Current Students

• Steve Skinner (with J. Stock)
  Causes of Flat Subduction
• Vanessa Heckman (with T. Heaton)
  Ambient Noise Surface Waves in Mexico
• Sara Dougherty (with D. Helmberger)
  Lithosphere Structure in Mexico from Waveform Modeling
• Yiran Ma
  Lithospere/Athnosphere structure in southern Peru
• Dunzhu Li
  Application of GPUs to geophysical imaging problems

Graduated Students

• John Fawcett (PhD, 1984) (with Herb Keller)
  Thesis: I. Three dimensional ray-tracing and ray-inversion in layered media. II. Inverse scattering and curved ray tomography with applications to seismology
• Marianne Walck (PhD, 1984)
  Thesis: Teleseismic array analysis of upper mantle compressional velocity structure
• Thomas Hearn (PhD, 1985)
  Thesis: Crustal structure in Southern California from array data
• Eugene Humphreys (PhD, 1985) (with Brad Hager)
  Thesis: Studies of the crust-mantle system beneath Southern California
• Ronan Le Bras (PhD, 1985)
  Thesis: Methods of multiparameter inversion of seismic data using the acoustic and elastic born approximations
• John Vidale (PhD, 1986) (with Don Helmberger)
  Thesis: Application of two-dimensional finite-difference wave simulation to earthquakes, earth structure, and seismic hazard
• John Louie (PhD, 1987)
  Thesis: Seismic reflection experiments imaging the physical nature of crustal structures in southern California
• Phyllis Ho (PhD, 1987) (with Hiroo Kanamori)
  Thesis: Attenuation tomography. Modelling regional love waves: Imperial Valley to Pasadena
• Christof Stork (PhD, 1988)
  Thesis: Ray trace tomographic velocity analysis of surface seismic reflection data
• Hua-Wei Zhou (PhD, 1989) (with Don Anderson)
  Thesis: Travel time tomographic studies of seismic structures around subducted lithospheric slabs.
• Olafur Gudmundsson (PhD, 1989)
  Thesis: Some problems in global tomography: modeling the core-mantle boundary and statistical analysis of travel-time data.
• J. Huw Davies (PhD, 1989) (with Dave Stevenson)
  Thesis: Some problems in mantle structure and dynamics; Part 1. Inversion for depth variation of spectra of mantle compressional and shear velocity teterogeneity. Part 2. Physical model of source region of subduction zone volcanism
• Robert W. Graves (PhD,1990)
  Thesis: Modeling seismic wave propagation using paraxial extrapolators.
• Bruce Worden (PhD, 1991)
  Thesis: Interactive seismic imaging on a multicomputer and application to the Hosgri fault.
• Linda Rowan (PhD, 1993) (with Tom Ahrens)
  Thesis: Equation of state of molten mid-ocean ridge basalt. Structure of Kilauea volcano
• Leo Eisner (PhD, 2001)
  Thesis: Reciprocity method in seismology
• Julie J. Nazareth (PhD, 2002) (with Egill Hauksson)
  Thesis: The structure of the crust and distribution of earthquakes in Southern California
• William Keller (PhD, 2003) (with Joann Stock)
  Thesis: Cenozoic plate tectonic reconstructions and plate boundary processes in the Southwest Pacific
• Patricia Persaud (PhD, 2003) (with Joann Stock)
  Thesis: Images of early continental breakup in and around the Gulf of California and the role of basal shear in producing wide plate boundaries
• Zhimei Yan (PhD, 2006)
  Thesis: Regional mapping of the crustal structure in Southern California
• Nathan Downey (PhD, 2008) (with J. Stock and M. Gurnis)
  Thesis: Tectonic history of the Osbourn spreading center and dynamic subsidence of the Congo basin.
• Nathalie Vriend (PhD, 2009) (with M. Hunt and C. Brennen from Mech. Eng.)
  Thesis: Booming Sand Dunes
• Sonja Spasojevic (PhD, 2010) (with M. Gurnis)
  Thesis: Dynamics of long-term sea-level change and vertical motion of continents
• Michelle Selvans (PhD, 2011) (with J. Stock, and O. Aharonson)
  Thesis: Analysis of Sonobuoy data to determine crustal structure of the Adare Trough, Antarctica
• YoungHee Kim (PhD, 2011) (with J. Jackson)
  Thesis: Geophysical Investigations of Near-Surface Structure on Earth and Mars
• Ting Chen (PhD, 2012) (with N. Lapusta)
  Thesis: Part I: Structure of central and southern Mexico from velocity and attenuation tomography; Part II: Physics of small repeating earthquakes
• Kristin Phillips-Alonge (PhD, 2012)
  Thesis: Receiver Function Studies of Southern Peru From Seismic Array Data