Peter William Reiners
Professor, Department of Geosciences
University of Arizona, 1040 E. 4th St.
Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
E-mail: reiners@u.arizona.edu
Website: http://www.geo.arizona/~reiners/

Research and Scholarly Interests.
Thermo/geochronology, geochemistry, and applications in Earth and planetary science

Appointments and Education
2012-present: Associate Department Head, Geosciences
2010-present: Professor, University of Arizona
2006-2010: Associate Professor, University of Arizona
2005-2006: Associate Professor, Yale University
2001-2005: Assistant Professor, Yale University
1999-2001: Assistant Professor, Washington State University
1997-1999: Texaco Prize Postdoctoral Scholar, Division of Geological & Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology
1991-1997: Graduate Teaching and Research Assistantships, University of Washington
1997: Ph.D., Geological Sciences, University of Washington. Dissertation: Reactive melt transport in the mantle and petrogenesis of Hawaiian post-erosional magmas. Major Advisor: B.K. Nelson.
1993: M.S., Geological Sciences, University of Washington. Thesis: Crustal contamination of mantle-derived magmas and extremely zoned plutons of the Alaska Range. Major Advisor: B.K. Nelson.
1991: B.A., Geology, cum laude, Distinction in Thesis, Carleton College.
1991: NAGT Field Internship, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver
1989: Indiana University Field Camp, Montana

Honors/Awards
present-2004: Member, Earth System Evolution Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
2012: Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship
2002: National Science Foundation CAREER Award
1997: Caltech Texaco Prize Postdoctoral Scholarship
1996: Peter Misch Memorial Fellow, University of Washington
1995: David A. Johnston Memorial Fellow, University of Washington
1994: Howard Coombs Fellow, University of Washington

Service/Outreach
present-2010: International Standing Committee on Thermochronology
present-2009: Associate Editor: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
present-2008: Associate Editor: Chemical Geology
present-2008: NSF Panel Member: EAR
present-2005: Associate Editor: American Journal of Science
2011: Antarctichron: Summer geo/thermochronology workshop for visiting grad/undergrad students
            (http://www.geo.arizona.edu/~reiners/antarctichron)
2010: Biosphere2 Arizona Science Teachers Presentation, Earth System Science, May 2010.
2010: Thermochronology Shortcourse, Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum, Madison, 2010.
2009: CIFAR ESEP Postdoctoral Fellowship Selection Committee Chair
2008: NSF Committee of Visitors, Deep Earth Processes Section (3-year review)
2008: Integrated Solid Earth Sciences (ISES) week-long workshop for advanced graduate students, Colorado College
2008: Two Thermochronology Shortcourses, Exxon-Mobil, Houston
2007: HeDWaAZ: Summer geo/thermochronology workshop for visiting grad/undergrad students
2007: NSF Panel Member: OPP
2007: EarthChem Workshop on Geochronology for (U-Th)/He, Lawrence, Kansas
2005: Editor and organizer of MSA-GS Shortcourse (Snowbird, Utah) and volume of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry: Thermochronology: Techniques, Interpretations, and Applications
2005: HeDWaY 2: Summer geo/thermochronology workshop for visiting grad/undergrad students
2004: HeDWaY 1: Summer geo/thermochronology workshop for visiting grad/undergrad students
1999-2000: Keck Consortium Research Project Co-Director: Isotopic constraints on orogenic evolution of the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming

Invited or Keynote Conference Presentations
2012 South American Symposium on Isotope Geology Keynote
2011 EarthScope National Meeting, Geochronology EarthScope Cafe
2010 GSA Annual Meeting, Erosion histories from detrial apatite double-dating
2010 International Thermochron Conf., Metal oxides as friends and foes in (U-Th)/He dating
2010 Goldschmidt Meeting, Orogen-scale thermochronologic trends of the central Andes
2009 AGU: Fall Meeting, Compositional variation in and among small-volume primitive basaltic eruptions
2008 AGU: Fall Meeting, Quantifying near-surface thermal perturbations with multikinetic thermochronologic systems
2008 AGU Fall Meeting, Landscape evolution from shallow exposure/weathering ages: Examples from clinker geochronology
2008 Goldschmidt Meeting, Secondary weathering phases and apatite (U-Th)/He ages
2007 AGU Fall Meeting, Nonmonotonic (reheating) thermal histories from contrasting kinetics of multiple thermochronometers
2007 MSA Shortcourse: Paleoaltimetry, Denver, Colorado: Thermochronologic Approaches to Paleotopography
2007 International Thermochronology Workshop, Peking University, Beijing, China: (U-Th)/He Thermochronology: Techniques, Interpretations, and Applications
2006 Goldschmidt Meeting, Thermochronologic approaches to Paleotopography
2006 Goldschmidt Meeting, (U-Th)/He chronometry of fossil biogenic apatite: conodonts and tooth enamel
2006 GSA Annual Meeting, From thermochronology to erosion
2006 GSA Annual Meeting, Paleogeography and paleotopography of the Sierra Nevada from detrital geo- and thermochronology of Eocene fluvial deposits
2005  MSA Shortcourse: Thermochronology, Snowbird, Utah: Zircon (U-Th)/He Thermochronology
2005 Noble-Gas Geochronology Workshop, University of Lausanne, Switzerland: Innovative Applications of Low-Temperature Thermochronology
2004 AGU Fall Meeting, Double- and triple-dating of single detrital zircons with (U-Th)/He, fission-track, and U/Pb systems, and examples from modern and ancient sediments
2004 GSA Annual Meeting: Thermochronology of wildfire and fault heating through single-grain (U-Th)/He and fission-track double-dating

