Russell McDuff Professor and Director UW School of Oceanography

Contact Information

• E-mail: mcduff@ocean.washington.edu
• Phones: academic office 206-685-1947; admin office 206-543-3058
• Home Phones: 360-568-8779; 360-862-1209
• Fax: 206-374-2861
• Alternate Fax: 206-543-6073
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Education

• B.S., 1973, California Institute of Technology, Chemistry
• Ph.D., 1978, University of California at San Diego, Oceanography

Positions

• 1978-1981, Postdoctoral Fellow/Associate, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 1981-present, Faculty Member, School of Oceanography, University of Washington

  Research Interests

  • physical and chemical dynamics of hydrothermal plumes, hydrogeology of seafloor hydrothermal systems, chemical exchange between the ocean and oceanic crust, marine geochemistry, scientific computing

  Recent Projects

  • Thermal Output of a Hydrothermal System: Water Column Studies
  • Sulfide Flanges: Geological, Chemical and Biological Energetics of Exposed, Active Hydrothermal Systems
  • Use of Jason/Medea-Sea Cliff-Laney Chouest System to Study Crustal Accretionary Processes
  • Are Upflow Zones Boundaries Between Adjacent Hydrothermal Systems: Geological and Geochemical Tests
  • Coaxial Segment: Consequences of Diking Events
  • Precise Measurement of the Heat Flux from a Hydrothermal Vent System
  • Fluxes of heat and salt from Endeavour Segment vent fields: discrete measurements as a test of the sea breeze "flux meter" hypothesis
  • Image correlation velocimetry

  Teaching

  • Marine Geological Processes
  • Spatial Information Technologies
  • Communicating Ocean Science on the World Wide Web

  Graduate Students

  Former

  • Meg Tivey (Ph.D., 1989), Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  • David Butterfield (Ph.D., 1990), Research Scientist, PMEL/UW JISAO and Affiliate Associate Professor, UW School of Oceanography
  • Geoff Wheat (Ph.D., 1990), Research Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks and Regional Coordinator, West Coast and Polar Regions Undersea Research Center Office, Moss Landing CA
  • Roberta Hamme (M.S., 1995), Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria
  • Katie Bain (M.S., 1997), Business Strategy Manager, Windows Server Division, Microsoft
  • Christian P. Sarason (M.S., 1998), 3TIER Environmental Forecast Group
  • Scott Veirs (M.S., 1997; Ph.D., 2003), President, Beam Reach Marine Science and Sustainability School
  • Lisa Gilbert (Ph.D., 2004), Assistant Professor of Geosciences, Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies Program and Assistant Professor of Marine Science, Williams College

  Present

  • Jonathan Kellogg (M.S., 2008)

  Postdoctoral Associates

  Past

  • Fritz Stahr, Research Scientist and Manager, Seaglider Fabrication Center, UW School of Oceanography; Chairman and President, Ocean Inquiry Project

  Professional Societies

  American Geophysical Union, The Geochemical Society, Marine Technology Society, Canadian Ski Instructors Alliance

  Selected References

  G.J. Massoth, D.A. Butterfield, J.E. Lupton, R.E. McDuff, M.D. Lilley, and I.R. Jonasson (1989) Submarine venting of phase-separated hydrothermal fluids at Axial Volcano, Juan de Fuca Ridge. Nature, 340, 702-705.

  E.T. Baker, R.E. McDuff, and G.J. Massoth (1990) Hydrothermal venting from the summit of a ridge axis seamount: Axial Volcano, Juan de Fuca Ridge. J. Geophys. Res., 95, 12843-12854.

  D.A. Butterfield, G.J. Massoth, R.E. McDuff, J.E. Lupton, and M.D. Lilley (1990) The geochemistry of hydrothermal fluids from ASHES vent field, Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge: subseafloor boiling and subsequent fluid-rock interaction. J. Geophys. Res., 95, 12895-12921.

