Curriculum Vitae
Timothy L. Grove
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 253-2878
Home address: 87 Menotomy Road
Arlington, MA 02476
(781) 646-5844
Personal Information:
Birth date: July 15, 1949
York, Pennsylvania
Marital status: Married, 2 children
Education:
Institution Dates Degree
University of Colorado June 1971 B.A.
Boulder, Colorado
Harvard University March 1975 A.M.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard University March 1976 Ph.D.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Thesis: "Structural Characterization of Natural Calcic Plagioclases"
Professional Experience:
Field Assistant – Mapping igneous and metamorphic rocks in N.W. Colorado, United States Geological Survey, June – Sept. l969.
Exploration Geologist – Mapping and sampling of prospects for molybdenum in S.W. Colorado, Phelps Dodge Corporation, June – Sept. 1971.
Teaching Assistant – Introductory petrology-mineralogy and crystal symmetry and x-ray diffraction courses, Harvard Univ., Sept. 1973 – Jan. 1974 and Sept. 1974 – Jan. 1975.
Research Assistant – Engaged in experimental petrology of lunar samples with A. E. Bence and D. H. Lindsley, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Sept. 1975 – Sept. 1979.
Visiting Professor – Division of Geological Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Jan.– April 1979.
Assistant Professor – Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 1979 – June 1984.
Associate Professor – Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 1984 – June 1991.
Professor – Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 1991 – present.
Visiting Scientist – Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, November 1993 – June 1994.
Research Scientist – Department of Physics, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, April 1997 – March 2001.
Gastdozent (Visiting Professor) – Department of Earth Sciences ETH, Zürich – February 2002 – August 2002.
Professional Memberships:
American Geophysical Union
Sigma Xi
Geological Society of America
Geochemical Society
Mineralogical Society of America
Awards:
Warren O. Thompson Scholarship (1970 – 1971) Univ. of Colorado
Phi Beta Kappa
Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists Pick Award (1971)
Mineralogical Society of America – Fellow (1982)
Bowen Award (1993) VGP Section of the American Geophysical Union
American Geophysical Union Fellow (2001)
Original Member, Highly Cited Researchers, ISI/Thomson Scientific (2002)
Professional Activities:
Associate Editor, Geophysical Research Letters, 1979 – 1982
MSA representative to Joint Technical Program Committee for Geol. Soc. Amer. national meeting 1982 – 1984
Co-convener and Associate Editor: Conference on Open Magmatic Systems, Taos, New Mexico, 1984
Member, Departmental Advisory Board, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 1985 – 1990
Member, NASA, SSPEX working group, 1985 – 1986
Member, editorial board of Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 1985 – 1990
Member, NASA Lunar and Planetary Geology Review Panel, 1986 – 1988
Member, NASA Planetary Materials and Geochemistry Program, Program Management Working Group, 1987 – 1988
Member, NSERC Earth Sciences Major Instrumentation Review Panel, 1987 – 1988
Secretary of the Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology section, American Geophysical Union, 1988 – 1990
Member, U.S. Subcommittee for the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI), 1988 – 1991
Executive editor: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 1990 – present
Member, RIDGE (Ridge Interdisciplinary Global Experiments) Steering Committee, 1990 – 1993
Mineralogical Society of America, Member of Roebling Award Committee, 1992
Mineralogical Society of America, Member of MSA Award Committee, 1993
Member, National Science Foundation, Earth Sciences Review Panel for Instrumentation and Facilities, 1991 – 1994
Mineralogical Society of America, Councilor, 1994 – 1997
President-elect of the Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology section, American Geophysical Union, 1996 – 1998
President of the Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology section, American Geophysical Union, 1998 – 2000
Chair of the Meetings Committee of the American Geophysical Union, 2000 – 2004
Member, NASA Cosmochemistry Review Panel, 2000 – 2001
Member, National Science Foundation, Geochemistry and Petrology Review Panel, 2005 – 2006
President-elect of the American Geophysical Union, 2006 – 2008
Graduate student thesis supervision:
David C. Gerlach Ph.D. June 1985, co-supervised with F. Frey
Rosamond J. Kinzler M.S. June 1985
Linda T. Elkins M.S. June 1987
Michael B. Baker Ph.D. Jan. 1988
Daniel R. Tormey Ph.D. Feb. 1989, co-supervised with F. Frey
Tanya H. Furman Ph.D. Sept. 1989, co-supervised with F. Frey
Allen K. Kennedy Ph.D. Sept. 1989, co-supervised with S. Hart
Karen S. Bartels Ph.D. Oct. 1990
Thomas W. Sisson Ph.D. Feb. 1991
Rosamond J. Kinzler Ph.D. May 1991
Matthew J. Cordery Ph.D. May 1991
Deborah A. Zervas M.S. Sept. 1991
Thomas Wagner Ph.D. May 1995
Glenn A. Gaetani Ph.D. May 1996
Ken Koga Ph.D. Sept. 1999, co-supervised with N. Shimizu
James A. Van Orman Ph.D. Sept. 2000
Stephen W. Parman Ph.D. Jan. 2001
Rebecca Saltzer Ph.D. Feb. 2002, co-supervised with R. van der Hilst
Linda Elkins Tanton Ph.D. July 2002
Marc Hesse M.S. August 2002
Steven Singletary Ph.D. Jan. 2004
Anna Monders M.S. June 2006
Jay Barr 4th year
Michael Krawczynski 3rd year
Christy Till 2nd year
Predoctoral visiting scholars
Jonathon D. Blundy (Sept. 1985 – Sept. 1987)
(Kennedy Memorial Trust visiting scholar)
Eva Ebert (March 2003 – Nov. 2003
Post-doctoral associates
Karin Ehlers (Sept. 1989 – Aug. 1990)
Jesse Dann (Sept. 1996 – Aug. 2000)
Astrid Holzheid (Feb. 1997 – Aug. 1999)
Othmar Muentener (Mar. 1998 – Mar.1999)
Steve Parman (Jan. 2001 – Aug. 2005)
Etienne Médard (Sept. 2004 – Sept. 2007)
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