John C Lassiter

Areas of Expertise

Earth's origin and evolution, isotope and trace element geochemistry, the role of crust and lithospheric mantle recycling in the generation of mantle chemical heterogeneity, the origin and distribution of water and other volatile elements in the Earth's interior, and the thermal and chemical evolution of the Earth's core and core/mantle boundary

Research Locations

Postdoctoral Fellowship - National Science Foundation (1995 - 1997)

The Berkeley Fellowship - to be entered (1993 - 1995)

Graduate Research Fellowship - National Science Foundation (1990 - 1993)

Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society - Brown University (1989)

Sigma Xi Science Honor Society - Brown University (1989)

Associate Editor, Reviews of Geophysics (2002)

Member, American Geophysical Union

member, Geochemical Society

member, European Union of Geosciences

Graduate Students

Jing Yang , Ph.D., expected 2016 (Committee Member)
My Area of Expertise: Diamond Anvil Cells, Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction, Conventional X-ray Diffraction, Brillouin Light Spectroscopy, Impulsive Stimulated Light Scattering, Raman Spectroscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Electron Probe Mircron-analyzer, Matlab Programming

Edward W Marshall (Supervisor)
I am a high-temperature geochemist studying the Colorado Plateau lithospheric mantle. I use stable isotopes (O,H), radiogenic isotopes (Sr, Nd, Hf, Os), nominally anhydrous mineral water contents, and platinum group element concentrations as my tools to learn more about the mantle. I use these techniques to learn about the lithospheric mantle and make inferences about the construction of Laurentia, elemental...

Benjamin L Byerly (Supervisor)
I use the major element, trace element, and isotopic (Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf-Os) chemistry of abyssal peridotites and mantle xenoliths to understand the evolution of the lithospheric and asthenospheric mantle.