Peter Barry - Noble Gas Geochemist
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Academic and Employment History
2014-2018 University of Oxford, UK – Department of Earth Sciences, Postdoctoral Research Associate
2012-2014 The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA (NSF EAR-Postdoctoral Fellow)
2006-2012 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, USA – Ph.D. Earth Sciences
2006-2011 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, USA – M.S. Oceanography
2000-2004 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