Professor Stephen E. Haggerty
Department of Geosciences
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Steve Haggerty is a charismatic speaker and recognized authority on diamonds and ore deposits. He is one of the pioneers who served on the Lunar Sample Analysis Planning Team and worked on lunar samples returned by NASA Apollo and Soviet Luna programs. Steve’s field projects on earth stretch from west and southern Africa, Brazil, Australia, India, Syria, and Siberia to China. The mineral Haggertyite was named in his honor. Prof. Haggerty is a Fellow of several societies, including the American Geophysical Union. Recently, he was an invited participant at the White House on socioeconomic issues of diamond. Among many important talks, Professor Haggerty gave the “Union Speech” at American Geophysical Union Meeting at San Francisco. His recent accolade was a 9-page long review paper (1999) in Science (see below). I must mention two other papers that are prominent “landmarks” in the field of high-pressure mineralogy and diamond genesis.

LECTURE

“Diamonds: From Astrophysics to Earth Sciences”

March 14th
3:30 p.m.

Florida International University (FIU)
Wertheim Conservatory
11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL

(Enter FIU through SW 107th Avenue and SW 16th Street)

Representative Publications

Haggerty, S.E. (1999) Diamond Trilogy: superplumes, supercontinents, and supernovae. Science 285, 851-860.

Haggerty, S.E., and Sautter, V. (1990) Ultradeep (>300 km) ultramafic, upper mantle xenoliths. Science, 248, 993-996.

Haggerty, S.E. 1986. Diamond genesis in a multiply constrained model. Nature, 320, 34-48.