Tinted detail of a photo: Wet sand on a beach rippled into many small wavy ridges, with a shallow channel of water behind and grassy land below sharp, dark, partly snow-dusted peaks under white clouds.
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Geodynamics
Kuan-Yu Lin

Kuan-Yu Lin

Kuan-Yu Lin is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Delaware. He uses geochemistry and petrology of peridotites to understand the formation and evolution of the oceanic lithosphere and mid-oceanic ridge tectonics. He sailed as an igneous petrologist on the recent IODP Expedition 399 aboard the JOIDES Resolution. You can find Kuan-Yu on twitter (@mantlegeuse) or reach him via e-mail.