Donald J. DePaolo
Donald J. DePaolo (born April 12, 1951 in Buffalo ) is an American geochemist.
DePaolo studied geology at Binghamton University with a bachelor's degree in 1973 and received his PhD in geology and chemistry in 1978 with Gerald Wasserburg at Caltech . In 1978 he became Assistant Professor, 1981 Associate Professor and 1983 Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and from 1988 he was Professor of Geochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley . He was also at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , where he headed geochemistry from 1998 to 2006 and was Associate Director of the Laboratory for Energy and Environmental Science, and heads the Center for Isotopes Geochemistry at LBNL and the University of Berkeley. In 2009 he became director of the Center for Nanoscale Control of Geologic CO 2 (EFRC). 1997/98 he was Miller Research Professor in Berkeley.
He deals with isotope geochemistry. With his teacher Wasserburg, he pioneered neodymium samarium dating. He is involved in the Hawaii Scientific Drilling Project (HSDP) with deep drilling at Mauna Kea. He determined the geochemical structure of the magmas of the mantle plume under Hawaii. He also works on the geochemistry of carbon dioxide sequestration in rocks.
He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (1993), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994), the California Academy of Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 2000 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. He received the FW Clarke Medal of the Geochemical Society in 1978, the Arthur L. Day Medal in 1999 , the Urey Award in 2000 , the James B. Macelwane Medal in 1983 , the Harry H. Hess Medal in 2014, the VM Goldschmidt Award in 2019 and the Mineralogical Society in 1987 of America Award.
Fonts
- Study of magna sources, mantle structure and the differentiation of the earth from variations of 143 Nd / 144 Nd in igneous rocks , Mineralogical Society of America, 1978
- Neodymium Isotope Geochemistry: An Introduction , Springer 1988
- as co-author: Using Pb and Sr isotopes to assess Asian aerosol impacts in urban and interior California , California Air Resources Board, 2012
- Published in: Geochemistry of geologic CO2 sequestration , Mineralogical Society of America 2013
Web links
- Homepage
- Literature by and about Donald J. DePaolo in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | DePaolo, Donald J. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American geochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buffalo |