Dr. Aaron Yoshinobu

Education
Ph D, University of Southern California, Earth Sciences
MS, San Diego State University, Geological Sciences
BS, San Diego State University, Geological Sciences

Experience
Past-President, Robinson Jeffers Association
President, Robinson Jeffers Association
President-elect, Robinson Jeffers Association
Trustee, Tor House Foundation, Trustee
Professor, Texas Tech University
Associate Professor, Texas Tech University
Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University
Postdoctoral Fellowship-Declined, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Shipboard Scientist, Structural Geologist, Ocean Drilling Program Leg 176
Production Geologist, Kern Asset Team, Bakersfield, CA., Mobil Production and Exploration, U.S.A

 

Significant Professional Publications and Works
Artistic and Professional Performances and Exhibits
Yoshinobu, Aaron "Yoshinobu, A.S., 2009, The Great Sheet: A Rosetta stone of poetics, stonemasonry, and the seeds of Robinson Jeffers’s mature voice. Jeffers Studies, v. 10.2-11.2, 225-337.," Robinson Jeffers Association,

 

Intellectual Contributions
Conference Proceeding (Published)
Mederich, Sabrina , Yoshinobu, Aaron , White, Jaxon "WIDESPREAD CATACLASIS AND PSEUDOTACHYLITE (?) FORMATION IN THE ENCHANTED ROCK BATHOLITH, CENTRAL TX" Geological Society of America.

Conference Proceeding (Published)
Ismayilova, Nurana , Yoshinobu, Aaron "STRAIN ACCUMULATION IN METAMORPHIC ROCKS OF THE LATE JURASSIC MARIPOSA FORMATION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MATRIX STRAIN USING FRY AND RF/FI METHODS" Geological Society of America.

Conference Proceeding (Published)
Bowen, Rocco , Bloomquist, Max , Moses, Kaden , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A., Yoshinobu, Aaron "RE-EVALUATING FOLD MODELS AND BALANCED SECTIONS AT THE TOE OF THE VARISCAN OROGENIC WEDGE, ON/OFF SHORE COUNTY CLARE, IRELAND" Geological Society of America.

Conference Proceeding (Published)
Espinoza, Savanna , Yoshinobu, Aaron "DELTAIC DISTRIBUTARY CHANNELS AND LOBES IN THE PERMO-TRIASSIC QUARTERMASTER FORMATION, WEST TEXAS; PALEOCURRENT ANALYSIS AND DEPOSITIONAL EVIDENCE" Geological Society of America.

Conference Proceeding (Published)
Yoshinobu, Aaron "PLUTON-HOST ROCK COUPLED SYSTEMS: A DOG'S BREAKFAST OF PROCESSES AND THE REBIRTH OF THE SPACE PROBLEM.... THANKS, CAL!" Geological Society of America.

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Surpless, Kathleen D., Alford, Ryan W., Weis, Natalee E., Yoshinobu, Aaron , Barnes, Calvin (August 16, 2023). "Late Jurassic paleogeography of the U.S. Cordillera from detrital zircon age and hafnium analysis of the Galice Formation, Klamath Mountains, Oregon and California, USA" Geological Society of America.

Conference Proceeding (Published)
Yoshinobu, Aaron , Brodie, Emily , Barnes, Calvin , Surpless, Kathleen DeGraaff, Nicol, Carter "DETRITAL ZIRCON ANALYSIS OF THE GALICE FORMATION, KLAMATH MOUNTAINS, CA AND OR: UNDERSTANDING THE LATE JURASSIC NEVADAN OROGENY" Geological Society of America.

Conference Proceeding (Published)
Bennett, Alexia , Pavlovsky, Nicole , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Ismayilova, Nurana "LOW TO NO STRAIN IN ROCKS ADJACENT TO THE MELONES FAULT ZONE: IMPLICATIONS FOR STRAIN ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES AND THE NEVADAN OROGENY" Geological Society of America.

Conference Proceeding (Published)
Yoshinobu, Aaron , Barnes, Calvin , Surpless, Kathleen , Gates, Katie M. "NEVADAN OROGENESIS REDEFINED: MID-CRUSTAL MIGMATIZATION, CONSTRICTIONAL DEFORMATION, AND SOURCE REGION DE-FOOTITATION ABOVE AN EAST-DIPPING SUBDUCTING SLAB, CA/OR" Geological Society of America.

Conference Proceeding (Published)
Richardson, Andrea , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Barnes, Calvin "SPECULATIONS ON MAGMA ADDITIONS AND TERRANE ACCRETIONS IN THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS, CA/OR" Geological Society of America.

