Department of Earth Sciences
Bryand Global Sciences Center
University of Maine
Orono, ME
04469
Phone (207) 827-6508
E-mail
malissa.washburn@umit.maine.edu
Malissa Washburn
Objective
MSc in Earth Sciences with a concentration in Economic Geology
Education
1994-1998
1998-1999
2003-present
Awards
Received
Skills and
Experience
Canton High School
Canton, CT
Utica College of Syracuse University
Utica, NY
University of Maine
Current GPA: 3.9/4.0
BS Earth Sciences (Spring 2006)
Orono, ME
Estwing Outstanding Mineralogy Student Award
2003
Work Merit Award
2004, 2006
Herbert Woodbrey Student Scholarship
2004
University of Maine Grant
2003, 2004, 2005
Trefethen Memorial Scholarship
2004
Julius H. Kritter Scholarship
2004-2005
Oscar T. Turner Scholarship
2005
Kupfer Field Camp Scholarship
2005
Brunton Outstanding Senior Award
2005
Dean’s List
2003-2005
Wheelden-Bassett Scholarship
2006
Summer field assistant – bedrock mapping
2003-2004
Experience making thin sections
2004-present
Sm-Nd isotope study (column chemistry, mass spec)
July 2005
Electron Microprobe study
December 2005
Web design for University of Maine Geodynamics Group
September 2005present
Abstracts
M. Washburn, W. G. Groome, P. O. Koons, and S. E. Johnson; 2004. Thermal
modeling of melt-fraction gradients in migmatites of the Presidential Range,
New Hampshire: Eos Trans. AGU, 85(17), Joint Assembly Supplement,
Abstract V23B-03.
M. Washburn, S. E. Johnson, P. Upton, P. O. Koons; 2005. Numerical
modeling of fluid pressure gradients in anisotropic rocks undergoing
heterogeneous deformation: Northeastern Section GSA 40th Annual Meeting,
Saratoga Springs, NY, Abstract 19-22.
M. Washburn, S. E. Johnson, S. E., Koons, P. O., and Upton, P.; 2005.
Numerical modeling of deformation-driven fluid pressure gradients in a
mechanically heterogeneous medium: GAC-MAC-CSPG-CSSS Halifax 2005
Program Volume 30, Abstract SS14-45.
M. Washburn, W. G. Groome, P. O. Koons, S. E. Johnson, R. J. Walker, and
D. R. Lux; 2006. Relationships between migmatites of the Silurian Rangeley
Formation and the Wildcat Granite: New Hampshire, USA: Northeastern
Section GSA 41st Annual Meeting, Harrisburg, PA, Abstract 100532.