Dave Moecher's research interests span a wide range of topics, including petrology (igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary), high temperature geochemistry (petrologic thermodynamics and phase equilibria; stable and radiogenic isotopes) and tectonics (evolution of the Appalachian and Grenville orogens; effect of deformation on mineral chemistry). Moecher teaches undergraduate courses in field methods, mineralogy, igneous and metamorphic petrology, geology field camp, and regional field trips (New England, Canada), and graduate courses in isotope geochemistry and petrotectonics. He is the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

Anderson, E.D., Moecher, D.P., Formation of high-pressure metabasites in the southern Appalachian Blue Ridge via continental subduction beneath the Laurentian margin. Tectonics, in press (01-19-09).

Clemons, K.M., Moecher, D.P., 2008. Re-interpretation of the Deformation history of the Greenbrier Fault, Great Smoky Mountains: Petrologic, structural, and geochemical constraints: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 120, in press.

Clemons, K.M., Moecher, D.P., 2008. Re-interpretation of the deformation history of the Greenbrier Fault, Great Smoky Mountains: critical assessment of previous work. Southeastern Geology, v. 45, 203-224.

Anderson, E.D., Moecher, D.P., 2007. Omphacite breakdown reactions and relation to eclogite exhumation rates. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 153, 253-277, DOI 10.1007/s00410-007-0192-x.

Moecher, D.P., Samson, S.D., 2006. Differential zircon fertility of source terranes and natural bias in the detrital zircon record: implications for sedimentary provenance analysis. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 247, 252-266.

Massey, M.A., Moecher, D.P., 2008, Preliminary bedrock geologic map of the Palmer quadrangle, Massachusetts: Office of the Massachusetts State Geologist Open File Report OFR-08-02. Scale 1:24,000. 1 sheet and digital product: Adobe PDF and ESRI ArcGIS database. PDF available at http://www.geo.umass.edu/stategeologist.

Massey, M.A.*, Moecher, D.P., 2008, Deep crustal partitioned transpression and ductile extrusion of the Monson orthogneiss, Bronson Hill-Central Maine boundary zone, south-central Massachusetts, in, Van Balen, M.R. (ed.), Guidebook to field trips in the Massachusetts and adjacent regions of Connecticut and New York: New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference 100th Annual Meeting, Trip A2, 29 pp.