Courses Taught
Introduction to Geochemistry (with J. Quade and J. Ruiz), GEOS 400/500 (Arizona) Fall ‘11
Geochronology and Thermochronology, GEOS 474/574 (Arizona) Spring ‘10, Spring '12
Contemporary Earth System Science, GEOS 195K (Arizona) Fall ‘09
Evolution of the Earth, Ocean, and Atmosphere, GEOS 342 (Arizona) Fall ’08, ’09, ’10, ‘11
Thermochronology, GEOS 459/559 (Arizona) Fall ‘08
Geologic Disasters and Society, GEOS 218 (Arizona) Spring ’07, Fall ’07, Spring ’09, ‘11
Introduction to Geochemistry, G&G 301/502 (Yale), Spring ’02, ’03, ’04, Fall ‘05
Radiogenic Isotopes and Geochronology, G&G 507 (Yale) Fall ‘04
Perspectives on Science, SCIE 198 (Yale), Fall/Spring ‘04
Mantle Geochemistry Seminar, G&G 755 (Yale) Fall ‘04
Mantle Dynamics and Geochemistry (with J. Korenaga), G&G 644 (Yale) Spring ‘04
Geochronology and Tectonics (with M. Brandon), G&G 503 (Yale) Fall ‘02
Radiogenic Isotopes and Geochronology, Geol 483/583 (WSU) Fall ‘01
Introduction to Geochemistry, Geol 480 (WSU) Fall ‘00
Introduction to Geology, Geol 101 (WSU) Spring ‘00

Advising
Major advisor, graduate students:

• Willy Guenthner, UA PhD: He diffusion in zircon and orogenic evolution of the Sevier hinterland
• Kendra Murray, UA PhD (joint with Mihai Ducea): Surficial manifestations of pluton emplacement
• S. Lynn Peyton, UA PhD (joint with Pete DeCelles): Orogenic evolution of Laramide uplifts
• Clare Tochilin, UA MS (joint with George Gehrels): Detrital geo/thermochronology
• Devon Orme, UA MS: Effects of secondary weathering phases on apatite He dating
• Willy Guenthner, UA MS: Thermochronology of the Antarctic Peninsula
• Nate Evenson, UA MS: Secondary Fe- and Mn-oxide geochronology
• Madalyn Blondes, Yale PhD (joint with M. Brandon): Temporal-compositional trends in intraplate basaltic eruptions
• Hunter Hickes, WSU MS: Thermochronology of the Coast Mountains of Southeastern Alaska

Advisor or co-advisor, postdoctoral scholars:

• Thibaud Simon-Labric (joint with J. Braun): Magmatic forcing of landscape evolution in the Cascades
• Xavier Robert (joint with K. Whipple, A. Forte): Landscape evolution responses to dynamic topography
• Antoine Vernon (joint with G. Gehrels, P. DeCelles): Thermo- and geochronology of the Andes and Sevier retro-arc orogens
• Kyoungwon Min: Radiogenic He dating of meteorites and volcanic rocks
• Abir Biswas (joint with L. Kump): Developing new proxies for paleowildfire
• Stuart Thomson (joint with M. Brandon): Thermochronology of the Northern Apennines
• Scott Bryan: Petrology of the Sierra Madre Occidental
• Jeremy Hourigan (joint with M. Brandon): Experimental development of zircon (U-Th)/He dating

Advisor or co-advisor, undergraduate students:

• Guleed Ali, Tectonics of Owens Valley, California
• Courtney King, Tectonics of the Huachucas Mountains, southern Arizona
• Victoria Lee, Magmatic heating from dikes and lava flows, Wallowa Mountains
• Peter Isaacson, Thermochronology of the central Cascades Range
• Martha Bell, Thermochronology of neolithic pottery from southwest Asia

Click here for publications

last updated: Jan 2012