Suzanne Mulligan
Position title: Research Associate
Email: smulligan2@wisc.edu
Address:
413 Weeks Hall
1215 W. Dayton St
Research
My research interests include metamorphic petrology, mineral physics, and structural geology. I use P-T modeling, elastic geobarometry, petrochronology, high-pressure high-temperature experimentation [DAC], and mineral stress/strain analysis to explore questions in hard-rock petrology and tectonics.
Research Projects
- Evaluating the metamorphic history of Precambrian rocks in the Grand Canyon using quartz-in-garnet elastic geobarometry
- Reconstructing the geologic history of Mesozoic rocks exposed in Monarch Canyon of the Funeral Mountains metamorphic core complex
- Evaluating stress and strain on quartz inclusions by comparing Raman and synchrotron X-ray diffraction data
- Investigating prograde and retrograde monazite petrogenesis in Monarch Canyon
- Dating deformation using titanite petrochronology
Awards
- Doctoral Research Fellowship, Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program
- Materials and Chemistry Institute Intern, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- College of Sciences Best Graduate Teaching Assistant Nomination
- Geosymposium Best Oral Presentation Award
- Lipman Research Grant Awardee
- Jacobs Research Grand Award
- Geological Society of Nevada Scholarship Award