New Faculty Hire: Geophysics

 

The Department of Earth Sciences is very pleased to announce that Dr. Robert Moucha will be joining our Faculty in August of 2011. Rob holds a prestigious Canadian Institute for Advanced Research post-doctoral fellowship and works with Allessandro Forte at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He received his Ph.D. in 2003 at the University of Toronto in the field of Exploration Geophysics (numerical methods and resistivity). He transformed his career dramatically as a post-doctoral scholar, entering the geophysical subdiscipline of geodynamics, which considers dynamical processes of the Earth's interior and surface. Rob is at the cutting edge of a new perspective on the dynamics of the earth, modeling processes and past motions of deep mantle material (thousands of km below the surface) and assessing how they have impacted surface topography, sea level, and sedimentary systems over geological time. Rob is the leading scientist working at the interface of mantle dynamics and surface processes, and has authored 17 peer-reviewed papers (7 first authored).