Dr. Erik W. Klemetti

 

Denison University, Department of Geosciences, Granville OH 43023 USA

Current Employment

Assistant Professor of Geosciences, Denison University, Granville, OH - 2009 to present

Education

Williams College, Williamstown, MA - 1999 - B.A. in Geosciences with Honors; B.A. in History

"The geochemistry and tectonic setting of the Vinalhaven Diabase, Coastal Maine Magmatic Province" - Advisor:                     Dr. Reinhard A. Wobus

Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR - 2005 - Ph.D. in Geology

"Constraining the magmatic evolution of the Andean arc at 21S using the volcanic and petrologic history of Volcan Aucanquilcha, Central Volcanic Zone, Northern Chile" - Advisor: Dr. Anita L. Grunder


Research Experience

  1. •Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California Davis, Davis, CA - 2006-2009 - Research: evaluating U-Th and Ra-Th ages of plagioclase feldspar and zircon within the same rhyolite eruptions; compositional-temporal mapping of zircon with rhyolite magmas.

  2. •Consultant for MC-ICP-MS Lab, University of California Davis, Davis, CA - 2006-2009

  3. •Laboratory Research Supervisior, University of Washington, Seattle, WA - 2004-2006 - Managed the Nu Plasma MC-ICP-MS lab

  4. •Research Assistant, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR - 2000-2004


Publications

  1. •Klemetti EW, Deering CD and Cooper KM, 2011, Magmatic perturbations in the Okataina Volcanic Complex, New Zealand at thousand-year timescales recorded in single zircon crystals: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 305, p. 185-194.

  2. •Klemetti EW and Grunder AL, 2008, Volcanic evolution of Volcán Aucanquilcha: a long-lived dacite volcano in the Central Andes of northern Chile:Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 70, no. 5, p. 633-650.

  3. •Grunder AL, Klemetti EW, Feeley TC and McKee CL, 2008, Eleven million years of arc volcanism at the Aucanquilcha Volcanic Cluster, northern Chilean Andes: Implications for the lifespan and emplacement of batholiths: Plutons and Batholiths – Wallace Pitcher Memorial Issue, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, v. 97, no. 4.

  4. •Wobus, RA, Newton JL, Klemetti EW, Cardoos NC and Hawkins DP, 2006, Silurian metavolcanic rocks of Vinalhaven Island, Penobscott Bay, Maine: Arc to backarc transistion?: Northeastern Geology & Env. Science, v. 28, no. 4, p. 342-357.


Teaching Experience

  1. •Instructor, Dept. of Geology, UC Davis, Davis, CA - 2005, 2006 - Freshman Research Seminar on "Volcanism and Human Culture"

  2. •Instructor, Dept. of Geosciences, Oregon State University - 2002-2004 - GEOS 101 The Solid Earth; GEOS 305 Active Cascades Volcanism; eGEOS 103 Introduction to Oceanography

  3. •Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Geosciences, Oregon State University - GEOS 101 The Solid Earth; GEOS 203 Historical Geology; GEOS 425 Volcanology

  4. •Interpretative Park Ranger, National Park Service, Crater Lake, OR - 2001

  5. •Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Geosciences, Williams College, Williamstown, MA - 1998 - Mineralogy/Geochemistry

  6. •Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Astronomy/Astrophysics, Williams College, Williamstown, MA - 1996-1998- Hopkins Observatory


Awards and Honors

  1. •2007: UC Davis Postdoctoral Scholars Assoc. Travel Grant (2007 Goldschmidt Meeting, Cologne, Germany)

  2. •2004: AGU Student Travel Grant (2004 IAVCEI General Congress, Pucon, Chile)

  3. •1999: Class of 1960 Scholar (Geosciences Dept., Williams College)


Service

  1. •2011- : Member of Denison Campus Sustainability Committee

  2. •2011: Session Co-chair, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA

  3. •2008 - : Reviewer, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

  4. •2008 - : NSF Reviewer

  5. •2008: Session Co-Chair, Goldschmidt Meeting 2008, Vancouver, B.C.

