Rate My Professor Zeb Page

F. Zeb Page is Professor of Geosciences at Oberlin College and Conservatory, a position he has held since July 2007. He earned a BA from Macalester College in 1999, an MS from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2001, and a PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2005. Prior to joining Oberlin, Page worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Geoscience from May 2005 to June 2007. As a geochemist and metamorphic petrologist, he emphasizes undergraduate teaching and research, utilizing in situ electron- and ion-beam techniques to analyze mineral chemistry in the textural context of host rocks. His research employs high-pressure metamorphic eclogite to probe subduction zone histories, examining mineral compositions, oxygen isotope ratios, uranium-lead isotopes in garnet, zircon, and other minerals. Page also studies oxygen diffusion through zircon and garnet, and trace elements in minerals as thermometers.

Page's key publications include "Microscale Variations in Eclogite-Facies Trace Element Redistribution Controlled by Mineral Banding" (Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 2026, co-authored with Andrea Goltz and Will Hoover), "A rutile and titanite record of subduction fluids: Integrated oxygen isotope and trace element analyses in Franciscan high-pressure rocks" (Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 2023), a co-authored paper in Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (2021, with Emilie Lozier and others), "A Garnet-Zircon Oxygen Isotope Record of Subduction and Exhumation Fluids from the Franciscan Complex, California" (2013), "Anticorrelation between low ¹³C of eclogitic diamonds and high ¹⁸O of their coesite and garnet inclusions requires a subduction origin" (2013), "Ion microprobe analysis of oxygen isotopes in garnets of complex chemistry" (2010), and "Ti-in-zircon thermometry: Applications and limitations" (2008). He teaches courses including Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology (GEOS 361), Mineralogy and Optical Crystallography (GEOS 201), The Anthropocene: Human Actions, Global Consequences (FYSP 026), and Geosciences Practicum (GEOS 599).