Chemistry Department

Anne H. PESLIER Research Scientist As of July 9, 2007, working for Jacobs Eng. at NASA-JSC Texas Center for Superconductivity of the University of Houston (TcSUH), HSC Building, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002, USA Tel: (713) 743 8283; Fax: (713) 743 4004 Email: apeslier@mail.uh.edu Personal Website: http://www.geocities.com/pesliera

Research interests

Water in silicates. Experimental phase equilibria at high temperatures of YBaNiO and diffusion of Ni in YBaCuO. Chemical characterization of Earth's mantle rocks by electron microprobe, FTIR, SEM and TIMS.

Education

1999: Ph.D in Geochemistry at Université de Montréal, Canada.

1994: M.S. in Geochemistry at Université Paris VI, France.

1993: B.S. in Geology at Université Paris VII, France.

Employment

2001-Present: Research Scientist, TcSUH, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA

2001: Stable Isotopes Mass Spectrometist, Chemistry Dep., Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
              Content Advisor for the Earth Science Exhibition, Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA.

2000-2001: Research Assistant, Department of Geological Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.

1999-2000: Smithsonian Post-Doctoral Fellow, Museum of Natural History, Dep. of Mineral Sciences, Washington, D.C., USA.

Awards/Honors

Smithsonian Fellowship, 1999-2000.

NSF Grant #EAR-0309292, 2003-2006, "Water in subduction zones".

NSF Grant #EAR-0635689, 2007-2009, "Collaborative Research: Field and Modeling-Based Tests of the Role of Water in Nominally Anhydrous Minerals in Controlling the Strength/Stability of Continental Lithospheric Mantle", main PI C.T. Lee, co-PIs A. Lenardic, S. Mackwell.

NSF Grant #EAR-0651525, 2007, "Acquisition of a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer to map water in the Earth's mantle", co-PI J.K. Meen.

Teaching

Electron Microprobe (EMPA) Training.

Publications

Most of the following papers are available for downloading in pdf format here.

2007

Peslier A.H., Woodland A., Meen J.K., and Wolff J.; Estimating kimberlite magma ascent rates using H diffusion profiles in xenolithic mantle olivine. Submitted to J. Pet.

2006

Peslier A.H., and Luhr J.F. (2006); Hydrogen Loss from Olivines in Mantle Xenoliths from Simcoe (USA) and Mexico: Mafic Alkalic Magma Ascent Rates and Water Budget of the Sub-continenatl Lithosphere. Earth Planet. Sci. Let. 242, pp. 302-319

2005

Williams H.M., Peslier A.H., McGammon C.A., Halliday A.N., Levasseur S., Teutsch N., and Burg J.-P. (2005); Systematic Iron Isotope Variations in Mantle Rocks and Minerals: the Effect of Partial Melting and Oxygen Fugacity, Earth Planet. Sci. Let. 235, pp. 435-452

2004

Williams H.M., McGammon C.A., Peslier A.H., Halliday A.N., Teutsch N., Levasseur S., and Burg J.-P. (2004); Iron Isotope Fractionation and the Oxygen Fugacity of the Mantle, Science 304 (5677), pp.1656-1659

2002

Peslier A.H., Francis D., and Ludden, J. (2002); The lithospheric Mantle Beneath Continental Margins: melting and melt-rock reaction in Canadian Cordillera xenoliths, J. Petrol. 43 (11), pp.2013-2047

Peslier A.H., Luhr J., and Post, J. (2002); Low Water Contents in Pyroxenes from Spinel-Peridotites of the Oxidized, Sub-Arc Mantle Wedge, Earth Planet. Sci. Let. 201, pp 69-86

2000

Peslier A. H., Reisberg, L., Ludden, J., and Francis, D. (2000); Re-Os Constraints on Harzburgite and Lherzolite Formation in the Lithospheric Mantle: a Study of Northern Canadian Cordillera Xenoliths, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 64 (17), pp. 3061-3071

Peslier A. H., Reisberg, L., Ludden, J., and Francis, D. (2000); Re-Os Systematics in Mantle Xenoliths; Age Constraints on the Canadian Cordillera Lithophere, Chemical Geology 166, 1-2, pp 85-101.

1995

Peslier A. H., Pineau F., and Javoy M. (1995); Correlations Between Water Contents, Carbon and Major Elements in Basaltic Glasses From a Mid-Atlantic Ridge Site at 21°N, Proceedings of the 8th international symposium on water-rock interaction (WRI-8), Vladivostok, Russia; Balkema Ed., pp. 583-586.