Graduate Student Opportunities

Geoff Abers: abers@ldeo.columbia.edu
Seeks graduate students interested in field-based and analytical seismology projects in the structure and dynamics of active plate boundaries. Current field projects projects are in Cascadia where a dense broadband array has been deployed to image the subduction system, in south-central Alaska where North America's largest (M 9.2) earthquake occurred, and in southeast Papua New Guinea where we hope to image the source of the world's youngest natural diamonds.
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~abers/

Nicholas Christie-Blick: ncb@ldeo.columbia.edu
Recruiting graduate students to work in diverse aspects of sedimentation processes, crustal deformation and deep-time Earth history. Opportunities currently being developed include Miocene sequence, cyclo- and strontium isotope stratigraphy in Egypt; "supradetachment" basins of Devonian age in western Norway; and a test of the extensional detachment paradigm through deep drilling in the Sevier Desert of western Utah.
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~ncb/

Goran Ekstrom: ekstrom@ldeo.columbia.edu
Seeks students to work on the development and application of techniques to image the interior of the Earth on global and regional scales using seismic data. Additional opportunities exist for
students interested in the analysis of earthquake sources, including exotic events associated with volcanos, landslides, and glaciers.

James Gaherty: gaherty@ldeo.columbia.edu
Uses seismic imaging to gain a better understand of the dynamic processes in the mantle that drive surface deformation and volcanism. We are exploiting tremendous new data from EarthScope, as well as data that we collect in innovative land- and sea-going field experiments. Current projects include mantle flow and melting associated with hotspot volcanism, the role of magmatism in the development of new plate boundaries in East Africa and the Gulf of California, and nature of the San Andreas fault at mantle depths.
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~gaherty/

Won-Young Kim: wykim@ldeo.columbia.edu
Operates seismographic networks in the northeastern, United States and abroad. Current projects includes detection, location and identification of earthquakes and underground nuclear tests.
Graduate students interested in monitoring earthquakes, instrumentation, quantification of sources and characterization of moderate sized earthquakes in the stable continental regions are encouraged to contact
him.
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~wykim/

Meredith Nettles: nettles@ldeo.columbia.edu
Meredith Nettles seeks students interested in earthquake source processes, including seismogenesis in glacier and ice-sheet systems, and studies of upper-mantle seismic velocity structure. Studies
currently underway include a multidisciplinary, field-based investigation of earthquake source processes and glacier dynamics at two major outlet glaciers in East Greenland; the investigation of unusual
seismic sources on continental margins; and surface-wave studies of the continental upper mantle.
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~nettles/

Bruce Shaw: shaw@ldeo.columbia.edu
I am interested in the physics of earthquakes, the dynamics of the source, the growth and mechanics of faults. More generally problems concerning nonlinear dynamics in the earth sciences. Opportunities for interested students.
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~shaw/

Felix Waldhauser: felixw@ldeo.columbia.edu
Works on the development and application of high-precision earthquake location methods to study the structure and mechanics of active faults at various scales, the spatio-temporal pattern of seismicity they produce, and the plate tectonic processes that control these features. Current projects include studies in northern California, the Sumatra-Andaman subduction zone, and the East Pacific Rise.
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~felixw/

Spahr Webb scw@ldeo.columbia.edu                                                                                                                                                My group studies the structure and processes underlying the 70% of the Earth that is under the oceans. I'm seeking graduates students interested in going to sea and working on a diverse range of problems. We will be studying how Eastern Lau spreading center magmatism is strongly influenced by volatiles expelled from the downgoing slab beneath the Tonga arc. The Aleutian megathrust experiment will study the coupling within the Alaksan megathrust.
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~scw