Author Archives: bindeman@uoregon.edu

September 2014

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We are fully staffed at the moment!

Our Lab population now includes:
PhD Students:
Angela Seligman (MS 2011, Utah, BS, U Northern Arizona), PhD Candidate, Stable Isotopic (O,H) investigation of secondary hydration of volcanic ash; 40-30Ma caldera magmatism in Oregon, Gorely Volcano, Kamchatka

Dylan Colon, (BS 2011, U Wisconsin) PhD Candidate, microanalytical isotopic investigation of post Columbia River Basalts silicic magmatism, numerical modeling of the plume crust interaction and hydrothermal alteration

David Zakharov (Diploma, Moscow Geological Prospecting University, 2013, also class work at the University of Manitoba) Stable isotopic, geochronologic and geologic investigation of 2.4-2.3 Ga syn glacial (syn Paleoproterozoic Slushball Earth) rocks in Karelia, Russia and shales worldwide

Dr Matt Loewen (PhD 2013, OSU), postdoctoral scholar, working on a number of projects including recent Yellowstone magmatism, and island arc petrogenesis using O-H isotopes and trace elements and Pb-isotopes

Dr Joe Workman (Chemistry Professor, Centre College, Kentucky, sabbatical visitor) Mass Independent signatures of sulfate in 30-20Ma John Day ash beds

Dr Jim Palandri (Lab Manager and Research Associate) Day to Day Lab operation and modeling fluid rock interactions of Karelian Slushball Earth oxygen-18 depletions and desilicifications and other chemical trends using computer programing

Winter 2010

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We graduated one student Sara Auer and her thesis is published in the form of the paper (Auer et al 2009), Erwan Martin, a postdoctoral fellow for 2.5 years is now in Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe. He wrote two papers, one on mass independent isotopic signature of supereruptions (Martin and Bindeman 2009) and the other on the unusual  high-d18O signature of Mt Shasta and Medicine Lake volcanoes in California (Martin, Bindeman, Grove 2010). We are also involved in fruiteful collaborations with scientists in Germany, Russia, France, Iceland, Australia, and the UK.

Recent Developments

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A  PhD candidate Kathryn Watts has written two papers on her exciting research on the Snake River calderas. We visited Yellowstone and the eastern Snake River Plain with her in 2006, 2008, and 2009. We have also run a GSA Penrose Conference there in September 2009. We have employed four summer undergraduarte students in summers on 2008 and 2009 and have an undergraduate student working throughout the year.   We are also very happy to have Dr Jim Palandri as a half-time lab manager. Jim also works as a Research Associate with Mark Reed on hydrothermal ore deposits. Jim attended  continuous flow training sessions in Ottawa, Canada and visited Zach Sharp’s lab. Graduate student  Niccole Shipley spent 2.5 months in Kamchtatka last summer and now she is continuing her research on Karymshina silicic volcano, largest in Kamchatka; Graduate student  Gary Nolan is pursuing his research hydrogen isotope in obsidian and rare CO2 projects.

Summers 2005, 2007

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Summer of 2005 was full with exciting fieldwork. First, I visited Iceland, where Olgeir Sigmarsson and myself collected important rocks for single crystal isotopic studies here at Oregon and at Clermont Ferrand. Then, I went to Kamchatka, where graduate student Sara Auer and myself worked on collecting a complete section of stratigraphic tefra layers of Klyuchevskoy volcano, while talking to scientists at the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology in the city of Petropavlovsk. Together with Vladimir Leonov and Vera Ponomareva, I have also examined the caldera record of this exciting area and its thick continental crust. We’ll soon be selecting major ignimbrites for Ar-Ar dating and oxygen isotope examination in the framework of my newly funded NSF proposal.