Structural Petrology Lab members
Current Lab Members:
Dr. Cailey B. Condit
Assistant Professor 2020- present | She/her | Cailey's CV [email protected] Currently, Cailey's work is focused on the rheology of the subduction plate interface below and around the base of the seismogenic zone, the deformation and rheology of Ca- and Na-amphibole, the geologic and petrologic signatures of ETS, and how the thermal structure of subduction zones influence the strength and chemical evolution of these zones. She's also intersted in the water cycle in subduction zones (hydration, dehydratiation, transport, work etc), the geophysical signatures of various chemical and mechanical transformations, and developing new petrochronologic techniques to directly date these processes (e.g, monazite and apatite petrochronology & textural analysis). She also extends her work on rheology, petrology, and tectonics into continental collisional systems, working in the Precambrian rocks at the base of the Grand Canyon and SW Montana. |
Postdoctoral Researchers:
Dr. Will Hoover
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow 2021-2023; Currently Postdoctoral Scholar | He/him [email protected] | Will's CV Will's research focuses on the movement of fluids and fluid-rock reaction in subduction zones and how they impact deformation and seismic hazards. He investigates how fluid movement can be a cause and consequence of seismicity, how fluid-rock reaction and deformation can feedback into one another, the timescales of fluid transport and deformation, and the ways that fluid chemistry controls the extent of fluid-rock reaction.He combines structural, petrologic and geochemical methods applied to exhumed paleo-subduction terranes in the Alps, Southern California and beyond. Check out some of Will's most recent papers Will also works closely with Dr. Fang-Zhen Teng using novel stable isotopes. |
Dr. Gabe Epstein
Postdoctoral Scholar 2022-2023; Currently NSF Postdoctoral Fellow | He/Him e[email protected]; [email protected] Gabe's investigates the chemical and geodynamic evolution of subduction zones through field studies of exhumed terranes, metamorphic phase equilibria modeling, stable isotope geochemistry (B, C, O, N), and geodynamic modeling. His current research focuses on mantle wedge hydration in subduction zone forearcs and the impact this process has on deep forearc rheology and volatile storage. Gabe is an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow with a dual appointment at University of Miami (FL). His postdoc project is in collaboration with Dr. Adam Holt & Dr. Victor Guevara. Check out Gabe's most recent publications here! |
Graduate Students:
Jason N. Ott
PhD Student 2020-2023; PhD Candidate 2023 - Present; He/Him [email protected] | Jason's CV To better understand amphiboles and their role in subduction zone dynamics, Jason's PhD work is focused on the strength and deformation mechanisms of amphibole sodic amphiboles in high-pressure/high-temperature laboratory experiments. He uses mechanical data collected during the experiments, and microstructural data collected from the recovered, deformed samples. He also is intersted in seismic anisotropy produced by these amphibole, and how these experimental results to compare naturally deformed amphibole from exhumed subduction complexes. Check out some of Jason's Masters publications here and here *also on amphibole but it's thermodynamic stability during subduction* Jason's PhD work is in close collaboration with Dr. Matej Pec. |
Peter C. Lindquist
PhD Student 2020- 2023; PhD Candidate 2023-Present; He/Him [email protected] Peter is interested in feedbacks between deformation, metamorphism, and fluid production in subduction zones. He has applied petrologic modeling to explore metasomatic processes at the conditions of slow slip and tremor in modern subduction zones, and his current work is focused on the geologic record of metabasalt dehydration in the Catalina Schist and the impacts of metamorphic fluids on deformation near the plate interface and serpentinization in the mantle wedge. Check out Peter's first PhD paper on slow slip, talc, and subduction in Mexico here and a feature on this work in EOS! Peter closely collaborates with Dr. Victor Guevara and Postdoc Will Hoover. He is also UW grad student union UAW 4121 Department Steward for ESS. Solidarity! |
Nicole Aikin
NSF Graduate Research Fellow; PhD Student 2021 -present; she/her [email protected] | Nicole's CV Nicole is exploring the characteristic rates, tempos and feedbacks of key geologic processes affecting the strength of the middle crust during orogenesis. Using the gorgeous exposure of the Grand Canyon as a natural laboratory, her work integrates field observations with mineral textures, high-resolution chemical mapping, and in-situ monazite and xenotime geochronology to link chemical age dates from the electron microprobe to metamorphic accessory mineral forming reactions. Ongoing efforts to incorporate petrologic models and detailed microstructural analysis will allow her to turn her metamorphic DATES into tectonic RATES through characterizing the dynamic, 4-D evolution of metamorphism and ductile deformation during this Paleoproterozoic mountain-building collision! Nicole works closely with Dr. Mike Williams, Dr. Karl Karlstrom, and Dr. Chloe Bonamici She is also the GSA Geochron Division Diversity Coordinator (2019-Present) |
Sophie Johnson
PhD Student 2023- present [email protected] Sophie spent the last couple of years unraveling the transitional subduction to subsidence setting of a group of Ordovician aged metamorphosed volcanic and sedimentary rocks now exposed in coastal Maine. They are excited to begin their graduate program at the University of Washington as a member of the Structural Petrology of the Lithosphere lab and hope to broadly explore petrology, rheology, and tectonics, especially on more geologically recent time scales. Their first project will be focused on lower crustal xenoliths from a lithospheric drip in Colombia! |
Undergraduates/Post-graduates:
Are you an ESS Student interested in working with our group? Reach out to Cailey or any of her postdocs/students and we can see if we've got a project for you!
Are you an ESS Student interested in working with our group? Reach out to Cailey or any of her postdocs/students and we can see if we've got a project for you!
Former Group Members
Postdocs
Dr. Eirini M. Poulaki - Postdoctoral Scholar, 2022-2023 - Now Assistant Professor at Miami University, FL
Undergraduate Researchers
Grif Easthous - Undergraduate Honors student (2022-2023); Postback researcher (2023)
Nicole Ferrie - Undergraduate Honors student (2021-2022) - Now a PhD student at UT-Austin
Dr. Eirini M. Poulaki - Postdoctoral Scholar, 2022-2023 - Now Assistant Professor at Miami University, FL
Undergraduate Researchers
Grif Easthous - Undergraduate Honors student (2022-2023); Postback researcher (2023)
Nicole Ferrie - Undergraduate Honors student (2021-2022) - Now a PhD student at UT-Austin