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Eric Mittelstaedt (Group Director) - Eric is an Assistant Professor at the University of Idaho. He earned his Ph.D. in Geology and Geophysics from the University of Hawaii in 2008. Subsequently, Eric was an NSF International Research Fellow with Anne Davaille at Université Paris Sud in Orsay, France and then a Post-Doctoral Investigator with Adam Soule and Dan Fornari at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Eric arrived at the University of Idaho in January of 2013 where he has since established the Idaho Geodynamics Group. Undertaking studies into a wide range of topics including plume-ridge interaction, faulting, and hydrothermal flow, Eric and his students employ field work, laboratory models, and state-of-the-art numerical simulations to push the boundaries of our knowledge of the Earth.
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Thomas Morrow (Doctoral Student): I am a PhD candidate studying long-term tectonic evolution of oceanic transform faults. I use numerical models, gravity measurements, and structural observations of the sea floor to try and understand how transform faults evolve in response to changes in tectonic plate motions over millions of years. My field areas include active transform faults along mid-ocean ridges and fracture zones that record the history of ancient transforms.
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Emma Niedholdt (undergraduate researcher) is a senior at the University of Idaho earning a degree in Geology. As a member of the Idaho Geodynamics group, she is performing scaled laboratory experiments of entrainment in mantle plumes.
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David Behrens (undergraduate researcher) is working to complete his degree in geology at the University of Idaho. David is using several methods to collect microplastics from sediment cores collected during a 2016 expedition to the the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
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