Education:

1971 -B.S., St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York.

Graduated Cum Laude with Highest Honors in Geology.

1974 -Masters of Philosophy, Columbia University, NY

1977 -Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, New York.

Faculty Fellow at Columbia University, 1971-1977.

Research Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences, the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, July 1977-July 1982.

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geology, University of Florida, Gainesville, August 1982-July 1985.

Visiting Research Scientist, Cornell University, Summer 1985.

Associate Professor, Dept of Geology, University of Florida, Gainesville, 1985- 1991.

Visiting Fellow, Department of Geology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, and Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, 1990.

Professor and Graduate Advisor, University of Florida, Gainesville, August 1991-present.

Collaborative Reseach Scientist, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Summer 2001

Visiting Professor, Institut du Physique du Globe, Paris, Spring 2002

Outstanding Teacher Award - April 1986, UF College of Liberal Arts and Science

Teacher of the Year - Semifinalist - 1989, UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Excellence in Undergraduate Education Award - UF, CLAS, April 1989

Teaching Improvement Award, University of Florida - 1995

Professional Excellence Program Award, University of Florida - 1998

Flint Term Professor, UF 1999

Member: Geological Society of America; American Geophysical Union; Geochemical Society, Sigma Gamma Epsilon.

Blue Ribbon Panel Member to review the National Undersea Research Program (1995)

Chair, Deep Submergence Science Committee (DESSC) (1994-1999)

Member, Partners for Education Program (PEP), Geological Soc. America

Geology Advisor and Book Reviewer, Plenum Publishers (1992-1999)

Associate Editor of Reviews of Geophysics (1993-2000)

Symposium Chair- IUGG Meeting (Submarine Volcanism-July 1995)

RIDGE Observatory Experiment participant (1993)

RIDGE RISES Planning Meeting section chair (1994)

Editorial advisor for the BBC (UK) and University Science Books (1995)

Special Emphasis Panel in Geosciences, US Science Support Program for ODP (1996)

RIDGE, Event Detection and Reponse; panel leader (1997)

DESCEND, Deep Submergence Workshop; Group Leader (1999)

DeepSubmergence Science Committee (DESSC),Chair, (1995-1999)

University National Oceanographic Laboratory System Council member (1995-1999)

RIDGE 2000 Steering Committee Member, and Executive Committee (2002- )

Graduate Coordinator (1995 -present)

Geology Dept. Executive Committee (1995-present)

UF Field Camp Committee (1982- 1996)

Honors Faculty (1987-present)

UF Faculty Senator (1992-1994)

Chair Curriculum Committee (1993-1996)

Member of Search and Screen Committee for Biogeochemist (1999-00)

Chair, Search and Screen Committee - Tectonics and Hydrogeology (1997)

Fellowship Task Force, ORTGE (1996)

Graduate Student Travel selection committee (1997)

CLAS TIP Committee 1996-97

Member, CLAS Search Committee for Associate Dean (1998)

CLAS Dissertation Fellowship Committee (1996-98)

CLAS Graduate Committee (1997-2000)

Geological Society of America campus representative (1983-present).

Campus Representative, Student Conservation Society (1983-present).

Alachua County School Volunteer (1984-present).

Alachua County Science Fair Judge

CLAS Faculty Affairs Search Committee (1998)

UF, Graduate Council Member (1997- 2000)

Anderson/CLAS Scholar Faculty Honoree; (Fall 2000)

University Scholars Program, Mentor (1998-2001)

Co-PI and dive participant on RV Atlantis II and ALVIN on the East Pacific Rise Adventure Cruise AII 131 (March-April 1994)

Co-PI and dive participant on RV Atlantis II and ALVIN on the Juan de Fuca Ridge (June - July, 1994)

Co-PI HYDROTRACE Expedition, RV SONNE; German-Canadian -US cooperative program on the Juan de Fuca Ridge and Axial Seamount (July 1996)

Co-PI EDISON II Expedition, RV SONNE Multinational Cooperative Program in Papua New Guinea, (July 1998).

Co-PI, RV T Thompson, NeMO '99 cruise - Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge (June 1999).

Cooperative Research with University of Alaska, Fairbanks and Frankin and Marshall College; Mapping on Unalaska Is. AK (July 1999)

Co-Chief Scientist and PI: AHA Cruise, 10°N to 1°N EPR and W. Galapagos Rift, (March-May, 2000).

Co-Investigator (D. Stakes, Chief Sci). Western Flyer (WF007)/Tiburon) S. Cleft, Juan de Fuca Ridge, (July, 2000).

Co-Investigator (D. Stakes, Chief Sci). Western Flyer (WF2480)/Tiburon), S. Cleft, Juan de Fuca Ridge, (July, 2000).

Lundstrom, C. C., Gill, J., Williams, Q. and Perfit, M. R., 1995. Mantle Melting and Basalt Extraction by Equilibrium Porous Flow. Science, 270, 1958-1961.

Rubin, K.H., Macdougall, J.D. and Perfit, M.R., 210Po-210Pb dating of recent volcanic eruptions on the sea floor. Nature, 368, 841-844.

