American Geophysical Union

Vote during the 2014 AGU elections

AGU’s future is in your hands! Vote in the 2014 AGU Election starting 18 Aug. election.agu.org

In particular, get involved with the interdisciplinary focus group Studies of the Earth's Deep Interior (SEDI). We need your participation. Consider adding SEDI to your affiliation when renewing!

Recent Publications

Johnston, Stephanie A., and Montési, L.G.J. (2014) Formation of ridges on Europa above crystallizing water bodies indside the ice shell. Icarus. 237 190-201. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2014.04.026

Gueydan, F., J. Précigout, and L.G.J. Montési, (2014) Strain weakening enables continental plate tectonics. Tectonophysics, in press doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.02.005.

Miller, K.J., Zhu, W., Montési, L., and Gaetani, G. (2014) Experimental quantification of permeability for partially molten mantle rocks. Earth Planetary Science Letters, 388 273-282. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.12.003.

Activities

Next trip up: GEOMOD14. I will be a keynote speaker at this great conference at the GeoForschungZentrum Potsdam

CIDER. I lectured at the 2014 CIDER summer program and got involved in two projects. I love the interdisciplinary science we are doing at CIDER and hope these projects will continue!

I am serving on the AGU Programm committee as the representative of the SEDI focus group. Consider adding SEDI to your AGU affiliations, or even make it your principal affiliation! And do vote in the upcoming AGU elections

Laurent Montési

Associate Professor

Department of Geology

University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland 20742

Phone	(1) 301 405-7534
Fax	(1) 301 314-9661
email	montesi@umd.edu
website	http://www.geol.umd.edu/~montesi