Fluids in hydrothermal systems, diagenetic systems

Fluid inclusion techniques

Fracture analysis, cathodoluminescence studies

Raman spectroscopy

Ph.D. Geosciences, Virginia Tech, December 2008

M.Sc. Geosciences, Virginia Tech, May 2005

M.Sc. Geology, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, June 2002

B.Sc. Geology-Geography, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, June 2001

Postdoctoral Fellow, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin

Graduate Teaching/Research Assistant, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech (2003-2008)

Sample preparatory and microtechnical laboratory, Department of Petrology and Geochemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary (2002-2003)

Fall. A., Eichhubl, P., Cumella, S. P., Bodnar, R. J., Laubach, S. E., Becker, S. P., Testing the basin-centered gas model using fluid inclusion observations: southern Piceance Basin, Colorado. Submitted to AAPG Bulletin.

Fall, A., Tattitch, B., and Bodnar, R. J., 2011, Combined microthermometric and Raman spectroscopic technique to determine the salinity of H2O–CO2–NaCl fluid inclusions based on clathrate melting. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 75, p. 951-964.

Fall, A., Eichhubl, P., Bodnar, R. J., and Laubach, S. E., 2010, Crack-seal cementation of natural fractures recording pore fluid evolution in tight gas sandstone reservoirs (abs.), in IMA2010, 20th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, August 21–27, Budapest, Hungary, Acta Mineralogica-Petrographica Abstract Series, v. 6, p. 193.

Fall, A., Eichhubl, P., Bodnar, R. J., Becker, S. P., and Laubach, S. E., 2010, Pore fluid evolution in tight-gas sandstone reservoirs based on crack-seal cementation of natural fractures (ext. abs.), Pan-American Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (PACROFI-X) Conference, University of Nevada Las Vegas, June 8–10, Abstract Volume, p. 41–42.

Fall, A., Rimstidt, J. D., and Bodnar, R. J., 2009, The effect of fluid inclusion size on determination of homogenization temperature and density of liquid-rich aqueous inclusions: American Mineralogist, v. 94, p. 1569–1579.

Becker, S. P., Fall, A., and Bodnar, R. J., 2008, Synthetic fluid inclusions. XVII. PVTX properties of high salinity H2O-NaCl solutions (>30 wt% NaCl): application to fluid inclusions that homogenize by halite disappearance from porphyry copper and other hydrothermal ore deposits: Economic Geology, v. 103, p. 539–554.

Fall, A., Bodnar, R. J., Szabó, Cs., and Pál-Molnár, E., 2007, Fluid evolution in the nepheline syenites of the Ditrău Alkaline Massif, Transylvania, Romania: Lithos, v. 95, p. 331–345.

2008 – Geosciences Graduate Research Fellowship, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

2006 – C.G. Tillman Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

Geochemical Society

Society of Economic Geologists

American Association of Petroleum Geologists

American Geophysical Union