Postdoctoral scientist Christine Chesley’s controlled-source electronmagentic study of Gofar transform fault was published today in Science Advances. This paper presents exciting evidence for deep fluid flow and brine formation within an oceanic fault. Read more about it here. Chesley, C., R. Evans, J.M. Warren, et al., 2025. Evidence for crustal brines and deep fluid infiltration […]
Members (and former members!) of the Mantle Processes Group were excited to present their research at the AGU Fall Meeting in Washington DC. Abby Nalesnik gave a talk on explosive eruptions at Kīlauea volcano. Former student and now postdoctoral scientist Kuan-Yu Lin presented his work on the rapid obduction of the Taitao Ophiolite in Patagonia. […]
A Nature paper led by former lab member Suzanne Birner was published yesterday. The study describes rocks from the seafloor collected in the Arctic, Indian, and Pacific oceans. These peridotite samples have unusually low oxygen fugacity (a thermodynamic variable that describes an aspect of the system’s chemistry). In the study, we then use thermodynamic modeling […]
Congratulations to PhD student Kuan-Yu Lin on his successful thesis defense. Kuan-Yu presented his research on “Trace Elements in Mantle Olivine: Implications for Mantle Dynamics and Evolution of the Oceanic Lithosphere” to a pack room in Penny Hall and a large Zoom audience.
Join graduate student Kuan-Yu Lin at the National Museum of Natural History for an Expert Is In event on Monday February 2nd from 1-3pm. Kuan-Yu will discuss his recent work on a sea expedition, including drilling the ocean floor to uncover the secrets of early life. More information on this event in the Janet Annenberg […]
The Warren Lab is presenting at the AGU 2023 Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA! Nadine Grambling will present results of her experiments on olivine fabric development and their comparison to field samples from the Talkeetna Arc in Alaska. Nadine’s talk is on Tuesday, 12 December 2023 at 11:28-11:38 PST in Moscone South 151. Kuan-Yu […]
Read UD graduate student Abigail Nalesnik’s Volcano Watch blog post for the USGS!
Check out this UDaily article highlighting graduate student Kuan-Yu Lin’s research as part of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 399 to the Atlantis Massif in spring 2023.
Kuan-Yu Lin’s article exploring trace elements in abyssal peridotite olivine is available here. Lin, KY., Warren, J.M. & Davis, F.A. Trace elements in abyssal peridotite olivine record melting, thermal evolution, and melt refertilization in the oceanic upper mantle. Contrib Mineral Petrol 178, 66 (2023). https://doi-org.udel.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/s00410-023-02044-6
A recent Washington Post article by Carolyn Y. Johnson features IODP Expedition 399. This expedition, in which UD graduate student Kuan-Yu Lin is participating, has drilled over a kilometer of rocks from below the seafloor! Read the article “In a geologic triumph, scientists drill a window into Earth’s mantle” here.