Mars has a liquid iron alloy core at its center. Using seismic data gathered by the InSight mission, we have made the first observations of seismic waves traveling through Mars’ core. We use the travel times of core-transiting seismic waves, relative to ones which remain in the mantle, to constrain properties of the core and …
Constraints on Martian Core from First Observations of SKS Waves Read More »
Mars has a liquid iron alloy core at its center. Using seismic data gathered by the InSight mission, we have made the first observations of seismic waves traveling through Mars’ core. We use the travel times of core-transiting seismic waves, relative to ones which remain in the mantle, to constrain properties of the core and …
First Observations of Core-Transiting Waves on Mars! Read More »
We wish Prof. Ross Maguire all the best as he transitions to his new position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign!
Congratulations to Dr. Doyeon (DK) Kim, who has taken an Oberassistent position at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. We wish him the best of luck and look forward to many years of collaboration.
We wish Pritwiraj (Raj) Moulik the best of luck in his new position as Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University!
After successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation, Dr. Izquierdo has moved to Purdue University where she will be a postdoc in their Planetary Science group. We wish Kris the best of luck and lots of exciting discoveries!
We wish Chao the best of luck in his new position at CGG in Houston, TX.
We wish Erin the best of luck as she ventures on the next step of her scientific journey as a postdoc at CERI!
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 …
Spurious Low Velocity Zones in Joint Inversions of Surface Waves and Receiver Functions Read More »
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 …
