


Short videos, public lectures and classroom visits on how we turn vibrations and signals into pictures of planetary interiors, volcanoes and earthquake hazards, with algorithms built in the lab. From Washington DC classrooms and the Next Einstein Forum in Kigali to Rochester's Meliora Weekend and free online courses.
- Schools and science festivals
- Public lectures
- Africa and the world
- Free online courses
Memorable learning happens anywhere: in the lab, in the field, in office hours, in a school classroom or a public lecture hall.
Around the world
Where our research has taken us lately: talks, workshops and field schools. Every invited talk is also on the map on our talks page.
Ziqi Zhang joins Hrvoje Tkalčić's Laureate team at the Australian National University to study the interiors of planets.
Read the post →Sayan Swar and I showed how nuclear-monitoring hydrophones turn submarine earthquakes and volcanoes into virtual sources.
Read the post →We showcased AkiNET, Spec2VEC, CRISP-RF and ArrayBayes at the Seismological Society of America's annual meeting.
Read the post →We co-convened the AfricaArray workshop on bridging tectonics and societal needs, funded by NSF and the University of the Witwatersrand.
Read the post →Molly Maenner trains in cryo-seismology at a research school in the Bavarian Alps.
Read the post →My talks at Oxford, Cambridge, GFZ Potsdam and the Gordon Research Conference, several of them recorded.
Read the post →Jean-Joel presented his work on the layers in Africa's upper mantle at the CIG and Gordon research conferences.
Read the post →Sayan Swar debuted a fast algorithm, built on Slepian tapers, that pulls Love waves out of seismic noise.
Read the post →Jean-Joel Legre and Ziqi Zhang presented their work at AGU's Fall Meeting and celebrated with lab alumni.
Read the post →Jean-Joel Legre, Steve Carr and I joined a workshop on passive imaging, from seismology to ultrasound.
Read the post →Jean-Joel Legre at Northwestern's workshop on volcano and rift seismicity in Africa.
Read the post →Research in a few minutes
Short explainers of our papers, several told by the students who wrote them.
4 minHow ambient seismic noise and probabilistic inversion map the crust beneath the whole African continent (ADAMA).
2 minSteve Carr sorts the layers beneath the United States into three types, and says what each one means.
Presented by Steve Carr
1 minJean-Joel Legre on what earthquakes reveal about the forces squeezing the West African plate interior.
Presented by Jean-Joel Legre
9 minCRISP-RF cleans noisy receiver functions so that layers in the upper mantle stand out worldwide. Presented with Sayan Swar.
Public lectures and online courses
Longer pieces for a general audience and for students anywhere.
60 minAn alumni lecture on the history, science and uses of forensic and planetary seismology, from earthquake detection to nuclear-test monitoring.
54 minUnit 6 of Remote Online Sessions for Emerging Seismologists, the AGU Seismology Section's free course for graduate students.
63 minHow our NSF EAGER team built flipped, active-learning modules for upper-level seismology. With Derek Schutt and Margarete Jadamec.
27 minThe lab represents the Seismology section at the opening of the virtual AGU Fall Meeting. Starts at our segment.
The math behind geophysics and the Nature's Fury homework walkthroughs, organized by course.
Open the series →Invited talks at ANU, GFZ, Cambridge and Oxford, and the Gordon Conference, on a map of where they were given.
See all talks →In schools and communities
Visits to classrooms and science weeks in the United States and Africa.
1 minWith the Next Einstein Forum, meeting students and young scientists in Nigeria.
1 minA short message for Africa Science Week, the Next Einstein Forum's continent-wide festival.



Early days: Yale and Maryland
Short pieces from before Rochester, when I was a PhD student at Yale and a postdoc at the University of Maryland.
At sea on a research cruise to Shatsky Rise in the northwest Pacific.
Read the post →Installing seismometers with the MAGIC team in the eastern United States.
Read the post →The composition of the US continental crust, by a transdimensional approach.
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54 s2015Commencement day at Yale, after dinner with my thesis advisers.
A Smithsonian visit with Roberta Rudnick's class, and a meteorite from Mars that fell in Nigeria.
Read the post →Seismic spectrum, applications and careers: an IRIS speaker-series talk at Howard University.
Read the post →Eight years after graduating from Obafemi Awolowo University, a tour of the IFE seismic station.
Read the post →Presenting EarthScope research to the Geological Society of Washington at the Cosmos Club.
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3 min2016My three-minute application video for the Next Einstein Forum fellowship, awarded in 2017.
Sharing EarthScope science with faculty and students on campus visits.
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17 s2017A moment from my USA Science & Engineering Festival talk to DC public-school students about EarthScope science.
6 min2017An interview about using ground vibrations and computer models to image the Earth.
7 min2018My spotlight talk at the Next Einstein Forum Global Gathering, the largest science meeting held in Africa to that date.
4 min2018The Bosch Foundation's short film from the Kigali gathering.
Meet the lab
5 minA five-minute tour of the lab in three parts: our research, new members, and outreach and alumni.
Videos play from YouTube when you click them. More: Lightboard lectures · Recorded research talks · Teaching philosophy. Updated November 2026.




















