Work Experience:

 Summer 1965 Geology laboratory instructor to secondary school earth science teachers, refresher course, Lehigh University

Sept. 1965 - June 1996, Graduate teaching assistant (geology), Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jan. 1967 - Sept 1968, Research geologist (experimental deformation of rock and rock block model studies) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Missouri River Division Laboratory, Omaha, Nebraska

Oct. 1968 - Dec 1968, Research assistant in Lunar studies, University of New Mexico

Feb. 1968 - June 1972, Graduate research assistant (structural geology study), University of New Mexico

July 1972 - June 1975, Assistant Professor of geology Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania. Taught courses in physical geology, historical geology, environmental geology, mineralogy, field geology, and structural geology.

July 1975 - June 1978, Assistant Professor of geology North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. Taught courses in physical geology, geology of the national parks and monuments, petrology and petrography of igneous and metamorphic rocks, field geology, geologic field camp, structural geology, advanced structural geology, and geotectonics.

Aug. 1977 - June 1982, Associate Professor of geology, North Carolina State University (same courses as above)

Dec. 1979 - Aug 1994, Technical Staff Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory

(Leave of absence at North Carolina State University, Aug. 1981 - June, 1982)

Sept. 1994- Present, Group Leader, EES-1, Geology And Geochemistry Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Management Experience

• Managed contracts of geothermal investigations by Kent State University, Purdue University, and the Kansas Geological Survey (1979-1981).
• Liaison with Phillips Petroleum on Roosevelt Hot Springs geothermal project (1980-1981).
• Manager of DOE State Coupled Low Temperature Geothermal Program for State of NM. Worked with NM State energy office, universities, and private landholders (1979-1981).
• Assistant project manager for hot dry rock geothermal program (1981).
• Project Leader of Central America peat resource assessment AID program (Feb. 1986 - Sep. 1987).
• Prototype Test Coordinator for Yucca Mountain Project (Oct. 1986 - Aug. 1988).
• Programmatic Project Leader, Environmental Restoration Program (Oct. 1992 - Sep. 1993).
• Operable Unit Project Leader, Environmental Restoration Program (Oct. 1990 - Sep. 1994).

Selected Publications:

Aldrich, M. J., 1969, Pore pressure effects on Berea Sandstone subjected to experimental deformation: Geological Society of America Bulletin, V. 80, p. 1577-1586.

Aldrich, M. J., 1974, Structural development of the Hanover-Fierro pluton, southwestern New Mexico: Geological Society of America Bulletin, V. 85, p. 963-968.

Aldrich, M. J., 1976, Geology and flow directions of volcanic rocks of the North Star Mesa quadrangle, Grant County, New Mexico, in W. E. Elston and S. A. Northrop (eds), Cenozoic volcanism in southwestern New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society Special Publication No. 5, p. 79-81.

Aldrich, M. J., 1978, Subsurface extensions of the Santa Rita-Hanover axis: a major early Tertiary structure, New Mexico: Geology, V. 6, p. 373-376.

Laughlin, A. W., E. C. Eddy, R. Laney, and M. J. Aldrich, 1983, Geology of the Fenton Hill, New Mexico, hot dry rock site: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, V. 15, p. 21-41.

Laughlin, A. W., M. J. Aldrich, and D. T. Vaniman, 1983, Tectonic implications of mid-Tertiary dikes in west-central New Mexico: Geology, V. 11, p. 45- 48.

Aldrich, M. J., Jr. and A. W. Laughlin, 1984, A model for the tectonic development of the southeastern Colorado Plateau boundary: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 89, p. 10207-10218.

Aldrich, M. J., Jr., 1986, Tectonics of the Jemez lineament in the Jemez Mountains and Rio Grande rift: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 91, p. 1753-1762.

Aldrich, M. J., Jr., C. E. Chapin, and A. W. Laughlin, 1986, Stress history and tectonic development of the Rio Grande rift, New Mexico: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 91, p. 6199-6211.

Aldrich, M. J., Jr., A. W. Laughlin, J. S. Meade, and H. W. Peirce, 1986, The Jemez lineament: structural boundaries and control on sedimentary facies, tectonism, and mineralization: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Basement Tectonics, International Basement Tectonics Association, Salt Lake City, UT, p. 104-113.

Aldrich, M. J. and A. W. Laughlin, editors, 1986, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Basement Tectonics, 208 p.

Aldrich, M. J., Jr. and D. P. Dethier, 1990, Stratigraphic and tectonic evolution of the northern Española Basin, Rio Grande rift, New Mexico: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 102, p. 1695-1705.

Aldrich, M. J., Jr., A. I. Adams, and Carlos Escobar, 1991, Structural geology and stress history of the Platanares geothermal site, Honduras: Implications on the tectonics of the northwestern Caribbean plate boundary, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 45, p. 59-69.

Salyards, S. L., J. F. Ni, M. J. Aldrich, Jr., 1994, Variation in Paleomagnetic Rotations and Kinematics of the north-central Rio Grande rift, New Mexico: Geological Society of America Special Paper 291, p. 59-71.