Penn State - Earthquake Seismology

Charles J. Ammon
Associate Professor of Geosciences

Department of Geosciences
440 Deike Building
University Park, PA 16870

Voice: (814) 865-2310 / FAX: (814) 863-7823
charlesammon@psu.edu

Students & Post Doctoral Research Lists

Current Students

  Winchelle Sevilla Ph.D. Lithospheric Structure of the Phillipine Islands
  Vicki Miller Ph.D. Earthquake locations and faulting mechanisms beneath Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat (with Barry Voight).
  Mike Cleveland M. Sc. Earthquake processes in the Loyalty Islands region
  Sarah Barrett M. Sc.. Earthquake precesses beneath forearc basins

Prior Students

  Minoo Kosarian Ph.D. Lithospheric structure beneath western Asia and northern Africa
  Tom Vandemark M.Sc. Seismicity patterns along oceanic transform faults
  Monica Maceira Ph.D. Short-period surface-wave tomography of central Asia
  Eliana Arias M.Sc. Short Period Surface-Wave Tomography beneath the central and eastern Tibetan Plateau, 2003
  Jorge Mejia Ph.D. Lithospheric Structure Beneath the Tibetan Plateau Using Simultaneous Inversion of Surface Wave Dispersion and Receiver Functions, 2001
  Brett Ketter M.Sc. Seismic Velocity Structure of Central Asia From Surface Wave Dispersion, 1999
  Rommel Villagomez M.Sc.

The 1995 Macas Earthquake Sequence, Ecuador: Brittle failure of a flower structure, 1999
  Juan Pablo Ligorria Ph.D. An Investigation of the Mantle-Crust Transition Beneath North America & Poisson's Ratio of the North American Crust, 2000

Post Doctoral Researchers

  Jordi Julia 2001-2003 Penn State
  Tao Ming Chang 1998 Saint Louis University

Penn State Earthquake Seismology
Department of Geosciences

Last Updated:September 3, 2004