Mark Barton

Mark Barton is professor of Geology and Geochemistry at the University of Arizona and co-director of the Lowell Institute for Mineral Resources.  Mark earned BS and MS degrees from Virginia Tech (1977, 1978) and a PhD from the University of Chicago (1981). Following a post-doctoral fellowship at the Geophysical Laboratory (Carnegie Institution of Washington), he taught at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) before joining the faculty at the U of A. His research interests and span many aspects of energy and mass transfer in the Earth's lithosphere and their applications to mineral deposits. Mark has published over 90 papers and advised over 70 MS, PSM, and PhD students. His research is on wide-ranging topics from mineralogy to physical modeling has emphasized ore deposit studies with a focus on porphyry, IOCG, sediment-hosted Cu, and various precious metal systems, and their broader geologic and environmental context. Ongoing collaborative studies involve many mining companies and the USGS and were supported by these groups, the U.S. National Science Foundation, Keck Foundation, National Institutes of Health and Science Foundation Arizona.