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Role Last Name
Past Chuqi Liu
cl108@rice.edu
Spring 2019
Past Munirah Zulkifli
mz31@rice.edu
Fall 2018
Past Hongrui Qiu
Room Number: KWGL 307
hongruiq@rice.edu
website
Google Scholar Link
CV
2019
Keywords:

Fault zone imaging, surface waves, seismic interferometry, 4-D imaging


Research Summary:

My research mainly focuses on Multi-scale imaging and monitoring of the upper crust and Fault Zones. I’m particularly interested in integrating high resolution imaging of fault zone structures, based on fault zone head and trapped waves along with P and S body waves, with larger scale ambient noise tomography for the surrounding crust. Additional research interests include monitoring seismic velocity temporal change, and inverse problem.

Past Meagan Hale
mnh6@rice.edu
Fall 2017
Past Christina Stoner
cas24@rice.edu
Fall 2017
Past James Karroum
James.G.Karroum@rice.edu
Fall 2017
Past Rachael Metruck
Rachael.K.Metruck@rice.edu
Fall 2017
Past Madison Morris
Madison.M.Morris@rice.edu
Fall 2017
Past Anthony D'Souza
apd9@rice.edu
Fall 2018
Past Benxin Chi
Room Number: 170E Dell Butcher Hall
Benxin.Chi@rice.edu

Friend Gallagher Morgan
megirish@rice.edu
Graduated
Friend Lauren M. Simkins

Postdoctoral Research Associate


lsimkins@rice.edu
website
Google Scholar Link
Moved to UVA - July 2018
Keywords:

Glacial geology, marine geology, sedimentology, coastal geology, sea level, paleoclimate


Friend Brian Demet
brian.p.demet@rice.edu
Graduated May 2017
Friend Shuo Ding
shuo.ding@rice.edu
Graduated May 2017
Keywords:

experimental petrology, geochemistry, sulfur, planetary science


Research Summary:

Experimental study and geochemistry modeling on sulfur dissolution in the silicate melts and sulfur distribution in different reservoirs in planetary bodies (Earth, Mars and the moon) .

Friend James Eguchi
(909) 263-9255
james.eguchi@rice.edu

Keywords:

carbon cycle, carbonates, calcite solubility, brines, graphite, eclogite, high P-T experiments


Research Summary:

I use high pressure experiments to study how carbon is moving around and where it eventually ends up within our planet.

Friend Monica Erdman

Ph.D.


monica.e.erdman@rice.edu
Google Scholar Link
Resume
Graduated
Keywords:

Geochemistry, petrology, geodynamics, continental crust, sulfur cycle


Friend Michael Farner

PhD candidate


michael.j.farner@rice.edu
Google Scholar Link
CV
Graduated May 2017
Keywords:

petrology, geochemistry, geology, granite, enclaves, magmatic differentiation


Research Summary:

My research focuses on the physical and chemical processes involved in magmatic differentiation.

Friend Lei Fu
lei.fu@rice.edu
Graduated May 2017
Friend Heath H. Hopson
heath.h.hopson@rice.edu
Resume
Graduated May 2018
Keywords:

Sedimentology, Upper Cambrian, Microbial Bioherm, Andre Droxler


Research Summary:

My current research focuses on the characterization of Upper Cambrian microbial reefs of Mason County, central Texas exposed along certain bodies of water. This project is part of a Microbial Research Consortium consisting of Rice and Trinity University with funding and interaction from Stat Oil, Shell, Exxon, and Conoco Phillips. This research consists of reservoir analysis of the microbial reef complex acting as an analog to large offshore discoveries of pre-salt hydrocarbon deposits of Angola and Brazil.
My specific field area focuses on a very large outcrop on the James River, located on a recently accessible private ranch. The outcrop consists of a laterally extensive pavement of juxtaposed bioherms adjacent to a cliff face revealing bioherm relationships with the inter-reef strata. Using a suite of analytical techniques, we hope to understand the relationship between microbial buildups and their depositional environment, with specific focuses on buildup geometries, microbial macro- and microtextures developed, and the relationship between the buildups and the coeval inter buildup sedimentation.

Friend Jie Hou
jie.hou@rice.edu
Graduated May 2017
Keywords:

Imaging, Inversion, RTM, LSM, Acceleration


Research Summary:

Accelerating Least Squares Migration and Velocity Analysis using an approximate inverse to the extended Born modeling operator

Friend Sarah Huff
sarah.a.huff@rice.edu

Friend Pankaj Khanna
pankaj.khanna@rice.edu
Resume
CV
Graduated Dec 2017
Keywords:

Carbonate Sedimentology, Sequence Stratigraphy, Microbial Reefs, Photogrammetry, Coral Reefs, Reef Morphologies


Research Summary:

Pankaj Khanna is currently working on three projects in his PhD at Rice University. Utilizing latest data-sets (multibeam bathymetry and high resolution drone imagery) the ultimate goal of the PhD is to understand morphological evolution of reefs in different localities around world (Gulf of Mexico - Uppermost Pleistocene Reefs, Maldives - Uppermost Pleistocene/Holocene reefs. and Central Texas - Upper Cambrian Microbial Reefs) and to compare the modern and ancient carbonate systems.

Friend Gary Linkevich
gary.linkevich@rice.edu
website
Graduated May 2018
Keywords:

geophysics, seismology, Galicia, tectonics, extension, passive margins


Research Summary:

The W coast of the Iberian Peninsula is a classic magma-poor rifted margin, where slow crustal hyperextension allowed rising mantle to cool/harden instead of melting. A long, margin-parallel Peridotite Ridge (PR) separates the final prerift material from this trans. zone of exhumed mantle. The PR has been dredged, drilled, and imaged in 2D for over 40 years, but new 3D seismic finally reveals its inner structure and evolution.

Friend Zuolin Liu

Biochar effects on soil hydrologic properties


zuolin.liu@rice.edu
website
Graduated May 2017
Keywords:

hydrogeology, fluid flow in porous media, biochar and soil hydrology, soil physics


Research Summary:

Studying how biochar's physical and chemical properties and amendment rate influence hydrology, water storage, and carbon storage in soil

Friend Chinh Nguyen
ctn2@rice.edu
Graduated May 2016
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