CURRENT GROUP MEMBERS

	Dr. Cin-Ty A. Lee Continent formation, mantle geochemistry, subduction zones, Archean geochemistry, Platinum Group Elements
	Dr. Arnaud Agranier Fluid mobile element geochemistry Lee, C-T A, Yin, Q.-Z., Lenardic, A, Agranier, A., O’Neill, C J, Thiagarajan, N., Trace-element composition of Fe-rich residual liquids formed by fractional crystallization: implications for the Hadean magma ocean, in press Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta Agranier, A., Lee, C.-T. A., Quantifying trace-element disequilibria in mantle xenoliths and abyssal peridotites, in press in EPSL.
	Dr. Maik Pertermann Petrologist
	Dr. Tobias Höink Fluid Dynamicist
	Dr. Peter luffi Petrologist Arriving july 2007
	Heather Dalton Phd candidate Petrology and planetary geology Arriving fall 2007
	Zhengxue Li PhD candidate Serpentinization and the water cycle; mantle redox Lee, C.-T. A., Leeman, W. P., Canil, D., Li, Z.X.A., 2005, Similar V/Sc systematics in MORB and arc basalts: implications for the oxygen fugacities of their mantle source regions, Journal of Petrology 46 (11): 2313-2336. click Li, Z-X A, and Lee, C-T A, 2006, Geochemical investigation of serpentinized oceanic lithospheric mantle in the Feather River Ophiolite, California: implications for the recycling rate of water by subduction, Chemical Geology 235: 161-185. click
	Patrick young B.Sc. (Rice 2007) M.Sc. candidate Petrology of peridotite xenoliths from knippa, TX
	CHERYL TACHON, B.A., M.sc. visitor
	Artemis HarBert Undergraduate Trace element partitioning in ultramafic minerals Lee, C-T A, *Harbert, A, Leeman, W P, 2007, Extension of lattice strain theory to mineral/mineral rare-earth element partitioning: a tool for assessing disequilibrium and developing internally consistent partition coefficients between olivine, orthoyproxene, clinopyroxene and basaltic melt, Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta doi:10.1016/j.gca.2006.09.014, v. 71: 481-496. click
	Blake dyer undergraduate
	Stephen turner undergraduate
GRADUATED AND FORMER STUDENTS, GROUP MEMBERS, & LONG-TERM VISITORS
	Mark G. Little PhD (Rice 2007) 2007 Luce Fellow soon to be at Beijing University, china Soil formation, weathering, environmental science Little, M. G., and Lee, C-T A, 2006, On the formation of an inverted weathering profile on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania: buried paleosol or groundwater weathering? Chemical Geology 235: 205-221; doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2006.06.012. click
	Ulyana Horodyskyj B.SC. (Rice 2007) UndergraduatE PHD candidate at BROWN U. Eclogite formation; element mobility during retrograde metamorphism Horodyskyj, U., Lee, C-T A, Ducea, M N, 2007, Similarities between Archean high MgO eclogites and Phanerozoic arc-eclogite cumulates and the role of arcs in Archean continent formation, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 256: 510-520. click Lee C.-T. A., Cheng X., and Horodyskyj U. (2006) The development and refinement of continental arcs by primary basaltic magmatism, garnet pyroxenite accumulation, basaltic recharge and delamination: insights from the Sierra Nevada, California. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 151:222-242, DOI 10.1007/s00410-005-0056-1. click
	Amy Maloy M.Sc. (Rice 2007) Lunar Granulites Taking a break in Colorado
	Min Hu M. Sc. (Rice 2007) Redox chemistry of sediments Currently enrolled in M. Sc. University of Michigan computer sciences
	Janelle Homburg B.Sc. (Rice 2006) Currently PhD candidate at Columbia U.
	Nivedita Thiagarajan B.Sc. (Rice 2005) Currently PhD candidate at Caltech Lee, C-T A, Yin, Q.-Z., Lenardic, A, Agranier, A., O’Neill, C J, Thiagarajan, N., Trace-element composition of Fe-rich residual liquids formed by fractional crystallization: implications for the Hadean magma ocean, in press Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta Thiagarajan, N., Lee, C.-T. A., 2004, Trace-element evidence for the origin of desert varnish by direct aqueous atmospheric deposition, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 224: 131-141. click
	Prof. Yongsheng Liu (visiting scientist in 2005) Professor at Chinese University of Geosciences, Wuhan Liu, Y., Shan, G., Lee, C.-T. A., Hu, S., Liu, X., Honglin, Y., 2005, Melt-peridotite interactions: links between garnet pyroxenite and high-Mg# signature of continental crust, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 234, 39-57. click
	Shayda Naficy B.Sc. (Rice 2005) Where are you Shayda?
	Martin Collier B.Sc. (Rice 2004) Currently PhD candidate at Columbia U.