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Suzan Van Der Lee
Field:
Focus Areas:
Data Science, Earthquakes, Geology, Natural Disasters
Contact:
Media Relations Contact:
Amanda Morris
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
About
Areas of Focus
- Earthquakes
- Geophysics
- Seismology
- Earth’s interior structure and dynamics
- Field sensors
- Data science
Work/Research
- Structure of the Earth’s crust and upper mantle, specifically North and South America, the larger Mediterranean region, East Asia, and parts of Africa
- Seismic tomography
- Ambient seismic noise
- Geodynamics, specifically the fate of subducted tectonic plates and related processes, such as the Earth’s deep water cycle
- Earthquakes — their mechanisms, rupture processes, potential triggers and seismic wave propagation
- Continental rifting — specifically buried structures inferred from seismic imaging – for example the East-African Rift and the North-American Mid-Continent Rift.