  M.K. Tivey and R.E. McDuff (1990) Mineral precipitation in the walls of black smoker chimneys: a quantitative model of transport and chemical reaction. J. Geophys. Res., 95, 12617-12637.

  A. Schultz, J.R. Delaney and R.E. McDuff (1992) On the partitioning of heat flux between diffuse and point source seafloor venting, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 12299-12314.

  J.R. Delaney, V. Robigou-Nelson, R.E. McDuff and M.K. Tivey (1992) Detailed geological relationships of a vigorous hydrothermal system: the Endeavour vent field, northern Juan de Fuca Ridge, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 19663-19682.

  R.E. Thomson, J.R. Delaney, R.E. McDuff, D.R. Janecky and J.A. McClain (1992) Physical characteristics of the Endeavour Ridge hydrothermal plume during July 1988, Earth Planet. Sci. Letters, 111, 141-154.

  M.D. Lilley, D.A. Butterfield, E.J. Olson, J.E. Lupton, S.E. Macko and R.E. McDuff (1993) Anomalous CH and NH+ concentrations at a mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal system: combined effects of sediments and phase separation, Nature, 364, 45-47.

  D.A. Butterfield, R.E. McDuff, M. Mottl, M.D. Lilley, G.J. Massoth and J.E. Lupton (1994) Gradients in the composition of hydrothermal fluids from the Endeavour Ridge vent field: Supercritical phase separation and brine loss. J. Geophys. Res., 99, 9561-9583.

  D.A. Butterfield, R.E. McDuff, J.M. Franklin and C.G. Wheat (1994) Geochemistry of hydrothermal vent fluids from Middle Valley, Juan de Fuca Ridge. Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 139, 395-410.

  C.G. Wheat and R.E. McDuff (1994) Hydrothermal flow through the Mariana Mounds: Diagenesis of amorphous silica and degradation of organic matter on a mid-ocean ridge flank. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 58, 2461-2475.

  C.G. Wheat and R.E. McDuff (1995) Mapping the fluid flow of the Mariana Mounds off axis hydrothermal system: pore water chemical tracers. J. Geophys. Res., 100, 8115-8131.

  R.E. McDuff (1995) Physical dynamics of deep-sea hydrothermal plumes, in S.E. Humphris, R.A. Zierenberg, L.S. Mullineaux and R.E. Thomson (eds.), Physical, chemical, biological and geological interactions in hydrothermal systems, AGU Monograph 91, pp. 357-368.

  Butterfield, D.A., I.R. Jonasson, G.J. Massoth, R.A. Feely, K.K. Roe, R.E. Embley, J.F. Holden, R.E. McDuff, M.D. Lilley and J.R. Delaney (1997) Seafloor eruptions and evolution of hydrothermal fluid chemistry, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, A, 355, 369-386.

  S. Veirs, R.E. McDuff, M.D. Lilley and J.R. Delaney (1999) Locating hydrothermal vents by detecting and modeling buoyant, advected plumes. J. Geophys. Res., 104, 29239-29247.

  R.E. Thomson, S.F. Mihaly, A.B. Rabinovich, R.E. McDuff, S.R. Veirs, F.R. Stahr (2003) Plume-induced topographically constrained circulation at Endeavour Ridge: implications for the colonisation of deep hydrothermal vents. Nature, 424, 545-549.

  S.R. Veirs, R.E. McDuff and F.R. Stahr (2006) Magnitude and variance of horizontal heat flux at the Main Endeavour hydrothermal vent field, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 7, Q02004, doi:10.1029/2005GC000952.

  L.A. Gilbert, R.E. McDuff and H.P. Johnson (2007) Porosity of the upper edifice of Axial Seamount, Geology, 35, 49-52, doi: 10:1130/G22892A.

  T.J. Crone, R.E. McDuff and W.S.D. Wilcock (2008) Optical plume velocimetry: a new flow measurement technique for use in seafloor hydrothermal systems, Experiments in Fluids, doi:10.1007/s00348-008-0508-2.

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