Denton S. Ebel

Division Chair and Curator, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Division of Physical Sciences

Professor, Richard Gilder Graduate School

Email:
debelSPAMFILTER@amnh.org
Phone:
212-769-5381
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Education

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

Research Interests

Civilization itself is under threat due to human-caused climate change. This threat to scientific research is immediate unless people act, globally, right away. As a specialist in meteorites, Dr. Ebel's research will not exist in a climate-devastated future. While civilization continues, Dr. Ebel will continue to study "leftovers" from the formation of the solar system to understand how the rocky planets like Earth formed.

His work developing thermodynamic models describing the outcomes of condensation, evaporation, and crystallization processes of rocks may be useful for ideas to mitigate atmospheric CO2. His work in combining electron beam image analysis of surface chemistry (2D) with x-ray CAT-scan 3-dimensional imaging to obtain comprehensive information about rock samples yield clues to the origin of the solar system. These skills and tools may also be useful in securing the future of our civilization.

Links

Division of Physical Sciences

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Richard Gilder Graduate School

Denton Ebel Website

Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites

Publications

Ebel, D.S., C.M. O’D. Alexander, and G. Libourel. 2018. Vapor-melt exchange - Constraints on chondrule formation conditions and processes. In Chondrules: Records of Protoplanetary Disk Processes. Eds. S. Russell, A. Krot and H. C. Connolly Jr. Cambridge U. Press. pp. 151-174.

Hubbard, A. and D.S. Ebel. 2018. Evaluating non-shock, non-collisional models for chondrule formation. In Chondrules: Records of Protoplanetary Disk Processes. Eds. S. Russell, A. Krot and H. C. Connolly Jr. Cambridge U. Press. pp. 400-427.

Hubbard, A., M-M. Mac Low, and D.S. Ebel. 2018. Dust concentration and chondrule formation. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 53: 1507-1515.

Ruzicka, A.M., M. Hutson, J.M. Friedrich, M.L. Rivers, M.K. Weisberg, D.S. Ebel, K. Ziegler, D. Rumble, and A.A. Dolan. 2017.  Petrogenesis of Miller Range 07273, a new type of anomalous melt breccia: Implications for impact effects on the H chondrite asteroid. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 52: 1963-1990.

Sears, D.W.G., H. Sears, D.S. Ebel, S. Wallace and J.M. Friedrich. 2016.  X-ray computed tomography imaging: A not-so-nondestructive technique. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 51: 833-838.

Ruzicka, A.M., M. Hutson, J.M. Friedrich, M.L. Rivers, M.K. Weisberg, D.S. Ebel, K. Ziegler, D. Rumble, and A.A. Dolan. 2017.  Petrogenesis of Miller Range 07273, a new type of anomalous melt breccia: Implications for impact effects on the H chondrite asteroid. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 52: 1963-1990.

Sears, D.W.G., H. Sears, D.S. Ebel, S. Wallace, and J.M. Friedrich. 2016.  X-ray computed tomography imaging: A not-so-nondestructive technique. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 51: 833-838.

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

Graduate Advisees

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

Graduate Committees

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