David Ferguson

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Geochemistry

403 Comer

61 Route 9W - PO Box 1000

Palisades

10964-8000

Phone:

(845) 365-8635

Fax:

(845) 365-8155

davef@ldeo.columbia.edu

Fields of interest:

Igneous petrology, volcanology, magmatism

Education

List of degrees from highest to lowest:

D.Phil

University of Oxford

2011

M.Sc

University College London

2007

Selected Publications:

Constraining timescales of focused magmatic accretion and extension in the Afar crust using lava geochronology, Ferguson, D. J., Calvert, A. T., Pyle, D. M., Blundy, J. D., Yirgu, G., Wright, T. J. , Nature Communications, Volume 4, Issue 1416, (2013), 10.1038/ncomms2410

Controls on magmatic cycles and development of rift topography of the Manda Hararo segment (Afar, Ethiopia): Insights from cosmogenic 3He investigation of landscape evolution, Medynski, S.; Pik, R.; Burnard, P.; Williams, A.; Vye-Brown, C.; Ferguson, D.; Blard, P, -H.; France, L.; Yirfu, G.; Seid, J. I.; Ayalew, D.; Calvert, A. , Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 367, p.133-145, (2013)

Recent rift related volcanism in Afar, Ethiopia, Ferguson, D. J.; Barnie, T.D.; Pyle, D. M.; Oppenheimer, C.; Yirgu, G.; Lewi, E.; Kidane, T.; Carn, S.; Hamling, I. , Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 292, p.409-418, (2010)