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Spring 2005 Meeting
Samantha Grandi Massachusetts Institute of Technology In Situ Stress Field From Borehole Measurements and Plate Tectonic Models
Fall 2004 Meeting
Richard Heermance University of California Santa Barbara Tertiary Deformation in the Kashgar Basin, Southern Margin of the Tian Shan, China
J. Bruce Shyu California Institute of Technology Millennial Slip Rate of the Longitudinal Valley Fault, a Major Element of Taiwan's Tandem Suturing
Nancy Mahlen University of Wisconsin-Madison Trace- and major-element zoning in garnets from eclogites of the Zermatt-Saas ophiolite, western Alps: LA-ICP-MS data and implications for Lu-Hf geochronology
Teresa Lassak Arizona State University Seismic Characterization of Mantle Flow in Subduction Systems: Can We Resolve a Hydrated Mantle Wedge?
Hiroyuki Noda Kyoto University Numerical simulation of rupture propagation with thermal pressurization based on measured hydraulic properties :Importance of deformation zone width
Catherine Cooper Rice University Thrust Stacking and the Creation and Preservation of Cratonic Lithosphere
Philip Skemer Yale University Development and application of a new method for calculating the strength of lattice-preferred orientation (LPO)
Lara Wagner University of Arizona Black upper mantle beneath the Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina?  Results from seismic tomography.
David Cornwell University of Leicester Crustal Structure From EAGLE Teleseismic and Gravity Studies Across the Northern Main Ethiopian Rift
Martin Wong UC Santa Barbara Evidence for Early Crustal Thickening, Poly-phase Oligo-Miocene Extension, and Footwall Rotation at the Sierra Mazatan Metamorphic Core Complex, Sonora, Mexico
William Amidon Univeristy of California Santa Barbara Assemblage of Foreland Mineral Populations: Insights From Basin-Scale Mixing of U-Pb Zircon Ages
Tye Numelin The Pennsylvania State University Evidence for Quaternary Slip on a Low Angle Normal Fault: Searles Valley, CA
Spring 2004 Meeting
Pascal Audet GEOTOP-UQAM-McGILL Mechanical anisotropy of the lithosphere in the Canadian Shield
Neil Hurst University of Liverpool Predicting Rifted Continental Margin Subsidence History From Satellite Gravity Derived Crustal Thinning: Application to North Atlantic Margins
H Claire Perry Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris Particular Mantle Dynamics Induced by Continental Roots
Sarah Zaranek Brown University Effects of basal drag and ablation on the evolution of cratonic lithosphere
Fall 2003 Meeting
Sinan Akciz Massachusetts Institute of Technology Gaoligong and Chong Shan Shear Zones, Yunnan, and Accommodation of the Northward Movement of India Relative to Indochina During the Mid-Cenozoic
Joseph Colgan Stanford University Extensional Domains of the Northwestern Basin and Range Province
Matthew d'Alessio University of California, Berkeley Estimates of slip rates on Bay Area faults from space geodetic data
Oyvind Engen University of Oslo Opening of the Arctic-North Atlantic Gateway
Noah Finnegan University of Washington Preliminary results of 10Be analyses from the eastern Himalayan syntaxis: evidence for unsteady erosion on two spatial scales
Christian Liebske Universitat Bayreuth Compositional Effects of Trace Element Partitioning Between Mg-Silicate Perovskite and Silicate Melt
Zhen Liu University of California, Los Angeles Kinematic Modeling of Neotectonic Velocity Field of the Persia-Tibet-Burma Orogen
