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							                                     Maria Clara Castro
                                      Associate Professor
                               Department of Geological Sciences
                                    University of Michigan
                                     mccastro@umich.edu



Education
B.Sc.: University of Porto, Portugal, 1988 (Geology, Summa Cum Laudae)
M.S.: University of Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie), Paris, France, 1991 (Quantitative Hydrology
     and Hydrogeology)
Ph.D.: University of Paris VI and Paris School of Mines, France, 1995 (Hydrogeology and Noble
       Gas Geochemistry)

Positions Held
2008 - present Faculty Associates, Applied Physics Program
2007 (January – August) – Visiting Professor, University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
2006 – present Associate Professor, Geological Sciences, University of Michigan
2004 - present Faculty Associate, Program in the Environment, University of Michigan
1999 - 2006 Assistant Professor, Geological Sciences, University of Michigan
1998 - 1999 Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Connecticut
1996 - 1998 Post-doctoral Research Associate, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia
            University
1989 - 1990 Hydrogeologist, Burgeap Company, Paris, France
1988 - 1989 Hydrogeologist, Foraco Company, Cameroon, Africa

Honors and Awards
2006: CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
2005: Prix Verdaguer, Academy of Sciences, France - Institute of France
2002: Elizabeth Caroline Crosby Research Award (NSF ADVANCE at Univ. of Michigan)
1995: Special mention on PhD dissertation - in French: "Très Honorable avec les Félicitations du
     Jury"
1990, 1994, 1995 - Fellowships from the Portuguese Ministry of Education

Editorial Service
2007 -       Editorial Board of Geofluids
2004 - 2008: Associate Editor Hydrogeology Journal
2003 - 2007: Associate Editor Ground Water

Professional Affiliations
American Geophysical Union
Geological Society of America
International Association of Hydrogeologists
National Ground Water Association
American Chemical Society

Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Martin Saar (2003 – 2004; Turner Post-doc, now Assistant Professor University of
                                                                       Minnesota)
Dr. Delphine Patriarche (2001- 2004, now Research Project Head, Gas de France, France)


                                         M. Clara Castro, Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae          1
Graduate students
Rohit Warrior
Jessica Malone, MS 2009
Tie Sun, Ph.D ongoing
Tie Sun, MS 2008
Lin Ma, Ph.D 2008 (now Post-doctoral Fellow at Penn State Univ.)

Undergraduate students
Alex Costakis (January 2009 – present, Honors thesis)
Paul Joseph Hojnacki (October 2008 – March 2009)
Jessica Malone (January 2007 – August 2007)
Brian Ellis (2004 – 2006, Honors thesis, now Ph.D student, Dept. of Civil and Env. Eng., Princeton Univ.)
Kathy Flemming (2003)
Ann Hoenke (2001)

Courses Taught
Water and Society (GEOSCI 109)
Seminar Environmental Geology (GEOSCI 148)
Scientific Discovery in Earth Sciences: A Research Experience (GEOSCI 210)
Hydrogeology (GEOSCI 477)

Laboratory Facilities
Noble Gas Laboratory

Computer Facilities
Sun Server V880
Sun Server Fire 280R
Sun Ultra 10 workstations


Some examples of new and on-going research projects:

    1. Investigating the nature of a noble gas mantle component in the deep brines of the
       Michigan Basin and its implications for mantle convection models.
    2. Investigating the behavior of noble gases at the interface unsaturated zone/water table and
       developing new noble gas temperature models to improve noble gas paleoclimatic
       reconstructions.
    3. Investigating the behavior of all noble gases in ice and sealed lakes in Antarctica through
       a combined analysis of concentrations and isotopic ratios to reconstruct both the sealing
       history of these lakes as well a to clarify some aspects of the tectonic history of this
       region.
    4. To obtain an in-depth and overall understanding of the hydrogeological functioning of the
       Galapagos Islands through noble gases in order to evaluate their aquifers’ potential as
       long term water suppliers and to prevent future groundwater contamination.




                                            M. Clara Castro, Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae              2