Martin Lee Collier
Graduate Student in Chemical Geodynamics
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Born Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 24 years old.
American citizen.
ADDRESS
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
Seismology 201D
61 Route 9W – PO Box 1000
Palisades, NY 10964 USA
Office Tel: (845) 365-8460 Cell: (917) 843-6122
E-mail: collier@ldeo.columbia.edu
EDUCATION
Columbia University, New York, New York USA
Currently 1st year Ph.D. student. Topic: “The Message from Correlations in the Trace Element Ratio and Isotope Ratio Distributions in MORB”
Advisors: Marc Spiegelman, Peter Kelemen.
Rice University, Houston, Texas USA
B.S. Geophysics, Geology, 2004 Advisor: Adrian Lenardic.
B.A. Chemistry, 2004
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Mantle convection and chemical evolution, trace element and isotope geochemistry, basaltic volcanism and melt transport processes, comparative planetology.
HONORS AND AWARDS
IGERT Fellow in Applied Mathematics and Earth Science, 2005
Faculty Fellow, Columbia Department of Earth & Environmental Science 2004-2005
Phi Lambda Upsilon (chemistry hon. society), 2004
Sam Worden Endowed Memorial Fund Award in Geophysics, 2004
Earth Science Undergraduate Research Award, 2003
Rice Undergraduate Scholars Program 2002-2003
Schlumberger Prize for Best Poster, Rice Quantum Institute Colloquium, 2001
LABORATORY EXPERIENCE
SEM, HPLC/GC, Powder XRD, Vertical Scanning Interferometry.
COMPUTER EXPERIENCE
Operating Systems: Macintosh OS X, Windows and Unix
Proficient in MATLAB
Experience with CITCOM, GMT, C++
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Geophysical Union
American Chemical Society
PUBLICATIONS
Stepinski, T. F., and Collier, M.L. Extraction of Martian Valley Networks from Digital Topography. J.Geophys. Res. Planets (accepted 2004) (2004JE002269).
Stepinski, T. F., Collier, M. L., McGovern, P. J., and Clifford, S. M. Martian geomorphology from Fractal Analysis of Drainage Networks. J.Geophys. Res. Planets, 109, No. E2, E02005, 10.1029/2003JE002098. (2004).
Arvidson, R. S., Collier, M., Davis, K. J., Vinson, M. D., Amonette, J. E., Luttge, A. Site specific inhibition of calcite dissolution by magnesium: a combined VSI and AFM study. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (submitted 2004).
PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS AND CO-AUTHORED PRESENTATIONS
Talk
Lead Presenter. “Use of Mg+2 in the development of a general model for impurity inhibition of calcite dissolution: Results from Vertical Scanning Interferometry and Monte Carlo modeling.” EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Meeting, Nice, France. (Apr. 2003) With R.S. Arvidson, J.E. Amonette and A. Luttge.
Posters
Lead Presenter. “Computational analysis of drainage basins on Mars: Appraising the drainage density.” 35th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX. (Mar. 2004) With T.F. Stepinski.
Co-Presenter. “Growth of the hemispheric dichotomy and the cessation of plate tectonics on Mars.” 35th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX. (Mar. 2004) With A. Lenardic, F. Nimmo, and L. Moresi.
Co-Presenter. “The feedback between planetary evolution, melt production and tectonic regimes.” AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. (Dec. 2003) With C. J. O’Neill, L. Moresi, and A. Lenardic.
Co-Presenter. “Interaction of Magnesium and Inorganic Carbon Species with the Dissolving Calcite Surface.” AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. (Dec. 2003) With R.S. Arvidson, J.E. Amonette, K.J. Davis, M. Vinson, and A. Luttge.
Co-Presenter. “Drainage Densities of Computationally Extracted Martian Drainage Basins.” Sixth International Conference on Mars, Pasadena, CA. (Jul. 2003) With T.F. Stepinski.
Lead Presenter. “Martian Geomorphology from Statistics of Drainage Networks.” 34th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX. (Mar. 2003) With T.F. Stepinski, P.J. McGovern, and S.M. Clifford.
Co-Presenter. “The Role of Mg2+ in the Dissolution of Pure Calcite: Insights from AFM and Vertical Scanning Interferometry.” AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. (Dec. 2002) With R.S. Arvidson, J.E. Amonette, T.T. Hurt, and A. Luttge.