Here are some selected recent articles and publications describing research work performed in our laboratory:
Analyses of Apollo 17 Samples Using the Quantitative Microanalysis Explorer: A Web-Based Visualization Platform to Study Optical, Electron, and X-Ray Imaging Data, Minocha, Ogliore, Carpenter, Yen & Jolliff. JGR Planets, 2025. This tool will soon be living on one of our servers.
Mid- to late-Holocene hydroclimate and vegetation changes near the Amazon-Tapajós confluence, Alessandro Mauceri, Bronwen Konecky, Yoshimi Maezumi, 2025
On the possibility of convection in the Venusian crust, S. Solomatov, C. Jain, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 361, 107332, 2025
Peering into the moon’s past: Photometric analysis of the primary anorthositic crust, L. E. Santori, K. L. Donaldson Hanna, M. Martinot, B. Jolliff, E. Culley, 2025
Along‐Strike Variations of Alaska Subduction Zone Structure and Hydration Determined From Amphibious Seismic Data, Zongshan Li, Doug Wiens, D. J. Shillington, 2024
Our facility was used remotely during the July 2023 POLENET Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA)Training School in Gävle, Sweden.
The seismic structure of the Antarctic upper mantle, Douglas Wiens, Weisen Shen and Andrew LLoyd
NSF Funded Lithosphere Study of Antarctica, Walid Ben Mansour, Douglas Wiens
Onset of convection in internally heated fluids with strongly temperature-dependent viscosity, Chhavi Jain, Slava Solomatov
Upper mantle viscosity structure and lithospheric thickness of Antarctica inferred from recent seismic models, Andrew Lloyd, Douglas Wiens, Weisen Shen, Andrew Nyblade, Richard Aster, Terry Wilson
Crust and Uppermost Mantle Structure of the Alaska Subduction Zone from Ambient Noise Tomography, Zongshan Li, Douglas Wiens, Weisen Shen
Recent Ph. D. Dissertations utilizing our computational facilities
Hydroclimate Dynamics from the North Atlantic to the Tropical Pacific: Perspectives from Water Isotopes in Proxy Data and Climate Models from the Last Millennium through the 21st Century, Andrew Flaim (successfully defended October 14, 2025)
Studies of Seismicity in the Alaska subduction zone and Antarctica, Patrick Matulka, (successfully defended August 27, 2025)
From Anorthosite to Silicic Volcanics: photometry, composition, and buoyancy of crustal rock types on the Moon, Emily Culley, (successfully defended May 5, 2025) Watch a video of Emily presenting some of the work from her dissertation here.
From the Amazon to the Andes: Paleoclimatic and Paleoenvironmental Changes Recorded by Sedimentary Biomarkers Since the Late Pleistocene, Alessandro Mauceri (successfully defended April 28, 2025)
Next-Generation Compositional and Chronological Sample Analysis of Lunar Low-Ti Basalts and Volcanic Glasses, Christopher Yen, (successfully defended November 22, 2024)
Seismic Structure of the Alaska and Mariana Subduction Zones From Amphibious Data, Zongshan Li, (successfully defended July 30, 2024)
Paleoclimate of the Peruvian Andean highlands during the late Holocene, Jarunetr Nadia Sae-Lim, (successfully defended Oct 2, 2023)
The Isotropic and Anisotropic Structure of Antarctica from Seismic Inversion, Zhengyang Zhou, (successfully defended July 17, 2022)
Internal Structures and Spin Evolutions of Small Bodies in the Solar System and their Geophysical Implications: A Case Study on Ceres, Vesta, and Arrokoth, Xiaochen Mao, (successfully defended April 15, 2020)
Seismicity and Shallow Structure at the Mariana Subduction Zone, Melody Eimer, (successfully defended Jan 17, 2020)
Investigation and Classification of Planetary Materials and Surfaces using Novel Methods to Analyze Large Compositional Datasets: Quantitative X-ray Compositional Mapping and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Narrow Angle Camera Photometric Analysis, Timothy M. Hahn, Jr., (successfully defended Aug 9, 2019)
Seismic Tomography of Antarctica and the Southern Oceans: Regional and Continental Models from the Upper Mantle to the Transition Zone, Andrew Lloyd, 2018
Seismic Structure near the Mariana Trench and Deep Earthquake Triggering in the Tonga Flat Slab, Chen Cai, 2018
Plate Tectonics Initiation on Earth-Like Planets: Insights From Numerical and Theoretical Analysis of Convection-Induced Lithospheric Failure, Teresa Wong, 2016
Seismic Array Studies of Antarctica and Madagascar, Martin Pratt, 2016
Seismic Studies of the Tonga Subduction Zone and the Lau Back-arc Basin, Songqiao Wei, 2016