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CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME: PESLIER Anne Hélène

PROFESSIONAL ADDRESS:: Texas Center for Superconductivity (TcSUH),
University of Houston,
Houston, TX 77204, USA; Ph.: (713) 743 8283; Fax: (713) 743 4004; E-mail: apeslier@mail.uh.edu

NATIONALITY: French and Belgian

PRESENT STATUS IN THE USA:Permanent resident

EMPLOYEMENT:

2001-2006: University of Houston, TCSAM, Research Scientist

March-June 2001: Northwestern University, Dep. of Chemistry, Mass Spectrometist (Repair, Putting Back on line and Analyzes on a Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometer)

2000-2001: Northwestern University, Dep. of Geological Sciences, post-doctoral fellow

1999-2000: Smithsonian fellowship, Museum of Natural History, Dep. of Mineral Sciences, Washington, D.C., USA.

EDUCATION:

1994-1999: PhD from the Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada
(Supervisors: Prof. J. Ludden and Prof. D. Francis)
"Geochemical Study of Mantle Xenoliths from the Canadian Cordillera".

1993-1994: Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies (DEA) de Géochimie, » Master Degree,
Université Paris 7, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), France.
"The Role of Water and Carbon in the Petrogenesis of MORB glasses from the Atlantic Ocean" (Supervisor: Prof. M. Javoy, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Stable Isotope Laboratory).

1992-1993: 2nd year of Magistère Interuniversitaire de Sciences de la Terre de Paris.
Maîtrise de Science de la Terre (= Earth Sciences), » Bachelor Degree.
ENS Paris, Universités Paris 6 & Paris 11, France.

5 Month Laboratory Project (Prof. R. Martin and Prof. A. Williams-Jones) at McGill University, Montréal, Canada.
"A Case Study of Pegmatite-Wallrock Interactions in the Preissac-Lacorne Batholith, Québec, Canada."
1 Month on CSS Hudson Cruise mapping Labrador Sea floor (Prof. R. Hesse, McGill University).

1991-1992: 1st year of Magistère Interuniversitaire de Sciences de la Terre de Paris.
Licence de Sciences de la Terre (= Earth Sciences).
ENS Paris, Universités Paris 6 & Paris 11, France.
2 Month Project on "2D-Gravimetric Modelling of the Cameroon Volcanic Region" (supervisor: Dr. M. Diament, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris).

1990-1991: 2nd year of Diplôme d'Etudes Universitaires Générales B,

1989-1990: Biologie Mathématiques Supérieures, Lycée Le Parc, Lyon, France.

1989: Baccalauréat C (Final exam of Secondary School), Lycée Ed. Herriot, Lyon, France.

LANGUAGES:: French: native language.; English, German: fluent.; Spanish: beginner.; Latin: 4 years of study at high school.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE: TIMS, FTIR, ICP-MS , Electron Microprobe, SEM, Elemental Analyzer, Stable Isotope Mass spectrometer, clean laboratory chemistry.

PUBLICATIONS:

Peslier A. H., Pineau F., and Javoy M. (1995); Correlations Between Water Contents, Carbon and Major Elements in Basaltic Glasses From a Mid-Atlantic Ridge Site at 21°N, Proceedings of the 8th international symposium on water-rock interaction (WRI-8), Vladivostok, Russia; Balkema Ed., pp. 583-586.

Peslier A. H., Reisberg, L., Ludden, J., and Francis, D. (2000); Re-Os Constraints on Harzburgite and Lherzolite Formation in the Lithospheric Mantle: a Study of Northern Canadian Cordillera Xenoliths, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 64 (17), pp. 3061-3071

Peslier A. H., Reisberg, L., Ludden, J., and Francis, D. (2000); Re-Os Systematics in Mantle Xenoliths; Age Constraints on the Canadian Cordillera Lithophere, Chemical Geology 166, 1-2, pp 85-101.

Peslier A.H., Francis D., and Ludden, J. (2002); The lithospheric Mantle Beneath Continental Margins: melting and melt-rock reaction in Canadian Cordillera xenoliths, J. Petrol. 43, 11, pp. 2013-2047.

