Curriculum Vitae for Elizabeth Catlos

Elizabeth J. Catlos
Research interests	Department of Earth and Space Sciences Keck/NSF National Center for Isotope Geochemistry University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles, CA 90095-1667, USA catlos@argon.ess.ucla.edu http://oro.ess.ucla.edu/~catlos/ Telephones: (310) 206-2940 (office) (310) 825-2779 (fax) Date of birth: 20 October 1971 Citizenship: USA PDF VERSION
Education
Fellowships and awards
Professional experience
Field experience
UCLA Teaching assitantships
Teaching philosophy
Bibliography
Conference involvement
Memberships in professional societies

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

The evolution of the Himalayan mountain range, models for heat and mass flow along tectonic structures, developing techniques for isotopic microanalysis, and applying mineral equilibria to estimate environmental conditions during dynamic recrystallization. Overall, I am interested in developing and applying geochemical techniques to the study of lithosphere dynamics. My current the project involves deciphering the evolution of a thrust fault that largely created the Himalayan mountain range. The study has implications for understanding stages of mountain building in collisional plate tectonic settings and mechanisms of heat flow around major thrust fault systems.

EDUCATION:
Dec. 2000	PhD.	UC Los Angeles	Geochemistry
1999	Phil. Cand.	UC Los Angeles	Geochemistry
1994	B.Sc.	UC San Diego	Chemistry with Specialization in Earth Science

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:
2000	Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics	Fellow
Fall 1999	UC Los Angeles	Graduate Student Fellowship
Summer 1997	Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History	Predoctoral Fellowship
Summer 1994	NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training Exobiology	Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

(present) DEPT. EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCES, UCLA /SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (post graduate researcher)

Utilizing a scanning electron microscope to obtain element maps of muscovite grains from the Franciscan Complex, California and the Samana Metamorphic Complex, Dominican Republic. These grains will be subject to further geochronologic study using ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar method.

(1995- Dec 2000) DEPT. EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCES, UCLA (geochemistry)

Developed an ion microprobe technique to date allanite, a mineral found in many regionally metamorphosed pelites and igneous rocks.

Applying in situ ion microprobe method to date monazite and allanite grains found as inclusions in garnet.

Utilized an electron microprobe in order to obtain compositional information from minerals important for thermobarometry (e.g., garnet and biotite) and geochronology (e.g., monazite and allanite). Utilized a scanning electron microscope to obtain back-scattered electron images of these minerals.

Obtained thermobarometric information from garnet-bearing assemblages collected roughly perpendicular to the Himalayan Main Central Thrust. Apply this information to a tectonic model for the evolution of the Himalayan range.

Obtained ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar muscovite ages from rocks collected roughly perpendicular to the Himalayan Main Central Thrust and apply the results a general model of the range.

Participated in the development a thermo-mechanical model of the Himalayan range using geochronological and thermobarometric information.

Assisted visitors and other graduate students in preparing samples for SIMS analysis and routine operation of Th-Pb dating of allanite and monazite at the UCLA ion microprobe facility.

Former co-president of the UCLA Earth and Space Sciences Student Organization. Organizing the student symposium, managing the group's budget, involved with planning the department seminar series and annual social events.

(Summer 1995) DEPT. CHEMISTRY, UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS (analytical chemistry)

Utilized an atomic force microscope to image the surface of metals.

Provided laboratory assistance to other graduate students developing laboratory techniques to synthesize semiconductors.

(Summer 1994-1995) SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY (undergraduate)

Distilled Greenland ice cores to extract organic compounds, including extraterrestrial amino acids. Utilized High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), and analyzed the fluorescence of the extract using a spectrofluorimeter.

Involved with the general organization of the lab, including cleaning and revamping the clean-water system.

FIELD EXPERIENCE:

I spent a month in central Nepal along the Marysandi River (summer, 1997) and a month in the Everest Region along the Dudh Kosi, and the area near Kathmandu (summer, 1999). I collected metamorphic rocks along the Main Central Thrust for further study at UCLA using isotope geochemistry and thermobarometry. I also spent three months as a field assistant for another UCLA graduate student along the Altyn Tagh Fault in China (summer, 1998). In the time I spent in the field, I mapped, collected rock samples, operated a GPS unit, and arranged logistics, including sample shipment. In China, I operated a Total Station to create topographic maps and took aerial photographs with a digital camera fitted on a kite.

UCLA TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS:
Fall and Winter 1996	Introduction to Geology	Profs. Mark Harrison and Mary Reid
Winter 1998	Environmental Geology of Los Angeles	Prof. David Jackson
Winter 1995, 1997; Fall 2000	Oceanography	Profs. David Paige, Matt Saltzman, Frank Kyte
Winter 1999	Dinosaurs and their Relatives	Prof. Charles Marshall
Winter 2000	Optical Mineralogy	Profs. Wayne Dollase

TEACHING PHILOSOPHY:

For these courses above, I was responsible for teaching up to three weekly sections, grading all exams, papers, and laboratory exercises, implementing review sections, and performing general administrative duties. The classes are for non-earth science majors (except Optical Mineralogy), and approximately 75 students signed up for my sections. Department evaluations were conducted at the end of each course and documents recording student and professor feedback on my teaching are available.

