Research Interests:
 
Mechanisms and kinetics of phase transformations
Elasticity and rheology of minerals at high pressure
Incorporation of hydrogen into nominally anhydrous minerals
Development of multi-anvil high-pressure technology

Education:

B.A., Geology, cum laude, University of Pennsylvania, 1991
Ph.D., Geology, Stanford University, 1996

Positions held:

2002-current        Staff Scientist, Caltech
2000-2002           Postdoctoral Fellow, Caltech
1997-1999           Postdoctoral Fellow, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Bayreuth, Germany
1991-1996           Research and Teaching Assistant, Stanford University
1992-1996           Volunteer Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey (Branch of Volcanic and Geothermal Processes)
1991(summer)     Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey (intern program, Branch of Western Geology)
1989-1991           Research Assistant, University of Pennsylvania (Mineral Separation Slave)

Honors and Awards:

1994-1995           Stanford-USGS fellowship
1994                    MSA Mineralogy and Petrology Research Grant
1994                    GSA Outstanding Research Award
1993                    GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division Student Research Award

Publications:

Andrault, D., Angel, R.J., Mosenfelder, J.L., Le Bihan, T., 2003, Equation of state of stishovite to lower mantle pressures. American Mineralogist, 88: 301-307

Angel, R.J., Mosenfelder, J.L., Shaw, C.S.J., 2001, Anomalous compression and equation of state of coesite. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 124: 71-79.

Ernst, W. G., Mosenfelder, J. L., Leech, M. L., Liu, J., 1998, H₂O recycling during continental collision: phase-equilibrium and kinetic considerations. in Hacker, B. R., and Liou, J. G. (eds.), When Continents Collide: Geodynamics and Geochemistry of Ultrahigh-Pressure Rocks: Kluwer Acad. Pub., Dordrecht. p. 275-295.

Hacker, B.R., Mosenfelder, J.L., 1996, Metamorphism and deformation along the emplacement thrust of the Samail Ophiolite, Oman. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 144: 435-451.

Hacker, B.R., Mosenfelder, J.L.,Gnos, E., 1996, Rapid emplacement of the Oman ophiolite: thermal and geochronologic constraints. Tectonics, 15: 1230-1247.

Liu, M., Kerschhofer, L., Mosenfelder, J.L. , Rubie, D.C., 1998, The effect of strain energy on growth rates during the olivine-spinel transformation and implications for olivine metastability in subducting slabs. Journal of Geophysical Research, 103: 23,897-23,909.

Luo, S.-N., Mosenfelder, J.L., Asimow, P.D., Ahrens, T.J., 2002. Direct shock wave loading of stishovite to 235 GPa: implications for perovskite stability relative to an oxide assemblage at lower mantle conditions. Geophysical Research Letters, 29(14): article no. 1691

Luo, S.-N., Mosenfelder, J.L., Asimow, P.D., Ahrens, T.J., 2002. Stishovite and its implications in geophysics: new results from shock-wave experiments and theoretical modeling. Physics-Uspekhi, 45: 435-439

Mosenfelder, J.L., 2000. Pressure dependence of hydroxyl solubility in coesite. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 27: 610-617.

Mosenfelder, J.L. , Bohlen, S.R., 1997, Kinetics of the coesite to quartz transformation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 153: 133-147.

Mosenfelder, J.L., Connolly, J.A.D., Rubie, D.C., 2000. Strength of (Mg,Fe)₂SiO₄ wadsleyite determined by relaxation of transformation stress. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 120: 63-78

Mosenfelder, J.L., Connolly, J.A.D., Rubie, D.C., 2000. Inhibition of growth by transformation stress: implications for olivine metastability and the rheology of subducting slabs. AIRAPT conference proceedings, 594-597

Mosenfelder, J.L., Marton, F., Ross, C.R., Kerschhofer, L., Rubie, D.C., 2001, Experimental constraints on the depth of olivine metastability in subducting lithosphere. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 127: 165-180.

Theses:

Kinetics of Metamorphic Reactions. 1996, Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, 190 pp. 

Thermobarometry of rocks in the Avondale Nappe, Pennsylvania Piedmont. 1991, B.A. Honors thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 50 pp.

Abstracts:

Today's abstract: paper ratio is...oh never mind. Too many to list, come back later :-)