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PhD Defense Seminar of Meredith Meyer

Mitchell 121B 104 South Road, Chapel Hill, United States

The Influence of Phytoplankton Productivity and Molecular Physiology on Biogeochemical Dynamics of Two Contrasting Ocean Environments   Understanding the controls on oceanic primary production is crucial to elucidating it’s influence on global biogeochemical cycling, ocean health, and climate regulation under … Read more

Sydney Macguire – MS Proposal Defense

Mitchell 121B 104 South Road, Chapel Hill, United States

A 2-MY HISTORY OF SLIP ALONG THE GARLOCK FAULT ZONE, EASTERN CALIFORNIA The question of how major intracontinental fault systems accommodate changes in the lithospheric strain field is paramount to our knowledge of plate boundary systems, yet reconstructing high-fidelity records of … Read more

MS Defense Seminar of Daniel Goldman

Mitchell 121B 104 South Road, Chapel Hill, United States

Apatite in retrogressed eclogites and phosphorous cycling in the slab-mantle interface Phosphorus is a biocritical element that cycles almost exclusively through solid and liquid phases at the Earth’s surface. However, its cycling in subduction zones is not fully understood. Apatite … Read more

MS Defense Seminar of Damian Donoso-Tapia

Mitchell 121B 104 South Road, Chapel Hill, United States

Exhumed serpentinites and their tectonic significance in non-collisional orogens Exhumed serpentinites represent fragments of ancient ocean floor or mantle wedge that record fluid-rock interactions and metasomatism by seawater- or sediment-derived fluids. While common in suture zones after closure of ocean … Read more