Applied Geodynamics Laboratory


research staff
	Martin P. A. Jackson E-mail: phone: (512) 475-9548 More information		Michael R. Hudec E-mail: phone: (512) 471-1428 More information
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.
	Tim P. Dooley E-mail: phone: (512) 471-8261 More information		Angela McDonnell E-mail: phone: (512) 471-4420 More information
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.		Angela McDonnell joined the BEG in 2005. She received her BSc in 1995 from University College Cork, Ireland and her MSc (1996) and Ph.D (2001) from University College Dublin. She was a consultant interpretation geophysicist for Robertson Research Int. for 3 years gaining experience in offshore Ireland and Norway, N. Africa, Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf, E. Coast U.S., and Brazil. Her research focuses on the structure and stratigraphy of the Gulf of Mexico.
	Ian Norton 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.
support staff
	Nancy Cottington E-mail:
Areas of Expertise Graphics Animations
collaborators
	Joe Cartwright Cardiff University		Christopher Harrison Geological Survey of Canada
Areas of Expertise Seismic interpretation Structural geology, basin analysis		Areas of Expertise Arctic plate tectonics Regional structural geology, hydrocarbon pontential and economic geology of the Canadian arctic islands
	Piotr Krzywiec Polish Geological Institute
Areas of Expertise Structural geology, geophysics Geology of the Mid-Polish Trough and associated areas