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Deborah Kelley Acting Assistant Professor School of Oceanography at the University of Washington

Deborah is an acting assistant professor at the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington. Her initial interests at the university included music, Russian, and graphic design, but during her senior year she discovered geology and oceanography. The combination of being outdoors and the opportunity of going to sea, along with a newfound excitement of catching a small glimpse of the workings of Earth, pulled her in, and she remains caught. She had the good fortune early on as an undergraduate and as a master's student of working with John Delaney, who taught her to ask questions and be careful about what she assumed. During her graduate studies, she spent two field seasons working on the Troodos Ophiolite in Cyprus, an exposed section of oceanic crust that formed ninety-one million years ago and studied deep-seated plumbing systems that fed submarine hot springs. As a postdoctoral fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, she continued her studies on fluid circulation in the oceanic crust. Since 1993, she has worked with the hydrothermal working group at the University of Washington. Her current projects include mapping of hydrothermal fields on the seafloor and constraining the evolution and distribution of volatiles in submarine environments. This year she discovered a new joy in teaching and looks forward to advising graduate and undergraduate students. She feels incredibly lucky for the opportunity to be involved in seagoing and submersible studies. In October 1997, she will spend another two months at sea on the Ocean Drilling Program research ship, the Resolution, which will drill into a crystallized magma chamber at the Atlantis II Fracture Zone (Indian Ocean) that fed eruptions to the seafloor twelve million years ago.