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Joost van Summeren

Post-Doctoral Researcher University of Hawaii
summeren@hawaii.edu



PUBLICATIONS

Joost van Summeren, Eric Gaidos, and Clinton P. Conrad (2013). Magnetodynamo Lifetimes for Rocky, Earth-Mass Exoplanets with Contrasting Mantle Convection Regimes, Submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets.

Joost van Summeren, Clinton P. Conrad, and Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni (2012). The Importance of Slab Pull and a Global Asthenosphere to Plate Motions, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 13, Q0AK03, doi:10.1029/2011GC003873. [reprint] [online version]

Joost van Summeren, Clinton P. Conrad, Eric Gaidos (2011). Mantle Convection, Plate Tectonics, and Volcanism on Hot Exo-Earths, Astrophysical Journal Letters, vol. 736, L15 (6pp.) doi:10.1088/2041-8205/736/1/L15. [reprint] [online version]

Van Summeren, J. R. G., Van den Berg, A. P., and Van der Hilst, R. D. (2009). Upwellings from a deep mantle reservoir filtered at the 660 km phase transition in thermo-chemical convection models and implications for intra-plate volcanism, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Sciences, vol. 172, p. 210-224. [reprint] [online version]

J. van Summeren (2008). Constraints on thermo-chemical convection from numerical modelling and geophysical data, Ph.D. Thesis, Utrecht University. [reprint] [online version]

Van Thienen, P., Van Summeren, J., Van der Hilst, R. D., Van den Berg, A. P., and Vlaar, N. J. (2005). Numerical study of the origin and stability of chemically distinct reservoirs deep in Earth's mantle, in: The Structure, Evolution and Composition of Earth's Mantle, AGU Geophysical Monograph Series 160, pp. 117-136. [online version]



OUTREACH PAPERS

Joost van Summeren (2009). Beweging diep in de aarde en invloed op het aardoppervlak, "Kennislink" educational website for Dutch ministry of Education, Culture, and Science, [online version]



ABSTRACTS, INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS

J. van Summeren, Clinton P. Conrad, Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni (2011). Feasibility of Magnetodynamos in Hot Exo-Earths, AGU Fall Meeting 2011, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A. (talk, P24C-03).

J. van Summeren, Clinton P. Conrad, Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni (2011). Influence on Plate Motions of Lateral Mantle Viscosity Variations, AGU Fall Meeting 2011, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A. (talk, T12B-02).

J. van Summeren, Clinton P. Conrad, Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni (2011). The Importance of a Global Asthenosphere to Patterns of Plate Motions, EarthScope Institute on the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

J. van Summeren, Clinton P. Conrad, Eric Gaidos (2011). Feasibility of Plate Tectonics on Rocky Exoplanets, Gordon Research Conference, Holyoke, MA, U.S.A.

J. van Summeren, Clinton P. Conrad, Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni (2011). Impact of Lithospheric Thickness Variations on Global Patterns of Plate Motions, Gordon Research Conference, Holyoke, MA, U.S.A.

J. van Summeren, C. P. Conrad, E. Gaidos (2011). Plate Tectonics and Volcanism on Rocky Exoplanets, Hawaii Space Lecture Series (invited talk).

J. van Summeren, C. P. Conrad, E. Gaidos (2011). Feasibility of Plate Tectonics on Exoplanets, SOEST Seminar (talk).

J. van Summeren, C. P. Conrad, E. Gaidos (2010). Convective Structure and Tectonic Setting for Synchronously Rotating Super-Earth Exoplanets, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A. (talk).

J. van Summeren, C. P. Conrad, C. Lithgow-Bertelloni (2010). Lateral Viscosity Variations Associated with continental Roots and its Impact on Plate Motions and Plate-Mantle Coupling, GLADE Meeting, SCRIPPS, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.

J. van Summeren, C. P. Conrad, E. Gaidos (2010). Mantle Convection in Tidally Locked Extra-Solar Planet CoRoT-7b, ET-HOME Meeting, SOEST, Honolulu, HI, U.S.A. (talk).

J. van Summeren, C. P. Conrad, C. Lithgow-Bertelloni (2009). The Infuence of Continental Roots on Plate Motions and Plate-Mantle Coupling, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

J. van Summeren, R.D. van der Hilst, A.P. van den Berg, J. Trampert (2009). Global distribution of Compositional mantle domains infuenced by the mantle transition zone, Gordon Research Conference, Holyoke, MA, U.S.A.

J. van Summeren (2007). Expressions in the geoid calculated from numerical models of thermo-chemical mantle convection, Charles University, Prague (talk).

Lekic, V., Reif, C., Dziewonski, A.M., Sheehan, A., van Summeren, J (2006). Seismic constraints on slab interaction with the transition zone. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

J. van Summeren (2006). Geodynamical models and prediction of seismic wave speeds. CIDER Workshop, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A. (talk).

J. van Summeren, A.P. van den Berg, R.D. van der Hilst (2006), Existence and survival of a compositionally distinct deep mantle reservoir, NAC Meeting, Netherlands.

J. van Summeren, A.P. van den Berg, R.D. van der Hilst (2005). Composition-dependent viscosity in evolutionary models of thermo-chemical mantle convection, 9th International Workshop on Modeling of Mantle Convection and Lithospheric Dynamics, Erice, Italy.

J. van Summeren, A.P. van den Berg, R.D. van der Hilst (2004). On the survival of a heterogeneous deep mantle reservoir - Constraints from evolutionary numerical convection models. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

J. van Summeren, A.P. van den Berg, R.D. van der Hilst (2004). Compositional heterogeneity in the deep lower mantle - Long-term survival in evolutionary numerical models, MYRES Workshop, SCRIPPS, La Jolla, CA, U.S.A.