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Edgar M. Parmentier is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Brown University. He earned his B.S. in Engineering Mathematics from West Virginia University in 1967, followed by an M.S. in Engineering in 1969 and a Ph.D. in Geophysics in 1975 from Cornell University. His research focuses on understanding the roles of melting, melt migration, and mantle dynamics in the long-term evolution of the interior of Earth and planetary bodies. Parmentier has held research appointments at prestigious institutions, including the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He became a full professor at Brown in 1990, where he teaches courses related to continuum physics, planetary evolution, and numerical geodynamics. His funded research spans topics such as oceanic intraplate volcanism and petrology physics of magma ocean crystallization, including collaborations with NASA. Parmentier’s work is recognized in various academic publications and he has mentored many graduate students who have gone on to hold significant academic positions.
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