Research
Geological Research
Currently a PhD Candidate in the Department of Imaging and Applied Physics at Curtin University in Perth, Australia.
Tentative title of PhD: "Microstructural studies on >4300 Ma (million year old) Zircons from Western Australia: constraining the conditions and evolution of the early Earth." This title is nearly three years old, and will invariably change as what I've been doing the past three years doesn't necessarily relate to this title anymore!
Completed Masters (MSc, Geology) in 2005, with a strikingly similar title of: "Investigation of trace-element and U-Th-Pb Isotopic Variation in >4000 Ma Zircons".
Here's a few (currently very large) photos of zircon-bearing mineral separates and preparation of a SHRIMP (Sensitive High Resolution Ion MicroProbe) sample mount.
Publications
Chiarenzelli, J., Lupulescu, M., Cousens, B., Thern, E., Coffin, L., Regan, S. (2010) Enriched Grenvillian Lithospheric Mantle as a Consequence of Long-Lived Subduction Beneath Laurentia. Geology, February 2010; v.38; no. 2; p. 151-154. (Geology Journal Link)
Gates, A.E., Valentino, D.W., Gorring M.L., Thern, E.R., and Chiarenzelli, J. (2006) Rodinian collisional and escape tectonics in the Hudson Highlands, New York. in Pazzaglia, F.J., ed., Excursions in Geology and History: Field Trips in the Middle Atlantic States: Geological Society of America Field Guide 8, p. 65–82. (GSA Field Guide Link)
Thern, E. R. (2005). Investigation of trace element and U-Th-Pb isotopic variation in >4 Ga zircons. Thesis (M.Sc.) Curtin University of Technology, xxvii, 294 pages.
Abstracts and Posters
LUPULESCU, Marian V., CHIARENZELLI, Jeffrey R., COUSENS, Brian, THERN, Eric, and NELSON, David. (2008) Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Mafic-Ultramafic intrusions from Pyrities, Adirondack lowlands, New York, GSA Northeastern Section - 43rd Annual Meeting (27-29 March 2008) (Abstract)
CHIARENZELLI, Jeffrey R., LUPULESCU, Marian, COUSENS, Brian, THERN, Eric, and NELSON, David. (2007) Recognition of oceanic crust in the Adirondack lowlands, 2007 GSA Denver Annual Meeting (28–31 October 2007), Paper No. 121-7. (Abstract)
CHRAPOWITZKY, Lauren, THERN, Eric, VALENTINO, David, NELSON, David, GEHRELS, George, and CHIARENZELLI, Jeffrey R. (2007) Zircon chronology of the Chimney Mountain metasedimentary sequence, Adirondack Highlands, 2007 GSA Denver Annual Meeting (28–31 October 2007) Paper No. 117-16. (Abstract)
Gates, A., Valentino, D., Thern, E., and Chiarenzelli, J., (2006). Fragment of Amazonia (?) in the Hudson Highlands, NY: Provenance of granulite metasandstones using SHRIMP: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, October 22-25. Abstract.
Thern, E. R., Nelson, D. R. and Hitchen, G. (2004). Thermal history of the hadean earth inferred from trace-element diffusion within >4 Ga zircons. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68(11S):A71. Abstract.
Thern, E. R., Nelson, D. R. and Hitchen, G. (2004). Trace element diffusion within >4 Ga zircons: Implications for the thermal history of the Hadean Earth. Poster Presentation at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference, Copenhagen June 5-11. Poster 1.3.P06