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Dr. Dan Lizarralde

Senior Scientist, Department Chair
Geology & Geophysics

Contact Information:
Work: 508-289-2942
dlizarralde@whoi.edu
Building: Clark South 272 - G

Mailing Address:
266 Woods Hole Road, MS #24
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543

Research Interests

My research interests relate broadly to solid earth processes and how they drive global scale elemental fluxes and create the conditions for planetary habitability.  Processes such as tectonic plate motion, interactions at plate boundaries, and a spectrum of fluid-mediated processes create and accumulate material suitable for supporting life and cycle volatiles and other gases from the solid earth to the atmosphere and ocean and then back again to the solid earth.  I address science questions connected to these processes using seismic techniques.