Five College Petrology
Graduate study in petrology at the University of Massachusetts is enhanced far beyond what our own catalog and web site might suggest, because all geology faculty in the Five Colleges (Amherst, Hampshire & UMass in Amherst; Mount Holyoke in South Hadley, and Smith in Northampton) are graduate faculty members at UMass. They can and do serve on graduate committees, and teach graduate courses in their specialties from time to time. They also have instruments that we share, as they share ours. As an indication of the strength and vigor of this petrology group, we call attention to its informal evening meetings twice a semester, at which we and interested graduate students discuss our research and other petrologic interests.
Here is a list of the Five College Petrology faculty. One would be hard put to find a greater concentration of petrologists to stimulate one's graduate education.
John B. Brady (SC) PhD Harvard ‑ Petrology, diffusion. Five‑College Experimental Petrology Laboratory
Mark Brandriss (SC) - PhD Stanford - Igneous petrology
John T. Cheney (AC) PhD Wisconsin ‑ Metamorphic petrology, thermodynamics
Christopher D. Condit (UM) PhD New Mexico ‑ Volcanology, igneous petrology
Peter D. Crowley (AC) PhD MIT ‑ Metamorphic petrology & structure
Steven R. Dunn (MHC) PhD Wisconsin ‑ Metamorphic petrology & stable isotopes
M. Darby Dyar (MHC) PhD MIT ‑ Mineralogy & Crystallography. Mineral Spectroscopy Laboratory
Joseph I. Goldstein (UM) PhD MIT ‑ Meteoritics, microanalysis. Dean, College of Engineering
Callum J. Hetherington (UM) PhD Basel - Petrology, geochemistry, mineralogy, crystallography
Michael J. Jercinovic (UM) PhD New Mexico ‑ Microanalysis, Geochemistry, Mineralogy. UMass Electron Microprobe and Scanning Electron Microscope Laboratories.
Larry Meinert (SC) - PhD Stanford - Metalliferous economic geology; oenology
S. A. Morse (UM) PhD McGill ‑ Petrology, geochemistry, optical mineralogy
A. R. Philpotts (UM Adjunct) PhD Cambridge - Igneous and metamorphic petrology
J. Michael Rhodes (UM) PhD Canberra ‑ Volcanology, igneous petrology, geochemistry. UMass X‑ray Fluorescence (XRF) Laboratory
Sheila J. Seaman (UM) PhD New Mexico ‑ Igneous petrology, mineralogy
Michael L. Williams (UM) PhD New Mexico ‑ Metamorphic petrology, structural geology. UMass Electron Microprobe Laboratory