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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2005 - James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2003 - F.W. Clarke Award, Geochemical Society
  • 2003 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Paul D. Asimow is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on subfields including Geophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Materials Chemistry, Artificial Intelligence, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

Asimow's work spans multiple main topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, High-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, Astro and Planetary Science, Planetary Science and Exploration, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

The scientist has contributed to various frequent publication venues, including:

  • Lithos
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • American Mineralogist
  • Meteoritics and Planetary Science
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Among notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Asimow are:

  • Toward an international practical pressure scale: A proposal for an IPPS ruby gauge (IPPS-Ruby2020), 2020, High Pressure Research
  • Identifying high potential zones of gold mineralization in a sub-tropical region using Landsat-8 and ASTER remote sensing data: A case study of the Ngoura-Colomines goldfield, eastern Cameroon, 2020, Ore Geology Reviews
  • Moon-forming impactor as a source of Earth's basal mantle anomalies, 2023, Nature
  • Highest terrestrial 3He/4He credibly from the core, 2023, Nature
  • Water-in-olivine magma ascent chronometry: Every crystal is a clock, 2020, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Asimow include:

  • Mokhles K. Azer
  • Chi Ma
  • J. Hu
  • Ioannis Baziotis
  • Luca Bindi

Paul D. Asimow has been recognized with awards including:

  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2006
  • James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2005
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2003
  • F.W. Clarke Award, Geochemical Society, 2003

Best Publications

  • Algorithmic modifications extending MELTS to calculate subsolidus phase relations

    Paul D. Asimow;Mark S. Ghiorso

  • Temperatures in Ambient Mantle and Plumes: Constraints from Basalts, Picrites, and Komatiites

    C. Herzberg;P.D. Asimow;Nicholas Arndt;Y. Niu

  • Petrology of some oceanic island basalts: PRIMELT2.XLS software for primary magma calculation

    Claude Herzberg;P. D. Asimow

  • Adiabat_1ph: A new public front‐end to the MELTS, pMELTS, and pHMELTS models

    Paula M. Smith;Paul D. Asimow

  • The importance of water to oceanic mantle melting regimes

    Paul D. Asimow;Charles Langmuir

  • PRIMELT3 MEGA.XLSM software for primary magma calculation: Peridotite primary magma MgO contents from the liquidus to the solidus

    C. Herzberg;P. D. Asimow

  • A hydrous melting and fractionation model for mid-ocean ridge basalts: Application to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge near the Azores

    P. D. Asimow;P. D. Asimow;Jacqueline E. Dixon;C. H. Langmuir;C. H. Langmuir

  • Iron isotopes may reveal the redox conditions of mantle melting from Archean to Present

    Nicolas Dauphas;Nicolas Dauphas;Paul R. Craddock;Paul D. Asimow;Vickie C. Bennett

  • Toward an international practical pressure scale: A proposal for an IPPS ruby gauge (IPPS-Ruby2020)

    Guoyin Shen;Yanbin Wang;Agnes Dewaele;Christine Wu

  • Contrasting geochemical signatures of fluid-absent versus fluid-fluxed melting of muscovite in metasedimentary sources: The Himalayan leucogranites

    Li-E. Gao;Lingsen Zeng;Paul D. Asimow

  • Hydrogen incorporation in olivine from 2–12 GPa

    Jed L. Mosenfelder;Natalia I. Deligne;Paul D. Asimow;George R. Rossman

  • Calculation of Peridotite Partial Melting from Thermodynamic Models of Minerals and Melts, IV. Adiabatic Decompression and the Composition and Mean Properties of Mid-ocean Ridge Basalts

    Paul D. Asimow;M. M. Hirschmann;E. M. Stolper

  • Calculation of Peridotite Partial Melting from Thermodynamic Models of Minerals and Melts. III. Controls on Isobaric Melt Production and the Effect of Water on Melt Production

    M. M. Hirschmann;M. M. Hirschmann;Paul D. Asimow;M. S. Ghiorso;E. M. Stolper

  • Coupling of anatectic reactions and dissolution of accessory phases and the Sr and Nd isotope systematics of anatectic melts from a metasedimentary source

    Lingsen Zeng;Paul D. Asimow;Jason B. Saleeby

  • Calculation of peridotite partial melting from thermodynamic models of minerals and melts I. Review of methods and comparison with experiments

    M. M. Hirschmann;M. M. Hirschmann;M. S. Ghiorso;L. E. Wasylenki;P. D. Asimow

  • An analysis of variations in isentropic melt productivity

    Paul D. Asimow;M. M. Hirschmann;M. M. Hirschmann;E. M. Stolper

  • The MgSiO3 system at high pressure: Thermodynamic properties of perovskite, postperovskite, and melt from global inversion of shock and static compression data

    Jed L. Mosenfelder;Paul D. Asimow;Daniel J. Frost;David C. Rubie

  • Nd isotope disequilibrium during crustal anatexis: A record from the Goat Ranch migmatite complex, southern Sierra Nevada batholith, California

    Lingsen Zeng;Jason B. Saleeby;Paul D. Asimow

  • Identifying high potential zones of gold mineralization in a sub-tropical region using Landsat-8 and ASTER remote sensing data: a case study of the Ngoura-Colomines goldfield, Eastern Cameroon

    Jonas Didero Takodjou Wambo;Amin Beiranvand Pour;Sylvestre Ganno;Paul D. Asimow

  • Steady-state Mantle-Melt Interactions in One Dimension: I. Equilibrium Transport and Melt Focusing

    Paul D. Asimow;E. M. Stolper

  • THE EFFECT OF PRESSURE-INDUCED SOLID-SOLID PHASE TRANSITIONS ON DECOMPRESSION MELTING OF THE MANTLE

    Paul D. Asimow;M. M. Hirschmann;M. S. Ghiorso;M. J. O'Hara

  • Thermodynamic properties of Mg2SiO4 liquid at ultra-high pressures from shock measurements to 200 GPa on forsterite and wadsleyite

    Jed L. Mosenfelder;Paul D. Asimow;Thomas J. Ahrens

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas J. Ahrens
Thomas J. Ahrens California Institute of Technology
Edward M. Stolper
Edward M. Stolper California Institute of Technology
Charles H. Langmuir
Charles H. Langmuir Harvard University
John M. Eiler
John M. Eiler California Institute of Technology
Kenneth A. Farley
Kenneth A. Farley California Institute of Technology
Mark S. Ghiorso
Mark S. Ghiorso Vanderbilt University
Chi Ma
Chi Ma California Institute of Technology
George R. Rossman
George R. Rossman California Institute of Technology
Marc M. Hirschmann
Marc M. Hirschmann University of Minnesota
Mahesh Anand
Mahesh Anand The Open University

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