Billy, Laura, Arthur, & Dorsey — Fall AGU 2014
Current Group Members:
Mark D. Behn (Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Research Interests: Dynamics of faulting, magmatism and surface processes at mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; evolution of the continental crust; and ice-sheet dynamics.
Laura Stevens (MIT/WHOI Joint Program Student)
Research interests: Ice sheet dynamics, supra-glacial lake drainage, sub-glacial hydrology, ice-sheet ocean interactions, active source seismology.
William “Billy" Shinevar (MIT/WHOI Joint Program Student)
Research interests: Geodynamics, rheology and mechanical behavior of faults and shear zones, chemical evolution of the Earth’s crust.
Hannah Mark (MIT/WHOI Joint Program Student)
Research interests: Seismology, fault mechanics, plate bounday processes, and the structure and evolution of oceanic lithosphere.
Paris Smalls (MIT/WHOI Joint Program Student)
Research interests: Marine Geology and Geophysics, Hydrothermal Systems, Geodynamic Modeling.
Former Group Members:
Jean Arthur — aka "The Rifleman” — Olive (Ph.D. 2014, MIT/WHOI Joint Program; now LDEO Postdoctoral Fellow)
Research interests: Interactions between magmatic, tectonic, and surface processes at extensional plate boundaries.
Nan Zhang (WHOI Postdoctoral Investigator; now Assistant Professor Peking University)
Research interests: Magma migration, mantle structure and plume activity, plate motion history since the Paleozoic, subduction zone dynamics, evolution of the moon and Mars.
V. Dorsey Wanless (WHOI Postdoctoral Scholar; now Assistant Professor Boise State University)
Research interests: Igneous petrology, geochemistry, and the evolution of magmas.
Ikuko Wada (Margins Postdoctoral Fellow; now Assistant Professor University of Minnesota)
Research interests: Subduction zone dynamics including: megathrust earthquakes, intraslab earthquakes, mantle wedge flow, transport of volatiles, generation of melts, and arc volcanism.