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BLACKMAN, DONNA

Research Geophysicist

Degrees:

• B.S., University of California, Santa Cruz
• M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Ph.D., Brown University, Rhode Island

Research Interests:

• Magmatic and tectonic processes at oceanic spreading centers and evolution of ridge-transform plate boundaries, using the following methods: Morphology, gravity, drilling, computer modeling of mantle flow and melting
• Numerical simulation of mantle deformation and seismic anisotropy
• Hydroacoustic studies of nuclear test monitoring capabilities

Courses Recently Taught:

• ESYS102: The Solid & Fluid Earth
• SIO 239: Special Topics in Geophysics
• SIO239: Special Topics in Geophysics

Mentoring:

• Henig, Ashlee (Graduate; 2008-)
• Harmon, Nicolas (Post Doc; 2007-2008)
• van Wijk, Jolante (Post Doc; 2003-2005)

Henig, A.S., D.K. Blackman, A.J. Harding, J-P. Canales, G.M. Kent, Downward continued multi-channel seismic refraction analysis of Atlantis Massif oceanic core complex, 30°N Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Geochem. Geophys. Geosys. 13, doi:10.1029/2012GC004059, 2012.

Blackman, D.K., B. Ildefonse, B.E. John, Y. Ohara, D.J. Miller and Exp. 304/305 Science Party, Drilling Constraints on Lithospheric Accretion and Evolution at Atlantis Massif, Mid-Atlantic Ridge 30°N, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2010JB007931, 2011.

Blackman, D.K. and J.A. Collins, Lower Crustal Variability and the Crust/Mantle Transition at the Atlantis Massif Oceanic Core Complex, Geophys. Res. Lett. 37, L24303, doi:10.1029/2010GL045165, 2010.

Harmon, N. and D.K. Blackman, Effects of plate boundary geometry and kinematics on mantle melting beneath the back-arc spreading centers along the Lau Basin, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.08.004, 2010.

Donna K. Blackman, J. Pablo Canales and Alistair Harding, Geophysical signatures of oceanic core complexes, REVIEW ARTICLE Geophys. J. Int. (2009) 178, 593–613, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04184.x, 2009.

Castelnau, O., D. K. Blackman, T.W. Becker, Numerical simulations of texture development and associated rheological anisotropy in regions of complex mantle flow, Geophys. Res. Letter, 36, L12304, doi:10.1029/2009GL038027, 2009.

Collins, J.A., D.K. Blackman, A. Harris, R.L. Carlson, Seismic and drilling constraints on velocity structure and reflectivity near IODP Hole U1309D on the central dome of Atlantis Massif, Mid-Atlantic Ridge 30°N, G3 10, doi:10.1029/2008GC002121, 2009.

de Groot-Hedlin, C., D.K. Blackman, C.S. Jenkins, Effects of variability associated with the Antarctic Circumpolar Current on sound propagation in the ocean, Geophys. J. Intl., 176,478-490, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.04007.x, 2009.

Castelnau, O., D. K. Blackman, R. A. Lebensohn, and P. Ponte, Micromechanical modeling of the viscoplastic behavior of olivine, J. Geophys. Res. 113, doi:10.1029/2007JB005444, 2008.

Blackman, D.K., R.C. Searle, G.D. Karner, 3-D structure of oceanic core complexes: effects on gravity signature and ridge flank morphology, Mid-Atlantic Ridge 30N, GCubed, doi:10.1029/2008GC001951 2008.

Ildefonse, B., D.K. Blackman, B.E. John, Y. Ohara, D.J. Miller, C.J. MacLeod, IODP Expeditions 304/305 Science Party, Oceanic core complexes and crustal accretion at slow-spreading ridges, Geology 35, 623-626, doi: 10.1130/G23531A.1, 2007.

Blackman, D.K., Use of mineral physics, with geodynamic modeling and seismology, to investigate flow in the Earth's mantle, Reports on Progress in Physics 70, 659-689, 2007.

Becker, T. W., Schulte-Pelkum, V., Blackman, D. K., Kellogg, J. B., and O'Connell, R. J.: Mantle flow under the western United States from shear wave splitting, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 247, 235-251, 2006.