Michael Bizimis Assistant Professor Dept. of Geological Sciences Office: EWS  212 Phone: 803 777-5565 Email: mbizimis@geol.sc.edu

Education:
Ph.D.: 1/1995-8/2001: Isotope Geochemistry, Igneous Petrology
Florida State University.
Dissertation Title: “Geochemical Processes in the upper mantle: Evidence from peridotites, kimberlites and carbonatites.”
Supervisor: Dr. Vincent J.M. Salters

B.Sc.: 9/1989-10/1994: Geology (with specialization in Economic Geology)
National University of Athens, Greece.
Undergraduate thesis title: “Geological observations on the first Bauxite horizon in the areas of Distomon, Viotia and Elatia, Fthiotida.”


Employment:
8/2008-Present: Research Assistant Professor,
Department of Geological Sciences, University of South Carolina.

11/2004-8/2008: Assistant Scholar Scientist,
Florida State University, Department of Geological Sciences, and Division of Isotope Geochemistry, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.

9/2001-11/2004: Visiting Research Associate,
Florida International University, Department of Earth Sciences.

8/1996-4/2001: Research Assistant,
Florida State University, Division of Isotope Geochemistry, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.

8/1995-7/1996: Teaching Assistant,
Department of Geological Sciences, Florida State University.

Summer 1995: Scientific Collaborator,
National University of Athens, Greece, and the Secretariat of Research and Technology, Greece.

Summer 1994: Assistant Researcher,
"Barlos” Mining Company, Distomon, Greece (Bauxite exploration).
 

Research interests:
• Isotope geochemistry, Igneous Petrology, in the broadest sense.
• Combined Hf-Nd-Sr-Pb-Os isotope analyses and major/ trace element compositions of mantle xenoliths.
• Plume-lithosphere interaction and the composition of the Hawaiian plume: The case from Hawaiian mantle xenoliths and lavas.
• Trace element fluxes in subduction zones and the recycling of oceanic lithosphere.
• Supra-Subduction Zone ophiolites.
• Origin of carbonatites, kimberlites and the fate of volatiles in the mantle.
• Composition and evolution of the sublithospheric mantle.
• Pressure, temperature and composition controls on trace element partitioning.
• Fe and transition metal concentrations in seawater.
 

Funding:
2006: NSF-OCE: Constraints on the Hawaiian swell and plume lithosphere interaction from Kaua’i mantle xenoliths. PI: Bizimis (3 years, awarded October 1st, 2006, $219,603).
2006: NSF-EAR: Nb/Ta Fractionations as Tracer of Subduction. PI: V.Salters (FSU), Co-PI: Bizimis (3 years, awarded December 1st, 2006, $299,076)
Editorial Service:
• Associate Editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth since Nov 2007-.

Professional Service:
• Have served as NSF-OCE panel member.
• Have reviewed proposals for NSF – EAR and NSF – OCE divisions.
• Ad-hoc referee for J. of Petrology, Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, Chemical Geology, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., American Mineralogist.

Service to the Community:
• Trained and supervised three undergraduate summer interns on geochemistry research (part of an NSF-funded REU program at NHMFL/FSU).
• Have mentored middle school students in basic research in Earth Sciences (part of a middle school mentorship program at NHMFL/FSU).
• Have actively participated in the NHMFL Annual Open House activities (from 1996 to 2007) by designing hands-on activities and exhibits related to the Geochemistry program at NHMFL. This program attracts 2500-4500 visitors and it is designed to inform the public on the research conducted at NHMFL and to increase awareness and support of the local community to the lab.


Peer Review Publications:
Hickey-Vargas, R., Bizimis, M. and Deschamps, A., (2008) Onset of the Indian Ocean isotopic signature in the Philippine Sea Plate: Hf and Pb isotope evidence from Early Cretaceous terranes Earth Plan. Sci. Lett, 268, 255-267.

Canfield, G. M., Bizimis, M., and Latturner, S., (2007) Sodalite ion exchange in polyethylene oxide oligomer solvents. J. Mater. Chem., 17, 4530-4534.

Bizimis, M., Griselin, M., Lassiter, J. C., Salters, V J M, and Sen, G., (2007) Ancient recycled mantle lithosphere in the Hawaiian plume: Osmium-Hafnium isotopic evidence from peridotite mantle xenoliths. Earth Plan. Sci. Lett. 257, 259-273.

