Nancy Carman’s thesis available online
Nancy Carman’s MS thesis is now available online through UWM’s Digital Commons. Check out her work!
Nancy Carman’s MS thesis is now available online through UWM’s Digital Commons. Check out her work!
GO FoRWARD is an NSF-funded program to introduce underrepresented students to the geosciences major, research, and career opportunities. Dyanna heads the program. This year graduate students Kayla Kopinski and Eric Schuemann were mentors for the Rocks research group. Our students… Read More
After a (too) long hiatus, I was happy to be out in the field last week in the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota with University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS student Eric Schuemann (seen here hard at work) and our colleagues… Read More
Congratulations to Falyn Strey who successfully defended her MS thesis today! Her thesis title is “Fluid flow and deformation: exploring the relationships between fluid flow, deformation mechanisms, quartz crystallographic preferred orientation fabric development, and kinematics in the Willard thrust fault,… Read More
Congratulations to Eric Schuemann who was awarded a Tobacco Root Geological Society Grant for his MS project “Strain development and partitioning across a transpressional shear zone along a quartzite- metagabbro contact in the Black Hills Orogeny, South Dakota.” We are… Read More
Congratulations to Nancy Carman who successfully defended her MS thesis titled “Analyzing strain localization, kinematic partitioning and fluid flow in the Pulo do Lobo metasedimentary rocks along the Southern Iberian Shear Zone, Andalucia, Spain.” This is part of our NSF… Read More
Chad Martin is our latest MS graduate from the Structural Geology group at UWM. He follows the footsteps of some of our other group alumni and just started a new job at GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. Way to go, Chad! … Read More
Congratulations to Nancy Duque who was awarded a $2500 Geological Society of American Graduate Student Research Grant for her project “Analyzing strain, kinematic partitioning and fluid flow along a strain gradient in metasedimentary rocks along the Southern Iberian Shear Zone,… Read More
Me’le’sa Greene, one of the undergraduates who worked in our structure group, secured a new LTE job at the Milwaukee office of the Wisconsin DNR post-graduation. She started her position during the COVID-19 crisis, so is working remotely so far,… Read More
A few indefinite postponements due to the COVID-19 crisis in our structure group: most notably the GO-FORWARD summer program this year and the next round of fieldwork in Spain with the undergraduate group. We also have indefinitely postponed fieldwork and… Read More