Student and Postdoc Supervision

 

BS Theses Supervised

 

Noriko Sugimoto         1993   Chair: P-wave analysis of an earthquake: 1990 Costa Rican event

(International Christian University, Tokyo Japan)

 

Eli R. Morris                1993   Chair: Tsunamigenic earthquakes and trench sediments. (UC Santa Cruz)

 

MS Theses Supervised

 

Joan Welc                    1986   Chair: The source rupture process of the great Banda Sea earthquake of November 4, 1964 (University of Michigan)

 

Christopher Young      1986   Chair: Evidence for a shear velocity discontinuity in the lower mantle beneath India and the Indian Ocean (University of Michigan)

 

Brian Cohee                 1988   Chair: Modeling teleseismic SV waves from underground explosions with tectonic release:  results for Southern Novaya Zemlya (University of Michigan)

 

James Gaherty             1990   Chair: Investigation of deep slab structure using long period S waves (University of Michigan)

 

Zhi Zhang                    1992   Chair: Investigation of upper mantle discontinuities near northwestern Pacific subduction zones using precursors to sSH (UC Santa Cruz)

 

Yi Zhou                       1992   co-Chair: A comprehensive study of the 1986 Mt. Lewis, California earthquake:  preshock sequence-mainshock-aftershock sequence [supervision shared with K.McNally] (UC Santa Cruz)

 

Zhengyu Xu                1992   co-Chair: Large earthquake doublets and fault plane heterogeneity in the northern Solomon Islands subduction zone and Heterogeneity spectrum and structural scale-anisotropy in the upper crust revealed by the German (KTB) continental deep-drilling holes [Supervision shared with Susan Schwartz and Ru-Shan Wu] (UC Santa Cruz)

 

Jos Beckers                 1994   co-Chair: The velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle under China from broad-band P and PP waveform analysis [Supervision shared with Susan Schwartz] (UC Santa Cruz)

 

Debra Leann Carlo      1998   Chair: Rupture process of the 1995 Antofagasta subduction earthquake (Mw =8.1)

 

Susan Bilek                 1998   Chair: Lower mantle heterogeneity beneath Eurasia imaged by parametric migration of shear waves

 

Ed Boring                    1998   Member: Visualization of Tensor Fields

 

Emily A. Havens         1999   Member: Mantle discontinuities beneath South and Central America

 

Lynne Stone                2002   Chair: Coursework MasterŐs

 

Curtis Hall                  2003   Member.

 

Lei Zhuo                     2005   Member

 

Megan Avants            2005   Chair: Structure of the DÓ Region Beneath the Central Pacific

 

Juliana M. Rokosky   2007   Chair: The Anisotropic Structure of the Lowermost Mantle Beneath the Cocos Plate

 

Ph.D. Theses/Committees

 

University of Michigan

 

Sanford Ballard           1987   Member

 

Douglas Christensen   1987  co-Chair Intraplate Earthquakes and Seismic Coupling [Supervision shared with Larry Ruff]

 

Susan Beck                  1987   Member

 

Chris Lynnes               1988   Chair: I.  Seismic velocity heterogeneity in the crust and upper mantle under the Nevada Test Site. II.  Source process of great intraplate earthquakes

 

Dennis Hiltunen          1987   Member

 

Christopher Young      1990   Chair: Excursions to the base of the mantle

 

University of California, Santa Cruz

 

Aaron Velasco             1993   Chair: Improved Pictures of Earthquake Ruptures From Long-Period Surface Waves

 

Tianrun Zhang             1994   Chair: Path Effects on Regional Wave Propagation in Eurasia: Application in Seismic Discrimination

 

Zhi Zhang                    1994   Chair: III. Investigation of Upper Mantle Discontinuities near Circum-Pacific Subduction Zones Using Waveform Modeling and Waveform Stacking [Supervision shared with Susan Schwartz]

 

Ornella Bonamassa     1995   Co-Ch. Analysis of Site Effect and Directional Resonances and Their Relevance to Seismic Hazard

 

Saskia Goes                 1995   Member: Earthquake Rupture Processes and Recurrence, Seismicity and Thermal Modeling:  Several Studies of How, Where and When Earthquakes Occur

 

Jeroen Ritsema            1995   Chair: Analysis of Earthquake Rupture Processes and Mantle Structure Using Regional Seismic Networks

 

Jessica Faust                1996   Member

 

Michael Hagerty          1998   Member: Broadband Seismic and Acoustic Investigations of Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica

 

Johanna Renate Hartog1999   Member: Mantle Strain in Tectonically Active Regions:  Three Case Studies Using Teleseismic Observations of Shear Wave Splitting

 

Kristine L. Pankow      1999   Chair: Modeling Shear Wave Structure of the Subducting Kurile Slab Using Both Travel Time and Amplitude Residuals

 

Susan Bilek                  2001   Chair: Earthquake Rupture Processes in Circum-Pacific Subduction Zones

 

Sara Russell                 2001   Chair: Lateral Variations in Mantle Structure

 

Heather Deshon           2004   Member: Seismogenic Zone Structure Along the Middle America Subduction Zone, Costa Rica

 

Yingcia Zheng             2007   Chair: Imaging Upper Mantle Discontinuities and EarthŐs Small Scale Heterogeneities

 

Current:

Alexander Hutko                    Ph.D.

Jun Cao                                  Ph.D. (Shared with Ru-Shan Wu)

Yaofeng He                            Ph.D. (Shared with Ru-Shan Wu)

 

Postdoctoral Supervision

 

Jiajun Zhang               1988-1992

Keiko Kuge                 1991-1993

Xiao-Bi Xie                 1991-1995

Yu-Shen Zhang           1991-1995

Charles Ammon          1991-1993

Ru-Shan Wu               1992-1994  (Visiting scholar sponsor)

Shoji Sekiguchi          1993-1994

Ed Garnero                 1994-1996

Tian-Run Zhang         1995-1995

Ornella Bonamassa     1995-1996

Arthur Rodgers           1996

Guangwei Fan             1996-2003

Julia Zaslow                1996-1997