Visiting Assistant Professor
chen33yx@jmu.edu
Contact Info
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Missouri, Columbia
M.S. University of Missouri, Columbia
COURSES
GEOL 110L: Physical Geology Lab
ISCI 101: Physics, Chemistry, and the Human Experience
RESEARCH INTERESTS
I am primarily interested in doing computer simulations of the evolution of the magma chamber and wall rock system in space and time. I mainly focus on two research areas.
First, I do research to unravel the crustal heat flow and rheology associated with magma emplacement based on field observations, chemical analyses and numerical simulations.
Second, I study the process of metamorphic fluid flow in the pluton-wall rock system including numerical simulations of metamorphic reaction progress as well as reactive fluid flow.