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Fraser E. Goff

Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1982. (Adjunct Professor) (505) 662-0805 Email: candf@swcp.com

Summary of Research Interests:

Research emphasis is on volcanology and geothermal systems in US and abroad. Have worked on nearly 40 geothermal systems and 20 active volcanoes performing: exploration, drilling, geologic mapping, water and gas geochemistry, petrology, dating and program management.

Recent Research & Collaborations:

Geoscience studies in the Valles caldera, New Mexico; geothermal studies in Mexico and southwest USA.

Collaborate with Fawcett, Fischer, Geissman, Smith and Wawrzyniec (UNM), Dunbar, Kyle, McIntosh and Timmons (NM Tech) and Gonzales (Fort Lewis College), Siebe (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Allen (US Geological Survey), Parmenter (Valles Caldera National Preserve), Chipera, Gardner, Heikoop, Reneau and WoldeGabriel (Los Alamos National Lab).

Current Students, Adviser or Co-Advisor:

• Erin Phillips, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, “Duration of Resurgence in the Valles caldera, New Mexico.”
• Linda Donohoo-Hurley, Univ. New Mexico, “Paleomagnetics of VC-3 Core, Valles caldera, New Mexico.”
• Katie Potter, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, “Petrochemistry of South Mountain Rhyolite, Valles caldera, New Mexico.”

Classes:

• E&PS 451L/551L (4 credits) Volcanology Summer Field Course (Fischer/Goff/Smith/Baldridge)
• E&PS 575 (3 credits) Advanced Volcanology (Wohletz/Goff)

Recent Publications:

Goff, F., and Janik, C.J., 2000. Geothermal Systems, in (Sigurdsson, H., Houghton, B., McNutt, S., Rymer, H., and Stix, J., eds.) Encyclopedia of Volcanoes: Academic Press, San Diego, CA, p. 817-834.

Goff, F., and McMurtry, G.M., 2000. Tritium and stable isotopes in magmatic waters. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res. 97, 347-396.

Goff, F., McMurtry, G.M., Counce, D., Stimac, J., Roldan, A., Hilton, D., 2000. Contrasting hydrothermal activity at Sierra Negra and Alcedo volcanoes, Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador. Bull. Volcanol. 62, 34-52.

Goff, F., Love, S.P., Warren, R.G., Counce, D., Obenholzner, J., Siebe, C., and Schmidt, S.C., 2001, Passive infrared remote sensing evidence for large, intermittent CO2
emissions at Popocatépetl Volcano, Mexico, Chemical Geology 177, 133-156.

Goff, F., and Janik, C.J., 2002. Gas geochemistry of the Valles caldera region, New Mexico and comparisons with gases at Yellowstone, Long Valley and other geothermal systems. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res. 116,, 299-323.

Hurwitz, S., Goff, F., Janik, C.J., Evans, W.C., Counce, D., Sorey, M., and Ingebritsen, S., 2003, Mixing of magmatic volatiles with groundwater and interaction with basalt on the summit of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii. J. Geophys. Res. 108(B1), 2028- 2048.

Goff, F. and Gardner, J.N., 2004, Late Cenozoic Geochronology of Volcanism and Mineralization in the Jemez Mountains and Valles Caldera, North Central New Mexico, in (G. Mack and K. Giles, eds.), The Geology of New Mexico – A Geologic History. New Mexico Geological Society, Special Publication 11, Socorro, p. 295-312.

Stimac, J.A., Goff, F., Counce, D., Larocque, A.C.L., Hilton, D., and Morgenstern, U., 2004, The crater lake and hydrothermal system of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines: evolution in the decade after eruption. Bull. Volcanol. 66, 149-167.

Goff, F., 2005. Book Review: The Volcano Adventure Guide. EOS, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union 86(22), 214.

Goff, F., Gardner, J.N., Reneau, S.L., and Goff, C.J. (2005). Preliminary geologic map of the Redondo Peak quadrangle, Sandoval County, New Mexico. NM Bureau Geology & Mineral Resources, Open-file Geologic Map OF-GM-111, scale1:24,000.

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