McInnes, B., M. Perfit, I. Jonasson and A. Heatherington (1996). Petrology, Geochemistry, and Volcanology of Rock Samples Collected During Project EDISON (SO-94):Tabar-Lihir-Tanga-Feni Islands; PNG. Report to the German Government.

Mejia, V., Opdyke, N.D., and Perfit, M.R., 1996. Paleomagnetic field intensity study recorded in submarine basaltic glass from the East Pacific Rise, the last 69 Ka. Geophysical Research Lett., 23, no. 5., 475-478.

Perfit M. R., Fornari, D.J., Ridley, W.I., Kirk, P.A., D.J. Casey, J., Kastens, K.A., Edwards, M., Shuster, R., and Paradis, S., 1996. Recent volcanism in the western Siqueiros Transform Fault: Picritic basalts and implications for MORB magma genesis. Earth Planet Sci. Lett., 141, 91-108.

Perfit, M. R. and Fornari, D., 1996. We Must Reach Out to the Public. EOS , Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 77, 183

Sorensen, S.S., Grossman, J.N. and Perfit, M.R., 1997. Phengite-hosted LILE enrichment in eclogite and related rocks: implications for fluid-mediated mass transfer in subduction zones and arc magma genesis. J. Petrology,.

Pockalny, R.A., Fox, P.J., Fornari, D.J., MacDonald, K.C. and Perfit, M.R., 1997. Tectonic reconstruction of the Clipperton and Siqueiros Fracture Zones: Evidence and consequences of changes in plate motion for the last 3 Myr. J. Geophys. Res., 102, 3167-3181.

Fornari, D.J., Humphris, S.E., and Perfit, M.R., (1997). Deep submergence science takes a new approach. EOS, Trans. Am. Geophys. Union, 78, 402-408.

Gregg, T.K.P., Fornari, D.J., Perfit, M.R., Haymon, R.M., and Fink, J.H., (1997). Rapid emplacement of a mid-ocean ridge lava flow on the East Pacific Rise at 9° 46'-51'N, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 144, E1-E7.

Herzig, P., Linke, P., Suess and others (including Perfit), (1997), Die Hydrothermalsysteme des Axial Seamount, Geowissenschaften, 15, 185-193.

Fornari, D.J., Gregg, T.K.P., and Perfit, M.R., 1997. Axial summit caldera and axial summit graben: A reply. RIDGE Events, 8, 12-19.

Fornari, D.J. and Perfit, M.R., (1997), Sampling and imaging requirements for deep submergence science. MTS Journal, 31, 77-79.

Fornari, D.J., R.M. Haymon, M. R. Perfit, T.K.P. Gregg and M.H. Edwards, (1998). Axial summit trough of the East Pacific Rise 9°-10°N: Geological characteristics and evolution of the axial zone on fast spreading mid-ocean ridges J. Geophys. Res., 103, 9827-9855.

Fornari, D.J., Shank, T., Von Damm, K. L., Gregg, T. K. P., Levai, G., Haymon, R. M., Lilley, M., Bray, A., Baron, S., Perfit, M. R., and R. Lutz, (1998). Time-series Temperature Measurements at High-temperature Hydrothermal Vents, East Pacific Rise Crest 9° 49'-51'N: Evidence for monitoring a crustal cracking event. Earth Planet Sci. Lett., 160, 419-431.

Rubin, K.H., *Smith, M.C., Perfit, M.R., Christie, D.M., and Sacks, L.F., (1998). Geochronology and Geochemistry of Lavas from the 1996 Gorda Ridge Eruption. Deep Sea Res.II,.45, 2571-2597

Perfit, M.R., and Chadwick, W.W. Jr., (1998). Magmatism at mid-ocean ridges: Constraints from volcanological and geochemical investigations. in Faulting and Magmatism at Mid-Ocean Ridges, ed. W.R. Buck, P. Delaney, and J.A. Karson. Geophys Monograph 92., Amer. Geophys Union, Washington D.C. in press.

Perfit, M.R., Ridley, W.I. and Jonasson, I., (1998). Geologic, petrologic and geochemical relationships between magmatism and massive sulfide mineralization along the eastern Galapagos Spreading Center, Rev. Economic Geology. Vol 8, Chapter 4, 75-99.

Lundstrom, C.C., Sampson, D.E., Perfit, M.R., Gill, J., and Williams, Q., (1999). Insights into MORB Petrogenesis: U-series Disequilibria from the Siqueiros Transform and Lamont Seamounts. J. Geophysical Res., 104, 13,035-13,048.

Perfit, M.R., Sea-Floor Spreading- Mid-Ocean Ridge Geochemistry and Petrology. in Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, J. Steel, S. Thorpe and K. Turekian, eds., Academic Press, San Diego, CA, in press

Perfit, M.R. and Davidson, J.P. (2000). Plate Tectonics and Volcanism. in Encyclopedia of Volcanoes, H. Sigurdsson ed.. Academic Press, San Diego, CA. 89-113.

