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Curriculum Vitae

Ikuko Wada

Postdoctoral Associate

Department of Geosciences Phone: 540-***-****

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University E-mail: iwada@whoi.edu4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg VA 24060

USA http://www.whoi.edu/people/iwada

Citizenship Japan Status in Canada Permanent resident

Gender Female Languages English and Japanese

Primary Field of Specialization Numerical modelling of fluid mechanics and heat transfer

Research Interests

The geodynamics of the Earth My past and current research has focused primarily on

subduction zone geodynamics. The research topics include

? State of stress in the subducting and overriding plates and its relation to tectonic

forces

? Effective elastic thickness of oceanic plates and plate bending at convergent margins

? Viscous coupling between the subducting slab and the overriding mantle and its effect

on

mantle wedge flow

? Thermal and petrologic structures of subduction zones and their implications for

subduction

zone processes, including earthquakes and melt generation

? Evolution of mineral grain size in the mantle wedge and its effect on wedge properties

(e.g.,

viscosity, seismic attenuation, and grain-scale permeability) and dynamics

? Distribution of fluid flux from the subducting slab and its relation to the fluid

distribution in

the mantle wedge

? Migration of aqueous fluids and melts in the mantle wedge and its relation to the

location of

the volcanic arc

? Effects of phase transformation on the dynamic evolution of subducting slabs and mantle

plumes

Academic History

01/2012presentPostdoctoral Associate, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic

Institute and State University

(Virginia Tech)

11/200910/2011Postdoctoral Fellow with funding provided by US NSF MARGINS

program, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole

Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)

09/200308/2009Ph.D., Earth and Ocean Sciences (EOS), University of Victoria (UVic)

jointly at Pacific Geoscience Centre (PGC), Geological Survey of Canada,

BC, Canada

05/199808/2003B.Sc. with Honours, EOS, UVic, BC, Canada

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Teaching Experience

09/200604/2008Laboratory instructor

for a first-year physics course, UVic

01/200604/2006Laboratory coordinator

for a first-year geology course, UVic

01/200412/2005Laboratory instructor for a first-year geology course, UVic

Employment History

01/200208/2002Geophysical research assistant, PGC

08/200112/2001Petrological research assistant, UVic

05/200107/2001Paleontological research assistant, UVic

Field Experience

07/2010 Research cruise, collecting rock samples from submarine volcanoes in the

Marianas

06/2010 Field school in Central Alps, Switzerland and Italy (as part of an MIT/WHOI

geodynamics seminar)

02/2005 Research cruise, marine heat flow probing offshore Ecuador and Colombia, the

international natural hazards AMADEUS project

01/2004 Laboratory instructor for field trips for a field project of

04/2006 a first-year geology course, UVic.

08/2003 Research cruise, seismic survey offshore of Vancouver Island, Canada

08/2002 Field work, geological mapping and sampling rocks in Sooke, BC, Canada

2001-2002 Two undergraduate field schools, geological mapping in western Canada and

shipboard geophysical measurements offshore of Vancouver Island, Canada

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Awards and Fellowship

2009 present US NSF MARGINS postdoctoral fellowship

2008 AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award

2007 SEOS Graduate student workshop, best presentation award, UVic

Conferences, Workshops, and Synergistic Activities

? Upcoming talks: (1) Invited keynote speaker at a joint US NSF GeoPRISMS-EarthScope

Science Workshop in Portland OR in April 2012, (2) invited keynote speaker at 2012 EGU

Meeting, Vienna, Austria in April 2012, and (3) invited seminar speaker at the University

of

Oregon OR in May 2012.

? Invited presentation at 2011 AGU Fall Meeting: Slab-derived fluid flux in subduction

zones:

Effects of localized hydration in the incoming plate and rehydration during subduction

? Invited keynote presentation at US NSF GeoPRISMS Planning Workshop for the Alaska

Primary Site in September, 2011: Dynamic processes in the mantle wedge

? Oral presenter at Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, August 2011: Focusing

of upward fluid migration due to mineral grain size variations in the mantle wedge

? Poster presenter at Gordon Research Conference, South Hadley, MA, June 2011

? Invited seminar speaker for Geodynamics Seminar at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,

Columbia University, NY, March 2011

? Invited seminar speaker at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, February 2011

? Invited break-out session co-leader and Poster presenter at US NSF MARGINS/GeoPRISMS

implementation workshop, Austin, TX, January 2011: Grain size distribution in the mantle

wedge and its implications for wedge dynamics.

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Conferences, and Synergistic Activities (cont.)

? Invited oral presenter at 2010 AGU Fall Meeting: Thermo-petrologic structure of

subduction

zones and its implications for fluid availability at depth

? Oral presenter at 2010 AGU Fall Meeting: Mineral grain size in the mantle wedge and its

implications for subduction zone dynamics

? Poster presenter at 2009 AGU Fall Meeting and MARGINS successor planning workshop,

San Antonio, TX, 2010: Sharp thermal transition in the forearc mantle wedge as a

consequence of nonlinear mantle wedge flow

? Invited keynote speaker at MARGINS Workshop on Volatiles TEI workshop, Mt. Hood, OR,

2009: Slab-mantle decoupling and its implications for subduction zone thermal structure,

fluid supply, and geophysical processes

? Invited oral presenter at 2008 AGU Fall Meeting: Common maximum depth of slab-mantle

wedge decoupling: Understanding variations in fluid supply and thermal-petrologic

processes

among subduction zones

? Presenter at MARGINS Workshop on The Next Decade of the Seismogenic Zone

Experiment, Mt. Hood, OR, September 2008: Exploring the thermal and metamorphic

controls on the seismogenic zones of subduction thrust faults

? Workshop for Advancing Numerical Modelling of Mantle Convection and Lithospheric

Dynamics, UC Davis, Davis, CA, July 2008

? Invited seminar speaker for the Geodynamics Seminar Series at Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution, Woods Hole, MA, 2008: Thermal structure of subduction zones and its

implications for subduction zone processes

? Oral presenter at 2007 AGU Fall Meeting: Comparative study of subduction zone thermal

structure: Implications for slab dehydration and fluid supply for subduction zone

processes

? Workshop on the Future of Marine Heat Flow, U. Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 2007

Referees Providing Letters

Mark D. Behn (postdoctoral advisor), Associate Scientist, Department of Geology and

Geophysics (G&G), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Woods Hole,

MA, USA; Tel. 508-***-****; *****@****.***

Kelin Wang (Ph.D. supervisor), Research Scientist, Pacific Geoscience Centre (PGC),

Geological Survey of Canada (GSC), Sidney, BC, Canada; Tel. 250-***-****;

*****@*****.**.**

Peter van Keken, Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann

Arbor, MI, USA; Tel. 734-***-****; *****@*****.***

Scott D. King (postdoctoral advisor), Professor, Department of Geosciences, Virginia

Tech,

Blacksburg, VA, USA: Tel. 540-***-****; ***@**.***

Alison M. Shaw (postdoctoral advisor), Associate Scientist, G&G, WHOI; Tel. 508-***-****;

*****@****.***

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