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Last updated January 6th, 2025
CBC Radio - The Signal
On December 13th, 2024, I had the opportunity to take part in The Signal with Adam Walsh on CBC Radio, along with my colleague Alison Leitch, to talk about the science of geophysics and its role in mitigatin challenges related to climate change. Here is the link to the radio broadcast:
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-89-the-signal/clip/16116200-climate-change-thinking-geophysics
Announcing Dr. Michael King!
Today, May 2nd, 2023, Michael King successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled “Investigating the role of continental blocks and their interplay with the Iberia, Newfoundland, and Irish offshore margins using plate tectonic reconstructions”. It was a great performance, with Michael confidently answering all the questions that came his way with ease. Michael will soon be off to start a career in industry. Congratulations, Dr. King!!
Our international superstar!
MAGRiT is currently hosting an international superstar within our midst! Dr. Patricia Cadenas Martinez, a recipient of a prestigious Marie Sklodwoska-Curie Post-doctoral Global Fellowship, is mid-way through her two-year visit with us in NL. She has just been brought into the spotlight in an article in the Memorial University Gazette. Here is the link to the article: https://gazette.mun.ca/research/international-superstars/
Announcing Dr. Michael Dunham!
Today, July 7th, 2022, Michael Dunham successfully defended his PhD thesis, which was entitled: “Semisupervised machine learning algorithms and their application to geoscience classification problems”. Fabulous job, Dr. Dunham! The cake was well deserved!
Double papers in G-Cubed for Michael King!
Michael King, PhD Candidate in the MAGRiT group, has just published two companion papers in AGU’S G-Cubed journal! Here are their citations and links. Both papers are open access so have a read!
King, M.T., and Welford, J.K. (2022). Advances in deformable plate tectonic models: 1. Reconstructing deformable continental blocks and crustal thicknesses back through time, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23, 6, e2022GC010372, doi:10.1029/2022GC010372. (https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2022GC010372)
King, M.T., and Welford, J.K. (2022). Advances in deformable plate tectonic models: 2. Reconstructing the southern North Atlantic back through time, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23, 6, e2022GC010373, doi:10.1029/2022GC010373. (https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2022GC010373)
And now it's Steven's turn!
Steven Lethbridge is now a proud M.Sc. graduate of Memorial University! His M.Sc. thesis was entitled Four-Dimensional Seismic Uncertainty Quantification of the Hebron Field, Offshore Newfoundland, Canada, co-supervised by Alison Malcolm and I. Steven is now moving on to industry but keeping his eyes peeled for potential exciting doctoral projects in the future. Congratulations, Steven!
Congratulations, Miguel!
Miguel Shano is the latest member of the MAGRiT group to graduate. Miguel completed his M.Sc. thesis, Investigating the onshore-to-offshore structure and stratigraphy of the Carboniferous Bay St. George Subbasin, western Newfoundland, in January 2022. He is now moving on to work as a Technical Support Analyst with Seequent. Congratulations, Miguel!
Distinguished Emerging Scholar Award
At the recent Faculty of Science awards ceremony on October 19th, 2021, I was honoured to receive the inaugural Dean of Science Distinguished Emerging Scholar Award. I could not have achieved this honour without the hard work of my undergraduate students, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, past and present. Thank you!
Announcing Dr. Pei Yang
On Tuesday, September 7th, 2021, Pei Yang became the first PhD student in the MAGRiT group to successfully defend her thesis, Investigating the tectonic evolution of the NE Newfoundland-Porcupine Atlantic conjugate margins using new seismic reflection data and deformable plate modelling. Congratulations, Dr. Yang!