Conference Proceeding (Published)
Barnes, Calvin , Surpless, Kathleen , Yoshinobu, Aaron "DECIPHERING THE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE LATE JURASSIC CONTINENTAL MARGIN FROM DETRITAL ZIRCON PROVENANCE ANALYSIS OF THE GALICE AND MARIPOSA FORMATIONS, OREGON AND CALIFORNIA" Geological Society of America.

Conference Proceeding (Published)
Yoshinobu, Aaron , Ismayilova, Nurana "STRAIN ANALYSIS OF METAMORPHIC ROCKS IN THE LATE GALICE FORMATION, KLAMATH MOUNTAINS: INSIGHTS FROM MICROSTRUCTURAL AND PETROGRAPHIC STUDIES" Geological Society of America.

Conference Proceeding (Published)
Yoshinobu, Aaron , Barnes, Calvin , Alford, Ryan , Surpless, Kathleen , Weis, Natalee "PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF THE LATE JURASSIC KLAMATH ARC FROM DETRITAL ZIRCON HAFNIUM ANALYSIS OF THE GALICE FORMATION, KLAMATH MOUNTAINS, OR AND CA" Geological Society of America.

Conference Proceeding (Published)
Alford, Ryan , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Surpless, Kathleen , Weis, Natalee , Barnes, Calvin "LATE JURASSIC EVOLUTION OF THE GALICE BASIN, KLAMATH MOUNTAINS, CA AND OR, FROM DETRITAL ZIRCON AGES" Geological Society of America.

Conference Proceeding (Published)
Surpless, Kathleen DeGraaff, Langford, Paige , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Barnes, Calvin , Strong, Caroline , MacDonald, Joelle "DETRITAL ZIRCON PROVENANCE ANALYSIS OF THE MARIPOSA FORMATION, CALIFORNIA: A RECORD OF THE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE LATE JURASSIC CONTINENTAL MARGIN" Geological Society of America.

Abstract (Published)
Brotherton, John L , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Sweet, Dustin (September 22, 2019). "Preliminary investigation of pre-early Permian deformation associated with eh Ancestral Rocky Mountains orogeny, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico"

Journal Article, Professional Journal (Published)
Yoshinobu, Aaron , Deans, Jeremy "Geographically re-oriented high temperature deformation foliation relationships from ODP Hole 735B Atlantis Bank, Southwest Indian Ridge" (vol. 126, pp. 1-10). United Kingdom:

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Krueger, Ryan , Yoshinobu, Aaron "Structures in the Jackass Lakes pluton-host rock system, central Sierra Nevada, CA, and inferred mid-Cretaceous Farallon-North American plate kinematics" Boulder CO US:

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Coint, Nolwenn , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Barnes, Calvin G. (August 2016). "Crystal accumulation in a tilted arc batholith" (8 ed., vol. 101, pp. 1719-1734). Mineralogical Society of America.

Journal, Edited Issue (Published)
Yoshinobu, Aaron , Barnes, Calvin G, Coint, Nolwenn (August 2016). "Crystal accumulation in a tilted arc batholith" (vol. 101, pp. 1719-1734).

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Coint, Nolwenn , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Buck, Samantha , Barnes, Calvin G, Barnes, Melanie (December 2013). "Use of trace element abundances in augite and hornblende to determine the size, connectivity, timing, and evolution of magma batches in a tilted batholith" (6 ed., vol. 9, pp. 1747-1765). Boulder, CO:

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Barnes, Melanie , Chamberlain, Kevin R, Yoshinobu, Aaron , Coint, Nolwenn , Barnes, Calvin G (December 2013). "Batch-wise assembly and zoning of a tilted calc-alkaline batholith: Field relations, timing, and compositional variation" (6 ed., vol. 9, pp. 1729-1746). Boulder, CO:

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Barnes, Calvin G, Frost, C. D., Yoshinobu, Aaron , Marko, Wayne T., Nordgulen, Ø In Corfu, F., Gasser, D., & Chew, D.M.(Ed.), "Geology, geochemistry, and emplacement conditions of the Vega intrusive complex: an example of large-scale crustal anatexis in north central Norway" (vol. 390). London Great Britain:

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Marko, Wayne T., Yoshinobu, Aaron (March 2011). "Using restored cross sections to evaluate magma emplacement, White Horse Mountains, eastern Nevada, USA" (pp. 14).

field guide for international field conference (Published)
Nordgulen, Ø. , Marko, W. T., Prestvik, T. , Austrheim, H. , McArthur, K. , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Frost, C. D., Anderson, H. S., Barnes, Calvin G "Magmatism and tectonics in the Uppermost Allochthon, central Norway" (pp. 67). Trondheim Norway: Norwegian Geological Survey.

