Congratulations to Kaitlin Thomas for a successful defense on their MS thesis entitled “3D Analysis of the Indo-Australian Slab Subducting Beneath Sumatra”. Kaitlin’s MS advisor is Dr. Alex Robinson of the University of Houston, USA. Kaitlin was formerly advised by Jonny Wu, who now serves on the thesis committee….Continue Reading Kaitlin Thomas defends MS on 3D Analysis of the Indo-Australian Slab Subducting Beneath Sumatra

Parker Comisac and Will McCraine added to their geological fieldwork experience over Summer 2025. Parker was on the instructional team for the University of Arizona Summer Field School led by Prof. Peter DeCelles and Prof. Barbara Carrapa. The class traveled to the Grand Canyon, Colorado Plateau, the Laramide foreland province, west Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and…Continue Reading Parker and Will conduct summer fieldwork

Jonny Wu and Ed Clennett will be offering a short course “Plate Tectonics for Science and Teaching using GPlates Paleo-GIS Software” at the GSA2025 Connects meeting in San Antonio, Texas. This course will go over how to visualize and analyze Earth’s plate tectonic history using the free GPlates software. We will work through several exercises…Continue Reading GPlates Plate Tectonics short course offered at GSA2025 San Antonio

Jonny Wu presented a keynote talk at the GSA 2025 Penrose meeting on Eclogites in Space and Time in California, USA. Co-authors are Jeremy Tsung-Jui Wu (NTU Taiwan), Ken Yamaoka (Geological Survey of Japan AIST), Simon Wallis (Univ. Tokyo, Japan), and Jordan Wang (U.Arizona, UCLA). Our talk was entitled “New insights on Sanbagawa-Ryoke paired metamorphic…Continue Reading Talk presented at GSA Penrose meeting on Eclogites

Jonny Wu was awarded a Freeport McMoRan on an Academic-Industry Mining (AIM) fellowship for Summer 2025. The fellowship will involve topics in copper exploration geoscience. AIM Fellowships are offered to faculty at accredited universities in priority disciplines as identified by Freeport. The fellowship is structured as a work-and-learn program to provide in-depth understanding of challenges…Continue Reading Freeport McMoRan Academic-Industry Mining AIM Fellowship on copper exploration

Our GEOS255 Historical Geology class visited the Grand Canyon in Northern Arizona to learn about Earth’s geologic history. We camped over the weekend, cooked and hiked together, and composed mnenomics to remember the sequence of Grand Canyon strata. The field trip was led by co-instructors Dr.Barbara Carrapa and Dr.Jonny Wu….Continue Reading Historical Geology class field trip to Grand Canyon

Congratulations to Chris Calvelage, who led a paper on “Effects of subduction history on true polar wander driven by perturbations of Earth’s inertial moment from mantle convection” that was accepted in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A. Co-authors are Lorenzo Colli, Jonny Wu, Yi-An Lin, Yingcai Zheng, and Moloud Rahimzadeh Bajgiran. Open Access…Continue Reading New paper on True Polar Wander and subduction history

Congratulations to undergraduate Erika Pérez Roque, who received a $3000 award from the George H. Davis Scholarship for summer research on cassiterite ore geochemistry and data science. Erika’s research is co-supervised by UA Faculty Marta Codeço and Jonny Wu….Continue Reading Erika Pérez Roque receives scholarship for cassiterite ore geochemistry and data science research

The Geodaze student-run research symposium was held at University of Arizona on Mar 27-29, 2025. Our group members presented the following topics: Parker Comisac (MS Student): “Unfolding the Alaska-eastern Aleutians slab and its implications for Kula-Pacific plate tectonic reconstructions” Will McCraine (MS Student): “Discoveries from a geologic traverse across a metamorphic core complex along Tanque Verde…Continue Reading Will, Parker, and Erika present research at UA Geodaze 2025

Welcome to Dr.Ed Clennett, who is conducting research on Pacific plate tectonics, critical minerals, and machine learning. Ed completed his PhD at UTexas Austin, USA, and worked on seismic tomography, geodynamics and plate kinematic modeling. Ed’s MS was completed at Oxford University, UK, where Ed developed a plate reconstruction of western North America and the…Continue Reading Welcome to Dr.Ed Clennett