Alexander N Halliday Collegiate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Professor
About
Rebecca Lange is Alexander N. Halliday Collegiate Professor in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research is focused on field and experimental studies of magmatic/volcanic systems and how they have shaped the evolution of continental crust through time. Her specific interests include: (1) the thermodynamic and transport properties of multicomponent magmatic liquids; (2) the development of various mineral-melt thermometers, hygrometers and barometers; (3) redox equilibria in magmatic systems, including under open system conditions (e.g., degassing).
Dr. Lange received her BA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983 and 1989. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University from 1989-1991, and joined the University of Michigan (UM) faculty in Fall 1991. At UM, she received the Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award and the College of LSA Excellence in Education Award. She served as Department Chair from 2010-2014.
Dr. Lange is a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America, the Geochemical Society and European Association of Geochemistry, the Geological Society of America, and the American Geophysical Union. She has served as President of the Mineralogical Society of America.
Dr. Lange teaches courses that cover all aspects of the solid Earth at the introductory level and an upper division course on magmatism, metamorphism and plate tectonics. In addition, she teaches a variety of classes at the Camp Davis, Wyoming field station, including the capstone field courses in geology and environmental science. Dr. Lange mentors both graduate and undergraduate students in her experimental laboratory.
For fellow researchers:
Click here for the plagioclase-liquid hygrometer of Waters and Lange (2015).
Click here for the olivine-liquid thermometer/hygrometer of Pu et al. (2017, 2021).
