E-Mail Message From Phil Janney
Hi there! My name's Phil Janney and I graduated from UNH with a B.S. in Geology in 1988. I just finished my PhD at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography-University of California, San Diego. My doctoral research was on the geochemistry and radiogenic isotope composition of oceanic crust and seamount lavas (sampled by ocean drilling) from the western Pacific Ocean produced during a period of extraordinarily active "hot spot" volcanism in mid-Cretaceous time. My major objective was to determine the effect of widespread mantle plume magmatism on the tectonic and geochemical evolution of the Pacific crust and upper mantle, and it did appear to have a significant effect (enough for me to get three papers out of it:-). I am leaving the country and the hemisphere this August to take a postdoctoral position at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. I'll be working on the trace element composition of mid-ocean ridge basalt from the Southwest Indian Ridge, and also on the geochemistry and petrology of alkaline intrusive bodies in Namibia, which probably represent the Mesozoic on-land trace of modern South Atlantic hot spots. I owe a real debt to the ES faculty at UNH for giving me such a good background in geology, petrology, geochemistry and geophysics. The department seems to have doubled in size since I left. I am glad to see it doing so well. I hope that at least some of this expansion is due to a growth in the quantity and quality of students being attracted to the Earth Science program. However, I noticed that the department still lacks an igneous petrology professor to replace Dave Gust. If the department is still looking for a promising young assistant professor in ig pet a year or two from now, I might just have the perfect candidate, recently returned from South Africa ;-). Best wishes, Phil Janney Dr. Philip E. Janney |