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Day, James

Assistant Professor

Degrees:

• B.S., University of Durham, England
• Ph.D., University of Durham, England

Research Interests:

• Isotope geochemistry
• Igneous and metamorphic petrology and volcanology
• Mantle dynamics
• Ore Genesis
• Planetary differentiation processes
• Solar System formation and evolution
• Cosmochemistry

Courses Recently Taught:

• SIO 100: Introduction to Field Methods
• SIO100: Introduction to Field Methods

Honors and Awards:

• 2011 US Antarctic Service Medal (National Science Foundation)
• 2013 Houtermans Award (European Association of Geochemistry)

Mentoring:

• Poeppe, Dean (Undergrad; 2013-)
• Corder, Chris (Masters; 2012-)
• Dhaliwal, Jasmeet (Graduate; 2012-)
• Guiza, Bridget (Undergrad; 2012-)
• Nelson, Demian (Undergrad; 2012-)
• Perez, Jorge (Masters; 2011-)
• Peters, Bradley (Graduate; 2011-)
• Traver, Caitlin (Masters; 2011-)
• Waters, Chris (Post Doc; 2011-)

Day J.M.D. (2013) Hotspot volcanism and highly siderophile elements. Chemical Geology, 341, 50-74. [Invited Review]

Paniello R.C., Day J.M.D., Moynier F. (2012) Zinc isotope evidence for the origin of the Moon. Nature, 490, 376-379.

Moynier F., Day J.M.D., Okui W., Yokoyama T., Bouvier A., Walker R.J., Podosek F.A. (2012) Planetary-scale strontium isotopic heterogeneity and the age of volatile-depletion of early Solar System materials. Astrophysical Journal, 758;45 (7pp) doi:10.1088/0004-637X/758/1/45

Riches A.J.V., Day J.M.D., Walker R.J., Simonetti A., Liu Y., Neal C.R., Taylor L.A. (2012) Rhenium-osmium isotope and highly siderophile element abundance systematics of angrite meteorites. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 353-354, 208-218.

Day J.M.D., Walker R.J., Qin L., Rumble D. III. (2012) Late accretion as a natural consequence of planetary growth. Nature Geoscience, 5, 614-617.

Filiberto, J., Chin, E., Day J.M.D., Franchi I.A., Greenwood R.C., Gross J., Penniston-Dorland S.C., Schwenzer S.P., Treiman A.H. (2012) Geochemistry of intermediate olivine-phyric shergottite Northwest Africa 6234, with similarities to basaltic shergottite Northwest Africa 480 and olivine-phyric shergottite Northwest Africa 2990. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 47, 1256-1273.

Day J.M.D., Macpherson C.G., Lowry D., Pearson D.G. (2012) A discussion on oxygen isotope heterogeneity of the mantle beneath the Canary Islands by A.A. Gurenko et al. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 164, 177-183.

O’Driscoll B., Day J.M.D., Walker R.J., Daly J.S., McDonough W.F., Piccoli P.M. (2012) Chemical heterogeneity in the upper mantle recorded by peridotites and chromitites from the Shetland Ophiolite Complex, Scotland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters,333-334, 226-237.

Day J.M.D., Walker R.J., Ash R.D., Liu Y., Rumble D., Irving A.J., Goodrich, C.A., Tait K., McDonough W.F., Taylor L.A. (2012) Origin of felsic achondrites Graves Nunataks 06128 and 06129 and ultramafic brachinites and brachinite-like achondrites by partial melting of volatile-rich primitive parent bodies. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 81, 94-128.

Brandon A.D., Puchtel I.S., Walker R.J., Day J.M.D., Irving A.J., Taylor L.A. (2012) Evolution of the martian mantle inferred from the 187Re-187Os isotope and highly siderophile element abundance systematics of shergottite meteorites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 76, 206-235.

Basu Sarbadhikari A., Goodrich C.A., Liu Y., Day J.M.D., Taylor L.A. (2011) Evidence for heterogeneous enriched shergottite mantle sources in Mars from olivine-hosted melt inclusions in Larkman Nunataks 06319. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75, 6803-6820.

Day J.M.D., Hilton D.R. (2011) Origin of 3He/4He ratios in HIMU-type basalts constrained from Canary Island lavas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 305, 226-234.

Füri E., Hilton D.R., Murton B.J., Hemond C., Dyment J., Day J.M.D. (2011) Helium isotope variations between Réunion Island and the Central Indian Ridge (17˚-21˚S): new evidence for ridge-hotspot interaction. Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth, vol. 116, B02207, doi:10.1029/2010JB007609.

Riches A.J.V., Liu Y., Day J.M.D., Puchtel I.S., Rumble D. III., McSween H.Y., Walker R.J., Taylor L.A. (2011) Petrology and geochemistry of Yamato 984028: A cumulate lherzolitic shergottite with affinities to Y 000027, Y 000047, and Y 000097. Polar Science, 4, 497-514.

Bottke, W.F., Walker, R.J., Day, J.M.D., Nesvorny, D., Elkins-Tanton, L. (2010) Stochastic late accretion to Earth, the Moon, and Mars. Science, 330, 1527-1530.

Riches A.J.V., Liu Y., Day J.M.D., Spetsius Z.V., Taylor L.A. (2010) Subducted oceanic crust as diamond hosts revealed by garnets of mantle xenoliths From Nyurbinskaya, Siberia. Lithos, 120, 368-378.

