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Martin P. A.
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Michael R. Hudec |
| Martin Jackson established and co-directs the AGL. His early career included lunar structures, mineral exploration, and Precambrian geology. He received his PhD from the University of Cape Town in 1976, taught at the University of Natal, and joined the Bureau of Economic Geology in 1980, where he is a Senior Research Scientist. |
Mike Hudec is a Senior Research Scientist at the BEG and co-directs the AGL. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wyoming in 1990, and spent the next eight years at Exxon Production Research, where he specialized in salt tectonics, extensional tectonics, and seismic interpretation. His current research interests include palinspastic restoration of salt structures, deepwater structural styles, and 3D visualization. |
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Tim P. Dooley |
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Maria Nikolinakou |
Tim Dooley received his BSc from the Trinity College University of Dublin, Ireland, in 1988 and his PhD from the University of London, UK, in 1994. His specialty is physical modeling of a wide variety of tectonic processes. Tim joined the BEG in 2003 to run and manage the modeling facilities and was promoted to Research Scientist in 2005. |
Maria is a Civil/Geotechnical Engineer. She earned her ScD from MIT in 2008, her MSc from MIT and her Diploma from NTUA, Greece. She specializes in theoretical soil mechanics and the constitutive modeling of earth materials. She is interested in understanding the stress state within and around salt bodies. Before joining the Bureau, Maria worked as a postdoc for Shell in the Depleted Drilling Group. |
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Ian Norton E-mail: phone: (512) 471-0423 More information |
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Gang Luo E-mail: phone: (512) 471-0423 More information |
| Ian's research aims to understand the structural evolution of continental margins by reconciling deformation amounts predicted from plate reconstructions with deformation inferred from local-scale structural data. Understanding the structure of passive continental margins has recently been driven by concepts of mantle exhumation during hyper extension of the Newfoundland and Iberian margins. | Gang Luo earned his Ph.D. in geosciences from University of Missouri-Columbia, in 2009, his M.S. and B.S. in geophysics and geology from Peking University, P.R. China. His primary research interest is computational geodynamics and finite element modeling on stress within and around salt, fluid flow, fault interactions, earthquake stress triggering, crustal/lithospheric stress and strain evolution during earthquake cycles. | ||
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Nancy Cottington |
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Ruud Weijermars TU Delft |
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