Perfit, M.R., (1999). Earth's Oceanic Crust. in Encyclopedia of Geochemistry, C.P. Marshall and R.W. Fairbridge, eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston 179-182.

Jonasson, I. R. and Perfit, M.R., (1999). Unusual forms fo amorphous silica from submarine warm springs, Juan de Fuca Ridge, Northeastern Pacific Ocean. Canadian Min., 37, 27-36.

Perfit, M.R., (1999). Molten Rocks in Motion, Nature, 402, 245-247.

Fryer, P, Fornari, D.J., and Perfit, M.R., (2000). Future Research Directions in Deep Submergence Science, Marine Technological Journal,.

Gregg, T.K.P., D.J. Fornari, M.R. Perfit and I.R. Ridley, (2000). Using submarine lava pillars to record mid-ocean ridge eruption dynamics, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 178, 195-214.

Embley, R.W., Chadwick, W.W., Perfit, M.R., Smith, M.C., and Delaney, J.R., (2000). Recent eruptions on the CoAxial Segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge: Implications for mid-ocean ridge accretion processes. J. Geophys. Res., v. 105, 16,501-16,525.

Kurras G.J., Fornari, D.J., Edwards, M.H., Perfit, M.R. and Smith, M.C., (2000). Volcanic Morphology of the East Pacific Rise Crest 9° 49'-52' N: 1. Implications for Volcanic Emplacement Processes at Fast-Spreading Mid-Ocean Ridges, Marine Geophys. Res., 21, 23-41.

Perfit, M.R., (2001). Sea-Floor Spreading- Mid-Ocean Ridge Geochemistry and Petrology. in Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, J. Steel, S. Thorpe and K. Turekian, eds., Academic Press, San Diego, CA, in press.

Rubin, K.H., Smith, M.C., Bergmanis, E.C.,. Perfit, M. R., Sinton, J. M. and Batiza, R., (2001). Geochemical heterogeneity of individual mid-ocean ridge lava flows: Insights into eruption, emplacement and global variations in magma generation. Earth Planet Sci. Lett., 188, 349-367.

Smith, M.C., M. Perfit, D. Fornari, I. Ridley, M. Edwards, G. Kurras, and K. Von Damm, (2001). Magmatic processes and segmentation at a fast spreading mid-ocean ridge: detailed geochemistry and mapping of the East Pacific Rise at 9°37'N - small overlapping spreading center, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst.,v2. #2000GC000134 ,.

Sims,K., Goldstein,S.J., Blicher-Toft, J., Perfit, M.R., Keleman, D.J., Fornari, D.J., Michael P., Murrell, M.T., Hart, S.R., DePaolo, D.J., Layne, G., Jull, M., and Bender, J. Chemical and isotopic constaints on the generation and transport of melt beneath the East Pacific Rise. Geochem. Cosmochim. Acta. (submitted).

White, S.M., Haymon, R.H., Fornari, D.J., Perfit, M.R., and Macdonald, K.C., (2002). Volcanic Structures and Lava Morphology of the East Pacific Rise, 9-10N: Constraints on Volcanic Segmentation and Eruptive Processes at Fast-Spreading Ridges. J. Geophy. Res., v. 107,

Saal, A.E., Hauri, E.H., Langmuir, C.H., and Perfit, M.R., (2002). Vapour undersaturation in primitive mid-ocean-ridge basalt and the volatile content of Earth's upper mantle. Nature, v. 419, 451-455.

Perfit, M.R., Smith, M.C., Fornari, D.J. and others, Chemical variability and petrogenesis of lavas from the recently active segment of the East Pacific Rise, 9° 50'N. Jour. Geophys. Res., in prep.

Danyushevsky, L., Perfit, M. R., Eggins, S., and Falloon, T. (2002) Assimilation of lower crust cumulates produces "ultra-depleted" signatures in oceanic magmas: Evidence from melt inclusions in olivine phenocrysts in MORB from the Siqueiros Transform, East Pacific Rise. Contrib. Min. Pet.

Engels, J.L., Edwards, M.E., Fornari, D.J., Perfit, M.R., Kurras, G., and Bohnenstiehl, D.R. Collapse of seafloor volcanic terrain: A key process in the formation of the upper ocean crust. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. (submitted).

Ridley, W.I., Perfit, M.R., and Fornari, D.J. On magma processes at fast spreading ridges as revealed in a xenolith from the mush zone beneath the East Pacific Rise at 9°50'N. EPSL,, (in prep).

Sims, K.W.W., J. Blichert-Toft, D. J. Fornari¹, M. R. Perfit, S. Goldstein, P. Johnson, D.J. DePaolo, S. R. Hart , M.T. Murrell, P. Michael, G. Layne, L. Ball. (2003) Aberrant youth: Chemical and isotopic constraints on the origin of off-axis lavas from the East Pacific Rise, 9° - 10° N. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst.,(in revision, 02).

Sun, W., V.C. Bennett, S. M. Eggins^, R.J. Arculus and Perfit, M.R., (2003). Rhenium systematics in submarine MORB and Back-arc basin glasses: Laser ablation ICP-MS results. Chemical Geology, (in press)