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Douglas Toomey, Mentor
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Michael Creech, McNair Scholar

Professor Douglas Toomey earned his Ph.D. from MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in 1987and has been a part of the UO faculty in the Department of Geological Sciences since 1990. Interested in seismology, tectonics, midocean ridges, oceanic hotspots, Toomey leads his research group toward an understanding of the basaltic magmatism found at mid-ocean ridges and oceanic islands and a development of tomographic methods for imaging earth structure in three-dimensional isotropic and anisotropic media. Some recent publications include "A Numerical Model of Hydrothermal Cooling and Crustal Accretion at a Fast Spreading Mid-ocean Ridge,"(with A. Cherkaoui, W. Wilcock, R. Dunn), G3: An Electronic Journal of the Earth Sciences (2003) and "Shear Wave Splitting and Crustal Anisotropy at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 35 degrees N" (with A. Barclay), Journal of Geophysical Research (2003).