Dr. Donggao Zhao          Associate Director      Electron Microscopy Center      University of South Carolina      715 Sumter Street, CLS 002      Columbia, SC 29208      Email: dzhao@sc.edu      Tel: (803) 777-7058/6512      Fax: (803) 777-8908      Research Assistant Professor      Department of Geological Sciences      University of South Carolina      Columbia, SC 29208

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Mineralogy, University of Michigan, 1998
• M.S., Geology, University of Alberta, Canada, 1994
• M.S., Mineralogy, Chinese Academy of Geol. Sci., China, 1988
• B.S., Geology, Nanjing University, China, 1983

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• September 2000 - Present, Technologist III/Research Assistant Professor, Electron Microscopy Center and Department of Geological Sciences, University of South Carolina
• September 1998 - August 2000, Research Fellow, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• September 1996 - August 1998, Laboratory Assistant, Electron Microbeam Anal. Laboratory (EMAL), University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan
• July 1994 - August 1998, Research Assistant, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• January 1992 - June 1994, Teaching/Research Assistant, Department of Geology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
• July 1983 - December 1991, Assistant Research Fellow/Engineer, Chinese Academy of Geol. Sci., China

INTERESTS

• Geological and material sciences to applications of geological and electron microbeam techniques to issues in environmental and nuclear engineering.  These include mantle petrology and diamond deposits, uranium mineralogy and deposits, nuclear waste management, environmental remediation, and synthetic materials (borosilicate glasses and precipitated crystals) as nuclear waste forms for the disposal of high-level nuclear waste.

HONORS & AWARDS

• Scott Turner Award, University of Michigan 1998
• Sci. and Tech. Progress Award, Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources, China 1991
• Elected Outstanding Researcher, Institute of Mineral Deposits, Chinese Academy of Geol. Sci., China 1988

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

• 2001-present: Member of the Microscopy Society of America
• 1999-present: Member of the Materials Research Society
• 1996-2004: Member of the Mineralogical Association of Canada
• 1996-present: Member of the Mineralogical Society of America
• 1993-present: Member of the American Geophysical Union
• 1991: Member of the Commission on Mineralogy, Geological Society of China
• 1990-1991: Member of the Chinese Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names
• 1990-1991: Member of the Geological Society of China
• 1989-1991: Member of the Chinese Society of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Zhang, G.X., Dong, H.L., Xu, Z., Zhao, D., and Zhang, C. (2005) Microbial diversity in ultra-high pressure rocks and fluids from the Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling in China. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Vol. 71, p. 3213-3227.
2. Wang, C.Y., Zhou, M.-F., and Zhao, D. (2005) Mineral chemistry of chromite from the Permian Jinbaoshan Pt-Pd-sulphide-bearing ultramafic intrusion in SW China with petrogenetic implications. Lithos, Vol. 83, p. 47-66.
3. Lu, A., Liu, J., Zhao, D., Guo, Y., Li, Q., and Li, N. (2004) Photocatalysis of V-bearing rutile on degradation of halohydrocarbons. Catalysis Today, vol. 90, p. 337-342.
4. Lu, A., Zhao, D., Li, J., Wang, C., and Qin, S. (2003) Application of vermiculite and limestone to desulphurization and to the removal of dust during briquette combustion. Mineralogical Magazine, vol. 67, p. 1243-1251.
5. Davis, L.L., Darab, J.G., Qian, M., Zhao, D., Palenik, C.S., Li, H., Strachan, D.M., and Li, L. (2003) Hafnium in peralkaline and peraluminous boro-aluminosilicate glass and glass sub-components: a solubility study. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, vol. 328, p. 102 –122.
6. Zhao, D., Li, L., Davis, L.L., Weber, W.J., and Ewing, R.C. (2001) Gadolinium borosilicate glass-bonded Gd-silicate apatite: A glass-ceramic nuclear waste form for weapon plutonium. Eds. K.P. Hart and G.R. Lumpkin, the Scientific Basis of Nuclear Waste Management XXIV, Vol. 663, p. 199-206.
7. Gu, B., Wang, L.M., Wang, S., Zhao, D., Rotberg, V.H., and Ewing, R.C. (2001) Effects of proton irradition in zeolite-Y. Proceedings of the Materials Research Society, Vol. 650, p. R3.16.1 – R3.16.6.
8. Zhao, D. and Ewing, R.C. (2000) Alteration Products of Uraninite from the Colorado Plateau. Radiochimica Act 88, p. 739-749.
9. Zhao, D., Davis, L.L., Li, L., Palenik, C.S., Wang, L.M., Strachan, D.M., and Ewing, R.C. (2000) Gadolinium and hafnium alumino-borosilicate glasses: Gd and Hf solubilities. In: Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 608, p. 683-689.
10. Gu, B., Wang, L.M., Wang, S., Zhao, D., Rotberg, V.H., and Ewing, R.C. (2000) The effect of H+ irradiation on the Cs-ion exchange capacity of zeolite-NaY. Journal of Material Chemistry 10, p.2610-2615.
11. Zhao, D., Essene, E.J., Zhang, Y. (1999) An oxygen barometer for rutile-ilmenite assemblages: oxidation state of metasomatic agents in the mantle. Earth And Planetary Science Letters 166 (3-4), pp. 127-137.
12. Zhao, D., Essene, E.J. and Zhang, Y., Hall, C.M., and Wang, L. (1997) Newly discovered kimberlites and mantle xenoliths from Somerset Island and Brodeur Peninsula, Canada: pressure, temperature, oxygen fugacity, volatile content and age. Economic Geology Series 1997-5. NWT Geology Division of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Canada. 105 p..
13. Zhao, D., Smith, D.G.W., Zhou, M.F., Yang, J., Deng, C., and Huang, Y. (1993) Yinniugou lamproites in Datong, northern Shanxi province, China: first occurrence in the North China craton. In: K. P. E. Dunne & B. Grant (ed.), Mid-Continent Diamonds, GAC-MAC Symposium Volume, Edmonton, Canada, Mineral Deposits Division, Geological Association of Canada. p. 139-144.
14. Huang, Y., Qin, S., Zhou, X., Deng, C., Zhao, D., Yang, J., Guo, Y., Gao, Y., and Li, G. (1992) Kimberlites and Diamonds in the North China Craton (in Chinese). Geological Publishing House, Beijing. 210 p. ISBN 7-116-00992-2/P.851.