Michael Bizimis Assistant Professor Dept. of Earth and Ocean Sciences Office: PSC 518 Phone: 803 777-5565 Email: mbizimis@geol.sc.edu

Employment:
August 2009-present: Assistant Professor
Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of South Carolina

August 2008-August 2009: Research Assistant Professor
Department of Geological Sciences, University of South Carolina

11/2004-August 2008: Assistant Scholar Scientist,
Florida State University, Department of Geological Sciences, and
Division of Isotope Geochemistry, National High Magnetic Field
Laboratory.

9/2001-11/2004: Visiting Research Associate,
Florida International University, Department of Earth Sciences.

8/1996-4/2001: Research Assistant,
Florida State University, Division of Isotope Geochemistry, National
High Magnetic Field Laboratory.

8/1995-7/1996: Teaching Assistant,
Department of Geological Sciences, Florida State University.

Summer 1995: Scientific Collaborator,
National University of Athens, Greece, and the Secretariat of Research
and Technology, Greece.

Summer 1994: Assistant Researcher,
"Barlos” Mining Company, Distomon, Greece (Bauxite exploration)

Research interests:

• Isotope geochemistry, Igneous Petrology, in the broadest sense.
• Combined Hf-Nd-Sr-Pb-Os isotope analyses and major/ trace element compositions of mantle xenoliths.
• Scales of mantle heterogeneity and mixing in the earths mantle.
• Plume-lithosphere interaction: The case from oceanic mantle xenoliths and lavas.
• Trace element fluxes in subduction zones and the recycling of oceanic lithosphere.
• Supra-Subduction Zone processes.
• Origin of carbonatites, kimberlites and the fate of volatiles in the mantle.
• Composition and evolution of the sublithospheric mantle.
• Serpentinization and mass transfer between oceans and mantle.
• Pressure, temperature and composition controls on trace element partitioning.
• Fe and transition metal concentrations in seawater.

Funding:
2010: USC-PIRA award. Assessing the role of submarine groundwater discharge as a major source of mercury in coastal waters ($19,499)
2009: NSF-OCE: Collaborative Research: Serpentinization and cycling of B, Nd and Sr in submarine hydrothermal systems: An experimental study on the effects of pH and temperature. PI: Bizimis: ($173,958)
2009: NSF-EAR-IF: Upgrade of Electron Microprobe for Earth Science and Materials Research at the University of South Carolina: PI: Yogodzinski, co-PI: Bizimis, Barbeau, Hintz, Zhao (2 years, $166,853).
2008: NSF-MRI: MRI: Acquisition of ICPMS Instrumentation for Interdisciplinary Research: PI: Thunel, co-PI: Bizimis, Scher, Shaw (2 years, $695,247).
2006: NSF-OCE: Constraints on the Hawaiian swell and plume lithosphere interaction from Kaua’i mantle xenoliths. PI: Bizimis (3 years, $219,603).
2006: NSF-EAR: Nb/Ta Fractionations as Tracer of Subduction. PI: V.Salters, co-PI: Bizimis (3 years, $299,076)

Teaching and student supervision:

• Courses taught: GEOL 103, GEOL 202, GEOL 318, GEOL 205, GEOL 520, GEOL 521, at USC and GEOL 1000 at FSU.  GEOL 318 specifically is a field geology course where I lead a class of students to the Azores, Portugal.  
• Supervised post-doctoral fellow Dr. Reshmi Das (Fall 2010).
• Co supervising post-doctoral fellow Dr. Tarun Khana (with Dr. G. Yogodzinski)
• Currently supervising one masters (Mr. Shawn Wallace, and one PhD (Mr. Carl Frisby) student and serving in 5 graduate student committees.
• Supervised an Honors BSc thesis at USC (Ms. Caitlin Gionfriddo, now at University of Melbourne, Australia)
• Co-supervised two PhD students: Ms. Nicole Tibbetts, at FSU, now at GE) and Dr. Indra Sen at FIU, now a Postdoctoral Fellow at WHOI).
• Currently supervising and supporting the research of three undergraduate students at USC.

