NMHU GEOLOGY - Key Persons
Jacob Erickson is a graduate student in the Media Arts and Cultural Technology department at New Mexico Highlands University. He's been involved in film and storytelling since before he received his BFA from NMHU, during which he worked on several small promo video shoots, music videos, and videos for cultural institutions. Following his BFA, he spent a couple of years in AmeriCorps where he recorded more stories through video oral history projects; WWII stories for the New Mexico History Museum, stories about Los Alamos for the Los Alamos Historical Society, stories of makers throughout Northern NM for the New Mexico History Museum, and a larger documentary story about the Segessor Hide Paintings for the New Mexico History Museum. As part of his master's degree, he worked on the Jemez Historic Visitor Center re-design on a projection mapping project and an oral history documentary video about the Jemez People told in the Toa language. The opportunity to film research and cultural documentaries was an amazing chance to showcase his skills in an international setting, as well as getting to test his grit with living abroad. His professional career aim is to tell stories in new and emerging ways, for example using 360-degree video and immersive design to take the viewer to a new reality, give them a firsthand perspective in events and let them explore different individual lives and vast worlds for themselves.
Lindline is Professor of geology and brings more than eighteen years of field experience in mapping igneous and metamorphic terranes and evaluating the field relations, mineralogy, and chemical compositions of these rocks. She interprets rock genesis via optical, powder x-ray diffraction, geochemical, and electron microprobe analysis. She has studied the role of igneous processes in contributing to the thermal history and chemical evolution of the crust in the Coast Mountains orogen in southeastern Alaska, the Mazatzal orogen in north-central New Mexico, the Cienega and Cerros del Rio volcanic fields, New Mexico, and the Tertiary British Igneous Province, Scotland. She has researched the effects of magma mingling and mixing on magma chamber dynamics and documented physical and geochemical linkages between volcanic and plutonic systems.
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- Professor of Geology at CU
Jiri Žák is Professor of Geology at CU and Director of the Continental Tectonics Group. His IRES mentoring expertise covers a wide range of topics related to geologic evolution of continental crust from magmatic systems from migmatites through batholiths to surface volcanic processes, with a particular focus on tectonic setting and emplacement of granite plutons. Other research he has directed is related to dynamics of Precambrian accretionary wedges and mélange formation. He has pursued various tectonic studies in ancient collisional orogens and active margins in Europe, North America, and Antarctica with collaborations with a broad research network established with numerous colleagues from the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, and United States. His IRES mentoring activities include detailed field mapping, AMS, U-Pb geochronology, petrology, geochemistry, and numerical modeling.Type your paragraph here.
Kristof Verner is an expert on magma emplacement and structural geology at the CGS, Prague, Czech Republic. He is a field oriented researchers who studies structural geology and tectonics, emplacement of magmatic rocks and the interplay between magmatic and tectonic processes. His direct IRES mentoring expertise include the application AMS, electron backscatter diffraction methods, petrology of magmatic rocks, and geological mapping of the magmatic complexes and high-grade rocks. His experience and expertise will provide strong support to the IRES students in linking the measured AMS fabrics with the rock petrography and interpreting the data. He is the current President of the Czech Geological Society.
Sindy Lauricella is a masters student at New Mexico Highlands University studying Natural Science with a concentration in Geology. She has been involved in a wide range of environmental science and geophysics studies throughout her college career. Sindy has participated in two IRES expeditions and in multiple Natural Science conferences presenting her master's thesis that focuses on magma emplacement characteristics and paleomagnetic analysis on a 20 million old volcano in the Czech Republic, granted by her first 2018 IRES opportunity. She has attended two Geological Society of America conferences including the Materials Research Society conference in Boston and Washington, D.C. In 2019, IRES selected Sindy Lauricella to participate as a mentor and field assistant for new upcoming research students. These experiences have encouraged Sindy to become a better geologist and improve her knowledge and passion for her degree all thanks to a once in a lifetime opportunity such as the IRES grant.
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- Professor of Volcanology at Laboratoire Magmas
van Wyk de Vries is Professor of Volcanology at Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans (LMV), Université Blaise Pascale, Clermont-Ferrand, France. He speaks fluent English, French, and Spanish and teaches and works in all three languages. His IRES mentoring includes a strong organizational capacity to the project from experience managing natural disasters and geotechnical projects, as well as managing the teaching and research parts of LMV. He is presently also the coordinator for the International Master degree program at LMV and International Relationship coordinator for the laboratory. He has a large group of PhD students working on collaborative projects with Czech Republic, Italian, UK, Ireland, Switzerland, US and Latin American colleagues, and supports many masters' projects. His direct IRES mentoring expertise include a broad range of structural geology, tectonic and volcanological applications, founded on a long career in academia, government hazard and risk organizations, and industry.