Rate My Professor David Ellis

His interests further extend to the timing of zircon growth and resorption during regional metamorphism, in particular the trace element budget in common silicates and oxides and the effect this plays in zircon resorption/growth, geochemical studies of felsic igneous rocks produced under a variety of melting conditions from water saturated migmatites up to vapor-absent pigeonite-bearing high-T "charnockitic" melts and their extrusive equivalents, and ultra-high pressure blueschist-eclogites from western China. Professor Ellis is a member of the Experimental Petrology group, visitor and affiliate at the Research School of Earth Sciences, professor in the ANU College of Science, and researcher in the Earth systems group of the ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions. He has numerous key publications, including Troitzsch and Ellis, "The ZrO2-TiO2 phase diagram" (Journal of Materials Science, 2005); Tomkins, Williams, and Ellis, "In situ U-Pb dating of zircon formed from retrograde garnet breakdown during decompression in Rogaland, SW Norway" (Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 2005); Zhang et al., "Ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism in western Tianshan, China: Part I" and "Part II" (American Mineralogist, 2002); Lee, Williams, and Ellis, "Pb, U and Th Diffusion in Natural Zircon" (Nature, 1997); and others on synthesis, stability, and petrogenesis.