STAMP Group Alums (Listed alphabetically)
M. Aydin Ayçenk, MS 2005, Advisors: Christian Teyssier, Donna Whitney
Research project title: Tectonic evolution of juxtaposed high-pressure and high-temperature rocks in a subduction-collision zone, Turkey
Current position: Geo-engineer, Dubai
Graham Baird, PhD, 2007, Advisor: Peter Hudleston.
Research: Strain and geometry of mesoscale ductile shear zones and associated fluid flow
Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Northern Colorado
http://esci.unco.edu/faculty/baird/index.html
Kari Bassett, PhD 1995, Advisor: Karen Kleinspehn
Research Project title: A basin analysis of the Lower to mid-Cretaceous Skeena Group, west-central British Columbia: Implications for regional tectonics and terrane accretion
Current position: Researcher, Univ. of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/UCResearchProfile/Researcher.aspx?researcherid=88064
Juk Bhattacharyya, PhD, 2001, Advisor: Peter Hudleston
Research: Strain in ductile shear zones in the Caledonides of northern Sweden; metamorphism and deformation of deep crustal amphibolites
Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater
http://facstaff.uww.edu/bhattacj/
Gilles Brocard, postdoc 2004-2006
Research: Influence of river capture on tectonics and geomorphology of oblique zones
Current position: Research Scientist, University of Pennsylvania
Margaret Broz, MS 2005, Advisors: Donna Whitney, William Gerberich (CEMS)
Research: Hardness, fracture toughness, and elastic moduli of metamorphic minerals
Current position: Ph.D. candidate, Chemistry Dept. UMN
Ahmet Celenli, postdoc 2001
Research: Garnet geochronometry
Current position: Visiting Assistant Professor, SUNNY-Brockport
Leonardo Cruz , PhD, 2005, Advisor: Christian Teyssier
Research: Interaction of tectonics and surface processes in orogenic wedges
Current position: Postdoc, Stanford University
Dyanna Czeck, PhD 2001, Advisor: Peter Hudleston
Research project title: Deformation & deformation processes; studies of lineation in transpressional systems
Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin - Millwaukee
https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/dyanna/www/
Matt Davis , MS 1996, Advisor: Christian Teyssier
Research project title: Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility and fabric analysis in granitoids: The Cascade Lake shear zone, Sierra Nevada, California
Current position:
Peter B. Davis , PhD, 2008, Advisor: Donna Whitney
Research project title: Petrogenesis and structural petrology of blueschist and eclogite, Sivrihisar, Turkey
Current position: Assistant Professor, Pacific Lutheran University
http://www.plu.edu/~davispb/home.html
W. James Dunlap, PhD, 1992, Advisor: Christian Teyssier
Research project title: Structure, kinematics, and cooling history of the Arltunga nappe complex, central Australia
Current position: Tectonics Program Director, National Science Foundation
Elisa Fitz Diaz , PhD 2010, Advisor: Peter Hudleston
Research project title: Progressive deformation, fluid flow and water-rock interaction in the Mexican fold-and-thrust belt, central Mexico
Current position: Postdoc, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
Haakon Fossen, PhD 1992, Advisors: Peter Hudleston, Christian Teyssier
Research project title: Evolution of rift systems, analysis of fault populations and fault growth
Current position: Professor, University of Bergen (Norway)
http://www.uib.no/people/nglhe/
Barbara Francis, MS 2004, Advisors: Christian Teyssier, Donna Whitney
Research project title: Marble deformation in the metasedimentary cover of a metamorphic dome, Naxos, Greece
John Garbutt , MS 1989, Advisor: Christian Teyssier
Research project title: A kinematic analysis of the Oakhurt mylonite belt, Sierra Nevada
Current position: Kingspan Insulation Ltd, UK
Eric Hetherington, PhD 1991, Advisor: Peter Hudleston
Research project title: Structural analysis of Proterozoic rocks in Gunnison County, Colorado
Current Position: Faculty Member, College of the Sequoias, CA
Eric Goergen , PhD, 2009, Advisor: Donna Whitney
Research project title: Tectonics of metamorphic crystallization
Current position: NSF-Postdoctoral Researcher, Brown University
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Geology/people/postdocs.html
Stacia M. Gordon, PhD, 2009, Advisors: Christian Teyssier, Donna Whitney
Research project title: Timescales of migmatization, metamorphism, and deformation of a collapsed orogenic plateau
Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Nevada - Reno
http://web.me.com/staciagordon/homepage/Home.html
Greg Hirth, postdoc, 1990s
Research: Experimental rock mechanics, structural geology, deformation mechanisms
Current position: Associate Professor, Brown University
http://www.geo.brown.edu/Faculty/GH.html
Ben Holtzman, MS 1999, Advisor: Christian Teyssier (PhD @ UMN w/David Kohlstedt)
Research project title: Two geologic examples of a rigid inclusion deforming in a ductile matrix: fractured pebbles and chromite pods
Current position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Columbia University (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory) http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~benh/
Lindsay Iredale, MS 2005, Advisors: Christian Teyssier, Donna Whitney
Research project title: Flow accommodated bivergent extension : a new model for evolution of the Southern Menderes Massif (SW Turkey) using vorticity and fabric analysis
Current position: Instructor, Normandale Community College
Paul Kelso, PhD 1993, Advisors: Subir Banerjee, Christian Teyssier
Research: Rock magnetism, tectonics
Current position: Professor, Lake Superior State University
http://geology.lssu.edu/facstaff/pkelso.html
David Kirschner, PhD 1992, Advisor: Christian Teyssier
Research: Fluid-rock interaction, deformation of the Earth's crust
Current position: Associate Professor, St. Louis University
http://www.eas.slu.edu/People/DLKirschner/
Christopher Kopf, postdoc 1998-2000
Research: Metamorphic/tectonic studies of Baja, Mexico
Current position: Assistant Professor, Univ of Pittsburgh - Johnstown
http://geoggeol.mansfield.edu/facultymap/
Seth C. Kruckenberg, PhD, 2009, Advisors: Christian Teyssier, Donna Whitney
Research project title: The dynamics of migmatite domes in extending orogens
Current position: NSF-Postdoctoral Researcher, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison
http://web.me.com/scaley/UW-M_Personal_Research/Home.html
Roberta Lamons, PhD 1991, Advisor: Peter Hudleston
Research project title: Oblique convergence in modeling experiments and in the field
Labao Lan, PhD 1992, postdoc 1990s. Advisor: Peter Hudleston
Research project title: Numerical modeling of folds and associated structures; obtaining rheological information form structures.
