Donna Blackman's Home Page

Mailing Address:

Donna Blackman

IGPP

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

University of California San Diego

9500 Gilman Drive

La Jolla, Ca 92093-0225

USA

(858) 534-8813

dblackman@ucsd.edu

Research Projects:

Using Seismic Anisotropy to Understand the Pattern of Mantle Flow Beneath Oceanic Spreading Centers

Continuing investigation of an Oceanic Core Complex

Calibration of acoustic propagation in the Indian & Southern Oceans: research in support of a nuclear test monitoring system

Courses:

SIO239 Geophysics Research Discussion (co-led with Shearer) Winter 2012 Schedule

Selected Publications:

Blackman, D.K., B. Ildefonse, B.E. John, Y. Ohara, D.J. Miller and Exp. 304/305 Science Party, Drilling Constraints on Lithospheric Accretion and Evolution at Atlantis Massif, Mid-Atlantic Ridge 30°N, J. Geophys. Res.116, B07103, doi:10.1029/2010JB007931, 2011.

Blackman, D.K. & J.A. Collins, 2010. Lower Crustal Variability & the Crust/Mantle Transition at the Atlantis Massif OCC, GRL 37, doi:10.1029/2010GL045165.

Harmon, N. & D.K. Blackman, 2010. Effects of plate boundary geometry and kinematics on mantle melting beneath the back-arc spreading centers along the Lau Basin, EPSL doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.08.004.

Blackman, D.K., Canales, J.-P. & Harding, A., 2009. Geophysical signatures of oceanic core complexes, Geophys. J. Intl. 178, 593-613.

Castelnau, O., D. K. Blackman, T.W. Becker, , 2009, Numerical simulations of texture development and associated rheological anisotropy in regions of complex mantle flow, Geophys. Res. Letter, 36, L12304, doi:10.1029/2009GL038027.

Collins, J.A., D.K. Blackman, A. Harris, R.L. Carlson, Seismic and drilling constraints on velocity structure and reflectivity near IODP Hole U1309D on the central dome of Atlantis Massif, Mid-Atlantic Ridge 30°N, G³10, doi:10.1029/2008GC002121, 2009.

Blackman, D.K., R.C. Searle, G.D. Karner, 3-D structure of oceanic core complexes: effects on gravity signature and ridge flank morphology, Mid-Atlantic Ridge 30N, G³ 9, doi:10.1029/2008GC001951, 2008.

de Groot-Hedlin, C., D.K. Blackman, C.S. Jenkins, Effects of variability associated with the Antarctic circumpolar current on sound propagation in the ocean, Geophys. J. Intl 176, 478-490, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.04007.x, 2008.

Castelnau, O., D. K. Blackman, R. A. Lebensohn, and P. Ponte, Micromechanical modeling of the viscoplastic behavior of olivine, J. Geophys. Res. 113, B09202, doi:10.1029/2007JB005444, 2008.

Ildefonse, B., D.K. Blackman, B.E. John, Y. Ohara, D.J. Miller, C.J. MacLeod, IODP Expeditions 304/305 Science Party, Oceanic core complexes and crustal accretion at slow-spreading ridges, Geology 35, 623-626, 2007

Blackman, D.K., Use of mineral physics, with geodynamic modeling and seismology, to investigate flow in the Earth's mantle, Reports on Progress in Physics 70, 659-689, 2007.

Becker, T. W., Schulte-Pelkum, V., Blackman, D. K., Kellogg, J. B., and O'Connell, R. J.: Mantle flow under the western United States from shear wave splitting, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 247, 235-251, 2006.

Van Wijk, J.W. and D.K. Blackman, Deformation of oceanic lithosphere near slow-spreading ridge discontinuities, Tectonophysics 407, 211-225, 2005.

Blackman, D.K., de Groot-Hedlin, C., Harben, P., Sauter, A., Orcutt, J.A., Testing low/very low frequency acoustic sources for basin-wide propagation in the Indian Ocean. J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 116, , doi:10.1121/1.1786711, 2004.

Blackman, D.K., J.A. Karson, D.S. Kelley, J.R. Cann, G.L. Fr_h-Green, J.S. Gee, S. Hurst, J. Morgan, S.L. Nooner, D.K. Ross, T. Schroeder, E.A. Williams, Geology of the Atlantis Massif (MAR 30_N): implications for the evolution of an ultramafic oceanic core complex, Mar. Geophys. Res. 23,443-469, 2002.

Kelley, D.S., J.A. Karson, D.K. Blackman & 19 others, An off-axis hydrothermal vent field near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 30N, Nature 412, 145-149, 2001.

Blackman, D.K., C.E. Nishimura, J.A. Orcutt, Seismoacoustic recordings of a spreading episode on the Mohns Ridge, J. Geophys. Res. 105, 10,961-10,973, 2000.