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
The Structure Lab congratulates Claire Ruggles for successfully defending her Masters Thesis titled, A multiple-pulse emplacement model for the Shonkin Sag laccolith, MT. Claire will… Read More
