My wife and I at the Minnesota State Fair. My beard is much grayer since the kids arrived but I’m gonna leave this photo up, probably forever.

About

Vita (updated 11/4/24), Google Scholar, Github

I am an Assistant Research Professor at Northern Arizona University. On this site you can find

- publications and some pre-publication figures

- pictures from fieldwork

- pictures of the kids (I know, but I promise they are cute)

Come see me at AGU if you’ll be there! Tuesday, Dec 10th at 2:50 pm, T23D-05 - invited talk on cratonic crust and overthinking how to jointly invert receiver functions and surface waves.

Current Sponsored activity at a glance

“A deep denoising algorithm targeting oceanic noise in seafloor seismometer data”, 2024 Crescent seed grant. Info on Crescent here.

“Constraining ocean-mantle dynamics by improving shear-wave splitting with ocean bottom seismometers”, NSF OCE Marine Geology and Geophysics

“Collaborative Research: Data- and model-driven optimization of the SZ4D MultiArray: An on-shore/offshore network for integrated observations of subduction zone geohazards”, pending at NSF Marine Geology and Geophysics. Info on SZ4D here; 10 Co-PIs.

“Investigating the composition of lower crust on a continental scale with Transportable Array data”, pending at NSF Geophysics. Co-PIs with Ryan Porter and Jim Gaherty.

“Seismic hazard in Las Vegas assessed with passive seismics and machine learning: Collaborative Research between the University of California Riverside and Northern Arizona University” pending at the National Earthquake Hazards reduction program. Co-PI with Heather Ford.

“Collaborative Research: Using seismology to constrain geothermal heat flux into the base of Greenland's ice sheet” pending at NSF Arctic Research Opportunities, Co-PI with Derek Schutt.

“Deepwater pH variability from acoustic attenuation in ocean-bottom seismometer experiments” pending at NSF Chemical Oceanography.

“Urban denoising for Bay Area seismicity”, pending at SCEC.

presentations

Slides from the most recent talk I gave.

Here are my slides from the last AGU.

DI12A-02 - Evidence for the alignment of melt in the mantle beneath mid-ocean ridges from teleseismic shear-wave splitting - This one is about the actual Earth

NG22A-04: Accelerated transdimensional MCMC for differentiable problems with Riemann manifold based proposals - This one is numerical games.