Stephen Michalchuk

Stephen Michalchuk is studying under the tutelage of Luca, with co-supervisors comprising of Francois and Kristina.  He’ll contribute to the ongoing research on the lower-crustal pseudotachylytes and mylonites located in the Nusfjord Anorthosite rocks of Lofoten, as well as the enigmatic occurrence of fracturing found within mid-crustal ultramylonites in Western Australia.  His research will rely on combining microstructural analysis using EBSD and synchrotron-based microtomography, along with geochemical mapping using EMPA and ToF-SIMS to understand the transient nature of the brittle and ductile deformation found in these rocks.  Stephen is from Calgary, Canada and studied for his BSc (Honours) at the University of Calgary, and his MSc at Lunds Universitet in Sweden. Between his graduation from Lund and the present day, he worked in the Canadian oil patch mapping reservoirs along the eastern edge of the Canadian Rockies, and then more recently for a geophysical survey company leading field teams in the Coast Mountains near the Alaska-Canada border, rural China, and the high Atacama along the Chile-Argentina border.