Muriel Laubier

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Muriel Laubier

Harvard University
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
20 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: (+1-617) 496-6924
Fax: (+1-617) 496-6958
laubier@eps.harvard.edu

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EDUCATION
• 10/27/2006: Ph.D. in petrology - geochemistry: “Contribution of primitive melt inclusions to the understanding of the origin of oceanic basalts: examples of the FAMOUS zone (Mid-Atlantic Ridge) and the Réunion hotspot”. Advisors: Pierre Schiano and Didier Laporte. Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
• 06/2003: DEA (M.S.) in volcanology, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France (mention B).
• 06/2002: Maitrise (MSc.) in Earth Sciences, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France (mention B).
• 06/2001: Licence (Bsc.) in Earth Sciences, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France (mention B).
• 06/2000: DEUG (undergraduate) in Earth Sciences, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France.


RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
• Doctoral research, Master and Undergraduate research: Understanding of the melting processes and the source of mantle magmas through the study of primitive melt inclusions (major, volatile and trace-elements).


TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Electron microprobe: Melt inclusion and mineral analysis in major and volatile elements (S, Cl and F)
• Laser ablation and Inductive Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy: In-situ trace element analysis in glasses and minerals, Pb isotope measurements in melt inclusions
• SEM: photography, analysis and chemical cartography of melt inclusions and crystals)
• Optical heating stage under He-atmosphere (1 atm)


PUBLICATIONS
• Le Voyer, M., E. F. Rose-Koga, M. Laubier, and P. Schiano, Petrogenesis of arc lavas from the Rucu Pichincha and Pan de Azucar volcanoes (Ecuadorian arc): Major, trace element, and boron isotope evidences from olivine-hosted melt inclusions, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 9, Q12027, 2008.
• Laubier, M., Schiano, P., Doucelance, R., Ottolini, L., Laporte, D., Olivine-Hosted Melt Inclusions and Melting Processes beneath the FAMOUS Zone (Mid-Atlantic Ridge), Chem. Geol., vol. 240, p. 129-150, 2007.


PRESENTATIONS
• Laubier, M., Langmuir, C.H., Primitive Melt Inclusions from Multiple Samples from the FAMOUS Zone: Insights into the Mantle Melting Column and the Fractionation Processes, AGU, Fall meeting, 2008, San Francisco, USA.
• Laubier, M., Langmuir, C.H., Olivine-Hosted Melt Inclusions: Record of High-Pressure or Late-Stage Processes?, AGU, Fall meeting, 2007, San Francisco, USA.
• Laubier, M., Multi-elemetal analysis of primitive melt inclusions : applications for oceanic basalts, Workshop on melt inclusions, 11/30-12/1/2006, CRPG Nancy, France
• Laubier, M., Schiano, P., Laporte, D., Doucelance, R., Alard, O., Burton, K.W., Source and melting characteristics of the Reunion plume: constraints from primitive melt inclusions, AGU, Fall meeting, 2005, San Francisco, USA.
• Laubier, M., Schiano, P., Laporte, D., Doucelance, R., Alard, O., Burton, K.W., Insights into the Reunion hotspot magmatism from primitive melt inclusions, EGU, 2005, Vienna, Austria.
• Laubier, M., Schiano, P., Doucelance, R., Ottolini, L., Laporte, D., Mantle source heterogeneity recorded in olivine-hosted melt inclusions from the FAMOUS zone, Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Euromelt meeting, 2004, Pavia, Italy.
• Laubier, M., Schiano, P., Doucelance, R., Ottolini, L., Laporte, D., Mantle source heterogeneity recorded in olivine-hosted melt inclusions from the FAMOUS zone, Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Goldschimdt, 2004, Copenhagen, Denmark.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2003-2006: “Monitor” position (64-92 h/y), Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Cristallography (Licence 3, undergraduate level)
- Petrography (Licence 2, undergraduate level)
- Informatics: Matlab, Excel, Word (Licence 2-3, undergraduate level)
- Cartography (Licence 2, undergraduate level)
- Scientific argumentation (Licence 1, undergraduate level)
- Educational field excursions: sedimentology and volcanology (Licence 1-2, undergraduate level)

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