Dr. Nick Hayman
Projects
Active or Recently Completed Projects
Along with graduate student Cassandra Browne, Nick has an ongoing study of mid-ocean ridge spreading centers & ocean crustal materials stemming from his work with Jeff Karson. This work focuses on geological materials, rock-mechanics experiments, & field mapping of analog areas such as Iceland. Supported by National Science Foundation-Ocean Sciences Division (NSF-OCE), Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), and the Caribbean Basin Hydrocarbons & Tectonics consortium. Currently active grant is Constraints on the Mechanics of Ocean Crustal Faults - National Science Foundation, Ocean Sciences Division, OCE-0961775.
Sean Gulick, Kitty Milliken, and Nick have recently been funded to continue research related to IODP Expedition 319: National Science Foundation, Ocean Sciences Division, OCE-1130078, Expedition Oriented Research: Sedimentation and Tectonics in Kumano forearc basin evolution, NantroSEIZE study area. Graduate student Sebastian Ramirez is collaborating with us on this effort.
Luc Lavier, graduate student Anna Eliza Dias Svartman, and Nick conduct rift evolution studies, including a Petrobras-sponsored project on integrating numerical modeling and geological studies of rifts such as the South Atlantic margin. This work has brought the team to interesting corners of the globe, including to the Cordillera Darwin on the Sloop Pelagic in 2010 where we were joined by Ian Dalziel, and graduate students Liz Logan and Paul Betka.
Underpinning many of Nick's projects is the concept that the Earth largely behaves like a granular material. Kitty Milliken and Nick are using this concept to study mudrocks via support from Shell and the Mudrock Systems Research Laboratory at the Bureau of Economic Geology. SUNY Oneonta graduate Chris Kakalewski, and David Mohrig have been collaborating with us on this research. Additionally, Nick continues his collaboration with Karen Daniels at North Carolina State University of analog-materials experiments of granular deformation. The granular vision developed during Nick's Ph.D. work in the cataclastic ("brittle") fault zones of Death Valley, and he continues to stay current on fault-zone and fault rock studies worldwide.
Marine geological & geophysical investigations, 2003-present: scientific drilling, human occupied, remotely operated, & autonomous underwater vehicles, & underway geophysical data acquisition:
- RRS James Cook expedition to the Cayman Trough, D. Connelly chief-scientist, March-April, 2010
- IODP Expedition 319, Riser Drilling of the Kumano Basin, Nankai Accretionary Margin, off-shore Japan, McNeil, Byrne, Eiichiro co-chiefs, June-July, 2009
- Shinkai 6500 Investigation of Tenryu Canyon, Nankai Accretionary Prism, off-shore Japan, Kawamura and Anma co-chiefs, April, 2008
- IODP Expedition 312, Superfast-spread East Pacific Rise crust, J. Alt co-chief, November-December, 2005
- NSF/NOAA/JASON Project: The Lost City, Shore-based participant, Ballard and Kelley PIs, August, 2005
- Alvin/Jason II submersible investigation of Pito Deep rift wall, NE-edge of Easter Microplate, Karson chief-scientist, February, 2005
- IODP Expedition 304, Atlantis Massif, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Blackman co-chief, November-December, 2004
Additionally, geologic mapping has taken Nick to places as varied as the western US (basin and range and Pacific Northwest), the northeastern US, Japan, Indonesia, Brazil, southern Chile and Argentina, and soon to sites in Europe.