Post-Doctoral Fellows

Farzad Gholamian  - Visiting Ph.D. student (2019-2021)


M.Sc. & B.Sc. (Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran)

Project: Structural reconstruction of the Kashan-Ardestan Basin in central Iran

Heide MacMahon -  M.Sc. Student

(2016-2018)


B.Sc. (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)

Larry Sandoval -  M.Sc. Student

(2016-2019)


B.Eng. (Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela)

Tyler Nickson - B.Sc. Honours Student (2020-2021)

Dr. Meixia Geng - Post-Doctoral Fellow

(2016-2018)


Ph.D. (Jilin University, China)

Ederson Villamizar -  M.Sc. Student

(2017-2018)


B.Eng. (Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela)

Ph.D. Students

Chris Williams - M.Sc. Student (2017-2020) * jointly-supervised with Alison Malcolm


B.Sc. (Memorial University)



Project: Understanding the basin evolution of the West Orphan Basin and the conjugate Rockall Basin using seismic megatransects

Project: Developing improved algorithms for constrained 3-D regional gravity inversions over rifted margins

Project: Understanding the basin evolution of the East Orphan Basin and the conjugate Porcupine Basin using seismic megatransects

Project: Seismic stratigraphy and fault analysis of the Northern Carnarvon Basin, offshore NW Australia

Project: Constructing a crustal-scale 3-D Earth model of offshore-to-onshore western Newfoundland using seismic reflection, gravity, magnetic and well data

Project: Application of Full-Waveform-Inversion to a sparse crustal-scale seismic refraction dataset from the eastern Mediterranean

Past Team Members

Christopher Williams - B.Sc. Honours Student (2016-2017)

Project: Rifted margin and sedimentary structure of the Porcupine Abyssal Plain, outboard of Goban Spur, southwest Ireland, from seismic re-processing

Michael Dunham - Ph.D. Student (2017-2022)

* jointly-supervised with Alison Malcolm


M.Sc. (Memorial), B.Sc. (CSM)


Project: Semisupervised machine learning algorithms and their application to geoscience classification problems


Dr. Patricia Cadenas - Visiting Research Fellow (2017)


Ph.D. (University of Oviedo, Spain)

Project: Seismic refraction and gravity modelling in the Bay of Biscay

Project: Investigating the role of continental blocks and their interplay with the Iberia, Newfoundland and Irish offshore margins using deformable plate reconstructions

Miguel Shano - M.Sc. Student (2019-2022)


B.Sc. (Memorial)

Project: Onshore-offshore investigation of the Carboniferous Bay St. George Basin, Western Newfoundland

Memorial Applied Geophysics for Rift Tectonics

Brant Gaetz - B.Sc. Honours Student

(2018-2019)

Project: Building microplate fragmentation models of Mesozoic rift basin evolution, offshore Newfoundland

Miguel Shano - B.Sc. Honours Student

(2018-2019)

Project: Investigating the Barra Volcanic Ridge System in the Rockall Basin using seismic reprocessing and potential field modelling

Dr. Alex Peace - Post-Doctoral Fellow

(2016-2018)


Ph.D. (Durham University, UK)

Project: Assessing the role of magmatic asymmetry in continental breakup, melt production, and passive margin development across the Newfoundland-Ireland conjugate margin pair

Alex Bugden - B.Sc. Honours Student

(2019-2020)


Project: Detailed seismostratigraphy and well log analysis of the Saglek Basin, offshore Labrador, using regional seismic reflection profiles and intersecting wells

Project: Seismic characterization of a buried volcanic seamount on the non-volcanic Orphan Basin rifted continental margin

Steven Lethbridge - M.Sc. Student (2019-2022)

* jointly-supervised with Alison Malcolm


B.Sc. (Memorial)


Project: 4-D Seismic uncertainty quantification of the Hebron field, offshore Newfoundland

Project: 3D gravity inversion using localized meshing and edge detection algorithms for necking domains of rifted margins

Min Yang - Visiting Ph.D. student

(2017-2019)


M.Sc. & B.Sc. (Chang'an University, China)

XinGang Luo - Visiting Ph.D. student (2019-2021)


M.Sc. & B.Sc. (Chang'an University, China)

Project: Edge-depth detection of geological bodies from potential field data

Magnus Oake - B.Sc. Honours Student

(2019-2020)


Yimi Zhang - Visiting Ph.D. student (2021-2022)


M.Sc. & B.Sc. (Chang'an University, China)

Project: Improved 3-D gravity inversion algorithms for spatially focused physical property distributions

Associate Professor

Pei Yang - Ph.D. student (2017-2021)


M.Sc. (China University of Petroleum)

B.Sc. (Northeast Petroleum University, China)

Project: Characterizing the Irish Atlantic rifted continental margins using seismic interpretation and deformable plate models

Ayda Azad

Khorasani


M.Sc. (University of Tehran, Iran)

M.Sc. (I. Azad Univ.)


* jointly supervised with Alison Malcolm

Project: Machine learning for seismic interpretation of faults and horizons, offshore Newfoundland

Zahra Hossein Esfahani


M.Sc. (University of Tehran, Iran)

B.Sc. (I. Azad Univ.)


* jointly supervised with Alison Malcolm

Project: Analysis of earthquake data from Baffin Bay, Canada

Dr. Patricia Cadenas


Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow


Ph.D. (University of Oviedo, Spain)


Project: SUBduction Initiation at MAgma-Poor margins (SUBIMAP): an Atlantic perspective

Dr. Pei Yang - Post-Doctoral Fellow (2021-2022)


Ph.D. (Memorial University)

M.Sc. (China University of Petroleum)

B.Sc. (Northeast Petroleum University, China)

Project: Seismic investigation of the Flemish Cap

Michael King - Ph.D. student (2018-2023)


B.Sc. (Memorial)

Last updated December 6th, 2023

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