Rate My Professor Graham Pearson

Professor Graham Pearson is a faculty member in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta. He joined the university in 2010 as Canada Excellence Research Chair Laureate in Arctic Resources and holds the Henry Marshall Tory Chair. His research focuses on mantle geochemistry, with particular emphasis on the origin and evolution of the continental lithospheric mantle and its diamond cargo, using radiogenic isotope systems such as Re-Os and Pt-Os, trace element geochemistry, and petrology of mantle xenoliths and diamonds. Pearson earned a BSc in geology from Imperial College London and a PhD in isotope geochemistry from the University of Leeds. Prior to his appointment at Alberta, he held research positions at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the Open University, followed by fifteen years at Durham University in the United Kingdom.