Month: November 2024

Congratulations to Moloud on a successful PhD defence today! Moloud’s thesis is entitled “Machine learning and plate tectonic analysis for mantle heterogeneity, paleoclimate, and critical minerals”. Her committee is formed by Jonny Wu (Arizona), Susan Beck (Arizona), Patricia Persaud (Arizona), and Lorenzo Colli (Modelway). Moloud’s thesis chapters are listed below: Ch. 1 – Assessing large-scale…Continue Reading Moloud Rahimzadeh Bajgiran successfully defends PhD on machine learning and plate tectonics

Jonny Wu and TA Eric Cicero led our University of Arizona Physical Geology students on a field trip to the Tucson Mountains to learn about volcanic processes and copper mineralization during the Laramide orogeny….Continue Reading Class field trip to Tucson Mountains

Congratulations to Chris Calvelage! Chris’ paper “Linking deep-time subduction history to modern day expressions of dynamic topography” was published in the journal “Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences” this week. Co-authors are Jonny Wu, Lorenzo Colli, Yi-An Lin, and Yingcai Zheng. The paper is open access and freely available here….Continue Reading New paper on subduction history and dynamic topography led by Chris Calvelage

UA PhD candidate Jordan Wang and Prof. Paul Kapp led a great field trip to see the Catalina-Rincon metamorphic core complex near Tucson. Participants included our visitor Eric Schmidtke of Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada, Parker and Will from our group, and Paul Kapp’s regional tectonics class….Continue Reading Field trip to Catalina-Rincon metamorphic core complex