Selected Recent Research Project Highlights
- Minerals as Semiconductors: Dissolution and Precipitation Coupled with Electron Transfer in Hematite Crystals (2008)
- The Spallation Neutron Source: an Innovative Tool for Investigating Rutile Hydration Layers (2008)
- Effects of Acoustic Waves on Stick-Slip in Granular Media and Implications for Earthquakes (2008)
- Self-Assembling Sub-Porosity: The Effect on Fluid Flow and Seismic Wave Propagation (2007)
- X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) Tool for Determining Porosity and Permeability of Geologic Materials (2007)
- Observation of Subnanometer-High Surface Topography with X-ray Reflection Phase-Contrast Microscopy (2006)
- Fluid Migration in the Deep Subsurface: Leaky Rocks and California Earthquakes (2002)
- How do Corals do That? (2002)
- What You Can See is What You Can Get: Seismic Attenuation and Imaging
- Nature is More Complicated Than We Thought: Interactions Between Chloride and Humic Acids (2002)
- The Speed of Sound Depends on the Direction it is Traveling
- Complex Flow: Patterns and Predictions in the Subsurface (2001)
- A New Habit for Deep Marine Resources (2001)
- Bacteria can "recognize" minerals (2001)
- Oldest crystal tells a tale of a hospitable early Earth
- Terrestrial Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide: Laying the Foundation for Tracking of Injected CO2 in the Subsurface
- Advanced Imaging of Organic Ligand-Mineral Interactions (2000)
- Simulations of Fluid Flow in Porous media in both 2 and 3 dimensions with a new lattice Boltzmann Simulator (2000)
- Heterogeneous isotopic release rates during mineral weathering
- Thermodynamics and mechanisms of mineral growth: baseline for understanding biologically mediated processes
- Cracks, Gas and Waves in Underground Imaging
- Unraveling the record of fluid flow in oil and gas-bearing rock
