Current Students:
Graduate Students:
Aubrey LaPlante
Status: Ms Student Project: Timing and kinematics of late Holocene earthquake ruptures in Panamint Valley, California Past Affiliation: BS Geology, Physics Minor, Western Washington University, 2015 Interests: Tectonic geomorphology, neotectonics, geophysics, hazard mitigation, climbing, hiking, roller skating Previous Research: Seismic monitoring of post-wildfire debris flows, Flagstaff, AZ Website: https://aubreylaplante.weebly.com |
Emerson Lynch
Status: PhD Candidate Project: Investigating the relationships between forearc faulting and plate boundary deformation: a case study on the Beaufort Range fault, Vancouver Island, Canada Past Affiliations: BA Mathematics, Smith College; Intern, University of Athens, Greece Interests: Tectonics, Cascadia, and knitting socks Previous Research: Short- and Long-term Uplift in Coastal Washington, Investigating the Influence of Slow Slip Events on Interseismic Coupling on the Cascadia Subduction Zone Website: https://emersonmlynch.weebly.com/ |
Emily Schottenfels
Status: PhD Candidate Project: Structural and geomorphic analysis of the shallow Japan trench margin Past Affiliations: BS with Honors, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Sustainability Minor, University of Michigan, 2015; Student Conservation Association, Resource Management intern, Southeast Arizona National Parks Service, 2015-2016 Interests: Structural geology, plate tectonics, earthquakes, drone surveys, structure from motion, skiing, hiking Previous Research: A Paleomagnetic Exploration of the Sierra Madre Oriental, University of Michigan Senior Honors Thesis |
Co-supervised Graduate Students:
Amani Alabri - (PhD Advisor: Fagherazzi) Quantifying the geomorphic response of landscapes to tectonic and climatic changes: Case study in Northeast and Southeast coasts of Oman
Undergraduate Students:
Amanda Binkley
Status: Northern Arizona University, part-time research assistant Past Affiliations: BS Geology, Northern Arizona University, class of 2020; NASA Space Grant Intern, Northern Arizona University Interests: Planetary Geology, Remote Sensing, training Pokémon Project: Drone-based structure from motion DEM generation and offset analysis for the Ash Hill fault, California Previous research: Coding in Python for the Flagstaff Robotic Survey Telescope project |
Graduate Student Committees:
Naya Deykes, MS NAU
Rachel Forney, MS NAU
Emma Palko, MS NAU
Joshua Burstein, MS NAU
Jacob Clarke, MS NAU
Tim Brickey, MS 2022, NAU
Holly Gregorich, MS 2021, NAU
Rhys Park, MS 2020, NAU
Amani Alabri, PhD, Boston University
Andrew Christ, PhD 2019, Boston University
Chloe Anderson, PhD 2019, Boston University
Rohan Kundargi, PhD 2016, Boston University
Esther James, PhD 2015, Boston University
Rachel Forney, MS NAU
Emma Palko, MS NAU
Joshua Burstein, MS NAU
Jacob Clarke, MS NAU
Tim Brickey, MS 2022, NAU
Holly Gregorich, MS 2021, NAU
Rhys Park, MS 2020, NAU
Amani Alabri, PhD, Boston University
Andrew Christ, PhD 2019, Boston University
Chloe Anderson, PhD 2019, Boston University
Rohan Kundargi, PhD 2016, Boston University
Esther James, PhD 2015, Boston University
Past students, field assistants, & paper co-authors:
Kim Hughes
Status: Earth and Environmental Sciences Major, minor Biology Interests: ethology, evolution, soil ecology, and subjecting pets to the music I've written Project: XRD analysis of fault rocks from Vancouver Island Previous experience: Internship with State Rep. Thomas P. Murt, proposed legislation, high school internship on PROSPECT reactor neutrino experiment at Temple University |
Carina Terry
Status: undergraduate majoring in earth and environmental science Previous experience: Intern in Prof. Duncan Fitzgerald’s Sedimentology lab, learning assistant for Introductory Earth Science Project: Coulomb modeling of stress changes on faults in Northern Cascadia Interests: Ecology, animal behavior, hiking, climbing trees |
Nicole Kulikowski - topographic analyses of the Beaufort Range
Matthew Elliott - sample preparation and data analysis for basin averaged erosion rates
Kaveesh Nair
Status: Graduate of Boston University, BA Geophysics, 2017 Interests: Oil and gas, analyzing geophysical data, geo-puns. "Don't expect perfection from geophysicist/geologist; they all have their faults" Project: Frontal prism structure at the Japan Trench Previous experience: Summer conference with PETRONAS |
Phillip Purvis
Status: Graduate of Boston University, BA Earth Science, 2017 Project: Pegmatites, Pegmatites, Pegmatites! Thesis advisor: Lawford Anderson |