Research

Areas of faculty research include:

Environmental Geochemistry

• Dr. Carey Gazis
• Global biogeochemical cycling
• Weathering and global change
• Soil geochemistry

GPS Geodesy and Continental Dynamics

• Drs. M. Meghan Miller and Timothy Melbourne
• Southern California, Mojave- Walker Lane GPS network
• Active tectonics of north Baja California
• Pacific Northwest Geodetic Array (PANGA)

Paleohydrology and Climate Change

• Dr. Lisa L. Ely
• Paleoflood studies in India and
• Western United States
• Lacustrine records of climate change

Paleoseismology and Active Tectonics

• Dr. Charles M. Rubin
• 2002 Denali earthquake
• Variations of fault slip, San Andreas fault
• 1999 Chi-chi Earthquake, Taiwan
• Geodynamics and active tectonics of the Tien Shan
• Active faulting along the eastern California shear zone
• Los Angeles basin
• 2002 Alaska Denali earthquake

Seismology and Geophysics

• Dr. Timothy Melbourne
• Upper Mantle Dynamics
• Wave Form Modeling: asthnosphere-lithosphere interaction
• Continental Dynamics and Surface Deformation

Structural Geology and Tectonics

• Dr. Jeff Lee
• Middle crustal flow and tectonc evolution of the North Himalayan gneiss domes, Tibet
• Dynamics of normal fault systems in the Basin and Range Province and Tibet
• Late Cenozoic kinematic evolution of the Eastern California Shear Zone/Walker Lane Belt

Volcanology and Petrology

• Dr. Wendy Bohrson
• Magma chamber dynamics
• Magma recharge and eruption
• Open system magmatic processes
• Compositional variation processes in intrusive magmas

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