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Reid, K. , Barnes, M. A., Barnes, Calvin G, Yoshinobu, Aaron , Frost, C. D., Allen, C. M. "Ordovician and Silurian magmatism in the Upper Nappe, Uppermost Allochthon, Helgeland Nappe Complex, north-central Norway" (vol. 91, pp. 121-136).

Journal Article, Professional Journal (Published)
Frost, Carol D, Allen, Charlotte M, Reid, Kristin , Barnes, Calvin G, Yoshinobu, Aaron , Barnes, Melanie "Ordovician and Silurian magmatism in the Upper Nappe, Uppermost Allochthon, Helgeland Nappe Complex, north-central Norway" (vol. 91, pp. 121-136). NORWAY:

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Yoshinobu, Aaron , Frost, C , , L McCulloch, Barnes, Calvin G, , Y Li, Prestvik, T "Growth and zoning of the Hortavaer intrusive complex, a layered alkaline pluton in the Norwegian Caledonides" (vol. 5, pp. 2860301).

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Yoshinobu, Aaron "The Great Sheet: A Rosetta Stone of poetics, stonemasonry, and the seeds of Robinson Jeffers’s mature voice" (vol. 10.2-11.2, pp. 225-237).

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Wolak, J.M. , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Anderson, H.S. , Pignotta, G.S. , Paterson, S.R. "Determining relative magma and host rock xenolith rheology during magmatic fabric formation in plutons: Examples from the middle and upper crust. " (vol. 5, pp. 270-285).

Field Guide (Published)
Anderson, H.S. , McArthur, K. , Nordgulen, Ø., , Austrheim, H , Frost, C.D. , Marko, W.T. , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Prestvik, T , Barnes, Calvin G (August 2008). "Pre-Scandian tectonic and magmatic evolution of the Helgeland Nappe Complex, Uppermost Allochthon. "

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Yoshinobu, Aaron , Barnes, Calvin G "Discussion of, Is stoping a volumentrically significant pluton emplacement process? " (vol. 120, pp. 1080-1081).

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Prestvik, T. , Barnes, Melanie , Frost, C.D. , Allen, C.M. , McArthur, K , Nordgulen, C.M. , Barnes, Calvin G, Yoshinobu, Aaron "Timing of sedimentation, metamorphism, and plutonism in the Helgeland Nappe Complex, north-central Norwegian Caledonides." (vol. 3, pp. 683-703).

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Yoshinobu, Aaron "Shiva structure: A possible KT boundary impact crater on the western shelf of India: " (vol. 50, pp. 39).

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Dumond, Greg , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Barnes, Calvin G "Mid-crustal emplacement of the Sausfjellet pluton, central Norway: Ductile flow, stoping and in situ assimilation. " (vol. 117, pp. 383-395).

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Barnes, Calvin G, Dumond, G , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Prestvik, T. "Assimilation and crystal accumulation during construction of a mid-crustal magma chamber: The Sausfjellet pluton, north-central Norway." (vol. 75, pp. 389-412).

Field Guide (Published)
Yoshinobu, Aaron "Rock Consciousness & Robinson Jeffers at Point Lobos – A field guide linking salient geologic features of Point Lobos & the Santa Lucia Mountains to the poetry of Robinson Jeffers. " Carmel, CA: Robinson Jeffers Association, 10th Annual Meeting, Carmel, CA.

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Yoshinobu, Aaron , Harper, G.D. "Hypersolidus deformation in the lower crust of the Josephine ophiolite: Evidence for kinematic decoupling between the upper and lower oceanic crust: " (vol. 26, pp. 157-169).

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Yoshinobu, Aaron , Sato, A. , Fowler, T.K. , Tickji, H.A. , Llambias, E. , Paterson, S.R. "A view from the roof: magmatic stoping in the shallow crust, Chita pluton, Argentina" (vol. 25, pp. 1037-1048).

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Yoshinobu, Aaron "Mafic magma intraplating: Anatexis and hybridization in arc crust, Bindal Batholith, Norway" (vol. 43, pp. 2171-2190).

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Yoshinobu, Aaron , Hirth, G. "Experimental and microstructural constraints on the rheology of partially molten gabbro beneath oceanic spreading centers: " (vol. 24, pp. 1101-1107).

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Nordgulen, O , Prestvik, Tore , Barnes, Calvin G, Yoshinobu, Aaron , Sundvoll, Bjorn , Karlsson, Haraldur "Crustal melting associated with emplacement of arc plutons, Bindal Batholith, Norway" (vol. 43, pp. 2171-2190).

