{"id":916,"date":"2022-09-26T17:06:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T21:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ridl\/?page_id=916"},"modified":"2024-08-07T00:37:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T04:37:39","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ridl\/","title":{"rendered":"Homepage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2>Welcome!<\/h2>\n\t<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many of the processes that shape Earth&#8217;s surface &#8211; from mountain building and subduction, to polar ice flow and seafloor spreading &#8211; are driven by the flow and fracture of rocks on a microscopic scale.<\/p>\n<p>In the Rock and Ice Deformation Laboratory, we use state-of-the-art experimental and microanalytical tools to characterize how rocks and minerals deform over timescales of seconds to millions of years, from the atom to tectonic plate scale.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Active topics of research include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The strength of the oceanic lower crust<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Viscous weakening during mineral phase transformations<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Microstructural controls on polar ice flow<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ridl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2024\/06\/RIDL_seal.png\" alt=\"RIDL_seal\" height=\"4167\" width=\"4167\" title=\"RIDL_seal\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ridl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2024\/08\/PXL_20240805_125430413-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ridl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2024\/08\/PXL_20240805_125430413-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"PXL_20240805_125430413\" height=\"2560\" width=\"2558\" title=\"PXL_20240805_125430413\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<p><strong>RIDL group photo, August 2024. <\/strong>Top row (L to R): Madi Fleming (<em>Guest Student<\/em>), Namitha Kumar (<em>Graduate Student<\/em>), Andrew Cross (<em>Assistant Scientist, RIDL lead PI<\/em>), Rilee Thomas (<em>Graduate Student<\/em>), Caroline Needell (<em>Graduate Student<\/em>). Bottom row: Rellie Goddard (<em>Former Postdoctoral Investigator<\/em>), Maia Cohen (<em>Graduate Student<\/em>), Cassandra Seltzer (<em>Incoming NSF Postdoctoral Fellow<\/em>), Subhajit Ghosh (<em>Postdoctoral Investigator<\/em>). Not pictured: Halley Wilkinson (<em>Summer Student Fellow<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome! &nbsp; Many of the processes that shape Earth&#8217;s surface &#8211; from mountain building and subduction, to polar ice flow and seafloor spreading &#8211; are driven by the flow and fracture of rocks on a microscopic scale. In the Rock and Ice Deformation Laboratory, we use state-of-the-art experimental and microanalytical tools to characterize how rocks&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ridl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ridl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ridl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ridl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ridl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ridl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ridl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/916\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ridl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}