  6. •2002-2004: Graduate Student Rep. to the Geosciences Faculty, Oregon State University

  7. •2002: Graduate Student Rep. - LA-ICP-MS Faculty Search, Oregon State University


Outreach

2008 - : Eruptions - Blog detailing current volcanic eruptions worldwide, http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/eruptions/

Meeting Abstracts/Presentations

  1. •Klemetti EW, Cooper KM and Deering CD, 2009, Changes in rhyolite composition over the last 60,000 years at the Okataina Caldera Complex, New Zealand recorded in zircon trace element zonation: Geological Society of American Annual Meeting 2009.

  2. •Klemetti EW and Cooper KM, 2008, Using crystal ages and compositions to evaluate the generation of rhyolite at Tarawera, New Zealand: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2008.

  3. •Klemetti EW and Cooper KM, 2008, Trace element variation on the micron scale in young igneous zircon suggest shared histories, Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts 2008, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

  4. •Klemetti EW and Cooper KM, 2007, Cryptic young zircon and young plagioclase in the Kaharoa Rhyolite, Tarawera, New Zealand: Implications for crystal recycling in magmatic systems: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2007.

  5. •Klemetti EW and Cooper KM, 2007, U-series crystal ages of plagioclase and zircon from the 1300 CE Kaharoa eruption Tarawera, New Zealand:Goldschmidt ConferenceAbstracts 2007, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 71, no.15, A491

  6. •Klemetti EW and Grunder AL, 2006, Two populations of amphibole in dacite magmas at Volcán Aucanquilcha, Chile: A case for rapid and repeated mixing of a tiered magmatic system: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2006.

  7. •Klemetti EW and Grunder AL, 2004, Volcán Aucanquilcha, N. Chile: Low δ18O, two-amphibole dacite generation at a long-lived volcanic complex in the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes: International Assoc. of Volcanology and the Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior General Assembly 2004.

  8. •Klemetti EW and Grunder AL, 2003, Longevity and distribution of dacite magma chambers: A case study of Volcán Aucanquilcha, northern Chile: State of the Arc 2003
    Meeting Proceedings

  9. •Klemetti EW and Grunder AL, 2002, Compositional variation and magma mixing with respect to time and space at Volcán Aucanquilcha, northern Chile: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2002 (Abstracts Volume) p. F-1481.

  10. •Klemetti EW, Grunder AL and Feeley TC, 2002, Mixing and self-mixing at Volcán Aucanquilcha, Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes, northern Chile: Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section 2002 Abstracts with Program, p. A-5.

  11. •Klemetti EW and Wobus RA, 2000, The Vinalhaven “Diabase” – Volcanic Hybrid in the Coastal Maine Magmatic Province: Geological Society of American Northeastern Section 2000 Abstracts with Program.



Invited Talks

  1. •January 2010 Western Michigan University, Departmental Seminar

  2. •November 2009 University of Iowa, Departmental Seminar

  3. •May 2008 Smithsonian Institute, Mineral Sciences Seminar

  4. •April 2008 USGS Volcanic Hazards Program – Menlo Park, VHP Seminar

  5. •March 2008 Oregon State University, VIPER Seminar

  6. •February 2008 UC Berkeley, Isotope Seminar

  7. •February 2008 Volcanological Society of Sacramento, Monthly Seminar

  8. •May 2005 Western Oregon University, Dept. of Geology Seminar


Workshops and Field Courses

  1. •2008 Minerals, Inclusions and Volcanic Processes Workshop, AGU 2008, San Francisco, CA

  2. •2003 State of the Arc Conference, Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood OR

  3. •2002 Fluvial Record of Plate-Boundary Deformation in the Olympic Mts., GSA
    Cordilleran Meeting

  4. •2002 Field Mapping of Ore Deposits, Yerington NV (Oregon State University)

  5. •2000 MARGINS – Inside the Subduction Factory, Eugene OR

  6. •2000 YBRA Field Camp, Red Lodge MT (University of Pennsylvania)