ALAN
WHITTINGTON - CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal
information:
NAME:
Alan
Geoffrey Whittington
BORN:
Edinburgh,
Scotland (UK citizen, US permanent resident)
ADDRESS:
Department of Geological Sciences, University
of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia MO 65211-1380
OFFICE
TEL : +1 (573) 884-7625
OFFICE
FAX : +1 (573) 882-5458
Education:
Ph.D.
1997 Open University, U.K. Earth
Sciences
B.A.
1993 University of Cambridge,
U.K. (first class with honours) Geological Sciences
Positions
held:
Aug 2002 - present Assistant
Professor: University of Missouri-Columbia, U.S.A.
Aug 1999 - present Visiting
Assistant Professor & Postdoc: University of Illinois, U.S.A.
Mar
1999 - Aug 1999 Postdoctoral Fellow: CRMHT-CNRS, Orleans, France
Sep
1997 - Feb 1999 Postdoctoral Fellow: Institut de Physique du Globe,
Paris, France
1994
-1997 Demonstrator (T.A.):
Open University, U.K.
July
1993 - Sep 1993 Research
Assistant: University of Cambridge, U.K.
Research
themes:
-
Physical
and thermodynamic properties of silicate melts and glasses
-
Chemistry
and eruptive behavior of lava flows
-
Generation
and transport properties of crustal melts
- Mafic
magma transport and emplacement in sedimentary basins
- Field,
geochemical and isotopic studies of high grade metamorphism and crustal anatexis
-
Timescales
of heating, melting, cooling and exhumation of the continental crust
- Organic
geochemistry of contact-metamorphosed coal
Teaching
experience:
- MU
GEOL 1100 Principles of Geology, Fall 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
- MU
GEOL 1200 Environmental Geology, Winter 2003
- MU
GEOL 2500 Regional Geology Field Trip, Winter 2008
- MU
GEOL 3900 Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Winter 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006,
2008
- MU GEOL 4180 /
7180 Solar System Science - Fall 2005, 2007 (with Angela Speck, MU Astronomy)
- MU
GEOL 4992 Field Course - Summer 2003, 2004, 2005
- MU GEOL 4700 /
7700 Theoretical Geochemistry - Fall 2006
- MU
GEOL 8140 Metamorphic Petrology, Fall 2003, Winter 2005, Winter 2007
- MU
GEOL 8750 Physics and Chemistry of Silicate Liquids, Glasses and Magmas -
Fall 2004, Winter 2006
- UIUC
GEOL 100 Planet Earth
(2001)
- UIUC
GEOL 311 Structural Geology (1999,
2000, 2001)
- UIUC
GEOL 360 Geochemistry
(2001,
2002)
- UIUC
GEOL 493Q3 Advanced Petrology (2002)
- Also
lectured portions of: GEOL 101 (intro to geology for non-science students),
GEOL 397 (field camp preparation) and GEOL 489 (graduate geotectonics)
Funding:
- 2005-2007 NSF
- Collaborative Research: Measurement of Transport Properties of Silicate
Melts with applications to Crustal Anatexis (PI: Alan
Whittington; co-PI's: Anne Hofmeister [WUStL], Peter
Nabelek [MU])
- 2004-2007 NSF
- Rheological and Thermodynamic Properties of Subduction Zone Magmas and Lavas
(PI: Alan Whittington)
- 2004 MU
PRIME fund
- Matching funds for acquisition of parallel-plate viscometer (PI: Alan Whittington)
- 2003-2005 UM
Research Board - Crustal contamination of basaltic magma (PI: Alan Whittington)
-
2003-2004 MU
Research Council - Magma emplacement at Spanish Peaks, Colorado (PI: Alan
Whittington)
-
2002-2004 NSF
- Collaborative Research: Emplacement of the Ferrar Mafic Igneous Province:
A Pilot Study of Intrusive Architecture and Flow Directions in Southern
Victoria Land (co-PI's: Tom Fleming [SCSU], Anne Grunow [OSU], Stephen Marshak
[UIUC] and Alan Whittington)
Awards:
-
2002
UIUC: incomplete list of teachers
ranked as excellent by their students (Geochem 2002)
-
1998
Royal
Society Conference grant to attend 13th Himalayan workshop, Peshawar,
Pakistan
Professional
affiliations and service:
- Reviewer
for several journals covering tectonics, geochemistry, petrology, and geomaterials
-
Member
of: American Geophysical Union, Geological Society of America, Mineralogical
Society of America , National Association of Geoscience Teachers, International
Association for Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior
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information: