PhD, Geodynamics, University of California, Davis - 2009

My research focuses on plate tectonics and the dynamics of subduction. This is accomplished through nested workflows incorporating high-fidelity data-driven model design, high performance computing, and 3D virtual reality. In particular, I am interested in modeling natural subduction systems, and the inherent complexity of three-dimensional plate boundary dynamics, with over 20 years experience modeling the Alaska system and a more recent focus on the subduction dynamics of the Pacific Ring of Fire.

• ERT 326 – Structural Geology and Global Tectonics
• ERT 450/550 – Geodynamics
• CDA 609/CE 620/CSE 547/ERT 609/MAE 609/MTH 667/PHY 515 – High Performance Computing 1
• ERT 499 – Independent Study
• ERT 633 – Graduate Research
• ERT 700 – Thesis Guidance
• CDA 660 – Dissertation

Please see the Geodynamics Research and Visualization Lab website for a list of current and former students.

Haynie, K. L. and Jadamec, M. A. Implications of variable plate coupling versus plateau buoyancy on subduction dynamics: A case study of the Yakutat plateau in Alaska (Article published, 2024). In Ruppert, N. A., Jadamec, M. A., and Freymueller, J. T., editors, Tectonics and Seismic Structure of Alaska and Northwestern Canada: EarthScope and Beyond, Geophysical Monograph 290. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2025.

Bhavsar, V., Jadamec, M. A., and Knepley, M. Influence of initial slab dip, plate interface coupling, and nonlinear rheology on dynamic weakening at the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130(1):e2023JB028423, 2025.

Aaron, L., Santina, A., Allain, N., Almas, B., Fallon, B., Gavin, D., Gordon, C., Jadamec, M.A., Mer- lino, A., Pierie, L., Solano, G., and Wolf, D. Optimizing AI in Higher Education: SUNY FACT2 Guide, Second Edition. State University of New York (SUNY) Faculty Advisory Council On Teaching and Technology (FACT2). SUNY Press, 2nd edition, 2024. https://sunypress.edu/Books/O/Optimizing- AI-in-Higher-Education.

Ruppert, N. A., Jadamec, M. A., and Freymueller, J. T., editors. Tectonics and Seismic Structure of Alaska and Northwestern Canada: EarthScope and Beyond, Geophysical Monograph 290. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1st edition, 2025. ISBN: 978-1-394-19591-6.

Jadamec, M. A., O. Kreylos, B. Chang, K. M. Fischer, and B. M. Yikilmaz. A Visual Survey of Global Slab Geometries with ShowEarthModel and Implications for a Three-dimensional Subduction Paradigm. Earth and Space Science, vol. 5, 18 pp. doi:10.1002/2017EA000349, 2018. Video download: http://hdl.handle.net/10477/76912. Video stream: http://goo.gl/Y7PDEX.  

MacDougall, J., M. A. Jadamec, K. M. Fischer. The zone of influence of the subducting slab in the asthenospheric mantle. Journal of Geophysical Research, 26 pp. doi:10.1002/2017JB014445, 2017.

Haynie, K. L. and M. A. Jadamec. Tectonic drivers of the Wrangell block: Insights on forearc sliver processes from 3D geodynamic models of Alaska. Tectonics, 36, doi:10.1002/2016TC004410, 2017.

Jadamec, M. A. Insights on slab-driven mantle flow from advances in three-dimensional modelling.Journal of Geodynamics, vol. 100, p. 51-70, doi:10.1016/j.jog.2016.07.004, 2016.

Sharples, W. K, L. N. Moresi, M. Velic, M. A. Jadamec, D. A. May. Simulating faults and plate boundaries with a transversely isotropic plasticity model. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, vol. 252, p. 77-90, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2015.11.007, 2016.

Jadamec, M. A. Slab driven mantle weakening and rapid mantle flow. in AGU Geophysical Monograph Series, Subduction Dynamics, Eds. G. Morra, D. A. Yuen, S. King, S-M. Lee, and S. Stein, AGU Wiley, vol. 211, doi:10.1002/9781118888865.ch7, 2016.

Sharples, W. K., L. N. Moresi, M. A. Jadamec, J. Revote. Styles of rifting and fault spacing in numerical models of crustal extension. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, 120, doi/10.1002/2014JB011813, 2015.

Sharples, W. K., M. A. Jadamec, L. N. Moresi, F. A. Capitanio. Overriding plate controls on subduction evolution. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, 119:6684-6704, 2014.