About Us: The Geodynamics Research Program is part of the Department of Geosciences at the Pennsylvania State University. The Geodynamics Research Group takes an interdisciplinary approach to attacking some of the research problems in Tectonics, Seismology, Lithospheric Deformation and Dynamics, and Plate Tectonics. The group includes faculty, graduate students and undergraduate researchers working on a broad selection of topics, including crustal deformation in Northern California associated with the northward migration of the Mendocino Triple Junction, modeling creep on the Hayward Fault, using GPS to estimate slip rates in Baja California, studying the complex plate tectonic history and relocating earthquakes to examine the tectonic evolution of the New Zealand plate boundary and by analogy many other areas of active tectonics globally.  
 

 

08/21/08 Kevin Furlong has been recognized as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. As the new academic year is coming to a start, it is useful to look back at some of the projects the group has focused on over the past few years. In 2006, Courtney Johnson completed her Masters degree related to a potential blind thrust system beneath Mt Tamalpias, Bay Area, California, and has now moved to a position at GeoMatrix in Oakland. Gavin Hayes completed his Ph.D.  and is currently a post-doc with the NEIC in Golden, CO. Some of his work at PSU is on his website here (see his website). Kevin Furlong has continued his research in Northern California and New Zealand, as well as several education-related projects, and has recently received national funding for continued work in these areas. Examples of some of the work is available here  (see his website). In addition some very interesting projects have been completed by 3rd year exchange students from Leeds University on tectonics in northern California (Janet Key) and New Zealand (Stephanie Palethorpe).

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