Fouch Research Group

Current Students (3 Ph.D., 1 M.S.)

Jeff Roth - Ph.D. Graduate Student

Current projects: Delay time tomography of the Northwestern United States; High Lava Plains seismic experiment

Status: Started Ph.D. in Spring 2007

Kevin Eagar - Ph.D. Graduate Student

Current projects: Upper mantle discontinuity structure of the Northwestern United States; High Lava Plains seismic experiment

Status: Started in Fouch's group in Fall 2005

John West - M.S. Graduate Student

Current projects: Seismic anisotropy beneath the Great Basin; High Lava Plains seismic experiment

Status: Started in Fouch's group in Summer 2006

Shaji Nair - Ph.D. Graduate Student

Topic: Upper mantle seismic structure of the southern Basin and Range/Colorado Plateau

Status: On leave, 2007-2008 academic year

Former Postdocs (1)

Dr. Caroline Beghein

Current position: Assistant Professor, UCLA

Past Students (1 Ph.D., 2 M.S., 4 B.S.)

Jeff Roth - M.S. Graduate Student

Topic: Body wave delay time studies of the southern Cascadia subduction zone

Status: Completed M.S. thesis Fall 2006; currently in Ph.D. program with Fouch

Teresa Lassak - Ph.D. Graduate Student

Topic: Mantle flow modeling and shear wave splitting predictions in subduction zone settings

Pubs: Seismic characterization of mantle flow in subduction systems: Can we resolve a hydrated mantle wedge?, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 243, pp. 632-649, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.01.022, 2006. PDF (1.3 Mb)

Status: Working with Allen McNamara, ASU

Jesse Yoburn - M.S. Graduate Student

M.S. Thesis: Upper mantle discontinuity structure and a modern regional geophysical database for the southwestern United States

Pubs: A new GIS-driven geophysical database for the southwestern United States, in Sinha, A.K., ed., Geoinformatics: Data to Knowledge: Geological Society of America Special Paper 397, pp. 249-267, doi: 10.1130/2006.2397(20), 2006. PDF (8.1 Mb)

Status: Graduated Spring 2005; Currently Geophysicist, ExxonMobil Exploration, Houston, TX

Karen Anglin - M.S. Graduate Student

M.S. Thesis: Seismic anisotropy in the Izu-Bonin subduction system

Pubs: Seismic anisotropy in the Izu-Bonin subduction system, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, doi:10.1029/2005GL022714, 2005. PDF (290 Kb)

Status: Graduated Spring 2005

Lauren Mattatall - B.S. Undergraduate Student

Topic: Seismic anisotropy near Parkfield, California

Pubs: Small-scale variations in seismic anisotropy beneath Parkfield, California, in prep., 2008.

Status: Graduated Spring 2007

Christine Smith- B.S. Undergraduate Student

B.S. Honors Thesis: Shear wave splitting and mantle flow beneath Japan

Pubs: Shear wave splitting and mantle flow beneath Japan, in prep., 2008.

Status: Graduated Spring 2004; Currently Staff Geologist, Terracon, Houston, TX

Jeff Lockridge - B.S. Undergraduate Student

Research Topic: Global shear wave splitting analyses

Status: Completing B.S. at ASU; Currently working for geotechnical consulting firm in Phoenix, AZ

Aubrey Watson- B.S. Undergraduate Student

Research Topic: Analysis of seismic characteristics from Arizona broadband seismic array

Status: Graduated Fall 2005; Current pursuing graduate studies in engineering at Regina University