Jessica Warren
Assistant Professor, Geological & Environmental Sciences, commencing Summer 2010
Research
My research uses rocks collected at sea and on land to study processes within the Earth. I am particularly interested in the ridges and subduction zones that divide our planet into tectonic plates, the outward expression of convection within the Earth's mantle. Peridotites - direct samples of the mantle - collected from these areas allow exploration of processes such as ductile deformation, mantle flow, melting and magma transport, and mantle geochemical evolution. I work on samples from a variety of field localities, including the Southwest Indian, Mid-Atlantic and Gakkel Ridges, the Tonga Trench, the Josephine Peridotite, and the Oman Ophiolite.
Teaching
I will be teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses, including a course on metamorphic petrology and a field course in northern California.
Professional Activities
Member, American Geophysical Union; Member, Mineralogical Society of America; Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow (2008-present); Council Member, Geological Society of Washington (2009); Participant, MARGINS TEI (2009); Participant, Marine Geoscience Leadership Symposium (2009); Invited Speaker, National Museum of Natural History (2008); VGP Session Co-convener, AGU Fall Meeting (2007); Participant, Second Cooperative Institute for Deep Earth Research (2006); Invited Speaker, Brown University (2005).
EDUCATION:
| 2007 | Ph.D. Geochemistry and Geophysics MIT/WHOI Joint Program |
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| 2003 | M.A. Natural Sciences University of Cambridge |
| 2000 | M.Sci. Earth Sciences University of Cambridge |
| 1999 | B.A. Natural Sciences University of Cambridge |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
| 2008 - Present | Postdoctoral Fellow Carnegie Institution of Washington |
| 2008 - Present | Guest Investigator Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| 2007 | Postdoctoral Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
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HONORS AND AWARDS:
| 2008 - Present | Carnegie Fellowship, Carnegie Institution of Washington |
| 2002 - 2003 | Stanley W. Watson Fellowship, MIT/WHOI Joint Program |
| 2001 - 2002 | Charles Davis Hollister Fellowship, MIT/WHOI Joint Program |
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
| 2009 - Present | Member, American Geophysical Union |
| 2009 - Present | Member, Mineralogical Society of America |
| 2009 - Present | Member, Geological Society of Washington |
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PUBLICATIONS:
| 2009 | Kurz, M. D., J. M. Warren and J. Curtice, 2009. Mantle deformation and noble gases: helium and neon in oceanic mylonites, Chemical Geology 266, 10-18 |
| 2008 | Warren, J.M., G. Hirth and P. B. Kelemen, 2008. Evolution of olivine lattice preferred orientation during simple shear in the mantle, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 272, 501-512. |
| 2007 | Courtier, A. M., M. G. Jackson, J. F. Lawrence, Z. Wang, C.-T. A. Lee, R. Halama, J. M. Warren, R. Workman, W. Xu, M. M. Hirschmann, A. M. Larson, S. R. Hart, C. Lithgow-Bertelloni, L. Stixrude, W.-P. Chen, 2007. Correlation of seismic and petrologic thermometers suggests deep thermal anomalies beneath hotspots , Earth and Planetary Science Letters 264, 308-316. |
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