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John Blum

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Biography

John Blum is a first year graduate student in the Geophysics Curricular Group at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He received a bachelor's degree in Honors Physics from the University of Michigan in April 2003. He is a National Science Foundation Gr aduate Research Fellow working towards his Ph.D. at Scripps. John's research interests include developing instruments for seafloor/geophysical exploration, using remote sensing techniques to study morphological seafloor fabric, and modeling the non-linea r dynamics and emergent properties of geomorphic processes.

Selected Publications

• Blum, J.A. and Shen, Y. "Thermal, hydrous, and mechanical states of the mantle transition zone beneath southern Africa", Earth and Planet. Sci. Lett., (2003): in press.
• Shen, Y. and Blum, J.A. "Seismic evidence for subducted oceanic crust above the 660-km discontinuity beneath southern Africa." Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, (2003): in press.

Personal Website

• http://insci14.ucsd.edu/~jablum

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