Professional Affiliations:
American Geophysical Union.
Geological Society of America.
Geochemical Society

Service to the Community:

• Associate Editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth. 11/2007-present.
• Ad-hoc reviewer for J. of Petrology, GCA, EPSL, Chem. Geol., Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., Amer. Mineralogist, Bul. of Volcanology.
• Reviewer for NSF: EAR, OCE, ANT divisions.
• Have served as NSF-OCE proposal review panel member (twice).
• Mentored and trained a middle school research student at USC
• Trained and supervised several undergraduate summer interns on geochemistry research (part of an NSF-funded REU program when at NHMFL-FSU).
• Have mentored middle school students in basic research in Earth Sciences at FSU.
• Have designing hands-on activities and exhibits related to the Geochemistry during the NHMFL Annual Open House activities (from 1996 to 2008).

Peer Review Publications:

• Milne, A., Landing, W., Bizimis, M. and Morton, P., (2010) Determination of Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd and Pb in seawater using high resolution magnetic sector inductively coupled mass spectrometry (HR-ICP-MS).  Anal. Ch. Acta 665, 200-207.
• Canfield, G. M., Bizimis, M. and Latturner, S. E. (2010) Transition-Metal ion exchange using poly(ethylene glycol) oligomers as solvents. Chem. Mater. 22, 330-337.
• Sen, I. S.(*), Bizimis, M., Sen, G. (2010) Geochemistry of sulfides in Hawaiian garnet pyroxenite xenoliths: Implications for highly siderophile elements in the oceanic mantle. Chem.Geol., Volume 273, 180-192.
• Barbeau, D. L., Gombosi, D. J., Zahid, K. M., Bizimis, M., Swanson-Hysell, N., Valencia V., and Gehrels G. E., (2009) U-Pb zircon constraints on the age and provenance of the Rocas Verdes basin fill, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 10, Q12001, doi:10.1029/2009GC002749
• Sen, G, Bizimis, M., Das, R, Dalim, K.P., Arijit, R., Biswas, S and Acosta, A., (2009) Deccan Plume, lithosphere rifting and volcanism in Kutch, India. Earth Plan. Sci. Lett, 277, 101-111.
• Hickey-Vargas, R., Bizimis, M. and Deschamps, A., (2008) Onset of the Indian Ocean isotopic signature in the Philippine Sea Plate: Hf and Pb isotope evidence from Early Cretaceous terranes Earth Plan. Sci. Lett, 268, 255-267.
• Canfield, G. M., Bizimis, M., and Latturner, S., (2007) Sodalite ion exchange in polyethylene oxide oligomer solvents. J. Mater. Chem., 17, 4530-4534.
• Bizimis, M., Griselin, M., Lassiter, J. C., Salters, V J M, and Sen, G., (2007) Ancient recycled mantle lithosphere in the Hawaiian plume: Osmium-Hafnium isotopic evidence from peridotite mantle xenoliths. Earth Plan. Sci. Lett. 257, 259-273.
