Dave Vaniman MS D462, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545

Tel: 505-6671863; Fax: 505-665-3285

e-mail: vaniman@lanl.gov

born August 10, 1947. Married; two children.

 

Education:

B.A. Degree in Geology, Pomona College, Claremont, California (1969);
M.S. degree in Earth Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz (1970);
Ph.D. degree in Earth Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz (1976).



Employment Experience:

Science Teacher, Baptist High School, Jos, Nigeria (1970-1971);
Geologist, Geological Survey of Nigeria (1971-1973);
Teaching Assistant, University of California, Santa Cruz (1973-1975);
Research Assistant, University of California, Santa Cruz (1975-1976);
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, State University of New York, Stony Brook (1976-1979);
Employed from 1979 to present as a Staff Member in the Earth and Environmental
Sciences Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory.


Management Experience:

In charge of mineralogy-petrology research group for the Yucca Mountain Project (investigation of a potential high-level nuclear waste repository in Nevada), 1981-1988; 1992-1993.

Society Memberships and Honors:
  • Geological Society of America (Member since 1970; Fellow since 1989)
  • Mineralogical Society of America (Member since 1973; Book Review Editor since 1994)
  • Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (Member since 1978)
  • Geoscience Information Society Award, 1992 Best Geoscience Reference Book (Lunar Sourcebook: A User's Guide to the Moon)

    • Major Research Interests:

    Mineralogy and geochemistry of igneous rocks, metamorphic rocks, and their alteration assemblages. Interactions of minerals with transuranic elements in aqueous solutions. Mineralogy and petrology of soils and springs. Lunar and planetary petrology; instrumentation for planetary mineralogic and geochemical studies. Past research projects have included the late Precambrian granitic
    terrain of Northern Nigeria, feldspars in granites, lunar soils, lunar mare and highland basalts, Precambrian metamorphosed iron formations in Minnesota and Montana, granite-carbonate interactions in Western Utah, basaltic volcanism of the southeastern Colorado Plateau boundary, and basaltic volcanism of southern Nevada.

    Work in Progress:

    (1) Studies of primary mineralogy and secondary mineralization in Cenozoic pyroclastic rocks and in soils of Southern Nevada, including
    microautoradiography of transuranic elements.
    (2) Studies of volcanism, seismic hazards, water-rock interaction, and environmental geology in the northern Jemez Mountains, New Mexico.
    (3) Development of instrumentation for combined X-ray diffraction and fluorescence analysis.