Peslier A.H., Luhr J., and Post, J. (2002); Low Water Contents in Pyroxenes from Spinel-Peridotites of the Oxidized, Sub-Arc Mantle Wedge, Earth Planet. Sci. Let. 201, pp 69-86

Williams H.M., McGammon C.A., Peslier A.H., Halliday A.N., Teutsch N., Levasseur S., and Burg J.-P.; Iron Isotope Fractionation and the Oxygen Fugacity of the Mantle, Science 304 (5677), 1656-1659, 2004

Williams H.M., Peslier A.H., McGammon C.A., Halliday A.N., Levasseur S., Teutsch N., and Burg J.-P. (2005); Systematic Iron Isotope Variations in Mantle Rocks and Minerals: the Effect of Partial Melting and Oxygen Fugacity, Earth Planet. Sci. Let. 235, 435-452

Peslier A.H., and J.F. Luhr (2006); Hydrogen Loss from Olivines in Mantle Xenoliths from Simcoe (USA) and Mexico: Mafic Alkalic Magma Ascent Rates and Water Budget of the Sub-continental Lithosphere. Earth Planet. Sci. Let. 242, 302-319

INVITED TALKS:

Geological Society of Washington, October 1999, Washington, DC, USA "Age and metasomatism of the continental mantle lithosphere underlying the Canadian Cordillera: constraints from Re-Os isotopes".

Northwestern University, Geological Sciences, December 2000, Evanston, IL, USA "Water in mantle xenolith pyroxenes from Mexico and Simcoe (WA, USA): the role of water in nominally anhydrous minerals from the mantle wedge".

Lunar and Planetary Science Institute, February 2004, Houston, TX, USA "Water in the Earth's Mantle - The Perspective from Peridotite "Anhydrous" Minerals".

MEETINGS:

WRI-8, 8th international symposium on water-rock interaction, August 1995 , Vladivostok, Russia.
2nd best poster prize.
Peslier A. H., Pineau F. & Javoy M.; Correlations Between Water Contents, Carbon and Major Elements in Basaltic Glasses From a Mid-Atlantic Ridge Site at 21°N (1995), Proceedings of the 8th international symposium on water-rock interaction (WRI-8), Vladivostok, Russia; Balkema Ed., pp 583-586.
Geological excursions to Baïkal Lake and Kamtchatka Peninsula.

E.U.G., March 1997, Strasbourg, France: talk
Peslier A., Reisberg L., Carignan J., Ludden J., Francis D. and Lang S., "Re-Os Systematics of the Lithospheric Mantle Under the Canadian Cordillera", abstracts, pp. 82-83.

Workshop on Continental Mantle Roots, October 1997, Harvard University, USA: poster
Peslier A., Reisberg L., Francis D. and Ludden J., "A Re-Os Study of Mantle Xenoliths From the Canadian Cordillera: the Lithospheric Mantle Under Terrains Accreted to the Stable Margin of North America.", abstract.

A.G.U. fall meeting, December 1997, San Francisco, USA: poster
Peslier A., Reisberg L., Ludden J.,and Francis D., "A Re-Os Isotopic Investigation of the Lithosphere Beneath the Canadian Cordillera", abstract volume, pp. F749-F750.

Goldschmidt, August 1998, Toulouse, France: talk
Peslier A., Reisberg L., Ludden J., Francis D. and Chauvel C., "The Mantle Lithosphere Beneath the Canadian Cordillera: Constraints From Re-Os, Sm-Nd and Lu-Hf Systematics of Xenoliths", Mineralogical Magazine, Vol. 62A, Part 2 of 3, pp. 1155-1156.

A.G.U. fall meeting, December 1998, San Francisco, USA: poster
Peslier A., Reisberg L., Ludden J., Francis D. and Chauvel C., "Re-Os and Lu-Hf Constraints on the Melting, Metasomatism and Age of the Canadian Lithospheric Mantle", abstract volume, pp.F965-F966.

G.S.A. annual meeting, November 2000, Reno, NV, USA: talk
Peslier A., Luhr J., Post, J., "Water in mantle xenolith pyroxenes from Mexico and Simcoe (WA, USA): the role of water in nominally anhydrous minerals from the mantle wedge", abstract volume pp. A387.

Goldschmidt, August 2002, Davos, Swizerland: talk
Peslier A., Brandon A.D., Francis D., Ludden J., "Melt-Rock Reaction in Canadian Cordillera Mantle Xenoliths", Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, Vol. 66 (15A), pp. A594.

A.G.U. Fall meeting, December 2003, San Francisco, USA: poster
Peslier A., and Luhr J.F., "Water Contents in Olivines from Spinel Peridotites from the Sub-Arc Mantle Wedge", Eos Trans. AGU, 84 (46), Fall Meet. Suppl.

