Richard Arculus

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| birth_name = Richard John Arculus

| birth_date = 1948

| nationality = Australian

| fields = Geology
Petrology
Geochemistry

| workplaces = Australian National University

| alma_mater = Durham University

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Richard John Arculus FAusIMM is an Australian petrologist and volcanologist, formerly a professor of the School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University.{{cite web|title=Professor Richard Arculus|url=http://rses.anu.edu.au/people/richard-arculus|website=Research School of Earth Sciences|accessdate=1 May 2018|language=en|date=10 January 2014}} His research interests and areas of expertise include inorganic geochemistry, igneous petrology, metamorphic petrology, volcanology, and chemical oceanography.{{cite web|title=Professor Richard Arculus|url=https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/arculus-rj|website=Australian National University|accessdate=1 May 2018}}

Arculus graduated with a first-class degree in Geology from Durham University in 1970.{{cite book|last1=Moyes|first1=Arthur|title=Hatfield 1846-1996|publisher=Hatfield Trust|page=260}} He then earned a PhD from the same institution in 1973.Moyes, p. 261 Following his time at Durham he was a post-doctoral fellow of the Carnegie Institution for Science.{{cite web|title=Institute of Advanced Study : Professor Richard Arculus |url=https://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/fellows/0910fellows/arculus/|website=Durham University|accessdate=1 May 2018|language=en}}

Career

Through the 70s, 80s, and early 90s he held academic positions in the United States at Rice University and the University of Michigan, before moving to Australia to work at the University of New England.

Arculus joined ANU as a full professor in 1994.{{cite web|title=Richard J Arculus|url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richard_Arculus|website=ResearchGate|accessdate=1 May 2018|language=en}} He successfully campaigned for Australia to join the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program and subsequently participated in a number of research voyages on board the RV Franklin and RV Southern Surveyor. He returned to Durham in October 2009, where he was a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study through December. In 2017 he argued that volcanic eruptions could take place in Melbourne or Auckland and suggested that volcanic eruptions may have contributed to the outbreak of war in ancient Egypt.{{cite web|title=Volcanic eruptions may have contributed to war in ancient Egypt|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-10-18/volcanic-eruptions-and-the-fall-of-ancient-egypt/9059076|website=ABC News|accessdate=1 May 2018|language=en-AU|date=18 October 2017}}

Bibliography

Volcanic Arc Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

References

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