Hickey-Vargas, R., Savov, I., Bizimis, M., (2006) Origin of diverse geochemical signatures in igneous rocks from the west Philippine basin: Implications for tectonic models. In: Back-Arc Spreading centers. Geological, Biological, Chemical and physical interactions (Christie, D M, Fisher, C R, Lee, Sang-Mook, Givens, S, Editors) AGU Geophysical Monograph, Vol. 166, 287-303.

Salters, V.J.M., Blichert-Toft, J., Fekiacova, Z., Sachi-Kocher, A. and Bizimis, M. (2006) Isotope and trace element evidence for depleted lithosphere in the source of enriched Ko'olau basalts. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 151, 297-312.

Keshav, S., Bizimis, M., Gudfinnsson, G H., Sen, G. and Fei, Y. (2006) Response to the comment by M. Lustrino on “High-pressure melting experiments on garnet clinopyroxenite and the alkalic-tholeiitic transition in ocean-island basalts” by Keshav et al. [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 223, 365-379 (2004)] Earth Plan. Sci. Lett., 241, 997-999.

Keshav, S., Corgne, A., Gudfinnsson, G H., Bizimis, M., McDonough, W. and Fei, Y. (2005) Kimberlite petrogenesis: insights from clinopyroxene–melt partitioning experiments at 6 GPa in the CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-CO2 system. Geochim. Cosmochim Acta, 69 2829-2845.

Bizimis, M., Sen, G., Salters V.J. M. and Keshav, S. (2005) Hf-Nd-Sr isotope systematics of garnet pyroxenites from Salt Lake Crater, Oahu, Hawaii: Evidence for a depleted component in Hawaiian volcanism. Geochim. Cosmochim Acta, 69, 2629-2646.

Sen, G., Keshav, S. and Bizimis, M, (2005) Hawaiian mantle xenoliths & magmas: Composition and thermal character of the lithosphere. Am. Mineral. 90, 871-887.

Jacob, D. Bizimis, M., Salters, V J.M. (2004) Lu-Hf isotopic systematic of recycled ancient oceanic crust. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 148, 707-720.

Bizimis, M. Sen, G. and Salters V.J.M (2004), Hf-Nd isotope decoupling in the oceanic lithosphere: Constraints from spinel peridotites from Oahu, Hawaii. Earth Plan. Sci. Lett. 217, 43-58.

Bizimis, M. Salters, V. J.M. and Dawson, J. B. (2003) The brevity of carbonatite sources in the mantle: Evidence from Hf isotopes. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol.145, 281-300.

Stracke A., Bizimis M. and Salters V.J.M. (2003) Recycling of oceanic crust: Quantitative constraints. Geochem. Geophys. Geosystem. vol 4, doi:10.1029/2001GC000223.

Salters, V.J.M., Longhi, J. E. and Bizimis, M. (2002) Near mantle solidus trace element partitioning at pressures up to 3.4 GPa., Geochem. Geophys. Geosystem. vol. 3, doi:10.1029/2001GC000173.

Bizimis M., Salters V. J.M. and Bonatti E. (2000) Trace and REE content of clinopyroxenes from Supra-Subduction Zone peridotites. Implications on melting and enrichment processes in island arcs. Chemical Geology, 165, 67-85.


Abstracts-Presentations:
1. Bizimis, M, Salters, V JM, Hunag, S and Clague, D. (2008). 1 Ga old plume-derived peridotite xenoliths from Kauai, Hawaii. Goldschmidt Conference, Vancouver Canada

2. Bizimis, M., Garcia, M., Norman, M. and Salters, VJM. (2008). Hf-Nd-Pb isotopes in lavas and pyroxenites from Kaula island reveal a depleted component in the Hawaiian plume. (AGU-Joint Assembly), Abstract # V43A-04.

3. Salters, V.J.M, Bizimis, M, and Langmuir, C. (2007). Improving the mantle resolution of the mantle picture (AGU, Fall Meeting).

4. Sen, I., Sen, G. and Bizimis, M., (2007). Sulfides in the garnet pyroxenites from Oahu, Hawaii (AGU, Fall Meeting).

5. Bizimis, M., Garcia, M., and Norman, M., (2006) Garnet Pyroxenites from Kaula, Hawaii: Implications for Plume-Lithosphere Interaction, AGU Fall Meet., San Francisco, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), V13B-0675

6. Huang, S., Bizimis, M., Fodor, R.V. and Bauer, G. (2006) Geochemical Structure of the Hawaiian Plume: Constrains from the Shield to Postshield Transition. AGU Fall Meet., San Francisco.

