Molly C. McCanta is Associate Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She received her B.S. from the University of Oregon and concurrent M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Brown University. Her research focuses on the record of igneous processes retained in mineral grains as a means of better understanding geologic processes in planetary interiors. Current projects include experimentally investigating mineral and melt redox conditions as a function of planetary evolution, constraining the timing of eruptive hazards at several Costa Rican volcanoes, determining weathering geochemistry on the surface of Venus, and identifying cryptotephra layers in deep sea drill cores.
