William P. Leeman - Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data

• Date of Birth: December 17, 1945
• Place of Birth: Dallas, Texas USA
• Marital Status: Married, 1 child

Education

• Rice University (1967), B.A., Geology
• Rice University (1969), M.A., Geology
• University of Oregon (1974), Ph.D., Geology/Geochemistry

Professional Positions Held:

• Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Rice University, Houston, Texas (1987 - present)
• Director, Petrogenesis and Mineral Resources Program, Earth Sciences Division, National Science Foundation (1987 - 1989)
• Associate Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Rice University (1981 - 1987)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Rice University (1978 - 1981)
• Research Associate, Department of Geology, Oregon State University (1976 - 1978)
• National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Isotope Geology Branch, U.S. Geological (1974 - 1975) Survey, Denver, Colorado

Other Professional/Research Activities:

• Chair, Organizing Committee, State-of-the-Arc 2003 (SOTA 2003) Conference
• Visiting Research Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (1999-2000)
• Visiting Research Scientist, Center for Isotope Geochemistry, C.N.R., Pisa, Italy (1993 - present)
• Visiting Research Scientist, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston (1994 - 1997)
• Member, MARGINS Initiative Steering Committee (1995 - 1997)
• Convener, NSF-sponsored "Workshop on Magmatism and Mass Fluxes at Margins", Austin, TX (1993)
• Convener, Symposium on "Magmatic constraints on Basin and Range Evolution", Cordilleran/Rocky Mountain Section Meeting, Geological Society of America (1993)
• Visiting Research Scientist, National Inst. of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD (1990 - 1992)
• Consultant, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1990 - 1991)
• Consultant, Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses (1989 - 1993)
• Convener, Symposium on "Relations between magmatism and tectonism in the Cordilleran interior, western U.S.", Cordilleran/Rocky Mountain Section Meeting, Geological Society of America (1989)
• Visiting Research Scientist, Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Inst. of Washington (1987 - 1990)
• Convener, Symposium on "Magmatism associated with lithospheric extension", Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union (1987)
• Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, W.A.E., Branch of Alaskan Geology, Anchorage, AK (1984 - 1987)
• Research Fellow, Department of Earth Sciences, Open University, Milton Keynes, U.K. (1983 - 1984)
• Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, W.A.E., Isotope Geology Branch, Denver, Colorado (1978 - 1982)