Estelle Mortimer University of Edinburgh Episodic Accelerations in Extensional Fault Displacement Rate Determined From Reconstructed Delta Architectures: Loreto Basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Heather Paul University of Victoria, Canada Constraining the Extent and Duration of Low Temperature Alteration in Pacific Ocean Crust
Christie Rowe University of California, Santa Cruz The Upper Aseismic to Seismic Transition: A Silica Mobility Threshold
Franck Valli Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris New age constraints on the evolution of the Karakorum Fault, West Tibet
Valerie Vidal Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris On the Small-Scale Morphology of Asthenospheric Flow
Chih-Ching Barry Yang National Taiwan University, Taiwan Active deformation front delineated by a blind thrust underneath the coastal plain, Southwestern Taiwan
Spring 2003 Meeting
Philip Ball Royal Holloway, Univ London Constraints on continental break-up within the Great Australian Bight from gravity and magnetic data analyses
Maggie Benoit Pennsylvania State University Upper mantle seismic structure beneath East Africa
Mike Braun Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Geochemical signatures of focused melt flow in dunites
Joe English University of British Columbia Thermal modelling of Laramide magmatism: testing the flat-subduction hypothesis
Richard Katz Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Toward computational models of magma genesis and geochemical transport in subduction zones
Anne Socquet Ecole Normale Superieure Paris Cenozoic to active deformation in Western Yunnan
Fall 2002 Meeting
Edwin Apel University of Idaho Transpressional Strain Partitioning and the Compatibility of GPS Velocities and Earthquakes Focal Mechanisms in the Aleutian Arc
Naomi Boness Stanford University Controls on Seismic Velocity Anisotropy in the Crust Near the San Andreas Fault Zone at Parkfield, CA: Inferences from the SAFOD Pilot Hole
Andrew Bullock Southampton University Serpentized Mantle at Rifted Margins: The Goban Spur Example
Buffy Cushman University of Hawaii at Manoa Hydrous Melting Creates Lower Mean F at the Galapagos Spreading Center - Modeling Results from a Major and Volatile Element Study
Brian Darby University of Southern California Extensional Collapse of a Mesozoic Intraplate Fold-and-Thrust Belt, Daqing Shan, Inner Mongolia, China
Tristam Hales University of Oregon Estimates of Erosion Rates for the Central Southern Alps, New Zealand
Bryan Kerr Stanford University Seismic Stratigraphy of Detroit Seamount: Observations from ODP Leg 197
Elena Miranda University of Wyoming Structural Development of an Oceanic Detachment Fault System, Atlantic Bank, Southwest Indian Ridge
Adrienne Oakley University of Hawaii at Manoa Multi-channel Seismic Images of the Mariana Forearc: EW0202 Initial Results
Catherine Rychert Brown University Teleseismic Scattering from the Base of the Lithosphere and Other Mantle Discontinuities from NE North America
John Sigda New Mexico Tech Conduits to Catchments: Deformation Band Faults in Arid and Semi-arid Vadose Zone Sands
Kurt Sternlof Stanford University Numerical Modeling of Compactive Deformation Bands as Granular Anti-Cracks
Emily Van Ark Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Time Variation of the Hawaii-Emperor Hotspot Volumetric and Buoyancy Fluxes: Constraints from Residual Bathymetric and Gravity Anomalies
Rhian Waller Southampton University A New Species of Demospongiae from the Calyfield Vent Site on the Galapagos Rift
Yu Wang National University of Taiwan The Active Tectonic Features in the Taoyuan Area, Northwestern Taiwan

