Maud Boyet
Carnegie Fellow
DTM - Carnegie Institution of Washington
5241 Broad Branch Road, NW
Washington, DC 20015-1305
202.478.8482
boyet@dtm.ciw.edu

ACADEMIC HISTORY
 

2003 - present    Carnegie Institution of Washington (DTM), Washington DC, USA
                            Post-doctoral Researcher (Carnegie Fellow) with Richard W. Carlson

1999 - 2003       Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
                            Ph.D., October 2003 in Isotope Geochemistry with J. Blichert-Toft and F. Albarède
                                    ¹⁴⁶Sm-¹⁴²Nd Isotopic Constraints on Early Silicate Differentiation: the Earth compared to
                            other Planetary Bodies

1996 - 1999       Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
                            DEA (M.S.) in Geochemistry with H. Lapierre and M. Tardy
                            Geochemical Characteristics of Alpine Paleogene Lavas known in Champsaur and Taveyannaz                                 Sandstones: Geodynamical Implications
                            Licence and Maîtrise (B.S.) in Earth Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Chronology of early solar system processes using extinct radionuclides.
• Understand the Early Earth silicate differentiation in searching isotopic anomalies of the ¹⁴⁶Sm-¹⁴²Nd short-lived chronometer in a large variety of samples (Archaean basalts, ocean island basalts, kimberlites, carbonatites).
• Compare the evolution of different parent bodies (Earth, Mars, Moon, and 4-Vesta) by coupling Sm-Nd and Lu-Hf.
• Isotopic heterogeneities and evolution of geochemical reservoirs in the convective Earth’s mantle.
• Geochronology

ANALYTICAL DEVELOPMENT and INSTRUMENTATION

• Development of perfect Nd purification for isotope MC-ICPMS measurements
• Ultra precise Nd isotope analysis realized with MC-ICPMS (P54) and TIMS (Triton)
• Fluent use of different mass spectrometers (TIMS, MC-ICPMS, and ICPMS) and ICPAES (major elements)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2002 - 2003     Teaching Assistant, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France.
                          Geochemistry, geochronology, ICPMS experiments, Field trips.

1999 - 2002     Teaching Assistant, Ecole Normale Supérieure and Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France.
                          CD-ROM conception: Voyage au centre de la Terre (RELIE)
                          Petrography (magmatism, metamorphism)


FIELD EXPERIENCE

2001        Sample collecting (kimberlites and mantle xenoliths), Aasivik, West Greenland
2000        Sample collecting, Isua Supracrustal Belt, West Greenland
1998        Sample collecting (andesitic clasts), Alpine Sandstones, France and Switzerland



PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Geophysical Union
Geochemical Society

PUBLICATIONS

    Olivier N. and Boyet M., 2005, Rare earth and trace elements of microbialites in Upper Jurrasic coral- and sponge-microbialite reefs. Chem. Geol, under revision.
 
    Boyet M. and Carlson R.W., 2005, ¹⁴²Nd Evidence for Early (>4.53 Ga) Global Differentiation of the Silicate Earth. Science, 16 June 2005 (10.1126/science. 1113634).
 
 
    Frey F.A., Huang S., Blichert-Toft J., Regelous M. and Boyet M., 2005, Origin of depleted components in basalts related to the Hawaiian hot spot: Evidence from isotopic and incompatible element ratios. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 6, Q02L07, doi:10.1029/2004GC000757.
 
    Boyet M., Albarède F., Garcia M.O. and Pik R., 2005, A search for ¹⁴²Nd evidence of primordial mantle heterogeneities in plume basalts. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, No 32, L04306.
 
    Bedini, M.R-., Blichert-Toft J., Boyet M. and Albarède F., 2004, Isotopic constraints on the cooling of the continental lithosphere. Earth Planet. Sci. Letters, 223, 99-111.
 
    Albarède F., Télouk P., Blichert-Toft J., Boyet M., Agranier A. and Nelson B., 2004, Precise and accurate isotopic measurements using multiple-collector ICPMS. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 68, 2725-2744.
 
    Boyet M., Blichert-Toft J., Rosing M., Storey M., Télouk P. and Albarède F., 2003, ¹⁴²Nd evidence for early Earth differentiation. Earth Planet. Sci Letters, Earth Planet. Sci. Letters, 214, 447-442.
 
    Blichert-Toft J., Boyet M., Télouk P. and Albarède F., 2002, ¹⁴⁷Sm-¹⁴³Nd and ¹⁷⁶Lu-¹⁷⁶Hf in eucrites and the differentiation of the HED parent body. Earth Planet. Sci. Letters, 204, 167-181.
 
    Boyet M., Lapierre H., Tardy M., Bosch D. et Maury R., 2001, Sources of the andesitic components in the Taveyannaz Sandstones and Champsaur Sandstones: implications for the Paleogene geodynamic evolution of the Alps. Bull. Soc. géol. France, 172, n°4, 487-501.

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