Rita C Economos
Professional Experience:
Staff Research Scientist, October, 2012 – Current, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Post-doctoral Researcher, August 2010 – Sept. 2012, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Post-doctoral Researcher, July 2009 – June 2010, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. Indianapolis, IN
Education:
Ph.D., 2009, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
B.A., 2001, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, Graduated Cum Laude
Grants and Awards:
National Geographic Research and Exploration Grant, 2012
National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Proposal, 2008
USC, College of Arts, Letters and Sciences summer travel fellowship, 2008
USC, College of Arts, Letters and Sciences diversity fellowship, 2007
Geological Society of America, research grant, 2007
Earth Sciences Department award for teaching excellence, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008
Research Grant (2004,5), USC Dept of Earth Sciences, graduate student research fund
Keck Fellowship, for academic excellence, 2003 from USC
Teaching Experience:
Instructor: Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Introduction to Geochemistry for graduate/senior undergraduate students
Teaching assistant and course developer: University of Southern California
Structural Geology, Petrology, Nature of Scientific Inquiry, Multimedia in the Core: The intersection of science and public policy
Teaching Assistant: University of Southern California
Mineralogy, Planet Earth, Crisis of a Planet
Mapping Experience:
Joshua Tree National Park, California, March, June 2009
Gobi-Tienshan intrusive complex, Gobi-Altai Province, Mongolia, July-August 2006, 2007, 2008
Chandman Massif, Gobi-Altai Province, Mongolia July-August, 2005
Tuolumne Batholith, Central Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, July-August, 2004
Sierra San Pedro Martir, Baja California, Mexico, May, 2004
Extra-departmental activities:
Session Chair, AGU, Fall 2011, Merging signals from the volcanic and plutonic realms
Participant, Biennial Geochemical SIMS workshop, 2011
Session Chair, Goldschmidt, 2010, Accessory Phase Elemental and Isotopic Geochemistry: Micro-Analytical Tools and Petrologic Applications
Session Chair, AGU, Fall 2008, Arc Crustal Cross-Sections: Studies in the 4d Evolution of Arcs
Short course participant, Minerals, Inclusions and Volcanic Processes, AGU, Fall, 2008
Field forum participant, Joshua Tree National Park and Orocopia Mountains, Spring 2007
Field forum participant, Spirit Mountain Batholith, Spring, 2007
Field forum participant, Rubey Mountains, Fall 2006