Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Paul Starr receives new NSF grant

This National Science Foundation research grant, entitled "Constraining the release of oxidizing fluids from the mafic slab during subduction", will support research on the release of metamorphic fluids from subducting tectonic plates and how these fluids influence the redox conditions of the overlying mantle and arc volcanic systems. This research will involve novel non- traditional stable isotope measurements combined with high-resolution garnet geochronology, conducted at the Center for Isotope Geochemistry at Boston College. The grant will foster collaborations between Boston College and our partners at IPGP (France), Sorbonne University and the University of South Carolina. Boston College undergraduate students will travel to Europe to contribute to this research with the guidance of Dr. Paul Starr and Prof. Ethan Baxter.