Education:
- 1981, B.Sc., Pennsylvania State University
- 1987, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Professional Experience:
- 2002-, Professor, University of Oregon
- 1997-2002, Head Computational Sciences Institute, University of Oregon
- 1996-2002, Associate Professor, University of Oregon
- 1990-1996, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon 1987-1990, Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 1981-1987, Graduate Research Assistant, MIT-WHOI Joint Program
Professional Activities:
- Associate Editor, Journal Geophysical Research, 2005-
- Chair, Oversight Committee of Ocean Bottom Seismograph Instrument Pool, 2006-
- Member, Oversight Committee of Ocean Bottom Seismograph Instrument Pool, 2004-2006
- Member, RIDGE 2000 Organizing Committee, 1999
- Member, Ad Hoc Working Group, Seismology and Geodynamics, NEPTUNE, 1999
- Member, Scientific and Steering Evaluation Panel for Earth’s Interior, JOIDES, 1998-2000
- Member, RIDGE Steering Committee, 1994 – 2000
- Member, RIDGE Program Element Subcommittee, Crustal Accretion Variables, 1992 – 1994
- Member, Ocean Drilling Program, Site Survey Panel, 1993 – 1996
Graduate Students Supervised
- Andrew Barclay, Ph.D., 1998
- Robert Dunn, Ph.D., 1999
- Ulrich Faul, Ph.D., 1994
- Bill Hammond, Ph.D., 2000
- Darwin Villagomez, Ph.D., 2009
- Troy Durant, Ph.D., 2010
- Mathew Beachly, M.Sc., 2010
Post-Doctoral Collaborators
- David Jousselin RIDGE Postdoctoral Fellow, 1998-2000
- Laura S. Magde NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, 1997-1999
- Bulent Kaypak, NATO Fellow, 2005
Major Research Interests:
- Seismicity and seismic structure of plate boundaries
- Mid-ocean ridges
- Hotspots
- Magmatic Processes
- Computational seismology
Oceanographic Expeditions:
- January-March 1982 MARK I & II, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, R/V KNORR
- July 1985 TAG, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, R/V KNORR
- January-February 1988 RAITT, East Pacific Rise, R/V THOMAS WASHINGTON
- September-November 1992 FARAII, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, R/V MAURICE EWING, Co-Chief Scientist
- December 1992 FARAIII, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, R/V OCEANUS, Chief Scientist
- May-June 1996 MELT recovery leg, R/V THOMAS G. THOMPSON
- October-November 1996 MAR Bullseye, R/V MAURICE EWING, Co-Chief Scientist
- November 1997 EPR Undershoot, R/V MAURICE EWING, Chief Scientist
- July-August 2003Proto-NEPTUNE, Juan de Fuca Ridge
- July-August 2003Keck-ROPOS-CanRidge, Juan de Fuca, R/V THOMAS G. THOMPSON
- July-August 2004Keck-MBARI, Juan de Fuca, R/V WESTERN FLYER
Field Experiments:
- February 1998 Oman Ophiolite Seismic Experiment
- 1999 – 2003 The IGUANA Project, Imaging Galápagos Upwelling and Neotectonics of the Archipelago