Professor
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Lithos
Trace element and isotope geochemistry, geodynamics, anorthosite petrogenesis, Archean crustal evolution, ophiolites
School of the Environment
University of Windsor
401 Sunset Avenue
Windsor, Ontario, N9B 3P4, Canada
(519) 253-3000 x2498
Room 212 Memorial Hall
polat@uwindsor.ca
Education
- B.Sc. Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey, 1988
- M.Sc. University of Houston, Texas, U.S.A., 1992
- Ph.D. University of Saskatchewan, Canada, 1998
Editorial Board Memberships
- Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2013-2019
- Member of the Editorial Board, Lithos, 2008-2022
- Member of the Editorial Board, Geoscience Frontiers, 2012-2016
- Member of the Editorial Board, Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 2013-2015
- Member of the Editorial Board, Geology, 2013-2014
- Member of the Editorial Board, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2008-2012
Awards & Recognition
- China University of Geosciences at Wuhan, Visiting Distinguished Professor, 2018
- Elected to the Science Academy (Turkey), November 2016
- Faculty Performance Award, Faculty of Science, University of Windsor, 2015
- Outstanding Faculty Research Award, University of Windsor, 2015
- People’s Republic of China Chang Jiang Scholar Award, 2015
- Geological Association of Canada, W.W. Hutchison Medal, 2014
- Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing, Precambrian Research, 2013
- Faculty Performance Award, Faculty of Science, University of Windsor, 2012
- Exceptional Reviewer for Geology in 2012
- Exceptional Reviewer for Geology in 2011
- Tectonophysics most cited article award 2005 to 2010, 2011
- Faculty of Science Dean’s Special Recognition Award, University of Windsor, 2010
- Faculty of Science Certificate of Appreciation Award, University of Windsor, 2009
- Faculty of Science Dean’s Special Recognition Award, University of Windsor, 2007
- Research and Scholarship Excellence-Canada Foundation for Innovation New Opportunity Fund, University of Windsor, 2003
- Research and Scholarship Excellence-Premier’s Research Excellence Award, University of Windsor, 2003
- Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, Max-Planck-Institute, für Chemie Mainz, Germany, 1998-2000
- Max-Planck Society Fellowship, Max-Planck-Institute, für Chemie, Mainz, Germany, 2000-2002
Courses
- ESCI-1010: Our Changing Earth
- ESCI-1020: Introduction to Planetary Science
- ESCI-2010: Geology and the Environment
- ESCI-2411: Introduction to Petrology
- ESCI-2421: Soils and Sediments
- ESCI-3806: Global Perspectives in Science: Iceland
- ESCI-8400: Advanced Topics in Igneous Petrology and Global Tectonics
- ESCI-8420: Research Methods in Geochemistry
- ESCI-8800: Graduate Seminar
Ongoing Research Projects
- Petrogenesis and geodynamic setting of Archean anorthosite-bearing layered intrusions in Canada and Greenland
- Petrogenesis and geodynamic origin of Archean greenstone belts and associated granitoids in Canada and China
- Origin of lithospheric mantle xenoliths in the Canadian Cordillera, British Columbia
- Petrogenesis of Proterozoic ophiolitic and granitic rocks in the Yangtze Craton, southern China
- Origin of Paleozoic ophiolites and mélanges in the Altaid orogenic system, northern China
- Kimberlite and carbonatite petrogenesis, Ontario, Canada
Publications
- Polat, A., 2014. A review of the geodynamic significance of hornblende-bearing ultramafic rocks in the Mesoarchean Fiskenæsset Complex, SW Greenland. In: Dilek, Y., Furnes, H. (Eds.), Evolution of Archean Crust and Early Life. Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences 7, Springer, pp. 127-148.
- Polat, A., Kerrich, R., Windley, B.F., 2009. Archean crustal growth processes in the southern Superior Province and southern West Greenland: geodynamic and magmatic constraints. In: Cawood, P. and Kröner, A. (Eds.), Accretionary Orogens in Space and Time, Geological Society of London, Special Publication 318, 155-191.
- Polat, A., Frei, R., Appel, P.W.U., Fryer, B., Dilek, Y., Ordóñez-Calderón, J.C., 2008. An overview of the lithological and geochemical characteristics of the Mesoarchean (ca. 3075 Ma) Ivisaartoq greenstone belt, SW Greenland. In: Pease, V., Condie, K.C. (Editors), When Did Plate Tectonics Begin on Planet Earth? Geological Society of America, Special Paper 440, 51-76.
- Polat, A., Kerrich, R., 2006. Reading the Geochemical Fingerprints of Archean Hot Subduction Volcanic Rocks: Evidence for Accretion and Crustal Recycling in a Mobile Tectonic Regime. In: Benn, K., Mareschal, J.C., Condie, K.C. (Eds.), Archean Geodynamics and Environments, American Geophysical Union Geophysical Monograph Series 164, 189-213.
- Polat, A., Hofmann, A.W., Appel, P.W.U., 2004. Geochemical diversity in volcanic rocks of the 3.7-3.8 Ga Isua greenstone belt, SW Greenland: Implications for Mantle Composition. In: P. Eriksson et al. (Eds.), Tempos and events in Precambrian Time, Development in Precambrian Geology, volume 12, Elsevier, pp.74-88.
- Polat, A., Kerrich, R., 2004. Precambrian arc associations: Boninites, adakites, magnesian andesites, and Nb-enriched basalts. In: T.M. Kusky (Ed.), Precambrian Ophiolites and Related Rocks, Development in Precambrian Geology, volume 13, Elsevier, pp. 567-597.
- Kusky, T.M., Ganley, R., Lytwyn, J., Polat, A., 2004. The Resurrection Peninsula ophiolite, mélange and accreted flysch belts of southern Alaska as an analog for trench-forearc systems in Precambrian orogens. In: T.M. Kusky (Ed.), Precambrian Ophiolites and Related Rocks, Development in Precambrian Geology, volume 13, Elsevier, pp. 625-670.
- Li, J., Kusky, T., Niu, X., Jun, F., Polat, A., 2004. Neoarchean massive sulfide of Wutai Mountain, North China: a back smoker chimney and mound complex within 2.50 Ga-old oceanic crust. In: T.M. Kusky (Ed.), Precambrian Ophiolites and Related Rocks, Development in Precambrian Geology, volume 13, Elsevier, pp. 339-362.