geological Society of America
National Association of Geoscience Teachers
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