John Rudge

My research interests encompass a broad spread of geophysics and geochemistry. I use techniques from continuum mechanics, numerical analysis and statistics to tackle various problems in the Earth Sciences.

Publications

Rudge J.F., Reynolds B.C., Bourdon B. The double spike toolbox (2009) Chem. Geol. (in press) [PDF preprint] [Elsevier version] [software download]
Rudge J.F. Finding peaks in geochemical distributions: a re-examination of the helium-continental crust correlation (2008) Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 274:179-188 [PDF] [PDF Preprint] [Elsevier version]
Rudge J.F., Holness M. B., Smith G. C. Quantitative textural analysis of packings of elongate crystals (2008) Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 156:413-429 [PDF] [PDF Preprint] [Springer version]
Rudge J.F., Shaw Champion M. E., White N., McKenzie D., Lovell B. A plume model of transient diachronous uplift at the Earth's surface (2008) Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 267:146-160 [PDF Final] [PDF Preprint] [Elsevier version]
Rudge J.F. Mantle pseudo-isochrons revisited (2006) Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 249(3-4):494-513 [PDF Final] [PDF Preprint] [Elsevier version]
Rudge J.F. Scattering past a cylinder with weak circulation (2005) Proceedings of the WHOI Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program (Pages 157-179) [PDF]
Rudge J.F., McKenzie D., Haynes P.H. A theoretical approach to understanding the isotopic heterogeneity of mid-ocean ridge basalt (2005) Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 69(15):3873-3887 [PDF Final] [PDF Preprint] [Elsevier version]

Unpublished Work

Geochemical Implications of Stirring and Mixing in the Earth's Mantle (2006) PhD thesis [Web PDF (single spaced)] [Print PDF (double spaced)] (I was supervised by Dan McKenzie at the Bullard Laboratories, Earth Sciences, and Peter Haynes at DAMTP)
Completion of Oil Wells (Part III computational project) (2003) [PDF]
Friction Stir Welding (with John Hinch) (2002) [PDF]

Recent Presentations

"Disequilibrium melting of a two phase multicomponent mantle "

• AGU Fall meeting 2008 [abstract]

"Finding peaks in geochemical data sets"

• Goldschmidt Meeting 2008, Vancouver [abstract]
• Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory 2008
• Yale University 2008
• ETH Zürich 2008

"Quantitative textural analysis of packings of elongate crystals"

• AGU Fall meeting 2007 [abstract] [PDF]

"Transient plume uplift in the North Sea"

• Thirteenth Oxford/Cambridge Applied Mathematics Meeting 2007
• Cambridge Department of Earth Science Industrial Associates Day 2007

"Conduit Waves"

• Bullard Labs Teatime Talks 2007
• DAMTP ITG Seminar Series 2007

"Mantle pseudo-isochrons revisited"

• Bullard Labs Student Talks 2006
• AGU Fall meeting 2006 [abstract] [PDF]
• Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Seminar Series 2006
• ETH Zurich Geochemistry Seminar Series 2007

"Scattering past a cylinder with weak circulation"

• WHOI GFD Program 2005 Seminar Series
• DAMTP Continuum Mechanics Seminar 2005

“A theoretical approach to understanding the isotopic heterogeneity of mid-ocean ridge basalt”

• European Geosciences Union 2004 1st General Assembly [Abstract]
• Max-Planck- Institut für Chemie seminar series 2004
• WHOI Geochemistry Seminar series 2005
• NERC-EPSRC Environmental Mathematics and Statistics Final Workshop 2005
• DAMTP Continuum Mechanics Seminar 2004
• Bullard Labs Student Talks 2004

“Friction Welding’’

• American Physical Society 2003 Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics (presented by Prof E. J. Hinch)
• DAMTP Continuum Mechanics Seminar 2002

Peer Review

I have reviewed articles for

• Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
• Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
• Earth and Planetary Science Letters
• Lithos