• Hickey-Vargas, R., Savov, I., Bizimis, M., (2006) Origin of diverse geochemical signatures in igneous rocks from the west Philippine basin: Implications for tectonic models. In: Back-Arc Spreading centers. Geological, Biological, Chemical and physical interactions (Christie, D M, Fisher, C R, Lee, Sang-Mook, Givens, S, Editors) AGU Geophysical Monograph, Vol. 166, 287-303.
• Salters, V.J.M., Blichert-Toft, J., Fekiacova, Z., Sachi-Kocher, A. and Bizimis, M. (2006) Isotope and trace element evidence for depleted lithosphere in the source of enriched Ko'olau basalts.  Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 151, 297-312.
• Keshav, S., Bizimis, M., Gudfinnsson, G H., Sen, G. and Fei, Y. (2006) Response to the comment by M. Lustrino on “High-pressure melting experiments on garnet clinopyroxenite and the alkalic-tholeiitic transition in ocean-island basalts” by Keshav et al. [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 223, 365-379 (2004)] Earth Plan. Sci. Lett., 241, 997-999.
• Keshav, S., Corgne, A., Gudfinnsson, G H., Bizimis, M., McDonough, W. and Fei, Y. (2005) Kimberlite petrogenesis: insights from clinopyroxene–melt partitioning experiments at 6 GPa in the CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-CO2 system. Geochim. Cosmochim Acta, 69 2829-2845.
• Bizimis, M., Sen, G., Salters V.J. M. and Keshav, S. (2005) Hf-Nd-Sr isotope systematics of garnet pyroxenites from Salt Lake Crater, Oahu, Hawaii: Evidence for a depleted component in Hawaiian volcanism. Geochim. Cosmochim Acta, 69, 2629-2646.
• Sen, G., Keshav, S. and Bizimis, M, (2005) Hawaiian mantle xenoliths & magmas: Composition and thermal character of the lithosphere.  Am. Mineral. 90, 871-887.
• Jacob, D. Bizimis, M., Salters, V J.M. (2004) Lu-Hf isotopic systematic of recycled ancient oceanic crust. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 148, 707-720.
• Bizimis, M.  Sen, G. and Salters V.J.M (2004), Hf-Nd isotope decoupling in the oceanic lithosphere: Constraints from spinel peridotites from Oahu, Hawaii. Earth Plan. Sci. Lett. 217, 43-58.
• Bizimis, M.  Salters, V. J.M. and Dawson, J. B. (2003) The brevity of carbonatite sources in the mantle: Evidence from Hf isotopes.  Contrib. Mineral. Petrol.145, 281-300.
• Stracke A., Bizimis M. and Salters V.J.M. (2003) Recycling of oceanic crust: Quantitative constraints.  Geochem. Geophys. Geosystem. vol 4, doi:10.1029/2001GC000223.
• Salters, V.J.M., Longhi, J. E. and Bizimis, M. (2002) Near mantle solidus trace element partitioning at pressures up to 3.4 GPa., Geochem. Geophys. Geosystem. vol. 3, doi:10.1029/2001GC000173.
• Bizimis M., Salters V. J.M. and Bonatti E. (2000) Trace and REE content of clinopyroxenes from Supra-Subduction Zone peridotites. Implications on melting and enrichment processes in island arcs.  Chemical Geology, 165, 67-85.

