Faculty
Véronique Le Roux
I am Associate Scientist with Tenure in the Geology and Geophysics department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Faculty member of the MIT/WHOI Joint Program.
Current Students and Postdocs
Emmanuel Codillo
Emmanuel is back in the group, and started his PhD in June 2017. He works on the role of mélange-peridotite interaction in the generation of arc magmas, and on hydrothermal alteration of ultramafic and mafic rocks. Emmanuel uses a combination of field, experimental and modeling approach to pursue his research.
Alumni
Emily Cooperdock
Emily came in 2017 as a Doherty Postodoctoral scholar at WHOI and was working on (U-Th)/He thermochronology and trace element geochemistry to 1) date magnetite that form during fluid alteration, 2) investigate the geochemical fingerprints of serpentinization at different tectonic settings, and 3) constrain the thermal history of mantle peridotites.
She is now Assistant professor at USC.
Ayla Pamukcu
Ayla had been a visiting postdoc based at Brown University and Princeton University before starting a postdoctoral fellowship at WHOI in the Fall of 2017. We collaborated on micro-CT acquisition of faceting experiments and melt inclusion work in Antartica.
She is now Assistant Professor at Stanford university.
Alicia 'Cici' Cruz-Uribe
Cici came in 2015 as a postdoctoral fellow sponsored by Horst Marschall and Glenn Gaetani to work on melting of pure melange materials from Syros (Greece). We collaborated on experiments that she conducted throughout her stay at WHOI.
She is now the Edward Sturgis Grew Assistant Professor School of Earth and Climate Science at the University of Maine.
Taylor Hough
Taylor came in 2017 as a Summer Student Fellow working on the formation of pyroxenites in the Josephine Ophiolite (Oregon). He used EPMA, LA-ICP-MS, REE closure temperatures and Nd isotopes by MC-ICP-MS to decipher the timing of vein formation in the mantle. Taylor pursued this project as part of his master thesis at Brown University.
He is now Research Assistant at Rice University (Houston, TX).
Keiji Hammond
Keiji came as a Northeastern University's Co-op program student (Jan-June 2015) to work on secondary-ion mass spectrometry measurements at WHOI (NENIMF). Keiji's project was to measure low concentrations of volatiles in mantle rock minerals to understand fluid cycling and hydrous melt percolation in subduction zones.
He is now Senior Museum Specialist at the American Museum of Natural History
Marienel Basiga
Marienel applied to work in Le Roux's laboratory with the Partnership Education Program during summer 2014. Her internship was eventually extended with a guest student appointment. She performed high-pressure high-temperature experiments to investigate the fate of seawater in the deep Earth.
Ning Zhao
Ning was a MIT/WHOI Joint Program student (supervisor L. Keigwin) who temporarily abandoned his beloved foraminifera to performed high-pressure high-temperature experiments and ion microprobe analyses for one of his pre-generals projects in 2013.
Ning is now a professor at East China Normal University.