MICHAEL MANGA:

Current students and postdocs

Max Rudolph (graduate student): fracture and stresses in planetary ice shells, mud rheology and mud volcano eruptions

Carolina Munoz (graduate student): geothermal systems

John Hernlund (researcher): the basal magma ocean

Peter Olds (graduate student): impact processes

Wim DeGruyter (postdoc): pumice and conduit processes

Benoit Cordonnier (postdoc): magma rheology

Elizbeth Lu, Dr. Helge Gonnermann (now faculty member at Rice), Michael Manga at the EPS graduation, May 2004

Former students and postdocs

Ben Andrews (postdoc, now Smithsonian): pyroclastic density currents and magma mixing

Leif Karlstrom (graduate student, now Stanford postdoc): eruption of flood basalts, dynamics of lava lakes, magma chamber - volcano interactions

Isamu Matsuyama (Miller postdoc, now Univ Arizona faculty): rotational dynamics of solid bodies

Alyssa Sarid Rhoden (graduate student, now NASA postdoc): Europa tectonics

Edwin Kite (graduate student, now Caltech postdoc): super Earth's, Martian geodynamics and surface history

Christian Huber (graduate student, now faculty at Georgia Tech): caldera forming eruptions, plume-slab interactions, Lattice-Boltzmann methods

Helge Gonnermann (graduate student, UC Berkeley, now faculty Rice); why do volcanoes erupt explosively? experimental studies of mantle convection

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

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

Joe Dufek (Miller postdoc, now faculty at Georgia Tech): pyclastic flow dynamics, Martian maars, melt focussing by magma chambers

Jim Watkins (graduate student, now postdoc at Lawrence Livermore): plume-slab interactions, water disffusion in obsidian

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

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

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

Tim Creyts (postdoc, now researcher at Lamont): subglacial hydrology

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

Maurizio Battaglia (postdoc, UC Berkeley): geodynamics of Long Valley caldera

Sarah Zaranek (postdoc, now with Mathworks): thermal evolution of Mars, convection below the continental lithosphere

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

Maria Brumm (graduate student, now living in Seattle): heat flow in the Sierras, earthquake triggering of the Lusi mud volcano eruption

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

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

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

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

Taylor Perron (graduate student, UC Berkeley, now faculty at MIT); oceans on Mars?

Joel Rowland (graduate student, UC Berkeley, now postdoc at Los Alamos); springs along the Bay Area faults

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 teaching high school physics in Maine): gravity currents

Bretagne Hygelund (graduate student, University of Oregon); 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

Other collaborators, past and present

Matt Hornbach (Southern Methodist): IODP 340 science

Simon Cox (GNS New Zealand): earthquake hydrology

Chi Wang (Berkeley faculty): earthquake hydrology

Rob Lillis (researcher SSL, UC Berkeley): history of Martian dynamo

Kathy Cashman (Univ Oregon); volcanology

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

Francis Nimmo (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

Richard Davies (Univ Durham), Mark Tingay (Univ Adelaide) and Richard Swarbrick (Geopressure Technology): eruption of the Lusi mud volcano in Indonesia

Jerry Mitrovica (Univ Toronto): polar wander on Mars

James Roberts (Applied Physics Lab): thermal effects of impacts on Mars

Mike Martin (Advanced Light Source, LBNL): water diffusion in volcanic glasses

Eric Gaidos (Univ Hawaii): super-Earths

Herb Frey (NASA Goddard): impacts on Mars and the history of the Martian dynamo

Tim Rose (LLNL): springs

Olivier Bachmann (ETH Switzerland): evolution of large magma chambers

Former advisors

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

Raymond Jeanloz (UC Berkeley): postdoc advisor

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


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