Congratulations and Best of Luck to Sutton Chiorini!
Sutton Chiorini, who has been an undergraduate researcher in our lab for three years, has graduated and started a Master’s program at Miami University of Ohio. We wish her the best of luck in her future studies and research and will miss her engaging presence, excitement, and (s)warmth!
Congratulations and Farewell to Prof. Scott Burdick
Dr. Scott Burdick joined the lab in October, 2015, as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow. Over the course of the past three years, we have benefitted from his creativity, insight, and comradery. Now, we wish Scott the best of luck as he begins the next chapter of his life as an Assistant Professor at Wayne …
Pair of IRIS summer interns joins the group
This summer, we had the pleasure of hosting two summer undergraduate interns: Anant Hariharan from Cornell, and Brittany Washington from Rugters, Newark. While Anant worked on analyzing the lengthscales of heterogeneity in mantle models constructed from long and short period data, Brittany …
Congratulations to Anthony Mautino
This month, Anthony Mautino obtained his MS in Geology with a thesis about characterizing spherical Couette flows with acoustic normal mode splittings. Here, we are gathered to celebrate Anthony’s achievement, as well as bid farewell to Andrew Eagon who was a summer intern in the lab from …
Dr. Pritwiraj Moulik joins Maryland Seismology as a Postdoctoral Fellow
We are pleased to welcome Raj Moulik to the lab, and look forward to working with and learning from him in the coming years! Raj will be leading the NSF-funded 3D Reference Earth Model project. You can learn more about him here.
A viscosity jump detected in the Earth’s mid mantle
Together with collaborators Max Rudolph at Portland State University and Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni at University College London, we used a novel inversion framework to detect the presence of an increase in viscosity in the Earth’s mid mantle. As Science magazine put it: A mysterious mid-mantle …
Lekic named 2014 Packard Fellow
From https://www.packard.org/2014/10/2014-packard-fellowships-in-science-and-engineering-awarded-to-eighteen-researchers/ 2014 Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering Awarded to Eighteen Researchers October 15, 2014 (Los Altos, CA) – Today, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation named 18 of …
Dr. Tolulope Olugboji joins Maryland Seismology as a Postdoctoral Fellow
We are pleased to welcome Tolu Olugboji to the lab, and look forward to working with and learning from him in the coming years!
Dr. Scott Burdick, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, joins Maryland Seismology!
On September 1st, 2014, we welcomed Scott Burdick to the Maryland Seismological Laboratory. Scott graduated with a Ph.D. from MIT, where he has developed new techniques for seismic tomography and imaging. We look forward to working with and learning from Scott!
Seismologist Nicholas Schmerr joins Maryland faculty!
Seismological research and education at the University of Maryland, College Park has been strengthened and expanded with the hire of Nicholas Schmerr. Nick’s expertise in body wave seismology, planetary geophysics, and characterization of mantle discontinuities broadens the range of research …