Subduction Dynamics Etc... Research Group



Shear zone in the Sierran Granites

Subduction zone volcanism, Mt. Shasta

Rainbow Basin Sediments

Dunite Foliation Monocline, Josephine Ophiolite

Graduate Students

Margarete Jadamec: Geodynamic Framework for the Tectonic Trigger of Late Neogene Deformation in Southern Alaska, NSF-EAR, Tectonics program funded project through 2008.

Erin Andrews: Dynamics of Slab Detachment, NSF-EAR, Geophysics program funded project through 2008.

Undergraduate Students

Matt O'Banion (post-graduation, junior specialist): testing and wrting documenttion for the new software written by Marek Vanco to create slab surfaces from noisy point set data (earthquakes).

Alex Snyder (senior): locating appropriate marine geophysical data for flexural analysis study of plate bending in subduction zones.

Katrina Arredondo (sophomore): visualizing 3D strain patterns in subducting slabs from earthquake moment tensor solutions.

Post-Doctoral Scholars

None Currently