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Joe Schools
Graduate Student
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CHEM 1227
Fax: (301) 405-3597
jschools [at] umd [dot] edu
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Research Interests
I study the thermal and structural characteristics of planetary lithospheres through petrological and geodynamical modeling of melt processes. I primarily model the lithospheres of Mars and Jupiter's moon Io using the alphaMELTS thermodynamic calculator and ASPECT, a finite element geodynamics code.
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Publications
Schools, J. W. and Montési, L. G. J. (2018) The generation of barriers to melt ascent in the Martian lithosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. 123 47-66. DOI: 10.1002/2017JE005396