Current graduate students:
Melissa (Missy) Halick -- started Fall 2007
Other graduate students supervised at UNM:
Alexis Ault -- MS 2007 on fluid-rock reactions in graphitic schists and their effects on rock rheology.
Jaime Barnes -- PhD 2006 on geochemistry and petrologic effects of serpenitinite-derived fluids in metamorphic terranes, jointly supervised with Z. Sharp and A. Brearley. MS 2002: Fluid-mediated strain localization during Alpine-age strike-slip deformation in the Eastern Alps. See papers 55 and 61 on publication list.
Amber Hawkins -- MS 2006 on garnet growth forms in high-pressure rocks and their relationships to fluid composition and changes in deformation mechanisms. Paper 63.
Caitlin Callahan -- Magnetic properties and mineralogy of unaltered vs. metasomatized mantle xenoliths, Rio Puerco necks (joint with J. Geissman and A. Brearley). MS, 2005. Papers coming soon.
Aaron Cavosie -- Chemical and tectonic evolution of a Proterozoic ophiolite fragment in the northern Colorado Front Range, and analysis of the kinematic history of the associated Buckhorn Creek shear zone. MS, 2001. See papers 50 and 52.
George Perkins -- Stable isotopic study and fluid inclusion study of variably metasomatized mantle xenoliths from the Rio Puerco necks (jointly advised with Zach Sharp). MS, 2005. See paper 60.
Courtney Porreca -- Thermobarometry of mantle xenoliths from the Rio Puerco necks. MS. 2005. See paper 62.
Kurt Steffen -- Relationships between deformation mechanisms and metamorphism in the Greiner shear zone, Eastern Alps: spatial and temporal variations in strengthening and weakening during deep crustal shearing. MS 2001, PhD 2004. See papers 48 and 59.
Tim Wawrzyniec -- Controls on the mechanisms of footwall uplift beneath the Simplon low-angle normal fault, Switzerland. PhD, 1999. See papers 44, 47, and 49.
Meghan Hodgins ’Äì Proterozoic history of the Big Thompson Canyon region of Colorado.
Undergraduates supervised at UNM:
Noel Gill -- Microstructural and chemical evolution of pseudotachylytes and cataclasites from the Sandia Mountains, New Mexico.
Johanna Blake -- Petrology and geochemistry of gabbros from Monhegan Island, Maine.
Kym Samuels -- Accessory minerals and trace element geochemistry of pyroxenite xenoliths from the Rio Puerco volcanic field (joint with A. Brearley). See paper 62 on publication list.
Ana Moreno -- Fluid inclusion analysis of variably deformed footwall quartz veins, Mineral Ridge, Nevada.
Erik Jung -- Partial melting processes in granitic xenoliths from the Rio Puerco volcanic necks.
James Hyatt -- Comparison of strains calculated from structural and geochemical data in sheared metaconglomerates from the Alps. See paper 53 on publication list.
Nicole Zayas -- Petrologic history of Early Proterozoic tectonic melange from the Colorado Front Range.
Diana Strickland -- Proterozoic history of the Zuni Mountains, New Mexico: long-lived tectonism along the trace of the Jemez Lineament (joint with K. Karlstrom). See paper 54.
Doug Raszewski -- Multiphase tectonic and metamorphic history of the Monte Largo shear zone, Manzano Mountains, New Mexico (joint with K. Karlstrom).
Aaron Cavosie -- Use of whole-rock geochemical data to test a mechanical model for fracturing and quartz vein emplacement surrounding a cooling pluton: Sandia Pluton, New Mexico.
Laura Pletsch-Rivera -- Use of fluid inclusion data to test a mechanical model for fracturing and quartz vein emplacement surrounding a cooling pluton: Sandia Pluton, New Mexico.
Michael Gabora -- Petrologic analysis of Proterozoic amphibolites from the northern Colorado Front Range: Using P-T discontinuities to constrain offset across shear zones.
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