Barbara Dutrow

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Barbara Lee Dutrow
Born1956 (age 6667)
Alma mater Southern Methodist University
Chadron State College
Scientific career
Institutions Louisiana State University
Thesis A staurolite trilogy : 1. Lithium in staurolite and its petrologic significance. 2. An experimental determination of the upper stability of staurolite plus quartz. 3. Evidence for multiple metamorphic episodes in the Farmington Quadrangle, Maine  (1985)

Barbara Dutrow (born 1956) is an American geologist who is the Adolphe G. Gueymard Professor of Geology at Louisiana State University. Dutrow wrote the textbook Manual of Mineral Science. She was elected President of the Geological Society of America in 2021.

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Early life and education

Dutrow is from Chadron, Nebraska. [1] Her father was a General Motors dealer. [1] She has said that she became interested in geology at a young age, and collected purple quartz from Lake McConaughy. [1] She was an undergraduate student at Chadron State College. [2] She moved to Texas for graduate studies, joining the Southern Methodist University and working on vertebrate palaeontology. [3] Dutrow remained at the Southern Methodist University for her doctoral studies, switching her focus to vertebrate paleontology and pleistocene mammoth assemblage. [4] She was appointed an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow at the University of Münster Institut für Mineralogie. [1] In 1989 Dutrow returned to the United States, where she was appointed research associate at the University of Arizona.[ citation needed ]

Research and career

Dutrow joined Louisiana State University as an Assistant Professor, and was promoted to the Adolphe G. Gueymard Professor in 2002. In 2009 she was elected President of the Mineralogical Society of America, and has remained on the Executive Committee since. [5]

In 2020, the International Mineralogical Association named a newly discovered mineral in her honour, Dutrowite. [6] The mineral, Na(Fe2+2.5Ti0.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3O, was discovered in the Apuan Alps and formed from the metamorphism of Rhyolite. Of the many tourmaline species, Dutrowite is the only one to be named after a woman. [7] She was elected President of the Geological Society of America in 2021. [8]

Awards and honors

Selected publications

Books

Personal life

Dutrow is a long distance runner. She is married to Darrell Henry, a geology professor at Louisiana State University. [1]

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