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Texas A&M University
Room 263, Halbouty
Department of Geology and Geophysics,
MS 3115,
College Station, Texas 77843

Dr. John Hopper

Adjunct Professor

Ph.D., Geophysics, Columbia University, 1994

M.A., Geophysics, Columbia University, 1989; M. Phil., Geophysics, Columbia University, 1994

B.A., High Honors in Geology, Colgate University, 1987

Experience

Current: Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics
August 2003- December 2004: Research Scientist, GEOMAR Marine Research Center at Chris-tian Albrechts Univeristy in Kiel, Germany
February 1999- July 2003: Senior Scientist, Danish Lithosphere Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
August 1994 - January 1999: Project Scientist, Danish Lithosphere Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

Awards

Bruce Heezan Prize, Columbia University, 1989
Sarah Fitzgerald Langer Book Prize, Columbia University, 1989
Distinguished Lecturer, National Science Foundation Margins Program, 2007-2008

Publications

Hopper, J.R., T. Funck, and B.E. Tucholke, 2007, Structure of the Flemish Cap Margin, New-foundland: Insights into Mantle and Crustal Processes During Continental Breakup, in Karner, G.D., Manatschal, G., and Pinhiero, L.M. (eds) Imaging, Mapping and Modelling Continental Lithosphere Extension and Breakup, Geol. Soc. London Sp. Publ., 282, 43-57, doi: 10.1144/SP282.3.
Van Avendonk, H., Holbrook, W.S., Nunes, G.T., Shillington, D.J., Tucholke, B.E., Louden, K.E., Larsen, H.C., and Hopper, J.R., 2006, Seismic velocity structure of the rifted margin of the eastern Grand Banks, of Newfoundland, Canada, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B11404, doi:10.1029/2005JB04156.
Shillington, D.J., W.S. Holbrook, H. van Avendonk, B.E. Tucholke, J.R. Hopper, K.E. Louden, H.C. Larsen, G.T. Nunes, 2006, Evidence for asymmetric nonvolcanic rifting and slow incipi- ent seafloor spreading from seismic reflection data on the Newfoundland margin, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B09402, doi:10.1029/2005JB0003981.
Lau, K.W., Louden, K.E., Deemer, S., Hall, J., Hopper, J.R., Tucholke, B.E., Holbrook, W.S., and Larsen, H.C., 2006, Crustal Structure across the Grand Banks-Newfoundland Basin Continen- tal Margin (Part 2) - Results from a Seismic Reflection Profile, Geophys. J. Int., 167, 157-170, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.02989.x.
Lau, K.W., K.E., Louden, K.E., Funck, T., Tucholke, B.E., Holbrook, W.S., Hopper, J.R., Larsen, H.C., 2006, Crustal Structure across the Grand Banks-Newfoundland Basin Continental Margin (Part 1) - Results from a Seismic Refraction Profile, Geophys. J. Int., 167, 127-156, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.02988.x.
Hopper, J.R., T.Funck, B.E. Tucholke, K.E. Louden, W.S. Holbrook, and H.C. Larsen, 2006, A Deep Seismic Investigation of the Flemish Cap Margin: Implications for the Origin of Deep Reflectivity and Evidence for Asymmetric Breakup between Newfoundland and Iberia, Geo- phys. J. Inter., 164, 501-515, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.02800.x.