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<a href=http://www.lanl.gov:52271/?092060><H2>Bish
David L.</H2></a>
<H3>Academic Background:</H3>
B.S. w/ high honors, Geology, Furman University, 1974
Ph.D., Mineralogy and Petrology, Pennsylvania State
University, 1977
<H3>Experience:</H3>
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.
<H3>Recent Publications</H3>
D. L. Bish (1995) Thermal Behavior of Natural Zeolites. In <U><I>Occurrence,
Properties, and Utilization of Natural Zeolites</I></U>, D. W. Ming and F. A. Mumpton,
eds., (in press).
D. L. Bish and S. J. Chipera (1995) Accuracy in Quantitative X-ray Powder
Diffraction Analyses. Advances in X-ray Analysis,
<B>38</B> (in press).
G. D. Guthrie, Jr., D. L. Bish, and R. C. Reynolds, Jr. (1995) Modeling the X-ray
Diffraction Pattern of Opal. <I><U>American
Mineralogist</U></I>, <B>80</B> (in press).
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 and J. L. Aronson (1993) Paleogeothermal and paleohydrologic
conditions in silicic tuff from Yucca Mountain, Nevada. <U><I>Clays</I></U>
<U><I>and</I></U> <U><I>Clay</I></U>
<U><I>Minerals</I></U>, <B>41</B>,
148-161.
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, <B>5</B>,
79-122.
D. Vaniman, D. Bish, and S. Chipera (1993) Dehydration and rehydration of a tuff
vitrophyre. <U><I>J.</I></U>
<U><I>Geophys.</I></U><U><I>
Res.</I></U>, <B>98</B>, 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.
<U><I>Clays</I></U> <U><I>and</I></U> <U><I>Clay</I></U> <U><I>Minerals</I></U>,
<B>41</B>, 297-304.
D. L. Bish and J. E. Post (1993) Quantitative mineralogical analysis using the
Rietveld full-pattern fitting method. <U><I>American</I></U>
<U><I>Mineralogist</I></U>, <B>78</B>,
932-940.
D. L. Bish (1993) Rietveld refinement of the kaolinite structure at 1.5 K. <U><I>Clays</I></U>
<U><I>and</I></U> <U><I>Clay</I></U>
<U><I>Minerals</I></U>, <B>41</B>,
738-744.
J. W. Stucki and D. L. Bish, eds. (1990) <U><I>Thermal Analysis in Clay Science</I></U>.
The Clay Minerals Society Workshop Lectures, Vol.
3, 192 pp.
D. L. Bish and J. E. Post, eds. (1989) <U><I>Modern Powder Diffraction</I></U>. Mineralogical
Society of America Reviews in Mineralogy, Vol. 20,
369 pp.
<H3>Professional Affiliations and Honors</H3>
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
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