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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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