Jed Mosenfelder | Mosenfelder Faculty Page

Senior Research Associate

Research Interests:

Hydrogen, fluorine, boron, and nitrogen incorporation in nominally anhydrous minerals and partitioning between minerals and melts
Development of SIMS methods for light element analysis
Equations of state, rheology and structure of minerals and melts at high pressure
Mechanisms and kinetics of phase transformations
Ultra-high pressure metamorphic petrology
Development of high-pressure multi-anvil technology

Technical specialties:

High pressure experimentation (multi-anvil, piston-cylinder, shock-wave apparatus)
Spectroscopy (Infrared, Raman)
Chemical microanalysis (extensive experience: SIMS, EPMA, SEM; familiarity with TEM, LA-ICPMS)

h-index: 26 (Web of Science, as of January 2020; cited 2032 times without self citations)

mosenfelder_cv_january_2020.pdf

Positions held:

2013-current Senior Research Associate, University of Minnesota

2003-2013 Associate Research Scientist, Caltech

2000-2002 Postdoctoral fellow, Caltech

1997-1999 Postdoctoral fellow, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Bayreuth, Germany (advisor: David Rubie)

1991-1996 Research and Teaching Assistant, Stanford University; volunteer geologist, USGS Menlo Park

1991 Geologist, USGS (NAGT summer intern, Western Geology Branch)

1989-1991 Research Assistant, University of Pennsylvania (Supervisor: Gomaa Omar, fission track laboratory)

Awards, grants, and fellowships:

2019 NASA award (80NSSC19K0803), "A multifaceted approach to investigating the magmatic and post-magmatic history of volatiles in basalts from the rim of Steno Crater." (co-PI; Jessica Barnes, PI)

2019 NASA award (80NSSC19K0959) "Hydrogen, water, and fluorine during accretion and magma ocean differentiation of the terrestrial planets and the Moon" (co-PI; Marc Hirschmann, PI)

2014 NASA award (NNX15AH71G), "Origin and distribution of H in the Moon from SIMS, FTIR, and experimental studies of feldspars, pyroxenes, and magmas"(co-PI; Marc Hirschmann, PI)

2014 NSF award EAR-1347908, "Development of a H in feldspar magmatic hygrometer" (PI)

2014 NSF award EAR-1322082 to George Rossman, "Light element incorporation in nominally anhydrous minerals" (subcontract to UMN; George Rossman, PI)

1995 MSA Mineralogy and Petrology Research Grant

1994-1995 Stanford-USGS fellowship

1994 GSA Outstanding Research Award

1993 GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division Student Research Award

Other Professional Activities:

Peer Reviewer for: NSF-Petrology and Geochemistry; NSF-Geophysics; American Mineralogist; Chemical Geology; Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; European Journal of Mineralogy; Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta; Geophysical Research Letters; Journal of Metamorphic Geology; Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research; Mineralogy and Petrology; Nature; Nature Geoscience; Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors; Science; Geochemical Perspectives; IOP Science.

Participant in the COMPRES Multi-Anvil Cell Assembly Development Project: a community-wide project to develop and test better cell assemblies for multi-anvil high-pressure research. Information available online at: http://multianvil.asu.edu/COMPRES_cell/COMPRES_cell_Main.htm and in Leinenweber et al. (2012)