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Prestvik, T. , Pedersen, R.B. , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Fanning, M. , Nordgulen, Ø. , Barnes, Calvin G "Ordovician contractional deformation, magmatism, and rapid exhumation in the Caledonides of central Norway. " (vol. 30, pp. 883-886).

Conference Proceeding (Published)
Dumond, G , Karlsson, Haraldur , Chapman, K , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Barnes, Calvin G, Prestvik, Tore "Mafic plutons in the Caledonian Bindal Batholith, Norway" (vol. 36, pp. A-32). United States: Geological Society of America Abstracts w. Program.

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Naslund, H.Richard , Natland, James H., Gee, Jeffrey S., Snow, Jonathan , LeRoux, Petrus J., Haggas, Sarah , Ildefonse, Benoit , Bach, Wolfgang , Dick, Henry J.B., Trimby, Patrick W., Niu, Yao-Ling , John, Barbara E., Hirth, Greg , Worm, Horst-Ulrich , Hertogen, Jan G.H., Alt, Jeffrey C., Miller, D.Jay , Iturrino, Gerardo J., Meyer, Peter S., Bideau, Daniel , Kelley, Deborah S., Robinson, Paul T., Yoshinobu, Aaron , Maeda, Jinichiro , Kingdon, Andrew , Holm, Paul Martin, Stephen, Ralph A., Kikawa, Eiichi (June 2000). "A long in situ section of the lower ocean crust: results of ODP Leg 176 drilling at the Southwest Indian Ridge" (1 ed., vol. 179, pp. 31-51). Elsevier BV.

Special Paper (Published)
Robinson, P.T. , Natland, J.H. , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Dick, H.J.B , , Leg 176 Shipboard Party 2000 In Dilek, Y., Moores, E.M., Elthon, D., Nicolas, A(Ed.), "Lower oceanic crust formed at an ultra-slow-spreading ridge: Ocean Drilling Program Hole 735B, Southwest Indian Ridge: " (pp. 75-86). Geological Society of America Special Paper 349.

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Yoshinobu, Aaron , Dick, H.J.B. "A long, in-situ section of the lower oceanic crust: Results of ODP Leg 176 Drilling at the Southwest Indian Ridge: " (vol. 179, pp. 31-51).

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Yoshinobu, Aaron "Measuring host rock volume changes during magma emplacement: Reply: J" (vol. 22, pp. 521-522).

Proceedings (Published)
Yoshinobu, Aaron "Initial Results from ODP Leg 176, Return to Hole 735B" College Station TX: Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program,.

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Yoshinobu, Aaron "Pluton emplacement during transpression in brittle crust: New views from analogue experiments: Comment" (vol. 27, pp. 670-671).

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Yoshinobu, Aaron "Measuring host-rock volume changes during magma emplacement. " (vol. 21, pp. 111-116).

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Yoshinobu, Aaron , Scmidt, K. L. , Miller, R.B. , Paterson, S.R. , Fowler, T.K. "Interpreting magmatic fabrics in plutonic rocks" (vol. 44, pp. 53-82).

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Yoshinobu, Aaron "Modeling the thermal evolution of fault-controlled magma emplacement models: Implications for the solidification of granitoid plutons:" (vol. 20, pp. 1205-1218).

Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New (Published)
Girty, G.H. , Bryan, K.A. , Harwood, D.S. , Schweikert, R.A. , Hanson, R.E. , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Skinner, J.E. , Girty, M.S. In Miller, D., and Busby, C(Ed.), "Timing of emplacement of the Haypress Creek and Emigrant Gap plutons: Implications for the timing and controls of Jurassic orogenesis, northern Sierra Nevada, California." (pp. 191-200). Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America Special Paper 299.

Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New (Published)
Yoshinobu, Aaron In Dunne, G. and McDougall(Ed.), "U/Pb geochronology of the Emigrant Gap composite pluton: Implications for the Nevadan orogeny: " (pp. 332-342). SEPM.

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Girty, G.H. , Hanson, A.D. , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Johnson, D. , Knaack, C. "Provenance of Paleozoic mudstones within a contact metamorphic aureole determined by REE, Th, and Sc analyses, Sierra Nevada, California: " (vol. 21, pp. 363-367).

