David L. Bish

 Academic Background:

B.S. w/ high honors, Geology, Furman University, 1974
Ph.D., Mineralogy and Petrology, Pennsylvania State University, 1977

Experience:

1973: Research Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
1977-1980: Research Fellow, Harvard University, Department of Geological
Sciences, taught graduate clay mineralogy
1980-present: Staff Member, Geosciences, Earth & Space Sciences, and Earth
& Environmental Sciences Divisions, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Principal Investigator for Mineral Stability Studies, Principal
Investigator for Mineralogy of Transport Pathways Studies, and Technical
Coordinator for Yucca Mountain Mineralogy-Petrology studies.

Recent Publications

 

Books

J. W. Stucki and D. L. Bish, eds. (1990) Thermal Analysis in Clay Science. The Clay Minerals Society Workshop Lectures, Vol. 3, 192 pp.

D. L. Bish and D. W. Ming, eds. (2000) Mineralogy and Geology of Natural Zeolites. To be published by the Mineralogical Society of America.

Book Chapters

D. L. Bish (1992) Structure building with Rietveld analysis. Accuracy in Powder Diffraction II, Proceedings of the International Conference, May 26-29, 1992, E. Prince and J. K. Stalick, editors, NIST Special Publication 846, 154-164.

D. L. Bish and G. D. Guthrie, Jr., (1993) Mineralogy of Clay and Zeolite Dusts (Exclusive of 1:1 Layer Silicates). Chapter 4 in "Health Effects of Mineral Dusts," G. D. Guthrie, Jr., and B. T. Mossman, Eds., Reviews in Mineralogy, 28, 139-184.

S. J. Chipera, G. D. Guthrie, Jr., and D. L. Bish (1993) Preparation and Purification of Mineral Dusts. Chapter 6 in "Health Effects of Mineral Dusts," G. D. Guthrie, Jr., and B. T. Mossman, Eds., Reviews in Mineralogy, 28, 235-250.

D. L. Bish (1993) Studies of Clays and Clay Minerals Using X-ray Powder Diffraction and the Rietveld Method. Chapter 4 in "Computer Applications to X-ray Powder Diffraction Analysis of Clay Minerals", R. C. Reynolds, Jr. and J. R. Walker, Eds., CMS Workshop Lectures, 5, 79-122.

D. L. Bish (1994) Quantitative X-ray Diffraction Analysis of Soils. Chap. 9 in "Quantitative Methods in Soil Mineralogy," Soil Science Society of America Miscellaneous Publication, J. E. Amonette and L. W. Zelazny, eds., 267-295.

D. L. Bish (1995) Thermal Behavior of Natural Zeolites. In "Occurrence, Properties, and Utilization of Natural Zeolites," D. W. Ming and F. A. Mumpton, eds., 259-269.

S. J. Chipera, D. L. Bish, and B. A. Carlos (1995) Equilibrium Modeling of the Formation of Zeolites in Fractures at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. In "Occurrence, Properties, and Utilization of Natural Zeolites," D. W. Ming and F. A. Mumpton, eds., 565-577.

B. A. Carlos, S. J. Chipera, D. L. Bish, and R. Raymond (1995) Distribution of Fracture-Lining Zeolites at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. In "Occurrence, Properties, and Utilization of Natural Zeolites," D. W. Ming and F. A. Mumpton, eds., 547-563.

D. T. Vaniman and D. L. Bish (1995) The Importance of Zeolites in the Potential High-Level Radioactive Waste Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. In "Occurrence, Properties, and Utilization of Natural Zeolites," D. W. Ming and F. A. Mumpton, eds., 533-546.

Selected publications in refereed journals

D. T. Vaniman and D. L. Bish (1990) Yoshiokaite, a new Ca, Al-silicate mineral from the Moon. American Mineralogist, 75, 676-686.

C. T. Johnston, S. F. Agnew, and D. L. Bish (1990) Polarized single-crystal Fourier transform infrared microscope study of Keokuk kaolinite and Ouray dickite. Clays and Clay Minerals, 38, 573-583.

J. R. Smyth, A. T. Spaid, and D. L. Bish (1990) Crystal structures of a natural and a Cs-exchanged clinoptilolite. American Mineralogist, 75, 522-528.

D. L. Bish (1990) Long-term thermal stability of clinoptilolite: The development of a "B" phase. European Journal of Mineralogy, 2, 771-777.

S. J. Chipera and D. L. Bish (1991) Measurement of mass absorption coefficients using Compton-scattered Cu radiation in X-ray diffraction analysis. In Advances in X-ray Analysis, 34, 325-335.

