⬆ Earthrise from the Apollo 17 Command Module, July 1969 (NASA)
Welcome to the website of Kip Hodges and his research group in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University! Here you can learn about the people in our group, our laboratories, and our projects. Principal themes of our research include continental tectonics, noble gas isotope geochemistry and chronology, and planetary field science.
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Lisa Song Wins Pulitzer Prize
- Along with colleagues Elizabeth McGowan and David Hasemyer at Inside Climate News, Lisa Song was recently awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting "for their rigorous reported on flawed regulation of the nation's oil pipelines, focusing on potential ecological dangers posed by diluted bitumen (or 'dilbit'), a controversial form of oil". Lisa was a student of KVH in his freshman class 'Solving Complex Problems' at MIT and a lifetime member of Terrascope, the special freshman program for which he was founding director at MIT. Congratulations Lisa!
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Science Prize for 'Solving Complex Problems'
- A curriculum designed by KVH for the project-based subject 'Solving Complex Problems' was awarded the 2012 Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction by the editors of Science. Email KVH for a pdf of the essay.
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Channel Flow and Landscape Evolution
- Reasonable people disagree about the importance of large-scale channel flow to evolution of the Tibetan Plateau, but KVH and Byron Adams have published a paper in the new Treatise on Geomorphology on how physiographic characteristics of the plateau might reflect channel flow. Email KVH for a pdf.
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Dating the Wetumpka Impact Structure, Alabama
- A recent paper in Meteoritics & Planetary Science is the latest example of our contributions to dating impact structures using the (U-Th)/He method. Email Jo for a pdf.
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More Evidence for Large-Scale Slip on the South Tibetan Fault System
- Two recent papers from our work in Bhutan – with former group member Frances Cooper as first author – imply tens of kilometers of dip-slip displacement on the master detachment of the South Tibetan system in the eastern Himalaya. Email Frances for a pdf.
