PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Professor (Tenured), Grand Valley State University (2025-present)

• Professor (Tenured), Albion College (2006-2025)

The Seymour K. & Esther R. Padnos Hall of Science # 130A
One Campus Drive Allendale, Michigan 49401-9403
Office Telephone: (616)-331-3791
Office Fax: (616)-331-3740
Electronic Mail: [email protected]

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Geology, University of California, Los Angeles (2006)

• B.S. Geology; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1999)

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• American Geophysical Union LANDInG Fellow (2021-2024)

COURSES

• GEO 214: Earth Materials

• GEO 314: Petrography

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My primary research areas are high temperature isotope geochemistry, thermodynamic modeling, geo-and thermochronology with occasional tectonic mapping. I have primarily worked in ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic terranes in the mountains of Tibet, the Himalaya and in Scandinavia. The process by which continents are formed is one of the most basic questions in geology, I use ultrahigh-pressure rocks to investigate subduction fluids that drive volcanic arcs and crustal formation. 

CASAMOON

CASAMOON

CASA Moon is a NASA SSERVI (Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute) node established in 2023. CASA Moon is a diverse, multi-generational, international team that integrates sample measurements, experimental studies, remotely collected data, and modeling to improve the level of our understanding of the geologic evolution of the Moon and to explore its resources.

casamoon.unm.edu

• CASA Moon (Grant 2024-2029): Lunar petrology and volcanology with a large, international team of scientists funded through NASA SSERVI. My subteam is working on identifying lunar volatile reservoirs.

SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE (SSERVI) - SSERVI

Solar System Exploration Research Institute (SSERVI) - SSERVI

SSERVI advances lunar and planetary science through cross-disciplinary research and collaborations, providing technical analyses for NASA programs and missions.

https://sservi.nasa.gov

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Pan, R., Macris, C.A., and Menold, C.A., 2023, Fluid evolution during burial and exhumation of the Tso Morari UHP complex, NW India: Constraints from mineralogy, geochemistry, and thermodynamic modeling, Contrib. Min. Petrol., 178:3, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-022-01982-x.

• Pan, R., Macris, C.A., and Menold, C.A., 2020, Thermodynamic modeling of high-grade metabasites: A case study using the Tso Morari UHP eclogite, Contrib. Min. Petrol., 175:78, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-020-01717-w.

• Seivers, N.E., Menold, C.A., and Grove, M., 2017, White mica trace element and boron isotope evidence for distinctive infiltration events during exhumation of deeply subducted continental crust, International Geology Review, 59, 621-638, https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2016.1219881.

• Menold, C.A., Grove, M., Seivers, N.E., Manning, C.E., Yin, A., Young, E.D., and Zeigler, K., 2016, Argon, oxygen, and boron isotopic evidence documenting 40ArE accumulation in phengite during water-rich high-pressure subduction metasomatism of continental crust, Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 446, p. 56-67, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.04.010.

• Donaldson, D.G, Webb, A.G., Menold, C.A., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., and Hacker, B.R., 2013, Petrochronology of Himalayan ultrahigh-pressure eclogite, Geology, 41, 835-838, https://doi.org/10.1130/G33699.1

RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Shearer, C.K., Simon, S.B., Bell, A., Eckley, S., Simon, J., Dottin, J., Wimpenny, J., Gaddis, L., Sharp, Z., Gargano, A., Zeigler, R.A., Jourdan, F., Cavosie, A., Nemchin, A., Zellner, N., Stopar, J., Borg, L., Norman, M., King, P., Menold, C., Armytage, R.M.G., Buckley, W.P., and Setera, J.B., 2024, A window into a high-Ti basalt magma chamber, NASA Planetary Science Conference.

• Menold, C.A., Macris, C.A., and McDowell, P. 2023, The search for a deep fluid signature in subducted continental crust using B and O isotopes in phengite from Tso Morari UHP terrane, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

• Menold, C.A., 2023, Shared Equity Leadership Toolkit to advance IDEA in Departments and Collaborative Teams, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

• McDowell, P., Menold, C., and Macris C.A., 2023, Detailed study of UHP Phengite from a 10-meter traverse, Tso Morari Terrane, India, GSA Fall Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.