News

Structures, Caves, and Coasts Field Trip | Portugal 2021
Now accepting applications for the Geol 406/506 course to Portugal! The field trip will depart Des Moines on Jan. 1st, 2021… Read More

March 10, 2020
Congratulations Chris!
The Structure Lab would like to congratulate Chris Ladd for successfully defending his Masters Thesis titled “An experimental analysis of force distribution in a two-phase… Read More

February 21, 2020
Ring shear device up and running!
Nearly 2 years after its conception, the Structure Lab’s ring shear device is up and running. The soothing green glow is from a laser sheet… Read More

November 15, 2019
Jacqueline Reber earns NSF CAREER award
Congratulations to Dr. Jacqueline Reber, assistant professor in geology, who has been awarded a National Science Foundation 2019 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, one… Read More

July 19, 2019
Congratulations Jeremy!
Everyone at The Structure Lab would like to congratulate Jeremy Randolph-Flag for successfully defending his Master’s thesis: Experimental analysis of the effect of grain size… Read More

September 6, 2018
AMTP meeting report in Eos
Last spring’s Analog Modeling of Tectonic Processes conference got a write up in this month’s Eos. Check it out. Read More

November 9, 2017
GSA 2017
Jacqueline, Tom, and Jeremy recently returned from the 2017 National GSA meeting in Seattle. Jacqueline presented a talk on her numerical modeling… Read More

November 2, 2017
AMTP Conference
Last week, we participated the in the Analog Modeling of Tectonic Processes conference in Austin, TX. The workshop, organized by Jacqueline as well as Liz… Read More

May 25, 2017
Macalester Visit
In February, Dr. Alan Chapman from Macalester College brought his Structural Geology class to our lab in Ames using support from the UMass Analog Modeling… Read More

April 18, 2017
Congrats to Emily Ross!
Emily (Carleton College ’17) has been awarded the Watson Fellowship for international study and travel in the 2017-18… Read More

March 27, 2017