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Health communication, risk communication, health literacy, health campaigns, media effects, food safety, public health, women and media.

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Port security technology; integrated security logistics for defense and homeland security (including port and border security, rapid response and recovery operations in natural and man-made disasters); integrated weapon system supply chain optimization to improve military readiness and reduce costs

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Water Resources Policy; Water Resources Management and Engineering; Integrated Water Resource Management; Floods; Flood Damage Reduction (Levees, Dams, Floodwalls); Flood Insurance; Infrastructure Security; impacts of climate change on flooding, drought and other water resource issues

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Climate change, carbon markets, international climate policy, energy policy, low-carbon energy, nuclear power, renewable energy, climate risk, energy technology innovation, risk & decisionmaking under scientific uncertainty, science and society.

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* Transportation Planning
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Sea level rise; coastal marshes in the Chesapeake Bay; shore erosion; disappearing islands and land loss; sedimentation in the Bay; remote sensing; impacts of storms on storm surge processes; hurricanes; Rita and Galveston; climate change, commonly called global warming, and sea level rise.

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Accounting; Economics; Careers; Futures Options; Investing, Mergers & Acquisitions; Personal Finance; Investing; Deregulation; Securities Regulation; Risk Management; Securities; Banking; Bonds; Credit; Federal Reserve; Resolution Trust Corporation; Interest Rate Derivatives;

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Modern Japanese History, East Asian History

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Probabilistic risk aseesment, Energy Systems, Advanced nuclear plants, risk associated with gas powered vehicles, food safety risk assessment.

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Media coverage of international affairs; media coverage of war, violence, conflict and disasters; media coverage of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction (WMD); how photographic images shape attitudes toward war; compassion fatigue; human/civil rights and the media.

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earthquakes
plate boundaries
magma dynamics
mid-ocean ridges
subduction zones
geology of Venus
geology of Mars
geology of icy satellites

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I am developing theoretical models of deformation of the lithosphere of the Earth and other planets.

During my PhD, I modeled the generation of faults on Earth (Central Indian Ocean), Mars, Venus (Wrinkle Ridges), and icy satellites (rifts). A recently funded NASA project will looks at the generation of fault sets on Venus, Mars, Ganymede, and Enceladus. A paper is under review that describes models of wrinkle ridges on Mercury

I have developed description of microstructural evolution, especially grain size evolution and fabric development in rocks as they accumulate high strain to understand the generation of faults and shear zones. These models are being tested agains records of ground motion over weeks to years following major eathquakes. This also has strong impplications for earthquake hazards.

Much of my recent work has addressed mantle flow at mid-ocean ridges and subduction zones. A currently funded NSF-EAR project looks are seismic anisotropy, a method to detect mantle flow, in subduction zone. A paper is under review that explains the gap in the Ring of Fire near Anchorage using mantle flow patterns. A NSF-OCE project will look at where magma is generated at mid-ocean ridges, especially the East Pacific Rise and the Juan de Fuca ridge, and determine the influence of large-scale mantle flow and changes in plate boundary geometry on mantle melting and the generation of oceanic crust. Another NSF-OCE project has been modeling similar project at some of the slowest spreading centers on Earth, I published a paper on this in 2007, and more is under preparation. As part of this project, I also modeled the interaction between oceanic ridge segments when they are close to one another, to understand the evolution of regions where three tectonic plates meet.

Web Site(s):
Laurent Montesi: Geodynamics
Maryland Geodynamics

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Address:
3231 Computer & Space Sciences Building
College Park, MD  20742

Degrees:
Ph.D., Geophysics, MIT

Publication(s):
Delescluse, M., L.G.J. Montési, and N. Chamot-Rooke, 2008Fault reactivation and selective abandonment in the oceanic lithosphere, submitted to Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035066
Schouten, H., D.K. Smith, L.G.J. Montési, W. Zhu, and E.M. Klein, 2008. Cracking of lithosphere North of the Galapagos triple junction, Geology 36(5), 339-342, DOI: 10.1130/G24431A.1
Montési, L.G.J., and M.D. Behn, 2007. Mantle flow and melting underneath Mid-Ocean Ridges, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L24307, doi:10.1029/2007GL031067
Gregg, P., J. Lin, M.D. Behn, and L.G.J. Montési, 2007. Spreading rate dependence of the gravity structure of oceanic transform faults. Nature, 448, 183-187, doi: 10.1038/nature05962.
Montési, L.G.J., 2007. A constitutive model for layer development in shear zones near the brittle-ductile transition. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L08307, doi:10.1029/2007GL029250
Montési, L.G.J., 2004. Controls of shear zone rheology and tectonic loading on postseismic creep. J. Geophys. Res., 109, B10404, doi: 10.1029/2003JB002925

Language(s):
French

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Macroeconomics, International Economics And International Business, And Government Regulation; Steel; Autos; Telecommunications; Airlines; Manufacturing; Retailing; Financial And Foreign Exchange Markets; Import And Export Issues

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Risk and safety analysis of complex systems and processes; product reliability and safety analysis; predictive models of human error and organizational failures; methodology for assessment of uncertainties in scientific models; methods of inference with limited knowledge and partial evidence

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marketing, information systems, agent-based modeling, computational modeling, computer science, social networks, machine learning, genetic algorithms, geographic information systems, GIS, diffusion of innovations, diffusion of information, social modeling, social media, Web 2.0, electronic marketing

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Environmental economics, policy, planning and engineering issues on a regional, national and international scale; renewable and non renewable resources; dynamic modeling techniques as applied to environmental resources and conditions

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Human-computer interaction; user interface design.

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Economic forecasting (Macroeconomic accounting and modeling); Input-output accounts and modeling; International finance and trade; Economics of developing nations; U.S. Industrial Structure; Manufacturing operations;

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earthquake engineering, structural collapse, steel structures, sensor, fatigue crack, acoustic emission, vibration, bridge testing, structural health monitoring, building integrated photovoltaic panel use in building structures

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