Dyanna and Cody spent a week working at the Advanced Light Source Synchrotron at Berkeley National Laboratory. We are using an infrared beam to detect trace amounts of water within deformed quartz grains.
Our University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee – Geosciences Advanced Structural Geology class (Cody Crist, Stephanie Fones, George Meyer, J Schneider, and Vera Soltes) had a fun fieldtrip to west and central Wisconsin looking at Precambrian rocks in the Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire,… Read More
Our Advanced Structural Geology class went on a shear zone filled fieldtrip on September 17-18. We saw the Twelve Foot Falls Shear Zone near Dunbar, WI; the Niagara Fault (with ductile fabrics) near Norway, MI; and the Mountain Shear Zone… Read More
As of August 24, 2020, I’m officially a full Professor at UWM, which indicates I am full of the required gravitas (or as a good friend told me, “Welcome to the Deadwood!”). Seems like a good day to virtually wear… Read More
Congratulations to Chad Martin who successfully defended his MS thesis this May. Chad was one of the intrepid graduate students in our department who finished his degree while we were doing all our work remotely. His thesis was titled “Characterization… Read More