S. J. Chipera and D. L. Bish (1991) Applications of X-ray diffraction crystallite size/strain analysis to Seismosaurus dinosaur bone. In Advances in X-ray Analysis, 34, 474-482.

D. L. Bish and S. J. Chipera (1991) Detection of trace amounts of erionite using X-ray powder diffraction: Erionite in tuffs of Yucca Mountain, Nevada, and central Turkey. Clays and Clay Minerals, 39, 437-445.

D. L. Bish and C. W. Burnham (1992) Rietveld refinement of the crystal structure of fibrolitic sillimanite using neutron powder diffraction data. American Mineralogist, 77, 374-379.

J. R. Walker and D. L. Bish (1992) Application of Rietveld refinement techniques to a disordered IIb Mg-chamosite. Clays & Clay Minerals, 40, 319-322.

J. F. Stebbins, C. W. Burnham, and D. L. Bish (1993) Tetrahedral disorder in fibrolitic sillimanite: Comparison of 29Si NMR and neutron diffraction data. American Mineralogist, 78, 461-464.

B. A. Carlos, S. J. Chipera, D. L. Bish, and S. J. Craven (1993) Fracture-lining manganese oxide minerals in silicic tuff, Yucca Mountain, Nevada, U.S.A. Chemical Geology, 107, 47-69.

D. L. Bish and J. L. Aronson (1993) Paleogeothermal and paleohydrologic conditions in silicic tuff from Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Clays and Clay Minerals, 41, 148-161.

D. Vaniman, D. Bish, and S. Chipera (1993) Dehydration and rehydration of a tuff vitrophyre. J. Geophys. Res., 98, 22309-22320.

D. L. Bish and C. T. Johnston (1993) Rietveld refinement and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopic study of the dickite structure at low temperature. Clays and Clay Minerals, 41, 297-304.

D. L. Bish and J. E. Post (1993) Quantitative mineralogical analysis using the Rietveld full-pattern fitting method. American Mineralogist, 78, 932-940.

D. L. Bish (1993) Rietveld refinement of the kaolinite structure at 1.5 K. Clays and Clay Minerals, 41, 738-744.

D. T. Vaniman, S. J. Chipera, and D. L. Bish (1994) Pedogenesis of siliceous calcretes at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Geoderma, 63, 1-17.

S. J. Chipera and D. L. Bish (1995) Multi-reflection RIR and Intensity Normalizations for Quantitative Analyses: Applications to Feldspars and Zeolites. Powder Diffraction, 10, 47-55.

G. D. Guthrie, Jr., D. L. Bish, and R. C. Reynolds, Jr. (1995) Modeling the X-ray Diffraction Pattern of Opal. American Mineralogist, 80 869-872.

D. L. Bish and S. J. Chipera (1995) Accuracy in Quantitative X-Ray Powder Diffraction Analyses. Advances in X-ray Analysis, 38 47-57.

A. Labouriau, Y.-W. Kim, S. Chipera, D. L. Bish, and W. L. Earl (1995) A 19F Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of Natural Clays. Clays and Clay Minerals, 43, 697-704.

J. W. Carey and D. L. Bish (1996) Equilibrium in the clinoptilolite-H2O system. American Mineralogist, 81, 952-962.

S. J. Chipera and D. L. Bish (1997) Equilibrium modeling of clinoptilolite-analcime equilibria at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Clays and Clay Minerals, 45, 226-239.

J. W. Carey and D. L. Bish (1997) Calorimetric measurement of the enthalpy of hydration of clinoptilolite. Clays and Clay Minerals, 45, 826-833.

S. J. Chipera, J. W. Carey, and D. L. Bish (1997) Controlled-Humidity XRD Analyses: Application to the Study of Smectite Expansion/Contraction. In Advances in X-ray Analysis, 39, J. Gilfrich et al., eds., Plenum Press, New York, 713-722.

C. T. Johnston, J. Helsen, R. A. Schoonheydt, and D. L. Bish (1998) Single-crystal Raman spectra of dickite. American Mineralogist, 83, 75-84.

D. Vaniman, D. Bish, D. Blake, S. A. Collins, P. Sarrazin, S. T. Elliott, and S. Chipera (1998) Landed XRD/XRF Analysis of Prime Targets in the Search for Past or Present Martian Life. Journal of Geophysical Research, Planets, 103 , No. E13 , p. 31,477-31,490.

P. Sarrazin, D. Blake, D. Bish, D. Vaniman, and S. Collins (1998) A miniature XRD/XRF instrument for in-situ characterization of Martian soils and rocks. J. Phys. IV France, 8, Pr5-465-470.

