Current and Previous Students in the MAGIC Lab
Cemil Arkula. PhD in Progress (2022–present). Cemil completed his MS thesis at the University of Utrecht working with Dr. Douwe van Hinsbergen using paleomag to study the tectonic history of the Coast Range Ophiolite in the western US. Cemil is working on in situ Rb/Sr dating of micas in the MAGIC Lab for this Ph.D. dissertation.
Lauren Madsen. MS in progress (2022–present). Lauren is investigating the formation of the Maple-Hovey manganese deposit in Northern Maine. This project is a collaboration with the Maine Geological Survey, the University of Maine at Presque Isle, and the University of New Brunswick.
Piper Kramer. MS in progress (2022–present). Piper is collaborating with the Maine Geological Survey and Middlebury College to determine the existence of the Messalonskee Lake Thrust in Maine. This is a conceptual fault that has been grandfathered in to modern maps. Piper is using detrital zircon geochronology to see if the fault actually exists.
Eyan Fennelly. BS in progress.
Thomas Korstanje. BS in progress.
Natalie Harmon. MS 2022. Natalie completed her undergraduate honors thesis in the MAGIC Lab, and has stayed on for a master’s degree. Her research focuses on the the distribution of first row transition elements (FRTEs) in subduction zones, particularly across the blueschist-eclogite transition.
Tyler Pollock. MS 2021. Tyler completed his undergraduate degree at UMaine in 2018. For his M.S. research, Tyler investigated the sulfur isotopic composition of sulfide melts in the Lesser Antilles arc.
Michael McCormick. MS 2021. Mike completed his undergraduate degree at UMaine in 2018. Mike’s research focused on the lithogeochemistry of the Pickett Mountain VMS deposit in Northern Maine. He works closely with Marty Yates here at UMaine and Chunzeng Wang at the University of Maine Presque Isle.
Jesse Walters. Ph.D., 2020. Jesse worked on sulfur isotopes and speciation in subduction environments during his time at UMaine. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. Some of the highlights of Jesse’s work are published in G-Cubed and Geochemical Perspectives Letters. Jesse continues to be active in our research group, and serves as an external committee member for Natalie’s M.S. committee. https://geojesse.weebly.com/
Josh Stone. B.S. 2020. Josh completed his undergraduate thesis in the MAGIC lab in 2020. Josh used reaction cell technology to test the the effects of mass shifted isotopes on U-Pb geochronology. He is currently a graduate student at Central Washington University.
Kimberley Biela. B.S. 2020
Laura Hartman. M.S. 2018. Laura worked on geochemical fingerprinting of tephra in ice cores. The results of here thesis were published in Nature Scientific Reports.