Curriculum Vitae
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Personal Details
Date of birth:October 1983
Place of birth: Halifax, England
Mailing Address: Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, 450 Serra Mall,
Braun Hall, Bldg 320,
Stanford, CA. 94305-2115
Telephone: (Office) 650-725-0573
E-mail: fnenna@stanford.edu
Education and Academic Qualifications
2006 to present Stanford University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences
PhD Geology - Currently in the 4th year of study
2002 to 2006 University of Liverpool, Department of Earth Sciences.
M.E.Sci. Geology; 1st Class honours.
Current Research
Ph.D. Project - Current research interests include fault structures and the interactions of veins and pressure solutions in zones of regional deformation. Currently, I am working on a field sites on the west and south coasts of Ireland where these features are present in a variety of clastic units.
M.E.Sci. Geology Project – The style, extent and physical properties of soft sediment deformation surrounding juvenile fault zones. This project was to identify the style of deformation in relatively young fault zones and its effect on permeability and porosity in soft sediments. Detailed structural mapping was completed in order to analyse the lineation and samples were taken for thin section analysis. Experimental soft sediment deformation using a low-pressure tri-axial deformation apparatus will provide data to correlate porosity with hydrostatic and differential stress. This project was supervised by Dan Faulkner and Dave Hodgson, based in the Rock Deformation Lab, Liverpool Earth Science Department. This work was presented in poster form at TSG 2006 in Manchester.
Awards/Grants
2008 – McGee grant - $3050 towords field work to investigate the role of pressure solution seams in the formation of strike-slip fault zones in Ireland.
2007 – Levorsen grant - $2000 towards field work to investigate vein and pressure solution arrays in Ireland.
2006 – The Newall Prize for ‘Overall excellence in Geology on the F601 degree programme’.
2006 - Nominated for the Dave Johnston Undergraduate Mapping Prize at the 2006 Geological Society of London Tectonic Studies Group conference, Manchester UK.
2005 - Exxon Mobil fieldwork award – £500 towards 4th year project fieldwork (see section 5 for details).
2005 - The Hunter Prize for ‘Overall excellence in geology for year 3 students in the F601 degree programme’.
Society Membership
Student member of the American Geophysical Union and the American Assosiation of Petroleum Geologists.
Conference Attendance
2006-8 American Geophysical Union Conference, San Francisco, USA.
2006 Geological Society of London Tectonic Studies Group, Manchester, UK.
Abstracts and Publications
F. Nenna, D. Faulkner, D. Hodgson 2006. Soft sediment deformation in juvenile fault zones (case study of the Infierno-Marchalico Structural Lineament, Sorbas, SE Spain). Poster presented at the Geological Society of London Tectonic Studies Group meeting, Manchester, UK.
Employment
Summer 2008 Internship with Hess Corporation, Houston, Texas
Summer 2007 Internship with Cotton, Shires and Associates (Geotechnical), Los Gatos, California
Additional Responsibilities
2008/2009 Chair of the Stanford Earth Sciences Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC)
2004/2005 President of the Liverpool Earth Science Herdman Society