The KGB group at AGU22
The KGB group had a nice and fruitful AGU 2022 at the snowy Chicago!
Xuesong presented her talk Tectonic and Geodynamic Controls on the Neogene Landscape Evolution of Southern Patagonia Gan presented two posters: Varying Degrees of Mantle and Lithosphere Coupling Revealed by Surficial Features and Enceladus’s Tectonic Stress Field.
The in person Explore Your Universe 2022!
What is EYU? Exploring Your Universe (EYU) is a free science fair that draws in thousands of children, parents, and friends from the Los Angeles community to our campus every first Sunday in November.
Arthur Won the 2022 Harold & Mayla Sullwold Scholarship!
Congratulations to Arthur Lo for winning the 2022 Harold and Mayla Sullwold Scholarship at his graduation!
This is awarded for Academic Excellence and Outstanding Original Research from UCLA Earth & Space Sciences Department.
Are hotspots hot? Xiyuan's first paper published in Science
For many decades the conventional wisdom has been that volcanic hotspots like Hawai,i’ are fed by plume of buoyant, upwelling material coming from deep in the mantle. The prevailing thought is that the plumes were hotter than the surrounding mantle to provide them with the necessary buoyancy to rise actively.
Carolina has been elected to the AGU 2021 Class of Fellows!
Our PI, Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni, has been elected as the AGU Fellow, for For fundamental contributions to our understanding of thermo-chemical convection and links between surface geology, tectonics, and mantle dynamics. Check out the details here!
Boontigan Kuhasubpasin Passed Her First Exam!
Today, Boontigan Kuhasubpasin passed her departmental oral exam in person. Congratulations!
Possible SARS-CoV-2 Drug: DDB
Anna M. Lithgow-Bertelloni Anna M. Lithgow-Bertelloni is Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni’s sister.
In 1989, Anna Bertelloni was a postdoctoral researcher working on natural products from marine organisms, looking for bioactive compounds, in the lab of UIUC chemistry Prof.
Xiyuan Bao Passed His Second Exam!
Today, Xiyuan Bao passed his university qualifying exam on zoom. Congratulations!
Arthur Won the 2021 Undergraduate Research Award!
Congratulations to our undergraduate group member Arthur Lo for winning the Harold and Mayla Sullwold Scholarship to conduct his project:
Exploring the Dynamics of Adjacent Mantle Plumes through Physical and Computer Simulations
Our Recent Paper in Science
The Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain, including the current Hawaiian volcanoes, was created by the Hawaiian mantle plume. We discovered an oceanic plateau at ~810 km depth beneath eastern Russia. It was created by the Hawaiian mantle plume head during the initiation stage of the Hawaiian hot spot ~100 million years ago, and subducted into the Kamchatka Trench 20–30 million years ago.
