Member Since 1982
Roberta L. Rudnick
Distinguished Professor, University of California Santa Barbara
Professional Experience
University of California Santa Barbara
Distinguished Professor
2015 - Present
University of Maryland College Park
Emerita Distinguished University Professor
2000 - 2016
Education
Australian National University
Doctorate
1988
Honors & Awards
Harry H. Hess Medal
Received 2017
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Norman L. Bowen Award and Lecture
Received 2006
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Reginald Daly Lecture
Received 2006
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Publications
Heat Transfer and Production in Cratonic Continental Crust: U‐Pb Thermochronology of Xenoliths From ...

Coupled U‐Pb and trace‐element analyses of accessory phases in crustal xenoliths from the Late Devonian Udachnaya kimberlite (Siberian ...

October 19, 2022
AGU Abstracts
Coupled crustal maturation, decreasing surface temperature, and increasing δ18O of surface waters through geologic time based on triple oxygen and hydrogen isotopes of glacial diamictites
AGU 2024
study of earth's deep interior | 11 december 2024
Ilya Bindeman, Roberta L. Rudnick, Richard M. Gasc...
Oxygen, a major element in both the hydrosphere and lithosphere provides an important link between evolving lithosphere and surface waters. We presen...
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Thermochronological Constraints on Heat Production, Composition, and Formation of Lower Continental Crust
AGU 2024
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 11 december 2024
Francisco Apen, Roberta L. Rudnick
Temperatures of the lower crust and Moho are important boundary conditions for models of heat transfer and the bulk composition of continental crust. ...
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REE and Radiogenic Sr, Nd Isotopic Variability in Saprolites formed on Metadiabase: Implications for REE Mobility and Age of Saprolitization
TOPICS IN VOLCANOLOGY, GEOCHEMISTRY, AND PETROLOGY II POSTER
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 15 december 2023
Utpalendu Haldar, Ramananda Chakrabarti, Roberta L...
We report trace element concentration, 143Nd/144Nd and 87Sr/86Sr in saprolites developed on the Mesozoic subvertical, 7 m thick Cayce metadiabase dike...
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Volunteer Experience
2022 - 2023
Chair
Union Fellows Committee
2022 - 2022
Member
Honors and Recognition Committee
2013 - 2014
Union Medals Chair
Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Executive Committee
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