I am interested in teaching general education courses for non-earth science majors, integrating lab and fieldwork, writing, library research, and computer skills, including web-based technology. Two of my students became employed as undergraduate researchers in our working group. I am also interested in developing and teaching courses in metamorphic petrology, mineralogy, as well as seminar courses on the evolution of the Himalaya and methods of isotopic and chemical microanalysis. Currently, I am teaching an informal course to graduate students in our working group in Practical Aspects of Mineral Thermobarometry.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Organized by: refereed articles^# and conference abstracts.^�Some contributions are available on-line, and you may need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader (free).

1^#	E.J. Catlos, Sorena S. Sorensen, and T.M. Harrison. (2000) Th-Pb ion-microprobe dating of allanite. American Mineralogist 85, 633-648.
2^#	E.J. Catlos, T.M. Harrison, M.J. Kohn, M. Grove, F.J. Ryerson, Craig E. Manning, and B.N. Upreti (in press) Geochronologic and thermobarometric constraints on the evolution of the Main Central Thrust, central Nepal Himalaya. Journal of Geophysical Research
3^#	E.J. Catlos, T.M. Harrison, C.E. Manning, M. Grove,S.M. Rai, M.S. Hubbard, B.N. Upreti (in press) Records of the evolution of the Himalayan orogen from in situ Th-Pb ion microprobe dating of monazite: eastern Nepal and western Garhwal. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences.
4^#	M.J. Kohn, E.J. Catlos, F.J. Ryerson, T.M. Harrison (in press) P-T-t path discontinuity in the MCT Zone, Central Nepal. Geology.
5^#	T.M. Harrison, M. Grove, O.M. Lovera, and E.J. Catlos, and J. D'Andrea (1999) The origin of Himalayan anatexis and inverted metamorphism: Models and constraints. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 17, 755-772.
6^#	T.M. Harrison, M. Grove, O.M. Lovera, E.J. Catlos (1998) A model for the origin of Himalayan anatexis and inverted metamorphism. Journal of Geophysical Research 103, 27017-27032.
7^#	T.M. Harrison, F.J. Ryerson, P. LeFort, A. Yin, O.M. Lovera, E.J. Catlos (1997) A Late Miocene-Pliocene origin for Central Himalayan inverted metamorphism. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 146, E1-E7.
8^�	E.J. Catlos, T.M. Harrison (2000) Records of the evolution of the Himalayan orogen from in situ Th-Pb dating of monazite from Eastern Nepal. 2000 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.
9^�	E.J. Catlos, T.M. Harrison, M. Grove, M.J. Kohn, B.N. Upreti (1999) Evidence for Pliocene Activity across the Main Central Thrust Shear Zone, central Nepal. 1999 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.
10^�	M.J. Kohn, E.J. Catlos, F.J. Ryerson, T.M. Harrison (1999) Metamorphic P-T discontinuity at the base of the MCT zone, central Nepal. 1999 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.
11^�	T.M. Harrison, M. Grove, J. D'Andrea, E.J. Catlos, O.M. Lovera (1999) Models for the Thermal and Tectonic Evolution of Southern Tibet and the Himalaya . 1999 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.
12^�	E.J. Catlos, T.M. Harrison, M.P Searle, M.S. Hubbard (1999) Evidence for Late Miocene Reactivation of the Main Central Thrust: From Garhwal to the Nepali Himalaya. Terra Nostra, 2: 14^th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop, Kloster Ettal Germany, 20-22.
13^�	E.J. Catlos, T.M. Harrison, M. Grove, O.M. Lovera, A. Yin, M.J. Kohn, F.J. Ryerson, P. LeFort, B.N. Upreti (1997) Further evidence for Late Miocene Reactivation of the Main Central Thrust (Nepal Himalayas) and the Significance of the MCT-I. 1997 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.
14^�	T.M. Harrison, E.J. Catlos, L.D. Gilley, A.C. Robinson (2001) U-Pb ages of metamorphic monazite: what do they mean? 16^th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop, Austria. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 19, 26-27.

CONFERENCE INVOLVEMENT:

2000 American Geophysical Union Tectonophysics Judge to assess section student presentations for the Outstanding Student Presentation awards.

1999 American Geophysical Union Co-Convener of Special Session T02: Thermal Structure of Tibetan and Himalayan Lithosphere: Implications for Geodynamic Models of the India-Asia Collision (Joint With G, S, and V). With Mike A. Murphy, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.

Organized the 1999 UCLA Earth and Space Science Student Symposium. The ESSSO symposium gives all students in UCLA's Earth and Space Sciences Department an opportunity to present their research in a program that bring multidisciplinary attention to understanding the processes and structure of the Earth, planets, and space.

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
American Geophysical Union	American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Mineralogical Society of America	Geological Society of America