1999 was a busy year. Our high pressure laboratory is now in full operation. New research projects include (1) studies of lower crustal composition and delamination in the Dabie ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic belt, central China, (2) an investigation of seismic anisotropy of mantle diamond bearing eclogites from the Slave Craton, Northern Canada, and (3) high pressure velocity measurements of rocks from Nanga Parbat, north western Pakistan collected by Anne Meltzer, the department's Weeks Visiting Professor. Ongoing projects include NSF supported research on crustal structure and composition of New Zealand, the ACCRETE projectalong the coast of British Columbia, as well as a geophysical transect in the central Rockies.
This fall I taught a new graduate course with Basil Tikoff in Structural Petrology. Graduate students are again being trained at the UW in universal stage techniques, with a new emphasis on understanding rock deformation and strain. In addition, I taught the optics portion of Mineralogy. Committee duties included being the chairman of the Geological Society of Americas' George P. Woollard Award Committee and associate editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research.
Mike Tompkins is back in our laboratory working on his Ph.D. thesis with support from BP Amoco. Darrell Stanley is busy with seismic attenuation investigations. Chris Long and Helmut Düerrast, both post-doctoral research associates, are working on mantle seismic anisotropy and pore pressure studies, respectively.
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