4:00 – 4:10 PM – Cin-Ty, Pankaj opening remarks – Kick off for IRESS 2017, Leg 3- AAPG RIGS – Room 100
4:10 – 7:00 PM – 28 student posters +networking event – Earth Science Patio
30th September – Student Posters | ||
Sedimentology | ||
Andrew J. Moodie | PhD | A quasi-2D delta-growth model accounting for multiple avulsion events, validated by robust data from the Yellow River delta, China |
Brandee Carlson | PhD | The coastline evolution of an abandoned deltaic lobe and the fate of its relict distributary channel: a case study from the Huanghe (Yellow River) delta, China |
Chenliang Wu | PhD | Backwater control on deltaic stratigraphy, Western Irish Namurian Basin, County Clare, Ireland |
Christopher I. Odezulu | PhD | Follets Island: a case of unprecedented change and transition between rollover and subaqueous shoals |
Eric Barefoot | PhD | Breakdown of Fractal Characteristics in Small Stream Hydraulic Geometry |
Hongbo Ma | Postdoc | On the exceptional sediment load of subaqueious fine-grained dispersal environment: the appealing case of the lower Yellow River, China |
Pankaj Khanna | PhD | Uppermost Pleistocene Coralgal Reefs and Upper Cambrian Microbial Bioherms: Morphologies and Sea Level-Induced Evolution |
Pulkit Singh | PSM | Ultimate demise of large upper cambrian microbial reefs (Mason County, Central Texas) |
Tian Dong | PhD | Controls on gravel termination in seven distributary channels of the Selenga River delta, Baikal Ruft Basin, Russia |
Structure & Tectonics | ||
Chia-Jui Chang | PSM | A Study on deep crustal Structure and its tectonic implications of southwestern Taiwan from seismic reflection profiles |
Daniel Woodworth | PhD | Pacific Plate Deformation due to Plate Motion Relative to the Spin Axis on a Nonspherical Earth |
David Blank | Masters | Investigating slip mode variability along a simulated granular shear zone using the discrete element method |
Harsh Vora | PhD | The normal compaction of clay rocks is fundamental for understanding overpressure |
Luan C. Nguyen | PhD | Quantitative restoration the Gulf of Mexico continental margins based on a newly-derived, basin-wide, crustal thickness map |
Tamunoisoala LongJohn | PhD | Effect of Particle Size on Rock Shear Strength: A Discrete Element Model Study |
Tuo Zhang | PhD | Deformation of North America – South America diffuse plate boundary: Where is the pole of relative rotation currently located? |
Geochemistry | ||
Joyeeta Bhattacharya | PhD | Eocene carbonate dissolution events in the North Pacific Ocean |
Julia M. Ribeiro | Postdoc | The role of the forearc mantle in the deep water cycle in cold subduction zones: importance of supra-slab sources of water in arc magmas |
Sarah Paschal Gerenday | Undergrad | Evolution of South African cratonic peridotites based on micro-XRF mapping and reconstruction of bulk rock compositions |
Sofia Avendano | Undergrad | Experimental Determination of Coalescence Rates in High Viscosity Liquids |
Geophysics | ||
Chenhao Yang | PhD | Stress-induced travel time variations at SAFOD revealed by continuos cross-well active source monitoring |
Gary Linkevich | Masters | 3D Seismic Observations of the Peridotite Ridge in the Deep Galicia Margin |
Guangchi Xing | PhD | Effects of shallow density structure on the inversion for crustal shear wave speeds in surface wave tomography |
Jia Shi | PhD | Elastic full-waveform inversion with surface and body waves on the three-dimensional unstructured tetrahedral meshes |
Min Chen | Postdoc | Lithospheric foundering and underthrusting imaged beneath Tibet |
Nur Schuba | PhD | New Characterization of the S-reflector from Galicia Margin, Offshore Spain |
Zhe Guan | PhD | Accurate focal depth determination of oceanic earthquakes using water-column reverberations |