Education

Williams College, 1968-1969
University of New Hampshire (B.A. in Geology, 1972)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD in Geochemistry, 1976)

Professional Career

September 1976-August 1977: Post-doctoral Fellow, Carnegie Institution of Washington
1977-present: Assistant —> Full Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
1990-1995: Chairman, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, RPI
1995-present: Institute Professor of Science, RPI

  Memberships, Awards and Honors

Early Career Award, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1982

F.W. Clarke Medal of the Geochemical Society, 1983

NSF Presidential Young Investigator, 1984-1989

Geochemical Society (fellow)

American Geophysical Union (fellow)

Mineralogical Society of America (fellow)

Geological Society of America (fellow)

European Association for Geochemistry (fellow)

American Academy of Arts and Sciences (fellow, 1996)

National Academy of Sciences (member, 1997)

President, Mineralogical Society of America, 1998

Arthur L. Day Medal, Geological Society of America (1998)

Participating Guest, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1999)

Distinguished Alumnus, Eng'g & Phys. Sciences, University of New Hampshire (1999)

R.A. Daly Lecturer, American Geophysical Union, 1999

Listed in A to Z of Earth Scientists (150 notable Earth scientists, 18th century to present), 2002

Original Member, Highly Cited Researchers, ISI/Thomsen Scientific, 2002

Oualline Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin, 2004

V.M. Goldschmidt Medal of the Geochemical Society, 2005

W.H. Bucher Medal, American Geophysical Union

Kliegel Lecturer, Caltech, 2008

Professional Service Highlights

Member, Advisory Committee to the Geosciences Directorate at the NSF, 2008-

Principal Editor, Elements, 2006-present

Associate Editor, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1985-1988
Editor for Petrology and Geochemistry, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, 1988-1996
Editor, Chemical Geology, 1991-1995
Editorial Board, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1997-1999

Editorial Board, Geofluids, 2003-
Lunar &Planetary Institute workshop on space station experiments, 1985
Member, NRC Advisory Panel on "Physics and Chemistry of Earth Materials", 1986
Panel Member, NSF Division of Earth Sciences, 1987-1990
Clarke Medal Committee, 1986-1989
Mineralogical Society of America Awards Committee, 1989-1990
Geochemical Society: Councilor (1991-1994); Budget Committee, 1990; Nom. Committee (1998-2000)
Goldschmidt Conference Publicity Chairman, 1990
Univ. California Inst. for Geophysics & Planetary Physics Proposal Review Panel, 1990-1994, 1999
NSF Site Committee for the Stony Brook Center for High-Pressure Research, 1992
American Geophysical Union: VGP Fellows Committee (1992-1995; 2001-); VGP Nom. Committee (1997)
Roebling Medal Committee (Mineralogical Society of America), 1993-1994
Chairman, Department of Energy O.P.A. Review Panel (Geochemistry), 1993
NSF Continental Margins Steering Committee and Workshop, 1993
Committee of Visitors, Petrology & Geochemistry Program, NSF, 1993
Advisory Committee, NSF Science & Technol. Ctr. (Princeton-Stony Brook-Carnegie)
Committee of Visitors, Instrumentation & Facilities Program, NSF, 1997

Visiting Committees: McGill (1991); Carnegie Inst. Geophys. Lab. (1992, 2000); Brown (1993)

Harvard (1994, 1999); Rice (2000); University of Houston (2002); University of Maryland (2003);

Arizona State University (2004); University of New Hampshire (2004); Rice (2005)