https://www.capaldiunroofing.com/our-research daily 0.75 2026-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/1567572465726-7NIA5B97I430FV0GR0JR/IMG_5901.jpg Group https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/1567713456197-ZL9ZSR3N305QFPF777DM/IMG_2053.JPG Group https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/1567573419823-1A81EYQPYXFMXQ7VGXE5/IMG_1778.jpg Group - Tomas Capaldi Assistant Professor Geoscience Research Division - Earth Section Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego 8615 Charles F. Kennel Way Sverdrup Hall 3215 La Jolla, CA, 92097 email: tcapaldi@ucsd.edu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/6a59ae4a-c22f-4448-b2c8-08d31bb79ce2/20220320_141312.jpg Group - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/5752e986-76b2-4fb5-8825-30ead8817898/BriP.jpg Group - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/214e7d56-1eec-4320-abf9-f6150de4b1a3/JoeBK.jpg Group - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/7250a121-3268-4be1-8e5a-a28262befffd/SienaH.jpg Group - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/5aad4c0b-654c-4e1d-b981-82d3b13a50a7/EvanK.jpg Group - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/432f6160-a411-4e91-8d82-3bfd4238a95e/Opal.jpg Group - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/563162a2-9085-421b-bb19-410204c99ffe/Duncan.jpg Group - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/577d4492-6f3d-42a9-8d0d-bc4dadeb1434/Zoey.jpg Group - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/074656a4-5cd8-4481-8bb7-858c5856c2ab/Ian.jpg Group - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/129db5ed-ac0e-475e-bad2-b0f4c1165d03/Conner.jpg Group - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/34b35401-63c0-4f78-8f8d-57aa89c042cd/Didi.jpg Group - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.capaldiunroofing.com/home daily 1.0 2026-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/1567571109947-QJIT8OVT1RQ50G0ANE06/IMG_3453.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/1567572631746-CNG8719WKIUMSAB16V5K/IMG_2642.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/bd6bc681-21a4-4800-b03d-b40c788f558c/CHRONDOR.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/61813d48-5875-4ecc-9e3a-c1857539514a/losgringos.jpg Home - Make it stand out Research group standing on Cerro Valdivia on the outskirts of the city of San Juan. From left to right: Briana Pearson (PhD student), Joe Brooks-Kahn (MS student); Chloe Weeks (PhD student); Tomas Capaldi (field assistant) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/0d6b5ec7-2518-4961-957e-d9b63b5b1067/Fig6_Danube_S2S_Cartoon_V2.png Home - Make it stand out This summary figure didn’t make the final pub so here it is as a B-side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/c87533e4-6a59-44c7-b2e8-4527759552fe/Chile+SZ4D.jpg Home - Make it stand out View from the Cascadas Invertidas - Maule River Falls (70.57296° W, 35.95886° S) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/862575dc-4ef4-44a2-9fa8-c5ae621f6450/Okwueze_map.png Home - Make it stand out Sample map of river sands collected along the ring road https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/ff649ec6-88db-442a-95c6-c1538efc98fc/hornsund.jpg Home - Make it stand out Jeg har sett mange steder, men ingen matcher majesteten på Svalbard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/ae9090ac-8aac-4f12-bf6a-48638def6829/IMG_3792.jpg Home - Make it stand out Class photo on the crest of the Kelso Dunes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/7c7fa558-dbdf-4cb7-b34c-6aa9ba93f8e3/Fig_2_DZ_DR_comparison_v7.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/63278a55-ded5-4f96-b3d1-412a95b14466/Fig12_Summary_figure.png Home - Make it stand out Summary figure highlighting the coeval occurrence of shortening induced subsidence and eolian activity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/83f8cf8d-d21c-4f80-b82e-58d5e12b2757/SIO+pier.jpg Home - Make it stand out Yes this is SIO campus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/178a9f60-c09b-447b-b82f-f5df3da54932/Fig12_v3.png Home - Make it stand out The summary figure in all of its glory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/35d33ae4-6a9d-41a4-a3f0-7dd28549538a/poleta.jpg Home - Make it stand out Mapping the Poleta Folds with UNLV undergrads and grad students with a beautiful overlook of Deep Springs Valley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/8b19eede-e386-418b-bebe-6f20b83b9bd1/IMG_5892.jpg Home - Make it stand out A&M students admiring my favorite Formation the Aztec Sandstone https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/59cf5fe4-b43d-4299-937a-8e04e1f0bde2/IMG-3777.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/c95b5d67-261b-4452-8846-a04de7a7c3b1/IMG-0760.jpg Home - Make it stand out Didi sampling Cretaceous pluton that underlies the conglomerate deposits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/44f1bad7-2242-47e8-834e-d975c0cefad1/Broken_foreland.jpg Home - Make it stand out Concept of tectonic inheritance in promoting intraplate deformation and development of broken foreland basins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/e290b002-0c64-4ffe-9f47-6b3fab33f9a7/IMG_1879.jpg Home - Make it stand out Set up includes NWR 193 Elemental Scientific Laser System with a ThermoFischer iCap quadrupole inductively coupled mass-spectrometer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/e95054b5-01f2-4e25-a8b3-a4296190cb8d/gillettethebestamancanget.jpg Home - Make it stand out Ian standing over a thick cross-bedded conglomerate of the Wasatch Fm. They say Butch Cassidy used these outcrops as hideouts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/7a0b91aa-530d-460c-a26a-c59cfa74ceab/garzanti_etal_2022.jpg Home - Make it stand out Southward transport of Andean fluvial sand gets reworked northward across the Pampean sand sea. Like screaming into the wind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/3aa65daa-cf05-4362-93ff-5be10ef73f17/Capaldi_etal_2022_BasinResearch_graphical_abstract.jpg Home - Make it stand out New work flow using Pecube kinematic models to predict detrital thermochronology age distributions over a given catchment area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/a63482d3-4721-4d78-ad8f-e59fbdfc7b69/geology+fig.jpg Home - Make it stand out Great spatial overlap between broken forelands and slat-slab subduciton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/ca001464-8f4b-4ff1-943d-478eb7ec35d7/bear_river_OSL.jpg Home - Make it stand out Downstream changes in quartz optically simulated luminescence sensitivity tend to decrease with greater contribution of chert and volcanic quartz grains. More work needs to be done… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/b02a8376-49fb-4fec-a104-87daca5fff94/gsaflyer.