Field Guide (Published)
Wracher, M.D. , Girty, G , Hanson, R.E. , Templeton, J. , Schweikert, R.A. , Harwood, D.S. , Girty, M.S. , Yoshinobu, Aaron "Paleozoic and Mesozoic volcano-plutonic complexes in the northern Sierra Nevada terrane. " (pp. 97-128). Geological Society of America Joint Cordilleran-Rocky Mt. Guidebook , University of Nevada, Reno.

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Barnes, Melanie , Presvik, Tore , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Coint, Nolwenn , Barnes, Calvin G "Reconstruction of mid-crustal pluton assembly and evolution using trace elements in augite: Sausfjellet pluton, Bindal batholith, north-central Norway."

 

 

Presentations
Hetherington, Callum , Leib, Susan , Yoshinobu, Aaron , GSA Connects On-line (Annual Society Meeting), "Rotated prograde garnet with rutile demonstrate high-grade Nevdan metamorphism in overly thickened continental crust in the central Klamath mountains," Geological Society of America, On-line. (October 2020).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Tor House Foundation Fall Festival, "Bitter earnestness of an outcrop: A Tor House Centennial," Tor House Foundation, Carmel, CA. (October 2019).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Brotherton, John , Sweet, Dustin , Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, "Preliminary investigation of Pre-Early Perimain deformation associated with the Ancestral Rocky Mountains Orogeny," Geological Society of America, Phoenix, AZ. (September 2019).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Robinson Jeffers Association Annual Meeting, "Building an outcrop: Tor House at 100 years," Robinson Jeffers Association, Carmel, CA. (February 2019).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Robinson Jeffers Association Annual Meeting, "Science, politics, climate and (re)activism in the life of Robinson Jeffers," Robinson Jeffers Association, Carmel, CA. (February 2018).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Tor House Fall Festival, "Robinson Jeffers, deep time, and the Anthropocene," Tor House Foundation, Carmel, CA. (October 13, 2017).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Soundy, Katrina , Hessert, Jenna , AAPG Annual Convention, "New Field and Structural Observations Pertaining to the Evolution of the Arbuckle Anticline Related to the Ouachita-Appalachian Orogenesis," American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Calgary, Canada. (June 2016).

Soundy, Katrina , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Hessert, Jenna , AAPG Annual Convention, "Intra-formation, “Sub-Seismic Resolution” Deformation in the Lewis Allochthon, MT, and Arbuckle Anticline, OK: Preliminary Results and Implications," American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Calgary, Canada. (June 2016).

Barnes, Melanie , Coint, Nolwenn , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Barnes, Calvin G, Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section, "Crystal accumulation and compositional trends in a tilted calc-alkaline pluton," Geological Society of America, Ontario, CA. (April 2016).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Coint, Nolwenn , Barnes, Melanie , Barnes, Calvin G, Cottle, J. , Yule, D. , Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section Meeting, "Modification of arc lower crust: Hf isotope evidence for spatial/temporal changes to sources of Jurassic plutons, Klamath Mountains, CA and OR," Geological Society of America, Bozeman, MT. (May 2014).

Marko, Wayne T, Barnes, Calvin G, Yoshinobu, Aaron , South-Central section, Geological Society of America, "The formation of ghost structure and stratigraphy in a S-type intrusion: the Vega granodiorite unit of the Vega intrusive complex, north-central Norway," Geological Society of America, Austin, TX.

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Barnes, Melanie , Chamberlain, Kevin , Barnes, Calvin G, Coint, Nolwenn , American Geophysical Union, "Geochronology and assembly model of the Wooley Creek batholith, Klamath Mountains, northern California: A potential equivalent for magma reservoirs below cordilleran volcanoes," American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. (December 2013).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Geological Society of America Cordilleran Meeting, "Linking deformation in the mantle wedge and crustal accretion in the supra-subduction zone Josephine ophiolite," Geological Society of America, Fresno, CA. (May 2013).

Coint, N. , Prestvik, T. , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Barnes, Melanie , Barnes, Calvin G, European Geological Union Annual Meeting, "Reconstruction of mid-crustal pluton assembly and evolution using trace elements in augite: Sausfjellet pluton, Bindal batholith, north-central Norway," European Geological Union, Vienna, Austria. (April 2013).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , , , , , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Tore, Prestvik , Gates, Katie , , , Geological Society of America South-Central Meeting, "A comparative size-composition-distribution analysis of xenoliths in plutons," Geological Society of America, Austin, TX. (April 2013).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Barnes, Cal , Marko, Wayne , , , Tore, Prestvik , , , Geological Society of America South-Central Meeting, "The formation of ghost structure and stratigraphy in a s-type intrusion: the Vega granodiorite unit of the Vega intrusive complex, north-central, Norway," Geological Society of America, Austin, TX. (April 2013).

