Faculty in Seismology & Solid Earth Geophysics

Geoffrey T. Abers, Adjunct Professor (LDEO)

Lithospheric deformation; collisions and rifts; earthquake sources; subduction mechanics and structure; crustal structure.

Göran Ekström, Professor (LDEO)

Seismology; analysis of earthquakes and other short-lived geologic phenomena, including collapsing volcanos and sliding glaciers; Earth's complex internal structure.

Arthur L. Lerner-Lam, Adjunct Professor (LDEO)

Seismology; focus on upper mantle structures.

William H. Menke, Professor (LDEO)

Seismology, volcanology.

Meredith Nettles, Assistant Professor (LDEO)

Tomographic imaging of Earth's upper mantle; source characteristics of earthquakes, particularly glacial ones.

Paul G. Richards, Mellon Professor of the Natural Sciences (LDEO)

Seismology; monitoring of underground nuclear explosions and the improvement of global bulletins of seismicity; dynamics of the Earth's inner core.

Christopher H. Scholz, Professor (LDEO)

Tectonophysics.

Spahr C. Webb, Adjunct Professor (LDEO)

Marine Seismology, Ocean Mantle Dynamics, Marine EM.

Lynn R. Sykes, Higgins Professor Emeritus (LDEO)

Earthquake studies; control of nuclear weapons; tectonics; natural hazards.