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Biography of Professor John Winter

John D. Winter was born in Winnetka, Illinois. He received his B.S. degree in geology at the University of Illinois at Urbana and his M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Washington in Seattle. His principal fields of interest are in metamorphic petrology, mineralogy and crystallography, and geochemistry. He has spent several summers in Greenland and Labrador where he studied processes that take place during the formation and subsequent development of the ancient deep continental crust. He is also working on contact metamorphism in the Wallowa Mountains of NE Oregon and writing a textbook on Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. He has also worked as an exploration geologist in New Guinea.

Outside the classroom, John's interests include travel, mountaineering, hiking, mountain biking, and telemark skiing. He lives in the Blue Mountains outside Walla Walla with his wife, Deborah. They own a dog (Max) and a cat (Morbin).

Send John e-mail (winterj@whitman.edu).

Selected Publications:

The Proterozoic Nagssugtoqidian mobile belt of southeast Greenland: A link between the eastern Canadian and Baltic Shields. Bridgwater, D., Austrheim, H., Mengel, F., Pedersen, S., and Winter, J. Geoscience Canada, 17, 305-310.

Research on the Archean rocks of Northern Labrador, Progress Report, 1989. Bridgwater, D., Mengel, F., Schiotte, L., and Winter, J. in Current Research (1990) Newfoundland Department of Mines and Energy, Geological Survey Branch, Report 90-1, p 227-236.

Deformation and mass-transport in the Nordre-Stromfjord shear zone, central West Greenland. Sorensen, K. and Winter, J.D. in Fluid Movements, Element Transport, and the Composition of the Deep Crust. D. Bridgwater. ed., ASI, 1988

The thermal expansion and high temperature crystal chemistry of the Al2SiO5 polymorphs. Winter and Ghose. Am. Mineral. 64, 573-586, 1979

A high temperature structural study of high albite, monalbite and the analbite-monalbite phase transition. Winter, Okamura, and Ghose. Am. Mineral. 64, 409-423. 1979.

A high temperature study of the thermal expansion and the anisotropy of the sodium atom in low albite. Winter, Okamura, and Ghose, Am. Mineral. 62, 921-931. 1977.

Skarn formation associated with the Wallowa Batholith, NE Oregon. Winter, J. GSA Annual Meeting. San Diego. 1991, Abstr.

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