7. Landing, W.M., Buck, C.S., Bizimis, M., and Measures, C.I. (2006) Ocean Sections of Dissolved Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, and Pb. AGU Fall Meet., San Francisco, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), OS34B-03.

8. Hickey-Vargas, R., Bizimis, M., Savov, I. and Reagan, M. (2006) Influence of pre-Eocene features of the Philippine Sea plate on the early Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc. GSA Annual Meet., Philadelphia

9. Hickey-Vargas, R, Savov, I., and Bizimis, M. (2005) Relationship Between the West Philippine Basin and the Early Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc: Arc Initiation and Ancestry. Eos. Trans. AGU, 86 (52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T44A-07.

10. Bizimis, M., Salters, V J M, Sen, G., Keshav, S., and Ducea, M. (2005) The Heterogeneous Hawaiian Lithosphere: New Isotope Data from Kauai and Oahu Peridotites. Eos. Trans. AGU, 86 (52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract #V51A-1467.

11. Bizimis, M., Sen, G., Lassiter, J., Salters VJM. and Keshav, S. (2005) Recycled Oceanic Mantle Lithosphere in Hawaii: The Samples and the Models. Eos. Trans. AGU, 86 (18), Jt. Assem. Suppl., Abstract #V42A-04.

12. Bizimis, M., Lassiter J.C., Salters VJ.M., Sen, G., Griselin, M. (2004) Extreme Hf-Os Isotope Compositions in Hawaiian Peridotite Xenoliths: Evidence for an Ancient Recycled Lithosphere. Eos. Trans. AGU, 85, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract #V51B-550

13. Wozab T.S (*), Bizimis, M. (2004) Orthopyroxene/Clinopyroxene Trace Element Partitioning Systematics in the Natural Sample. Eos. Trans. AGU, 85, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract #V21B-0607.

14. Bizimis, M., Sen, G. Salters, V.J.M. (2003) Volatile-rich mineral phases in the Hawaiian lithosphere: phlogopites and carbonates in 0-age garnet pyroxenite xenoliths from Salt Lake Crater, (Oahu, Hawaii). Eos. Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V42H-04.

15. Mukherjee S.(*), Bizimis M., Keshav S., and Sen G. (2003) Hydrous and anhydrous garnet-bearing mantle xenoliths from Hawaii: Isotopic Heterogeneity? Eos. Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V12C-0607.

16. Sen G., Bizimis M., Keshav S., Mukherjee S. and Atlas Z., (2003) A Physical Description of the Lithosphere and Seismic Low-Velocity Zone beneath Oahu: Perspectives from Hawaiian Mantle Xenoliths, Eos. Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V42H-05.

17. Sen G., Keshav S. and Bizimis, M. (2003) Water, phlogopite, carbonatite and a new model for the lithosphere and Hawaiian plume melting, GSA Annual Meeting.

18. Bizimis M., Sen G. and Salters V.J.M (2002). Hf, Nd and Sr isotope compositions of Hawaiian ultramafic xenoliths. EOS Trans. AGU 83(19) Spring Meet. Suppl.

19. Jacob D. E. Bizimis M and Salters V. J. M. (2002) Lu-Hf isotopic systematics of subducted ancient oceanic crust: Roberts Victor eclogites. Geochim. Cosmochim Acta 66, 15(A) A360.

20. Bizimis M. and Salters V.J.M. (1999). Hf, Nd and Sr isotope compositions of carbonatites. EOS, 80, Fall meeting supplement, 1131-1132.

21. Salters V.J.M., Longhi J. and Bizimis M. (1999). Trace element partitioning on the mantle solidus up to 3.4GPa. EOS, 80, Fall meeting supplement. 1113.

22. Bizimis M., Salters V.J.M. and Dawson J.B. (1998). Sr, Nd and Hf isotope compositions in kimberlites and carbonatites from South Africa: Constrains on upper mantle metasomatism. EOS, 79, Fall meeting supplement, 1018.

23. Bizimis M. and Salters V.J.M. (1997). Trace and REE content of clinopyroxenes from Supra-Subduction Zone peridotites. Implications on melting and enrichment processes in island arcs. EOS, 78, Fall meeting supplement, 836.

(*)supervised student abstracts.