Tore, Prestvik , Gates, Katie , , , Marko, W. , Yoshinobu, Aaron , , , Yoshinobu, Aaron , American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, "A Comparative Size-Composition-Distribution Analysis Of Xenoliths In Plutons," AGU, San Francisco. (December 2012).

Barnes, Melanie , Barnes, Calvin G, Coint, Nolwenn , Yoshinobu, Aaron , AGU 2012 Fall Meeting, "Development of a large volume of eruptible mush in the upper Wooley Creek batholith, Klamath Mountains, California: evidence from bulk rock, mineral analyses and textural observations.," American Geophysical Meeting, San Francisco CA. (December 2012).

Marko, Wayne , Barnes, Cal , Tore, Prestvik , , , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Yoshinobu, Aaron , , , Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, "Source of enclaves in the vega intrusive complex: implications for tectonic setting and emplacement style," GSA, Charlotte, SC. (October 2012).

, , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Barnes, Calvin G, Yoshinobu, Aaron , Chamberlain, Kevin , Coint, Nolwenn , Tore, Prestvik , Prodoc 4-D Adamello Conference, Bagolino, Italy, "How big is a batholithic magma chamber?," Swiss National Science Foundation, Bagolino, Italy. (September 2012).

Barnes, Melanie , Buck, S. A., Yoshinobu, Aaron , Barnes, Calvin G, Coint, N. , Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, "Phenocrysts of the Mafic Magmatic Enclaves, Wooley Creek Batholith (WCb) N. California," American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. (December 2011).

Frost, Carol , Tom, Andersen , Tore, Prestvik , Barnes, Calvin G, Yoshinobu, Aaron , Nordgulen, Ø , Wayne, Marko , American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, "The Caledonian Bindal Batholith: episodic Ordovician–Silurian arc magmatism in nascent arc crust (Invited)," AGU, San Francisco. (December 2011).

Deans, Jeremy , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Miranda, Elenda , American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, "What is the real orientation of hypersolidus and high-temperature subsolidus foliations and lineations in the Atlantis Bank?," AGU, San Francisco. (December 2011).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Barnes, Calvin G, Coint, N. , Barnes, Melanie , Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, "Using mineral trace element geochemistry to track magma processes in a “big tank” magma chamber: a laser ablation ICP-MS study of hornblende and augite," American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. (December 2011).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Swiss Geosciences Meeting, "Magma Emplacement Tectonics: What can we learn from the oceans, ophiolites and arcs? (Keynote Address) ," Swiss Geosciences Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland. (November 2011).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , 7th Hutton Symposium on Granites, "Is there a systematic temporal variation in contact aureole rheology during magma emplacement? ," University of Granada, Spain, Avila, Spain. (July 2011).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , H., Anderson , Nordgulen, Ø. , K., Chamberlain , 7th Hutton Symposium on Granites, "On the nature of xenolith incorporation, ghost stratigraphy, and magma emplacement: Evidence from the 442 Ma Andalshatten pluton, Norwegian Caldeonides," University of Granada, Spain, Avila, Spain. (July 2011).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Gifford, Paul , 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, "Geometry and Kinematics of Structures in the South Polar Terrain of Enceladus: Over-Interpreting Kinematics? ," LPSC and NASA, Houston, TX. (March 2011).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Beddingfield, Chloe , 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, "FEATURES ANALOGOUS TO ICE STREAMS AND ICE RISES ON ENCELADUS’ LEADING HEMISPHERE: INDICATIVE OF SUBSURFACE WATER? ," LPSC & NASA, Houston, TX. (March 2011).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Hargrove, B. , Leopold, M. , Coint, N. , Buck, S. A., Barnes, Melanie , Barnes, Calvin G, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, "Magma mingling & mixing: mafic enclaves and dikes in the Wooley Creek batholith, N. California," Geological Society of America,

Hargrove, B. T., Coint, N. , Barnes, M. A., Yoshinobu, Aaron , Barnes, Calvin G, Leopold, M. , Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, "Magma emplacement and fabric development in the Wooley Creek batholith, Klamath Mountains, CA," Geological Society of America,

