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 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)
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M.Sc. Students
Wubamlak Nigussie Alehegn
M.Sc. (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia)
B.Sc. (Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia)
* jointly supervised with Alison Malcolm
Project: Constructing deformable plate reconstruction models of offshore Newfoundland
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 offshore Newfoundland datasets for CO2 storage and for tectonic studies
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
