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usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   status_code: 200
   timestamp: '2023-09-30T16:49:52.699351'
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/danielle-a-olinger
 profile:
   abstracts: []
   affiliations:
   - Geochemical Society
   - Volunteer Education Coordinator for Mines Museum of Earth Science
   education:
   - M.S. Geology, Texas Tech University, 2012
   - B.S. Geology, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 2009
   email: dolinger@usgs.gov
   expertise_terms:
   - igneous petrology
   - economic geology
   - exploration
   - carbonatites
   - rare earth element deposits
   honors:
   - 2020, President, Friends of the Mines Museum
   intro_statements:
   - Danielle Olinger is a geologist with the Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry
     Science Center.
   name: Danielle A Olinger
   name_qualifier: null
   orcid: 0000-0001-8375-5852
   organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/gggsc
   organization_name: Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center
   personal_statement: 'During her undergraduate experience, Danielle worked as an
     excavator at the Big Pig Dig in the Badlands National Park; helped create, organize,
     and facilitate outreach events for the SDSM&T Geology Museum; completed 6 weeks
     of field camp hosted in central Turkey; and completed a senior thesis characterizing
     exoskarns and endoskarns collected in the Kirikkale Province of central Turkey.
     After completing her undergraduate degree, Danielle worked as a consulting geologist
     for Rare Element Resources (RER) on their Bear Lodge Alkaline Complex rare earth
     element exploration project. Through the financial support of RER, Danielle
     attended graduate school where she worked on many tasks including: characterizing
     carbonatite and alkaline silicate units of the Bear Lodge Alkaline Complex;
     using trace element variations in minerals to understand magmatic cycling in
     the Pecos Mafic Intrusive Complex, Texas; operating analytical equipment for
     geochemical analysis (WDXRF, ICP-OES, ICP-MS, LA-ICP-MS); teaching the Mineralogy
     and Petrology laboratory sections which involved revamping lesson plans and
     assignments; and thermodynamically modeling the role of water in the formation
     of migmatite at the Ballachulish Metamorphic Complex, Scotland.Research InterestsDanielle
     is interested in igneous petrology as it relates to understanding ore deposits.
     Her current research focuses on characterizing the processes and conditions
     for the formation of carbonatite-hosted rare earth element deposits using a
     variety of methods including: optical petrography, fluid inclusion microthermometry,
     RAMAN spectroscopy, laser ablation ICP-MS, whole-rock geochemistry, and microbeam
     analysis (SEM, microprobe).'
   professional_experience:
   - September 2018 - present, Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Lakewood, CO
   - September 2014 - September 2018, Physical Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey,
     Lakewood, CO
   - September 2010 - May 2014, Teaching/Research Assistant, Texas Tech University,
     Lubbock, TX
   - August 2009 - December 2011, Consulting Geologist, Rare Element Resources, Ltd.,
     Sundance, WY
   title: Geologist