Submitted:
Sen, I., Bizimis, M., Sen., G., Huang, S., 2011. A radiogenic Os component in the oceanic lithosphere? Constraints from Hawaiian pyroxenite xenoliths. (submitted to Geochimica, Cosmochimica Acta)

Tchegg, C., Bizimis, M., Schneider, D, Ntaflos, T, Akinin, V., 2011, Magmatism at the Eurasian-North American modern plate boundary: Constraints from alkaline volcanism in the Chersky Belt (Yakutia) (submitted to Lithos).

Abstracts-Presentations:

• Wejnert, K , Thunell, R., Bizimis M.,  Astor, Y. (2010) Seasonal variability in multi-elemental ratios and δ18O in planktonic foraminifera from the Cariacco Basin, Venezuela. Abstract PP11A-1422, AGU Fall Meeting.
• Khanna, T., Yogodzinski, G., Bizimis, M. , Manikyamba, G., Balaram, V., Raju, K., Kanakdande, P., (2010) Geochemical systematics of Arc – Back-arc basalt association in NeoArchean (?) Gadwal greenstone belt, eastern Dharwar craton, India. Abstract V33B-2360, AGU Fall Meeting.
• Peslier, H. A., Bizimis, M., (2010) Water in the oceanic lithosphere: Salt Lake Crater xenoliths, Oahu, Hawaii. Abstract V53C-2263, AGU Fall Meeting.
• Howell, J.K., White, S.M., Bohnenstiehl, DW., Bizimis, M., (2010) Formation of volcanic edifices in response to changes in magma budget at intermediate spreading rate ridges. Abstract V11A-2233, AGU Fall Meeting.
• Wejnert, K , Thunell, R., Bizimis M.,  Astor, Y. Seasonal variability in multi-elemental ratios in planktonic foraminifera from the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela. IPC 2010
• Sen, I(*), Bizimis, M. and Sen, G., Origin of sulfides and pyroxenites in the Hawaiian mantle: Insights from PGE and Os isotopes Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 74, 12, Suppl 1, A933, Goldschmidt 2010.
• Wallace, S(*), Bizimis, M. and Tibbetts, N. J. (*) (2010) Thermobarometery of Hawaiian spinel peridotite xenoliths. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 74, 12, A1094,Goldschmidt 2010.
• Gionfriddo, C.(*), Bizimis,. M., Sen, I. S.(*), and Salters V JM. (2010) Chalcophile elements as a proxy for sulfide precipitation during serpentinization. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 74, 12, Suppl 1, A334
• Bizimis M., Subsolidus cooling effects on the trace element systematics of mantle peridotite pyroxenes (2010) Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 74, 12, Suppl 1, A96, Goldschmidt 2010.
• Tibbetts, N. J(*), Bizimis M., Longo, M., Keshav, S., Salters VJM, McCammon, C.A.   Apparent Oxygen Fugacity Structure Beneath O’ahu, Hawai’i. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 74, 12, Suppl 1, A1045, Goldschmidt 2010.
• Barbeau, D., Zahid, KM., Gombosi DJ., Guenthner, HD., Scher., HD., Bizimis.,, M., Davis, JT., Brown. AR., Gehrels, GE., Reiners, PW., Thomson., SN., Garver, JI.  (2010) Insight into Drake Passage opening from sediment provenance and thermochronology. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 74, 12, Suppl 1, A51 Goldschmidt 2010.
• Bizimis M., and Salters, V.J.M., (2010) Osmium isotopes suggest fast and efficient mixing in the oceanic upper mantle.  (Invited).  EGU conference, Vienna Austria. May 3rd -7th 2010. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 12, EGU2010-675, 2010
• Bizimis M.: Geochemical constraints on the length scales and spatial distribution of enriched and depleted components in the Hawaiian plume.  Invited Talk. ETH-Zürich.  Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology. Zürich, Switzerland. May 3rd 2010.
• Bizimis M.:  Scales of heterogeneity in Hawaiian volcanism. Invited Talk. University of Georgia, Dept. of Geological Sciences.  October 22, 2009.
• Tibbetts, N. J(*), Bizimis, M., Keshav, S., Longo, M., Salters, VJ and McCammon C.A. (2009) The oxygen fugacity structure of the sub-oceanic lithosphere and upper Mantle as recorded by spinel peridotite and garnet clinopyroxenite xenoliths from O'ahu, Hawai'i.  AGU Fall meeting, V33C-2052.
