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Past Austin Blaser
austin.blaser@gmail.com
Graduated August 2016
Keywords:

volcanism, Hawaii, two-phase flow, bubbles, solubility, numerical modeling, deformation


Research Summary:

My thesis focused on how magma is transported from depth to the surface at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii. A great natural laboratory for this is Hawaii, where a long-lived eruption is ongoing (1983-present).

Past David G. Blank
Room Number: KWGL 232B
dgb3@rice.edu
Fall 2015
Past Kimberly Birjue
kab20@rice.edu

Adjunct Kevin Biddle
Room Number: 218
(713) 348-4675
KevinBiddle@mac.com

Past Joyeeta Bhattacharya
Room Number: KWGL 212
(832) 705-5499
jb79@rice.edu
website
Google Scholar Link
CV

Keywords:

Sedimentology, Stable Isotope Geochemistry, Carbon Cycle, Marine Geology, Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography


Research Summary:

I am currently working on deep marine sediments to understand what impact climate changes (especially through Eocene) had on ocean floor sedimentation. My other interest is to tie up these deep ocean sedimentary dynamics with changes in deposition pattern in shallow marine setting in times of extreme warmth, like PETM and early Eocene Hyperthermals.

PhD Student Ben Belzer
Room Number: KWGL 210
bb33@rice.edu
Fall 2017
PhD Student Katherine Begland
klb@rice.edu
Fall 2017
Visiting Scientist Caroline Beghein
Room Number: 318
Caroline.Beghein@rice.edu
website
Google Scholar Link
Spring 2017
Keywords:

Earth’s interior, transition zone, D”, mantle deformation, seismic tomography, seismic anisotropy, mantle, inner core, forward modeling, surface waves, free oscillations, lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary, mantle flow, inverse problems


Research Summary:

I focus on modeling Earth’s interior using seismic tomography, i.e. I use seismic data and numerical methods to image the structure of the Earth’s interior, with the ultimate goal of understanding the physical processes that take place inside our planet. I also put a particular effort into obtaining reliable model uncertainties and assessing the robustness of the features seen in those models.

Staff Dagmar K. Beck

Director, Professional Science Master's Program


Room Number: 203 Keck Hall
(713) 348-3188
dkbeck@rice.edu
website

Keywords:

Managing programs in Subsurface Geoscience, Environmental Analysis, Nanoscale Science, Bioscience and Health Policy and Space Studies in the Wiess School of Natural Sciences and engineering professional master's in Computational Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Statistics, Chemical and Bimolecular Engineering, Bioengineering, Material Science and Nanoengineering, Civil Environmental Engineering, and others


Past Tanyel Baykut
Room Number: KWGL 210
7135604080
tanyel@rice.edu
website
Google Scholar Link
Resume
Fall 2018
Research Summary:

My Master’s research will focus on reef upper slope morphologies in Belize and in particular focusing on identify drowned Terraces, Notches, and Overhangs and other morphological features, among them, drowned Barrier Reefs and Spurs and Groves. My initial research, starting in Spring 2019 semester and 2019 summer, will consist of processing the MBES data sets and then display the overall bathymetry of Lighthouse Reef upper slopes, develop some interpretation in terms of sea level fluctuations in the Late Quaternary mostly in the water depth range of a few m down to 150 m, and perhaps in the Plio-Early Quaternary for the depth range as deep as 400m.

Past Kyle Bartsch
kcb7@rice.edu

Past Eric A. Barefoot
Room Number: KWGL 230B
(336) 416-3323
eric.barefoot@rice.edu
Fall 2016
Friend Yifei Bao
Yifei.Bao@rice.edu
Fall 2015 - Graduated May 2017
PhD Student Asmita Banerjee
Room Number: KWGL 322
ab98@rice.edu
Fall 2017
Past Albert W. Bally

Emeritus Professor


albert.w.bally@gmail.com
Google Scholar Link

Keywords:

geology, exploration geophysics


Research Summary:

Bert, former head of research at Shell and past chair of the department, is a geologist who brings together geophysics and field relations to investigate the origin and evolution of mountain belts and sedimentary basins

Adjunct Dorothy Ballentine
doro@rice.edu

Past Kendra Baldwin
klb9@rice.edu

Friend Shola Ayandele
olusolapo.ayandele@rice.edu
Graduated May 2018
Friend Sofia Avendano
sta1@rice.edu
Graduated May 2017
Past Hans Ave Lallemant

Emeritus Professor


ave@rice.edu

Keywords:

structural geology


Research Summary:

Hans is a structural geologist interested in how the crust deforms during mountain building and along transform margins.

Past Farah Ashraf
farah.ashraf@rice.edu
Graduated May 2016
Postdoctoral Fellow Jeanine Ash

Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Postdoctoral Investigator


jeanine.ash@rice.edu
Google Scholar Link

Keywords:

clumped isotopes, biogeochemistry, methane, deep biosphere, IODP


Past Naod Araya
nya1@rice.edu

Emeritus John B. Anderson

Former Maurice Ewing Professor of Oceanography


Room Number: KWGL 208
(713) 348-4884
johna@rice.edu
Google Scholar Link

Keywords:

sedimentology, marine geology, cryosphere studies


Research Summary:

John, a sedimentologist, splits his time between studying fluvial and coastal processes in the Gulf of Mexico and the geological record of ice sheet movements in Antarctica, all in the context of Global Climate Change.

PhD Student Sydney Allen
Room Number: KWGL 325
sydney.m.allen@rice.edu
Fall 2018
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