Year: 2023

We have seven upcoming presentations at AGU2023 in San Francisco. Please join us! GP13A-04 Geodynamic and Mantle Structure Tests of a 50-Ma Change in Pacific Absolute Plate Motion Daniel Woodworth (University of Houston), Jonny Wu (University of Arizona), Lorenzo Colli (Bluethink) PP33D-1553 Deep Mantle to Atmosphere: Understanding the Role of Vanished Intra-Oceanic Subduction Zones on…Continue Reading Upcoming AGU2023 presentations

Questions remain in our understanding of how mountains form. Jonny Wu brought perspectives on mountain formation and the Deep Earth to a recent media story published in the science news website LiveScience. Read it here….Continue Reading Media story on ‘How do mountains form?’

Please consider submitting an abstract to our organized EGU 2024 session TS2.7 “Geodynamics of Plate Convergence in Southeast Asia and Coupled Marginal Sea Evolution“. The EGU2024 meeting will be held on Apr 14-19, 2024. The lead convener is Zhiteng Yu from the Second Institute of Oceanography, China. Co-convenors are:…Continue Reading Submit to upcoming EGU 2024 session on SE Asia and marginal sea evolution

Jonny Wu recently presented two talks: Linking Japan-NW Pacific plate tectonics and arc magmatism since the Cretaceous (invited), Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of Japan, Kyoto, Japan. Co-authors: ‘Jeremy’ Tsung-Jui Wu and Ken Yamaoka. Reconstructing intra-oceanic subduction for Earth’s dynamic topography, true polar wander, and paleoclimate history, Utrecht University, Netherlands. Co-authors: Yi-An Lin, Lorenzo…Continue Reading Talks presented in Japan and Netherlands

Congratulations to PhD student Moloud Rahimzadeh Bajgiran, who published their paper entitled “Assessing large-scale mantle compositional heterogeneity from machine learning analysis of 28 global P- and S-wave tomography models”. The paper was published in the journal Geophysical Journal International. Co-authors were Lorenzo Colli and Jonny Wu. Moloud’s paper can be accessed here….Continue Reading Paper accepted in GJI on machine learning analysis of 28 global tomography models

We are grateful for the opportunity to present the following topics at the GSA2023 meeting in Pittsburgh on Oct 15-18, 2023: Wu, J., Ojelabi, O., Chen, Y.-W., Portner, D., Mapping subducted aseismic ridges within the Nazca slab from mantle seismic tomography, GSA Annual Meeting 2023, Pittsburgh, PA Wu, T.-J., Wu, Y., Wu, J., Chen., L., Jun, M., Rahimzadeh Bajgiran, M.,…Continue Reading Presentations on paleoclimate, Andes tectonics and arc geochemistry at GSA2023

I have moved to the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona after seven years with the great students and faculty at the University of Houston. Over the next few months, we will be setting up a new 3D structural interpretation computing lab and analog modeling lab in Arizona. Watch this space!…Continue Reading Arrived at University of Arizona