Coint, Nolwenn , Yoshinobu, Aaron , American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, "Evidence of partial melting in xenoliths from the Wooley Creek batholith, Klamath Mountains, California: implications for assimilation processes," AGU, San Francisco, CA. (December 15, 2010).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, "Stoping & Screen Formation In The Wooley Creek Batholith And Andalshatten Pluton: Complex Pluton - Host Rock Interactions During Magma Emplacement," AGU, San Francisco, CA. (December 15, 2010).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Hargrove, Brendan , American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, "MAGMA EMPLACEMENT AND FABRIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE WOOLEY CREEK BATHOLITH, KLAMATH MOUNTAINS, CA," AGU, San Francisco, CA. (December 14, 2010).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, "XENOLITH FRAGMENTATION, SCREEN FORMATION & ASSIMILATION IN THE TILTED WOOLEY CREEK BATHOLITH: A DOG'S BREAKFAST OF PROCESSES DURING MAGMA EMPLACEMENT,," Geological Society of America, Denver, CO. (November 1, 2010).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Bauman, Joe , Geological Society of America, "Tectonism and topographic response n the Sacramento mountains, south-central New Mexico," Geological Society of America, Denver, CO. (October 31, 2010).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Beddingfield, Chloe , Geological Society of America, "CRUSTAL EVOLUTION OF ENCELADUS' SOUTHERN, LEADING, AND TRAILING HEMISPHERES," Geological Society of America, Denver, CO. (October 31, 2010).

Buck, Samantha , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, "MAGMA MINGLING & MIXING: MAFIC ENCLAVES AND DIKES IN THE WOOLEY CREEK BATHOLITH, N. CALIFORNIA," Geological Society of America, Denver, CO. (October 31, 2010).

Leopold, Monika , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, "DIACHRONOUS HYPERSOLIDUS DEFORMATION DURING REPEATED MAGMA INJECTION: FIELD OBSERVATIONS FROM THE TILTED WOOLEY CREEK BATHOLITH ," Geological Society of America, Denver, CO. (October 1, 2010).

Nordgulen, Oystein , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Nordic Geological Winter Meeting, "The Caleonian history of the Helgeland Nappe Complex: An Overview," Norwegian Geological Survey, Oslo, Norway. (January 15, 2010).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , "Masculinity and gender in the music of Bruce Springsteen," Texas Tech University, Lubbock,TX.

Beddingfield, C.B. , Yoshinobu, Aaron , American Geophysical Union, "Crustal structures on Saturn’s icy satellite Enceladus produced by active and paleo diapirism," American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Geological Society of America, Rocky Mountains Section Conference Session, "Co-Organizer, The Klamath Mountains – 500 million years of crustal accretion and exhumation," Geological Society of America,

Yoshinobu, Aaron , "A Texas sized overview of the Tectonics of Texas and surrounding environs," Texas Tech University, Lubbock,TX.

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Co-convenor, Geological Society of American National Meeting, "Co-convenor, Geological Society of American National Meeting Session on Mineralogy, crystallography, petrology, ," Geological Society of America, Houston, TX.

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Paterson, S.R. , Anderson, H.S. , Pignotta, G. , Anderson, H.S. , Geological Society of America , "Determining Relative Magma-Xenolith Rheology during Magmatic Fabric Formation in Plutons: Examples from the Middle and Upper Crust: ," Geological Society of America ,

Yoshinobu, Aaron , "Stoping Happens! ," Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (February 26, 2007).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Geological Society of America, Backbone of the Americas Meeting, "Magmatic and structural evolution of the Tortuga ophiolite, Southern Chile," Geological Society of America, Mendoza, Argentina.

Brown, S. , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Gurrola, H. , Geological Society of America, Backbone of the Americas Meeting, "Lithospheric architecture of the Klamath Mountains Province, Cascadia subduction zone, California and Oregon, USA," Geological Society of America, Mendoza, Argentina.

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Scholarhips of Teaching and Learning Spotlight Talk, "2-D or not 2-D: 3-D is the Answer! Accessing and evaluating student spatial reasoning skills using Geowall," Teaching, Learning and Technology Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock,TX. (April 18, 2006).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Texas Tech Center for the Southwest Conference: Natural History and the Art and Literature of Place, "Robinson Jeffers: Poet and Earth Scientist. ," Texas Tech Center for the Southwest, Lubbock,TX. (February 2006).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, "Crustal Melting in the Helgeland Nappe Complex, central Norway.," American Geophysical Union, San Fransisco, CA.

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Geological Society of America Field Forum , "Co-Leader, “Rethinking the assembly and evolution of plutons: Field tests and perspectives," Geological Society of America, Yosemite National Park.. (October 2005).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Geological Society of America Symposium, "Co-Convener, Plutons and their host rocks in the Sierra Nevada batholith: A forum and discussion on magma emplacement, magmatic differentiation, and pluton solidification," Geological Society of America , San Jose, CA. (April 2005).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , "‘Cookie cutters, balloons, and candles: New and old views of magma emplacement in the crust’, ," Texas Christian University,

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Robinson Jeffers Association Annual Conference, Carmel, CA, "presentation on the role of geological influences and early development of continental drift theory to Jeffers’ verse," Robinson Jeffers Association , Carmel, CA.