OTHER ABSTRACT

Lithoprobe Report nº56, Februar 1997
Francis D., Shi L., Abraham A.C., Peslier A., Schmidtberger S., Carignan J., Ludden J. and Polvé M., "Mantle Xenolith and Alkaline Basalt Mapping of the Lithospheric Mantle Beneath Northwestern Canada".

CURRICULUM VITAE

NOM: PESLIER Anne Hélène

ADRESSE PROFESSIONELLE:: Texas Center for Superconductivity (TcSUH),
University of Houston,
Houston, TX 77204, USA; Ph.: (713) 743 8283; Fax: (713) 743 4004; E-mail: apeslier@mail.uh.edu

NATIONALITE: Française et belge

EXPERIENCE PROFESSIONELLE:

2001-2006: Université de Houston, TcSUH, chercheur

March-June 2001: Université Northwestern, Dep. of Chemistry, Responsable d'un Spectromètre de Masse pour Isotopes Stables (Remise en service et Analyses)

2000-2001: Université Northwestern, Dep. of Geological Sciences, post-doc

1999-2000:Bourse de l'Institution Smithsonian, Museum of Natural History, Dep. of Mineral Sciences, Washington, D.C., USA.

ETUDES:

1994-1999:Thèse de Doctorat (PhD) à l' Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada
(Directeurs de thèse: Prof. J. Ludden et Prof. D. Francis)
"Pétrologie et géochimie isotopique de xénolites mantelliques de la Cordillère Canadienne".

1993-1994: Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies (DEA) de Géochimie ,
Université Paris 7, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), France.
"Le rôle de l'eau et du carbone dans la genèse des verres de MORB dans l'océan Atlantique " (Prof. M. Javoy, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Stable Isotope Laboratory).

1992-1993: 2ièmeannée de Magistère Interuniversitaire de Sciences de la Terre de Paris.
Maîtrise de Science de la Terre, .
ENS Paris, Universités Paris 6 & Paris 11, France.

5 mois de stage (Prof. R. Martin and Prof. A. Williams-Jones) à l'université McGill , Montréal, Canada.
"Un exemple d'interaction Pegmatite-encaissant dans le batholite de Preissac-Lacorne, Québec, Canada."
1 mois sur le navire océanographique CSS Hudson; cartage du fond de la mer du Labrador (Prof. R. Hesse, McGill University).

1991-1992: 1ièreannée de Magistère Interuniversitaire de Sciences de la Terre de Paris.
Licence de Sciences de la Terre.
ENS Paris, Universités Paris 6 & Paris 11, France.
Stage de 2 mois "Modélisation gravimétrique 2D de la région volcanique du Cameroun" (supervisor: Dr. M. Diament, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris).

1990-1991: 2ième année de Diplôme d'Etudes Universitaires Générales B (DEUG B),
Université Cl. Bernard, Lyon I, France.

Université Cl. Bernard, Lyon I, France.

1989-1990: Biologie Mathématiques Supérieures, Lycée Le Parc, Lyon, France.

1989: Baccalauréat C, mention bien, Lycée Ed. Herriot, Lyon, France.

LANGUES ETRANGERES:: Français: langue maternelle.; Anglais, allemand: courant.; Espagnol: débutant.; Latin: 4 ans d'études au collège et lycée.

TECHNIQUES ANALYTIQUES: TIMS, FTIR, ICP-MS , Microsonde électronique, MEB, Analyseur Elémentaire, Spectromètre de Masse pour Isotopes Stables, chimie en salle blanche.

PUBLICATIONS:

Peslier A. H., Pineau F., and Javoy M. (1995); Correlations Between Water Contents, Carbon and Major Elements in Basaltic Glasses From a Mid-Atlantic Ridge Site at 21°N, Proceedings of the 8th international symposium on water-rock interaction (WRI-8), Vladivostok, Russia; Balkema Ed., pp. 583-586.

Peslier A. H., Reisberg, L., Ludden, J., and Francis, D. (2000); Re-Os Constraints on Harzburgite and Lherzolite Formation in the Lithospheric Mantle: a Study of Northern Canadian Cordillera Xenoliths, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 64 (17), pp. 3061-3071.

Peslier A. H., Reisberg, L., Ludden, J., and Francis, D. (2000); Re-Os Systematics in Mantle Xenoliths; Age Constraints on the Canadian Cordillera Lithophere, Chemical Geology 166, 1-2, pp 85-101.

