- Tenured Faculty
- Tenure-Track Faculty
- Ocean Engineer
- Postdoctoral Research Associate (ocean biogeochemistry)
- Postdoctoral Resarch Positions (multiple areas)
Congratulations to Dr. Bianca Jane Silver on successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis!
Junior/Senior Oral Presentations will be held on Tuesday, May 13th. The schedule will be posted soon.
Congratulations to Dr. Mark Davidson on successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis!
The Spring Final Exam Schedule is now available. Please see here for more details
Congratulations to Debbie Fahey, our department manager, who received the inaugural Donald Griffin '23 Management Award at Princeton's 2008 Service Recognition Luncheon. Other honorees from the department include George Rose (30 years of service), and Geosciences Library staff Patricia Gaspari-Bridges (30 years of service), Sylvia Swain (25 years of service), and Berthalicia Harvey (20 years of service). Congratulations to all. more details
Congratulations to Zhu Mao who has received a Best Student Paper award for her presentation on: Single-crystal elasticity of hydrous wadsleyite to 12 GPa at the Fall 2007 American Geophysical Union Meeting in San Francisco.
Faculty Spotlight for April/May 2008
Allan Rubin joined the faculty in 1992. He is a geophysicist who seeks to combine seismic and geodetic observations with numerical models in novel ways, with the goal of improving our understanding of brittle deformation of the crust. Applications are primarily to regions of active volcanism and faulting.
With recent post-doc Jean-Paul Ampuero he developed numerical and analytical models of earthquake nucleation that have led to new, intuitive ways of understanding the complex equations of friction that seismologists have been using for over 2 decades. By identifying those aspects of the friction law that are most relevant to nucleation, this work has also led to a collaboration with Chris Marone to better constrain those frictional properties through laboratory experiments. Currently, Rubin and post-doc Yajing Liu are trying to extend these concepts to understanding the mechanics of episodic “slow slip and tremor” events that have recently been detected in subduction zones worldwide.Other ongoing projects stem from the use of precise earthquake relocation techniques that enable one to image fault zone structures and earthquake interaction with unprecedented detail. These relocated earthquake catalogs, with relative location accuracies as good as a few meters, have spawned several projects concerning the origin of “streaks” of microearthquakes, the asymmetric distribution of aftershocks of microearthquakes on the San Andreas fault, and elastodynamic models of earthquakes on faults separating rocks with differing elastic properties. Graduate student Enning Wang is currently working in this area.
Interested in what our faculty has been up to for the past year? Guyot Science 2006 is now available as a downloadable pdf file.
Updated 05/02/08