MICHAEL MANGA:

Current students and postdocs

Joe Dufek (Miller postdoc): pyclastic flow dynamics, Martian maars, melt focussing by magma chambers

Tim Creyts (postdoc): glacier mechanics

Rob Lillis (postdoc, SSL): history of the Martian dynamo, magnetic signatures of volcanic processes on Mars

Max Rudolph (graduate student): interaction of dikes with cavities

Leif Karlstrom (graduate student); erution of flood basalts, dynamics of lava lakes

Edwin Kite (graduate student); "recent" polar wander on Mars

Christian Huber (graduate student): caldera forming eruptions, plume-slab interactions

Jim Watkins (graduate student): plume-slab interactions, water disffusion in obsidian

Alyssa Sarid (graduate student): cracking the ice shell of Europa

Maria Brumm (graduate student): heat flow in the Sierras, eruption of the Lusi mud volcano

Elizbeth Lu, (aspiring) Dr. Helge Gonnermann, Michael Manga at the EPS graduation, May 2004

Former students and postdocs

Emily Brodsky (postdoc, UC Berkeley and Oregon, now professor at UC Santa Cruz); the response of wells to distant earthquakes, volcano-earthquake interactions

Mark Jellinek (postdoc, UC Berkeley, now professor at Univ British Columbia); experimental studies of mantle convection, periodicity of volcanic eruptions

Bruno Cagnoli (postdoc, UC Berkeley, now researcher at INGV, Rome); mechanics of pyroclastic flows

Yoshiko Ogawa (postdoc, UC Berkeley, now Kobe Univ): hydrothermal processes on Mars

Maurizio Battaglia (postdoc, UC Berkeley not at Gottingen): geodynamics of Long Valley caldera

Atsuko Namiki (postdoc, UC Berkeley, now Japan Geological Survey): fragmentation of bubbly liquids

Sarah Zaranek (postdoc, now at Math Works): thermal evolution of Mars, convection below the continental lithosphere

Veronika Soukhovitskaya (Berkeley undergraduate, now at Harvard): mass wasting on Mars: wet or dry?

Mark Wenzel (graduate student, UC Berkeley, now AGU congressional fellow); evolution of the Martian interior, dynamics in D"

Martin Saar (graduate student at Oregon and Berkeley, now Assistant Professor at Univ Minnesota); percolation theory and the yield strength of subliquidus basalts; using temperature measurements to study groundwater flow; earthquakes induced by groundwater recharge

Jon Castro (graduate student, Univ Oregon, now at the Smithsonian); obsidian flow dynamics

Helge Gonnermann (graduate student, UC Berkeley, now postdoc at Univ Hawaii); why do volcanoes erupt explosively? experimental studies of mantle convection

Alison Rust (graduate student, University of Oregon, now lecturer at Univ Bristol): rheology of bubbly magmas and lavas; using deformed bubbles to determine strain rate and flow type; formation of tube pumice

Antoine Sinton (visiting UC Berkeley from ENS Lyon): tectonics on Europa

Allen Hunt (Wright State University); motion of bubbles in porous media

Robin Beebee (graduate student at Oregon, now with the Forest Service in Alaska); controls on the timing of volume of snowmelt in the Pacific Northwest

Michael Boone (undergraduate from U Oregon, now a graduate student at UC Davis); hydrologic response to earthquakes; energetics of pyroclastic flows

Chad Dorsey (now at Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance): gravity currents

Bretagne Hygelund (graduate student, now at Sunriver Nature Center); hydraulic and geomorphic effects of large woody debris in streams (Photo of the Cultus River, OR, a spring-fed river with lots of stable wood)

Liz James: hydrogeology of the Oregon Cascades

Dayanthie Weeraratne (graduate student at Brown, postdoc at Carnegie): mantle convection

Jan Stark (high energy Physics PhD student): bubbles in porous media

Nathanael Schaeffer (trying to make a dynamo in France): convection

Julia Hammer (faculty at Hawaii): volcanologist

Taylor Perron (now faculty at MIT); oceans on Mars?

Joel Rowland (now postdoc at Stanford); springs along the Bay Area faults

Other collaborators, past and present

Kathy Cashman (Professor at Univ Oregon); volcanology

Adrian Lenardic (Professor at Rice); plumes and plate tectonics

Francis Nimmo (Professor at UC Santa Cruz): diapirism on Europa (Picture of domes, courtesy of NASA)

Dorothy Koch (Yale): once a geodynamicist, now atmospheric scientist (check out our cover picture for Geophysical Research Letters)

Marshall Gannett (USGS, Portland) and Ken Lite (Oregon Water Resource Department): hydrogeology of the Deschutes River Basin

Jafar Arkani-Hamed (McGill); my undergraduate advisor

Rick O'Connell (Harvard, Earth and Planetary Sciences); one of my two PhD avisors

Howard Stone (Harvard, Applied Sciences); one of my two PhD advisors

Michael with Thorsten Becker (at the German embassy), one of Rick O'Connell's other former graduate students


Europa


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