Donald DePaolo#
| Membership Number: | 5159 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - present Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., Assoc. Laboratory Director Energy & Environmental Sciences 2010 - 2013; Assoc. Laboratory Director Energy Sciences 2013-2016; Senior Advisor, Energy Sciences
- 1988 - present Director, Center for Isotope Geochemistry, UC Berkeley & LBNL
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division: Faculty Scientist, 1988 - present; Geochemistry Department Head, 1998 - 2006; Director, Earth Sciences Division, 2007 - 2013
- University of California, Berkeley: Professor of Geochemistry, 1988 - present; Chair, Department of Geology and Geophysics. 1990 - 1993; Class of 1951 Professor of Geochemistry, 1998 - 2016; Graduate Professor of Geochemistry and Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus, 2016 - present
- University of California, Los Angeles: Assistant Professor of Geology and Geochemistry, 1978 - 1981; Associate Professor, 1981-1983; Professor, 1983 - 1988
Fields of Scholarship
- Principles of physics and chemistry to fundamental problems in geology, geochemistry, and environmental science
- Origin and evolution of the Earth's continental crust, lithosphere and mantle
- Geochemical methods in environmental and climate change science
- Application of mass spectrometry
- Isotope geochemistry
- Petrogenesis and geochronology of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks
Honours and Awards
- 1978 F.W. Clarke Medal, Geochemical Society
- 1983 J.B. MacElwane Award, American Geophysical Union
- 1983 Fellow, American Geophysical Union
- 1987 Mineralogical Society of America Award
- 1987 Fellow, Mineralogical Society of America
- 1992 Fellow, California Academy of Sciences
- 1993 Member, National Academy of Sciences
- 1994 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1994 - 1995 Fulbright Senior Scholar, Australia National University
- 1997 - 1998 Miller Research Professor, U.C. Berkeley
- 1997 Geochemistry Fellow, Geochemical Soc. and EAG
- 1997 Fellow, Geological Soc. America
- 1999 Arthur L. Day Medal, Geol. Soc. America
- 2000 - 2001 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow
- 2000 Harold Urey Medal, European Association of Geochemistry
- 2009 Fellow, AAAS
- 2014 Symposium, H.H. Hess Medal, American Geophysical Union
- 2019 Goldschmidt Medal, Geochemical Society
