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Name                                                     John C. Ayers 

Title                                                       Professor  

Department                                    Earth and Environmental Science 

Email Address                               john.c.ayers@vanderbilt.edu 

Office                                                    Stevenson Center 5705 

Office Phone                                   (615) 322-2158
Lab                                   (615) 322-5004

Home Phone                                   (615) 376-0931 

Cell Phone                                         (615) 973-1879 

Fax                                                         (615) 322-2138
 

Degrees 

Research Area                             Experimental Petrology and High-temperature Geochemistry
 

Current Research                      Use of the accessory minerals zircon and monazite for dating fluid-rock interaction

Current Courses 

Current Positions 

Previous Positions 

·         Leadership committee, Vanderbilt Institute for Environmental Risk and Resources Management 2002-3

·         Associate editor, American Mineralogist 2001-6
·         Search committee for external chair 2002-3 

·         Speakers chair 1998-2004 

·         College of Arts and Science Strategic Planning Committee 2001 

·         Department computer coordinator 1991-8
 

Professional Societies           Mineralogical Society of America, Geochemical Society, American Geophysical Union, Geological Society of America, International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, Sigma Xi.
 

Professional Honors 

Graduate Students          

·         Tim Peters, Ph.D.
·         Scott Crombie, M.Sc. exp. 2006 
·         Lichun Zhang, M.Sc. 2005 
·         Stephen Lehner, M.Sc. 2004 
·         Derek Bryant, M.Sc. 2002 
·         Miranda Loflin, M.Sc. 2002 
·         Betsy Gorisch, M.Sc. 1999 
·         Carol Davis, M.Sc. 1996 
·         Sondra Dittmer, M.Sc. 1995 
·         Theodore Larrieu, M.Sc. 1995
 

Recent Publications 

1. Ayers J.C., Loflin M., Miller C.F., Barton M.D., Coath C. (2006) Monazite used to determine the extent and timing of fluid infiltration in the Birch Creek Pluton metamorphic aureole. Geology, v. 34, 653-656.
2. Lehner S.W., Savage K., Ayers J.C. (2006) Vapor growth and characterization of pyrite (FeS₂) doped with Co, Ni, and As: Variations in semiconducting properties. Journal of Crystal Growth, v. 286, 306-317.
3. Gao S., Rudnick R.L., Yuan H.-L., Liu X.-M., Liu Y.-S., Ling W.-L., Ayers J.C., Wang X.-C. (2004) Recycling lower continental crust. Nature 432, 892-897.  
4. Ayers, J.C., Loflin, M., Miller, C.F., Barton, M.D., and Coath, C. (2004) Dating fluid infiltration using monazite. In R.B. Wanty, and R.R. Seal II, Eds. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction, Vol. 1, p. 247-251. A.A. Balkema Publishers.  
5. Bryant D.L., Ayers J.C., Gao S., Zhang H., Miller C. (2004) Geochemical, age, and isotopic constraints on the location of the Sino-Korean/Yangtze suture and Evolution of the northern Dabie Shan, China.  GSA Bulletin 116 (5/6), 698-717.  
6. Ayers J.C., DeLaCruz K., Miller C.F., Switzer O. (2003) Experimental study of the growth kinetics of zircon in quartzite ± H2O at 1.0 GPa and 1000C, with implications for geochronological studies of high-grade metamorphism. American Mineralogist 88, 365-376.  
7. Ayers J.C., Dunkle S., Gao S., Miller C. (2002) Triassic zircon U-Pb and monazite Th-Pb ages recorded in Maowu ultramafics and Shuanghe jadeite quartzite, Dabie Shan UHP belt, east-central . Chemical Geology 186, 315-331. 

Current grants