Peter Barry - Noble Gas Geochemist

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Academic Positions

2019-Present      Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, USA – Assistant Scientist

2014-2018          University of Oxford, UK – Postdoctoral Research Associate

2012-2014          The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA (NSF EAR-Postdoctoral Fellow)


Academic Preparation

2006-2012         Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, USA – Ph.D. Earth Sciences

2006-2011        Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, USA – M.S. Oceanography

2008                 The University of Tokyo, Japan – AORI – visiting researcher (NSF EAPSI Fellow)

2004                 The State University of New York at Geneseo, USA – B.A. Geological Sciences


Fellowships and Funding

-Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) Field Focus Site Award: Biology Meets Subduction: A Collaborative and Multi-disciplinary Deep Carbon Field Initiative, 2016-2019

-EPSRC Global Challenges Research Fund: Developing soil gas surveying techniques to guide helium resource recovery in Tanzania, 2016-2017 

-NSF EAR Postdoctoral Fellowship: A Petrological and Nitrogen Isotope Study of Crustal Recycling Through Time, 2012-2014

-UCSD President’s Dissertation Fellow, 2011-2012

-NSF EAPSI Fellow, 2008

-Research and Teaching Assistant Fellowship and Tuition Fee Stipend, UCSD, 2007-2011


Formal Presentations

- Invited speaker - Geothermal Resources & Sustainable Development Workshop (Kenya), September 2018

-Goldschmidt Conference (Boston) – research presentation, August 2018

-AGU Fall meeting – research presentation, December 2017

- 3rd Deep Carbon Observatory Early Career Scientist Meeting, August 2017

-Goldschmidt Conference (Paris) – research presentation, August 2017

-DINGUE Conference (IPGP) – research presentation, August 2017

-Invited speaker – 68th GASG Colloquium, Natural Gas: Gas in Nature, July 2017

-Invited speaker – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, May 2017

-Keynote speaker – UK Doctoral Training Program, Solid Earth Stream Conference, April 2017

-Invited speaker – University of Oxford – Brown bag lunch seminar, April 2017

-Invited speaker –Third DCO International Science Meeting, March 2017

-Invited speaker – University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, March 2017

-Invited speaker – Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Dept., March 2017

-Invited speaker – Carnegie Institution – Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, October 2016

-Invited speaker – Smithsonian – National Museum of Natural History, October 2016

-Goldschmidt Conference (Yokohama) – research presentation, June 2016

-DINGUE Conference (Nancy) – research presentation, April 2016

-Invited speaker – University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, October, 2015

-Invited speaker – University of St. Andrews, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Science, October, 2015

-University of the Azores: 2nd Deep Carbon Observatory Early Career Scientist Meeting, September 2015

-Goldschmidt Conference (Prague) – research presentation, August 2015

-Invited speaker – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, February 2015

-Invited speaker – University of Oxford – Brown bag lunch seminar, February 2015

-Invited speaker – University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences – ‘Hot Stuff’ Seminar, November 2014

-Goldschmidt Conference (Sacramento) - research presentation, June 2014

-AGU Fall meeting – research presentation, December 2013

-Goldschmidt Conference (Florence) - research presentation, August 2013

-DINGUE Conference (Florence) – research presentation, August 2013

-Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (Houston) – research presentation, March 2013

-Invited speaker – University of Tennessee, Klepser Seminar, September 2012

-Invited speaker – Scripps Inst. of Oceanography – Isotope Geochemistry Laboratory Seminar, April 2012

-International Conference on Gas Geochemistry (San Diego) – research presentation, December 2011

-Goldschmidt Conference (Prague) - research presentation, August 2011

-DINGUE Conference (Paris) – research presentation, August 2011

-Invited guest lecturer for SIO 251 - Whole Earth Geochemistry, June 2011

-Invited speaker at Caltech - Geology Club seminar series, May 2011

-CIDER workshop participant and presenter – July 2010

-AGU Fall meeting – research presentation, December 2009


Graduate Student Advising Experience

-PhD supervisor of David Byrne (University of Oxford) – 2014-Present

-PhD supervisor of Rebecca Tyne (University of Oxford) – 2016-Present

-MS supervisor of Karim Mtili (University of Dar es Salaam) – 2018-present

-MS supervisor of Clarah Kimani (University of Dar es Salaam) – 2018-present


Field Research Experience

-Nicaragua 2017: Sampling fluids, gases and lavas from Telica Volcano
-Costa Rica 2017: Lead PI on DCO funded ‘Biology Meets Subduction’ field expedition
-Tanzania 2016: Testing portable mass spectrometer on high He seeps
-Lost Hills, California 2016: Produced water, oil and gas sampling
-Papua New Guinea 2016: Volcanic gas sampling
-Bakersfield, California 2016: Groundwater and oil and gas sampling
-Tanzania 2016: High helium natural seep sampling
-West Texas & Louisiana 2016: Methane sample collection
-Tanzania 2015: High helium natural seep sampling
-South Texas 2015: Methane sample collection
-Northern Germany 2014: Methane sample collection
-Southern California 2014: Groundwater sampling in the Santa Barbara Basin
-Costa Rica 2014: Deployment of SPARTAH; collection of geothermal fluids and groundwaters
-Panama 2013: Groundwater sampling in the volcanic forearc
-Central California 2014: Groundwater sampling along the San Andreas Fault
-China 2011: Sampling of volcanic fluids and gases
-Costa Rica 2010: Sampling fluids and gases
-Tanzania 2009: Sampling lavas, xenoliths, geothermal fluids and gases
-Japan 2008: Sampling geothermal gases
-California: Deployment of SPARTAH; collection of geothermal fluids and groundwaters
-Mascarene islands 2007: Sampling of lavas and xenoliths
-Central Indian Ridge 2007: SIO Knox11 research cruise (R/V Revelle) - Dredging for glasses
-Iceland 2007: Test deployment of SPARTAH; Sampling of lavas, xenoliths and geothermal fluids
-Costa Rica & El Salvador 2007: Sampling geothermal fluids and gases; Mini-DOAS: SO2 fluxes


Community/Administrative Activities

Proposal Reviewer:

-National Science Foundation

Journal Reviewer:

-Geochimica Cosmochimica et Acta

-Chemical Geology

-Journal of Volcanology Geothermal Research

-Mineralogy and Petrology

-Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

-Geology, Geophysics, and Geosystems


Synergistic Activities

-Outreach lecturer at “The Gillispie school” 2007

-Former president of the Scripps Academic Club, 2008-2012

-Former student representative for the Geoscience Research Division at SIO 2009-2012

-GK12 outreach program participant, connecting high school teachers with current scientific endeavours in our laboratory 2012-2014

-Invited outreach lecturer at “San Diego Continuing Education” 2014

-Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) Early Career Scientist (ECS) representative for Deep Energy 2015