We are grateful that our new paper entitled “Revealing the Cape Verde Hotspot Track Across the Great Lakes” in the journal Geophysical Research Letters is receiving media coverage. Some links are posted below. The study was led by Aibing Li and Zhongmin Tao of University of Houston. Jonny Wu and Karen Fischer (Brown University) are…Continue Reading Media coverage on new paper on ancient hotspot under Great Lakes
Our group has two presentations at AGU2024 (group members in bold): Rahimzadeh Bajgiran, M., Wu, J., Rezeau, H., Integrating Plate Tectonics and Machine Learning to Predict Undiscovered Porphyry Copper Deposits, AGU 2024, Washington DC, USA. Li, A., Tao, Z., Wu, J., Fischer, K., Revealing the Cape Verde Hotspot Track in North America from a High-Resolution Seismic Anisotropy Model, AGU…Continue Reading AGU2024 presentations at Washington DC
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
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
Our group will be presenting three talks at the GSA 2024 meeting in Anaheim. Please join us! Sun Sept 22, 1:35-1:55 PM, Rm 304A: 71-1 – RECONSTRUCTING NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA PLATE TECTONIC HISTORY ALONG WESTERN MEXICO TO CALIFORNIA FROM MANTLE CONSTRAINTS (Invited), (Jonny Wu, Spencer Fuston, Lorenzo Colli) Mon Sept 23, 1:35-1:55 PM, Rm 304B,…Continue Reading Upcoming presentations at GSA 2024 Anaheim
Jonny Wu presented an online talk at the Plate Model Intercomparison workshop in the University of Vienna in April 2024. The workshop was organized by the IUGS Deep-time Digital Earth (DDE) program. Jonny’s talk was entitled “Plate model inter comparison: effects of seismic tomography enhancements”. A full listing of the workshop talks is below. Plate…Continue Reading IUGS Deep Time Digital Earth workshop in Vienna
Predicted dynamic topography from the Tomopac mantle model…Continue Reading Chris Calvelage successfully defends PhD thesis on subduction history and mantle convection
Our Historical Geology class took a weekend field trip to camp at the Grand Canyon and visit its wonderful geology! The trip was co-led by instructors Dr.Jess Kapp and Dr.Jonny Wu….Continue Reading Student field trip to Grand Canyon