Zhengrong Wang Assistant Professor Email Me Office: KGL 339 Phone: (203) 436-8461 A More Detailed Webpage Research Interests: Mantle geochemistry, theoretical study of isotope fractionation theory and its application to geological problems, developing paleoproxies to study paleoclimate, trace element geochemistry Current Courses: G&G 310/510 Isotope Geochemistry G&G 730 Biomineralization G&G 702 Global climate change Students and Postdocs: Chao Liu Kazuhiko Otsuka Sarah Vorhies Hobart Young Selected Publication(s): Wang, Zhengrong. and Glenn A. Gaetani (2008); Partitioning of Ni between olivine and siliceous eclogite partial melt: experimental constraints on the mantle source of the enriched component in Hawaiian shield basalts; Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 156(5): 661-678 S.R. Hart, M.D. Kurza and Z. Wang (2008); Scale length of mantle heterogeneities: Constraints from helium diffusion; EPSL 269(3-4): 508-517 Wang, Zhengrong and John M Eiler (2008);Insights into the origin of low-delta18O basaltic magmas in Hawaii revealed from in situ measurements of oxygen isotope compositions of olivines; EPSL 269(3-4): 377-387 Anna M. Courtier, Matthew G. Jackson, Jesse F. Lawrence, Zhengrong Wang, Cin-Ty Aeolus Lee, Ralf Halama, Jessica M. Warren, Rhea Workman, Wenbo Xu, Marc M. Hirschmann, Angela M. Larson, Stan R. Hart, Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni, Lars Stixrude, Wang-Ping Chen( 2007); Correlation of seismic and petrologic thermometers suggests deep thermal anomalies beneath hotspots; EPSL 264(1-2): 308-316 Wang, Z., Edwin Schauble and John M Eiler (2004), Equilibrium thermodynamics of multiply-substituted isotopologues of molecular gases, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68(23): 4779-4797.