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Bradley R. HackerProfessorEarth Science Earth Research Institute University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9630 34 24 47.39N 119 50 37.32W +13 m Ph.D., University of
California, Los Angeles, 1988
hacker@geol.ucsb.edu
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Bradley Hacker received his BS
and MS in Geology from UC Davis in 1982 and 1984, while working for
Apple Computer on Macintosh and other products.
He completed his doctorate in Geology at UCLA in 1988. He then spent
eight years as a postdoctoral scholar and research associate at
Stanford University, and as a geologist for the US Geological Survey.
He joined the UCSB faculty in 1996, in the Department of Geology. Dr.
Hacker is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the Geological
Society of America, the Mineralogical Society of America, and the Cave
Research Foundation.
He, his students, and postdocs are funded by the National Science
Foundation to work on exciting field, laboratory, and theoretical
studies of tectonics:
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Steven Arauza: Assessing Rates and Episodes of Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphism Through Lu/Hf and Sm/Nd Geochronology |
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Monica Erdman: Seismic Anisotropy of the Basin and Range Lower Crust |
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Adam Ginsburg: UHP Tectonism of the Western Gneiss Region, U-Pb Geochronology |
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Jen McGraw: Growth of the Pamir Lower Crust, Thermobarometry and Garnet Geochronology |
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Katherine Spencer: Exhumation and Melting of the Western Gneiss Region, Titanite Geochronology and Thermometry |
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Emily Peterman
(Ph.D. 2009): The Development and Use of Monazite and Garnet
Geochronology with Application to Tectonic Processes, Keck Lab Manager,
UC Santa Cruz.
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Nicolas Barth
(M.S. 2008): Strain within the Ultrahigh-Pressure Western Gneiss Region
of Norway Recorded by Quartz LPOs, Ph.D. student, University of Otago.
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Andrew
Kylander-Clark
(Ph.D. 2008): Slow Subduction and Exhumation of a Thick
Ultrahigh-Pressure Terrane: Western Gneiss Region, Norway, Development
Engineer, UC Santa Barbara.
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Scott Johnston (Ph.D. 2006): Evolution of the Nordfjord-Sogn Detachment
Zone and the Exhumation of Norwegian ultrahigh-pressure rocks.
Professor, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.
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Joshua Cole (M.S. 2006): Fault-Zone Deformation and Strain Partitioning
at the Brittle-Ductile Transition, SEMP Fault, Austrian Alps. Outward
Bound Coordinator, Washington State.
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Matt Rioux (Ph.D. 2006): The Growth and Differentiation of Arc Crust:
Temporal and Geochemical Evolution of the Accreted Talkeetna Arc,
South-Central Alaska. Postdoctoral scholar, MIT
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Dave Young (Ph.D. 2005): Amphibolite to Ultrahigh-Pressure Transition
in Western Norway. Lecturer, California State University, Fresno.
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David Root (Ph.D. 2003): Zircon Geochronology of ultrahigh-pressure
eclogites and exhumation of the Western Gneiss Region, southern Norway.
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Emily Walsh (Ph.D. 2003): Exhumation of the
Ultrahigh-Pressure/High-Pressure Terrane of the Western Gneiss Region,
Norway. Professor at Cornell College.
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Luc Mehl (M.S. 2002): Arc-parallel flow within the mantle wedge:
Evidence from the accreted Talkeetna arc, south central Alaska.
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| Hans Vrijmoed (2010-) | hard work |
| Sarah Brownlee (2010-) | Velocity anisotropy from electron-backscatter diffraction |
| Stacia Gordon (2009-) | Melting at ultrahigh pressure |
| Jeremy Hourigan (2004-05) | Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Martin Robyr (2003-04) | Researcher, University of Lausanne |
| Mary Leech (2001-03) | Professor, University of California, San Francisco |
| Edwin Gnos (1995-96) | Curator, Museum d'histoire naturelle de Geneve/University of Geneve |
Ultrahigh-Pressure
Tectonics
Exhumation of orogen-scale coesite-, diamond-, and former-majorite
bearing terranes that formed by subduction of continental crust to
depths >100 km.

Phase
Transformations and Rheology
Rates and mechanisms of simple geological phase transformations and
mechanical behavior of rocks.
Subduction
Zones: Physical properties, seismicity, and seismic anisotropy
Phase transformations, deformation, fluid flow, and intermediate-depth
seismicity in subduction zones.

Calculated deviation in P-wave speed for the Cascadia subduction zone
Timescales
and Rates of Orogenic Events
Rates of exhumation and timescales of orogenic processes.


Other Publications