Project Participants

Project director and web master, Zeitler is a geochronologist interested in mountain ranges and interactions between solid-Earth and surface processes. For this project, his group is working on U-Th/He, Ar-Ar, and U-Pb dating. Director of the recently completed Nanga Parbat Continental Dynamics project, Zeitler has worked in the Himalaya for 25 years, in addition to work in New Zealand, South America, the United States, and Australia. He has stayed in The Worst Hotel in the World.

Among other duties at the Passcal Instrument Center, Alvarez provides initial field support for seismic deployments around the world.

Anders is a Ph.D. candidate working on interactions between climate and erosional processes.

Ault is a Ph.D. candidate who is working on DEM analysis as a means of discriminating tectonic and landscape processes.

Like Marcos Alvarez, Beaudoin provides initial field support for PASSCAL seismic deployments around the world. He was a member of the Nanga Parbat project.

Booth is working on her Ph.D., studying the origin and evolution of granites and metamorphic rocks around the Namche Barwa massif.

Co-director of the Stanford/USGS ion-probe lab, Chamberlain is a geochemist with broad interests in both crustal evolution and earth-surface processes. A member of the Nanga Parbat project, he has been involved in field projects around the world, and enjoys a drink of Hunza Water when he can.

Lim is working on a Ph.D. focused on the structural evolution of the Namche Barwa/Gyala Peri massif.

A member of the Nanga Parbat project, Craw has worked in the Himalaya and Southern Alps on problems relating structural evolution and metamorphic fluid flow. Appearances to the contrary, that is NOT a tatoo on his face.

As part of his Ph.D. studies, Finnegan is working to understand erosion and incision processes associated with the Tsangpo and its tributaries.

Director of the UW-ESS Remote Sensing Laboratory, Gillespie is interested in glacial geomorphology, geochronology and landform evolution and the application of remote sensing to these areas.

Director of the Quaternary Research Center at Washington, Hallet is a quantitative geomorphologist interested in alpine and polar landscapes, linkages between tectonics, topography, and climate, and patterns of self-organization on the Earth's surface. In this project, The Man Behind the Curtain is coordinating studies in surface processes and their role in the geodynamics of southeastern Tibet. One of the two photos at left is current...

Also a member of the INDEPTH and Nanga Parbat continental dynamics projects, Kidd is interested in the structural evolution of mountain chains. In this project, he is assessing the structural evolution of southeastern Tibet and integrating geological and related observations into a tectonic framework, when not sneaking up on people with his infernal video ma-sheen.

A participant in the Nanga Parbat project, Koons is interested in using continuum mechanics to understand interactions between and within Earth and its atmosphere. For the Tibet project, he is developing integrated geodynamic models which incorporate surface and solid-Earth processes, which we are testing using a variety of geological and geophysical data sets. It is rumored that he once had a beer.

Xiao Liu has many years experience deploying GPS networks in eastern Tibet and along its margin in China. He is managing the GPS component of this project as well as participating in tectonic studies, and he is serving as the chief liaison between the Chengdu Institute and overseas participants.

Malloy's MS project involves the use of Ar-Ar K-feldspar and U-Th/He zircon thermochronology to constrain the exhumation history of SE Tibet, in particular the Namche Barwa/Gyala Peri antiform and the Big Bend knickpoint on the Tsangpo.

Meltzer has worked both offshore and onshore in the United States, South America, and Asia on a number of seismic experiments using both active and passive sources. Her interests are in using imaging techiques (seismic and ground-penetrating radar) to solve geological and environmental problems at scales ranging from the lithosphere to shallow lakes. In Tibet, Meltzer and her group are responsible for the deployment of a broadband seismic array, supplemented by a smaller number of short-period instruments, aimed at determining lithospheric structure and quantifying active deformation. She has also stayed at The Worst Hotel in the World.

Montgomery is interested in hillslope, fluvial, and tectonic geomorphology, and in general, in landscape-forming processes and their interactions with other natural systems. Understanding of sediment production, erosion mechanisms, and sediment transport provides a basis for understanding impacts of human activity and climate change on both geomorphic and biologic systems.

Stress Cooker: Don't leave home without one!

You are what you eat.

Sol's postdoctoral work is focusing on tomographic analysis of the southeastern Tibet seismic data set.

Stone is an isotope geochemist interested in the application of cosmogenic nuclides to problems in landscape evolution and Quaternary geology. In this project, he is overseeing the dating of landforms and sedimentary deposits as a means of quantifying landscape change.

Lao Zhang has many years of experience with the geology of Tibet, and currently is working as a member of the seismology team. He may hold a record for number of consecutive trips to Tibet!

A member of the seimsology team, Zurek is working on a Ph.D. that involves analysis and application of the southeastern Tibet seismic data set.