{{Short description|Australian petrologist and volcanologist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Richard Arculus | image = Richard Arculus (born 1948) in the video 'What is a sustainable energy resource'.png | image_size = | caption = Giving a video lecture in 2021 | birth_name = Richard John Arculus | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1948}} | fields = Geology<br>Petrology<br>Geochemistry | workplaces = Australian National University | alma_mater = Durham University (BSc, PhD) | thesis_title = The alkali fasalt, andesite association of grenada, lesser antilles | thesis_url = https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1310/1/1310.pdf?EThOS%20(BL) | thesis_year = 1973 | doctoral_advisor = George Malcolm Brown | awards = | website = }} '''Richard John Arculus''' FAusIMM (born 1948) is an Australian petrologist and volcanologist. He is Emeritus Professor of the School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University.<ref>{{cite web|title=Professor Richard Arculus|url=http://rses.anu.edu.au/people/richard-arculus|website=Research School of Earth Sciences|accessdate=1 May 2018|language=en|date=10 January 2014}}</ref> His research interests and areas of expertise include inorganic geochemistry, igneous petrology, metamorphic petrology, volcanology, and chemical oceanography.<ref>{{cite web|title=Professor Richard Arculus|url=https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/arculus-rj|website=Australian National University|accessdate=1 May 2018}}</ref>
Arculus graduated with a first-class degree in Geology from Durham University in 1970.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Moyes|first1=Arthur|title=Hatfield 1846-1996|publisher=Hatfield Trust|page=260}}</ref> He then earned a PhD from the same institution in 1973.<ref>Moyes, p. 261</ref> Following his time at Durham he was a post-doctoral fellow of the Carnegie Institution for Science.<ref name="arculus1">{{cite web|title=Institute of Advanced Study : Professor Richard Arculus |url=https://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/fellows/0910fellows/arculus/|website=Durham University|accessdate=1 May 2018|language=en}}</ref>
==Career== Through the 70s, 80s, and early 90s he held academic positions in the United States at Rice University and the University of Michigan, before moving to Australia to work at the University of New England.<ref name=arculus1 />
Arculus joined ANU as a full professor in 1994.<ref>{{cite web|title=Richard J Arculus|url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richard_Arculus|website=ResearchGate|accessdate=1 May 2018|language=en}}</ref> He successfully campaigned for Australia to join the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program and subsequently participated in a number of research voyages on board the ''Franklin'' and ''Southern Surveyor''.<ref name=arculus1 /> He returned to Durham in October 2009, where he was a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study through December.<ref name=arculus1 /> In 2017 he argued that volcanic eruptions could take place in Melbourne or Auckland and suggested that volcanic eruptions may have contributed to the outbreak of war in ancient Egypt.<ref>{{cite web|title=Volcanic eruptions may have contributed to war in ancient Egypt|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-10-18/volcanic-eruptions-and-the-fall-of-ancient-egypt/9059076|website=ABC News|accessdate=1 May 2018|language=en-AU|date=18 October 2017}}</ref>
==Selected publications== ===Books=== * {{cite book |last=Arculus |first=Richard J. |title=Volcanic Arc Systems |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2008 |isbn=978-0521877497}}
===Articles=== * {{cite journal |last1=Arculus |first1=Richard J. |last2=Wills |first2=Kevin J. A. |title=The petrology of plutonic blocks and inclusions from the Lesser Antilles island arc |journal=Journal of Petrology |volume=21 |issue=4 |pages=743–799 |year=1980 |doi=10.1093/petrology/21.4.743}} * {{cite journal |last1=Arculus |first1=Richard J. |last2=Powell |first2=Roger |title=Source component mixing in the regions of arc magma generation |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth |volume=91 |issue=B6 |pages=5913–5926 |year=1986 |doi=10.1029/JB091iB06p05913 |url=https://www.academia.edu/download/49828668/jb091ib06p0591320161024-11540-11zqq4a.pdf}} * {{cite journal |last=Arculus |first=R. J. |title=Aspects of magma genesis in arcs |journal=Lithos |volume=33 |issue=1–3 |pages=189–208 |year=1994 |doi=10.1016/0024-4937(94)90060-4 |url=https://www.academia.edu/download/49828650/0024-4937_2894_2990060-420161024-6487-pkaefo.pdf}} * {{cite journal |last1=Parkinson |first1=Ian J. |last2=Arculus |first2=Richard J. |title=The redox state of subduction zones: insights from arc-peridotites |journal=Chemical Geology |volume=160 |issue=4 |pages=409–423 |year=1999 |doi=10.1016/S0009-2541(99)00110-2 |url=https://www.academia.edu/download/49828591/Redox_state_of_subduction_zones_Insights20161024-6487-teihmj.pdf}} * {{cite journal |last=Arculus |first=Richard J. |title=Use and abuse of the terms calcalkaline and calcalkalic |journal=Journal of Petrology |volume=44 |issue=5 |pages=929–935 |year=2003 |doi=10.1093/petrology/44.5.929}} * {{cite journal |last1=Sun |first1=Weidong |last2=Arculus |first2=Richard J. |last3=Kamenetsky |first3=Vadim S. |last4=Binns |first4=Raymond A. |title=Release of gold-bearing fluids in convergent margin magmas prompted by magnetite crystallization |journal=Nature |volume=431 |pages=975–978 |year=2004 |doi=10.1038/nature03007}}
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==External links== *{{google scholar id|hMIXShQAAAAJ}}
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