Lisa M. Gahagan Research Scientist Associate V Telephone 512-471-0488 email: lisa@ig.utexas.edu   Projects PLATES Project Marine Seismic Data Center Webmaster for UTIG

Areas of Expertise:
plate reconstructions; map production (for figures, etc.) including adding data to maps; database design; some manipulation of SEG-Y data files; web page coding (html and php coding); teaching digitizing / introduction to GMT to students

Programming languages:
FORTRAN; php

Software Used:
mySQL; some light seismic data programs; ArcGIS

Selected Publications
Lawver, L.A., Gahagan, L.M., and Dalziel, I.W.D, 1999. A Tight fit-Early Mesozoic Gondwana, a Plate Reconstruction Perspective, in Motoyoshi, Y. and Shiraishi, K. (editors), Origin and Evolution of Continents: Proceedings of the International Symposium "Origin and Evolution of Continents," 13-14 October, 1997, Tokyo, Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research, Special Issue, No. 53, p354.. 214-229.

Müller, R.D., Roest, W.R., Royer, J.-Y., Gahagan, L.M., and Sclater, J.G., 1996, Age of the Ocean Floor, World Data Center-A for Marine Geology and Geophysics Report MGG-12, published by the National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, CO.

Coffin, M.F., and Gahagan, L.M., 1995, Ontong Java and Kerguelen Plateaux: Cretaceous Icelands?, Journal of the Geological Society, London, vol. 152, pp. 1047-1052.

Dalziel, I. W. D., L. H. Dalla Salda, and L. M. Gahagan, 1994, Paleozoic Laurentia-Gondwana Interaction and the Origin of the Appalachian-Andean Mountain System, Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol. 106, pp. 243-52.

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