Michael Durcanin

Graduate Student / Teaching Assistant
Room 243C Wright Geological Laboratory
(732) 445-3368
mdurca1@eden.rutgers.edu

Education

• 2006-Present: M.Sc., Rutgers University, Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
• Research Focus: Understanding the effects of salt tectonics on rift basin development using scaled analog models
• 2003-2006: B.S., Geological Sciences with minors in Marine Science and Mathematics, Cook College, Rutgers University - Dept. of Geological Sciences
• Senior Project: "The Petrology and Petrography of Middle Pleistocene Volcanics: The Kapthurin Formation: Kenya Rift"

Teaching

• Intro to Geology Laboratory - Spring 2008 - Present
• Field Geology - Summer/Fall 2007

Publications

• Durcanin, M.A. 2007. Salt Tectonics and Rift Basin Development: Integrating Scaled Experimental Models with Seismic Examples from the Scotian Shelf. AAPG Student Expo Abstracts (unpublished)

• Durcanin, M.A., Delaney, J.S., Ashley, G.M. 2005. The Petrology and Petrography of Middle Pleistocene Volcanics: The Kapthurin Formation, Kenya Rift. GSA Annual Meeting - Abstracts with Program. v. 37, p. 292

Research Interests

• Salt tectonics, extensional tectonics, rift basin evolution, integrating analog modeling with seismic reflection data

Professional Organizations

• 2004-present: American Geophysical Union
• 2003-present: American Association of Petroleum Geologists
• 2003-present: Geological Society of America
• 2003-present: SEPM