Current Position: IRI/The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Jerry Magloughlin, PhD 1993, Advisors: Peter Hudleston, Larry Edwards
Research: Structural and geochronological studies, including of the Grenville Province and North Cascades; processes of formation and tectonic significance of pseudotachylyte; educational videos for earth sciences
Current Position: Associate Professor, Colorado State University
http://warnercnr.colostate.edu/Geosciences-Home
Michelle Markley, PhD 1998, Advisor: Christian Teyssier
Research: Deformation studies (Alps, New Zealand, Appalachians) using field and modeling methods
Current position: Clare Booth Luce Associate Professor, Mt Holyoke College
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/misc/profile/mmarkley.shtml
Julie Maxson, PhD 1996, Advisor: Karen Kleinspehn
Research Project title: A sedimentary record of Late Cretaceous tectonic restructuring of the North America Cordillera: the Tyaughton-Methow Basin, southwest British Columbia
Rory McFadden, PhD, 2009, Advisors: Christian Teyssier, Donna Whitney
Research project title: Melt transfer networks and migmatite dome emplacement in transtension
Current position: Assistant Professor, Salem State University
http://www.salemstate.edu/academics/schools/1204.php?id=4464
Hassina Mouri, postdoc 1998-1999
Current position: Pretoria, South Africa
Britt Norlander, PhD 2004, Advisors: Christian Teyssier, Donna Whitney
Research project title: P-T and kinematic study of the Shuswap complex, southern British Columbia
Current position: Science writer for Scholastic Publishing, NYC, NY
Carol Ormand, PhD 2000, Advisor: Peter Hudleston
Research: Kinematics of fault-related folding
Current position: Science Education Resource Center (SERC)
Jonathan Pershing , PhD 1990, Advisors: Peter Hudleston, Karen Kleinspehn, Christian Teyssier
Research project title: Paleostress analysis of fault populations: numerical test and application to the west Spitsbergen orogen
Current position: Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change, Office of the Spokesman, Washington DC
Donald Sidman , MS 2000, Advisor: Christian Teyssier
Research: Bitterroots detachment fault: fabrics & kinematics
Luther Strayer, PhD 1998, Advisor: Peter Hudleston
Research: Numerical modeling of fault-related folding and seismicity; coupled fluid-flow and brittle-plastic deformation; tectonic evolution of the Northern Cordillera and Rocky Mountains
Current position: Associate Professor, California State University-Hayward
http://www.sci.csuhayward.edu/~lstrayer/lstrayer/
Michelle Sutherland , MS 2008, Advisor: Donna Whitney
Johan ten Veen, Post-doc 1999-2001
Research Project title: Geodynamics and Neotectonic Forearc Deformation: Late Pliocene-Recent basins, Hellenic Arc (Greece)
Current position: Geologist at TNO Bouw en Ondergrond, the geological survey of The Netherlands, and Research Scientist at Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/sediment/tenveen.htm
Basil Tikoff, PhD 1994, Advisor: Christian Teyssier
Research: Application of field geology, geophysical methods, physical (analog) models, and numerical models to understand three-dimensional deformation.
Current position: Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.geology.wisc.edu/people/display.html?id=20
Gustavo Tolson , MS 1990, Advisors: Christian Teyssier, Sam Sawkins
Research project title: Strain and kinematic analysis of the Santa Rosa area, central Mexico
Current position: Professor, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
Paul Umhoefer, postdoc 1990-1991, and currently collaborating with Teyssier/Whitney
Research: Tectonic evolution of oblique plate boundaries
Current position: Professor, Northern Arizona University
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~pju/
Peter Valley, MS 2001, Advisor: Donna Whitney
Research project title: Metamorphism of deepest exposed arc rocks in the Cretaceous to Paleogene Cascades belt, Washington: evidence for large-scale vertical motion in a continental arc
Current position: Ph.D. Candidate, Memorial University, Newfoundland
Olivier Vanderhaeghe, PhD 1997, Advisor: Christian Teyssier
Research: Partial melting in orogens, flow of orogenic crust, orogenic collapse
Current position: Professor, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy (France)
http://www.g2r.uhp-nancy.fr/annuaire/vanderhaeghe.html
Aletha Wachter, MS 2002, Advisor: Donna Whitney
Research project title: Metamorphic history of eclogites in the Blue Ridge, North Carolina
Current position: Geo-engineer, Minnesota
Kate Wittuhn, MS 1993, Advisor: Christian Teyssier
Research project title: Fracture analysis in the Midcontinent Rift System
Qing Zhang, PhD 2006, Advisor: Christian Teyssier
Research project title: Midcrust Kinematics in intracontinental oblique convergence
Current position: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa |