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/e7eadcb2-2fbd-4342-8b63-40c137d37f9a/capaldi_Plonka.jpeg Home - Make it stand out We measured that bad boy cm by cm…. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/912f4ebd-f5ff-4d0b-978c-36b3c7249250/IMG-3045.jpg Home - Make it stand out Class photo on Permian Kaibab Formation, Overton, NV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/5da11acf-27c5-428e-8fd5-f922e3b044dc/Garzanti_2021_the_knights_move.jpg Home - Make it stand out The knight is not free: it moves in an L-shaped manner because it is forbidden to take the straight road." -Viktor Shklovsky, Knight's Move, 1923 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/fc42909c-c879-4232-b17b-6cae8080d04a/Whitney_mesa_lecture.jpg Home - Make it stand out Field lecture in an ideally placed amphitheater, Whitney Mesa Nature Preserve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/1618373162919-SMGJFYEY6N7S580FFQ7I/Figure_10_Location_Hf_ThU_v12.png Home Zircon geochemistry exhibits a strong spatial trend across the South American subduction margin. Magmatism migrates trenchward, magmatism migrates cratonward, never a miscommunication. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/1618374901354-U3P3CII4OMMIL6D3QDBP/IMG_9613.jpg Home James Duncan carrying rocks up a canyon in the Northern Sierras, CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/1618369442672-4D71DTZ5DEKUBY8QFGA8/Field1.jpg Home A ragtag group of field banditos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/1600231663893-1YQT40EU60ZHWGVH9WMW/IMG_9060.jpg Home Well made it to Henderson, but close enough https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/1592443885458-CE94BPB8QDYI84UPBDOA/capaldi_2020_conclusion.jpg Home Miocene Flat slab subduciton driving Andean orogenesis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/1574287984395-02K4TWO3QNCBIWRNRBI0/FES_Fig9_Climate_Sed_transport_v4.jpg Home Winds of change (Not referring to that bad Scorpions song) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/1572289931758-49Y2QSX365ATQP0XXO1B/IMG_8021.jpg Home Recent fluvial bar deposits of the Pjórsá River, Iceland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/1567570778535-MF094YIYAM4MG96QBATM/IMG_1445.JPG Home The Grand Canyon State https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/1567716057695-GB5FFHOI7GSJS8YC9VY8/IMG_7468.JPG Home Modern Beaver dam analogue to Holocene Lake Bonneville. Maybe it was beavers all along… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/1567570732173-W5LJC8J6L659YXJD3RQI/IMG_1780.jpg Home Texas longhorns hook en’ em’ https://www.capaldiunroofing.com/research daily 0.75 2017-03-15 https://www.capaldiunroofing.com/pubs daily 0.75 2026-03-27 https://www.capaldiunroofing.com/capaldiresearch daily 0.75 2024-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/21925e3c-f5cd-4a35-babe-9f029c653bb5/Fig2_Tectonic+Models_CML.png Research Proposed structural models of the Argentina foreland with earthquake hypocenters overlain (red circles; Regnier et al. 1992; Smalley et al. 1993). (A) East dipping basement décollement with SPdP fault-bend fold kinematically linked to basement-involved EP (Ramos et al., 2002; Siame et al., 2002; 2015;). (B) West-dipping CP décollement linked to thin-skinned EP backthrust (Meigs et al., 2006); west-dipping, deeply rooted listric fault controlled uplift of SPdP (Bellhasen et al., 2016). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/d08d88d9-e938-43ae-97bf-ae496b03d520/Fig1_Regional_map-4.png Research Tectonic map of Antler orogeny rock assemblages and terranes (modified from Crafford, 2008; Colpron and Nelson, 2009; Berenak et al., 2016; Attia et al., 2018). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/bc97c944-9c95-4332-a72b-db5cf6c90254/Fig_1_Two_panel_map_geo_river.png Research - Make it stand out Geologic maps highlighting the spatial overlap between Sevier-Laramide age faults (black lines) and Cenozoic extensional faults (red lines) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/1567710360070-Q68MA5KLCZ03VJGIYV0A/IMG_2489.JPG Research - Make it stand out Medanos Grade eolian dune field in western Argentina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/1567714612238-J2S94Z17CJK1M1925X9P/IMG_0792.JPG Research - Make it stand out Small scale orographic effects on climate in the North Pyrenean Zone, France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/c7c77140-17f1-48fd-848b-af0f9d62d621/Fig5_Danube_maps_v2.png Research - Make it stand out Maps of the Lower Danube catchment area and sample locations (colored circles). (A) Catchment area relief and active seismicity locations (white circles); data from Grünthal and Wahlström, 2012. (B) Mean precipitation map; data from Fick and Hijmans, 2017. (C) Anthropogenic Land Use and River dam locations (white squares); data from CORINE land cover 2018 and The AMBER Barrier Atlas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5adc41fddabe000141b18e/be7ef280-99e5-401a-8713-a8113fe3bddb/IMG_7927.JPG Research - Make it stand out Sampling river sediment in Iceland