Christopher Andronicos
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Christopher L. Andronicos (b. December 1968 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA) is a geologist and college professor.
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[edit] Early life
Christopher Andronicos is the son of Domingo Montoya, former governor of Sandia Pueblo, and Maria Flying Horse, an Indian artist. He is a native of New Mexico and was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He graduated from Del Norte High School in 1987. He has one brother, Henry Lind who still lives in New Mexico. Chris is married to Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos, who works at Cornell University running the concentration in Inequality in the Sociology Department. They have two sons, Aidan and Orion.
[edit] Career
Chris is an Associate Professor of Geology at Cornell University. He attended the University of New Mexico where he majored in geology. He graduated in 1995 from UNM and then attended Princeton University where he received a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship and Princeton's Dodson Fellowship. He completed his PhD in 1999 and took a position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at El Paso. In 2005 Chris left Texas for a position at Cornell University where he is a member of the Institute for the Study of the Continents, and a member of the faculty in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and the American Indian Program.
His research is focused on understanding high temperature deformation in the deep crust and upper mantle. He has focused his work on continental orogenic belts in the southwestern United States, western Canada, and the Tibetan plateau. He has recently begun work on the Oman Ophiolite complex which provides access to rocks which once made up the Oceanic crust and upper mantle. Chris has published in journals including Tectonics, Terra Nova, and Earth and Planetary Science Letters and has received funding from the National Science Foundation for his research. His work in western Canada has been influential in both understanding magmatic arcs and the paleogeography of North America.
[edit] Research Papers by Chris Andronicos
Hamblock, J. M., Andronicos, C. L., Barnes, C. M., Miller, K. C., Ren, M., Averil, M., and Anthony, E. Y., A Composite Geologic And Seismic Profile Beneath The Southern Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico, Based On Xenolith Mineralogy, Temperature, And Pressure, Tectonophysics, in press.
Miller, K. C., Carrick, T. M., MartÃnez-Sussmann, C., Levine, R., Andronicos, C. L., and Langford, R. P., Effectiveness of a Summer Experience for Inspiring Interest in Geoscience Among Hispanic-American High School Students, Journal of Geoscience Education, in press.
Andronicos, C. L., Velasco, A. E., and Hurtado, J. M., (2007), Large Scale Deformation In The India-Asia Collision Constrained By Earthquakes And Topography, Terra Nova, 19, 105-120, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2006.00714.x.
Hollister, L. S. and Andronicos, C. L., (2006), Formation of new continental crust in Western British Columbia during transpression and transtension, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 249, 29-38.
Keller, G. R., Karlstrom, K. E., Williams, M. L., Miller, K. C., Andronicos, C. L., Lavander, A., Snelson, C., and Prodehl, C., (2005), The Dynamic Nature of the Continental Moho: Crustal Evolution in the Southern Rocky Mountain Region as an Example, Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 154, 482 pages, hardbound, 2005, ISBN 0-87590-419-X.
Quezada, O. A., G. R. Keller, and Andronicos, C. L., (2005), A seismic reflection, gravity and remote sensing study of the southeastern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico, Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 154, 482 pages, hardbound, 2005, ISBN 0-87590-419-X.
Quezada, O. A., Andronicos, C. L., and Keller, G. R., (2005), Structure of the Sangre De Cristo Mountains between Taos and Mora based on an integrated Geophysical analysis, New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 55th Field Conference.
Tervino, L., Keller, G. R., and Andronicos, C. L., (2005), Rootless Mountains and Gravity Lows in the Sangre De Cristo Mountains, Southern Colorado-Northern New Mexico, New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 55th Field Conference.
Andronicos, C. L., Chardon, D., Gehrels, G., Hollister, L.S., and Woodsworth, G.J., (2003), Strain partitioning in an obliquely convergent orogen, plutonism, and synorgenic collapse: the Coast Mountains Batholith, British Columbia, Canada, Tectonics, 22, doi:10.1029/2001TC001312.
Hollister, L. S. and Andronicos, C. L., (2000), The Central Gneiss Complex, Coast Mountains, British Columbia: Geological Society of America Special Paper, 343, pp.45-59.
Andronicos, C.L., Hollister, L.S., Davidson, C., and Chardon, D., (1999), Kinematics and tectonic significance of transpressive structures within the Coast Plutonic Complex, British Columbia, Jour. Struct. Geol., 21, p. 229-243.
Chardon, D. H., and Andronicos, C. L., and Hollister, L. S., (1999), Large-scale transpressive shear zone patterns and displacements within magmatic arcs: The Coast Plutonic Complex, British Columbia, Tectonics, 18, 278-292.
Hollister, L.S. and Andronicos, C. L., (1997), A Candidate for the Baja British Columbia Fault System in the Coast Plutonic Complex, GSA Today, 7, 1-7.
Kirby, E. K., Karlstrom, K.E., Andronicos, C. L., Dallmeyer, R.D., (1995), Tectonic Setting of the Sandia Pluton: An orogenic 1.4 Ga granite in New Mexico, Tectonics, 14, no. 1, p. 185-201.
Kirby, E. K., Karlstrom, K. E., and Andronicos, C. L., (1995), Structural and thermal setting during emplacement of the Sandia Pluton, New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 46th Field Conference, p. 219-225.
