Lab Personnel
Group Director
Jeffery A Karson
Jessie Page Heroy Professor and Department Chair: Tectonics & Magmatism of Rifts and Transform Faults
Earth and Environmental Sciences
jakarson@syr.edu
315.443.0281
Faculty Profile
Graduate Students
Christopher Sant
Graduate Student
Earth and Environmental Sciences
cjsant@syr.edu
Past Graduate & Postdoctoral Investigator Projects
M.S. Theses
Aleece F. Nanfito, 2011. Rift-Parallel, Strike-Slip Faulting in Iceland: Kinematic Analysis of the Gljufurá Fault Zone
Matthew T. Kissane, 2012. Investigations into Lava Flow Morphology, Using Field-Scale Basalt Flows
Keegan T. Runnals, 2015. Multiple generations of faulting: A kinematic analysis of the Lagerfljót Region, northeast Iceland
James A. Proett, 2015. Enigmatic rift-parallel, strike-slip faults around Eyjafjörður, northern Iceland
Ph.D. Dissertations
Drew L. Siler, 2011. Structure and Kinematics of Segment-Scale Crustal Accretion Processes in Iceland and Implications for Analogous Mid-Ocean Ridge Systems
Andrew J. Horst, 2013. Structure and Accretion At Mid-Ocean Ridges With High Magma Supply: Perspectives from Seafloor Escarpments and Iceland
Christopher J. Sant, current. Dynamics and Morphology of Large-Scale Experimental Lava Flows
James A. Farrell, current. Kinematics of Regional Strike-Slip Faulting in Iceland: implications for Spreading at Mid-Ocean Ridges and Rifted Margins
Postdoctoral Investigators
Daniel Curewitz (Lecturer, Syracuse University) Syracuse University, 2008-2011, Supported by NSF grants, structural controls on hydrothermal systems in Iceland and the mid-ocean ridge system
Aisha R. Morris (AAAS Congressional Fellow; Director RESSES, UNAVCO), Syracuse University, 2009-2011, supported by Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate Postdoctoral Fellowship, volcanic processes on Earth and Mars