Dr. Chao Gao moves to Houston
We wish Chao the best of luck in his new position at CGG in Houston, TX.
November 2019
Dr. Erin Cunningham begins postdoc at CERI
We wish Erin the best of luck as she ventures on the next step of her scientific journey as a postdoc at CERI!
Spurious Low Velocity Zones in Joint Inversions of Surface Waves and Receiver Functions
Low-velocity layers within the crust can indicate the presence of melt and lithologic differences with implications for crustal composition and formation. Seismic wave conversions and reverberations across the base of the crust or intracrustal discontinuities, analysed using the receiver function method, can be used to constrain crustal layering. This is commonly accomplished by inverting receiver …
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First Tomographic Model of the Inner Core!
With collaborators Scott Burdick at Wayne State University and Lauren Waszek at New Mexico State University — both former Maryland postdocs — we just published the first tomographic model of Earth’s inner core in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Seismic body wave and normal mode analyses have revealed that the inner core is solid, strongly …