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Professor Stephen E. Haggerty
Department of Geosciences
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
March 14th 3:30 p.m., WC130 [Wertheim Conservatory]
"Diamonds: From Astrophysics to Earth Sciences"
Steve Haggerty is a charismatic speaker and recognized
authority on diamonds and ore deposits. He is one of the pioneers
who served on the Lunar Sample Analysis Planning Team and worked
on lunar samples returned by NASA Apollo and Soviet Luna programs.
Steve's field projects on earth stretch from west and southern
Africa, Brazil, Australia, India, Syria, and Siberia to China.
The mineral Haggertyite was named in his honor. Prof. Haggerty
is a Fellow of several societies, including the American Geophysical
Union. Recently, he was an invited participant at the White House
on socioeconomic issues of diamond. Among many important talks,
Professor Haggerty gave the "Union Speech" at American
Geophysical Union Meeting at San Francisco. His recent accolade
was a 9-page long review paper (1999) in Science (see below).
I must mention two other papers that are prominent "landmarks"
in the field of high-pressure mineralogy and diamond genesis.
Representative Publications:
Haggerty, S.E. (1999) Diamond Trilogy: superplumes,
supercontinents, and supernovae. Science 285, 851-860.
Haggerty, S.E., and Sautter, V. (1990) Ultradeep
(>300 km) ultramafic, upper mantle xenoliths. Science, 248,
993-996.
Haggerty, S.E. 1986. Diamond genesis in a multiply
constrained model. Nature, 320, 34-48.
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