Benjamin R. Phillips

Director's Postdoctoral Fellow
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM 87545

505-667-5532 (tel)
505-665-8737 (fax)

Education

PhD Geosciences, Princeton University, 2005
MA Geosciences, Princeton University, 2002
BS Physics, minor Astronomy, University of Virginia, 1999

Primary Research Interests

Magma dynamics, flood basalt generation, global mantle convection, and supercontinent cycles. Most of my work is computational in nature, but I also enjoy venturing into the field whenever possible (above, sampling lava on Hawaii and crossing a glacier in Spitsbergen). See the related link above right for a more detailed description of my research.

Current Highlights

See the Discovery Channel News story highlighting a paper on work with N. Coltice, H. Bertrand, Y. Ricard, and P. Rey. The paper, which addresses large-scale warming of the mantle at the origin of flood basalts over supercontinents, appears in the May, 2007 issue of Geology (Coltice2007.pdf).

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