Staff Profile

Kyle Dayton

Preferred Name: Kyle Dayton

Postdoctoral Scholar

Geology & Geophysics

Email: kyle.dayton@whoi.edu

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Some Info Kyle is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Geology & Geophysics, studying critical element deposit formation and global volatile cycles through geochemistry.

Education

Ph.D. in Geological Sciences (Geochemistry), Cornell University. Use of melt and fluid inclusions to elucidate magma plumbing systems and the role of volatiles in volcanic systems. Doctoral advisor: Esteban Gazel. B.S. in Geology. State University of New York at New Paltz

Research Statement

I study the geochemical variation within minerals, melts, and fluids to understand the geologic processes that drive volcanism and control high-temperature ore deposit formation.

I am extremely passionate about mineralogy and mineral collections, working as a collections assistant at the American Museum of Natural History and extensively with the Cornell University collection. I value the irreplaceable geological information that is preserved within museum collections and aim to utilize specimens from collections in my research whenever possible.

I am currently dual-appointed at Cornell University, where I am studying Microbe-Mineral interactions within ore deposits (REE, PGE, MVT, Porphyry) across the United States.