Research Interests
My research is driven by the underlying goal to advance our understanding of fundamental geodynamic processes, such as volcanism, mountain building, continental rifting, and craton formation. To this end, I employ a wide range of geological and geophysical tools emphasizing earthquake seismology, active tectonics, and the analysis of seismic data to investigate structure and to infer associated Earth processes. Past and current research projects have focused on a variety of different geographic locations including Hawaii, Costa Rica, Saudi Arabia, Africa, Greece, Greenland, and Antarctica. I have also recently expanded my research to investigate deep Earth structure, particularly ultra-low velocity zones along the core-mantle boundary.
Research Group Members
| Current Students | Previous Students | |
| Long Ho, Ph.D. | Hesam Saeidi, Ph.D., 2025 | Jordan Graw, Ph.D., 2017 |
| Brian Liberato, M.S. | Kayode Agboola, M.S., 2023 | Greg Brenn, M.S., 2016 |
| Sophia Gaal, M.S. | Ashish Kumar, M.S., 2021 | Lindsey Kenyon, M.S., 2014 |
| Sarah Carson, M.S., 2018 |
Current Research Topics
| ULVZs Beneath the Southern Hemisphere |  |
| Antarctic Seismic Investigations |  |
| Seismic Structure Beneath Africa and Arabia |  |
| Tectonic Influence on the GReenland Ice Sheet (TIGRIS) (coming soon) |  |