Day, J.M.D., Pearson, D.G., Macpherson, C.G., Lowry, D., Carracedo, J.-C. (2010) Evidence for distinct proportions of oceanic crust and lithosphere in HIMU-type mantle beneath El Hierro and La Palma, Canary Islands. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74, 6565-6589

Liu Y., Spicuzza M.J., Craddock P.D., Day J.M.D., Valley, J.W., Dauphas, N., Taylor, L.A. (2010) Oxygen and iron isotope constraints on near-surface fractionation effects and the composition of lunar mare basalt source regions. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74, 6249-6262.

Day J.M.D., Walker R.J., James O.B., Puchtel I.S. (2010) Osmium isotope and highly siderophile element systematics of the lunar crust. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 289, 595-605.

Korhonen F.J., Saito S., Brown M.J., Siddoway C.S., Day J.M.D. (2010) Multiple generations of granite in the Fosdick Mountains, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica: Implications for polyphase intracrustal differentiation in a continental margin setting. Journal of Petrology, 51, 627-670.

Day J.M.D., Ash R.D., Liu Y., Bellucci J.J., Rumble D. III., McDonough W.F., Walker R.J., Taylor L.A. (2009) Early formation of evolved asteroidal crust. Nature, 457, 179-182.

Day J.M.D., Pearson D.G., Macpherson C.G., Lowry D., Carracedo J.-C. (2009) Pyroxenite-rich mantle formed by recycled oceanic lithosphere: oxygen-osmium isotope evidence from Canary Island lavas. Geology, 37, 555-558.

Day J.M.D., Ash R.D., Liu Y., Bellucci J.J., Rumble D. III., McDonough W.F., Walker R.J., Taylor L.A. (2009) Asteroids and Andesites - reply. Nature, 459, doi:10.1038/nature08078.

O'Driscoll B., Day J.M.D., Daly J.S., Walker R.J., McDonough W.F. (2009) Rhenium-osmium isotopes and platinum-group elements in the Rum Layered Suite, Scotland: Implications for Cr-spinel formation and the composition of the Iceland mantle anomaly. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 286, 41-51.

Basu Sarbadhikari A., Day J.M.D., Liu Y., Rumble D. III., Taylor L.A. (2009) Petrogenesis of olivine-phyric shergottite LAR 06319: Implications for enriched components in martian basalts. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73, 2190-2214.

Liu Y., Floss C., Day J.M.D., Hill E., Taylor L.A. (2009) Petrogenesis of lunar mare basalt Miller Range 05035. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 44, 261-284.

Day J.M.D., Pearson D.G., Hulbert L.J. (2008) Rhenium-osmium and platinum-group element constraints on the origin and evolution of the 1.27Ga Muskox layered intrusion. Journal of Petrology, 49, 1255-1295.

Schnare D.W., Day J.M.D., Norman M.D., Liu Y., Taylor L.A. (2008) A laser-ablation ICP-MS study of Apollo 15 low-titanium olivine-normative and quartz-normative mare basalts. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 72, 2556-2572.

Day J.M.D., Pearson D.G., Taylor L.A. (2007) Highly siderophile element constraints on accretion and differentiation of the Earth-Moon system. Science, 315, 217-219.

Day J.M.D., Taylor L.A. (2007) On the structure of mare basalt lava flows from textural analysis of the LaPaz icefield and Northwest Africa 032 lunar meteorites. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 42, 3-18.

Spicuzza M.J., Day J.M.D., Taylor L.A., Valley J.W. (2007) Oxygen isotope constraints on the origin and differentiation of the Moon. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 253, 254-265.

Day J.M.D., Floss C., Taylor L.A., Anand M., Patchen A.D. (2006) Evolved mare basalt magmatism, high Mg/Fe feldspathic crust, chondritic impactors and the petrogenesis of Antarctic lunar meteorites Meteorite Hills 01210 and Pecora Escarpment 02007. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70, 5957-5989.

Day J.M.D., Taylor L.A., Floss C., McSween H.Y. Jr. (2006) Petrology and chemistry of MIL 03346 and its significance in understanding the petrogenesis of nakhlites on Mars. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 41, 581-606.

Day J.M.D., Taylor L.A., Floss C., Patchen A.D., Schnare D.W., Pearson D.G. (2006) Comparative petrology, geochemistry and petrogenesis of evolved, low-Ti lunar mare basalt meteorites from the La Paz icefield, Antarctica. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70, 1581-1600.

Day J.M.D., Hilton D.R., Pearson D.G., Macpherson C.G., Kjarsgaard B.A., Janney P.E. (2005) Absence of a high time-integrated 3He/(U+Th) source in the mantle beneath continents. Geology, 33, 733-736.

Macpherson C.G., Hilton D.R., Day J.M.D., Lowry D., Gronvold K. (2005) High-3He/4He depleted mantle and low-d18O recycled oceanic lithosphere in the source of central Icelandic lavas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 233, 411-427.

Day J.M.D., Pearson D.G., Nowell G.M. (2003) High precision rhenium and platinum isotope dilution analyses by plasma ionisation multi-collector mass spectrometry. In: Holland G., Tanner S.D (Eds.) Plasma Source Mass Spectrometry: applications and emerging technologies, pp.374-390, The Royal Society of Chemistry.

Rutter G.P., Pearson D.G., Phillip G., Day J.M.D., Ottley C.J. (2003) The use of ICP-MS in provenancing stone artefacts: Examples from the southern Levant. In: Holland G., Tanner S.D (Eds.) Plasma Source Mass Spectrometry: applications and emerging technologies, pp.209-220, The Royal Society of Chemistry.