...................Burbank Lab 2005-06....................................................Pie Night 2007

Graduate Students

Brian Clarke: PhD: Rock strength, erosion rates, climate, and tectonics of Fiordland and the Southern Alps

Buster Brian bathing in Peru and cracking up the rental car in NZ

Dylan Rood: Miocene-to-Recent transtentional evolution of the eastern Sierra Nevada

SEGRF fellowship, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, 2006-2009

Richard Lease: Upward and outward growth of the NE Tibetan Plateau

Richard's website: http://www.crustal.ucsb.edu/~rlease

Publication: Lease, R., Burbank, D.W., Gehrels, G.E., Wang, Z., and Yuan, D., 2007, Signatures of mountain building: Detrital zircon U-Pb ages

from northeast Tibet, Geology, v. 35; p. 239–242; doi: 10.1130/G23057A.1

Joseph Goode: PhD: a) knickpoints, sediment flux, and channel evolution

Joseph on "Death Row" Joseph being tutured by a 5 year old.

G. Burch Fisher: PhD: Climate-tectonic interactions in the Himalaya

.......Burch being a Tuf(a) guy ..........looking for stimulation (luminescence)

visit Burch's website for the real scoop

Jessie Thompson: PhD: Continental Indentors

.......... ..........new Arch supports .......... ....... ............. .......... ..........lookin' her best!

Honghua Lu (PhD visiting student from Beijing: 2007-2008

Postdoc Cecile Bonnet-Matzinger (2007-2008)

.......In NE Tibet, October 2007

Bonnet, C., J. Mosar, and J. Malavieille (2007), Interactions between tectonics, erosion and sedimentation during the recent evolution of the Alpine orogen - Analogue modeling insights: Tectonics, v. 26, TC6016, doi:10.1029/2006TC002048.
Bonnet, C., Malavieille, J. & Mosar, J. (2007): Surface processes versus kinematics of thrust belts: impact on rates of erosion, sedimentation and exhumation – Insights from analogue models, Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France; in press.
Mosar, J., Bonnet, C. & Malavieille, J. (2007): Swiss Molasse Basin dynamics: Insights and lessons from analogue modeling, Basin Research;submitted.
Bonnet, C. (2007): Interactions between tectonics and surface processes in the Alpine foreland: Insights from analogue model and analysis of recent faulting, Geofocus 17, PhD thesis (University of Fribourg), 189 pp.

PhD thesis online

Recent PhD & MS

Dick Heermance: PhD: Reconciling geologic and geodetic rates in the Chinese Tien Shan

(Feb, 2007: Mendenhall Postdoc, USGS, Tucson)

exercising in the Tian Shan, NW China

connect to Dick's website

Heermance, R.V., Chen, J., Burbank, D.W., and Wang, C., 2007, Chronology and tectonic controls of Late Tertiary deposition in the southwestern Tian Shan foreland, NW China: Basin Research, v. 19, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2117.2007.00339.x, pp. 34

Colin Amos: PhD: Evolution of the Ostler Fault zone, New Zealand

(Now with William Lettis & Associates, Oct. 2007)

Big game hunter returns from successful trip to local salmon farm, then takes out frustration on a New Zealand rock

for a more balanced view, try Colin's website

Publications:

Amos, C.B., and Burbank, D.W., Uplift driven adjustments in channel width from deformed wind gaps: Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface

Amos, C. B., D. W. Burbank, D. C. Nobes, and S. A. L. Read (2007), Geomorphic constraints on listric thrust faulting: Implications for active deformation in the Mackenzie Basin, South Island, New Zealand, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B03S11, doi:10.1029/2006JB004291. 24 pp.

Bill Craddock: MSc: Width scaling in Himalayan bedrock rivers; rock strength and hillslope scaling

Bill, supporting the indigenous population (of leaches) in Nepal

Now at Penn State working with Eric Kirby in NE Tibet

Willy Amidon: MSc: U/Pb detrital mineral studies in Nepal;

now at Caltech working with Ken Farley on cosmogenic 3Helium in zircon.

Publications: Amidon, W H., D W. Burbank, and G E. Gehrels, in press, U-Pb zircon ages as a sediment mixing tracer in the Nepal Himalaya: EPSL.

Amidon, W.H., , Burbank, D.W., and Gehrels. G.E., in review, Construction of foreland mineral populations: insights from mixing of U-Pb zircon ages in Himalayan rivers: Basin Research

Ken Davis: MSc 2003: "Fault growth and segment linkage in the Ostler fault zone, New Zealand"

Now: Peace Corps, Ukraine: 2004-06

Webpage: http://www.crustal.ucsb.edu/~davis/

Publication:Davis, K., Burbank, D.W., Fisher, D., Wallace, S., and Nobes, D., Fault growth and segment linkage in the Ostler fault zone, New Zealand: Journal of Structural Geology.

Alison Duvall: MSc 2003: "Tectonic and lithologic controls on bedrock channel profiles and processes in coastal California"

Now at U Michigan working in NE Tibet with Marin Clark

Beth Pratt: PhD: Geomorphology and glacial chronology Himalaya

Now assistant professor: Central Washington University

connect to Beth's website

Publications: Pratt-Sitaula, B., Garde, M., Burbank, D.W., Oskin, M., Heimsath, A., and Gabet, E., Bedload ratio, regional erosion rate, and rapid bedrock incision from Himalayan landslide-dam lake record: Quaternary Research, in revision.

Pratt-Sitaula, B., Burbank, D.W., Heimsath, A., Ojha, T., 2004, Landscape disequilibrium on 1000 to 10,000 year scales: Marsyandi River, Nepal, central Himalaya: Geomorphology, v. 58, p. 223-241.

Gabet, E.J., Burbank, D.W., Putkonen, J.K., Pratt-Sitaula, B.A., and Ojha, T., 2004, Rainfall thresholds for landsliding in the Himalayas of Nepal: Geomorphology, v. 63, p. 131-143.

Pratt-Sitaule, B, 2004, Connecting people to science in the Himalaya: Geotimes, v. 49, 38-39.

Pratt, B., Burbank, D.W., Heimsath, A., and Ojha, T., 2002, Impulsive alluviation during early Holocene strengthened monsoons, central Nepal Himalaya: Geology, v. 30, p. 911-914.

Burbank, D.W., Blythe, A.E., Putkonen, J., Pratt-Sitaula, B., Gabet, E., Oskin, M., Barros, A., and Ojha, T.P., 2003, Decoupling of erosion and precipitation in the Himalayas: Nature, v. 426, 652-655.

Former Postdoc Bodo Bookhagen

You need it, he does it!

Now at Stanford in charge of cosmogenic isotope laboratory.

Former Postdoc Manny Gabet: Fluvial and hillslope geomorphology

now at UC Riverside: Manny's website

Former Postdoc Mike Oskin: Tectonics and geomorphology

now at UNC: Mike's website

Former Postdoc Nathan Niemi: Tectonics and geomorphology

now at U Michigan: Nathan's website