Authored by Emily Hinshaw. The Structural Geology and Tectonics research group headed for Monte Carasso this November for the first group retreat in 3 years. Whitney pointed out in the first session of the trip that most of this year’s attendees have joined the group within the past 3 years! As for me, I had arrived in Switzerland just a
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If you want to catch up with the members of the group during the Swiss Geoscience meeting, check out our talks and posters! For the full SGM program, click here! Saturday November 19th Talks: 08:30-08:45: Lonnie Hufford, Leif Tokle, Whitney Behr, Claudio Madonna Experimental Investigation of Glaucophane Deformation and Rheology Through General Shear Experiments 10:45-11:00: Jesús Muñoz-Montecinos, Whitney Behr Permeability and Fluid Flow in the deep Slow Slip
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Authored by Betti Hegyi. Edited by Derek Neuharth. One of the greatest parts about being a researcher is going to conferences and meeting our fellow researchers! The 2022 Ada Lovelace Workshop on Numerical Modelling of Mantle and Lithosphere Dynamicswas held from the 28th of August to the 2nd of September in Hévíz, a beautiful town in Hungary that is famous for Lake Hévíz,
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Authored by Jesús Muñoz. One of the most exciting things about being a geologist is the never-ending feeling of always discovering new things, no matter if you have seen the same area or similar places dozens of times; it’s like being a kid again and playing treasure hunt, with the big difference that this time you find it! This time
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Authored by Lonnie Hufford. This post is about my second field season in Alaska. You can read about my first field season here: https://structuretectonics.org/2019/08/22/fire-and-seagulls-a-game-of-rocks/ Prof. Whitney Behr, Dr. Mark Helper, Dr. Zoe Braden, and I completed another field season this past summer in southern Alaska. Over the course of a month, we traveled the Kenai Peninsula using boats, planes, and
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