Juan Carlos de Obeso
UPDATES
April-May 2024 - Prof. de Obeso completed his last tour of MSA lectures. He gave talks at Whitman College, William & Mary and Montana State University.
April 2024 - As part of the MSA Lecture Series Prof. de Obeso gave talks at the University of Kentucky, the University of Illinois Chicago and the University of Tennessee.
March 2024 - The Wilkes Center for Climate Change and Policy at the University of Utah awarded Juan Carlos a seed grant to conduct experiments on low temperature serpentinization.
March 2024 - Juan Carlos gave his first set of lectures as part of the MSA Distinguished Lecture Series. He visited Western Michigan University, the American Museum of Natural History and Binghamton University.
December 2023 - Two new papers are out in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. First one on Uranium isotopes in serpentinites. Second on fate of subducted carbon during alteration with the mantle wedge.
August 2023 - Juan Carlos accepted an invitation to be a Mineralogical Society of America Distinguished Lecturer for 2023-2024.
ABOUT ME
I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Utah Department of Geology and Geophysics. If you are interested in working on fluid-rock interactions contact me. My work focuses on hydrothermal alteration of peridotites/basalts using natural samples and novel experimental techniques.
I worked as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Reactive Transport Group of the Department of Geoscience at the University of Calgary from 2020 to 2022. In Calgary I worked on experimental basalt carbonation as part of the Solid Carbon project. Solid Carbon is an ambitious project to permanently and safely sequester carbon dioxide (CO2) as rock.
I am a member of the Oman Drilling Project science team working with cores from different boreholes to understand past and modern serpentinization and carbonation of mantle peridotite in the Sultanate of Oman.
Contact:
Department of Geology and Geophysics
University of Utah
Frederick Albert Sutton Building
115 S 1460 E
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0102
juancarlos.deobeso@utah.edu
