Basil Tikoff is a quantitative field geologist who combines field geology, geophysical methods, physical (analog) models, and numerical models to understand three-dimensional deformation. Ongoing projects are on a range of scales and crustal levels in order to consider deformation of the entire lithosphere. Tools that he uses routinely are strain modeling, physical modeling, EBSD and universal stage analysis for LPO, geomagnetism (paleomagnetism and AMS) and gravity inversion. (University of Wisconsin)

Christine Siddoway is a structural geologist enamored with migmatites. Her current investigations of high temperature rocks focus on the exhumation history of a Cretaceous gneiss dome in West Antarctica and on the kinematic history of Proterozoic gneiss terranes of Colorado, for understanding of the behavior and role of partial melts in the middle crust during tectonism. A sideline is brittle kinematic analysis of mesoscopic faults associated with Laramide foreland structures in Colorado. Christine teaches structural geology and metamorphic petrology at Colorado College under the one-course-at-a-time schedule (Block Plan) implemented at CC, making full use of the local field laboratory in the Rocky Mountains. (Colorado College)