2023

[December] Maggie and coauthors have a new paper accepted in Tectonics on structural restorations in the Gulf of Mexico. Check out the open access article here!

[October] MS students Cam Siegel and Kris Symanski present posters at the fall meeting of GSA in Pittsburgh.

[September] MS student Cam Siegel conducts field work in the Nevada Basin and Range for his project.

[August] The group welcomes MS students Trevor Gunn and Kris Symanski this fall! Trevor will be geologic mapping in the Piedmont, while Kris will be doing thermochronology in the Appalachian foreland.

[June] Maggie received a DNI grant from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund to reconstruct the time-temperature history of a section of the Appalachian foreland basin.

[January] We welcome new PhD student Sarah Gelman to the group! Sarah brings a ton of experience to a numerical modeling based project doing subsidence analysis in the Arctic Alaska basin.

2022

[November] Maggie and coauthors have a new paper in Earth and Planetary Science Letters: George et al.: Aseismic ridge subduction focused late Cenozoic exhumation above the Peruvian flat slab. View article here!

[November]: Maggie is invited to present research via Zoom at the Rifts and Rifted Margins Online Seminar. View youtube of presentation here!

[October]: Maggie is invited as a keynote speaker for East Carolina University's Geoscience Student Research Symposium.

[October]: Tectonic Systems Group goes to the Hyco Shear Zone with emeritus professor Jim Hibbard.

[October]: Maggie presents research on Mesozoic dynamic topography at the GSA conference.

[August]: Welcome to new graduate students Cam Seigel and Dominique Martello! Cam will be doing an MS on tectonic geomorphology in the souther Basin and Range. Dominique will be mapping the Hyco Shear Zone.

[May]: Maggie and coauthors have a new paper in Basin Research: Capaldi et al.: Variable thermal histories across the Pyrenees orogen recorded in modern river sand detrital geo-/thermochronology and PECUBE thermokinematic modelling. View article here!

[April]: Maggie receives EDMAP grant to map the Hyco Shear Zone in the Piedmont of North Carolina

2021

[November]: Maggie is pleased to welcome a baby boy to the world. She will be on maternity leave for the next few months.

[August] Maggie began a new position at North Carolina State University

[1/16/21] Maggie and coauthors have a paper accepted in Geology on 3D thermo-kinematic modeling of the Pyrenees: "Spatio-temporal patterns of Pyrenean exhumation revealed by inverse thermo-kinematic modeling of a large thermochronologic dataset." Find the open access article here.

2020

[12/16/20] Maggie will present her research at AGU today on 3D thermo-kinematic modeling of the Pyrenees

[12/10/20] Maggie will chair an AGU session today on Assessing paleotopography, relief, and elevation across spatio-temporal scales.

[11/6/2020] MS student Nikola Bjelica presents his research on hiatus mapping of Texas.

[11/2/2020] PhD student Adam Mattson published a paper in Results in Geophysical Sciences, titled 3D mapping of intruding salt bodies in the subsurface of the Gulf of Mexico using 3D seismic data

[10/16/2020] Maggie will be giving a talk (via Zoom) for the BEG (UT-Austin) weekly seminar on topography, flexure, and exhumation of the Pyrenees

[10/6/2020] Abstract on  3D thermo-kinematic modeling of a large thermochronology dataset accepted to AGU Fall Meeting.

[8/31/2020] Welcome to Adam Mattson, newest member of the team! Adam will be doing his Ph.D. on salt tectonics in the Gulf of Mexico.

[8/27/2020] Abstract with Kurt Rudolph and Duncan Erratt accepted to GSA Fall Meeting. We will be presenting work using subsidence analysis and flexural modeling to evaluate timing and nature of Paleozoic foreland basin formation.

[8/1/2020] Post-doc Tyson Smith returned from a successful field mission to the Rio Grande Rift of New Mexico. Tyson collected samples and did some reconnaissance for his research linking footwall exhumation, magmatism, and subsidence in the Rio Grande Rift.

[7/30/2020] AGU Fall Meeting session open for abstracts: Assessing paleotopography, relief, and elevation across spatio-temporal scales