Anne Sheehan
Anne F. Sheehan | |
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| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Colorado Boulder |
| Thesis | Lateral variation in upper mantle temperature and composition beneath mid-ocean ridges inferred from shear-wave propagation, geoid, and bathymetry (1991) |
Anne Sheehan is a geologist known for her research using seismometer data to examine changes in the Earth's crust and mantle.
Education and career
[edit | edit source]Sheehan has a B.S. from the University of Kansas (1984) and earned her Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991.[1] Following her Ph.D., she was a postdoc at Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory and the University of Nevada, Reno.[2] In 1993 she moved to the University of Colorado Boulder, where she was promoted to professor in 2006.[1]
In 2014 Sheehan was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union who cited her "for developing methods to image the Earth using seismometer arrays, to explain deformation processes of mountains, oceanic, and continental plates."[3]
Research
[edit | edit source]Sheehan's research centers on the Earth's crust and mantle with a focus on formation of the lithosphere and the impact of Induced seismicity. She uses field data collected from seismic instruments deployed in a variety of locations including oceanic lithosphere near the Bermuda Rise[4] and the East Pacific Rise,[5] the subduction zone near New Zealand,[6] and the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California.[7] Her research on the impact of induced seismicity describes the process by which earthquakes occur following fluid injection.[8] While Sheehan was working with ocean-bottom seismometers in New Zealand she realized that small waves detected by the instruments could be expanded to outfit cargo ships with instrumentation to detecting tsunamis.[9][10] This research would benefit coastal communities in the path of tsunamis formed after earthquakes at the seafloor.[11]
Selected publications
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Awards and honors
[edit | edit source]- Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2014)[3]
- EarthScope Distinguished Lecturer (2013)[2]
- New Zealand Geophysics Prize, Geoscience Society of New Zealand for papers in 2016[12] and 2019[13][14]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Anne Sheehan publications indexed by Google Scholar
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