Department Colloquium Series

Date: 

Monday, February 12, 2018, 12:00pm

Location: 

Haller Hall Geo Museum 102

Speaker:  Professor Oliver Jagoutz from MIT

Title: "Low-latitude arc-continent collision as a driver for global cooling"

Short Bio: I studied Chemistry and Geology at the University of Mainz. During my studies I went as an Erasums student to ETH Zurich. After my graduation in Geology (2000) I continued as a grad student ETH Zurich doing a PhD project with J.P. Burg. During my PhD I had the opportunity to work for three months at the Tokyo Institute of Technology with Shige Maruyama. After I finished my PhD in Dec 2004 and took on a postdoc position with Othmar Müntener at the University of Bern; I have been at MIT since January 2008.

Research: Field work is an important aspect of my research. I usually spend around 3-4 months a year in the field and have conducted field work in: Greece, Zimbabwe, Switzerland, Italy, Pakistan, India, Mongolia, Morocco and western US.

My principal research area is the origin and evolution of the Lithosphere. I address scientific questions by a multidisciplinary approach including field work, petrology, isotope geochemistry, structural geology, major & trace element geochemistry. For field work I generally use my feet & brain but I also incorporate more “modern” methods (remote sensing techniques using hyperspectral data, GIS etc.). In detail I am interested in: Field studies on magmatic processes, magmatic accretion of continental crust in subduction zone, oceanic crust evolution, formation and evolution of the ocean-continent transition zone and evolution of continental crust formation mechanism though earth history