• Salters, V.J, Bizimis M., Sachi-Kocher, A., Taylor, R., Savov. I, and Stern, R.C. (2009) Subduction related fluids fractionate Nb/Ta. AGU Fall meeting, V51E-1757.
• Bizimis, M. (2009) Peridotite xenoliths from Kauai, Hawaii as analogs for melt extraction in the oceanic mantle. Alpine Ophiolite Conference, Parma, Italy, (September 30th - October 2nd). 
• Sen, I(*)., Bizimis, M., Huang, S. and Sen., G (2008) Re-Os Isotope Systematics and PGE Abundances in Garnet Pyroxenite xenoliths from Oahu, Hawaii: Implications on Melt-Peridotite Reaction in the Oceanic mantle. AGU, Fall meeting. abstract V43B-2160.
• Morton, P. Bizimis, M. Donat, J R, Landing, W M (2008) Trace metal supply to the western North Pacific:  relative contributions from alternative sources.  AGU Fall meeting, abstract OS23E-1301.
• Tibbetts, N. J(*)., Bizimis, M, Salters, V JM and Rudnick, R L. (2008) The Hf-Nd systematics of rutile –bearing eclogites from Koidu, Sierra Leone.  AGU Fall meeting, Abstract V33C-2236.
• Zateslo, T., Bizimis M., Salters V JM, Stern, C. and Taylor, R N (2008) Nb/Ta - Zr/Hf fractionations during Subduction: Implications for the “missing” Nb. AGU Fall Meeting, abstract V33C-2232.
• Bizimis, M., Salters V JM and Huang, S, (2008). Koolau Revisited: Vertical, short-scale heterogeneities in the Hawaiian Plume, AGU Fall Meeting, abstract V52A-02.
• Sen, I(*), Bizimis, M. and Sen, G., Platinum Group Element Abundances in the Hawaiian mantle: Constraints from in-situ Sulfide and bulk rock Analyses of Garnet Pyroxenite xenoliths from Oahu. Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting (October 5-9, 2008)
• Bizimis, M, Salters, V JM, Huang, S and Clague, D. (2008).  1 Ga old plume-derived peridotite xenoliths from Kauai, Hawaii.  Goldschmidt Conference, Vancouver Canada. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 72, 12 Supplement 1, A87
• Salters, V JM., Bizimis, M and Mallick, S (2008) :  Local and Global Scale systematics in the MORB source Goldschmidt Conference, Vancouver Canada. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 72, 12 Supplement 1, A820
• Bizimis, M., Garcia, M., Norman, M. and Salters, VJM. (2008).  Hf-Nd-Pb isotopes in lavas and pyroxenites from Kaula island reveal a depleted component in the Hawaiian plume. AGU-Joint Assembly, Abstract # V43A-04.  
• Salters, V.J.M, Bizimis, M, and Langmuir, C. (2007).  Improving the resolution of the mantle picture AGU, Fall Meeting, abstract V44B-08.
• Sen, I.(*), Sen, G. and Bizimis, M., (2007). Sulfides in the garnet pyroxenites from Oahu, Hawaii AGU, Fall Meeting abstract DI33A-1126.
• Bizimis, M: The Composition of the Hawaiian plume from the mantle xenolith perspective, Dept. of Geological Science, University of South Carolina, Invited talk (January 2007).
• Savov, I., Bizimis, M., Halama, R., Shirey, S., Hauri, E., Haydoutov, I., 2007. Li-Sr-Lu-Hf isotope and trace element systematics of eclogites from Bulgaria, Goldschmidt Conference, Cologne, Germany. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 71, 12 Supplement.
• Bizimis, M., Garcia, M., and Norman, M., (2006) Garnet Pyroxenites from Kaula, Hawaii: Implications for Plume-Lithosphere Interaction, AGU Fall Meet., San Francisco, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), V13B-0675
• Huang, S., Bizimis, M., Fodor, R.V. and Bauer, G. (2006) Geochemical Structure of the Hawaiian Plume: Constrains from the Shield to Postshield Transition. AGU Fall Meet.,  San Francisco.
• Landing, W.M., Buck, C.S., Bizimis, M., and Measures, C.I. (2006) Ocean Sections of Dissolved Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, and Pb. AGU Fall Meet., San Francisco, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), OS34B-03.
