Russell McDuff Professor Emeritus UW School of Oceanography

Contact Information

• E-mail: mcduff@uw.edu
• Phone: Google Voice 360-453-7877
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• Digital ID Certificate (old but valid)
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Education

• B.S. with Honor, 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, School of Oceanography, University of Washington
  • 1981-1987, Research Assistant Professor
  • 1987-1988, Research Associate Professor
  • 1988-1999, Associate Professor
  • 1999-2013, Professor
  • 2013-present, Professor Emeritus
    
    
  • 1990-2004, Associate Director
  • 2004-2011 Director

Research Interests

• chemistry and physics of seafloor hydrothermal systems, scientific computing, graduate education

Oral History

• Interview by Antony Adler

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, Vice President for Academic Programs and Dean, 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), Associate Professor, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria
• Katie (Bain) Eskridge (M.S., 1997), General Manager, Asia Business Desk, Microsoft
• Christian P. Sarason (M.S., 1998)
• Scott Veirs (M.S., 1997; Ph.D., 2003), Orcasound-Listen for Whales
• Lisa Gilbert (Ph.D., 2004), Associate Professor of Geosciences and Marine Sciences, Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies Program and Williams College
• Jonathan Kellogg (M.S., 2008, Ph.D., 2011), Science Communication Coordinator, Hakai Institute
• Dax Soule (Ph.D., 2016), Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, City University of New York

Postdoctoral Associates

Former

• Fritz Stahr, Chief Technology Officer, MRV Systems; Chairman and President, Ocean Inquiry Project

Professional Societies

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

Outside Activities

• Board of Directors and Treasurer, American Friends of Whistler
• Board of Trustees and Treasurer, OceanGate Foundation
• Board of Directors and Treasurer, Ocean Inquiry Project
• President of Council, LMS 4105

Selected References

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.

T.J. Crone, W.S.D. Wilcock and R.E. McDuff (2010) Flow rate perturbations in a black smoker hydrothermal vent in response to a mid-ocean ridge earthquake swarm Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 11, Q03012, doi:10.1029/2009GC002926.

J.P. Kellogg and R.E. McDuff (2010) A hydrographic transient above the Salty Dawg hydrothermal field, Endeavour Segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., doi:10.1029/2010GC003299.