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2209 PIERCE HALL
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Dobrzhinetskaya, Larissa

Adjunct Professor
Chair of Task Force IV

College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences

Earth Sciences


Biography

Professor Larissa F. Dobrzhinetskaya earned her M.S. degree from the Saint Petersburg University, Russia. She received her Ph.D. and Doctor of Science degree in geology and mineralogy from Institutions of Russian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Dobrzhinetskaya is a recipient of the Women International Scientific Collaboration Award, AAAS, Distinguished Researcher Award - UC Riverside, George Soros Foundation Award, recipient of Fellowships from Japanese Society for Promotion of Science, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Research Council of Norway. She is a Chair of Task Force IV “Ultradeep subduction of continental crust," International Lithosphere Program (2005-2010). She was a Key-Note Speaker at the 32nd Geological Congress, Florence, Italy (2004) and the 33rd Geological Congress, Oslo, Norway, 2008, invited lecturer for Goldschmidt’s Lectures Series, Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim (1996). Professor Dobrzhinetskaya served as a convener and a chairperson of many sessions at American Geophysical Union meetings, International Eclogitic Conferences, Western Pacific Geophysical Meeting and many professional workshops. She is a Scientific Editor of The Open Mineralogy Journal, Bentham Open, since 2007, Managing Guest Editor of Lithos (2007-2009), Guest Editor of Journal of Metamorphic Geology (2006-2007), Editor of the book: “Advances in high-pressure technology for geophysical applications,” p.515 (Coeditors: Chen, J, Wang, Y., Duffy, T. and Shen, G) Elsevier, 2005). Dr. Dobrzhinetskaya is a member of the Science-Engineering-Technology Working Group (SETWG), participant of Congressional Visit of Capitol Hill, Washington DC (03-05-2008), member of Education and Outreach Committee of the American Geophysical Union (2004-2009). She collaborates with scientists from Germany, France, Canada, Japan, Russia and China. She published more than 100 peer-review papers in international scientific journals and two monographs.

Former Institution

 Institute of the Lithosphere, Moscow University (Russia)

Degrees

MS Geology & Mineralogy 1971

University of Saint Petersburg, Russia

PhD Geology & Mineralogy 1974

Institute of Physics of the Earth, Moscow, Russia

Professor Geology & Mineralogy 1989

Institute of Lithosphere, Moscow, Russia

Awards

2007 Fellow of American Association for Advancement of Science, Atmospheric & Hydrospheric Sciences
2007 Fellow of Geological Society of America, Fellow
2006 Fellow of Mineralogical Society of America
2004 Fellow of Japanese Society for Promotion of Science
2003 Women International Scientific Collaboration Award, AAAS
2000-01 Distinguished Researcher Award, UC Riverside
198 Recipient of Fellowship from Los Alamos National Laboratory
1996 Goldschmidt’s Lectures Series Lecturer, Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim
1992 Recipient of Fellowship from the Research Council of Norway
1991 George Soros Foundation Award


Research Area

Professor Dobrzhinetskaya’s research interests include mineral phases transformation, microstructures and their role in delineating conditions of extremely high-pressure metamorphism related to the deep subduction zone and Earth’s mantle environment. She and her colleagues/students perform experimental modeling of the ultra-deep metamorphic process at high pressures and high temperatures utilizing multianvil apparatus for understanding Earth’s interior. Diamonds from eclogitic belts and non-traditional sources, nanoscale mineralogy and fluid inclusions also are in a focus of her interests.

Publications

Dobrzhinetskaya, L.F, H.W. Green, II and S. Wang. 1996. Alpe Arami: A peridotite massif from depths of more than 300 km. Science 271:1841-1845.

Bozhilov, K.N., H.W. Green II and L.F. Dobrzhinetskaya. 1999. Clinoenstatite in Alpe Arami peridotite: additional evidence of very high pressure. Science 284:12-132.

Dobrzhinetskaya, L.F., Green, H.W., Weschler, M., Darus, M., Wang, Y.-C.,. Massonne, H.-J and Stöckhert, B., 2003. Focused Ion Beam Technique and Transmission Electron Microscope Studies of Microdiamonds from the Saxonian Erzgebirge, Germany. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 210:399-410.

Dobrzhinetskaya, L.F., Renfro, A.P. and Green II, H.W., 2004. Synthesis of skeletal diamonds: implication to orogenic belts microdiamond formation. Geology, v. 32, no.10, p. 869–872.

Jung, H., Green, II, H.W., Dobrzhinetskaya, L.F., 2004. Intermediate-depth earthquake faulting by dehydration embrittlement with negative volume change. Nature, v.428, p.545-549.

Dobrzhinetskaya, L.F., Green II, H.W., Renfro, A.P., Bozhilov, K.N., 2005. Decompression of majoritic garnet: experimental investigation of the mantle peridotite exhumation. In: Advances in high-pressure technology for geophysical applications (J. Chen, Y. Wang, T.S. Duffy, G. Shen, L.F. Dobrzhinetskaya, Editors) Elsevier, 265-287.

Dobrzhinetskaya, L.F. Liu, Z., Cartigny, P., Zhang, J., Tchkhetia, N.N., Green II, H.W. and Hemley R.J., 2006. Synchrotron infrared and Raman spectroscopy of microdiamonds from Erzgebirge, Germany, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 248 (1-2:340-349.

Dobrzhinetskaya, L.F., Wirth, R., Green, H.W., 2007. A look inside of diamond-forming media in deep subduction zones. Proceedings of National Academy Sciences of the United States of America 104(22):9128-9132.

Yang, J., Dobrzhinetskaya, L.F., Bai, W.-J., Fang, Q-S., Robinson, P., Zhang, J-F. and Green, H.W., 2007. Diamond - and coesite-beraing chromitites from the Luobasa ophiolite, Tibet. Geology, 35:875-878.