EAS Seminar: Ed Stolper (Caltech)
Bio:
Edward Stolper is the chair of the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences and the William E. Leonhard Professor of Geology at the California Institute of Technology. Stolper graduated in 1974 with a bachelor’s degree in geosciences from Harvard College and in 1976 with a master’s degree in geology from the University of Edinburgh. In 1979 he received his Ph.D. in geosciences from Harvard University.
Prof. Stolper is recognized for illuminating the chemical differentiation of the Earth through creative experimental and theoretical studies of the density relations between rock melts and crystals at great depth in the Earth and the role of chemical speciation of dissolved water and carbon dioxide in determining the properties of magmas.