• April 4, 2023 - Jessica M Warren

    UD Lab School kindergarteners learn about rocks

    The kindergarten class from the UD Lab School came to Penny Hall to learn about rocks on Tuesday afternoon. They were excited to hold pieces of magma, look at fossils, and see fluorescing minerals!

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  • March 24, 2023 - Jessica M Warren

    Outstanding thesis presentation by Melinda Bahruth

    Congratulations to Melinda Bahruth on her successful thesis defense! Melinda presented her work on “Basaltic Breccia Constraints on the Shallow Rheology of the Gofar Transform Fault”. Despite the early hour on Friday, the Zoom audience was packed and overflow seating was needed for the in-person crowd in Penny Hall.

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  • March 7, 2023 - Jessica M Warren

    Observing a seismic cycle at sea

    Our article about ship-based research into deformation and seismicity of the Gofar Transform Fault is published in Eos: Boettcher, M.S., E.C. Roland, J.M. Warren, R.L. Evans, and J.A. Collins, 2023. Observing a seismic cycle at sea, Eos, 104, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EO230076.

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  • October 1, 2022 - Jessica M Warren

    Postdoc Nadine Grambling joins the lab

    Nadine Grambling has joined the Mantle Processes group as a postdoctoral scholar! She will be studying olivine fabric development by combining rock deformation experiments with analysis of samples from the Talkeetna Intraoceanic Arc in Alaska. Her work is supported by NSF project EAR-2113408 and is a collaboration with Ningli Zhao (Carnegie Institution) and Greg Hirth […]

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  • August 3, 2022 - Jessica M Warren

    Eruption response fieldwork at Kīlauea Volcano

    Graduate student Abigail Nalesnik and UD affiliate professor Kendra J. Lynn are featured in this amazing interactive piece by Tracey Bryant and Dave Barczak for the UD Research magazine. The story describes their encounter with a volcanic eruption at Kīlauea’s Halema’uma’u crater in 2021.

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  • Current lab members Kuan-Yu Lin and Abby Nalesnik, along with affiliated lab member Kendra J Lynn, will present their research at the 2022 Goldschmidt Conference in Honolulu, HI: Lin, K.-Y., Warren, J. M., & Davis, F. A. (2022). Evaluating the effects of spreading rate and melt addition on the closure temperatures recorded by peridotite thermometers. […]

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  • January 26, 2022 - Jessica M Warren

    @4CASTGofar sails again

    Leg 3 of the 2019-2021 Gofar Transform Fault Earthquake Prediction Experiment set sail from San Diego earlier this month and arrived on site in the equatorial Pacific this week. The scientists, engineers, and crew aboard the R/V Thompson are now working to recover ocean bottom seismometers, use the autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry to image the […]

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  • After two years of virtual conferences, Mindy Bahruth and Kuan-Yu Lin where able to attend the 2021 AGU Fall Meeting in New Orleans!

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  • August 5, 2021 - Jessica M Warren

    Article published on oceanic transform faults

    An article on the role of seawater infiltration for oceanic transform fault seismicity has been published in the latest issue of Nature Geoscience. Oceanic transform faults are a major category of plate-bounding faults that cross-cut the mid-ocean ridge system. This study by Arjun Kohli, Monica Wolfson-Schwehr, Cecile Prigent, and Jessica Warren incorporates seawater hydration into […]

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  • Former lab member Suzanne Birner has published an open access paper titled “Melt addition to mid-ocean ridge peridotites increases spinel Cr# with no significant effect on recorded oxygen fugacity“. In this paper, we report geochemical data, petrographic observations, and oxygen fugacity estimates for Southwest Indian Ridge peridotites. We show that low to moderate degrees of […]

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