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)

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

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

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

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. Student (2022-2025)

M.Sc. (University of Tehran, Iran)

B.Sc. (I. Azad Univ.)

* jointly supervised with Alison Malcolm

Project: Analysis of Receiver Functions from northeastern Canada

Dr. Patricia Cadenas - Post-Doctoral Fellow (2022-2024)

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)

Wubamlak Nigussie Alehegn

M.Sc. (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia)

B.Sc. (Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia)

Project: Geophysical characterization of inheritance and tectonic evolution of the southern North Atlantic rifted margins and the East African Rift

Dr. Kate Waghorn

Ph.D. (University of Tromsø, Norway)

M.Sc. (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Project: Assessment of CO2 storage potential, offshore Newfoundland and Labrador

Alexis Johnson

B.Sc. (Memorial University)

* jointly supervised with Alison Malcolm

Project: Assessment of CO2 storage potential in the Whale and South Whale basins, offshore Newfoundland and Labrador

Tyler Nickson

B.Sc. (Memorial University)

Project: Seismic interpretation of the Orphan Basin and Orphan Knoll, offshore Newfoundland

Dr. Benjamin Roque

Ph.D. (Clark University, Mass., USA)

B.A. (Lawrence University, Wisconsin, USA)

* jointly supervised with Alison Malcolm

Project: Using Machine Learning to populate C02 storage models, offshore Newfoundland and Labrador

Simeneh Wassihun Workineh

M.Sc. (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia)

B.Sc. (Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia)

Project: Multi-method geophysical characterization of rifting processes across ancient and present-day rifts

Fenna Ammerlaan

M.Sc. (Utrecht University and University Centre in Svalbard)

at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Project: DEFCON: DEForming CONtinental margins: Post-Caledonides to breakup crustal evolution of the NE Atlantic