Tushar, faculty at Penn State , researches volcanology, planetary geophysics, volcano-tectonic-climate interactions, geofluids, geomechanics, critical minerals, hydrogen production, and geothermal energy. We collaborate with him on hydroacoustic signal processing to study undersea eruptions.
D.K is a faculty at the Imperial College London. His interests center on exploring planetary interiors: from the regolith and crust of the Moon and asteroids to Mars. He has been recognized with the 2024 Charles F. Richter Early Career Award and we are working with him on novel signal processing ideas to explore Mars.
D. Sarah Stamps uses high-precision GPS technology and computational modeling to decode the physics of Earth’s surface motions. As Co-PI of the NSF-funded AfricaArray revamp, she is instrumental in strengthening the continent’s geoscience networks and fostering the next generation of African researchers.
Aubreya uses earthquake data and 3D modeling to decode the forces within Earth’s deep interior. By combining high-tech imaging with "old-fashioned" field work, she investigates volcanic and seismic activity from East Africa to Alaska. She is also a Co-PI on the AfricaArray project.
Dr Waszek is a global seismologist, researching the seismic properties of Earth’s deep interior from the inner core to the upper mantle. We collaborate on crustal structure and mid-mantle discontinuities, and their relationship to mantle convection and composition.
Zachary is a bye fellow at Murray Edwards College Cambridge. An expert in experimental and microanalytical techniques, field work, and thermodynamic modelling, his research focuses on high-temperature geochemistry and petrology of Earth’s lithosphere.
Mujdat Cetin is a is a Co-PI and member of the EPIC-AI Team. EPIC-AI stands for Earth and Planetary Imaging Collaborative. We share joint interests in computational imaging, remote sensing, sparse signal recovery, and machine learning. He serves as the Director of GIDS-AI and the New York State Center of Excellence in Data Science.
Dr. Mateos is a Co-PI and member of the EPIC-AI Team. EPIC-AI stands for Earth and Planetary Imaging Collaborative. He is an expert in graph signal processing and AI and the research director of the GIDS-AI institute
Nick is a planetary geophysicist and seismologist. He uses geophysics to study the internal structure of both Earth and other worlds of our Solar System, with the goal of improving our understanding of how these objects formed, evolved, and to determine the current activity and state of their interiors.
Jonathan received his PhD at Yale and is currently a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at UC-Berkley. He studies deep Earth structures such as large-low velocity provinces, ultralow velocity zones, and the D'' discontinuity, and more rarely, planetary seismology
Dr. Wagner's research has included fieldwork internationally in Chile, Argentina, Peru, and now Colombia, and in the U.S. in Oregon, Nevada, Idaho, Georgia, North Carolina, and Delaware. Collaboration is ongoing to deploy a network of seismometers in Western Africa.
Dr. Shirzei is an expert in satellite geodesy, inverse theory, signal processing, modeling techniques, and physics of crustal deformation. We are investigating how InSAR data can improve understanding of the underlying mechanism associated with seismic and aseismic faulting processes in West Africa - i.e, the evolution of crustal stresses and seismic hazard due to fluid extraction and disposal.
Dr. Kolawole is a structural geologist. Research intersection with our group involves the integration of structural geology, near-surface geophysics, and geomechanics to understand 1) how the earth’s lithosphere breaks up, and the dynamics of natural earthquakes in areas far away from active tectonic boundaries i.e. intraplate earthquakes.
During my Postdoc work at the University of Maryland (UMD), I worked in Professor Vedran Lekic’s Seismology lab. We are developing novel inversion techniques to constrain a multi-parameter elastic model of the United States continental crust. Professor Lekic works on using both observational, theoretical, and computational infrastructure to image Earth’s interior structure. Follow links below for more
Research on crustal structure will utilize the new seismological constraints obtained from Earthscope's USArray to improve our understanding of the structure, composition and evolution of Earth’s continental crust. Working with Professor Roberta Rudnick I am developing insights on how to combine seismological data with the petrological, geochemical and heat-flow database.
Improved constraints on crustal composition includes the heat producing elements in the crust. By applying crustal corrections, better estimates of the mantle contribution to heat loss and convective vigor can be estimated. Collaborating with Bill and his graduate student (Scott Wipperfurth), we hope to use the new crustal models to estimate Earth’s thermal budget by incorporating geoneutrino measurements.
Ziqi holds BS and MS degrees in Geophysics from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and China Earthquake Administration (CEA) respectively. During his Ph.D. at URSeismo, Ziqi's work focuses on developing new techniques to improve body wave imaging in some of the harshest environments on Earth, including oceans, sediments, and glaciers.
