Current Research Students

Naomi Rodgers standing on a mountain

Naomi Rodgers

Naomi is working on the Mesozoic structure of the Great Basin, using Laser Raman Spectroscopy on Carbonaceous Material to determine peak temperatures, and hence depths of burial, of rocks that experienced thrusting during Cordilleran orogeny.

Headshot of Justine Grabiec.

Justine Grabiec

Justine Grabiec is working on the the fluid sources and emplacement history of mineral veins in the accretionary complex on Catalina Island, California.

Former Students

Tarryn Cawood is a Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada. 

Alex Lusk is a Geologist with the Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, USGS, Denver. 

Will Schmidt is a Lecturer at California State University, Los Angeles.  

Jason Williams is a Teaching Assistant at Leeds University, UK. 

Katy Johanesen is Professor at Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.

Whitney Behr is Chair of the Structural Geology & Tectonics Group in the Geological Institute at ETH Zürich ETH, Zürich, Switzerland.

Frances Cooper is Associate Professor in Earth Sciences at University College London, UK. 

Dave Hodgson is Professor of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy at Leeds University, UK.

Tom Argles is Senior Lecturer in Geology at the Open University, England

Lidia Lonergan is Reader in Geotectonics at Imperial College, London, England

Hugh Sinclair holds a Personal Chair in Surface Geodynamics at the School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Frank Peel is Senior Research Fellow in the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas, Austin.

Simon Wallis is Professor of Geology at the University of Tokyo in Japan.

Jan Behrmann is Professor in Marine Geodynamics at IFM-GEOMAR and University of Kiel, Germany.

 

Many of my other former students have positions in industry and geological survey organizations.

Contact

Professor J. P. Platt

Department of Earth Sciences
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA90089-0740