• Hickey-Vargas, R., Bizimis, M., Savov, I. and Reagan, M. (2006) Influence of pre-Eocene features of the Philippine Sea plate on the early Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc. GSA Annual Meet., Philadelphia
• Hickey-Vargas, R, Savov, I., and Bizimis, M. (2005) Relationship Between the West Philippine Basin and the Early Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc: Arc Initiation and Ancestry. Eos. Trans. AGU, 86 (52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T44A-07.
• Bizimis, M., Salters, V J M, Sen, G., Keshav, S., and Ducea, M. (2005) The Heterogeneous Hawaiian Lithosphere: New Isotope Data from Kauai and Oahu Peridotites. Eos. Trans. AGU, 86 (52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract #V51A-1467.
• Bizimis, M. : What Lies beneath Hawaii. Dept. of Geological Sci., Florida State University, Invited talk (September, 2005)
• Bizimis, M., Sen, G., Lassiter, J., Salters VJM. and Keshav, S. (2005) Recycled Oceanic Mantle Lithosphere in Hawaii: The Samples and the Models. Eos. Trans. AGU, 86 (18), Jt. Assem. Suppl., Abstract #V42A-04.
• Bizimis, M., Lassiter J.C., Salters VJ.M., Sen, G., Griselin, M. (2004) Extreme Hf-Os Isotope Compositions in Hawaiian Peridotite Xenoliths: Evidence for an Ancient Recycled Lithosphere. Eos. Trans. AGU, 85, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract #V51B-550 
• Wozab T.S (*), Bizimis, M. (2004) Orthopyroxene/Clinopyroxene Trace Element Partitioning Systematics in the Natural Sample. Eos. Trans. AGU, 85, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract #V21B-0607.
• Bizimis, M. : What lies beneath Hawaii. Department of Geosciences, Georgia State University.  Invited talk (February 2004).
• Bizimis, M., Sen, G. Salters, V.J.M. (2003) Volatile-rich mineral phases in the Hawaiian lithosphere: phlogopites and carbonates in 0-age garnet pyroxenite xenoliths from Salt Lake Crater, (Oahu, Hawaii). Eos. Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V42H-04.
• Mukherjee S.(*), Bizimis M., Keshav S., and Sen G. (2003) Hydrous and anhydrous garnet-bearing mantle xenoliths from Hawaii: Isotopic Heterogeneity? Eos. Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V12C-0607.
• Sen G., Bizimis M., Keshav S., Mukherjee S. and Atlas Z., (2003) A Physical Description of the Lithosphere and Seismic Low-Velocity Zone beneath Oahu: Perspectives from Hawaiian Mantle Xenoliths, Eos. Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V42H-05.
• Sen G., Keshav S. and Bizimis, M. (2003) Water, phlogopite, carbonatite and a new model for the lithosphere and Hawaiian plume melting, GSA Annual Meeting.
• Bizimis M., Sen G. and Salters V.J.M (2002).  Hf, Nd and Sr isotope compositions of Hawaiian ultramafic xenoliths. EOS Trans. AGU 83(19) Spring Meet. Suppl.
• Jacob D. E. Bizimis M and Salters V. J. M. (2002) Lu-Hf isotopic systematics of subducted ancient oceanic crust: Roberts Victor eclogites. Geochim. Cosmochim Acta 66, 15(A) A360.
• Bizimis M. and Salters V.J.M. (1999). Hf, Nd and Sr isotope compositions of carbonatites. EOS, 80, Fall meeting supplement, 1131-1132.
• Salters V.J.M., Longhi J. and Bizimis M. (1999). Trace element partitioning on the mantle solidus up to 3.4GPa. EOS, 80, Fall meeting supplement. 1113.
• Bizimis M., Salters V.J.M. and Dawson J.B. (1998).  Sr, Nd and Hf isotope compositions in kimberlites and carbonatites from South Africa: Constrains on upper mantle metasomatism. EOS, 79, Fall meeting supplement, 1018.
• Bizimis M. and Salters V.J.M. (1997).  Trace and REE content of clinopyroxenes from Supra-Subduction Zone peridotites. Implications on melting and enrichment processes in island arcs.  EOS, 78, Fall meeting supplement, 836.