Commended Students
Sylvie Demouchy Universitaet Bayreuth, Germany
Philip Skemer Yale University
Veronika Vajdova SUNY Stony Brook
Mark Averill UTEP
Luc Mehl UC Santa Barbara
Michael Jakuba Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institute
Clare Balasko University of Nevada - Reno
Ivana Novosel University of Victoria, British Columbia
Miho Asado Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo
Sara Bier Penn State University

Spring 2002 Meeting
Ashley R. Streig Central Washington University Evidence for Prehistoric Coseismic Folding Along the Tsaotun Segment of the Chelungpu Fault Near Nan-Tou, Tawian: Seismic Hazard Along Active Fold Scarps

Fall 2001 Meeting
Auke Barnhoorn ETH-Zurich, Geology Dept. The Role of Recrystallization on the Deformation Behaviour of Calcite Rocks: High Strain Torsion Experiments on Carrara Marble
Youcef Bouzidi University of Alberta Porous Material Characterization Using Large Ultrasonic Beams: Velocity and Attenuation Estimates of the Biot Fast and Slow P-waves
Cristiano Collettini Piazza dell' Universitá A Comparison of Structural Data and Seismic Images For Low-Angele Normal Faults in the Northern Apennines (Central Italy): Constraints on Geometry and Activity
James V. Grant University of Idaho The Evolution of Fracture Swarms Induced by Subsurface Normal Faults in Basalt Lava Flows, Southwest Iceland
Dorthe M. Hansen Cardiff University of Wales The Development of Intersection Geometries in Sill Complexes
Toshihiro Ike Ocean Research Institute A Three-Dimensional Reflection Seismic Investigation of Seismogenic Zone, in the eastern Nankai accretionary prism
Richard F. Katz Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory A New Parameterization of Hydrous/Anhydrous Melting For Use in Numerical Models of Magma Genesis in Subduction Zones
Wilfred Yeherembugia Lus University of Papua New Guinea Papuan Ultramafic Belt (PUB) Ophiolite: Field Mapping, Petrology, Mineral chemistry, Geochemistry, Geochronology, And Experimental Studies Of The Metamorphic Sole
Donna J. Shillington University of Wyoming Crustal Structure and Composition of the Newfoundland Nonvolcanic Rifted Margin on the Future ODP Leg 210 Drilling Transect
Joan F. Steurer University of Missouri at Columbia Diagenesis at the Nankai Trough: Implications for Mechanical Properties and Updip Limit of the Seismogenic Zone
Xinlei Sun University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign PKP travel times at near antipodal distances: Implications for inner core anisotropy and lowermost mantle structure
Michael H. Taylor IGPP University of California Coeval North-South Shortening and East-West Extension in Central Tibet
Hrvoje Tkalcic UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory Lateral Heterogeneity in D": Constraints From PKP and PcP Travel Time Data

Spring 2001 Meeting
M. Kathleen Davis, P. Fumagalli, and L P Stixrude Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, USA In-situ Raman spectroscopy of the SiO2-H2O system at elevated pressure and temperature
Arda Atilla Ozacar and A Kocyigit Geological Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Neotectonic Significance of the Dombayova Graben, SW Turkey
Kevin Uno and D M Bice Geology, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, USA Upper Cretaceous Paleomagnetism from Umbria, Italy: "Anchored" Poles set Proposed True Polar Wander Event Adrift

Fall 2000 Meeting
Emily Brodsky Caltech
Alexander Bump University of Arizona
Todd Ehlers University of Washington
Christopher Fuller University of Washington
James Grant University of Idaho
James Hodgson DIAS, Dublin, Ireland
Christina Rodriguez University of Texas at El Paso
Sang-Heon Shim Princeton Univ
Zachary Washburn Arizona State Univ
Arlo Weil University of Michigan
Scott Wilkins University of Nevada at Reno

Spring 2000 Meeting
Mark D. Behn, Jian Lin, and Maria Zuber MIT/WHOI Joint Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Spatial Variations in Oceanic Plate Rheology and Their Effects on Lithosphere Dynamics of Mid-Ocean Ridge Spreading Segments
James Conder, Donald W Forsyth, and E Marc Parmentier Geological Sciences, Brown University Models of Mantle Flow and the Asymmetry of the East Pacific Rise, MELT Area
Lucy Flesch, William E Holt, A John Haines, and Bingming Shen-Tu Earth and Space Sciences, SUNY Stony Brook Stress and Rheology of the Lithosphere: Examples in Asia and the Western United States

Fall 1999 Meeting
Ethan F. Baxter UC-Berkeley
Jessica D'Andrea UCLA
Jeanne L. Hardebeck Caltech
Paul Kapp UCLA
Laurent Maerten Stanford
Michael Stipp Not Available
Jeffrey M. Trop Purdue

Spring 1999 Meeting
Michael B. Helgerud Stanford
Amir Sagy HUJI

Fall 1998 Meeting
Daniel Curewitz Duke University
Giorgi Khazaradze University of Washington
Stefan Schmalholz ETH Zurich, Switerland
Joshua Stein UC Santa Cruz

Spring 1998 Meeting
Paul S. Hall University of Rhode Island
Aakin N. Patel SUNY

Fall 1996 Meeting
Tadeusz Gladezenko University of Oslo, Norway
Emilie Hooft MIT/WHOI
Stefan Hussenoeder MIT/WHOI
Laura Magde UC-Berkeley
Kevin Michael Schmidt University of Washington
Anjana Shah University of Washington
Harold J. Tobin UC Santa Cruz

Spring 1996 Meeting
Michael L. Begnaud UC-Davis
Michael Braun MIT/WHOI
Garret T. Ito MIT/WHOI

Spring 1987 Meeting
Gary Acton Not Available

Spring 1986 Meeting
Timothy D. Bechtel Not Available

Fall 1986 Meeting
Dana L. Desonie Not Available


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