Post-Docs

Host: Professor William Boos

Host: Michael Manga

I am a geoscientist who studies multiphase and multicomponent flows in porous media through modeling, high-resolution simulations and experiments. My work seeks to unravel the complex coupling between multicomponent thermodynamics (phase transitions) and multiphase hydrodynamics (flow instabilities) in geologic multiphase mixtures, and provides mechanistic understanding of their nonequilibrium behaviors. I hope to apply these understandings to advance our predictive capability of multiphase systems in Earth science applications, including sustainable use of fossil fuels through subsurface carbon storage, methane production from gas hydrates and prediction of natural geohazards such as volcanic eruptions and thawing permafrost.

Host: Professor Daniel Stolper 

Research interests: Clumped and position-specific isotope geochemistry of carbonates and organic compounds. Low-temperature metamorphism and organic matter maturation. The kinetics of isotope exchange reactions.

http://eps.berkeley.edu/~mklloyd/

Host: Roland Bürgmann

I am interested in geodetic observations (GPS and InSAR) to characterize the crustal deformation around subduction zones and large strike slip faults. I mainly focus on aseismic transient processes such as slow slip events and postseismic relaxation. webpage

Host: Nicholas Swanson-Hysell

Earth history, Precambrian geology, geobiology, paleoenvironments, diagenesis, paleomagnetism, rock magnetism, X-ray spectroscopy, in-situ microbeam techniques.

Personal website: http://eps.berkeley.edu/~sslotz/

Clay self assembly and defects

Clay/mineral interactions

Carbon Capture and Storage

Phase transformations

Persistent metastability