Professional History

Fraser Goff received his B.S. in chemistry from San Jose State College in 1971 and his Ph.D. in earth science from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1977, where his dissertation dealt with formation and geochemistry of segregation pipes and veins in basalt flows. During his Ph.D. program, he was employed by the U.S. Geological Survey as chemist and geologist in evaluation of The Geysers-Clear Lake geothermal region, California. Upon completion of his Ph.D., he spent a year as Senior Geologist at Rockwell Hanford Operations working on the Basalt Waste Isolation Project. In 1978 he joined Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) where he is currently a member of the Geology/Geochemistry Group. His major research efforts at LANL have been: (1) Evaluation of both conventional and hot-dry-rock geothermal resources through Integration of geological, geophysical, and hydrogeochemical data; (2) field-oriented geologic, petrologic, and hydrogeochemical studies of Quaternary-Tertiary volcanicprovinces; (3) application of hydrogeochemical techniques in geothermal, volcanological, and environmental research. He worked on the Nevada Test Site nuclear waste project and as a LANL consultant to the NRC on reactor-site geology. He was Task Manager of the US hot-dry-rock resource evaluation and site assessment team (1980-1982). He acted as P.I. and Chief Scientist during coring of VC-1 and VC-2A, the first Continental Scientific Drilling Program holes in the Valles Caldera (1983-1988). He planned much of the coring strategy for three exploration holes in Honduras and one in Guatemala (1986-1990). He has worked on 35 geothermal systems in the USA and ten countries. He has worked on 15 active volcanoes studying magmatic volatiles. He investigated the hydrogeochemistry of geothermally-connected oil fields in the Great Basin, Nevada. He leads a small team investigating environmental isotopes in groundwaters within LANL property and mercury transport from mine tailings in California. He is Adjunct Professor at the University of New Mexico and is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

1. Remote Sensing of Volcanoes White Island and Ruapehu, New Zealand (1996)Popocatepetl, Mexico and Kilauea, USA (1997)Popocatepetl, Mexico and Etna, Italy (1998)

2. Geothermal Exploration/GeochemistryThe Geysers - Clear Lake region, California (since 1990)Dixie Valley, Nevada (1996 - present)Awibangkok, Indonesia (1998 - present)Miscellaneous Places

3. Carbon Dioxide SequestrationCalifornia Ultramafic Bodies (1996 - present)Silica-Carbonate Alteration of Serpentine (1999)

Goff, F., Janik, C.J., Delgado, H., Werner, C., Counce, D., Stimac, J.A., Siebe, C., Love, S.P., Williams, S.N., Fissher, T., and Johnson, L., 1998, Geochemical surveillance of magmatic volatiles at Popocatpetl Volcano, Mexico: Geol. Soc. Amer. 110, 695-710.

Goff, F., and Lackner, K.S., 1998, Carbon Dioxide Sequestering Using Ultramafic Rocks: Environmental Geosciences, 5, 89-101.

Hilton, D., McMurtry, G., and Goff, F., 1998, Large variations in vent fluid CO₂/³He ratios signal rapid changes in magma chemistry at Loihi seamount, Hawaii: Nature, 396, 359-362.

Love, S., Goff, F., Counce, D., Siebe, C., and Delgado, H., 1998, Passive infrared spectroscopy of the eruption plume at Popocatepetl Volcano, Mexico: Nature, 396, 563-566.

Goff, F., McMurty, G., Counce, D., Stimac, J., Roldan, A., and Hilton, D., 2000, Contrasting hydrothermal activity at Sierra Negra and Alcedo volcanoes, Galapagos archipelago, Ecuador: Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 63, p. 34-52.

Goff, F., and McMurtry, G., 2000, Trtium and stable isotopes of magmatic waters: Jour. Volcano. Geotherm. Res., v. 97, p. 347-396.

Shevenell, L., and Goff, F., 2000, Temporal geochemical variations in volatile emissions from Mount St. Helens, USA, 1980 - 1994: Jour. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., v. 99, p. 123-138.

Love, S., Goff, F., Counce, D., Siebe, C., and Delgado, H., 1998, Passive infrared spectroscopy of the eruption plume at Popocatepetl Volcano, Mexico: Nature, v. 396, p. 563-567.

Love, S., Goff, F., Schmidt, S., Counce, D., Pettit, D., Christenson, B., and Siebe, C., 2000, Passive infrared spectroscopic remote sensing of volcanic gases: Ground-based studies at White Island and Ruapehu, New Zealand, and Popocatepetl, Mexio, in Remote Sensing of Active Volcanism: Amer. Geophys. Union, Monograph 116, p. 117-138.

Goff, F., Love, S., Warren, R., Counce, D., Obenholzner, J., Siebe, C., and Schmidt, S., in press, Passive infrared remote sensing evidence for large, intermittent CO2 emissions at Popocatepetl volcano, Mexico: Chemical Geology

1. Geological Society of America, American Geophysical Union, Geothermal Resources Council, IAVCEI

2. New Mexico Geologic Mapping Advisory Board

3. Editorial Boards of Geothermics (1989; 1997-1999); Geothermal Science & Technology (1993-present); J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res. (1998-2000)