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Adrian J. Brearley

General information

Professor of Mineralogy and University of New Mexico Regents' Lecturer

Director - Transmission Electron Microscope and X-ray Diffraction Laboratories

Co-Associate Chair of Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Telephone: (505) 277 4163

FAX: 505 277 8843

E-mail address: brearley@unm.edu

Research Interests:

Mineralogy, petrology and cosmochemistry of planetary materials

Kinetics and mechanisms of metamorphic reactions

Phase transitions in the mantle transition zone and lower mantle

Mineralogy and petrology of mantle xenoliths

Electron microbeam techniques, particularly transmission electron microscopy

Graduate students:

Jana Berlin - PhD (coadvisor with Dr Rhian Jones) - graduation Spring 2008 - Mineralogical, chemical and isotopic studies of the relationship between chondrules and matrix

Rena Ford - PhD - Alteration and thermal histories of CAIs in CV carbonaceous chondrites.

Kristen Mullen - M.S. (academic advisor with Mike Spilde) - mineralogical and stable isotope studies of corrosion residues in Lechuguilla cave, New Mexico

Neyda Abreu - PhD - Graduate Summer 2007 - Mineralogy and petrology of CR carbonaceous chondrites - now assistant professor at Penn State Dubois.

Amber Hawkins - M.S. (coadvisor with Dr Jane Selverstone) - graduated Spring 2006 - Petrologic studies of fishnet and atoll garnets from the Tauern Window, Austrian Alps.

This page was last updated on September 19, 2007

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