D. Bish, S. Chipera, and G. Guthrie (1999) Clays Annual Geoscience Summary, Geotimes, 44, 34-35.

D. L. Bish, W. Wu, J. W. Carey, P. Costanzo, R. F. Giese, Jr., W. Earl, and C. J. van Oss (1999) Effects of steam on the surface properties of Na-smectite. In "Clays for Our Future, Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Clay Conference, Ottawa, Canada, 1997,"H. Kodama, A. Mermut, and J. K. Torrance, eds., 569-575, ICC97 Organizing Committee, Ottawa, Canada.

D. Vaniman, S. Chipera, and D. Bish (1999) Sources of Fe in eolian and soil detritus at Exile Hill, Nevada, USA. In "Clays for Our Future, Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Clay Conference, Ottawa, Canada, 1997,"H. Kodama, A. Mermut, and J. K. Torrance, eds., 661-670, ICC97 Organizing Committee, Ottawa, Canada.

S. Chipera and D. Bish (1999) Thermodynamic modeling of natural zeolite stability. In "Clays for Our Future, Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Clay Conference, Ottawa, Canada, 1997," H. Kodama, A. Mermut, and J. K. Torrance, eds., 596-602, ICC97 Organizing Committee, Ottawa, Canada.

D. L. Bish (1999) Natural zeolites and nuclear-waste management: the case of Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA. Natural Microporous Materials in Environmental Technology, P. Misaelides et al., eds, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 177-191.

A. Langella, P. Cappelletti, G. Cerri, D. L. Bish, and M. de' Gennaro (1999) Distribution of industrial minerals in Sardinia (Italy): Clinoptilolite bearing rocks of the Logudoro region. Natural Microporous Materials in Environmental Technology, P. Misaelides et al., eds, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 237-252.

D. L. Bish and J. W. Carey (1999) Coupled X-ray powder diffraction and thermogravimetric analysis of clinoptilolite dehydration behavior. "Natural Zeolite '97: Occurrence, Properties, Use", C. Colella and F. A. Mumpton, eds., De Frede, Napoli, Italy, 1999.

Vaniman D., Bish D., Guthrie G., Chipera S., Blake D., Collins S. A., Elliott S. T., and Sarrazin, P. (1999) Process monitoring and control with CHEMIN, a miniaturized CCD-based instrument for simultaneous XRD/XRF analysis. Proc. SPIE Vol. 3769, Penetrating Radiation Systems and Applications (F. Patrick Doty; Ed.), 243-251.

P. Sarrazin, D. Blake, D. Bish, D. Vaniman, S. Chipera, S.A. Collins and S.T. Elliott (2000) In Situ Investigation of Ices and Hydrous Minerals at the Lunar Poles Using a Combined X-Ray Fluorescence and Diffraction Instrument. J. Physique, in press.

C. T. Johnston, D. L. Bish, J. Eckert, and L. A. Brown (2000) Vibrational spectroscopic study of the 1.03 and 0.95 nm kaolinite-hydrazine intercalation complexes. J. Phys. Chem. B, 104, 8080-8088.

Z. Shen, D. Bosbach, M. F. Hochella, Jr., D. L. Bish, M. G. Williams, R. F. Dodson, and A. E. Aust (2000) Using in vitro iron deposition on asbestos to model asbestos bodies formed in human lung. Chemical Research in Toxicology, ASAP article 10.1021, 9 pp..

Professional Affiliations and Honors

Jackson Clay Scientist Award, Clay Minerals Society, 1995

Fellow, Mineralogical Society of America

Post-doctoral fellowship, Department of Geological Sciences, Harvard University,
1977-1980

Xerox Award for Research in Materials Science, 1977

The Clay Minerals Society: Council member, Vice-President elect, Member Program
Advisory Committee, Member and Chair, Policy and Administration Committee, Member
of the Contributions and Membership Committee, Liaison to the Mineralogical
Society of America, Chair, Electronic Communications Committee, Member of the
Nomenclature Committee, Member Editor search Committee.

Mineralogical Society of America: Member of Committee on Committees, Organizer
of 1989 Mineralogical Society of America Short Course on Advanced Powder
Diffraction Methods, Liaison to The Clay Minerals Society, Joint Technical
Program Representative to the Geological Society of America.

Associate Editor
-The American Mineralogist
-Clays and Clay Minerals

The Clay Minerals Society
Mineralogical Society of America
International Association for the Study of Clay Minerals
American Geophysical Union