Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Northwestern University

2145 Sheridan Rd
Evanston, Illinois 60208
USA

Tel: +1 847 491 8183

URL: geophysics.earth.northwestern.edu/seismology/suzan (this page)

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Ann Thomas receives graduate Service Award

for her outstanding contributions to and leadership in creating positive, lasting impact on the broad Earth and Planetary Sciences community around Northwestern.

A patent for Optimized Electrical Impedance Tomography

was co-developed by Van der Lee and approved as US 2023/0081541 A1. The patent describes 2D tomography with maximum resolution and minimal measurements.

Mars shows diverse faulting styles

possibly related to volcano-tectonic activity in a large region south of Elysium Mons Volcano, according to research by former CIERA REU student Madelyn Sita.


New seismic stations installed in Uganda

A. Kabanda was part of the NU field crew that helped install 20 broadband seismic stations along a magma-poor segment of the East-African Rift System, as part of DRIAR.


Dr. Ciardelli receives Outstanding Doctoral Thesis award

from the University of São Paulo for his doctoral thesis on the 3D mantle structure of South America images using full waveforom inversion. Caio earned his PhD in 2021.


NU-Geopaths program continued in 2022

...and concluded with an impressive project showcase. Mentees also improved coding and communication skills and participated in field trips and group meetings.


Deep earthquakes might represent dehydration events

Dr. Zhang's published work suggests that the 600-km deep 2013 M8.3 Okhotsk earthquake is a dehydration event, and that subducting slabs can carry water to the transition zone.


App for public engagement and exploratory research

New & improved Earthtunes is in the App Store. Earthtunes comes with examples, a fixed or normalized volume setting, editable station list, exportable clips, and more.


SPREE_P18 available

Bollmann et al. 's seismic-tomographic model for the central North-American mantle, along with delay times SPREE_P18, are available for further research.


EA17 available

Witek et al.'s 2018 seismic-tomographic model for the East-Asian lithosphere, EA17, is available for download and further research.


NA07 available

Bedle and Van der Lee's 2007 seismic-tomographic model for the North-American upper mantle, NA07, is available for download and further research.


Tomography mini-course

Slides from the mini course on Seismic Tomography presented at the 2007 National Earthscope Meeting have been enriched with text balloons and can be viewed online:   HTML  |  PDF


Photo gallery

A photo gallery is available for browsing. Photos are captioned and represent a fragmentary snapshot of activity in my research group.


CAREER impacts

This otherwise unpublished poster illustrates the broader impacts of my CAREER grant (2007-2013).


Geobites

Learn geo-facts about our research group's location in Evanston, Illinois, USA.