T. Ehlers, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Scientific accomplishments include the contribution of new data and methods for quantifying the Cenozoic tectonic
and topographic evolution of mountain belts. Research emphasizes the integration of geochronologic, geologic, and geophysical data sets
with numerical models of mountain building processes. Todd has recently contributed to quantifying the long-term rates and magnitudes
of alpine glacial erosion, and the kinematic history of the Andean and Himalayan orogens.
Todd will handle manuscripts related to
geochronology, active tectonics, geodynamics, numerical modeling, and other topics as needed.
M. Flower, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, IL, USAMy research involves the interpretation of petrologic and geochemical evidence bearing on the dynamics of the Earth's interior. This focusses
on mantle flow in relation to mid-ocean ridges, intraplate 'hotspots', ophiolites, and magma genesis at convergent and colliding plate
margins. Together with my graduate students, we are studying the causes of mantle melting, developing methods for estimating mantle temperatures
from magma and xenolith chemistry, and tracking mantle flow using Sr, Nd, Pb, O, and Os isotopic 'tracers' in various parts of the world.
I work closely with geophysicists using paleomagnetism, shear-wave splitting, and tomography, and numerical modelers - recently, in the
western Pacific and currently in Vietnam, China, and eastern Europe (Romania). I am particularly interested in mantle and lithospheric
responses to continental plate collisions. Results from our studies in east and southeast Asia, and, more recently, eastern Europe are
helping to clarify possible roles of collision-induced mantle flow in driving lithosphere 'escape', plateau uplift, intraplate volcanism,
and backarc basin opening. Although viewed by some as a departure from classic 'extrusion tectonics' and 'crustal thickening and shortening',
collision-response models of mantle extrusion have received encouraging support. My work emphasizes integration of data from diverse
sources, including petrography, mineralogy, mineral physics,petrology, major and trace element geochemistry, isotope geochemistry, and
geophysical investigations. With my colleagues at the University of Florida, the University of Bucharest, and the Hanois University,
China University of Geosciences, Vietnamese National Center for Science and Technology, I was steering chair of a recently completed
five-year (2001-2005) UNESCO-funded project entitled " Mantle Dynamic Implications for Tethyan Hazard Mitigation
A. Hallam, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
My expertise may be described as follows: Geological history, from the Archaean to the Holocene, involving
environmental change such as climate, sea level and continent-ocean relationships, together with stratigraphic classification. Also those
areas involving the study of fossils insofar as they pertain to environmental change, such as palaeoecology, palaeobiogeography, extinctions
and radiations.
J. Harbor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
My expertise may be described as follows: geomorphology, hydrology, Quaternary geology and Earth Science education research.
A. Miall, University of Toronto, Scarborough, Canada
My expertise may be described as follows: Stratigraphy, sedimentology, regional basin studies. Stratigraphic and tectonic evolution of North America.
D. Nordstrom, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Boulder, CO, USA
My expertise may be described as follows: Geochemistry ranging from mineral chemistry and petrology to the
environmental geochemistry of trace elements in surface and ground waters. Geochemistry of radioactive waste disposal, geothermal chemistry,
analytical methodologies, geochemical modeling, thermodynamic data evaluation, redox species chemistry, ground-water geochemistry, with
a primary emphasis on the environmental geochemistry of acid mine waters.
G. Panza, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
My expertise may be described as follows: Elastic wave propagation, interior structure of the earth, plate tectonics,
earthquake prediction, active tectonics, seismic microzonation of urban settlements and seismic hazard, volcano seismology.
K. Pedersen, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden
My expertise may be described as follows: Intra-terrestrial microbial ecology, Microbiology in disposal
of high level radioactive waste, Microscopy, Origin of life, Molecular ecology
R. Van der Voo, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Rob Van der Voo has research interests in tectonics, dealing with the interplay of geophysics and structural or
sedimentary geology. Regions of the world in which he has an interest include Hercynian Europe, the Appalachians, Central Asia and Tibet,
and the Mediterranean. His own work typically involves paleomagnetism and its fundaments in rock magnetism, magnetostratigraphy, environmental
magnetism, apparent and true polar wander, rotations about vertical axes (as in oroclines), and plate motions.
Rob Van der Voo has research interests in tectonics, dealing with the interplay of geophysics and structural or
sedimentary geology. Regions of the world in which he has an interest include Hercynian Europe, the Appalachians, Central Asia and Tibet,
and the Mediterranean. His own work typically involves paleomagnetism and its fundaments in rock magnetism, magnetostratigraphy, environmental
magnetism, apparent and true polar wander, rotations about vertical axes (as in oroclines), and plate motions.
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