UMass Geomechanics Research Team

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Current resarch team

	Laura Fattaruso PhD candidate. Work optimization analaysis of fault initation
	Hanna Elston MS 2020 Effect of strain rate on fault evolution PhD candidate Long term slip rate variability within strike-slip fault systems
	Grasshopper Anderson-Merritt PhD candidate Evolution of slip events and topography within transpressional strike slip fault systems
	Alana Gabriel BS 2020 non-degree grad Slip rate variability of releasing bends
	Christ Ramos Sanchez MS candidate Topography and evolution of strike-slip faults

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UMass Geomechanics Group guidelines

If you want to know more about how the UMass Geomechanics group operates, check out our research group guidelines at this link. This document makes clear our expectations of each other.

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Former UMass - Amherst Students and post-docs

Former Postdocs and non-degree

• Yuri Paranera, 2018 & 2019 visiting scholar from University of Pavia, Numerical simulations of L'Aquila earthquake Now a post-doc at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology), Saudi Arabia
• Emanuele Bonnano, 2016 visiting scholar from University of Pavia, Numerical simulations of fault growth in kaolin experiments
• Jakub Fedorik, 2015-2016 visiting scholar, University of Pavia, Numerical modeling faults of the Sicily Channel Now post-doc at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology), Saudi Arabia
• Betsy Madden, 2012-2015 postdoctoral researcher. Using working minimization to predict fault development via crack coalescence, now at the New School, California
• Ohilda Difo, 2013, Northeast Alliance student, Off-fault deformation in the Eastern California Shear Zone
• Francesco Luigi Guido 2011, visiting scholar, University of Bologna , modeling of the Montello anticline, Italy
• Mariel Schottenfeld, non-degree grad, Analog modeling of bends in strike-slip fault systems, now at Exxon Mobil
• Mario Del Castello, 2004-2009, postdoctoral researcher, Analog modeling of fault system evolution
• Peter Bridges, Numerical Investigations of fault growth at restraining bends

Fomer PhD students

• Jennifer Hatch (nee Beyer), PhD 2019: Numerical modeling of deformation within restraining bends and the implications for the seismic hazard of the San Gorgonio Pass region, Southern California , now at The Hotchkiss School
• Jess McBeck, MS 2013: Development of GROW, GRowth by Optimization of Work for investigating fault evolution ; PhD 2017, Investigations of the work budget of fault evolution. now Professor at University of Oslo, Norway
• Justin W. Herbert, MS 2011: Mechanical models of the southern Big Bend of the San Andreas fault; PhD 2014:. Work budget of fault development within the sandbox
• J. Ryan Shackleton, PhD 2009,Numerical Modeling of Fracturing in Non-Cylindrical Folds: Case Studies in Fracture Prediction using Structural Restoration,
• Scott T. Marshall, PhD 2008, Deformation Associated with Faulting Within Interseismic and Geologic Timescales, now Associate Professor at Appalachian State University
• Debra Buckzowski , PhD (planetary with McGill) now at APL, John's Hopkins University

Former MS students

• Kevin Toeneboehn , MS 2017. Experiments of slip partitioning under oblique convergence
• Aviel Stern, MS 2016. Fault evolution in the claybox and southern California Now data analyist in Toronto, Canada
• Laura Fattaruso, MS 2014. Fault Geometry of the Coachella Valley segment of the San Andreas Fault, southern California
• Alex Hatem, MS 2014. Claybox modeling of fault evolution within restraining bends, PhD USG now at USGS Golden CO
• Mohammed al Fahmi MS 2012. Fracture patterns at the Dammam Dome, Saudi Arabia, PhD Oxford, now at Saudi Aramco University
• Laura Dair, MS 2009,Boundary Element Method Numerical Modeling: An Approach for Analyzing the complex Geometry and Evolution of the San Gorgonio knot, San Andreas Fault, Southern California. now at ExxonMobil, Houston
• Fariha Islam, MS 2009 (planetary with McGill), Development of polygonal terrain on Utopia Planitia, Mars
• W. Ashley Griffith, MS 2004, 3D Fault Interations within the Los Angeles basin, CA, PhD Stanford now Associate Professor at The Ohio State
• Heather Savage, MS 3D Folding associated with Interacting Faults, PhD Penn State now Associate Professor at UC Santa Cruz
• Susan Murphy, MS Work Budget Anlysi of 2D Fault systems, environmental law
• Erika Machmeyer Davis, MS Folding and Fracturing at Sheep Mountain anticline, WY

Former undergraduate students

• Joe Basile BS 2020, Impact of restraining bend angle on pattern of outboard faulting
• Becky Garriss, BS 2015, Thixotropic and rate effects on wet koalin clay
• Eric Lunn, BS 2015, Influence of restratining bend stepover
• Karl Grette, BS 2013. Role of fault geometry on deformation within the Eastern California Shear Zone
• Ayla Heine Fry BS 2013. Analysis of the Rte 2 landslide triggered by Hurricane Irene
• Steve Buchanan, BS 2012. Claybox models of deformation around restraining bends
• Jessica Moody, BS Amherst College
  
• Erik Olson , BS assesssment of lateral propagation of the Puente Hills thrust fautls
  

Former University of Wisconsin - Madison students

• Ayako Kameda, MS Geophysics 1999, 2D Fault interactions within the Los Angeles basin, CA, PhD Stanford now at Shell Houston TX,
• Peggy Rijken, MS Geological Engineering 1998, Fracture Termination in the Austin Chalk, TX, PhD UT Austin now at Chevron Houston TX,
• Chad Underwood, MS Geology 1999. Fracture termination in the Sillurian Dolomite of Door County, WI, environmental consultant.