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.
Jessica Warren and Lars Hansen have published a review article in Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. The open access article on “Ductile Deformation of the Lithospheric Mantle” can be downloaded here.
Melinda Bahruth graduated on Saturday with her Master’s degree in Geological Sciences. Congratulations Mindy!
This Science news article by Paul Voosen highlights the amazing success of the International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 399 to Atlantis Massif. Scroll down for a photo of University of Delaware graduate student Kuan-Yu Lin analyzing rocks samples aboard the ship!
Graduate student Kuan-Yu Lin set sail in April for the Atlantis Massif (~30N, 42W in the Atlantic Ocean) on the drill ship Joides Resolution. He is participating in Expedition 399 “Building Blocks of Life, Atlantis Massif” of the International Ocean Discovery Program. Follow the progress of the expedition here. Read more about Kuan-Yu’s research here.
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!