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Geological Society of America, Cordilleran-Rocky Mt. Meeting, "Co-Convener, Cordilleran Magmatism from the Forearc to the Hinterland," Geological Society of America, (May 2004).

Yoshinobu, Aaron , "The Geological Consciousness of Robinson Jeffers: Mapping the influence of geology at Tor House and in verse ," Jeffers Group, Tor House, Carmel, CA..

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Robinson Jeffers Association Annual Conference, , "presentation on the influence of geology in the construction of Tor House and in Jeffers’ verse," Robinson Jeffers Association, Flagstaff, AZ.

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Geological Society of America, "Stoping happens! ," Geological Society of America,

Yoshinobu, Aaron , "‘Tectonic evolution of the Tortuga ophiolite, southern Chile’," University of New Orleans., University of New Orleans.

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Geological Society of America, "Paleogeodesy and displacement in arcs – a symposium in honor of Dr. O. T. Tobisch," Geological Society of America,

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Harper, G.D. , Geological Society of America, "Hypersolidus displacement patterns in the lower crust of the Josephine ophiolite. ," Geological Society of America,

Barnes, Calvin G, Yoshinobu, Aaron , Nordgulen, O , Geological Society of America, "Exhumation And Probable Extension In The Helgeland Nappe Complex, Uppermost Allochthon, Central Norway," Geological Society of America,

Dumond, G. , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Barnes, Calvin G, Fanning, M. , Nordgulen, O , Geological Society of America Meeting, "Ordovician Magmatism And Deformation In The Uppermost Allochthon, Central Norway: An Orphan Of The Taconic Orogeny? ," Geological Society of America,

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Hirth, G. , American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, "Experimental and microstructural constraints on the rheology of partially molten gabbro beneath oceanic spreading centers.," American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Pignotta, G. , Schmidt, K.L. , Geological Society of America Meeting, "Geometry of intrusion and magma migration in the Tortuga ophiolite, Chilean Tierra del Fuego," Geological Society of America,

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Hirth, G. , Leiss, B , Geological Society of Australia Meeting, "Deformation of partially molten gabbro ," Geological Society of Australia, Australia.

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Geological Society of Australia Meeting, "Magma emplacement in the lower crust at oceanic spreading centers.," Geological Society of Australia, Australia.

Yoshinobu, Aaron , NSF-Ridge Cyprus Field School, "Strain partitioning in the lower crust of oceanic spreading centers: Insights from the Josephine ophiolite. ," National Science Foundation, Cyprus.

Paterson, S.R. , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Geological Society of America Meeting, "Implications of differing rates and durations of magmatic and tectonic processes for construction of cordilleran batholiths: ," Geological Society of America,

Yoshinobu, Aaron , "‘Magma chamber construction and destruction at oceanic spreading centers’," UTEP, El Paso, Texas.

Yoshinobu, Aaron , "‘Magma chamber construction and destruction at oceanic spreading centers’," New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Yoshinobu, Aaron , "‘Magma emplacement into the crust: Constraints from oceanic and arc environments’, ," Rice University, Houston, TX.

Yoshinobu, Aaron , American Geophysical Union, "Construction of the lower crust in the Josephine ophiolite: Implications for the size and geometry of magma chambers at slow-spreading ridges. ," American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Hirth, G. , Ildefonse, B , American Geophysical Union, "Foliation development across the magmatic to crystal-plastic transition in oceanic gabbros: Preliminary results from ODP Leg 176, Hole 735B, Southwest Indian Ridge," American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Harper, G.D. , NSF-RIDGE Oman Winter School, "Complex intrusive history in the cumulate rocks of the Josephine Ophiolite: Implications for slow-spreading center magma chambers: ," NSF-RIDGE, Oman.

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, "‘Magma emplacement into the crust: Constraints from thermal models and field studies’," Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Mass.

Okaya, David , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Paterson, S.R. , Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting, "Thermal viability of fault-controlled magma emplacement models," Geological Association of Canada, Canada.

Yoshinobu, Aaron , Paterson, S.R. , Fowler, T.K , Geological Society of America, "Deciphering magmatic structural patterns: Examples from the Bateman Legacy," Geological Society of America,

Paterson, S.R. , Yoshinobu, Aaron , Geological Society of America , "Multiple space-making mechanisms and vertical material transfer in the Sierra Nevada batholith," Geological Society of America,