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Faculty and Staff


Michael Lamb

Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor of Geology

MC 170-25
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125

mpl@gps.caltech.edu

ph: 626-395-3612

Curriculum Vitae

 

Janice A. Grancich

Administrative Assistant

MC 170-25
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125

grancich@gps.caltech.edu

Website

Brian Fuller

Laboratory Manager and Staff Scientist

Earth Surface Dynamics Laboratory

fuller@caltech.edu

Central Engineering Services Bldg.
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125

 

Interests: Fluvial geomorphology, flume experiments, languages, restoring vehicles, and riding my bicycle.

 

Postdoctoral Scholars


 

Phairot Chatanantavet

Postdoctoral Scholar

MC 170-25
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125

Personal Web

 

Interests: River processes, sediment transport, bedrock erosion

 

 

Ben Mackey

Postdoctoral Scholar

MC 170-25
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125

Personal Web

 

Interests: Earth flows, boulder transport in steep rivers, cosmogenic dating, boot camp, and animal prints.

Roman DiBiase

Postdoctoral Scholar

Personal Web

 

Interests: Bedrock rivers, steep hillslopes, bushwhacking, and climbing.

 

 

Graduate Students


 

Ajay Limaye

Graduate Student

MC 170-25
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125

Personal Web

 

Interests: River terraces, Martian stratigraphy, sweet riffs.

 

Joel Scheingross

Graduate Student

MC 170-25
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125

Personal Web

 

Interests:  Waterfalls, earthflows, sediment transport in mountain streams, world travel, canyoneering.

Jeff Prancevic

Graduate Student

MC 170-25
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125

 

Interests: Steep stream sediment transport, step-pools, arctic geomorphology, LiDAR, surfing, bikes

  Mathieu Lapôtre
Visiting Student Researcher, 2011

Luca Malatesta

Graduate Student

MC 170-25
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125

 

Interests: Landscape evolution in orogens, channel-hillslope interactions, landscape response time, sediment transport and storage.

 

     


         

Former Group Members

Undergraduate Research Assistants:

Eric Keinsasser, 2010.  Now at Occidental College

Mariya Levina,  2010 - 2011, Now at U.T. Austin

Cailan Halliday, 2011. Now at U. Minnesota

Cindy Tran, 2010 - 2011, Now in Minnesota

Conor O'Toole, 2010, 2011, Now at Bowdoin College

Odin Marc, 2010-011, Now at École Normale Supérieure

Peter Buhler, 2010-2011, Still at Caltech

 

Postdoctoral Scholars:

 

Ryan Ewing, 2011, now assistant professor at University of Alabama