Email:

debelSPAMFILTER@amnh.org

Phone:

212-769-5381

Fax:

212-769-5533

Curriculum Vitae (short version)

Education

• Purdue University, Ph.D., 1993
• Purdue University, M.S., 1988
• Harvard College, B.A., 1982

Research Interests

Dr. Ebel is a geologist specializing in meteorites: pieces of planets and "left-overs" from the formation of the solar system. The distant, resource-rich asteroid belt is his field area. He develops thermodynamic models describing the equilibrium distribution of elements between fully speciated gas, liquid, and solid mineral phases at high temperatures. His models describe the outcomes of condensation, evaporation, and crystallization processes affecting the solids and liquid droplets that combined in the oldest meteorites. Dr. Ebel is a leader in using x-ray CAT-scan imaging to obtain 3-dimensional information about meteorites, lunar materials, and samples returned by NASA missions.

• Publications

  (2012) Properties of original impactors estimated from three-dimensional analysis of whole Stardust tracks. Greenberg, M., and D. S. Ebel Meteoritics and Planetary Science 47: 634-648. 

  (2012) Thermochemical stability of low-iron, manganese enriched olivine in astrophysical environments. Ebel, D.S. and M. K. Weisberg. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 47: 585-593.

  (2012) Petrology and oxygen isotopes of NWA 5492, a new metal-rich chondrite. Weisberg, M. K., T. E. Bunch, J. H. Wittke, D. Rumble III, and D. S. Ebel. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 47: 363-373. 

  (2012) Radioactive elements on Mercury's surface from MESSENGER: Implications for the planet's formation and evolution. Peplowski, P. N., L. G. Evans, S. A. Hauck II, T. J. McCoy, W. V. Boynton, J. Gillis-Davis, D. S. Ebel, J. O. Goldsten, D. K. Hamara, D. J. Lawrence, R. L. McNutt Jr., L. R. Nittler, S. C. Solomon, E. A. Rhodes, A. L. Sprague, R. D. Starr, and K. R. Stockstill-Cahill. Science 333: 1850-1852. 

  (2011) The major-element composition of Mercury's surface from MESSENGER x-ray spectrometry. Nittler, L. R., R. D. Starr, S. Z. Weider, T. J. McCoy, W. V. Boynton, D. S. Ebel, C. M. Ernst, L. G. Evans, J. O. Goldsten, D. K. Hamara, D. J. Lawrence, R. L. McNutt Jr., C. E. Schlemm II, S. C. Solomon, and A. L. Sprague. Science 333: 1847-1850.

• Teaching Experience

  Faculty Appointments

  • AMNH Masters of Arts in Teaching Program
  • Adjunct Graduate Faculty, CUNY Graduate School and University Center, Ph.D. Program in Earth & Environmental Sciences
  • Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

  Courses Taught

  Graduate Advisees

  • E. Crapster-Pregont, Columbia U. (Earth & Environ. Sci.)
  • J. Bigolski, CUNY (Earth & Environ. Sci.)

  Graduate Committees

  • C. McNally, Columbia U. (Astronomy)
  • A. Buono, Columbia U. (Earth & Environmental Sci.)