Peslier A.H., Francis D., and Ludden, J. (2002); The lithospheric Mantle Beneath Continental Margins: melting and melt-rock reaction in Canadian Cordillera xenoliths, J. Petrol. 43, 11, pp. 2013-2047.

Peslier A.H., Luhr J., and Post, J. (2002); Low Water Contents in Pyroxenes from Spinel-Peridotites of the Oxidized, Sub-Arc Mantle Wedge, Earth Planet. Sci. Let. 201, pp 69-86

Exposés sur Invitation:

Geological Society of Washington, Octobre 1999, Washington, DC, USA "Age and metasomatism of the continental mantle lithosphere underlying the Canadian Cordillera: constraints from Re-Os isotopes".

Northwestern University, Geological Sciences, Décembre 2000, Evanston, IL, USA "Water in mantle xenolith pyroxenes from Mexico and Simcoe (WA, USA): the role of water in nominally anhydrous minerals from the mantle wedge".

Lunar and Planetary Science Institute, February 2004, Houston, TX, USA "Water in the Earth's Mantle - The Perspective from Peridotite "Anhydrous" Minerals".

CONFERENCES INTERNATIONALES:

WRI-8, 8th international symposium on water-rock interaction, Août 1995 , Vladivostok, Russie.
2ième prix du meilleur poster.
Peslier A. H., Pineau F. & Javoy M.; Correlations Between Water Contents, Carbon and Major Elements in Basaltic Glasses From a Mid-Atlantic Ridge Site at 21°N (1995), Proceedings of the 8th international symposium on water-rock interaction (WRI-8), Vladivostok, Russia; Balkema Ed., pp 583-586.
Excursions géologiques sur le lac Baïkal et dans la péninsule du Kamtchatka.

E.U.G., March 1997, Strasbourg, France: exposé
Peslier A., Reisberg L;, Carignan J., Ludden J., Francis D. and Lang S., "Re-Os Systematics of the Lithospheric Mantle Under the Canadian Cordillera", abstracts, pp. 82-83.

Workshop on Continental Mantle Roots, Octobre 1997, Harvard University, USA: poster
Peslier A., Reisberg L., Francis D. and Ludden J., "A Re-Os Study of Mantle Xenoliths From the Canadian Cordillera: the Lithospheric Mantle Under Terrains Accreted to the Stable Margin of North America.", abstract.

A.G.U. fall meeting, Décembre 1997, San Francisco, USA: poster
Peslier A., Reisberg L., Ludden J.,and Francis D., "A Re-Os Isotopic Investigation of the Lithosphere Beneath the Canadian Cordillera", abstract volume, pp. F749-F750.

Goldschmidt, Août 1998, Toulouse, France: exposé
Peslier A., Reisberg L., Ludden J., Francis D. and Chauvel C., "The Mantle Lithosphere Beneath the Canadian Cordillera: Constraints From Re-Os, Sm-Nd and Lu-Hf Systematics of Xenoliths", Mineralogical Magazine, Vol. 62A, Part 2 of 3, pp. 1155-1156.

A.G.U. fall meeting, Décembre 1998, San Francisco, USA: poster
Peslier A., Reisberg L., Ludden J., Francis D. and Chauvel C., "Re-Os and Lu-Hf Constraints on the Melting, Metasomatism and Age of the Canadian Lithospheric Mantle", abstract volume, pp.F965-F966.

G.S.A. annual meeting, Novembre 2000, Reno, NV, USA: exposé
Peslier A., Luhr J., Post, J., "Water in mantle xenolith pyroxenes from Mexico and Simcoe (WA, USA): the role of water in nominally anhydrous minerals from the mantle wedge", abstract volume pp. A387.

Goldschmidt, August 2002, Davos, Suisse: exposé
Peslier A., Brandon A.D., Francis D., Ludden J., "Melt-Rock Reaction in Canadian Cordillera Mantle Xenoliths", Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, Vol. 66 (15A), pp. A594.

AUTRE RESUME

Rapport Lithoprobe nº56, Février 1997
Francis D., Shi L., Abraham A.C., Peslier A., Schmidtberger S., Carignan J., Ludden J. and Polvé M., "Mantle Xenolith and Alkaline Basalt Mapping of the Lithospheric Mantle Beneath Northwestern Canada".