Nathan Coon successfully defended his master’s thesis titled, “‘Quantifying the invisible’: Using photoelasticity to quantify 3D force distributions in granular systems.” Nathan is building on… Read More
Trevor Van Dyke successfully defended his thesis titled, “UAV imagery and 3D modeling for geological research applications.” Trevor has many years of experience flying drones… Read More
Haley Bix defended her thesis titled, “The effect of size and shape of brittle clasts within a viscous matrix on deformation dynamics: A field and… Read More
Dr. Emily Ross defended her PhD Thesis, “Fault slip behavior and off-fault deformation: An experimental approach.” Emily has seen multiple generations of undergraduate and graduate… Read More
Olivia Marcelli defended her Master’s Thesis titled, “The combined effect of cementation and a fluid phase on force distribution within granular media.” Shae McLafferty also… Read More
Ross et al. (2022) was recently featured as an EOS Research Spotlight in a post by Sarah Derouin, “How Land Deformation Occurs When Fault Sections… Read More
Dr. Tom Birren successfully defended his PhD thesis, “Experimental analysis of semi-brittle deformation: Implications for deformation dynamics.” Tom has been at Iowa State since 2016,… Read More
Lab member Emily Ross was awarded a 2020 AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award for her talk titled “Off-Fault Deformation Due to Changes in Slip Dynamics… Read More
Kyle Bogatz recently defended his Master’s Thesis titled, “Deformation of brittle clasts within a viscous matrix: field and experimental observations.” Kyle leaves us after many… Read More
The Structure Lab has a new paper in press titled The effect of a liquid phase on force distribution during deformation in a granular system. Read More
